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Looks like Squirrel is going to be in town from Canada. So why the fuck not. Come one, come all. There's tons of shitass cheap resorts and hotels. It's hotter than fuck. And the drink runs like water. Get your ass out here. We have lots of floor space to pass out on.

'Tis true. I arrive Sat. July 13th and am staying until the 18th, all RnR time, flying solo as my girl's in Ottawa. Have plans the Sat. night but other than that am up for all manners of debauchery. Staying at the Valley Ho hotel - a suite with a bathtub in the living room, which I'm sure I'll sleep in at least once.

Even people who argue about consoles are allowed to come! I'll show you my Wii! It's on a bookshelf.

Wouldn't we need a microscope to see that?

Only the font, wiseass.

Oh, and for the record: I'm in Chandler, Squirrel will be staying in Scottsdale. If you need places to stay close to us, as passing out on my floor every night isn't really attractive, I can give you a list, just tell me if you want to stay in Scottsdale, Chandler, Gilbert, or Mesa (all east valley).

Also, if you stay at the same place Squirrel is staying, we're going to be doing at least one night at his place as there's a Hawaiian restaurant there.

Sure.

Please, contain your excitement.

I already live here but haven't met any of you so I'd be up for dropping by. On a related note, is anyone going to PhoenixCon(mostly traditional non-videogaming convention) in June?

I think you ought to make it a thunderdome type event...

The Valley of the Sun in mid July? Why not schedule it for Hell? It would be a damned sight cooler.

You mean ConGames (http://www.conevents.com/page/phx/main.asp)?  I'll likely wander about on a one day pass there.

I already live in the valley also, but this sounds like a good excuse to actually meet some of you imaginary internet peoples.

You beat me to it.  Az is barely bearable in the winter.   

One of these days I'll come bug you during a golf trip.  I can be the token old guy. 

Your timing blows, my birthday is on the 13th so I'm needed in Cali to preside over some attempted liver homicides.

Hey, Hoax's birthday is two days before mine.

I posted that just before collapsing in bed to sleep, so gimme a break.

Me too (birthday), and Hawaiin food is basically just spam and macaroni salad.  :|

(That's me feeling bad that I won't be able to make it)

Jun 27 here. We're, uhh, all Cancers or something.  :-P (need a crab emote)


[EDIT] Oh yeah. ...Probably couldn't make something like that. Hopefully I'll be somewhere wet by the time July comes around.

Seriously. Nothing personal, but fuck AZ. It's just too damn hot.

Ya'll some bitches. Ya, June, July and August and parts of September are hot. But man, you're all pussies for being so young. It's still better than Florida during the summer and people flock there. Though, they may be crazy. Also, you don't even notice the heat when you numb it with alcohol. And this whole little shindig is a matter of coincidence since Squirrel is coming. Not to mention, he's from Vancouver, so he could very well MELT while he's down here.

You'll be numb because the alcohol combined with the heat will dehydrate you to the point of death.  Come to California, where you can... you know... go outside during the daytime.

I'd come, but I'd just lurk in the background like I do here. Also I'm poor.

Fake edit: June 29th here. My father is in early July, my stepfather is June 2nd and a couple other people I know are in June. Does everyone just have sex in October?

Yep.  In October it is finally cool enough to not melt from the bodyheat of a partner.

You're all the result of mistakes made at drunken Halloween parties, admit it.

I don't know what you all had in mind, but you don't go outside during the day in Arizona except to get to your car.

The heat's not that bad because you just don't step into it.  You certainly don't go midday drinking.  The more nocturnal you can make your lifestyle, the better.  Summer nights are awesome.

Not if it's Roy's, it isn't.  That's what you were planning, right?  Roy's?

Also, to agree with Schild just this once, at no time is Arizona EVER worse than the heat in Florida.  I've been here a week and have never had to drink so much water in my life.

That's pretty much it, when I had to describe Arizona to someone I basically said: think of it like being on Mars, you hop from one air conditioned bubble to the next spending as little time exposed as possible, the only difference is you actually don't need a space suit.

