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exodus · Posts: 385

no insert credit people came, aside from eric-jon and myself. fools! it was actually pretty fun, with a good vibe. Next time, some of you folks had better show up.

Shapermc · Posts: 2450

Get me a plane ticket and I am so there.

aderack · Posts: 5018

Yeah, this could work out okay as an occasional excuse to meet and hang out and whatnot. One of those things, you know.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

were i not on the opposite side of the continent, i would be down.

exodus · Posts: 385

such excuses you people have!

but yeah, I'm specifically pointing at the san franciscans. I know there are some!

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

I wouldn't mind starting up one here on the East Coast. Hell, there seems to be quite a few New Yorkers this time around.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

FortNinety wrote:

I wouldn't mind starting up one here on the East Coast. Hell, there seems to be quite a few New Yorkers this time around.

they've got membership cards, though. and ranks.

ranks!

shnozlak · Posts: 704

Florida is to far away from any of that...

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

dessgeega wrote:

FortNinety wrote:

I wouldn't mind starting up one here on the East Coast. Hell, there seems to be quite a few New Yorkers this time around.

they've got membership cards, though. and ranks.

ranks!

I went to art school. I can make them myself.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

they teach you how to make ranks in art school?

aderack · Posts: 5018

I've seen plenty of rank art.

Mr Stegosaurus · Posts: 206

I love this site.

exodus · Posts: 385

the humor is getting too high-brow in this thread, so: poop.

FocusRambo · Posts: 829

insert credit
poop

winkerwanker · Posts: 2414

i live in fear of meeting insert credit

except from toups naturally

exodus · Posts: 385

...why?

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Because I'm just regular old stand-up fellow, that's why.

DonMarco · Posts: 565

shnozlak wrote:

Florida is to far away from any of that...

It's like you read my mind! We're talking about Florida-America, not Florida-Italy, right?

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

All the ICers I've met have been awesome to totally rocking.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Rud13 wrote:

All the ICers I've met have been awesome to totally rocking.

I concur.

Dakravel · Posts: 125

I'd make a sincere effort to go to the next one if I knew when it was.

Scratchmonkey · Posts: 2229

Yeah, you guys do a pretty ass job of telling us, you know, where and when it might be.

I guess I told Eric-Jon I'd go, though.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Mister Toups wrote:

Rud13 wrote:

All the ICers I've met have been awesome to totally rocking.

I concur.

TOUPS MOTHERFUCKING CONCURS.

-Psiga

aderack · Posts: 5018

I don't know when. The where is an Internet cafe with a Rock-n-Roll name right, I'm not kidding, on the junction of Haight and Ashbury.

Rockin' java. It's about halfway down that last block before Haight ends in trees and shrubs, on the south side. There's a hacked Ms. Pac-Man machine and Arkanoid in there, both in cocktail cabinets. Go way in the back.

And maybe we should network what to bring. Brandon says he might bring Mighty Final Fight next time. I think an Ice Climbers tournament would be awesome.

There are some considerations: what everyone else is bringing, whether it's got two-player (or more!) play, how obscure or unusual it is, how neat it would be to compete on.

I think Anticipation actually would be kind of kickass, played as it's supposed to be played.

Scratchmonkey · Posts: 2229

Shit man, post here the next time they announce it and I'll give it the old college try.

Is there a mailing list or some such?

aderack · Posts: 5018

Go to this lovely site, for answers(?)!

Another game that might work a little, somehow: Gyromite. In two-player co-op mode, where P2 takes the role of ROB. We could build some kind of weird test around it.

aderack · Posts: 5018

A bunch of the launch-window R&D1 games like Balloon Fight and (fuck) even Urban Champion seem way, way, appropriate, somehow.

Wild Gunman, maybe. GUMSHOE!

Both Ikari Warriors 1 and 2, just because. The second game is so terrible we really need to do something creative with it.

If only we could save stages in Excitebike or Lode Runner, it would be fun to bring them in and force other people to play them. Or Wrecking Crew.

Jackal is good. River City Ransom, maybe. Might be too long-form. Skykid!

Scratchmonkey · Posts: 2229

Having a 'construction' contest in Excitebike or Mach Rider has potential.

aderack · Posts: 5018

The Lode Runner construction kit is actually pretty excellent. I had great fun, years ago, devising the most irritating/clever levels I could dream up, to force upon whomever I had around. I'd "save" them by sketching the layout on a sheet of notepaper.

Hey, that's not a bad plan. We could prepare with graph paper, then enter our shit and put everyone else through it.

yellowlightman · Posts: 359

I'll be in San Francisco in a year, so I'd be down if it's still going on. For now I'm up near Sacramento, so it's a bit of a drive for just a little meeting.

108 · Posts: 2600

brandon are you coming to tokyo for tokyo game show?

aderack, i didn't get deported! i am free! i am rich! i am . . . going to korea!! i'll be back, and then i'll have a house and a DS and a television and an office with a view of the imperial palace, and everything!

maybe i'll even get a dog!! a welsh corgi, even!! and then buy a little girl to walk it while i'm in the office!! or shit, even walk it IN the office!! we have a gym, and the dog can run on the treadmill!!

holy shit, i'm going nuts.

we can have a SUPER famicom fun club meeting at MY PLACE in ikebukuro if you KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

George · Posts: 1656

108 wrote:

aderack, i didn't get deported! i am free! i am rich! i am . . . going to korea!! i'll be back, and then i'll have a house and a DS and a television and an office with a view of the imperial palace, and everything!

