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Geek Culture / I survived the "International" TGC Convention!

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lagmaster
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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 21:52
eeek! oh look im on the floor

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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 22:13
Just confirmed with Mike that this is OK (convention guys, no brand names please!)...

Mike unveiled the upcoming physics pack at the weekend...and it rocks! It also rolls, accelerates, falls, splashes, drives, topples, swings and many, many more things. Mike has gone to town with this pack and it shows

He gave a taster of boxes stacking and falling, spheres rolling and crashing, **thousands** of objects simoultaneously interacting.

It's got particles and cloth...but this time you can fire particles at the cloth and they will collide.

Not good enough? How about a rope of spheres on a motorised crane demolishing towers of boxes? Or doors that fall off their hinges if you hit them hard enough?

Not convinced? How about a car with full suspension, engine, independent braking on each wheel, differentials and all speeding off a ramp into a pile of boxes?

You should have got off your derrieres, accepted Squidgy's invite and been there!!!

I'm sure the other guys will confirm that I'm not over-egging this baby, it really is awesome!

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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 22:34 Edited at: 14th Nov 2005 22:43
If I can make the car go off a ramp and into a lamp post, then I'll be happy.

I'll be very happy.

*plans mesh crinkling routine*
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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 22:48 Edited at: 14th Nov 2005 22:54
Great convention! Well done Nick! Also, great to see everyone again!

For my part, I was deeply, deeply impressed by the forthcoming physics dll. Mike's done the community proud again.

Incidentally, please can everyone who has posted a picture with me in it (and there are only 3), please remove it. I've got a mystique to preserve here. Besides the "human disguise" didn't really work. Also, I can't help noticing that the few pictures that I do appear in have me labelled as the wrong person.

I'm now off to buy FPSC. After seeing Lee's presentation, its a must.

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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 23:09
Quote: "I'm now off to buy FPSC. After seeing Lee's presentation, its a must"


I've postponed my monthly shower to play with that code snippet
If you want to play, you could actually download some of the levels people have posted in the FPSC forums.

Mmmm...physics and FPSC levels combined! I was thinking about "enclosing" outdoor scenes...you could use very high cliff faces and tunnels, or cleverly constructed skyscrapers.

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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 23:14
I can confirm what BatVink says. The Physics absolutely rocks. I've been playing with it for a week and a bit now, it's great.

Steve, I think you missed out certain other plugins that are appearing!

Quote: "Incidentally, please can everyone who has posted a picture with me in it (and there are only 3), please remove it. I've got a mystique to preserve here. Besides the "human disguise" didn't really work. Also, I can't help noticing that the few pictures that I do appear in have me labelled as the wrong person."


You look completely different to how I thought you looked. I must have looked at the wrong person in last year's photos.

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come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 23:19
Quote: "Steve, I think you missed out certain other plugins that are appearing!"

Not sure where we stand with mentioning those here.

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Posted: 14th Nov 2005 23:26 Edited at: 14th Nov 2005 23:38
woops sorry philip, all yoinked for my site. someone can shop the others if they have them

we saw a nice picnic basket, shame no one took a pic of it

we was sort of forced to listen his rawr's and mauled one of the hotel staff when they entered through the door, the mess on the floor.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 00:01 Edited at: 15th Nov 2005 00:04
Quote: "You look completely different to how I thought you looked. I must have looked at the wrong person in last year's photos. "


@DavidT

Thats because last year's photos actually labelled me correctly. In this year's photos, I've been mislabelled as Scraggle and Wolf. In the other picture you can't even see me because the enormous sandwich that TCA is eating is in the way.

I think the subliminal message that I put in my presentation worked. Lots more people now seem to like lawyers.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 00:29
hehe, i can always recognize scraggle because of the “who wants to be a millionaire” show he was in


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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 00:35
Quote: "I think the subliminal message that I put in my presentation worked"


You mean the one where you said "Ah, that's my subliminal message!" very loud? By the way, did we agree on a price for the Orange?

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Thats because last year's photos actually labelled me correctly. In this year's photos, I've been mislabelled as Scraggle and Wolf. In the other picture you can't even see me because the enormous sandwich that TCA is eating is in the way.

