MAGFest pictures and videos!! (updated

Folkskygg

2009-01-02 04:41:47 pm

bil

I'd like to see more pics from the m2k2 users. Smiley

Especially when they're drunk.

Tiki

2009-01-02 08:43:27 pm

I don't even know what the fuck this is

omg wait, I finally got my answer....

MIKE UYAMA LOOKS MORE UYAMAISH THAN JEWISH! Smiley

also, nate, I just always imagine you tired and serious, like if someone were to look into your eyes, they'd see a man broken by video encoding... but you seemed totally bright and cheery Tongue

xXIkuto

2009-01-02 09:12:21 pm

yeah its hard to believe nate does as much video shit as he does for how hot he looks honestly

i really expected a much fatter, paler, socially freaked out, super afro, crazy awkward freaky smile, nate.

but he's hot Cheesy

Croc-Doc

2009-01-02 09:29:39 pm

Hi

Thanks for posting the pics/videos, nate and Arkarian. It's nice to finally be able to put faces with names, especially Mike's. You all look like a friendly bunch.

It's interesting to see the variety of ways one can hold a NES controller; Frezy holds it really vertically, Andrew has his right thumb perfectly straight across both buttons, and stanski uses his fore- and middle finger instead of his right thumb (which seems weird for a non-button masher). And all of these differ from how I hold it.

Tiki

2009-01-02 09:34:08 pm

I don't even know what the fuck this is

yeah, I actually hold it like andrew, I was super surprised to see how Frezy holds it, considering our movements are like the same sometimes Tongue

TheQuietMan

2009-01-02 09:55:15 pm

Complete. Global. Saturation.

Quote from Croc-Doc:

It's interesting to see the variety of ways one can hold a NES controller; Frezy holds it really vertically, Andrew has his right thumb perfectly straight across both buttons, and stanski uses his fore- and middle finger instead of his right thumb (which seems weird for a non-button masher). And all of these differ from how I hold it.

Frezy's method got me really interested, but I don't have an NES to try it out on. He holds it like a remote control. I wonder how he'd do with a Wii-mote?

arkarian

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arkarian: 2009-01-02 11:37:44 pm

2009-01-02 11:21:15 pm

gamelogs.org

Pretty sure he only holds it that way when he needs to tap very quickly, though I might be wrong.

Pictures from today:

waiting to get into the panel room
waiting more blurrily
waiting even more blurrily
inside the SDA panel room— it was a decent turnout (more footage will come when nate plodes the videos).
the crowd around andrewg as he did a SMB1 glitches demonstration
...and the crowd one table over, watching the Melee tournament ;)
Twin Galaxies's corner— those people played Nibbler literally all day long, nonstop.
Molotov and spineshark
just spineshark
nate playing Metroid Prime, with MatrixTN and me watching
random licence plate we found in the parking garage
and its owner
Best Buy excursion
group picture— think tri-hex really makes this one

Again, more here.

Pretty sure he only holds it that way when he needs to tap very quickly, though I might be wrong.

Pictures from today:

[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/waiting2.jpg]waiting to get into the panel room[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/waiting1.jpg]waiting more blurrily[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/lounging.jpg]waiting even more blurrily[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/firstpanel.jpg]inside the SDA panel room— it was a decent turnout (more footage will come when nate plodes the videos).[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/smbcrowd.jpg]the crowd around andrewg as he did a SMB1 glitches demonstration[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/smashcrowd.jpg]...and the crowd one table over, watching the Melee tournament ;[i][/i])[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/twingalaxies.jpg]Twin Galaxies's corner— those people played Nibbler literally all day long, nonstop.[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/molotovandspineshark.jpg]Molotov and spineshark[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/heyspineshark.jpg]just spineshark[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/primeplaying4.jpg]nate playing Metroid Prime, with MatrixTN and me watching[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/doomcar1.jpg]random licence plate we found in the parking garage[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/doomcar2.jpg]and its owner[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/bestbuy1.jpg]Best Buy excursion[/url]
[url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/everyonegood.jpg]group picture— think tri-hex really makes this one[/url]

Again, more [url=http://samuel.arkarian.org/sda_meetup_09/]here.[/url]

andrewg

2009-01-02 11:55:22 pm

Hi! I'm andrewg!

Unfortunately, I did not bring a camera, so no pictures or videos from me. Sad

Magfest was really awesome. It was great to meet everyone IRL. I really hope I can go to Magfest next year. Is it going to be in the same location?