As long as you stay out of the sun, it's not too bad -- stay in the shade, and with cool and frothy beverage in hand, even in the midst of 110 degree July-August heat, is a lot more livable than say, Minnesota in December…

But usually in July, I head north for cooler confines…

Let me know if you all are going to be west of I-17 as I don't usually make a habit of crossing I-17… …except for an occasional trek into N. Scottsdale…

Heh I'm headed down precisely because there is sun. Last trip I made was in August and it was nice. I like the heat. And the beer.

I'm already in Texas. The "other" Arizona.

Or rather, Arizona is the "other" Texas.  8-)

Why don't you all just act surprised if I show up?  Which I probably won't, but you never know.

If this (http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Knucklebonz-Guitar-Hero-Zakk-Wylde-Figurine?sku=432203) wasn't a hundred bones, I'd buy one and ship it to you guys to sit in the corner and pretend I'm there.

Sky don't do deserts, bro.

S'ok dude. You've just inspired me to bring a sketch book so that we can do collaborative speculative portrait sketches of non-attending F13 regs. and then drunkenly abuse and molest them. Don't worry, you'll be a rock star.

My holiday this year is Ireland in September, you all can guess how I feel about heat  :-D

Probably would be picked from the airport and land in Guantanamo anyway, crazy leftist Eurofag that I am.

Yea, I'll pass. Closest I'm going to a desert this year will be a June golf trip in to the Okanagan. I can't even fucking imagine being in AZ in July. Let me know the next time you try for a get together a little further north.

We need to do a WA/OR/BC gettogether one of these days. There are 4 or 5 regulars from the Seattle area, some BC folks, and VDL and Sauced from Portland. Would be fun!

Count me in the "Fuck a July in the AZ desert" camp.  I was out there a few years ago in August and it was torture.

I second that emotion. Summer in Cascadia is a lovely thing.

Well I live in Vancouver. July in AZ, August in BC. Beer then bud. Sounds good.

You should all come down here. Lots of crack for everyone, and you probably won't be shot (fatally).

Shit, I can get that here.

I would consider trying to get to WA/BC although really I think all parties should meet in the middle and call it a day.

The Bay Area being the middle point between AZ and BC according to my internal geography.

The ideal spot is Vegas. Then Ab can come from Utah, and there are plenty of rooms and all the booze we would ever need! Tentatively planning a trip in September.

Guys. Crucial thing about AZ. It's cheap. Vegas, SF, etc, are not cheap. Please note: About half the people in this thread say even coming to AZ is too expensive.

I do enjoy the fact that Sky considers coming to my neck of the woods vacation.  :wink:

Are you in VT? I consider all of wild new england and the adirondacks the best part of the entire world. Pacific NW is second best, because the old lady doesn't like winter (heresy!).

Plattsburgh on the edge of the Adirondack Park,  though the family has a place inside the Park.  A little over an hour from the High Peaks region, Placid, Saranac Lake, or where ever.  I don't make it into the South or West of the Park that much, though,  and my hiking has been greatly curtailed due to the recent lack of an appropriate hiking partner.

Just for the record. My friends and I have taken to making up shots named after Kung Fu moves and movies. Like Crane snatches Lizard and Puma Strikes Rabbit.

It's... interesting. And might kill us.

I second this. I can make up some bullshit conference that I need to go to to justify the trip to the wife.  :-D

Oh, and just because Vegas has been mentioned I need to post my bad beat story from Friday. I was playing in a 10-20, full kill (which takes it to 20-40) game that only gets up about 3 times a year when they do a big tourney. Had an up and down night, but am just about even and really ready to leave when I get rockets. I am just to the left of a total donk that has put a grand into the game, gone to the felt and is now on a rush having won about 5 of 6 last hands. Earlier before his rush he paid 3 bets on the flop with 65o with a board of A23 that I thought was a great flop with my pocket rockets. He of course spiked the 4 on the turn. Yay me. Anyways, He has the kill buton so has posted 20 bucks. I raise it to 40, a guy 4 to my left 3-bets it, cold-call from donk's brother, he cold calls, I made it 80, guy makes it 100, call, call, I cap it, call (all-in) call call. So, there is 495 dollars in the pot before the flop. Flop comes down K62 which is a really good flop for me. Check, I bet, call call. Turn is an 8. Check, bet, fold (which makes me think a signal was passed), raise. I know I'm dead but there is now 700 bucks in there, so I call it down to see 86s when a blank hits the river. The all-in guy had slick. I got up and left while the dude pulled his 795 dollar pot against my cracked aces.

