Sweet Meet n' Greet Street Report
By
Aethon_NA,
Posted on: 2006-02-23 22:30 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Huh, I always imagined CJ with longer, darker hair too. Weird.
But, more importantly, I hate all of you. I actualyl tried to get a few people that were there (logged in CoH for a few minutes) to yell really loudly "Anti-Cat says he hates all of you!" But no one would 
So I'm saying it now: ANTI-CAT HATES ALL OF YOU! *cries* The worst part is, I found out that Gilgamesh was there. With him, CuppaJo, and Arctic, the room must have been filled with enough aweosme to rival my own. Alexa and Awry.. ehh 
I'm jsut gonna be here... srying in the corner... don't be alarmed if I'm here for a few months... crying... until Origins, when i get to meet them for myself. Revenge is sweet.
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When/Where is Origins?
I'm thinking road trip...
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Columbus, Ohio, my friend. When you come, swing through Canton and pick me up. *grins*
"I see your words..." ~The most menacing thing a forumite could say
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You want empty, go drive through New Mexico. THAT is a big stretch of NOTHING.
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When I moved to Austin from Northern California, I drove. I went through New Mexico. It wasn't so bad. It was the hours of driving through West Texas that nearly killed me. The tape deck in my old car didn't work, so for over two hours I got a) static, b) a Mariachi station, c) an evangelical preacher.
From El Paso to beyond Fort Stockton there was nothing.
~Missi
http://tinyurl.com/yhy333s
Miss Informed in 2016! She can't be worse than all those other guys!
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It would be kinda fun to get a list of all the CoX players who were there... I know I didn't even meet half of the player base who was there.
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Yet, somehow, you ran into someone else I know in game...
What sane conversation brings me up anyhow? 
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sane? it had to be a sane conversation? *giggle* oh and I dunno how - she I and started chatting about our characters, sgs, lvl 50's etc and in conversation one of your alts names came up. I said you mean Mantid? We both were kinda startled at that one - and we laughed over the fact that the night previous you had teamed with both of us at one point in time.... *rofl* now who gets around
Ignorance is being untaught. Stupidity is being unwilling to learn.
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Wag of the finger, eh? Sounds to me as if someone might be a Colbert fan?
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As long as none of those damn bears showed up...
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You want empty, go drive through New Mexico. THAT is a big stretch of NOTHING.
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Try Nebraska. I am thankful I, at least, live on the populated side of the state.
Current obsession:
Coffee!!!
I was also at the event. Go there at about 5:15, and stayed until 11. It was pretty cool. I wish I had known about Virtue Row; I would have joined in. (Though I did make it to the picture.)
It was cool putting faces to rednames. The event was fun, and not too crowded (which I really liked; I'd have probably left if it had been too crowded). I finally got to try a Bawls last night, and that is one nasty drink. Bleh!
For the naysayers, Austin is a fantastic place, and is perfect for any big event. The city isn't too big, has tons of fun things to do and places to eat, and is pretty central to the country. Plus, we can wear short sleeves in the winter. It's a great city in many, many ways.
Caught Pann (from AutoAssault) after the event at Kerbey Lane Cafe. Said a quick hello and thanks, and left her to enjoy a late dinner.
Two cute moments of the evening for me were seeing these two little girls (about 10, I think), getting their AutoAssault hats signed by one of the AutoAssault bigwig team members. They were totally geeking out about it. Happy to see the next generation of nerds.
Second, I was driving away after the end through the strip center's parking lot, and saw a guy on his bike with the big NCsoft swagbag on his back. Just a cool thing to see.
Hope to have another one of these in the future!
Proud member of the Paragonian Knights
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wOOt! For Meet and Greet!! We got to meet all kinds of peeps from the area. And after getting 2 Statesmen Heroclix figures outside, I smashed Statesmen under my boot, "Take that! for all the Nerfs!". All that was left was a flattened tanker :P. But i still have another here sitting on my desk. Thank you guys at NCsoft for creating a game we can love on all levels. Infinity FTW!!! 
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Heh i found my battle screenshots with the Mercyless Statesman vs uh...... me (fill in a really cool villain name)
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Two cute moments of the evening for me were seeing these two little girls (about 10, I think), getting their AutoAssault hats signed by one of the AutoAssault bigwig team members. They were totally geeking out about it. Happy to see the next generation of nerds.
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Heehee - one of those was mine and yeah she was acting like a teeneybopper at a britney concert. The other girl's parents were Lineage players...who hopefully will be migrating the CoX way if my impromptu sales pitch had any effect
Ignorance is being untaught. Stupidity is being unwilling to learn.
Just wanted to thank Plasma, MissInformed, Balorn, Ninelives, MASH1, and everyone else who provided the "intel" for us who couldn't make it or don't live near Austin. Thanks for the cool pics and the accounts of the evening
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Any backwater hole the company resides in (apparantly this one is in texas)
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This comment and another one further up the thread has pushed me to comment.