I think the subliminal message that I put in my presentation worked. Lots more people now seem to like lawyers. "


You were in the black jumper with black hair? I think that was you. I saw the others were scraggle and wolf, so deduced as such. Last time I thought you were blad, had a round head, and wore glasses. Must have been somebody else I was looking at.

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come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Quote: "Must have been somebody else I was looking at."

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 01:17
nah philip is the very hairy all over person, if you look carefully you might see him under the table spread (and the lack of food ontop?!!?)

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 03:22
Quote: "How about a car with full suspension, engine, independent braking on each wheel, differentials and all speeding off a ramp into a pile of boxes?"


Sweet, this sounds just like Meqon That's what we use in our development studio, and back when I was programming the physics, I was extremely pleased that the engine has a vehicle class built-in. Wish I was there I'm living on the wrong side of the world...

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 03:57
Yeah, me too.
Sounds like you all had fun - I might attend in 3 years when I'm out of uni and actually have money to fly to england!

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 04:53
Its weird...putting faces to all the IRCers...I cant talk to you guys anymore...

Nah just kiddin, but yeah it looks like a lot of the people there were adults. Anybody go that was below 17?

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 05:42
dont know, you can sort of see there was a good mix of people there, everyone was above legal drinking age so, not sure about moggie. i'll prod him tomorrow.

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My thanks also go to Nick for organising the event. It's the first one I've been to and thoroughly enjoyed myself. It was great finally putting names to some faces (Or more like Forum Names to faces). Friday night seems a bit of a blur, I don't think I've drunk so much Guinness ever. I lost count after 7ish. BTW I'm the one that had question marks on the earlier photos, the tall rotund balding one .

I agree Mike's demos were very impressive.

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Posted: 15th Nov 2005 21:59
Yeah, my thanks to Nick as well. Much gratitude expressed for organising the Con.

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Posted: 16th Nov 2005 00:44 Edited at: 16th Nov 2005 00:45
Glad you liked

Its great that everyone who came, did actually come.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 19:22 Edited at: 18th Nov 2005 04:32
I decided to post some more photos on this thread. Ill post some videos later on perhaps.



Thats Me, IanM and Mike Johnson



That is a blurry account of my pwning Sarcasm Stealth Squad



Lee Bamber, in the indian restaurant we visited



thats Lee, Me and IanM in the hotel bar



From left to right:

Me, Batvink, Scraggle, IanM and Sarcasm Stealth Squad



Moggie100 and TheDarthster

http://lagmaster.net/con2005/lagsdigi/DSCF0012.JPG

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Thats all I wil post for now. If anybody wants me to post any of the others then just tell me and I will do.


Mod Edit: The last image was stretching the topic a little too much. Sorry.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 19:28
Mnem looks remarkadbly tubby for being a programmer Certainly goes aganist the lanky-malnurished-pizza-scoffing-acne-lord image.


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Quote: "Mnem looks remarkadbly tubby for being a programmer "

burn...

i think BatVink and Scraggle are the only ones who don't look like programmers...

you can take that as you wish.

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Aplogies. Here, have a kiwi. By the time you walk outta that door, you'll be feeling right as rain...


Looking over the shots again, darthy and lee are the only ones who I'd peg as being computer geeks.


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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 21:49
I'm FINALLY getting a chance to post again!

My computer died in a puff of smoke as I was trying to copy my pics from it. Luckily, after much work, I have recovered my entire hard drive. Even luckier, my laptop was still under warranty... by ONE F'N DAY

I'm not going to post my pics right now. It's really just more of the same. I must say though, I don't think I look like your "typical" programmer lol

Here is my account of what happened at the convention:
Fri 8:00pm:
Arrived at the Ship Hotel in Chichester. It was a very happening place. There were loads of nice looking girls EVERYWHERE.
Checked into the hotel, and brought my bags upstairs. I wandered back downstairs wading through all of the people wondering how the hell I was going to find the TGC people. I saw a corner of the bar with a bucnh of odd looking fellows in it. Ahhh.... that must be them. Indeed it was. I don't think I saw another hot girl all night
Batvink was very kind and bought me a beer. I returned the favor a short time after. Lagmaster layed on the floor in a pool of booze. Shortly after he stumbled back to his hotel. Everyone mostly discussed topics that are banned on these forums (religion, polotics, etc....)
Sat (Approx 3:45am):
Only Mike, Lee and myself were left in the bar. Although Mike was still there, he dropped out of the conversation around 2:30. He had this kind of look on his face
He told Lee that he needed to go up to the room, so we all decided to call it a night. Not before Lee got all of the half-empty beers on the table (there were quite a few) and poured them all into about 2 glasses. Lee downed that and stumbled upstairs.
I set my alarm for 9am, but woke up at 8am ready to go.
I went and had breakfast with Ian, then went to the convention room.
Philip gave a nice speech on the governing laws of jam sandwiches.
Mike gave a nice presentation on the physics pack.
Lee finally woke up at about 2pm. He graced us with a nice demo on using FPSC levels in DBpro projects. Cool stuff
I left on a train for London around 5:30pm