The VFT conference is held then.  Use that.

Going to AZ is tons more expensive for us East coasters. Sure, I can tough out the drive to VT, which takes the better part of 8 hours. But AZ?

lolz. That requires a flight, which costs hundreds of bucks. All beside the point, I know.

Not all that many hundreds.



You can probably sleep on schild's tangy Sofarito.

That's actually pretty good...both ways, or one way?

Both ways. Arizona is a hub for Southwest. And during the summer it's cheap. Very cheap.

Cheap to go to the desert in summer? Wow, whodathunkit? I wonder how much it costs to fly to Alaska in January.

If you are female they probably pay to fly you in.

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AZ in the summer is supremely pleasant for nocturnal types. The summer is my favorite season here, wish I had southern hemisphere location to winter in.

AZ in summer is getting an undeserved bad rep here imo. Last time I was there was in the middle of August. It's cheap, friendly, good beer and hot women. WTF do you want? Is it hot? Meh some might think so, but it's dry. Compared to SE Asia or anywhere with humidity it's damn comfortable. And anyway only mad-dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun.

Stock up on lager and whisky boys! Flight confirmed - I am there :P

It's a dry heat!  Having been places all over that are humid in the summer (or humid all of the time) give me the desert any day (probably doesn't hurt that I grew up in the desert either).  At least you can run a fan\mist combo whereas all that does in places like Houston is make you more miserable and attract mosquitos.

I've said already I would totally consider it, and in fact there is a part of my brain that still is, but for the fact that I dont drive (urban kid, sue me) and its my fucking birthday.  Then I think of how ASU women are always in playboy/maxim et all and I reconsider again...



Depart   Jul 12 Thu N/S OAK-PHX 1989 Depart Oakland (OAK) at 8:20 PM
Arrive in Phoenix (PHX) at 10:10 PM 
Return   Jul 17 Tue 1 PHX-OAK 588 Depart Phoenix (PHX) at 1:10 PM
Arrive in Oakland (OAK) at 4:00 PM 
 
Total $202.20

You would wish being on the same coast would save me more then $100 bucks.

It's your birthday now, or it's your birthday then? 

I  :heart: your new avatar Signe. It reminds me of mom.

Looks like I will be going to this shindig, number of days TBD.  Just need to get some airfare... Southwest is not allowed in Hartsfield, keke.

Flying non-southwest/USAir will obviously be pricier.

I mentioned driving and my wife laughed at me.

Ha.

Looking at places to stay now.  Turns out there are a lot of nice spas in that area so the plan is for both me and my wife to stay at one of those, so she can do the spa thing and I can do whatever it is you plan to do.  Two birds with one stone.  Anyway, I'd like something close to wherever the whatever is, so either some vague locale or a street address to feed into the Google map would help me out.

I'm staying at the Valley Ho (http://www.hotelvalleyho.com/content/index.html?) - a somewhat retro hotel. If you have $$$ see if you can swing the  Phoenician  (http://thephoenician.com/pages/index.html). I stayed there once and it was fucking awesome. For spa/pool/service anyway.

What, sofas aren't classy enough anymore?

Swank.  Taking that one into consideration.  I love that style.


Looks nice as well, and closer than the place we really want to stay, The Boulders (http://theboulders.com/index.cfm).  Seems like we were going to stay at some other place called Phoenician on some other untaken trip, perhaps on some island.


I will have to tell you about the various places I have lived in the past, especially the ones with Killjoy.  The short answer is: No.  Someone is going to rub my fucking back and make me feel special while I'm in Arizona.

If driving distance or time to anything in the south valley is a consideration, you probably don't want to be up at the boulders..  its about 30-35 minutes from there to central Scottsdale, and nearly 45 to the Chandler/Mesa area. Without traffic.

I booked this room:

(http://www.hotelvalleyho.com/photos/room-studio.jpg)

Yeah the Valley Ho is pretty styling actually, very kitsch but done just right. They're actually having a sale atm on rooms in this time-frame, I assume July/Aug are slow tourist months in the desert heh.