Austin is not a backwater hole, and it certainly isn't hicksville, as someone called it earlier. Sure, it's not a huge [censored] city like Boston, New York, or LA by any stretch, but it's a city of roughly 550-750K in population, and it's a damn fine place to reside. Unlike the rest of Texas, which is a pretty conservative place, Austin is a very laid back, liberal, and polygot place. It also has a HUGE number of tech firms here (Dell is here, for one thing), so it's not just farms and hayseeds.
Anyway, I just had to get that off my chest. Thank you for your time.
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Wasn't saying anything about austin. I don't know austin, never even been there.
What I was saying is that a possibility for a convention (as is obvious in this case) is wherever the company winds up being. Doesn't matter if it's in the middle of alaska, it's always a possibility.
Of course, that said, I'm not a big fan of the south, and from what I can tell, texas winds up in that genre for me. At least as far as the modal personality of the area goes, which is what i didn't care for (texas at least would be an educated part of the south I'm guessing, which is always a plus). So far every texan I've known has sworn up and down they're totally different from your average georgian, and yet neither the georgians or anyone else can tell them apart.
But that's my bias... I had to live in Georgia for a couple years and the beating my sanity took was almost too much to bear.
Zeus - god of backwater roads
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...Unlike the rest of Texas...
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Yeah... I do love living in Austin - I just wish it wasn't surrounded by Texas.
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I concur. Now if I could just get all the conservatives AND the liberals out of Austin.....
Be well, people of CoH.
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Very, very cool. Wish I could've been there. And Cuppa looks badass (in a good way). 
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Yes she does. Some of her pm's now scare the <bleep> out of me. She used to only scare the heck out of me, her threat level is upgraded.
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Maybe that was her evil plan all along, you know, have people meet her in person so she could project her menace more personally and have it reported back to the forum.
"I am CuppaJo! Fear me!"
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Now now Kosh.... don't tease the chowd. After all, living next to the north pole causes dementia... he can't help it.
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Man, I'm originally from Indiana and I still never thought that Florida and Texas were even remotely close together. Of course, I also realized quite early on that states in the south tend to be larger and filled with tons of nothingness between bastions of civilization (example: Georgia. Never have I seen a state so full of empty. And people say we're running out of room for our population..), as opposed to states in the north/northeast, which tend towards the more compact.
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Heh... I thought it was a riot when i lived in georgia. This was exactly what the people there thought. They thought the south had a monopoly on the concept of "rural". Yet,... anywhere you go in georgia you're no more than an hour drive from a city.
I live in Maine, where we only have a million people altogether, and some places are 5 or so hours from an actual city. People routinely drive a couple hours just to shop. I personally consider boston a day trip.. it's only five hours to get there, and when you live so seperated from the rest of the states, five hours isn't so bad. That's probably why I considered NJ so close to boston.. that's only a four hour drive. (depending on where in jersey of course... but NYC is three from boston)... Hell, once when driving from south carolina to maine I stopped by Ohio because it was on my way.
And it's still only one waterway. Take a canoe. It's cheap and you could use the excersize.
Zeus - god of real men
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They should have one in central New Jersey.
Just saying.
But knowing my luck, the closest place they'd have one is in NYC. And NYC is a hellhole.
And you know how I feel about hellholes.
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Clearly the solution is to have it in Secaucus.
-5 bazillion hotels so everyone and their mom can stay closeby.
-hotels = conference rooms for cons.
-located within walking distance of me.
-close to NY.
-in NJ.
-less of a hellhole than NYC (not like thats saying much).
-doesn't smell too bad.
-near 3 airports.
-Secaucus + CoX jokes write themselves.
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Any backwater hole the company resides in (apparantly this one is in texas)
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This comment and another one further up the thread has pushed me to comment.
Austin is not a backwater hole, and it certainly isn't hicksville, as someone called it earlier. Sure, it's not a huge [censored] city like Boston, New York, or LA by any stretch, but it's a city of roughly 550-750K in population, and it's a damn fine place to reside. Unlike the rest of Texas, which is a pretty conservative place, Austin is a very laid back, liberal, and polygot place. It also has a HUGE number of tech firms here (Dell is here, for one thing), so it's not just farms and hayseeds.
Anyway, I just had to get that off my chest. Thank you for your time.
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Wasn't saying anything about austin. I don't know austin, never even been there.
What I was saying is that a possibility for a convention (as is obvious in this case) is wherever the company winds up being. Doesn't matter if it's in the middle of alaska, it's always a possibility.
Of course, that said, I'm not a big fan of the south, and from what I can tell, texas winds up in that genre for me. At least as far as the modal personality of the area goes, which is what i didn't care for (texas at least would be an educated part of the south I'm guessing, which is always a plus). So far every texan I've known has sworn up and down they're totally different from your average georgian, and yet neither the georgians or anyone else can tell them apart.
But that's my bias... I had to live in Georgia for a couple years and the beating my sanity took was almost too much to bear.
