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thebitterguyLong? I suppose. It WAS The Best Four Days in Gaming.
Allegedly.
So, yes. Drove down.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mr_weasel picked up the Pimpmobile and hooked up with eybeams before coming down. mr_weasel complained I was never on time. So they made me wait half an hour for them to get there ( mr_weasel had to drop off his HTA). Thaaaanks, guys.
Regretfully, we had neither a big fuzzy hat or fuzzy dice.
The travel time, according to Mapquest, was 8.75 hours. We made in it 12. Booyah!
On the way down, we had a mildly annoying customs guy, but the return trip was annoying. I think the guy was trying to get me to break down. He asked what the license plate was, and I was like "Da fah? It's a rental, dickhead!"
Admittedly, we made a few stops along the way for recharging. On the return trip I bought a case o' the Yankee Mountain Dew (now with Caffeine!) and we drank Red Bull, whichmr_weasel disliked in a fit of heresy. Drive down was a little mis-organized.
We pulled into the hotel, at which pointmr_weasel began his three day ritual of flirting shamelessly with the hotel staff. Giddy-up, indeed! Admittedly, they were pretty fucking hot. Why must I be a happily married man?
Made the con on Thursday.eybeams had no registration, and was unwilling to browbeat the White WOlf booth into giving him one. So he had to wait in line. For a LONG TIME. Damn, that was bad. Mega props to Mr. Z for his badge. We never did get his thingy list.
The weekend was surprisingly game lite. I did get to meet a lot of people, and I played in the Austin Powers world championship (was in table #3 in the finals, and won a hooters calendar . May give it to Derwin Mak . Played in a Wraith: The Great War game that was very disappointing. God, so very disappointing. It started great; we were all playing the ghosts of WWI aces.
The ST had actually provided bios of the WWI aces we were (I was George McElroy ). Unfortunately, after a good start, we then spent 2 hours in a dogfight. Either A) the ST was completely unfamiliar with the W:tGW dog fighting rules, or B) they COMPLETELY SUCK.
So, I ditched it at 9:30 (was told the next day at the WW announcement that I won the RP prize, a copy of Sea of Shadows; never was able to claim it) and went to the aforementioned Austin Powers CCG Championship.
A picture with mostly me!
Another picture with much less me!
The Hines Bros, who ran the show. Mega Props. Great costumes.
Was fun. My Good deck sucked, but Evil Rocked. Fat Bastard Owns Joo.
Much of my time was spent schmoozing (ah, who am I kidding? Didn't barely schmooze at all, althoughmr_weasel and I did pitch Avalanche an ancient Rome SB based on his Germania Inferior campaign, and trekhead was a neat guy to talk to), shopping, swagging and getting a PRIMEDIA shirt autographed for charity.
The Star Wars signers were great. I did not make any snide comments to Ray Park out of politeness. And the fact he could break me like a priest's masturbation habit. The Boba Fett kid was a fairly hyper teenager, but good all the same. Mentioned to Jeremy Bulloch (OBF) that Drive-in was showing an old sex comedy he did from the '60s; glad he didn't have his dart launcher right about then, as he apparently does NOT have fond memories of it.
Sean Astin's handler was a bit of a dick. Got him to sign Snra. Bitter's Sam Bobblehead for her and the t-shirt.
He was rather gleeful to see the Sam, and mentioned that since vetting the prototype he hadn't seen a completed one. A cheerful young man I did not want to hit at all, even if he WAS in Deterrence.
Attended WW's big announcement. I dunno, but even if they tried intentionally to make the video look like ass, they still produced a fairly ass-tastic video. Did not acquire a Year of Judgment t-shirt foretherlad, because they only gave them to people who were there. You know. The ones who drove down? Yeah, them.
Bumped intoladyjestyr a couple times. Played (IIRC) in a B5 demo with her boyfriend (whose name and title escape me) and mr_weasel. I played an angry Earthforce pilot. B5 is rocking on toast. I may buy a book or two.
WW party; got there around midnight. Do geeks really not tip? The Bartender looked a little shocked when I handed him a few bucks. Drank quickly. Normal effects. Apparently the universal result was that ladies like to kiss the heads of bald men. I don't remember a thing.
Sunday was wandering and trying to catch up withprinceofcairo. I swear to God. The Best Four Days of Trying to get a Book to Ken Hite. It was turning into a comedy of errors. He's such a fucking social butterfly, anyway. I don't know if a kid's book on the history of Folk Music is what he was looking for, but God Dammit, that's what he got.