A tub right in the middle of the room? How odd.

Also, is there an actual shower in there somewhere?

Yeah it has a bathroom with a glass stall shower as well. It is odd but i love it. Im going to play scarface in the tub.

Umm... won't you get electrofried?  (http://smiley.onegreatguy.net/shocking.gif)

I won't suggest electrofried for the spellcheckmahoobie because the last time I did someone shouted at me. 

Looks more appropriate to play Marat, but please don't.

I knew that was open to misinterpretation. I meant this:

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Not this (http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/action/scarface/index.html).

Just saw this and thought I would link it. Airfair specials to/from Phoenix in July on Southwest. Must book by May 31.

http://www.southwest.com/hotfares/weekend_edition2.html?src=e052507#phx

like, hmmmm

maybe I can score a job interview there and get someone else to pay for it.  What's on Monster these days down there I wondah.

Soln! You going to AGC this year? :)

We weighed the options and compromised, so we are staying at my wife's pick (nyuk, nyuk), The Boulders.  I am perfectly fine with that because I am not planning on being on some sort of schedule and we are renting a convertible.

Just wanted to toss this out there for you guys.  Anyone coming to the shindig who wants to get tattooed can't be sunburned.  I know it's tempting to go out in the 120 degree heat and play with the scorpions, but please, show some restraint.

I just got a mental image of a half dozen people walking around in jawa robes to keep the sun off them. Thanks for the chuckle.

You guys won't have a problem with scorpions.  It'll be the widows that get ya!

I was just thinking, we should make f13 shirts and all go to PAX and get Schild hella drunk and start some fights w/ the Octagonians or something?

Also I'm still considering Pheonix in a tiny seldom listened-to part of my brain.. so beware!

By widows, he means women with fake tits and dead husbands.

Of course.  And don't forget about the bored, disillusioned trophy wives of the Arizona Cardinals.

Hrm. Both of those pique my interest.

They also have natural leather armor instead of skin. Sometimes too much sun is a bad thing.

Eh, it's not so bad, only gives an AC of 8. Easy enough to get past.  :-P

Have no fear of the plastic womenz I will handle them all!!!!  :heart: :heart: :heart: :heart:

A question just hit me.  Do you guys have a copy of Risk/Axis & Allies, or something in that vein over there?  I mean, if we're gonna be nerding it up we might as well not do it half-assed.

Diplomacy is what you should be playing.

I already play Diplomacy when I play Risk.  Manipulating people, forming alliances, etc?  Yeah, that's already in Risk, and it's got better mechanics.

BG will kick your asses in games.  He'll be the only one there not dying from the Pain of 1000 Needles.

Yeah, I've got a copy of Risk that I can bring over... but with all the drinking and tattooing how will we find the time?

I think you need to find Gulp one of those "Random Hot Chicks" you AZ kids are always talking about.

What with him coming down and doing all the actual Work for you guys, it's the least you can do. :evil:

Shouldn't be too hard... Gulp how do you feel about living with the SAIDs?

He's a married man!

So the super aids are out...?

I haven't played Risk since I was 12.

I think BG should have a multi-coloured name (God, Trippy will hate me for suggesting this) and the grief title:  "Official F13 Tatter" or sommat if this happens. 

 :-o

Not since 1997, and it will never happen again, I can guarantee you that.  I'll follow Groucho Marx' advice, the next time I feel like getting married I'll just find a woman I hate and buy her a house.

Dunno man.  I'm looking for work these days.  Would love to but kind of out of the loop these days.  We shall see....

Really?  You look married.  Oh... then I guess it's okay for them to bring on the dancing girls!

You look married?

That can't be a good thing...

I think it's a nice thing for most people, no?  If you marry the right person you can become fat and content like a Persian cat.  Maybe not as fluffy.

Sonny's, less than a mile away!

Right.   :roll:

More likely than not you'll have a couple of kids, your wife will become "bored" or "need to find herself" and decide to iniitiate divorce.  Bingo, bango, your kids are gone, you've divvied up half your shit, and you're paying around 30-40% of your income to the ex for approximately 10 years.  And note that well over 50% of marriages end like this, and in the US around 75% of the divorces are initiated by women.  I've seen this shit happen to way too many guys, many of them my friends.  These poor bastards weren't bad fathers, they weren't abusive, and yet, they're fucking ruined.  Absolutely ruined.