Zeus - god of backwater roads
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Nothing against you, Zeus; it's just that two comments were made in this thread about Austin being a backwater or such, and it got my hackles up. So I felt the need to educate. That's all.
Texas is pretty unique among the southern states for many reasons, so comparing it to any of the others isn't quite right. Visit Austin sometime and you'll see what I mean.
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...Unlike the rest of Texas...
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Yeah... I do love living in Austin - I just wish it wasn't surrounded by Texas.
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I concur. Now if I could just get all the conservatives AND the liberals out of Austin.....
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But, Bill, who would that leave?!?
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...Unlike the rest of Texas...
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Yeah... I do love living in Austin - I just wish it wasn't surrounded by Texas.
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I concur. Now if I could just get all the conservatives AND the liberals out of Austin.....
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But, Bill, who would that leave?!?
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The gamers
Ignorance is being untaught. Stupidity is being unwilling to learn.
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Now now Kosh.... don't tease the chowd. After all, living next to the north pole causes dementia... he can't help it.
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Man, I'm originally from Indiana and I still never thought that Florida and Texas were even remotely close together. Of course, I also realized quite early on that states in the south tend to be larger and filled with tons of nothingness between bastions of civilization (example: Georgia. Never have I seen a state so full of empty. And people say we're running out of room for our population..), as opposed to states in the north/northeast, which tend towards the more compact.
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Heh... I thought it was a riot when i lived in georgia. This was exactly what the people there thought. They thought the south had a monopoly on the concept of "rural". Yet,... anywhere you go in georgia you're no more than an hour drive from a city.
I live in Maine, where we only have a million people altogether, and some places are 5 or so hours from an actual city. People routinely drive a couple hours just to shop. I personally consider boston a day trip.. it's only five hours to get there, and when you live so seperated from the rest of the states, five hours isn't so bad. That's probably why I considered NJ so close to boston.. that's only a four hour drive. (depending on where in jersey of course... but NYC is three from boston)... Hell, once when driving from south carolina to maine I stopped by Ohio because it was on my way.
And it's still only one waterway. Take a canoe. It's cheap and you could use the excersize.
Zeus - god of real men
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Great crap, how do you live? I'm originally from Rhode Island and I think that anything longer than a 45 minute's drive is long!
I guess it's a side-effect of living in the smallest state for so long.
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Very, very cool. Wish I could've been there. And Cuppa looks badass (in a good way).
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Yes she does. Some of her pm's now scare the <bleep> out of me. She used to only scare the heck out of me, her threat level is upgraded.
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Maybe that was her evil plan all along, you know, have people meet her in person so she could project her menace more personally and have it reported back to the forum.
"I am CuppaJo! Fear me!"
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She succeeded.
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Clearly the solution is to have it in Secaucus.
-5 bazillion hotels so everyone and their mom can stay closeby.
-hotels = conference rooms for cons.
-located within walking distance of me.
-close to NY.
-in NJ.
-less of a hellhole than NYC (not like thats saying much).
-doesn't smell too bad.
-near 3 airports.
-Secaucus + CoX jokes write themselves.
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Hmmm... How about New Brunswick?
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Clearly the solution is to have it in Secaucus.
-5 bazillion hotels so everyone and their mom can stay closeby.
-hotels = conference rooms for cons.
-located within walking distance of me.
-close to NY.
-in NJ.
-less of a hellhole than NYC (not like thats saying much).
-doesn't smell too bad.
-near 3 airports.
-Secaucus + CoX jokes write themselves.
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Hmmm... How about New Brunswick?
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Is that within walking distance of secaucus? (and therefore transitively within walking distance of hoboken?)
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...Unlike the rest of Texas...
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Yeah... I do love living in Austin - I just wish it wasn't surrounded by Texas.
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I concur. Now if I could just get all the conservatives AND the liberals out of Austin.....
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But, Bill, who would that leave?!?
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The gamers
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The gamers, the libertarians and the Republic of Texas! It's time to secede, folks! 
Be well, people of CoH.
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Maybe that was her evil plan all along, you know, have people meet her in person so she could project her menace more personally and have it reported back to the forum.
"I am CuppaJo! Fear me!"
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She succeeded.
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Actually, now that I've met her, I no longer have to fear that she really is some disembodied brain, floating in a a huge mug of dark coffee, cyberlinked up to a mainframe.
CuppaJo's just zees gal, ya know?
Be well, people of CoH.
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Maybe that was her evil plan all along, you know, have people meet her in person so she could project her menace more personally and have it reported back to the forum.
"I am CuppaJo! Fear me!"
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She succeeded.
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Actually, now that I've met her, I no longer have to fear that she really is some disembodied brain, floating in a a huge mug of dark coffee, cyberlinked up to a mainframe.
CuppaJo's just zees gal, ya know?
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Oh, that wasn't Cuppa. THat was an android! Cuppa really is a floating brain. Ooo!
You want empty, go drive through New Mexico. THAT is a big stretch of NOTHING.