This week, we will be heading off to SR Gathering 2011. Which will be awesome, thanks in no small part to the awesome crew helping out.
Next year is a decade of rocking at the site. Pretty cool. I'm certainly glad I've had you guys hanging around all this time. A big salute to many who have come together to keep the site alive, contribute to it, and put it together. It's been a pretty rocking web-inn for gaming at.
Anyhow, upon the road of promised awesome is a trip out to the land down under. There's a certain contingent of australians who (without fail) have complained every single time that we are holding these too far away. Equally so, that pretty much all of them have landed in the states.
So I call the thunder, let us bring the gathering across the oceans in one year's time. This may require excessive planning time for many involved, so I am starting off the post on this WAY early. We will find a way for this to be awesome. And for those playing portal...
Yes, there shall be cake. :)
Note: This is unlikely to run dirt cheap. 2,500-3,000 is likely to be a sensible budget range. Just getting out there as there's no way doing any international stuff is doable 'on college student budget'.
I say we split the difference and do Hawaii.
(Yes, I'm aware that's not an even split. But it's Hawaii.)
I agree, provided I get to say ... you fund it. :3
Yeah, I'll totally go if someone else pays =p
No offense to our Australian friends, but if they can't afford to come to the Americas, I'm sure they'd understand if we can't afford to come see them.
We could split the difference and have it in Japan!
Quote from: Ebiris on April 29, 2011, 10:23:25 PM
We could split the difference and have it in Japan!
Only if I get to push Kwok off Tokyo Tower.
Quote from: Jon on April 29, 2011, 10:30:59 PM
Quote from: Ebiris on April 29, 2011, 10:23:25 PM
We could split the difference and have it in Japan!
Only if I get to push Kwok off Tokyo Tower.
Bwahahahaha
Well, next year I'm actually planning on going to Japan, then to Korea, then to Europe. It's ambitious, but ambition is integral to progress.
Anyone wants to meet up anywhere, I'm game. Anticpating the trip to take place over August->September, so~
Hum.
Just a check:
How many folks would be able to afford 2.5k for an australian trip?
1)Dracos (barely)
2)Rez
3)Rat (??)
4)?
Please chime in. It's been quiet here.
Japan is fun, but I dunno? I'm actually down for another states one as my pocketbooks have joined the hurting :) But at the same time, it'd be really nice to get some of the international folks to have a chance to join in.
Equally, how many folks are down for chicago, as 007 bends over backwards to make it super awesome?
Rez and Rat totally don't count as members of the 'able to afford 2.5k' group for aussie land. Mostly cause they wouldn't spend near that much. =p
I'm still holding out for a Texas gathering. We have done the north (canada), east (virginia) and west (california). Now we call out for the south!
I suppose you could argue canada was more north-east than straight north, but whatever! >_>
Anyhow, unless I manage to get a job before whenever the 2012 gathering is scheduled, I just can't afford an international gathering. Spending too much of my savings on paying for the 'go-back-to-school' project. I -might- be able to go elsewhere in the US, but I'd certainly make no guarantees of attending anywhere besides Texas.
Noted.
Texas would let me visit my brother.
Hmm. I may be able to convince Phil to roadtrip with me down there. That might be fun.
2.5k on a trip is completely impossible for me.
I vote for Texas, too. Even if we don't do it in Dallas, I can transport myself just fine. And if fuel/hotel costs is a concern for any of the other Texans, I can stop by and pick them up.
Also, transporting firearms inside Texas is much easier than outside of Texas >.>
Edit: On my end, I'm going to be home going into January; so if this happens, it'd need to happen mid-year or later for vacation scheduling purposes and tax purposes. Otherwise, I be losing $10K-15K in taxes <.<
I could be down for Texas.
Any idea where in Texas?
(Austin is a neat city. Other cities are ... less so.)
Austin *is* a pretty neat city. Lots to do there. But Houston isn't so bad, either, except for horrific traffic. Dallas has plenty of things to do, too. Basically, there's not really a 'better' choice, just a more convenient choice.
Only real benefit of Dallas I can see is that DFW is there, so flights would be a bit easier. That said, if everyone arrives in a day or two of each other, I can meet people and we can carpool down to wherever else.
Heh, at last discussion the motion was more toward doing ACEN.
Anyhow, I'll try and geton top of doing a writeup soon.
Let's go to PAX East instead! =p
Nooo, I kid. Though going to one of the PAX cons to meet up would be pretty awesome.
I go to every PAX Prime. It's the PAXingest!
I don't even know what/when that is.
It's a video game convention on or around labor day weekend, in Seattle.
PAX East is usually around Feb/March on the East Coast. I think they tend to hold it in Boston, but I"m not 100% on that one. I'd have to look it up.
Yep, Boston. It's not bad, but it's no Seattle.
But Seattle is so.....west coast.
The northern west coast makes me...sad.
It's been quiet here on the arranging.
My bad certainly. Had my head in a bunch of other places. Unfortunately, I got bad news. My finances for the year aren't looking like they'll have room for this trip. This isn't to say others can't manage to make it fun, but the whole 'buy a house in CA' has eradicated my savings entirely, so I can't really safely promise to show up anywhere outside of driving distance.
I do think a convention get-together is a good/cool idea for the trip, if someone else is able to step up to organizing. Sorry for the downer news on the tenth anniversary hangout. :(
I have to mention, with the baby on the way, things are tight here as well - someday, there will be a reckoning! :D
In fact, I vote that we name Soulriders 2013 - "Soulriders - The Reckoning!"
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Cy and I will probably be super broke for a while but if anyone wants to come visit us in our new place in Toronto, we can always set something up.