All in all, it was a GREAT time. Especially friday night. Thanks to all of you for welcoming a far travelled American to you group. I still can't believe the coincidences and aligning of stars that allowed me to attend. Since there is probably NO CHANCE IN HELL that I will be able to attend next year, maybe I can try to arrange a US convention instead.

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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 22:30
Quote: "Not before Lee got all of the half-empty beers on the table (there were quite a few) and poured them all into about 2 glasses. Lee downed that and stumbled upstairs."


That just sounds nasty Unless they were all Lee's beers, of course.

Wish I could have gone. Probably would be the first Canadian to go to a convention.

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Quote: "Indeed it was. I don't think I saw another hot girl all night"

haha


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Posted: 17th Nov 2005 22:48
Quote: "i think BatVink and Scraggle are the only ones who don't look like programmers"


I'll take that as a compliment.

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Me too


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Posted: 18th Nov 2005 09:59
Quote: "don't think I saw another hot girl all night"

You didn't see out waitress did you ?

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Which waitress? I saw no hot waitress.

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I do vaguely remember some girls opposite us knocking back bottles of Champaign on the Friday.

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There was nothing vague about them - being a confirmed geek, I was staring until both my eyes and tongue had dried out ... and I wasn't the only one

@Batvink, Can you post that site you got those games from?

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All I am saying is that they seemed to be EVERYWHERE before I met up with you all. I even briefly talked to a couple of nice looking girls on the stairs on my way down (I think they liked my accent ). Things seemed as if it could have been an interesting night (not that I would have done anything because I am married, but hey, flirting is always fun). Then POOF! All gone.
It was a fun night anyway. That is the most drunk that I have been in YEARS!

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Quote: "Which waitress? I saw no hot waitress."

Should have got there earlier on Sunday, eh ???

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Quote: "Then POOF! All gone"

Thats what happens when you invite IanM anywhere...

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Uh, lads, "women" is another topic that Rich has banned discussion of in this forum.

But I'll risk my forum privileges and point out that the main reason all the women left was because SOMEONE (and he'll remain nameless) started talking metaphysics.

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Hey get one in northamptonshire so i can come next year please I would like to come to at least one as well thanks

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Posted: 18th Nov 2005 21:35
It wont be there, unless you want to organise it yourself (same for anywhere past London).

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Posted: 18th Nov 2005 22:06 Edited at: 18th Nov 2005 22:07
ok i'll make the 4 hour journey to get there then and i need a laptop

Quote: "Thats what happens when you invite IanM anywhere..."


lol

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Posted: 18th Nov 2005 22:29
Saw the Dr Who "special".

One word : Regeneration problems!

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I saw it too. David Tennant makes his debut

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He might be better than I thought he may be. Apparently Billie may be leaving at the end of series 2.

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I saw that news story too.

You have hijacked the thread about your own convention. Shame on you.

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Posted: 18th Nov 2005 22:51 Edited at: 18th Nov 2005 22:54
Well, it was important!

Anyhoo, back on track - glad you all liked the Convention - I'm thinking of having the next one in around 6 months time (June/July) - more people will hopefully come, and thus more money for me (ah, dont you love capitalism) - but its dependant of whether I will actually want to do one...

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Everything about Doctor Who is important. We should have hijacked an MMORPG thread for it though!

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Posted: 18th Nov 2005 22:56 Edited at: 18th Nov 2005 22:57
Not really - Dr Who isn't exactly an RPG, is it?

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thats "DOCTOR WHO" not "Dr Who" . An MMORPG thread is generally useless. We could make a use out of it .

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