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Starting this one early since it might take some time to organise.
Its been discussed a few times, so lets see if there is enough real interest. I can sort out a LAN night, starting about 11pm and going on till 8am. We can meet somewhere around the usual 7.30, have a few drinks (not too many of course) and head up after.
We will need at least 15 interested people, and if you commit to coming, I will expect payment whether you show or not (I’ll have to pay a deposit before the night happens).
There will be a maximum of about 20 places.
Sign up here, and if there is interest over the next 1-2 weeks, Ill look at booking the cafe.
Dave
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Dave, will this be in Wired like the Netsoc nights, or a BYO event?
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at the last Shindig (last Saturday) we were talking about DoesNotCompute over the Bleeding Horse, so that everyone could be catered to in the same venue
is this where you were thinking of, Dave?
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This sound really cool! I’m up for it! Do we have a rough date for this?
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DNC does not book out weekend evening at the moment (at least last time I checked). Wired on Aungier street are under new (and more positive) LAN management, and I was thinking for there.
Dave
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Depends on the date scheduled, but I’m always up for a few games…
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I’d be interested…
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Ill teach you *evil grin* :)
Dave
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Wired on Aungier street are under new (and more positive) LAN management, and I was thinking for there.[/quote:7466ecdd5f]
Also interested though depends on the date.
Make sure to check that they have cleaned up the basement – last time almost a quarter of the pcs were disconnected around the place :/
Also Ive been on to them recently about regualar lan nights and Ive been given a price for the DCU Games Soc for 10 euro from 10pm – 9am and give payment on the night which is an improvement on our previous arangment with them.
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Sounds like a plan. Have to be on a weekend though if you want any of us Muffians to make it down. Be interesting to see how 4 hours boozing affects the old hand eye coordination!
I can almost hear Ride of the Valkyries booming from the helicopters in Battlefield Vietnam already. Eh… actually I can – Pete and Aaron are playing it here behind me.
So what games have we got?
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Most certainly be up for this…. as chris says however a weekend would be super!
Aungier Street has a rake of good pubs close anyway so it’d be spot on.
DNC is handy as you can Lan upstairs…..take a break and go down to the Bleedin Hoss for a few…. then come up again full of drunken bravado and whiskey agression. I do assume we’re not playing the Care Bears game or something right?!?
Long time since I was at an all night LAN
Nice!
Mark
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Damn your heads, I’ll go aswell
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Care Bears[/quote:9f305a1a62] have you been smoking crack again??!!
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Tony, you obviously never played the care bears mod for quake 2.
Dave
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Or the Quake 2 mod for “Care Bears:Journey to Joke-a-lot” ;)
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Tony, you obviously never played the care bears mod for quake 2[/quote:0596e4ae88]never played Quake 2 – period. 1, a bit and 3, a fair bit, but never touched 2 for some reason
… was probably busy reading Enid Blyton novels
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I just simply HAVE to play that care bears mod for quake 2 now!!!!!
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No. You. Dont.
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OK I’ll just inject some crack into my eyeballs instead :D
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so do we have possible dates for this thing then or wha’?!
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I sent a mail to one of the guys at Wired this morning… 31st as a possible date?
Dave
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Yup Aphra – I arrive the 9th of August and leave the 16th – is this concerning the LAN thingy or a shindig?
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yes, just the 31st will be the bank holiday I guess so some people might be away that weekend…and I was just thinking we could also think of organising the ‘LAN shindig’ for when you are over…..(I think the idea is the shindig will be a LAN party this time for a change and if there is enough interest)
Anyway, just a suggestion and Dave is the one organising this at the moment..
Aphra.
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yay! a lan party.
count me in please.what games do aungier st. wired (if that is the final venue) have on the go then dave?
is 31st still the date its on?
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I personally would prefer it not be on a bank holiday weekend… I’ve ussually plans for them and indeed do this one so :)
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the following weekend might be better in that case?
thats sat 7th of august.
the following sat is the 14th – ivan would be around then.
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I personally would prefer it not be on a bank holiday weekend[/quote:c54607baed] me too
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I would be up for it definitly!
Any idea of the games?
Maybe some Counter-Strike?
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Sounds like fun. I probably won’t be back from beautiful Brittany by then so I’m guessing I can’t come. Don’t want to put my name in in case I can’t but if you haven’t booked it by the time I’m back then I’ll tell ya all.
If I don’t make it, be sure to post the winners up on the board. :)
EDIT: Actually if you have it when Ivan is over then I could be back in Belfast. 50% chance, really.
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Dont go out of your way to change stuff for me. As long as I get to the pub I’m happy.
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weekend 13/14th of August would ROCK!
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Ill check availability for the 14th.
Dave
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Day of Defeat is always a good larf?
Just a suggestion…
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So what’s the craic with this?
If the LAN night is going ahead, maybe might be worthwhile to organise a non-lan shindig for the same night, and then those attending the LAN night can head from the pub to the internet cafe? Just means that people who aren’t available/interested in the gaming session can also get out.
