Morning Discussion
Lacking any national celebration of my own this weekend, I played the Source mod NeoTokyo. I rarely enjoy tactical shooters but NeoTokyo has won me with over its fun CTF mechanic, beautiful aesthetic, enjoyable teamwork, and oodles of polish. I must say I'm impressed. It's available on FileShack if you fancy a future Tokyo tactical treat.
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Jonathan
replyQUAKECON People!
Gaylord apparently isn't taking reservations yet. Maybe noon... or next week :(-
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I've never had any problems with parking there, you can take the free bus to the nearby mall and eat there if you are so worried about cheap food. The reservations for the Gaylord haven't opened yet through the Quakecon website...The two years that they had the event at the Gaylord were the best Quakecon events I've ever been to and I've been to 5 of them, this year being my sixth. The anatole wasn't impressive in any way, had nothing foodwise after 12ish and was still being built. The Gaylord has a cafe right outside of the event hall that stays open all night long which was better than overpriced stale domino's pizza. I really wasn't looking forward to the anatole this year and was very happy when they announced the change in venue. I'm also going to this thing with my wife, and there are far more things for her to do at the Gaylord than the anatole. With the Quakecon rate, the rooms should be around $130. If the cost is too high, find roommates. I highly doubt that they will run out of hotel rooms very fast. If you've already spent money on plane tickets, you should be smart enough to check the Quakecon site every day so you can get a hotel reservation right away.
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I had a hotel room at the Anatole, I canceled...it cost me nothing....I would also get a plane ticket before I ever get a hotel room, the plane tickets usually cost more. You can always get a room somewhere, and I have never made a reservation at a hotel and not been able to cancel without a full refund. If you used some weird third party system that makes you pay no matter what, then you need to re-evaluate your priorities.
Also the event is run by volunteers who get paid nothing, idsoftware just foots the bill. For a free weeklong event, I'm pretty damn impressed every year.
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Anatole is apparently a weird one anyway.
A friend of mine on QC staff told me that they weren't allowed to hang anything from the ceiling in the BYOC room.
Reason? Union regulations.
As in, the Anatole doesn't own the ceiling in the room. The union owns it (the ceiling union, I guess).
So anything that had to be hung from the ceiling had to wait for a union employee to come and do it. Which was expensive. And they were apparently hit or miss with regards to availability and slow as hell.
As a result they had to engineer bizarre cabling solutions involving wire mesh baskets which didn't require mounting on the ceiling.
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That also jives with the other rumor I've heard
1. Gaylord kicks QuakeCon out for various reasons (drunken idiot gamers, stoner idiot gamers, not enough return on investment compared to the TD Jakes conferences, etc.)
2. QuakeCon moves to Anatole
3. Bottom falls out of the economy
4. Gaylord asks QuakeCon to come back because they're desperate now
5. QuakeCon sticks with Anatole, who didn't tell them to fuck off
6. Anatole tells QuakeCon to fuck off
7. QuakeCon returns to Gaylord
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The Hilton Anatole to me always felt like that store in the mall where your grandmother buys blouses.
It wasn't a horrible place but the Gaylord is soooooo much nicer it's not even funny. To say nothing of the fact that it's 100% indoors so you don't have to melt in the August heat going from one place to another.
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What do they actually HAVE at the exhibitor area?
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Also, lots of booths showing off video games. Last year's was sort of lame as there wasn't anything new from id playable, AMD is no Intel when it comes to promotion, and Activision had way too much Guitar Hero, but in years past there's been lots of unreleased video games to check out.
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Yup... http://carnivac.shackspace.com/Quakecon2005/target1.html
No pictures of the Ballz booth.
Oh and a few games to play
http://carnivac.shackspace.com/Quakecon2005/target6.html
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So they sell hardware and peripherals and throw shirts at you?
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I've been to a club at the Gaylord and if I remember correctly it was pretty pimp, hanging out over a lake. That would be a cool place to have Quakecon.
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Gaylord is indeed an awesome place, but the problem a number of people have with it is that the restaurants and so forth are pretty expensive. Especially when considering how a number of people try to get by as cheaply as possible.
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I didn't even bring my machine. I would if I had a decent laptop but I don't. I still had a decent enough time though. Dallas is a nice city, the shackmeet is pretty cool, and just watching the exhibits was good enough.
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He can always cancel it I guess.
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Just called they Gaylord, they said the week of the 12th. amrbean called a few days ago and they said that they would be taking reservations today. So annoying.
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just curious, what's the group code that doesn't work?
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It's probably the higher-ups at the Gaylord and the Quakecon people screwing things up and not finalizing anything, so the lowly peons we keep calling don't know anything.
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Well maybe it'll get activated later?
lol i tried putting in different variations of "quakecon" into the group code thingy on the Gaylord website last night with no luck.-
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lets just DDoS the Gaylord website. That'll show them.
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First thing I tried :(
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btw, I know no one has hotel plans in the Gaylord yet, but depending on what happens with a friend of mine I might need a room there to crash in. If I did, I would be willing to give ya some money and could easily sleep on the floor. Please let me know via SM if you were possibly looking for another person, as I'm just weighing my options at this point. Thanks in advance!
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So, what are the policies about alcohol at the Gaylord? I remember a bunch of us walking past actual cops carrying multiple cases each and nobody batted an eye.
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the cops don't care, it's hotel security we have to worry about.
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You going to be able to make your flight this year?
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So, what night will we have the game on, or are we going to do it at themelon's party again?
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That's right. But it doesn't totally change my question.
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Yeah, since I can't do it Thursday whether you show up or not.
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We weren't anywhere near that bad two years ago. But we did run around like a bunch of drunk idiots that first night.
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