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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: sirean_syan on Wednesday, January 09, 2008, 11:04:24 PM
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So, sooner than later those who are interested in OW Meet 08 should gather on IRC and discuss it.
As it is, I'm throwing the week of March 22-30 as a doable time, but we should go over this with anyone who would like to take part this year. That means, for now, we should just come up with a time to talk about things. Maybe sometime this weekend?
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I kind of want to go but I don't know... I'm old.
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I'd like to do it too, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get time off.
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Things to do: Play Super Smash Bros. Melee
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Hmm, the only factor for me is money right now, but it might be doable for me now that I have a good chunk of paid vacation time. I'm off work tomorrow I'll hop on IRC then and see if anyone is on.
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I would like to go but I'll be in school on the opposite side of the country. Maybe next year. :(
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The times work for me, but the sooner we have something official the better. The last thing I need is some dick at work putting in for the time and then me not getting it.
But yeah, it should be a good time. For those who are curious, check my website (theflyingmonkeyapparatus.com (http://www.theflyingmonkeyapparatus.com/)) for pictures of last year's meet and such. Generally speaking we're a pretty laid back crowd, so as beo himself said, it might not be crazy enough for some. There's not a lot of drinking or partying or bar hopping or any of that. Mostly just playing games and watching stupid YouTube videos on Sy's Wii.
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Sorry, but the only way I'm ever having a face-to-face meeting with someone from the Internet is if I'm there to steal his kidney.
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Or when we set your house on fire. But that's only if you wake up first.
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But that's only if you wake up first.
Thank God for chloroform.
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I have a feeling W&C has developed a natural immunity by now.
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I'll come to the IRC meeting.. hehe i was thinking for those who can't go.. we could have a video conf or something through skype or something?
hahah just on one of the days.
i'd love to go to one of the OW meets some day... you'll probably all come in bullet proof gear :/
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Why bother? Those vests don't do much against a katana.
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You know, you guys can all take the santa hats off now.
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santa hats are good.
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I'll be wearing mine at OWmeet. I'm going to hide my Raisa Repellent™ spray bottle under it so she can't take me by surprise and get me while I'm eating dinner.
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:(
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Just a small update about me coming out there, I wouldn't be able to come out until March 24th, because March 23rd lands on Easter Sunday and that day is already filled up with requests, but 24th well into the first couple of weeks of April looks good for requests, I'll hopefully have a better update on my status sometime later this month.
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Bear in mind it doesn't have to exact. Some people will probably come earlier than others, and we do so enjoy community trips to the airport.
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Yeah, last year it was kinda treated as an open week for everyone to come visit. People all came and left on different days more or less.
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So are we official on this stuff yet? I'm going to put in for the time off since I can change it later if I absolutely have to, and it seems like we've got 4 people who are cool with the time and we've got enough free housing for the current crew +1.
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Well, you've got me but I don't think that really counts for much in this case.
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I'm going to put in for the time (March 24th-30th) on Saturday and if for some reason something happens, I can cancel the vacation and save it for when I have the money. It's looking highly possible though, if one of you can house me, its almost a done deal.
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We should be good. Pyro hasn't indicated if he's gonna' be able to make it or not, but it looks like we've got room for 3 right now which will cover you and him both (2 with Sy, 1 with me).
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Ugh, figures something might go wrong. Apparently I can't request for my vacation time until Jan 27th even though they originally told us the 1st, fucking jackasses. Hopefully those days don't get filled up between now and then, the 24th was already filled up, the 25th-30th looked good, but if those get filled up then I'm fucked unless I could come out there on a later date. I was going to request off April 1st as well because I have my normal 3 days off on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th after that. I'll know on the 27th and let you guys know.
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Just FYI, I should have off the 22nd through April 1st.
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So its the last week of March we're doing this?
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Yep. Unless something else comes up and that isn't gonna' work. Is that not good for you?
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Ill run it through work, see what happens.
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So i have classes mondays and wednesdays starting february 4th. I will come up though. I am thinking i can head up thursday morning and stay till sunday afternoon.
Pizza on me again! ^^
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Awesome! If you can spare any time to come up, we'll be glad to have you. I'll just make sure to hide the beer this time. :-[
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Sweet. We get to see Steve again.
