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So I'm getting all the credentials together for the f13 E3 crackteam and assuming they let us in (which they should, since everything is in order), there will be four of us. So, who else is going?

If I wasn't working full time now, I would have been going. Oh well....maybe next year, if I go to grad school in either Bakersfield or Northridge.

I might go.  Not sure yet.  Last time I went to E3 on my own dime I had someone to crash with, but this time around I'd have to actually cough up for a hotel, and that ain't cheap in downtown LA.

I'd love to go, but, you know, wrong continent...

Make sure you find out much of interest, and have fun!

When is it? I seem to have 3 months free.....

May 10th-12th.

Would they need to be sober?

I'd be game most likely then.

Goddamned gaming industry and the south/west. Come to NY you pussies :P

New York is filled with opinions assholes. You all have Toy Fair. Consider yourself lucky that convention even exists anymore. Even the porn convention that used to ride on Toy Fair's Coattails has moved out west.

Can't make it then. Let's have an F13 party in Vegas over Memorial Day weekend instead!

How about Phoenix. It's easier and 3 of us F13ers live in one big house. Two others live within 30 miles. One more lives an hour and a half away or so. Also, there are a good number who could probably fly here for uhm, Not much.

Oh, and we have casinos.

You may have casinos, but I have reservations. And Vegas has free nootch and sportsbooks.

Vegas is also above my paygrade and doesn't have enough video games or STD free bitches to amuse me unless I have sweet tickets to a show or the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders in my suite. And by suite I mean my suite suite pants.

Vegas is one of the cheaper places to fly to and stay in, as long as you ignore the siren call of gambling.

I'm interested due to my time constraints being minimal, but I also have budget problems. Do you know what this escapade would cost ballpark? Assume you're flying from Atlanta.

Are you talking about Vegas or E3?

E3 would be a pain in the ass.

E3, but if it's a pain, I'll pass. May is good lake weather.

Damn, having a full-time job sucks. /cry

If E3 wasn't such a colossal pain in the ass I'd go in a heartbeat.  But it is a pain in the ass.  LA airfare + LA traffic + cost of LA hotels = ow.  Having someone to crash with or a corporate credit card is invaluable.

I would go to E3 but I think I would get bored.  I really couldn't give a fuck about console games and I doubt they would let me rant at some PC developer about pvp features for very long before they would ask me to leave kill me.

Plus I dont think I'm qualified to actually provide insight into anything there, I would most likely spend most of my time trying to steal things related to Supreme Commander.

You're assuming the other people going are qualified to provide insight. Silly you.

There's insight to be provided at E3?

I was under the impression it was getting eyefucked by marketing-designed displays and materials telling me how OMFGWTFBBQKKTHX XTR33M the next version of Madden is going to be while a developer broods quietly in the corner as his baby is murdered by the schlocks  IGN passes off as "press".

The only "press" you really need at E3 is a pair of thumbscrews.

Too bad my sister just moved out of LA about a month back.  I could have used some of my vacation time and crashed on her couch.  Ah well, if I ever make it to any convention I'd probably spend a week in lovely San Diego and go to Comic-Con.  At least I can afford a lot of comics.  At E3 I'd just be looking at games I wouldn't be able to buy until a year after they're released.

I'd love to go. Accreditation would be easy, but I'd never get my boss to pay and I'm quite sure, that me going to LA on my own dime would be voted down by the missus real quick... and since I leave her alone with the kids at least 4-5 times a year to go to exotic locations and "work", while she's stuck in a job that involves no travelling, I kinda owe her at this time.
... maybe when both kids are old enough to stay with the grandparents I can bring her along and finally go to E3. Otoh GDC sounds much more interesting.

By that time, it'll be all in virtual.

You will be fine, E3 has open PVP.

Yeah but other people might be well liked, or something, I dunno.  If Samwise was driving down from SF I would be happy to split gas fare with him and come I suppose.  I should probably look into room prices before I go saying things like that.  Also the whole nerfed booth babes thing sort of sucks.

I think what I meant to say was I'm sure three others who are more qualified to "rep" f13 can be found.  Yeah there we go, plus Schild could be a smelly old man for all I know, I've said it before but turning internet people into RL people sort of scares me.  Although my experience with FPS lanparties was around 90% positive in that regard so I am not sure why.

Because that other 10%? The smell won't wash away....

Yeah, the thing is I have never met a PC gamer that could come anywhere close to some of the horrors I have been submitted to while being in a table-top/PnP/ccg venue.  Dear god I dont understand how some people can be that fat.

I knew one MUDer that was far more gross than any of the MTG/DnD players I knew, but he was definitely an exception to any rule.

I used to run security for an anime/RPG/LARP/webcomics/gaming convention. We had precisely that breed of person all over conspace for a whole weekend.

Only they were in costume. Well, technically speaking at least. Often there simply wasn't enough 'costume' for the 'in' part. Think about this. Then think about them playing DDR or swinging a boffer around.

Informing them of the con's Public Decency rule and then having them bodily ejected was much fun, provided I had a minion to do the 'bodily' part for me. Especially considering it would often be around 5 degrees Fahrenheit at noon when we held the con.