Personally, I got off lucky in my divorce.  We didn't have kids, and I didn't have much to take.  Never again, especially since if you don't really want kids you can get all the benefits of marriage with none of the bullshit by just cohabiting.

Being married with no kids has made me happy and content.  (and... umm... fluffy)

Go with God, sister.  I wish you all the best.

Personally I prefer to look at the odds, and for lack of a better word, they're shit.  Men have got the deck stacked against us from the get go, and we'd better wake up to that fact.  By all means have fun, screw around, but don't get married.  You're setting yourself up for failure from the beginning.

Prenuptial Agreements - Man's Great Equalizer.  :-P

But seriously, I don't quite understand alimony nowadays, since pretty much all women actually work for a living. I could understand it years ago, when being an actual "housewife" was more widespread, but now? It makes no sense.

Laws don't change when they benefit 51% of the constituency.

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I guess that's what we men get for letting them women folk actually vote.

Women still average less than a man in an equal position.

That's not to say alimony laws don't need adjustment.  Fortunately I have no experience here.  Family law seems a convoluted mess from the little I've seen of co-workers and friends going through various things.

Alimony almost universally accounts for the money earned by both partners.  In fact, alimony hardly even exists any more. Most payments coming out of divorce are child support.

EDIT: After thinking about this, I'm probably overstating it. But it does account for the woman's wages. They put both wages into a formula to come up with who owe who what. Since statistically women make lower than men, it stands to reason they are likely to get the bulk of spousal support payments.

Apologies to the cool lawyery-types here, but a lot of it is lawyers. When my mother got her last divorce, from a real class 1 a-hole, she just wanted out. She did a lot of stupid stuff like taking on a lot of the loans because the bank wouldn't let them refinance under his name, so he got the boat...but she had to pay for it. Anyway, the royal bitch lawyer she had kept nagging her to take him for all he was worth, to sue him into the poorhouse. So much so that my mother finally had to fire her and go with another lawyer.

My girlfriend makes more than I do :)

I anticipate that state educators in AZ will be blindsided by a precipitious decline in the mean IQ of folks in their state during this time :P

Considering AZ spends most of the time as or close to the fiftieth spot education-wise, I'm thinking maybe not.

AZ has the worst education in America, that includes the third-world states.

Edit: Seriously, the kids here are fucking stupid.

I've still seen way too many cases personally of women forcing an ex to continue to pay child support, even though the woman has been living with her new boyfriend for multiple years. Loopholes FtW.

Do you mean alimony?  Because I can't see why a man or woman should not have to support their own children.  Why should the new boyfriend/husband be held responsible?

Loophole?  If it's his child he should be paying to support it until adulthood.  It is half his responsibility, the wife getting a new boyfriend or remarrying has absolutely no bearing on it whatsoever.

Except that it's been verified by university studies that around 20% of children are NOT actually the father's biological children, unbeknownst to him.  Does that matter?  No, the father pays regardless "for the good of the children", ignoring the fact that he's been duped by a conscienceless skag.  This is the only case I know of where the victim is forced by law to continue to support the perpetrator.

If the kids are in fact actually his he lives at the whim of whether or not the mother wants him to see his kids.  In most cases he'll become a 14% dad, seeing his kids once, maybe twice a week.  In the bad cases his children will be used as a bargaining chip against him.  And yep, alimony is virtually non-existent nowadays, but that's because child support has taken it's place.  Is that money legally obligated to be used for the children?  Nope, it's paid to the mother and can be used at her discretion.  The courts can be extremely arbitrary in determining the amount, and you will be held to it.  Get laid off?  Fuck you, pay me.  Take a lower paying job?  Fuck you, pay me.

In a lot of ways it's like the mob were running our family law.

What about cases where a married woman cheats on her husband, gets knocked up, lets the husband think it's his, then 2 weeks after the birth, in a fight yells, "by the way, it's not yours!" and oops, it turns out that it is his because the last year of their marriage was spent in hate-sex? Not that this example is close to home or anything.

Woman, your new avatard has made me fall in love with you all over again. 

