nice
cpk it is
i work till 4:45 on wednesday so i might have to find you guys, doubt ill be able too
however
i am working the next gen tech but last gen looks so if you plan on attending that, make sure you stop and say hi to me, and mention your from polycount
peace out suckas and hope your gdc experience goes well
<- arrived today.
Awesome drive... and damn 30 peeps? This is going to be a great meetup.
Also the california pizza kitchen is a welcome change for me.
I'll catch you guys at the booth crawl tomorrow afternoon.
IGF booth in the 5th st lobby ya?
Sounds good peeps I have 7 with me one of which is the main man at pixologic Paul Gaboury. Also if you guys want to come to the GA get together I know this is a PC get together but at the end of the day we are all friends GA is meeting at the DomWar booth at 6:00pm wed then we will head off to Chevys.
Your call, have fun guys come by the booth if im not there ask to call me im probably bugging sponsors look forward to shooting the shit with all of you. Night guys the Harmonix party has done me in for the night! 10 Jag Bombs so I can barely type so keep it real guys good night.
Cool shit guys. I'm not going to up the reservation yet, as I honestly don't expect all of you to show :P But I look forward to seeing most of you there. Aftermath, bring along whoever you want. If we're over 30 we can figure it out.
Alright guys, I'm about to head out. here's this morning's tally for TOMORROW's meetup. Someone bring a camera, I think we need to get a class picture.
Thursday, 3/26, 6:30 PM California Pizza Kitchen - 30 People.
Woot!:
Tumerboy
sicsided
AdamBrome
Drachis
Foxious
Vailias
Sectaurs
PopeAdam
Rob Galanakis
Jeffro +2
Rory_M +1
KillingPeople
Duoxan
Pseudo
I_Luv_Pixels
Brokendragon
Breakneck
~Austin
Pior
Josh_Singh
Bobo the Seal
Illadam
Ryan Clark
Aftermath + 7
Wailingmonkey
Reich
hey Manny were you @ the LucasArts party lastnight? I was there for about an hour. Tried to look for ya (with the memory of a single picture Vince showed me after visiting you last year) but had no luck
hey guys since there's an office depot nearby I'll try to print some greentooths to wear as a badge or something. Would make things easier! I don't have a laptop here tho , can someone lay out like 20 logos on a black a4 format saved somewhere as a png? That'd be cool
I think what I'll do, is wait out front of the North Hall tomorrow evening at 6:00. For easy identification, I will be the fat man wearing a Fez:
If you don't know how to get over to the place, or just want to hang out with me because of my cool fez, feel free to meet me there.
I will be going over to CA Pizza Kitchen at 6:15, to make sure we get our spot.
If you arrive at the North Hall after 6:15, and don't see the fez, then you're on your own. I'm sure you can make it, it's like, 2 blocks away, and only around 1 corner.
Again, the reservations are for 35 people (called and updated today) at 6:30 PM, on Thursday March 26th, 2009. You can show up late, but we may not have a chair for you, as the restaurant will want to reclaim any unused space, so they can make more $$$.
I have sessions planned for most of the day tomorrow, but any down time will likely be spent at the Dom War Booth. I met a few of you there today and that was cool.
Anyway, see you folks tomorrow.
ETA: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring cash! I know we're going to get done with dinner and have 40,000 credit cards, and it's going to be a pain in the ass. If you can get cash sometime during the day, it would be very helpful I'm sure.
I may bring some tech artists. Will see you there. BTW where the fuck is the Dom War booth, could not find it (I'm sure it has been pointed out in this thread, but don't want to search now).
Tried to find you guys for the booth crawl yesterday but realized I didn't know anyones faces.
I did wear the hat yesterday, not today though, too warm. I'll be flying the PC colors today though.
The dom war booth rocks though. They've got the statues in a box.
For those of you who didn't show, thank GOD you didn't.
I started this thing expecting to get 10-15 people. I made a reservation for 15. That quickly ballooned to 25, at which point we had to switch restaurants. It then ballooned to 35. The final reservation was for 35, at CPK.
Tonight, I lost count at 55, and I think we had AT LEAST 10 more people show up after that.
The CPK staff, while annoyed with us, worked very well to accommodate us anyway, and overall were very cool for doing so.
I know we had a little bill discrepancy at one of the tables (we ended up with 2 inside, and took over their whole patio outside), but overall the bills worked out pretty well, amazing for 60+ people.
Anyway, Thanks to all those who showed up, and hung out for a bit. Sorry it was kind of scattered, and I didn't get a chance to talk to many of you. Anyway, at least you probably know what I look like now, though maybe that's not a good thing. . .?
Holy hell guys, that was crazy. I cannot believe we had ~50 polycounters there. Fifty.
Nick, awesome job organizing this beast.
It was really nice to finally put some faces and personalities to all the names I see and hear from on a daily basis. Especially so to Tumer, Valias, killingpeople, pior, RobG, Bobo, josh and ~austin as we've been on this forum together now for a number of years. It's a shame most of us had party plans afterwards as I would have liked to continue the how-do-ya-do's elsewhere. Luckily for me ~austin was thirsty so we were able to do some catching up other fun chatter.
Welp! I'm toast and need sleep. Thanks again to everyone who went. As I said it was really really nice to see that many people come together for the black & green.
ok where's these pictures guys, i'm salivating for some sweet mugshots and party pics. help out us poor bastards that are stuck in the office or somewhere not there!
i got a couple of pics of some of the group, will load them up here pretty soon. If anyone wants a hi res (10 megapixel ) you can pm me and I will give u a link.
