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I have a gigabit fiber connection, prescription methamphetamine's, and a love of trivia that borders on the erotic. In the IRC channel as "Shimajew."
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...A trivia contest you say? :robinhood: I like trivia. Is it necessary for us to be on teams in specific or can we just go at this solo for a good bit of fun? I'm sure the answer exists in the archives but as I am poor and Irish (and thus have yet to buy archive browsing powahs), and also a stealth goon who has been grinding away at college for the last couple of years and only recently had any genuine "free time", I'm not entirely sure.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 14:56 |
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Reverend Catharsis posted:...A trivia contest you say? :robinhood: I like trivia. Is it necessary for us to be on teams in specific or can we just go at this solo for a good bit of fun? I'm sure the answer exists in the archives but as I am poor and Irish (and thus have yet to buy archive browsing powahs), and also a stealth goon who has been grinding away at college for the last couple of years and only recently had any genuine "free time", I'm not entirely sure. You can do it by yourself without entering the contest I suppose. Why not step out of your goonsuit and be "social" with us on IRC and Mumble?
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 15:03 |
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Reverend Catharsis posted:...A trivia contest you say? :robinhood: I like trivia. Is it necessary for us to be on teams in specific or can we just go at this solo for a good bit of fun? I'm sure the answer exists in the archives but as I am poor and Irish (and thus have yet to buy archive browsing powahs), and also a stealth goon who has been grinding away at college for the last couple of years and only recently had any genuine "free time", I'm not entirely sure. This is pretty impossible to play solo since it's 54 hours long (if you want to hear all the questions anyway). It also costs $$$ to officially enter and play, not to mention that you have to find answers and call them in yourself (if you want to play for real), so I would say you're better off contributing to our collective efforts on Trivial Fursuit Not to mention this is intended as a group happy fun time activity! Come drop by in IRC if you want more information or have any questions
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 15:16 |
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I remember seeing this thread last year when I had just joined. I got all excited and then I had to go to a wedding. But not this year! British Goon reporting for duty! I won't claim to be any good, but I do love trivia. I have Mumble but I don't have an IRC client yet, but will look into it and hopefully figure it out. Is there anything else I need to do to participate?
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 15:29 |
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Mesimean posted:I remember seeing this thread last year when I had just joined. I got all excited and then I had to go to a wedding. But not this year! British Goon reporting for duty! I won't claim to be any good, but I do love trivia. Not really. Just jump in IRC sometime before the contest starts to get to know everyone. We're in there right now chatting actually.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 15:39 |
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DancinJack posted:You can do it by yourself without entering the contest I suppose. Why not step out of your goonsuit and be "social" with us on IRC and Mumble? But I like my goonsuit. It's comfortable and easy to wear. I can do the latter of these though, as.. Soon as I find my IRC client which is buried somewhere deep in the machine, and remember what channels on IRC and Mumble to use.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 16:00 |
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Reverend Catharsis posted:But I like my goonsuit. It's comfortable and easy to wear. I can do the latter of these though, as.. Soon as I find my IRC client which is buried somewhere deep in the machine, and remember what channels on IRC and Mumble to use. synirc #tp We're not on Mumble yet.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 16:04 |
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I think it's important for new players to have a clearer idea of what this is coming in. It's not a game of Pub Trivia like you may be used to. In other words, they're not going to ask a bunch of questions you'll know off the top of your head. Sure, some of them are layups, but 80% of the questions will be about a sign in an episode of Little House on the Prairie, or a full page advertisement that ran in the 1993 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. The fun isn't in being the guy that knows the answer, but being the guy who maybe stumbles upon a clue in the right google search that leads us to the answer that we submit only being 60% sure of, or experiencing the frenzy of 150 goons trying to hunt down leads and communicate information accurately/frantically all while operating on a few hours sleep. And our strength in numbers could be the key to having someone who happens to have that Beach Boys record in his closet and can tell us what color shoes are picture on the inside jacket, or the fourth ingredient in Nabisco's Double Stuf Oreos. Basically, you could be the hot poo poo trivia dude of your neighborhood and it's not going to mean very much on its own in this contest. Join our collective!
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 16:22 |
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Uhh you forgot that you should be blasted drunk too.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 16:29 |
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DancinJack posted:Uhh you forgot that you should be blasted drunk too. That goes without saying. And eating Portesi cheese fries.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 16:54 |
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Buane posted:I think it's important for new players to have a clearer idea of what this is coming in. It's not a game of Pub Trivia like you may be used to. In other words, they're not going to ask a bunch of questions you'll know off the top of your head. Sure, some of them are layups, but 80% of the questions will be about a sign in an episode of Little House on the Prairie, or a full page advertisement that ran in the 1993 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. I took about an hour to read the spreadsheets of the last two years' questions/answers - not only is the subject matter usually obscure as hell, the ones that aren't are incredibly vaguely worded. I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm getting into now, but I'm glad it's a group effort since even if I can't answer most of the questions, there are others who can.
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Dopefish Lives! posted:I took about an hour to read the spreadsheets of the last two years' questions/answers - not only is the subject matter usually obscure as hell, the ones that aren't are incredibly vaguely worded. I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm getting into now, but I'm glad it's a group effort since even if I can't answer most of the questions, there are others who can. Your googlefu will increase 10 fold every competition.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2013 17:10 |
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Goons who aren't good at IRC please use this link: http://chat.mibbit.com/#tp@irc.synirc.net
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I had a lot of fun helping out the cause in 2011, and would like to do so again this year! I'm due to take part in an Amazing Race-type thing that weekend, but when I'm not doing that, I'll try to be on IRC as myself.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2013 01:29 |
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Is there a good program or app or something that lets you find out quickly how long the song they're playing is? That way we know how much longer we have before OMG CALL IT IN CALL IT IN GOGOGO XXXX XXXX YYYY What I was doing before was starting a timer when the song started, googling the song (or lyrics if I don't know it) then figuring out how much we had left that way but I'm sure there has to be a better way.