No more hate, kk?

Uh, no. There was one goofy survey in Scotland or some place with horrible methodology that was then hyped up by the "poor me" male brigade. There have been no actual "university studies" on such a thing that I am aware of. Such a study would in fact have a very, very difficult time getting by an IRB. If you can cite such studies to me, I will look at them and evaluate them, but this is an urban myth as far as I'm concerned.


Around here there is a formula in the statute that is rather rigorously followed.

I feel like I've fallen into a vat of Judge Judy.   :|

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Back on-topic, I have tickets and will be in Phoenix from Saturday until Monday for f13.con.  :hello_kitty:

Out of curiousity, do any of you guys in the Phoenix area have an old dot matrix printer stashed away in one of your closets?  It'd make things go a lot easier for me with regard to stenciling.  I hate tracing this shit out with a passion.  No ink cartridge would be needed, I just need it to hit the front page of the stencil hard enough to transfer over.

Hurrrrrr, I don't. Maybe Rasix or Llava does.

Who the hell doesn't still have a couple okidata dot matrix printers burried in thier closet? Oh yea, forgot, youngins.

People who don't keep mostly useless shit?

...I might have a dot matrix in the attic at my parents house. In Virginia.

Edit: Actually, this weekend I can take a trip to the local college surplus store and see if they have one for pennies.

I would not be surprised if one turns up in your closet anyway.  Or you could ask around at GoDaddy.  Those AHS guys probably have dozens.

I just checked the scrap heap, I have a  spare HP Deskjet 940c. So.. no dice.

Ya know, the funny thing is, I have this exact time period as vacation already from work.

Now, who wants to spring for the 2K plane ticket from Inchon to Phoenix?

Don't go too crazy out of your way, man.  I can still trace out the stencils, I was just looking for the lazy way out.  If any of you have an old discarded one laying around, by all means bring it over to Schild's, but don't buy one.

You guys have 1 week to brush up on your Guitar Hero skills.

Shame that Encore comes out the day everyone leaves (Murphy, you bastard).

I'm still a noob.  The best I've done is 4 star some of the easier songs on medium.  Good thing we can scale down the difficulty in coop.  I'll be happy to rock the bass since I haven't yet played coop.

At least I have someone to play at Medium with.

I didn't know there was going to be an exam.

I can four or five star everything on medium, but I can't even begin to finish a song on hard. :|

This is going to end well. :rock: :rock_hard: :rock: :rock_hard: :rock: :rock_hard: :rock_hard:

Just be glad I don't live in the area or I'd show up with my guitar and actually play the song along with you guys :P

Excuse me Sky, real guitars are for pussies and can't handle the Arizona heat.

Heh, I've never actually played Guitar Hero.  Guess no one else will need to fear being the worst at it there.

Doesn't matter, you're still better than Ookiih at anything that isn't Sweet Child O' Mine

Mad that you moved to lonely Orlando so you couldn't experience the awesomeness that will be the F13 get together? (I'll post the pictures for you though)

It's true I can't sit down and play GH II for 10 straight hours like your lazy ass, but rest assured I can cream you in any fighting game in existence.  The Japanese have a word for you when it comes to these sort of things, it's 'yowai'.

Too mean?  :-)

I've also gotten exponentially worse.

YOWAI SAUCE BABO MOUSE!

Huh? Nothing can handle the arizona heat. Turn off your a/c for the summer. I dare ya.

I can still play most of Sweet Child O Mine, though I forget some of the solo and would have to wing it. My band used to play it for my drummer's mother, though we didn't do many covers.

I here there is a heat wave in the South West too.  A heat wave, in Arizona, in July.  The little monitor in the elevator told me so and it never lies.  It displayed the temperature in Las Vegas right now, I'm not a scientist but I'm pretty sure people should start combusting soon.

Schild had better have air conditioning, or I'm likely to have Iraq flashbacks.  And who's thinking about the poor bastard from Canada?  He's never felt temperatures over 40 degrees fahrenheit in his life....

My air conditioning is Awesome. I'm gonna make another thread where people can put in arrival times and whatnot.

I'm pretty sure that's untrue.  I'll whomp on you in some Klay Fighter

Actually the heat wave is pretty much everywhere in the southwest except the valley.  Or if it did hit here, the difference between 110 and 114 is not enough to bother with.