Did some swagging. Between compassion and cash picked up The Last Exodus, Viking Age, Human Head's ultra cool Magic Academy book, Book of Archetypes for AFMBE, vastly overpriced copy of Mythic Egypt, The Golden Age supplement for Brave New World, two of the Power Class books from Mongoose (Nobles & Fools), SAS, and others. Did not get Creature Collection Rev yet (the art was not, unfortunately, one of the updated things). Hoping to acquire SG-1 RPG.
Got my NGO shirt; Did not get to hang withwhisperjeff or adamjury as much as I'd have liked, although I did get to meet the delightful Samantha. elissa_carey is a hoax perpetrated on me on a massive scale.
Spent a fair amt of time withpyat and his buddy Dr. Brian (say YO, doc). Have made offers to run Pulp Zombies game for Dr. B, mr_weasel and anyone else interested, and B5 game for eyebeams and AEI. Got to kibbitz with oakthorne for a bit, but was unable to down brau with him at any point. Met tenzil for approx 4.3 minutes.
Did not play Halo on PC. Did play Crimson Skies on Xbox.
Overall, good. Fun. Even if I was disorganized, the con was worse. Damn.eyebeams should be posting his rant on serf labour being used for reg shortly.
Was welcomed home by wife aftereyebeams and mr_weasel left.
And my Darkseid got bent. Very upset about that. Did not get to split a huge WizKids purchase with Badass, although he DID give me a bag of spare Cosmic Odyssey figs. So no Plastic Man fig.
Allegedly.
So, yes. Drove down.
mr_weasel picked up the Pimpmobile and hooked up with eybeams before coming down. mr_weasel complained I was never on time. So they made me wait half an hour for them to get there ( mr_weasel had to drop off his HTA). Thaaaanks, guys.Regretfully, we had neither a big fuzzy hat or fuzzy dice.
The travel time, according to Mapquest, was 8.75 hours. We made in it 12. Booyah!
On the way down, we had a mildly annoying customs guy, but the return trip was annoying. I think the guy was trying to get me to break down. He asked what the license plate was, and I was like "Da fah? It's a rental, dickhead!"
Admittedly, we made a few stops along the way for recharging. On the return trip I bought a case o' the Yankee Mountain Dew (now with Caffeine!) and we drank Red Bull, which
mr_weasel disliked in a fit of heresy. Drive down was a little mis-organized. We pulled into the hotel, at which point
mr_weasel began his three day ritual of flirting shamelessly with the hotel staff. Giddy-up, indeed! Admittedly, they were pretty fucking hot. Why must I be a happily married man?Made the con on Thursday.
eybeams had no registration, and was unwilling to browbeat the White WOlf booth into giving him one. So he had to wait in line. For a LONG TIME. Damn, that was bad. Mega props to Mr. Z for his badge. We never did get his thingy list. The weekend was surprisingly game lite. I did get to meet a lot of people, and I played in the Austin Powers world championship (was in table #3 in the finals, and won a hooters calendar . May give it to Derwin Mak . Played in a Wraith: The Great War game that was very disappointing. God, so very disappointing. It started great; we were all playing the ghosts of WWI aces.
The ST had actually provided bios of the WWI aces we were (I was George McElroy ). Unfortunately, after a good start, we then spent 2 hours in a dogfight. Either A) the ST was completely unfamiliar with the W:tGW dog fighting rules, or B) they COMPLETELY SUCK.
So, I ditched it at 9:30 (was told the next day at the WW announcement that I won the RP prize, a copy of Sea of Shadows; never was able to claim it) and went to the aforementioned Austin Powers CCG Championship.
A picture with mostly me!
Another picture with much less me!
The Hines Bros, who ran the show. Mega Props. Great costumes.
Was fun. My Good deck sucked, but Evil Rocked. Fat Bastard Owns Joo.
Much of my time was spent schmoozing (ah, who am I kidding? Didn't barely schmooze at all, although
mr_weasel and I did pitch Avalanche an ancient Rome SB based on his Germania Inferior campaign, and trekhead was a neat guy to talk to), shopping, swagging and getting a PRIMEDIA shirt autographed for charity. The Star Wars signers were great. I did not make any snide comments to Ray Park out of politeness. And the fact he could break me like a priest's masturbation habit. The Boba Fett kid was a fairly hyper teenager, but good all the same. Mentioned to Jeremy Bulloch (OBF) that Drive-in was showing an old sex comedy he did from the '60s; glad he didn't have his dart launcher right about then, as he apparently does NOT have fond memories of it.