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Go ahead and count me in. The requests for March 25th-April 1st off were approved as far as I can see and money shouldn't be an issue. I should be good to go unless the shit hits the fan for some reason. I'll probably be buying my ticket around Feb 8th when my tax return check is deposited to my account.
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Awesome. Will you be spending the whole time with us, or will you be heading to the city? I'm pretty sure I remember you saying you have friends in SF.
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Awesome. Will you be spending the whole time with us, or will you be heading to the city? I'm pretty sure I remember you saying you have friends in SF.
I'll be spending the whole time with you guys, I've lost touch with my friend in San Fransisco about 2 years ago, she moved to Portland anyways.
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Okay, my tax return check deposited a week earlier than I thought it would so it looks like I will be buying my tickets today probably, I just want to double check with everyone and make sure this whole thing is good to go before I buy the tickets.
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If Que doesn't house you, I will. We'll still have to decide who gets who (so to speak), but I'm willing to provide somewhere for two people provided one doesn't mind a floor mattress. The only hard part for me will be the 31th and the 1st since I'll be back at school again. Something could probably be worked out though since Que will be off through that time. Odds are I'll just be disappearing for the first half of the day during those days... or if you're like Pyro I'll be getting home when you wake up.
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I'd like a place to stay as I too am back in school and not working.
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So should I leave on the 31st or the 1st? What's easier for you and Que? Also is there a certain time frame (morning, afternoon, evening?) you guys would prefer for me arriving and leaving, I'll buy the tickets for whatever time is closest to your preference, I was thinking afternoon on both.
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Belmont: Coming, anytime you want. I ended up picking up Idol from the train station around 4 or 5am, so that's not really a big deal (although, you might not want jump on a plane at 2am). Leaving... Personally, later in the afternoon would be better so I can see you off if you decided to leave on the 31st or 1st. Whatever is easier for Que and you though.
Keebs: We'll all need to talk. It was my understanding that we'd be housing Idol, Belmont, and Pyro since they were the first to say much about things.
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Makes no difference to me as far as coming and going is concerned, as long as you're doing it when I've got the time off so I can actually, you know, pick up or take you. But yeah, doesn't matter otherwise. Whatever's cheapest or most convenient.
And Keebs, I'm pretty sure I can only house one. However, I think it wouldn't be too bad if everybody could chip in for a room. I think we could probably do that reasonably between 6 of us. I think it'd end up being like 65 bucks a person total for 5 nights, which is less than the full cost of a single night's stay per person, and if what you said before still stands, you'd only be here for 3 nights, which would be like 40 bucks or so per person. I believe Idol told me already that he was cool to chip in, but I haven't asked anyone else yet. Would the rest of you guys be okay with that? I can try to chip in a little extra if necessary since it's sort of my end that's fucking things up. I mean, our apartment situation is just kinda' wonky with the neighbors that moved in since you guys were here last. There's still a chance I can convince Julia to go for it, but staying here is going to be lame anyway and we'll probably be spending more time invading Sy's place since his apartment doesn't suck ass like ours does (sorry Sy).
Either way, I'll make sure we work something out.
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Okay, I purchased my ticket I'll be arriving in Oakland March 25th at 3:00 PM and leaving on April 1st at 1:45 PM. I'll give flight numbers and stuff closer to the actual date. I might be able to chip in a little for a hotel room, its hard to say now, but I will try my best to, $40-65 should be doable on my part, I'll put aside a little extra now that I have one of my monthly loans paid off.
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I have no idea what my work schedule is going to be after the end of february, but I'm thinking I may be able to make it up that week whichever days I have off, depending what shift I have to work and everything. It will probably be a bit of a last minute thing.. but I'd like to work out a way to make it happen somehow.
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Well, that'd be cool. Maybe we could room you up with Keebs and lower the price of admission a bit more. Let us know, we'll make the extra brownies.
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Yeah, that'd be awesome. If these numbers keep up, Idol's going to have a lot of people in his backyard in 2009.
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Turns out I'll be on midnight shift through at least the end of march. Not sure about the start of april. I've asked for Thursday and Friday as my assigned days off for now, so it would be the 26th-28th for me if I can work it out. I may even see about taking a day off.
