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The Scene
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It took me a short hour to get to the Gearbox building and my mind was scrambled by the time I got there with thoughts of "What's this going to be like?" and "Am I about to get Rick Rolled in the biggest way ever?" and every other possibility running through my mind concerning what I was about to or not about to see. "It's going to rock!" "I wonder what shirt Dognose is wearing??" all of this was running through my mind.
I pulled up to the building and parked a bit away from the front door as my drivers side door JUST BROKE and I have to open it from the inside which is something I'd rather do in private. I got out and started walking to the building, immediately recognizing dognose and a few other Shackers from pics I've seen and perhaps even meeting one or two before. The building looks rather professional considering we were just some dudes all wearing black shirts just standing out front enjoying the weather. At first it was pandastrong, roushi, packav, dognose, Eric, and someone I may have missed all standing outside when out of the fog and mist sexninja and boomsticka come walking up to join us. At this point I'm wondering if we're standing outside for any other reason than social psychology ("hey, this guy is standing here, I'll stand here too" until you're a group 10-12 big) and we all decide to go inside.
BONUS FACT: We saw Destin from "Hard News" from ScrewAttack going in just before we did. To be honest, he seemed a little smug. Maybe his jacket was too tight on him? Overall a cool guy once he got to talking but a bit uppity! Tut tut! I think packav had a crush on him?
Once inside, we all crammed into the elevator and let me tell you guys something. I forgot to wear deoderant so by this time, I'm freaking out. I'm nervous, I'm sweating, I'm packed in an elevator with what might as well had been 50 other Shackers (really 8-10), my breath is probably knocking someone over right now but fuck all that, we're about to see DUKE NUKEM FOREVERRRRRRrrrrr!
We hit 12 and get up to the top and these fools own the whole top floor. You go in the elevator and you don't know if it's going to open up at a normal corridor with doors to various firms or whatnot, but no, they have the whole floor. Maybe two or three floors, I couldn't tell. When you get out on floor 12, bam, there's Gearbox with dual glass doors. We head in, there's Dustin and his cameraman signing the NDA and filling out the "I'm here" forms. Another very quite guy was there and I was sold the entire time that he was a plant; a guy Gearbox put in the midst of us to spy on what we were saying, you know to catch some true opinions. In the end, the guy was a Shacker and I feel like a shithead for being so paranoid.
We're filling out our NDA's and looking at all the Halo boxes and figures and Borderlands dudes and whatever in the lobby. Not too shabby, receptionist was nice and cute of course. Some folks are taking pics, dognose is on his phone when Steve and his buddy come in the room through the glass doors and after a bit, Steve explains what we're doing and where we're headed and we head out.
BONUS FACT: No sign of George B.
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