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dELtaluca

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At 3/9/08 03:08 PM, Luis wrote: As long as you dont act like the kid in this video you'll be fine!

so THAT's where the whole glaiel/AS3 thing comes from :P

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At 3/9/08 03:12 PM, dELtaluca wrote:
At 3/9/08 03:08 PM, Luis wrote: As long as you dont act like the kid in this video you'll be fine!
so THAT's where the whole glaiel/AS3 thing comes from :P

I guessed it would be that Video :D

Anyway, i don't think a meetup would be "weird", it would just be different.
My parents wouldn't let me so I'm just going to lie :)


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At 3/9/08 03:27 PM, citricsquid wrote: My parents wouldn't let me so I'm just going to lie :)

thats what i did the first time, it wasn't nice and i couldn't really fully enjoy myself as opposed to second time when i had parents knowledge.

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At 3/9/08 03:27 PM, citricsquid wrote:
At 3/9/08 03:08 PM, Luis wrote: As long as you dont act like the kid in this video you'll be fine!
so THAT's where the whole glaiel/AS3 thing comes from :P
I guessed it would be that Video :D

I thought it was going to be a video of delta, doing his Mission Impossible climbing out and onto anything -_-

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Yeah, that's another thing.

There's no excuse that I could possibly give that would allow my parents to let me simply pop over to London by myself for the day.

Crikey.

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I'll be coming just to see Luis play soccer


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At 3/9/08 03:41 PM, JPI wrote: I thought it was going to be a video of delta, doing his Mission Impossible climbing out and onto anything -_-

oh shush you, where is that video anyways.

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At 3/9/08 03:08 PM, Luis wrote: As long as you dont act like the kid in this video you'll be fine!

Is that like afroninjas spawn.

Fuck it all, you bastards.

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actionscript 3.0 what now? Ill tell you what now. Something that closely resembles ray tracing.

Im just trying to sound cool.

Fuck it all, you bastards.

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Luis, you should hold the meet up at Newcastle outside Morrisons, we can all have cheese and onion pasties!


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Hmm I'm indecisive still. I'd like to come again, but it all depends on whether or not i will have money then. The advantage is i've already done some sightseeing london so if i'd be there i can hang with you people more.

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You know I'm down.

Also, I still think it'd be cool for us to get a place to crash together. I'd be willing to chip in to help us get a comfy place to chill, like we had in January.

On a side-note, the first time I watched that video, I thought the little kid WAS maybe James Farr... I was immediately astounded by how different he looked to how I'd expect.

That was only for like a second.

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This isnt really an Ng meetup, more an Ng flash regs meetup.

Fuck it all, you bastards.

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maybe if i tell my parents more than 10 minutes before i plan to leave to meet you guys, they may be a little more supportive.

I should be game this time round.

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At 3/11/08 06:54 PM, Bezman wrote: Also, I still think it'd be cool for us to get a place to crash together. I'd be willing to chip in to help us get a comfy place to chill, like we had in January.

Well January was low season so it was relatively inexpensive to get two flats.. during high season its a different matter... Even still, we could have totally had everyone stay at one flat in January.. the flat downstairs was like barely used. and that one had more beds too! Like there was people sleeping on the floor in my flat when there were empty beds and rooms downstairs.

Anyways i'll keep you all posted on that.. i probably will get a decent sized flat. The difference tho is it ABSOLUTELY cannot leak out on the general forum when i post the meet info there.. i do not want a bunch of weird people trying to get to my place.

Also ALONEINTHEDARK you better show up for more than 10 mins. wtf. you didnt even make it in the team photo. Something new at these meetups is that Tom's supplying me with an XXXL NG shirt so we gotta be sure to sign it all so i can get it back to the office.. sort of like a greetings from the UK 2008 type of thing.. we can change the color of the shirt every year.

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At 3/11/08 08:47 PM, Luis wrote: during high season its a different matter... Even still, we could have totally had everyone stay at one flat in January..

Didn't consider that.

Personally, I cared more about the fact that it acted like a meeting point and chilling point on the 'bonus days' than as an actual sleeping spot. Twas fun exchanging bullshit until the early hours! I'm already bubbling with anticipation!


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At 3/11/08 11:12 PM, Bezman wrote: Personally, I cared more about the fact that it acted like a meeting point and chilling point on the 'bonus days' than as an actual sleeping spot. Twas fun exchanging bullshit until the early hours! I'm already bubbling with anticipation!

well we can still hang out at my place. i dont mind that

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At 3/11/08 06:54 PM, Bezman wrote: Also, I still think it'd be cool for us to get a place to crash together. I'd be willing to chip in to help us get a comfy place to chill, like we had in January.

Yeah, I'd totally be thrilled to crash on the floor of some of the most awesome animators and developers out there :P It'd be worth it for bragging rights alone.