The NES challenges were fun. I managed to do a decent amount (I wonder how I will place overall). I thought I did more, but I realized later that I got VERY close to completing several other challenges but I had to leave so early I couldn't. I think the SDAers completely dominated the NES challenges though. Almost every SDA member won a T-shirt by completing an expert NES challenge. Really shows how awesome SDA is Grin

I managed to complete:

Burger Time (normal) - Should be hard IMO
Castlevania (hard)
Castlevania 2 (hard)
Gradius (hard)
Pro Wrestling (hard)
Snake's revenge (hard)
Snake's revenge (expert)
SuperC (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (hard)
Tetris (hard) - I bet many people couldn't do this one.

Frezy and I also had a little mario 3 speedrun competition. Twice... I lost both times. I blame the TV (seriously) hahaha. Wink

It's funny to see how our techniques were different. It was funny how I could get pretty far ahead and then Frezy just comes back and dominates. We also played some SuperC which was pretty cool. We both hadn't played in a long while though, so we were terrible. We kept doing the exact same things, it was pretty funny.

Stanski and I also had that smb1 faceoff. We both just died and so it was just a fun competiton. Then my game froze randomly and that was the end of that. That was cool.

Played some SuperC with Mike and once again we were awful. (Trying to speedrun a game that you don't know what you're doing doesn't work).

Magfest was great. I hope I can make it next year.

EDIT: actually I think my brother may have taken some pictures with his phone. I'll have to ask him later.

Unfortunately, I did not bring a camera, so no pictures or videos from me.  :(

Magfest was really awesome. It was great to meet everyone IRL. I really hope I can go to Magfest next year. Is it going to be in the same location?

The NES challenges were fun. I managed to do a decent amount (I wonder how I will place overall). I thought I did more, but I realized later that I got VERY close to completing several other challenges but I had to leave so early I couldn't. I think the SDAers completely dominated the NES challenges though. Almost every SDA member won a T-shirt by completing an expert NES challenge. Really shows how awesome SDA is  ;D

I managed to complete:

Burger Time (normal) - Should be hard IMO
Castlevania (hard)
Castlevania 2 (hard)
Gradius (hard)
Pro Wrestling (hard)
Snake's revenge (hard)
Snake's revenge (expert)
SuperC (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 2 (normal)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (hard)
Tetris (hard) - I bet many people couldn't do this one.

Frezy and I also had a little mario 3 speedrun competition. Twice... I lost both times. I blame the TV (seriously) hahaha.  ;) It's funny to see how our techniques were different. It was funny how I could get pretty far ahead and then Frezy just comes back and dominates. We also played some SuperC which was pretty cool. We both hadn't played in a long while though, so we were terrible. We kept doing the exact same things, it was pretty funny.

Stanski and I also had that smb1 faceoff. We both just died and so it was just a fun competiton. Then my game froze randomly and that was the end of that. That was cool.

Played some SuperC with Mike and once again we were awful. (Trying to speedrun a game that you don't know what you're doing doesn't work).

Magfest was great. I hope I can make it next year.

EDIT: actually I think my brother may have taken some pictures with his phone. I'll have to ask him later.

trihex

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trihex: 2009-01-03 12:27:32 pm

2009-01-03 12:36:25 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

SDA Administration (they were too shy to do it themselves) demands that you make this your desktop until the next SDA Get-Together:

Epic group photo! Unintentionally, I'm front and center (and crouching to hide how short I am compared to every other SDA member)! Smiley

I'm going to eventually get around to adding captions near everyone labeling who's who, along with their forum avatar for maximum familiarity.

I have like, over 3 GB of photos and videos (from today [2009-01-02] alone, [with hopefully just as much tomorrow]) I'm going to mass-upload once I'm back in Louisiana for everyone!

Zhegan

2009-01-03 02:27:35 am

[Insert text here]

I really wish I could have went. I'll try to save up some money so I can attend next year if everyone will be doing this again Smiley

sshplur

2009-01-03 05:04:20 am

I'd definitely try to come too if you guys do it again. Who's who in the group picture?

djcj

2009-01-03 05:31:00 am

Quote from t r i - h e x:

SDA Administration (they were to shy to do it themselves) demands that you make this your desktop until the next SDA Get-Together:

Epic group photo! Unintentionally, I'm front and center (and crouching to hide how short I am compared to every other SDA member)! Smiley

Frezy looks like a cool badass. Also, someone should put some names on it, so a stupid guy like me knows who is who.

I wonder how the photos of the european meeting are going look like. Probably a lots of empty beer bottles everywhere.

nate

2009-01-03 09:27:44 am

updated my first post with pics + vids from second day. fork, you might want to c/p your second post to the first post so people don't miss that stuff.

