Seattle, I am up in you.

stoofoo

I accepted an offer from Arena Net as a character artist today. I will be packing up and peacing out to start the job on May 12th.

Peace out right coast. What's up left coast?

Ferg

good timing, seattle summers are the shiznitobamsally

Jeff Parrott

Congrats! AreanNet has a great style. Seattle is supposed to be a blast.

BoBo_the_seal

congrats! ArenaNet makes some great games.

- BoBo

Gav

Wow, congrats man. If you want to hop the border, I bet a bunch of us Vancouverites would be up for drinks

cholden

HEY! Everything worked out. Good job! You deserve it.

JDinges

Congrats!

Cheez

Grats ! And welcome to the area !

ThatDon

makes me wanna go home, congrats.

Mark Dygert

Congrats! and welcome to Seattle, just in time for the good weather! Oh I mean its rainin and nasty...

ebagg

Another polycounter coming to Seattle! Awesome!

Joshua Stubbles

Vig wrote: »

Congrats! and welcome to Seattle, just in time for the good weather! Oh I mean its rainin and nasty...

I love cloudy and rainy! Don't jinx it before I get there next month, damnit!


STOOFOO - congrats! ArenaNet looks like a great studio, and they're certainly having good results with Guild Wars. I'll be up there next month as well - I look forward to running into you at a Polycount meet-n-greet.

Thegodzero

I'm really glad to hear you went with ArenaNet. Once you all settled in over here give me a call so we can have a get together.

adam

We should do a Seattle/Vancouver circle-jerk very soon.

Keg

adamBrome wrote: »

We should do a Seattle/Vancouver circle-jerk very soon.

That would be so hot

Edit: and congrats Stoofoo

MoP

nice one joe, enjoy!

bounchfx

Oh man, Grats!! ArenaNet is one of my favorites.

Slum

Grats man. Enjoy the new gig.

IronHawk

Grats man! Sounds like Seattle is the place to be! Is that 4 polycounters just this month?

Lee3dee

congrats Moving from the cold of MA to the rain of Seattle

pliang

Guess I can cross the border for a visit...

AstroZombie

I have heard nothing but good things about that place as far as work environment goes. Best of luck!

Loren Broach

Congratulations! wow what a seemingly great place to work! Keep me in the look of this Polycount meet up, I'll be up in Seattle soon!

Parnell

Man i miss Seattle.
Next time I fly out to visit, I'll give you a call.
B

Wells

congrats dude

take me with you!

stoofoo

Thanks a lot guys. I'll definitely be floating around city wise after i settle in. I really have not gone anywhere in the northwest. ill be in vancouver and portland post haste most definitely.

haha. Ian. Figure your shit out in the next week and you can move out there with me. It tseems its a lot easier to find 2brs that are respectable than 1 brs.

fogmann

Congrats! Hope you'll love it here. After Florida, I'm so enjoying this place.

j_bradford

Congrats dude, well deserved.

stoofoo

I'm flying out on sunday the 11th and have not got anything packed nor have i got my car setup for the move. Sweet jesus this is gonna get the best of me. I do, however, have an apartment in capitol hill(I think?) so that'll be good... Stresssss!

Thanks for the well wishing my friends. I appreciate it.

adam

I'm sorry but you're not allowed in Canada. It's the law.

Ryan Clark

Congratulations! Have fun at the new job!

Mark Dygert

I do, however, have an apartment in capitol hill

How good are your knife fighting skills? Just about every week for the past 2 months there have been random stabbings, muggings, and a bunch of car break-ins.

Two people I work with live on the hill and say its getting bad. But then they are the nervous types who sanitize just about everything.

Wells

Hey. Start packing!

Joshua Stubbles

That sounds intense, Vig. Bad crime, bad!
GL stoofoo!

Luckily I started making preps for my Seattle move last month. Apartment is already 3/4 packed, new Redmond apartment is paid for...all ready to go. Just need to tie up those damn loose ends (notifying bill collectors, change of address, yadda yadda).

Seattle's getting packed with pcounters, that's for sure.

diminished_Self

Vig wrote: »

How good are your knife fighting skills? Just about every week for the past 2 months there have been random stabbings, muggings, and a bunch of car break-ins.

Two people I work with live on the hill and say its getting bad. But then they are the nervous types who sanitize just about everything.

for realz though? i live in wallingford, but up on the hill quite a bit, and i walk home/cab home. and im drinking pretty heavily. granted im a dude, and im normally with friends, but i think that the violence on capitol hill has been heavily exaggerated. same with the crime wave in the U district. yeah, ill agree that one is too many, but two a crime wave isnt.

Mark Dygert

It's not as bad as I was making it out to be. But if you're interested there is a good message board for Cap Hill residents. I searched for crime and this is what came up. http://capitolhillseattle.blogspot.com/search/label/crime

Most of the muggings are in specific areas, at specific times of night and the people being mugged have completely lost their street smarts. A lot of the muggings could be prevented if people pay attention. It's a pretty good place to live even if crime is on the raise across the city.

Get to know your neighbors, make friends have fun and don't be stupid, things will be fine.

stoofoo

hah.I've lived in some pretty seedy neighborhoods--capitol hill is NOT one of them. If you end up hearing about muggings on the news that just means the larger scale disaster zone crimes are not present. I'm sure there are multiple muggings every day in some more crime ridden towns--you just dont hear about them.

Anyway, I'm excited...but still unpacked. Still think the apartment has been settled.

Vassago you are substantially smarter than I when it comes to this move. a month of lead time would have been the correct track. Oh well.