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***hotdog*** · 04-13-2020, 12:00 AM

In the past month, as people follow social distancing protocols, many have turned to virtual hangouts to replace in-person social interactions. Videoconferencing is a great tool to bring people together, but it also provides a venue for many different types of goofy hijinks - funny backgrounds, pets or roommates acting up in the background, someone forgetting to put on pants, etc.

In 150+ words or with a graphic, describe a humorous/dramatic/interesting situation that arose from a videocall with some of your teammates.

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***goldenglutes*** · 04-13-2020, 12:01 AM

Over the past few days, the New England team video calls has been buzzing with activity. We've got a server that's hosting a call 24/7, where players are free to join and leave whenever they want. However, this has led to some sticky situations with particular teammates forgetting to hang up. In particular, there was one incident where Boris @The__Y-man__100 Poroshenko was in the middle of doing some paperwork when he decided to "unwind" before calling it a night. Of course, it wasn't anything we haven't seen before since the New England boys regularly send each other lewd pictures as a joke, but this time felt a little bit different. To see another teammate's member when he didn't mean to show the world is a bit like getting a taste of a forbidden fruit -- you know you're not supposed to look, and you can't help but look away, but there's just something deep down telling you to just take a small peek.

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Zomp · 04-13-2020, 12:03 AM

**The__Y-man__100** · 04-13-2020, 12:05 AM

So we all saw a new side of the new England wolfpack during this weeks team video conference.

@Zomp revealed his guilty pleasure porn category by accident on the call and lets just says, I don't blame him Wink

@Ace finally let quarantine get to him and on this weeks call he was in his New England wolfpack onesie. The entire team was jealous as these bad boys haven't even hit the market yet, but the manufacturers wanted the GM to own the first one.

@StamkosFan was on the call as well and let's just say his hair has looked better. i don't think buddy has seen a barber since last year! at first we weren't even sure who was on the call as his hair just drooped over his whole face. We were all a little surprised he is able to fit it all under his helmet, but maybe it's the hair that is his good luck charm, after all he's having an incredible season

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**JaytheGreat** · 04-13-2020, 12:07 AM

The New England Wolfpack have a daily video conference meeting, during these meetings everyone from current players to the prospects are on the call. Unfortunately one of the prospects never turns his camera off. It has gotten to the point were we could go to the video call general and find out what's going on in @Zomp 's daily life. Come to find Zomp lives a pretty normal but something he does that is abnormal is his sleep schedule. At this point it has become a game to the rest of the players, were we take bets to see if he is awake or not. Since we normal keep the channel locked nobody has the upper hand when it comes time to bet. We've seen some interesting schedules like waking up at 5 PM and going to sleep at 11 AM the next day. The player claims he doesn't have a set sleep schedule and just goes to sleep whenever he's tired, while that may work in the J he will have to change when he gets called up to the SHL.

Rest In Peace Dangel

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Nhamlet · 04-13-2020, 12:07 AM

Keeping up with folks in the Newfoundland locker room has been harder for some than others. Some of us are over in Europe so it's like they have their own little clique whereas the North American folks are a big larger in numbers and generally dominate use of the video chat.

The hardest part when video chat does get used that there's no real record of it so you have inside jobs on both sides that the other side doesn't get.

There is a small twilight moment when both groups are able to join together... Although sometimes that's the strangest. Andrei came into one call once whether on purpose or by accident and there was this weirdly patriotic anthem playing through his mic that I was pretty sure was Russian.

One guy who has been weirdly difficult to reach as of late is Steve Harrington. I was convinced we lost him to Animal Crossing and that'd be for a temporary this but the man is a ghost during normal hours in North America. I think he's swapping his sleep schedule to move to Europe.

***_Blitz_*** · 04-13-2020, 12:09 AM

St. Louis HO has been trying out video conferencing this week. It's been... an experience.

Nicolas Williams has had a cat wander through the background several times. He doesn't believe me, and he doesn't own a cat. So far, no one else has corroborated the phantom feline.

Aron Hernadivic has gotten much better about muting his mic and wearing pants when he has to go AFK. Unmuting the mic when he gets back is a work in progress. So far, his record for talking to us without realizing his mic is muted is just under half an hour.

If Aleister Cain would stop playing with his chroma key, the world would be a better place. Some of the green screen nightmares he's shared with us are better left forgotten.

5ympathies · 04-13-2020, 12:11 AM

New England teammates have been video-calling each other for the past 2 weeks now but only recently have they began to ask, why are we even doing this so often? We still have games to play, there's no need to be constantly on Facetime or Zoom, or Facebook video chats, or Skype, or Microsoft Teams, or Skype for Business (formerly known as Lync), or Snapchat group video chats, or Houseparty, or Google Hangouts, or any software that I didnt list. We still have 15 games left in the season and we are in a tight battle for first in the league. I'm myself am praying hard that not only do I stay as top plus minus, but also that I beat math and finish with a +69.

Guy Zheng hates Zoom.

Dick Clapper endorses Microsoft Teams.

Skype is nostalgic for many of us.

We are unable to agree on a platform to use.

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JMacNCheese · 04-13-2020, 12:24 AM

Because of the whole lock down, we have had to have our practices over the internet using Zoom. Since they did not want to have everyone in a call at once the training staff assigned us to groups. My group consisted of @Mediocre_Fred, @"reid_sutherland", @leviadan, and @"Awesomecakes" and boy was there never a perfect call. Something happened in someone’s video/stream every day and more times than none it was either Burlok's pet pig or it was Fred's cat named Scurvy. A lot of times we would be jogging in place or doing mountain climbers and Fred's cat, which is missing an eye hence the name, would sit right down on his laptop and start talking to us. Burlok's pig just loved to run into his camera to knock it down which can very distracting lol. Reid never really had anything go wrong with his call ins, think maybe one time he had a booger that we just laughed at him for. I do not believe I had too much of an issue with my camera, but my dogs always like to mess around when it was time for working out. Jobin also did not have much other than he is weird and every now and then we got to hear his neighbors yelling at each other from across the street, he said it is a daily thing because they like rival teams.

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**JamesT** · 04-13-2020, 12:28 AM

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In 150+ words or with a graphic, describe a humorous/dramatic/interesting situation that arose from a video call with some of your teammates.

During a video call last week with my GM's @Keygan and @"TommySalami", they contacted me to have a video call along with my Blizzard

teammates @Nokazoaand @caltroit_red_flames to discuss "important events" that will happen with the team.

I was nervous that one of us did something to upset management and we were about to be disciplined for it. The video call meeting started out very seriously with Keygan and Tommy speaking in a serious tone and asking us do we know why we were summoned here. All three of us shook our head and said "no idea".

Tommy then said "I have some news to tell you guys, Brady is gonna be the next captain of the Blizzard

and Jean and James will be the alternate captains" We were all shocked by this announcement and were flustered as to what just happened. We all congratulated each other and thanked Keygan and Tommy for this moment and assured them we will do our best to represent and lead the Blizzard

moving forward and for many seasons to come!

Before the video call was about to end, we saw something that still scars us today. We saw on Tommy's table in the background a regular meatball sub sandwich instead of a salami one. We still don't know what to make of it to this day, but that's another story for another day.

**Lime** · 04-13-2020, 12:29 AM

nuts

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