Jamie
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The plan is, in many ways, to go drinking, and then go play games. Not everyone has to drink, nor does everyone have to play games. Of course, it looks like doom 3 might be out in time…
Dave
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if doom 3 is released in time and people go drinking in pub,
we’ll have some wet seats to clean in the inet cafe.:D
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…..it looks like doom 3 might be out in time…
Dave [/quote:69f8bd70ab]
Yeah Dave, but you remember from the Netsoc nights that the Wired machines had big problems running Battlefield well, which doesn’t inspire confidence in their ability to run Doom 3, considering you need a NASA supercomputer to play the damn thing. Still, 16 player Halo is always great craic, wonder what it’s like running around Blood gulch half (ok very) pissed
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The wired machines are fine for 1942? Were you jsut ona bad machine? AFAIK they are all ~1.8 gig 512 ram 128mb geforce cards (though I could be off on this).
I thought people just got bored with 1942, esp when there are only about 10-15 players.
Dave
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Without confirmation, Sat 14th August. Shall we schedule a shindig for that night one way or the other?
Dave
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Without confirmation, Sat 14th August. Shall we schedule a shindig for that night one way or the other?
Dave [/quote:6b0cc18a40]
Pub + 14 August sounds good to me
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14th sounds good to me too.
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Aphra is going!!! I think???
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14th is good for me also.. cant wait!
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Aphra is going!!! I think???[/quote:f861e76440]
…and it wouldn’t have been the first Aphra-less shindig either – there was one before -
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14th gets my vote too
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ah now…there is a good chance I’ll be there. Am going to book a holiday around the middle of August and being my usual unorganised self, well about holidays anyway, I haven’t sorted out the flights…so it might be the 14th or the 15th depending on availability..if the latter then I’ll be along to the pub, and I will probably come along to the internet cafe but beware, I may slip into work mode and take out my camera and notepad!!
Aphra.,
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Shameless hehe :)
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Wouldn’t it be great to see an event like GameCon with ‘GameDevelopers.ie’ associated to it? How would one go about that sort of ‘sponsorship’, perhaps with a commercial backer to absorb cost?
Just an idea> I’m sure you’ve thought about this sort of thing already, Aphra?
Lewis
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Off topic I know, but it’s funny.
Pleasurable comapanies.com he he
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Wouldn’t it be great to see an event like GameCon with ‘GameDevelopers.ie’ associated to it? How would one go about that sort of ‘sponsorship’, perhaps with a commercial backer to absorb cost?[/quote:e55c8c1252]
No, the last thing you want for a community site like this is to be flooded by people who it isn’t aimed at, I’ve seen it happen before when communities can be taken over when the name was attached to an event. A retailer sponsoring the event is fine, but I personally think that GD.ie should stick to it’s roots for the time being.
Jamie
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Good point! I hadn’t thought of it like that…
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I had a look at the site, and I met Jazz at the Microsoft Games Challenge, and he seems to have his head on his shoulders and looking at the names signed up as sponsors he seems to be doing nicely for himself anyway. It’s more of a case that you don’t want 13 and 14 year old fanboys flooding the site with crap, it would put me off using the forums anyway.
So can we have a date/time/place so we can get a shindig notice up on the front page, and so I can stick it in my diary?
Cheers
Jamie
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Well, Fanboys is alsways bad news, and I do agree with your affilaition towards the site, afterall it is yours…partly, but wouldn’t a little publicity do IGD.IE good…
then again your problem correct in your statment Jamiemc.
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Good point! I hadn’t thought of it like that… [/quote:ebe3b3f0e2]
It’s ok, only evil marketing minds like Jamie’s think like that. :)
It can be hell moding a general games forum – trust me on that one.
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but wouldn’t a little publicity do IGD.IE good[/quote:1254b3af8f]
It wouldn’t necessarily be the right kind of publicity, and with the wide range of general gaming forums available, I really believe that here should do what it says on the banner, be for developers and related people.
It can be hell moding a general games forum – trust me on that one.[/quote:1254b3af8f]
Finally something we can agree on Cian :D
Jamie
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If Carlsberg organized it[/quote:4f641852e5]
…..I’d probably go along myself!!
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you’re soooo predictable, McNally…
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Yeah I was going to ask that too,
So its Pub then LAN?
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LAN then Pub?
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Pub then more Pub?
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Myself and a few mates got together for a few games last Fri night, well….2 crates of Miller were also present. It was a savage laugh, we were playing 4-player Power Stone 2 on the DC and 4-player Virtua Tennis, I nearly pissed my pants on a few occasions, whata great time, anyway my point is that the presence of alcohol was greatly appreciated the other night, we wouldn’t have had half the laugh without it. *FIGHT*
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Ughh….sore head today, drank to much last night!. still half drunk, what am I posting……where am I?
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Right, whats the plan for the pub\LAN thingy that takes place on the 14th ?