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sat. posted:Is there a good program or app or something that lets you find out quickly how long the song they're playing is? That way we know how much longer we have before OMG CALL IT IN CALL IT IN GOGOGO XXXX XXXX YYYY They do cut songs short sometimes, so it's not fool proof
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sat. posted:Is there a good program or app or something that lets you find out quickly how long the song they're playing is? That way we know how much longer we have before OMG CALL IT IN CALL IT IN GOGOGO XXXX XXXX YYYY They're all pretty much the same length give or take. This wasn't too much of a problem, our issue with calling it in is actually getting the station to answer the phone, so knowing how much time is left isn't that useful really. That said, I assume Shazam or SoundCloud are your best bet. But we only need this for questions that we're really having a problem with. If the question is extremely difficult and we get it near the end, we probably won't have a problem calling it in cause the lines aren't as jammed.
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Oh Oz  NOT Last year's final place reading:  e: oops. IceLicker fucked around with this message at Feb 18, 2013 around 02:45 |
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IceLicker posted:Oh Oz What a mushmouth.
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Akbar posted:What a mushmouth. which is what makes it so important to have people transcribe the questions for the IRC
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IceLicker posted:Oh Oz This isn't the final place reading, our points are too low and we didn't finish 12th
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 01:14 |
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Trivia posted a Kickoff Movie invitation on Facebook today that includes what I assume is a screenshot http://www.facebook.com/events/432244586851140/
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Nosferatu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCUW4SwmfGc
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Or the music video for 'Under Pressure' by David Bowie and Queen? But yeah, definitely Nosferatu.
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Considering that they never even hint towards what movie its going to be ahead of time, I think that this could be a red Herring
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JackRabbitStorm posted:Considering that they never even hint towards what movie its going to be ahead of time, I think that this could be a red Herring It won't hurt to take notes on it anyway. Red herring or not, we got nothing better to do. Buane posted:Trivia posted a Kickoff Movie invitation on Facebook today that includes what I assume is a screenshot Come contribute these nuggets in IRC 
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 02:17 |
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I have been waiting for this for a year! I remember staying up so late to help out. I think I got to answer maybe one question (because I had read the answer a few days before on Mental Floss...) on my own, but it was still fun. I even got a fun quote on the Wiki quote board.  Definitely looking forward to this.
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 02:39 |
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Oh man, I missed out on this last year but poopsocked it pretty hard with you guys for Trivia 42. I'll be back for this one for sure and it's going to be a hell of a time.
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rawillkill posted:This isn't the final place reading, our points are too low and we didn't finish 12th Doh, I grabbed the wrong one. I was looking though my folder of audio files (on an unrelated project) and saw that. Anyway, I'll see if I can find the real one but anyway, it's still a funny clip. It must be close though because we ended up with like 6700.
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IceLicker posted:Doh, I grabbed the wrong one. I was looking though my folder of audio files (on an unrelated project) and saw that. Anyway, I'll see if I can find the real one but anyway, it's still a funny clip. It must be close though because we ended up with like 6700. It was the last reading before "going into the darkness" (until final scores are revealed at the end) around Hour 48 or so yea
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 05:03 |
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I moved my collection of vintage food stuffs from the horrible gallery2 to my SmugMug account. click here Maybe something in there will come in handy this year.
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| # ? Feb 18, 2013 15:15 |
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So down for this again - I was absolutely no help last year, but there's always hope I'll be able to contribute something! At least being in the UK means I can be another body on the night shift.
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Oh, gently caress yes, I have been waiting for this. I got a question right last year, only a few seconds too late. Hopefully I'll be more helpful this time around. If not, I'll just be drunk and happily watch you guys google the poo poo out of obscure stuff. I'm in Sweden, so at least it's an extra search in the down hours. I just hope my friend decides not to celebrate his birthday so I can do more trivia.
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| # ? Feb 19, 2013 13:13 |
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Man with Hat posted:I just hope my friend decides not to celebrate his birthday so I can do more trivia. ...this is priceless. THE POWER OF TRIVIA.
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Man with Hat posted:Oh, gently caress yes, I have been waiting for this. I got a question right last year, only a few seconds too late. Hopefully I'll be more helpful this time around. If not, I'll just be drunk and happily watch you guys google the poo poo out of obscure stuff. This Spring, give the gift...of TRIVIA! Invite him over and tell him it's a 54 hour party just for him!
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feld posted:I moved my collection of vintage food stuffs from the horrible gallery2 to my SmugMug account. Hey feld - I have a similar photo collection (obtained by wandering around antique shops). Where would be the best place to host it?
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AcetylCoA! posted:Hey feld - I have a similar photo collection (obtained by wandering around antique shops). Where would be the best place to host it? Want to try to upload it? I can give you a link that will let you
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Trivial Fursuit 3: Triple X-tra large.
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feld posted:Want to try to upload it? I can give you a link that will let you Sure! http://imgur.com/a/N8VW0. imgur gallery AcetylCoA! fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2013 around 03:40 |
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