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This place needs a Frappr thread
« on: November 16, 2005, 08:24:33 pm »
So here it is.

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(oopsie... thanks, homer!)
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2005, 09:22:21 pm »
Your link is broken.

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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2005, 09:37:28 pm »
Wow. I'm now of course going to have to go around screaming Bob Saget! at every opportunity. How did I not know about this already?
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #3 on: November 17, 2005, 04:02:19 pm »
This is kinda cool. Can one of the admin people sticky this?
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2005, 04:26:38 pm »
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This is kinda cool. Can one of the admin people sticky this?



If someone could tell me what the hell a "Frappr" is.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2005, 05:10:34 pm »
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If someone could tell me what the hell a "Frappr" is.




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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2005, 05:17:05 pm »
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If someone could tell me what the hell a "Frappr" is.




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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2005, 06:59:21 pm »
Would one of the more, uh... "esteemed" members (heh heh, members) be willing to take over the administratin' duties for this?  Not really anything to do as far as I can tell, but it might be a more appropriate job for an old-timer than for me.

Just a thought...
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2005, 09:52:57 pm »
PM me with the details.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2005, 11:16:21 pm »
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If someone could tell me what the hell a "Frappr" is.




Chinese Dancing Girl in the 1920's



Rim shot.



Rim shots from a Frappr cost extra.

I have no idea what that means.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2005, 01:42:24 pm »
No tickee, no rimee.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2005, 05:41:24 pm »
I guess I may as well finally add myself to the map. I was waiting until we moved out of Vegas, which has just happened. Now I am in ... wait for it ... Tulsa.

You can probably tell I'm thrilled, but hey, it's a free family arrangement until we find the perfect spot. There was no reason to stay in Vegas, after all. I moved there for a job five years ago, and the job moved three years ago. (I worked for Westwood Studios making video games.)

The Vegas housing market is insane, and our home value doubled while we were there. So we decided to cash in and escape before the market crashed.

Tulsa's only a temporary stop, and in the meantime, I'm only a few blocks from the Drillers' stadium. And doesn't someone from the TZ live in Tulsa? Astrobabe, I think?
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2005, 05:47:16 pm »
Once you set your dish up and the season rolls around, I hope you don't discover that Tulsa claims:

Kansas City
sTrangers
White Sox
Indians

Have fun.

Oh, and you better work on your posts. There a bit on the predictable side, so I'm told.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2005, 05:54:39 pm »
Good thing you got your Christmas card already.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2005, 05:55:07 pm »
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I worked for Westwood Studios making video games.



Holy crap.  Command & Conquer used to be one of my favorite games.
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« Reply #15 on: December 20, 2005, 06:03:43 pm »
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Holy crap.  Command & Conquer used to be one of my favorite games.



I didn't work on C&C, but I know most of the guys who did. When I got to Westwood, most of the C&C stuff had already been farmed out to EA. But there was a warehouse at Westwood that still had tons of the old Army uniforms and props from all those cutscenes. It was a cool place to work, while it lasted.

I worked on Earth & Beyond, which was a good idea with terrible marketing, IMO.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2005, 06:13:08 pm »
Yeah--what happened to that thread?
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2005, 06:18:08 pm »
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Once you set your dish up and the season rolls around, I hope you don't discover that Tulsa claims:

Kansas City
sTrangers
White Sox
Indians

Have fun.

Oh, and you better work on your posts. There a bit on the predictable side, so I'm told.



Meh, those are all AL teams. Actually though, I think the Astros may claim this as a home area, which might lead to severe cussing next season. If I'm even still here then. I need to talk to Astrobabe about the local TV options.

And yeah, I saw that Zan thing about being predictable. LOL. To which I'll just say: you try writing about the Pirates and Brewers a dozen times a season without being predictable. Or try writing about the goddamn fucking Mets without making fag jokes. Oh wait, Piazza's leaving, isn't he? I guess I won't be so predictable after all.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2005, 06:33:51 pm »
I never can figure out how that blackout thing works. I thought the more teams that claimed a market, the less you saw of others. Or is it the other way around? Or something completely different? Fuck it.

Zan either smoiked his own thread (wise) or had it done for him.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2005, 06:49:59 pm »
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I never can figure out how that blackout thing works. I thought the more teams that claimed a market, the less you saw of others. Or is it the other way around? Or something completely different? Fuck it.



The way I understand it is that teams claim their home markets. MLB Extra Innings is blacked out in those markets, because they want you to watch on the regional Fox Sports channel instead. Which seems OK in theory, but the problem I had in Vegas is that 6 teams claimed the Vegas TV market, but the local Fox Sports outlets only showed one or two of those teams.

Which seems really stupid, because in that situation, baseball fans can never watch the teams that are geographically closest to them. For example, you'd think Vegas would be a good market for the Diamondbacks to pick up fans, but no one in Vegas can watch them on TV.

Seems to me that the blackout should only be in place if there are actual Fox regional broadcasts that you can watch.

This dumbass rule also works regardless of where the team is playing. For example, when the Astros made a West Coast road trip, I would miss nearly all the games because of the local blackouts. But when the Giants, D-backs, etc., travelled to Minute Maid, I was also blacked out.

I haven't studied this shit in a while so some of the specific rules may be different now, but that's how it works in practice. I don't really give a shit about watching other teams, except when they play the Astros.
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Re: This place needs a Frappr thread
« Reply #20 on: December 20, 2005, 07:01:36 pm »
That's fucked. I had Extra Innings through my digital cable, which I think is under the same restrictions as DirecTV and they always had other games on, even when the Rays and the Marlins were on FoxSportsNet. The only blackouts I was subject to were the Rays games, the Marlins games and the national blackout on Wednesday nights and Saturday afternoons. You must've been in a baseball black hole in Vegas.
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