Are you allowed to reveal which rich Japanese woman you are sleeping with?

aderack · Posts: 5018

108 wrote:

i am free! i am rich! i am . . . going to korea!!

Get me some doughnuts, will you.

Do they still make crullers in Korea?

Psiga · Posts: 3990

aderack wrote:

Do they still make crullers in Korea?

It seems so, yes.

I wonder if I should try to visit there after I expatriate. NoKo, I mean. Korea in general is an absolute must.

-Psiga

aderack · Posts: 5018

Apple cruller?

...

?

Is he sure that was a cruller?

Not that I'm opposed to the idea of an apple cruller. It just sounds unlikely.

DeusJester · Posts: 1388

If more of you fuckers lived on the East Coast, I'd be throwing get-togethers every week. But noooo, you're all hippies or something.

108 · Posts: 2600

George wrote:

108 wrote:

aderack, i didn't get deported! i am free! i am rich! i am . . . going to korea!! i'll be back, and then i'll have a house and a DS and a television and an office with a view of the imperial palace, and everything!

Are you allowed to reveal which rich Japanese woman you are sleeping with?

Actually, I'm sleeping with myself! I mean, I'm working in a law office.

And Aderack -- last time I went to Korea (March) they still had chocolate crullers in Dunkin' Donuts. If the American Dunkin' Donuts ditched them after then, then there's a chance the Korean ones did too.

Ahh, that was a damn good cruller.

They also have jelly donuts, which are my favorite. Just because they're so ridiculous.

exodus · Posts: 385

tim: going to tokyo=YES.
I might be staying with my highschool pal Zach (short for zachbell, probably), but if not, I might ask if I can impose upon you again. But not as much as last time, heyoooo!

scratchmonkey: well, I did post about it on the front page on sunday morning. But more notice than that would've been good, to be sure. Next time there will be!

DavidDurica · Posts: 367

DonMarco wrote:

shnozlak wrote:

Florida is to far away from any of that...

It's like you read my mind! We're talking about Florida-America, not Florida-Italy, right?

Let's drop some EAST COAST gaming SCIENCE on their club!!!
Make our super-secret no-west-coast-jerks-and-only-awesome-people-from-florida club!
heh.

Isfet · Posts: 510

An NES club in NY would be a pretty good idea. To be honest, I'm surprised there isn't something like this already (that's been widely publicized, at least).

aderack · Posts: 5018

108 wrote:

And Aderack -- last time I went to Korea (March) they still had chocolate crullers in Dunkin' Donuts. If the American Dunkin' Donuts ditched them after then, then there's a chance the Korean ones did too.

No, I hear they did it sometime last year; 'round about the time I moved over here, actually. Which means! Maybe the order didn't translate?

Perhaps crullers live on in one dark, dirty, and kimchee-scented corner of the globe?!

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

i'd be down for something a little less nintendo-centric. though i'm a bit scared of being in a room full of insertcredit men.

again, unless they're toups.

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

This semester I'm suppose I can meet up with t3h br0ck and pezon. And I still have an inkling to hit up Swimmy and ajutla.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

A NY IC meet-up was proposed a while's back, then the date was pushed, and pushed, and pushed. I was one of the folks who was sorta helping out with the planning, so when it did happen all of a sudden and while I was in town, I was both annoyed a little hurt.

But let's do this again. I'm super busy, but with enough of a head's up, I'd love to help organize something. We just have to figure out if its at a bar or at a place where he can hook up a system and have a proper "club" atmosphere.

As much as I hate the idea of going to Barcade in Willamsburg, a bar with old arcade machines, it does seem like a perfect place to meet. Any thoughts?

Dhex, how about you?

dhex · Posts: 2963

yeah, i can revist ye olden towne. barcade is as good a joint as any, seeing as we have to have a theme and all.

Sushi D · Posts: 88

i would love to pitch in for a new york meet up. it just seems.. right.

nICO · Posts: 130

aderack wrote:

Perhaps crullers live on in one dark, dirty, and kimchee-scented corner of the globe?!

I can get Krispy Kream crullers at any Shop n Save or Wal-mart I go into even in a backwoods WV town like Mannington or Grafton. Granted, those aren't the best, but at least they're chocolate crullers. Matter of fact, I have two left hidden in the closet right now. I think I'll go eat...

Waffen · Posts: 1638

theres also quiet a few ic'ers in the the LA area.. not sure theres any in sd tho. i'd drive to LA for a big meet up or something.

ryan · Posts: 297

the louisiana meet would shatter all. I apologize in advance for any problems that may arise in your innards from our awesomeness in one place.

aderack · Posts: 5018

UPDATE!

My grand prize from the Contra competition was a $10 gift card for Gamestop. I don't know of a Gamestop near here. Nevertheless: I have ten dollars off of something! And that can't be bad.