Quote from xXIkuto:

yeah its hard to believe nate does as much video shit as he does for how hot he looks honestly

i really expected a much fatter, paler, socially freaked out, super afro, crazy awkward freaky smile, nate.

but he's hot Cheesy

i'm a lot older than i was in the pictures you've seen i guess?

group pic: from top left: arkarian, andrewg, matrixtn, mike, carcinogen, tjp, vorpaledge
middle row: nate, enhasa, nitrodon, spineshark, molotov
front row: stanski, frezy_man, kareshi, emptyeye, trihex, breakdown

spineshark

2009-01-03 09:43:52 am

新世紀進歩的羽扇子音楽

Quote from MortyreR45:

Mortal Kombat ? Shocked

A lot of the arcade cabs here are refurb'd MK cabinets, presumably because nobody wants them.

MortyreR45

(user is banned)

MortyreR45

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MortyreR45: 2013-05-27 10:10:56 pm

MortyreR45: 2013-05-27 09:22:58 am

2009-01-03 09:59:34 am

I AM FUCKED ANGRY

Quote from spineshark:

Quote from MortyreR45:

Mortal Kombat ? Shocked

A lot of the arcade cabs here are refurb'd MK cabinets, presumably because nobody wants them.

The game series of Mortal Kombat 1 and 2 is banned in germany. I had very often visit denmark in my life and I had found in the year 1996 a Mortal Kombat 2 arcarde slot machine in 'Rømø'. This is a rarity in germany. This was my reaction of the shocked eyes.
I have a dream for all this time in my life, I must have my own Mortal Kombat arcade gaming machine.
Dream Forever.

Thanks for answer.

Carcinogen

2009-01-03 01:49:22 pm

I'm not very photogenic at all. I look a lot better in the flesh. =p

Either way, this whole event is a blast. Frezy's Contra run got a lot of applause when people came in for the next panel at the end of our first panel.

Also, when me and several other people went shopping, I bought the manliest Little Mermaid toothbrush ever. =D

We've got another hour until the next one. Let's see how it turns out. =D

Tiki

2009-01-03 02:37:10 pm

I don't even know what the fuck this is

Quote from t r i - h e x:

Wait a minute... I DIDN'T KNOW QUI-GON WAS PART OF SDA!!! (very back, behind nate and to the right of andrewg... who is that?) Smiley

Sum2k3

2009-01-03 03:42:59 pm

Quote from Tiki:

Quote from t r i - h e x:

Wait a minute... I DIDN'T KNOW QUI-GON WAS PART OF SDA!!! (very back, behind nate and to the right of andrewg... who is that?) Smiley

it was a big secret.. but now you found it out. congratulation!

JaggerG

2009-01-03 03:56:04 pm

Jumping Turtle

I like that ark's blinded by the light and doesn't even bother moving. Also that a group of guys strolled into some store and discussed hair care products. <nate> Alright guys, this decision could change the life of my hair forever.

Staralfur

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Staralfur: 2009-01-03 07:33:36 pm

2009-01-03 07:15:32 pm

hello there

Commenting time!

Mike: I get the feeling I've seen you before for some reason
Carcinogen: your looks are so inconsistent between pics, I swear
Maur: yo yo yo Jeff Goldblum
spineshark: is hotttttt
andrew: even hotter
Enhasa: also hot, btw what are those prints you're holding in the group pic?
nate: how tall are you? either there's a remote chance that I won't look out of place if/when I come to an SDA meet or frezy and Carc are just huge
Breakdown: that is some kickass hair

Folkskygg

2009-01-03 07:39:17 pm

bil

Ark>> You don't fit in the group picture....take it as a compliment

MatrixTN

2009-01-03 08:56:01 pm

You got a deletion wish?

Quote from Tiki:

Wait a minute... I DIDN'T KNOW QUI-GON WAS PART OF SDA!!! (very back, behind nate and to the right of andrewg... who is that?) Smiley

Me.

Folkskygg

2009-01-03 09:22:28 pm

bil

Quote from MatrixTN:

Quote from Tiki:

Wait a minute... I DIDN'T KNOW QUI-GON WAS PART OF SDA!!! (very back, behind nate and to the right of andrewg... who is that?) Smiley

Me.

I posted that picture in a Swedish forum and one guy thought it was Reinfeldt...the Swedish prime minister

nate

2009-01-03 09:42:15 pm

Quote from Staralfur:

nate: how tall are you?

5'10.

tmont

2009-01-03 10:11:53 pm

Not going to school today

It's rad seeing how most of you fill the stereotype of greasy nerd. Or are Asian. Totally awesome.

Except for frezy, who appears to be some kind of Swedish model. Way to ruin the stereotype, pretty boy.