FIFY. Been in the 90s with high humidity the last couple days. No a/c at work because of HVAC renovation. Yesterday was ridiculous, and it was already too hot when I got up today, which is a baad sign. Got my home a/c on a timer, it'll be nice and chilly by the time I get home.

And don't give me that dry heat vs moist heat shit, an oven is dry heat and I don't want to sit in one :P

Even up here we are expected to hit 30C / 86F today. That's fairly hot for here, even mid summer.

Yeah, it is gonna be 90+ the next 3 days in Seattle. That fucking sucks unholy ass, since almost nobody here bothers to install central air. I may have to drag the mattress downstairs and sleep in the basement the next three nights. I would be closer to my PC, 360, and HDTV too, so that would be comforting.

Google Weather says 65 right now, expected to go up maybe to 70. I think it was around 55ish when I was waiting for the train this morning. I had to wear a windbreaker.

Guess we should've had the F13 get-together around here, eh? ;)

Schild said it would be around 70 degrees. It's just that he was using the centigrade scale.

I walk around in the summertime saying how about this heat!

I have some high stretchy black socks for you to wear with your expensive Italian sandals.

Schild wears terrycloth robes and wrings them out into gallon jugs to sell on ebay.

You use that sweat to get rid of foam on a beer bong.

I make my fortunes off of it.

The glory of my heat pump is in - you are welcome to take refuge from the heat in my abode.

Today it is supposed to climb to 99 in Portland. Just tested the air con yesterday, and by gum, she works! We are stoked. Fuck, maybe I'll bake some bread just to spite the neighbors.  :evil:

I hate both of you.

WAP, it may cost $400 a month to keep my entire house 75 degrees, but by god is it awesome.

You have no clue.

Lap of luxury, if you ask me.

Imo 75 is 'warm'. 65 is 'comfortable'. My irish/viking heritage ftw!

Thought I would be back in the Valley by the weekend but now stuck in Pittsburgh, thanks to the incompetence of US Airways…

Everyone going make sure you bring your A game with the fighting action. I will have the stand-up arcade sticks there and we can throw down some matches of whatever.

SCHILD: make sure you have all the ps2 fighters there, and if you don't have some tell me so i can bring the ones you don't have. i can also bring some mvs fighters if need be.

ALSO!!!!

everyone who has a DS better bring it.

games that i would like to play vs mode in.

TETRIS DS <---------------this is a must. there WILL be some tetris action goddamnit!
PUYO POP FEVER
METEOS
 :heart: PUZZLE LEAGUE :heart:
METROID
MARIOKART
 

I thought this was a guy's event?

Whoa there, partner. Tetris is awesome.

that is about the dumbest thing i have heard in here. Tetris owns your lame face.

Heh.

Got any new games for the cab, schild?

Ohh and.. taking Monday off work.  So, I'll be there Saturday afternoon, Sunday and early Monday.

No new games. I can't decide what to get :|

A sidescrolling beat'm up is a must.  There are many to choose from.  I do imagine, however, that none are cheap.

Mmm? My copy of Alien vs Predator died :( Suicide batteries suck. The only sidescroller I really want is Magic Sword or one of the D&D ones, but they're about $110 a piece and.... not so easy to find.

Buy a razor, Grizzly Adams.

Now I'm bringing the DS?  I must also throw my tophat in the "Tetris is gay" ring.  I'd rather just clamp the DS shut over my balls.

wow, apparently schild and myself are gonna have to show you fools why tetris is so badass. this whole tetris is for girls thing is freaking retarded.

but i am open to play any fighting games too, if that is your poison.

I would be happy for you to show me the Badass version of Tetris.  I suspect it might involve ninjas flipping out and killing people, once they get tired of trying to arrange falling blocks into contiguous horizontal rows.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Actually considering it for house hunting. Lots of people giving us the skunk-eye when we drive through their neighborhood. I say 'fuck 'em', but then...that's poor negotiation for such a ridiculously expensive item...