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Pizza and beer eh? I hope the diabetics and vegetarians won't mind
Mascone Center to California Pizza Kitchen
Here's the current info just to be clear for everyone:
Thursday, 3/26, 6:30 PM California Pizza Kitchen - 30 People.
Dudes:
Tumerboy
sicsided
AdamBrome
Drachis
Foxious
Vailias
Sectaurs
PopeAdam
Rob Galanakis
Jeffro +2
Rory_M +1
KillingPeople
Duoxan
Pseudo
I_Luv_Pixels
Brokendragon
Breakneck
~Austin
Pior
Josh_Singh
Bobo the Seal
Illadam
Ryan Clark
Aftermath + ??
27 +??
Punks:
Rv_el
cpk it is
i work till 4:45 on wednesday so i might have to find you guys, doubt ill be able too
however
i am working the next gen tech but last gen looks so if you plan on attending that, make sure you stop and say hi to me, and mention your from polycount
peace out suckas and hope your gdc experience goes well
If there's still room, count me in! (and thanks for takin charge on 'er!)
Awesome drive... and damn 30 peeps? This is going to be a great meetup.
Also the california pizza kitchen is a welcome change for me.
I'll catch you guys at the booth crawl tomorrow afternoon.
IGF booth in the 5th st lobby ya?
Your call, have fun guys come by the booth if im not there ask to call me im probably bugging sponsors look forward to shooting the shit with all of you. Night guys the Harmonix party has done me in for the night! 10 Jag Bombs so I can barely type so keep it real guys good night.
Thursday, 3/26, 6:30 PM California Pizza Kitchen - 30 People.
Woot!:
Tumerboy
sicsided
AdamBrome
Drachis
Foxious
Vailias
Sectaurs
PopeAdam
Rob Galanakis
Jeffro +2
Rory_M +1
KillingPeople
Duoxan
Pseudo
I_Luv_Pixels
Brokendragon
Breakneck
~Austin
Pior
Josh_Singh
Bobo the Seal
Illadam
Ryan Clark
Aftermath + 7
Wailingmonkey
Reich
36
Meh:
Rv_el
That place is gona be packed!
Here's the CA Pizza Kitchen location again for tomorrow night:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=53+Third+Street+san+francisco+ca&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=33.764224,49.833984&ie=UTF8&ll=37.788607,-122.402329&spn=0.008224,0.012167&z=16&iwloc=addr
I think what I'll do, is wait out front of the North Hall tomorrow evening at 6:00. For easy identification, I will be the fat man wearing a Fez:
If you don't know how to get over to the place, or just want to hang out with me because of my cool fez, feel free to meet me there.
I will be going over to CA Pizza Kitchen at 6:15, to make sure we get our spot.
If you arrive at the North Hall after 6:15, and don't see the fez, then you're on your own. I'm sure you can make it, it's like, 2 blocks away, and only around 1 corner.
Again, the reservations are for 35 people (called and updated today) at 6:30 PM, on Thursday March 26th, 2009. You can show up late, but we may not have a chair for you, as the restaurant will want to reclaim any unused space, so they can make more $$$.
I have sessions planned for most of the day tomorrow, but any down time will likely be spent at the Dom War Booth. I met a few of you there today and that was cool.
Anyway, see you folks tomorrow.
ETA: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring cash! I know we're going to get done with dinner and have 40,000 credit cards, and it's going to be a pain in the ass. If you can get cash sometime during the day, it would be very helpful I'm sure.
I did wear the hat yesterday, not today though, too warm. I'll be flying the PC colors today though.
The dom war booth rocks though. They've got the statues in a box.
For those of you who didn't show, thank GOD you didn't.
I started this thing expecting to get 10-15 people. I made a reservation for 15. That quickly ballooned to 25, at which point we had to switch restaurants. It then ballooned to 35. The final reservation was for 35, at CPK.
Tonight, I lost count at 55, and I think we had AT LEAST 10 more people show up after that.
The CPK staff, while annoyed with us, worked very well to accommodate us anyway, and overall were very cool for doing so.
I know we had a little bill discrepancy at one of the tables (we ended up with 2 inside, and took over their whole patio outside), but overall the bills worked out pretty well, amazing for 60+ people.
Anyway, Thanks to all those who showed up, and hung out for a bit. Sorry it was kind of scattered, and I didn't get a chance to talk to many of you. Anyway, at least you probably know what I look like now, though maybe that's not a good thing. . .?
Thanks again guys, I had a great time.
Nick, awesome job organizing this beast.
It was really nice to finally put some faces and personalities to all the names I see and hear from on a daily basis. Especially so to Tumer, Valias, killingpeople, pior, RobG, Bobo, josh and ~austin as we've been on this forum together now for a number of years. It's a shame most of us had party plans afterwards as I would have liked to continue the how-do-ya-do's elsewhere. Luckily for me ~austin was thirsty so we were able to do some catching up other fun chatter.
Welp! I'm toast and need sleep. Thanks again to everyone who went. As I said it was really really nice to see that many people come together for the black & green.
That was a great meetup, and good pizza too!!
Josh, did you manage to get a picture of the most badass drawing ever? (our collaboration?)
Pics pics pics guys!
last polycount meet up i went to at e3... ages ago was cool with only 12 people! plus r13 is hawt.
ps- pior u on msn?
Wish I could have been there... next year, maybe!
Big props to Josh for sporting the polycount hoodie, and the guy at the back I don't recognise who has a greentooth t-shirt!
brings a tear to pantera's eye.
Awesome Tumer, well played sir.