Oz’s House of the Evil Dead

So, 37hours it took from my door to the lobby of the hotel. I didn’t sleep for any of it. I managed to get from the airport to the hotel via a nicely aranaged ‘driver’ from CCP. There was me, a couple of GM’s and some media people. I’m sure if I knew what planet I was on I probably would have conversed more with them instead of just nodding and grunting, but meh.

Anyway, I scraped the clothes off, had a quick shower and went and grabbed some food with Dierdra, Meissa, Ankhesentakempahthisisgoingtogetretarded, LaVista, TornSoul, Alienhand, and another guy who’s name I can’t remember. He said something about being crazy.

After dinner – the Veto 8-Ball Tourney was on. There was also a few tables set tot he side for people who wanted to play poker. I missed out on the pool registration (probably a good thing), but signed up for the 100mil buy-in poker table. It was soon realised that I was the only non-Veto member playing at that table. We had fun and Veto is probably buying a replacement battleship with the isk I lost.

Other notable names (that I remember) at the party include: Verone, Roc Weiler (of Capsuleer fame, I asked for and he gave me, a signed picture of himself), Shae (from Hellcats), StevieSG, CCP Hammerhead, CCP Sessionchange, CCP Dropbear, CCP Molock and a whole heap of Veto, Goons, PL, CVA, and other random evil/nerdy looking people.

I eventually had to go pass out, but I took pictures

Day 0, the day of info sessions. Today’s agenda:

1. A discussion with Torfifrans on how features go from design to production to implementation in the game.
2. A discussion about the New Player Experience with Eris Discordia
3. A discussion with Abathur and Whisper about new sov mechanics
4. A discussion with CCP Fear about the new ingame browser
5. A discussion with the lead GM’s (all of them) about Unholy Rage and the competence of the GM department.

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Ok, I’m using quotes for the next few days to show this is srs bsns. First person to comment with the name of the film, the character in the film that said the quote, and the year the film was released gets a prize of some sort.

So, today was my R&R day, that stands for recovery and reconnaissance. After a massive 4 hours of sleep (thanks jetlag), I wandered down to a breakfast of cheese, ham, cucumber and bacon. mmmmmm bacon. No-one else seemed to be around, so I went back upstairs, burnt some skin off my arm before I remembered how the showers worked, got dressed in my finest tshirt and trundled off to CCP Hq.

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Dear lord why is Australia so far away from everywhere else. This post will chronicle the epic journey from Melbourne to Reykjavic, prepare yourselves for a tale so epic, they may even make it into a computer game for Uwe Bol to turn into a crappy film.

It all started on a lovely evening in Melbourne, it was a balmy 12deg outside, a little bit of drizzle, pretty normal for the end of winter. After suffering through the constant heart attacks of allowing my night (and most days) blind father to drop me off at the airport, I made my way to check in, drop off my bags and get my boarding pass.

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I’m about to head off to the airport for my ‘quick’ trip to Iceland for CSM 3.0

My route takes me from windy/raining Melbourne to Hong-Kong, then London. From there I get to hang around for 8 hours before jumping on the plane to Reykjavik.

I wonder what movies they are going to show on the plane…