Tetris is a great game. If you're stoned out of your mind without access to real games. Or a book. Or another person. Or interesting wallpaper.

well it seems like there is a pocket of anti-tetris fagdom here. no worries, we can play whatever floats yer boat. like i said before i am cool with playing fighting games or fps or some guitar hero, or ninjas flipping out or some good old fashioned wallpaper watching.s it's all fun.

Sky, you have to remember to spin your guitar around on your belt buckle, that way they know you are an entertainer and not there to rob them.

Oh, and I hardly ever lose in wallpaper since the pieces don't move, so it's more relaxing.

anyone here besides schild and myself play a lot of guitar hero? man if we ever freaking needed rock band this is the damn time.

Hey, anyone wanna come to Portland on the 28/29th? It's the Oregon Brew Fest. WAP and his special lady are coming down for a visit. Instead of having a game-off extravaganza I'm finnuh cook some food and shit.

WAP has a "special" lady? Like short-bus? ;)

I'd take VL's food and shit + brewfest over video games and tatts any day, but the whole lot of you are on the wrong coast :P

I believe it is popular in San Fran.

There's a guitar hero club at my school that meets once a month to play on a huge projector.

I don't play GH a huge amount, but I can hold my own on medium. Hard does graphic things to my various orifices.

I'll bring my DS and lose badly at Tetris. I'll see if I can dig up my copy of Mario Kart DS too.

You think I could trick a normal women into marrying me?? I keep waiting for her to sober up and figure out that she set the bar way too low!

You live too far away and I am out of vacation days.  Maybe you should visit me, I'll let you use all the facilities.  It will be like a cozy B&B.  Seriously.  We have a new brown bunny family nearby and I spotted a young deer this morning that had found one of the deer blocks, so we're succeeding in attracting the wildlife.

Is this some kind of immigration remark?

So what, it's a B&B where I do the cooking?  :evil:

Geez.  Why don't you all just marry each other?

wowsers, is yegolev always this much of a d-bag? i can foresee that me+beer+yegolev+attitude=good ol' fashion fisticuffs...  or good friend making. better be able to play street fighter.... i'm tired of friends who can't play streetfighter...SCHILD!

Nearby? I have a bunny living in my yard and a family of deer that visit me daily. Of course I have a huckleberry bush that I pull branches down on and throw out carrots to the bunny.

I'm just being a dick today, no seriousness here.  It's all INTERNET FUN.  I have not played Street Fighter II Turbo in forever, and the others never, but I'd be more than happy to show you how terrible I am.  I do like the versus fighters even if I lose a lot.

Hey, Sky, aren't you the one that insists that Native Americans are really Indians?

Wasn't that clear in the invitation?

Yeg, don't worry about my friend here. He gets riled up without his beans & rice.

yeah i am just being a weenie. no worries. but yeah we should play some SF. i love that series like not other. I just like fighting games a lot.


it sucks how true that is. beans and rice for the motha'fckn win.

...so are you black or Mexican?

Ha, I am sooooo Mexican. I keep forgetting that my childhood and upbringing is really similar to that of my black friends. Like family life, food and stuff. But yes. I LOVE me some beans and rice. I really think that if that is all i ate that would be okay. but tortillas and stuff just make it all better. Mexican food is by far my favorite food. sooo good for my tummy. *rub-rub*

Silly girl, I don't have black friends. I live in ARIZONA.

That's not meant as racism, so much as, there are like no black people here. The only one I've met is basically a tan white dude. But he's awesome.

SCHILD: that MGS trailor was pretty cool, but weird.  :| i don't know what to think.

on another note. i am great.

Nobody does beans 'n rice like monkey!

Phildo is black, if I recall correctly, so my PC-White-Guilt-o-Meter isn't going off.

I want to play Legendary the Box.

If you don't know what it is.

Well, you won't... YET.

Also, I'm pretty great myself, thx for asking.

you got that shit right.

I like thai and rice.  I don't like rice on my mexican food.  All beans, meat, cheese.

Which SF are we talking about?  SFII Turbo or some of the later shit I never played?  I think Dhalsim's going to get fucked up.

We can play whatever SF you guys want.

Mexican food is great with rice.

EVERYTHING is better with rice. It myriad uses are nigh endless, its additions to cuisine sublime.

Monkey George turns threads into absolute insanity in about 3 posts, it's like a car wreck, I can't stop looking!