Sean Astin's handler was a bit of a dick. Got him to sign Snra. Bitter's Sam Bobblehead for her and the t-shirt.
He was rather gleeful to see the Sam, and mentioned that since vetting the prototype he hadn't seen a completed one. A cheerful young man I did not want to hit at all, even if he WAS in Deterrence.
Attended WW's big announcement. I dunno, but even if they tried intentionally to make the video look like ass, they still produced a fairly ass-tastic video. Did not acquire a Year of Judgment t-shirt for
etherlad, because they only gave them to people who were there. You know. The ones who drove down? Yeah, them. Bumped into
ladyjestyr a couple times. Played (IIRC) in a B5 demo with her boyfriend (whose name and title escape me) and mr_weasel. I played an angry Earthforce pilot. B5 is rocking on toast. I may buy a book or two.WW party; got there around midnight. Do geeks really not tip? The Bartender looked a little shocked when I handed him a few bucks. Drank quickly. Normal effects. Apparently the universal result was that ladies like to kiss the heads of bald men. I don't remember a thing.
Sunday was wandering and trying to catch up with
princeofcairo. I swear to God. The Best Four Days of Trying to get a Book to Ken Hite. It was turning into a comedy of errors. He's such a fucking social butterfly, anyway. I don't know if a kid's book on the history of Folk Music is what he was looking for, but God Dammit, that's what he got.Did some swagging. Between compassion and cash picked up The Last Exodus, Viking Age, Human Head's ultra cool Magic Academy book, Book of Archetypes for AFMBE, vastly overpriced copy of Mythic Egypt, The Golden Age supplement for Brave New World, two of the Power Class books from Mongoose (Nobles & Fools), SAS, and others. Did not get Creature Collection Rev yet (the art was not, unfortunately, one of the updated things). Hoping to acquire SG-1 RPG.
Got my NGO shirt; Did not get to hang with
whisperjeff or adamjury as much as I'd have liked, although I did get to meet the delightful Samantha. elissa_carey is a hoax perpetrated on me on a massive scale. Spent a fair amt of time with
pyat and his buddy Dr. Brian (say YO, doc). Have made offers to run Pulp Zombies game for Dr. B, mr_weasel and anyone else interested, and B5 game for eyebeams and AEI. Got to kibbitz with oakthorne for a bit, but was unable to down brau with him at any point. Met tenzil for approx 4.3 minutes. Did not play Halo on PC. Did play Crimson Skies on Xbox.
Overall, good. Fun. Even if I was disorganized, the con was worse. Damn.
eyebeams should be posting his rant on serf labour being used for reg shortly.Was welcomed home by wife after
eyebeams and mr_weasel left. And my Darkseid got bent. Very upset about that. Did not get to split a huge WizKids purchase with Badass, although he DID give me a bag of spare Cosmic Odyssey figs. So no Plastic Man fig.
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Date: 2003-07-28 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-07-28 08:07 pm (UTC)JOE! GET IN TOUCH WITH ME!
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Date: 2003-07-28 05:09 pm (UTC)Seriously: I was there. You saw how huge the whole thing was. If you had a book to give to Ken Hite, you could've given it to me, 'cause I ran into Hite at the White Wolf shindig. He would've still been disappointed in the lack of his "moment," but I'm sure getting a book would've mollified things. Probably wouldn't have improved the look on the face of the chick he'd been talking to when he said "hi" to me (boy, did she ever look sour right then -- sorry if I happen to be a bit charming, girlie), but my miracle-working is a bit limited.
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Date: 2003-07-28 07:39 pm (UTC)And you're some kind of AI program, like that Al Pacino movie. There was a cunningly developed replicant at the dance.
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Date: 2003-07-28 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 05:56 pm (UTC)I'm sorry we didn't get to hang out for longer, and yeah, I really owe you a drink. Next year? :-)
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Date: 2003-07-28 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 07:21 pm (UTC)Oh, hush. You know I would have if I could.
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Date: 2003-07-28 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-28 08:44 pm (UTC)Thanks, I'll give that a try.
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Date: 2003-07-28 09:07 pm (UTC)I just fired off an email. Thanks much.
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Date: 2003-07-28 11:49 pm (UTC)Next con, then, methinks.
Joe