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Mine is out for delivery, yay. Trivia in 9 days!!
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This is a good and cool thread and I am going to get prepped tonight so I can look at pictures next week.
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Apr 6, 2016 15:52
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wa27 posted:Same, though to be fair the clue did give some additional info. "What is the elevation of Let Me Pass?" Without that, the only thing we had to go on was "well it kind of looks like Parker Bros art from the 80s". Once we knew it had a mountain theme that narrowed it down a lot. I knew it was a mountain pass without the question, but never included "mountain" in my search terms because, well, stupid newbie. :/
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Apr 6, 2016 15:54
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Nvm dawg
a new study bible! fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 6, 2016 15:56
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totalnewbie posted:I knew it was a mountain pass without the question, but never included "mountain" in my search terms because, well, stupid newbie. :/ Oh right, I guess it did include "LETTME PASS" in the picture. Welp! 
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Apr 6, 2016 16:38
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Gentle reminder before we get any further not to post specifics of questions in this thread, thanks in advance
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Apr 6, 2016 17:02
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Yeah, once trivia starts in earnest everything goes into private discussions. One year reddit tried to run a team on a public facing subreddit, and I believe they were disqualified within hours for sharing image questions, calling in their answer several times on every question, and other rules violations. Don't Be Like Reddit~
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Apr 6, 2016 17:05
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Even talking about previous years' questions is kind of risky, I would avoid it if at all possible
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Apr 6, 2016 17:08
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CrashCat posted:Gentle reminder before we get any further not to post specifics of questions in this thread, thanks in advance Firm reminder not to post specifics of questions pictures in this thread, you jerks
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Apr 6, 2016 17:10
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Man I wish Portesi was able to be purchased and shipped online. I was contemplating asking one of you guys to do it, but I don't think it's really feasible to ship frozen foods. I guess I'll just have to find some other unhealthy cheese related thing to eat and use my imagination.
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Apr 6, 2016 17:32
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Superrodan posted:Man I wish Portesi was able to be purchased and shipped online. I was contemplating asking one of you guys to do it, but I don't think it's really feasible to ship frozen foods. buy whatever cheesy breadstick thing there is in your local grocery store, I doubt it will be all that different than CHEESE FRIES to be honest I usually get the cheesesticks from Papa John's just to remind myself how thoroughly average a treat it can be
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Apr 6, 2016 17:39
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I'm severely tempted to make my own from scratch this year Do you think a pizza base would work or should it be a breadier dough?
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Apr 6, 2016 17:59
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Pizza base works just fine, imo.
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Apr 6, 2016 19:01
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The Glumslinger posted:I'm severely tempted to make my own from scratch this year For a closer to Portesi experience -- thin crust, garlic butter, mozzarella, more garlic, probably more butter, and marinara sauce to dip Just want cheese fries? Grab a crust, garlic butter, mozz E: load on the cheese anyway, it's the best part of the fries little_firebird fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Apr 6, 2016 |
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Apr 6, 2016 20:25
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CrashCat posted:Even talking about previous years' questions is kind of risky, I would avoid it if at all possible We land on the side of extreme caution due to being a primarily internet organized team so our policy is not to distribute any questions from any years. So don't loving do it. Thanks
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Apr 6, 2016 20:37
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rawillkill posted:We land on the side of extreme caution due to being a primarily internet organized team so our policy is not to distribute any questions from any years. CALM DOWN RA WILL KILL
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Apr 6, 2016 20:39
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H2SO4 posted:CALM DOWN RA WILL KILL
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Apr 6, 2016 20:53
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Can we get one or two thread mods like CNN and rawillkill for any leaks into the thread during trivia time ? That way they can be on the ball, edit posts and quoted instances, and the regular mods need not be bothered
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Apr 6, 2016 21:23
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simplefish posted:Can we get one or two thread mods like CNN and rawillkill for any leaks into the thread during trivia time ? That way they can be on the ball, edit posts and quoted instances, and the regular mods need not be bothered Are individual thread mods even a thing?
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Apr 6, 2016 22:06
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Hockles posted:Are individual thread mods even a thing?
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Apr 6, 2016 22:16
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worrywort posted:I am way too excited about another round of trivia! May our google be strong and our fries be cheesy. noobhedron checking in as well, hopefully we can keep the top-10 train going strong!
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Apr 6, 2016 22:44
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You guys want a new thread title while we're at it?
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Apr 6, 2016 23:19
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8 track betamax posted:You guys want a new thread title while we're at it?
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Apr 6, 2016 23:31
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8 track betamax posted:You guys want a new thread title while we're at it? "Trivia 47: Mystery pictures on Monday, contest starts 4/15"
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Apr 6, 2016 23:44
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Athanatos posted:"Trivia 47: Mystery pictures on Monday, contest starts 4/15" This please!
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Apr 6, 2016 23:49
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CrashCat posted:you should work "6 Sick Stick Shifts" in there somehow because This better be in our team name.
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Apr 6, 2016 23:49
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Athanatos posted:"Trivia 47: Mystery pictures on Monday, contest starts 4/15" oh there you go being all practical again 
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Apr 6, 2016 23:54
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Thanks Betamax! I'm so pumped, next week can't come soon enough!
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Apr 7, 2016 00:43
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Teddybear posted:This better be in our team name. It is our team name, Trivial Fursuit: 6 Sick Stick Shifts. Now we just need to stay in the top 5 all weekend so I get to hear all the mushmouths trying to read that out.