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Tradition dictates that we all meet in a pub style location in or around 7pm in order to drink orange juice and contemplate the meaning of games. The venues of late have been Toners, any chance.
I’ve still yet to get confirmation from Wired that they can host the LAN, but will do my best to confirm it by monday. If not, we could just try and *socialise* in one of those late bars they have for drunk people.
Dave
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Tradition dictates that we all meet in a pub style location in or around 7pm in order to drink orange juice and contemplate the meaning of games. The venues of late have been Toners, any chance.
I’ve still yet to get confirmation from Wired that they can host the LAN, but will do my best to confirm it by monday. If not, we could just try and *socialise* in one of those late bars they have for drunk people.
Dave [/quote:235883ca71]
Cheers Dave – I just wanted to get a good idea as I will not be able to check the forums as regularly when I go back to the ‘old country’ :p
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Right, Wired dont seem to be interested in running a lan given they havent replied to me in over a week, so I reckon the best plan is to call it off and just make the usual plans instead. Sorry to disappoint :(
Any chance someone can confirm Toners in Aphra’s absence and my exile so we can have a few drinks anyway?
Dave
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Have fun at the dig this weekend guys. Kick some ass.
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just to confirm, as there seems to be some confusion on this, are we talking about this Friday 13th (as per regular shindigs) or this Saturday 14th… reckon it’s your call, Mr Skyclad…
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Its kinda been planned all along for the 14th aka Saturday night as that would have suited the LAN better :( (Not to mention how many hours of drinking I miss since I cant get in before 11pm on a Friday)
Sooo…if there are no objections, shall we go for Saturday night?
or, just so people dont forget:
SHINDIG!!!!!!
SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!!!!
TONERS!!!!!!
BE THERE!!!!!!!!
(or I shall taunt you a second time)!!!!!!
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no, no… don’t taunt us a SECOND time!!
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*smiles Evilly* :eek:
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*smiles Evilly* [/quote:644a4af693]
LOL ;)
That’s weird I was thinking the same thing…”oh that’s alright we’ll look after the bar for you” ;)
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Right, I just rang to confirm it, and they won’t be able to open up downstairs because they’re stuck for staff, but I’ve asked them to reserve a table or two in the main bar for us. I’ve said 7pm so that’s when I’m aiming to be there, so if a few others can aim to make it in early to get these tables it would be appreciated. See you all tomorrow.
Ian, I’ll need to talk to you tomorrow if you’re attending so find me if you’re coming. Cheers
Jamie
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Ian, I’ll need to talk to you tomorrow if you’re attending so find me if you’re coming. Cheers[/quote:06a498d86d]
No Problem, I’ll be there Jamie, talk to you then!
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another good Shindig, despite the low numbers
was good to finally meet Ivan (aka Kyotokid)
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Darn, I wish I could have gone. Will there be another before Christmas?
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Hi all,
sorry I wasn’t there Sat…some family stuff to attend to down the country..Also a pity I didn’t get to give Ivan his ‘sprinter’ award personally, but apparently he was pretty pleased with it!
I would say we will have a shindig towards the end of September – depending on how dates work out with people. We will also have to see if the present format and location is ok with people. While in August people will certainly be on hols etc..if the low numbers continue we may have to think about doing something else
aphra.
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Man I got really hammered :)
Good to meet you chaps!
The award was kickass, thanks beaucoup muchly
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I just received a message from an Administrator that showed concern for the contents of some of my posts or rather the lack of, it hadn’t occured to me previously that some people might be annoyed with the contents so I apologize to them, and I’ll try and reframe from posting off-topic threads in the future.
cheers.
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Glad you liked it, Ivan, pity I didn’t meet you. Shame about the low numbers too, I guess we should do some thinking on how to improve this for future shindigs. Wish I was there but I remembered about it a bit to late to organise a place to stay. :/
Got any pictures of Ivan making a fool of himself, perhaps? Would be great to see. :D
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And I finally managed to drag yis all to fibbers :) (ie one less thing to do before I die)
Dave
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Got any pictures of Ivan making a fool of himself, perhaps? Would be great to see[/quote:7f961604d9] forgot to bring a camera – more’s the pity ;)
And I finally managed to drag yis all to fibbers (ie one less thing to do before I die)[/quote:7f961604d9] if only we’d known it was SOOOO important to you, Dave…
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Lowering people’s standards is always important to me! It makes me feel so much better about myself when I finally convince others to sink to my level!
Dave
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LOL ;) Sad but true!
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and to make matters worse, Ian, Dave is now embracing his alter ego – he’s added ‘Dancin’ Dave’ as his forum tag-line. he now has both feet firmly planted on that slipper slope
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Its been like that for at least 2 months now?
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Doesn’t make that slope any less slippery though Dave, does it? ;)
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I’ve always felt that slippery sloped are misunderstood. You’ve no hope of ever climing out again, so why not let go and enjoy the ride…
Dave
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oh dear god, he’s relishing it now!!
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I think this thread is the one on the slippery slope!
See he’s managed it again ;)
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