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I don't get it
By Lanny Budd
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 9:04am
Yeah. I don't get it.
Got it
By Lanny Budd
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 9:09am
Okay, I searched UH for "LaTulippe". Got it. How many Will LaTulippes can there be, unless it is a pseudonym from some obscure work of fiction I don't recognize.
Yay Will LaTulippe (left)
By anon
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 4:38pm
[img=320x240]http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_960w/Boston/2011-2020/2...
photo credit Boston Globe
Of course it's that Will LaTulippe
By HenryAlan
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 9:33am
He mentions his job in every other posting, how could anybody miss that? Anyway, I'm not surprised that the numbers are down with the format switch. Will might have talent, but if the game isn't as good, the talent matters a lot less.
Stump for the win!
And Stump is so much better
By mike
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 10:03am
And Stump is so much better than GWD that it's hard to quantify.
Stump better than GWD?
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 12:48pm
Go on...
Sell out.
By anon
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 1:18pm
Sell out.
Says the anonymous commenter
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 2:47pm
Brass ones on you for sure.
Serious Question, Will
By Suldog
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 2:09pm
Are you related to Don LaTullippe, the old-time DJ/radio personality? I ask because My Mom and her sister used to do a show with him on WJDA back in the mid-to-late 40's, and maybe it's possible we've met before at some function or another Don was attending.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
I get that all the time...
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 2:48pm
...from longtime Bostonians. He does not capitalize the "T," and thus, is not related to me.
As I said, I can't quantify
By mike
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 4:04pm
As I said, I can't quantify it. I find the questions better, the scoring better, the pacing better, and the music better.
Not in any way a personal attack on you, I'm sure you're great (are you the guy that used to be at Newtowne? He wasn't there last time I was).
Not at Newtowne
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 4:29pm
White Horse Tavern and Harry's Bar and Grill.
Stump's questions have become thoughtless and pedestrian, as I believe only one writer creates all their material now that I've left. And I don't even know who the writer is. For a creative enterprise, there's little to no fostering of creativity by management.
Their scoring rules are compelling, and the pace of the game has its strengths and its weaknesses. One question, one song works on busy nights when the host needs the time to facilitate the scoring anyway. One question, one song is dull and plodding at slower events with, say, five teams, when everybody has a gimme answer in 30 seconds.
Music is selected by individual presenters and is not mandated at any upper level at either company. Some hosts have a sense of what works, some are blithering idiots.
I think this is a difference
By mike
Thu, 12/06/2012 - 8:47am
I think this is a difference in what we're looking for at trivia nights. I don't go to pub trivia to answer questions: I go to have a great time with my friends. I WANT the pace to be fairly plodding, so I have time in between questions to talk, drink, eat, use the bathroom, whatever.
Trivia is a condiment, not the main dish, in other words.
As for music, the Newtowne guy's hint-music is really fantastic.
Geeks Who Drink format clock
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 12/06/2012 - 12:44pm
We still accommodate your desire to talk to your friends. We take scoring breaks during the game. Most GWD QM's do three long breaks per game. I myself take a break after each of the seven rounds read on-mic, and all breaks are 1-2 songs. You can still get conversation in with your friends during the show.
I came off more combative
By mike
Thu, 12/06/2012 - 1:00pm
I came off more combative than I should have with my first post, so I apologize for that.
I've played both formats, I'll continue to play both formats in the future when I'm crowded out of my preferred format, and I wish you luck in your switch. But...meh. Not really a GWD fan.
And while we're sharing
By mike
Thu, 12/06/2012 - 1:03pm
And while we're sharing trivia format preferences, I have to say that this one is my favorite. It's not local, unfortunately.
http://www.trivianightslive.com/game.html
I looked at that site
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 12/06/2012 - 1:15pm
LOL @ "strickly prohibited"
Thanks
By Matt
Sat, 02/14/2015 - 1:21am
Happy to hear that you like the "hint-music". I put an embarrassing amount of time into picking those. Come by again, it's still me - since 2008 and counting!
C'mon, it can't be that hard to quantify
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 3:15pm
Unless it were, say, infinity times better. How about bounding it? Is it somewhere between twice as good and ten times better? Between ten and a million times better?
Handsome fella. AND extremely
By anon
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 9:50am
Handsome fella. AND extremely articulate,too.
Haven't been to a Geeks Who Drink night
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 12/05/2012 - 11:05am
But my local hosts a weekly Stump night, and the music they blare is inevitably awful. Also, it attracts a crowd of contestants who always cheat using their smartphones. Who cheats at bar trivia to win a frickin' t-shirt? Kids these days!
That's part of the Geeks
By John
Thu, 12/06/2012 - 5:15pm
That's part of the Geeks design. We keep it moving, so by the time you have cheated we have already asked another question. At Stump you can go to the bathroom on every single question.
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