<I will not have fat Yuna in my E3 thread. Think of the goddamn children. Here's regular Yuna. See, I'm thinking of the children. Now Nix's post still makes some sense.> - Schild

Ok. Why is it that finding a decent sized picture of the actual Yuna that is hotlinkable seems to be the hardest thing to do on the internet? I mean, it's near fucking impossible. I don't want a huge picture, small picture or fat Yuna. But finding fat Yuna is easier than finding free porn. This is Not Amusing. Goddamn internet.

Why is Yuna so fucking popular among cosplaying Fat Chicks? Is she the Martin Luther Fucking King of video game heroines? Does she stand for that much hotness and respect that she just must be cosplayed. Fuck, FFX2 was balls. There were words like "disasteriffic" in there. It was just. UGH. Goddamnit.

You looking for something like this?

(http://www.pandadesigns.com/games/luna_ffx2_01.jpg)

I perfered Tifa, kekekela.

Mmmmm Tifa in the FFVII movie... mmmmmmmmmmmmm...

(was that tifa? I'm a FF noob)

Stop lusting over video game girls. We only made a big deal out of Yuna because Shockeye posted Fat Yuna. Not because she's "hotter" or whatever the fuck you all are talking about.

And yea, Tifa was in Advent Children.

Sad.

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Agreed.

aren't you guys supposed to be sleeping in 8 am? Wtf?

Signe's an early riser and I'm convinced schild only cat naps.

And Trippy obviously some weirdo stalker!  eek! 

Yes, yes I am. :evil: Actually I'm on a reverse sleep schedule from most people in the US -- I'm asleep during the day (I'm going to bed right now) and awake at night.

Heh.

I'm going.

There's your bar- I trust you'll find it's set low enough.

O RLY?

 :heartbreak:

I prefer Tifa to Yuna, even if akimbo pistols are sexah!

I mean, stupid nerds stfu and die you pathetic bastages.

P.S.  I loved that part in FF:AC where the cell phone ring was the level up sound.

Yes, that was the only good part of Advent Children. But I wouldn't know since it wasn't released in America yet. NO ONE SHOULD KNOW (except people who went to the private screening last week - hey, I hear Mena Suvari liked it).

They could have projected the movie onto Mena Suvari's monstrous forehead for people to watch.

They might have. I mean she played a girl who only existed in flashbacks. Goddamn she sucks. I don't even want to hear the american dub now, no matter how much Tifa is like a charicature of Rachel Leigh Cook.

Shockeye, thanks for making me laugh so much today, and not just at Schild's agony (http://maroonx.com/articles/2005/yuna/).

I hate that link.

Oh, you got the monkey pants also? Yea, they're not bad. I wish it gave me a tail though. Nothing better than being the Furry Hero of Cyrodiil.

Shit, if Schild is a fanboi of RLC then I actually completely agree with him about something that has to do with movies.  I feel sort of ill...

Oh and the cell phone wasn't the only good thing about FF:AC the part where Vincent showed up and kicked ass in the tree scene was great also, but then when you actually see how big his feet are he loses mystique fast.

Oh, I didn't buy the Monkeypants, these are just a tribute.  I spent all of my money on a shack next to the water.  And an inedible horse.

That link made me laugh hard.  Like a new version of fatchicksinpartyhats.  Be sure to snap photos of the PA guys at E3, we can work some Photoshop magic.

Hm. Your comment about snapping photos sent me down a dangerous path. I think I'm going to get a I LOVE STARFORCE signboard made up kind of like Bruce Willis in Die Hard.

F13 strike team motherfucking alpha was just accepted into E3. This years players include Ookii, Yoru, Llava, and Myself. Ookii is on photo detail, so if there aren't enough bitches and shiny you can blame him. Llava, Yoru and Myself are on Information Detail.

You realize that after your PA rant your going to have to kick somebody who is associated with Ubi in the nuts, that or get one of their booth babes infected with herps, you decide.

*somebody stole my fucking o, they are always after my o's

UBISoft is on my list so to speak.

We will rain death and inconvenience on our foes, and throw things at them if we should see them.

Ubisoft is dropping Starforce. (http://forums-fr.ubi.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/7501009903/m/9071096924/r/7911042234#7911042234)

Green Ogre grain-crushing mill of Gnomes please!

Good Wink to return from there on a significant subject, that of "Starforce", here information which should interest you:  it was decided that protection anti-copy used on the next Ubisoft plays would not be the Starforce software.

Thank you,



I love Google translations.

Oh, good... for a moment I thought you had eaten too much Japanese candy.

Babelfish is somewhat less Engrishy.


Well, not really.

VICTORY

Now they just have to announce it for America and announce that it will be removed from HoMMV.

Doesn't that just translate to:


Or something along those lines?

Yes, the games will come with their very own special agent man (http://youtube.com/watch?v=V4SYEi6Y46s) who will follow you around and make sure you don't 'share' your copy with anyone.

The limited edition has a Tin Foil Hat emblazoned with the UBISoft logo.