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Cool stuff.
This sort of reminds me. We should do something of a roll call and confirm who's coming (if possible at this point). Then Que and I can start working out the bed and board situation.
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Cool stuff.
This sort of reminds me. We should do something of a roll call and confirm who's coming (if possible at this point). Then Que and I can start working out the bed and board situation.
Well I'm in for sure as noted by my last post.
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Also, I should note right now that I will be unavailable to do anything on the 1st of April. Turns out Julia got a hearing for her disability thing that day, so I'll be going there with her and stuff. So anyone that needs a ride or whatever is going to have to get it from Sy. I don't think anyone other than Belmont was even planning on being here that long, so hopefully this isn't a problem.
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hey can we have a webcam day for people who can't go? I'll show up!!!
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Also, I should note right now that I will be unavailable to do anything on the 1st of April. Turns out Julia got a hearing for her disability thing that day, so I'll be going there with her and stuff. So anyone that needs a ride or whatever is going to have to get it from Sy. I don't think anyone other than Belmont was even planning on being here that long, so hopefully this isn't a problem.
Goddamnit Que! Now I'll have to cancel my trip.
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We should get a near-final update on who's coming and when so Que and I can set up picking people up from airports, who's staying where, and that sort of thing.
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I PMed you and Que my flight info stuff.
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I think the first three days are going to just be everyone at my place playing the fuck out of whatever games they don't have, heh. I think it's only idol until Tuesday when Belmont gets here, unless Pyro gets here sooner.
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Would you guys be interested in going here on one of the days? (http://www.chabotspace.org/) I don't know if you guys dig that kind of stuff but I haven't been to a planetarium in years and people say this one is really nice. If no one is interested its cool, just something I thought I would throw out there.
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I've haven't been to one in years either. I'd be down.
Also, just so you guys know and since he didn't post, we're losing Pyro. He isn't going to be able to make it this year.
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I havent been to a planetarium since I was in public school. I'd be down with checking it out.
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I've haven't been to one in years either. I'd be down.
Also, just so you guys know and since he didn't post, we're losing Pyro. He isn't going to be able to make it this year.
Im not so definite on that just yet... which is why I havent posted it. Right now its a total mystery if I go. An enigma, wrapped in clouds of mist and deception.
I hate traveling, Im just going to sacrifice my body, and travel around in spirit, that should solve the problem. Though communicating with the living will be the next obstacle to get around.
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Maybe you could possess each of us at intervals, using our bodies in a horrible, blasphemous ritual of doom on a rotating schedule.
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Except between the hours of 4-8PM. Thats idol time!
Finishing packing. Ugh...I know I'm forgetting something. This is my personal OCD, I check things a million times.
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So... idol's here! We're waiting on Belmont, who should get here Tuesday.
Anyway, it's been fun already. Since idol was here I had him help me grab a new TV, which you can read about in the other thread. It's awesome. Mostly we've just been goofing off with that and download PS3 stuff. Good times.
Idol helped me carry the thing in the house and everything, and we got it set up and played some Burnout Paradise. It was pretty awesome, but since it was running in 480p (no component cables) it made us all feel kind of sick. We went out for dinner and stuff later and then bought some component cables for the PS3 and 360, and then everything ran in my TV's full 720p, which was fucking gorgeous (it's a 42" TV, so 1080p just seemed unnecessary since I got such a good deal on this model). We were very happy. So far we've spent way too much time playing with it, and we've done a little 40K model stuff for good measure.
Here are a few pictures of the new set just for fun:
With flash:
(http://www.theflyingmonkeyapparatus.com/images/owmeet2008/temp001.jpg)
What it actually looked like:
(http://www.theflyingmonkeyapparatus.com/images/owmeet2008/temp002.jpg)
TV actually looks quite small in the pictures, but that's deceptive. It's more or less as big as you'd want for this room. 50" would be too big, and even 46" would be pushing it. I'm glad we ended up going with the 42". Anything else would result in frequent headaches.