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Apr 7, 2016 08:29
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This photo thing means there are some photos released ahead of time that we can research prior to the actual contest start? If so I guess I'll try and join up on IRC sooner than later to help out. I guess there's a rule about posting things questions and pictures publicly in the official rules? I see everyone was really against, but as this will be my first year participating I'm not real sure about all of that. Not that I would have anyways, but just curious.
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Apr 7, 2016 09:02
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Yeah one reason is just that the quiz owns its questions The other is that one year we lost a place because someone posted a picture and what we had worked out so far 'helpfully' and it led to another team seeing our work, getting the points, and we weren't able to get the answer in the end. I did report it but it took hours to be taken down, hence my suggestion of temporary trivia mods
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Apr 7, 2016 09:14
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Oh certainly don't want to post anything we found. I didn't realize the quiz runners cared that much about the questions being reposted elsewhere though. What would stop someone from another team just coming here and posting everything in this thread to try and get us banned? Or vice versa? It's like mailing drugs to someone else. They may get a search at worst, but they aren't going to get arrested because you can't prove who did it.
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Apr 7, 2016 09:33
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Aredna posted:Oh certainly don't want to post anything we found. I didn't realize the quiz runners cared that much about the questions being reposted elsewhere though.  Don't give them ideasAs far as I know, nothing. The honor system, I guess, since most people who take Trivia serious enough to try hard take it serious enough not to cheat since that ruins all the fun. The potential thread of it makes Simplefish' idea of trivia mods seem even more useful, though. And welcome to your first year of trivia, you're gonna love it!
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Apr 7, 2016 10:29
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Man with Hat posted:And welcome to your first year of trivia, you're gonna love it! 
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Apr 7, 2016 13:12
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Hooray trivia! I can't wait! Luckily (unluckily?) my workplace got rid of our bound collections of Life Magazine, so I won't be tempted to hole up in my office for the weekend. Definitely going to have to make some homemade cheese fries this year.
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Apr 7, 2016 15:10
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Haven't some prior year questions already been shared in the thread? Or were those questions taken from the contest we ran ourselves? Shows how good my memory is that I can't tell the difference (even after helping to RUN our contest). If you want some good practice, check out the 90FM Trivia page on Facebook! Daily questions have been posted ever since last year's contest ended, so if you want to test yourself, go see what's safely available to the public. Since Oz is responsible for ALL these questions, it's good practice for the main contest itself! https://www.facebook.com/90FMTrivia Here's today's question: This picture appeared on a record album released in the mid-2000's. What is the name of the album?  We also have a running spreadsheet which documents all Facebook questions and answers from the past year, but I'm not crazy enough to link it in this thread and provoke Ra. Come by the chat room if you want a link to the spreadsheet. MYSTERY PICS are loads of fun, and they'll be made available to us on Monday. They're extremely hard to identify, so get acquainted with IRC's ancient functions today, and you'll be ready for Monday's frenzied Googling. Reminder -- DON'T POST THESE TO IMGUR OR ANY OTHER PUBLIC IMAGE-SHARING SERVICE. You CAN safely share images with family and friends, provided the pictures are kept secure. One other important thing -- there's always a movie. Every year the week before trivia, the town of Stevens Point descends on some theater and watches a movie that'll come up multiple times during the contest. Once we know what the movie is, even if you're already obsessively familiar with the movie's every details, it's a GREAT idea to make time during the weekend for a re-watch. You never know what kind of obscure bullshit will be asked about the movie. gently caress, it might even be some Billboard rankings nonsense about a song that appears in the movie's third soundtrack album but didn't appear in the movie itself. Or the grandfather of the lead actor. Or the words printed on a cookie tin seen in the background for 0.25 seconds of a scene where someone's talking on the phone.
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Aredna posted:Oh certainly don't want to post anything we found. I didn't realize the quiz runners cared that much about the questions being reposted elsewhere though. The reality is that most (if not all) of the other teams are interested in competition and have no interest in getting us banned. We have talked to members in several top 10 (and top 20) teams. I would say we have a fairly good relationship with them. Ultimately I don't think that is a concern. As for the questions themselves, they ask the pictures not to be posted anywhere online (that is not private to team members) and that also applies to the questions. There are 30 mystery pictures to identify and we will have them sometime after 4-5pm Eastern on Monday. At this point we will begin to try identifying what they are. Examples from previous years are a picture of an actor, and then you try to figure out who the actor is, what movie or show it is from, just anything to try and provide context to the image. All that being said, if you want to hear some questions (or see some pictures) from previous years, you can get all of that by joining in IRC and just asking, someone in that channel will show you some examples. Merrill posted:Luckily (unluckily?) my workplace got rid of our bound collections of Life Magazine, so I won't be tempted to hole up in my office for the weekend. Lucky for you all of LIFE is on Google books.
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Apr 7, 2016 17:59
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Are we getting the pictures really late this year? I feel like we've had more than ~4 days to research these in the past
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Apr 7, 2016 18:14
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No they've always come out the Monday before the contest. If we had more people looking at them during those four days though we'd probably get at least a few hundred more points. Some are fairly easy to find, some are so ridiculously hard that literally no team found it, the question was worth nothing and we STILL have no idea where it came from. Edit: quote:[12:42:01] Buane> gotta start with something relaxing and simple like Dark Souls before plunging headfirst into the brick wall of insanity that is Trivia Pictures Blackajack fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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Apr 7, 2016 18:24
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I spent way too long last year trying to find the exact magazine ad containing a picture of a mascot we had already identified, even going as far as to contact the designer who made a similar ad, because I thought the question would be about more than just identifying the brand. The question was just "identify the brand" and the magazine ad more than likely does not actually exist. Trivia is great. MisterZimbu fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Apr 7, 2016 |
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