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At 3/12/08 04:43 AM, Paranoia wrote:
At 3/11/08 06:54 PM, Bezman wrote: Also, I still think it'd be cool for us to get a place to crash together. I'd be willing to chip in to help us get a comfy place to chill, like we had in January.
Yeah, I'd totally be thrilled to crash on the floor of some of the most awesome animators and developers out there :P It'd be worth it for bragging rights alone.
At 3/12/08 04:43 AM, Paranoia wrote:
At 3/11/08 06:54 PM, Bezman wrote: Also, I still think it'd be cool for us to get a place to crash together. I'd be willing to chip in to help us get a comfy place to chill, like we had in January.
Yeah, I'd totally be thrilled to crash on the floor of some of the most awesome animators and developers out there :P It'd be worth it for bragging rights alone.

Something i REALLY want to do at one of these meetups, is make some sort of flash movie/minigame... Tom posted something on his userpage not long ago about how him and the staff had a Flash slumber party when they made that Queers of War spoof... they knocked it out in one night.

Now i know the concept of a flash slumber party sounds uber lame, but it would be like a great little piece to mark my time there and a nice little time capsule type of thing that you can look back on...

Bleh read tom's post he is better at explaining it. It's not as nerdy as it sounds i swear!!!

ARE YOU ACTUALLY SHOWING UP THIS TIME?

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it would really have to be reminiscent of the abandoned flash reg collab considering multiple programmers on such a small project would be infeasable without it being collection of tiny little minigame type stuff

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At 3/12/08 09:28 AM, dELtaluca wrote: it would really have to be reminiscent of the abandoned flash reg collab considering multiple programmers on such a small project would be infeasable without it being collection of tiny little minigame type stuff

It would be cool to make a mini bumper cars game.. one person could code it and then people could draw their own renditions of themselves for their spritesets... even if people suck at drawing it would be fun and organic .. plus bumper cars has become a staple of all uk meets so far.

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At 3/12/08 09:11 AM, Luis wrote:
ARE YOU ACTUALLY SHOWING UP THIS TIME?

Yes. I'm 18 in just shy of a couple of months and my A Levels will be well over by then, so I've got no excuse :P

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At 3/12/08 09:32 AM, Luis wrote: ... plus bumper cars has become a staple of all uk meets so far.

I am Kayn. Jester King of Bumper Cars. Fear me and all my awesome.

People need to bring laptops down to the meet up I guess if we're going to make a Flash game about it...

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At 3/12/08 12:07 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote:
At 3/12/08 09:32 AM, Luis wrote: ... plus bumper cars has become a staple of all uk meets so far.
I am Kayn. Jester King of Bumper Cars. Fear me and all my awesome.

People need to bring laptops down to the meet up I guess if we're going to make a Flash game about it...

Why not just go to an internet cafe and put flash on externam HDD.

Fuck it all, you bastards.

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At 3/12/08 12:19 PM, sirtom93 wrote: Why not just go to an internet cafe and put flash on externam HDD.

Because I'm not sitting down in a cybercafe paying £5 for thirty minutes (or whatever it is London charges) to use a dog slow computer when I could be sitting in a nice room somewhere with booze and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace playing in the background using my tablet laptop, and I'm sure other people will feel the same.

Especially if it's half two in the morning and we're all just pissing about with character designs. And drunk. Alcohol sounds important to this plan

The intention wouldn't be to make the game and plug the game together within a half an hour. It'd be a collaberative effort started and completed during the meetup. Wheres the fun of doing it some other way?

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I only recently got a laptop, it's going along to the meet (It's not a tablet but it's good enough).
I think it'll only be worthwhile to make a collab/game if we have enough computers/laptops to work with.

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At 3/12/08 12:24 PM, KaynSlamdyke wrote: The intention wouldn't be to make the game and plug the game together within a half an hour. It'd be a collaberative effort started and completed during the meetup. Wheres the fun of doing it some other way?

Hehe, it could just be me, but we Flash regs seem to have this endearing habit of trying to manufacture what should be spontaneous collaborative processes :P

At any rate, I'm all for getting some spirits and coke and plastic cups and seeing what we come up with. I guess we could rotate around one or two computers and take turns in drawing or coding things - that way we wouldn't end up with everyone typing away in isolation.

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What with not being very social the only computer ive ever had was an amd total gaming comp but ill still go.

Fuck it all, you bastards.

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At 3/12/08 02:59 PM, Paranoia wrote: Hehe, it could just be me, but we Flash regs seem to have this endearing habit of trying to manufacture what should be spontaneous collaborative processes :P

Yeah. Fuck that in it's ass.

At any rate, I'm all for getting some spirits and coke and plastic cups and seeing what we come up with. I guess we could rotate around one or two computers and take turns in drawing or coding things - that way we wouldn't end up with everyone typing away in isolation.

And the coders can show us just how good thier OOP skills are by making thier code in isolation from each other, merely telling each other what they pass in. Because that's what OOP was made for. Right? Right?

I'm now going to run from the mob of coders...

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I haaaaate bringing my laptop to the uk.. that one bag as carry on rule is terrible. I suppose i could get a really big bag that can hold a laptop and one change of underwear. yes i said one.

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