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That looks nice man, congrats on the purchase. I'm planning on bringing Guilty Gear Accent Core if you guys are down for that, do I need to bring over any extra controllers? On a side note, I was kind of worried yesterday because I had been sick with a cold or flu since Tuesday, but I seem to have gotten over it when I woke up today.
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Kick ass. And yes, we are down with that, and no extra controllers are necessary. We're all stocked and junk. Well, at least if this is the PS2 version you're talking about.
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AH crap..sorry i couldnt make it this year or actually come on to tell you guys. I just moved and it took over 2 weeks to get internet so my on-line time has been limited. I've had to make due with an hour or two each day at the nearby internet cafe. I couldnt make it because of this move and cause of class. Definitely be there next year tho! have fun guys!
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Oh well. We missed you (and not just because you were going to buy us food). We were wondering what happened though and it's good to know you're around.
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In that room, Que has efficiently displayed as much cool shit as possible per square inch. :)
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I am home now. On one hand, happy to be off the damn train and sleeping in my own bed tonight. On the other...I still want to be in CA.
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And we still wish you were here. Life has been left just that much darker and less happy with your absence, but I guess we'll just have to carry on.
It's all quiet here right now except for the fucking neighbors. Having you guys here was awesome because even when they were noisy, I couldn't hear it. Now I'm beginning to think that my recent sickness is due to an ulcer since I've had to listen to so much of their bullshit. Fucking hell. They've been running their garbage disposal for like 2 minutes now... that thing's going to fucking catch on fire.
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Somehow I missed the updates here over the past week or more. That game room is awesome. I'm green with envy. Who's who there? Is that the back of idol's head on the right? 720p is all you can get out of Burnout Paradise anyway. There are a few loud complainers with old 1080i sets that can't do 720p on their forums.
I hope everyone had a great time during the meet. I want more details and pix, even though my internet is so poor they'll take ages to load.
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Well, Belmont should be walking through his front door any moment now and the festivities are officially over. It was a good year and we managed to do a lot of stuff despite succumbing to our laziness a couple of days.
I hope everyone had a good time and thanks for coming. Aimee and I enjoyed our company (even if it made a dick joke every chance it got).
Next time I think we're going to do a little side trip to Monterey so we can see a bit more out of immediate neighborhood (provided Que and I play host again). So plan ahead, it'll be fun.
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Well I meant to post earlier when I got home around 9 PM Central time but the message boards kept timing out on me. Anyways, yeah I'm home and I'm already missing you guys, but I had a blast and plan to do it again as soon as possible. Thank you guys for letting me stay at your place and playing host, that was the most fun I've had in awhile. I'll post a Picasa or Photobucket link or something with some pics sometime in the next few days.
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Send your shit to me if you can... just zip it up and gmail it to me or something. I'm hoping to get a nice bloggish thing happening like I did for OWmeet 2007 (http://www.theflyingmonkeyapparatus.com/owmeet2007.html). I made a big post about it right before the boards went down... but it appears everything is working again now. Anyway, I'll hopefully get started on all that tomorrow. But I need more pictures! Gives them to me!
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I've set up a Picasa album for the meet pics. (http://picasaweb.google.com/dcasselberry/OWMeet08) If anyone still wants the 311 MB rar file of all the pics, I can send it. Sorry if some of the pics suck, I'm not amazing with a camera. A couple of the pics in the album are sideways, I'll fix them later, but I'm just getting these up for now. I need Que's and Sy's pics sometime, especially the one of the pigeon and the group pics.
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Jelly Belly and pizza? Man, I wish I could have stayed a few days longer!
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Looks like a lot of fun. :)
Did someone make that asian dish with the noodles and whatnot or was that ordered from a restaurant? It looks delicious.
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Looks like a lot of fun. :)
Did someone make that asian dish with the noodles and whatnot or was that ordered from a restaurant? It looks delicious.
There's a Thai Buddhist temple near Sy's place that has food every weekend for donations to the temple. So no, it wasn't ordered from a restaurant they were cooking it in these huge pots and it was awesome.
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Damn. You got possibly the worst collection of pictures of me ever. Don't make me cut you.
But yes, gmail me the RAR if you would. I should use a few of those for the bloggy thing.
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At least you got the fat loot picture to make up for stuff.