I've heard that's what happens when time passes.

dude we saw her a week after she was born and when she was a big ole gross babby (hate babby) and you know the next time this shit happens shes gonna be like UNCLE SAREVOK and and to compound matters he'll say "nope unkal rami" and there will be this just awful silence and no other gw meet will ever happen.

also are any of you near the border near minnesota btw. I just realized I have the potential to attend one close to there.

I WONT THOUGH EW.

are these meets ever completely awkward, at least for like the first hour or so?  I feel like if I ever actually met anybody here irl I would feel a little uncomfortable for a while.  but then again I'm pretty awkward around most people the first time I meet them anyway so.

also is anybody completely different from what you expected based on their posts?  i.. i must know everything

im totally serious in that if i knew i was meeting roman i would have to struggle with making it just the worst meetup. just constantly referring to gw shit, only talking about orson wells and david lynch an dmovies and nothing substantial eitehr, just "DID UYOU SEE ERASERHEAD *farts kinda loud*"

The first meet was a little awkward at first, if only because Sare and DX started larping. Otherwise it was fine. Just a bunch of chums is all. This time around it was easier and not at all awkward for me. Even so there were three new Meeters in my car.

If you just let loose and have fun, there's no awkwardness.

Also: based on posts... not really. Things just make more sense when you hear the voice behind the words I guess.

"so... did you know that, um, there's evidence in mulholland drive that betty may have been molested as a child?" "no I didn't actually.  I think you brought it up on irc once though."  "oh, yeah.  well, yeah, there's like a picture... in one of the shots... or something."



















"so uh, I hear you have cancer?"

The first meet was a little awkward at first, if only because Sare and DX started larping. Otherwise it was fine. Just a bunch of chums is all. This time around it was easier and not at all awkward for me. Even so there were three new Meeters in my car.

If you just let loose and have fun, there's no awkwardness.

Also: based on posts... not really. Things just make more sense when you hear the voice behind the words I guess.

...im sorry if we were the life of the party....

dude we saw her a week after she was born and when she was a big ole gross babby (hate babby) and you know the next time this shit happens shes gonna be like UNCLE SAREVOK and and to compound matters he'll say "nope unkal rami" and there will be this just awful silence and no other gw meet will ever happen.

also are any of you near the border near minnesota btw. I just realized I have the potential to attend one close to there.

I WONT THOUGH EW.

if you are seriously thinking about going and I got good money coming in I will seriously DRIVE and pick your ass up in NC and cross the border. I know it will probably take a few days but I probably won't have shit else to do and it would be cool as fuck to have ROAD TRIP with steel.

then again I'll probably just buy you a ticket or something because I'm pretty sure you won't want to die so....

Edit: I don't want anyone to COUNT on me either but I'm seriously going to try to make it if I'm off and working.

edit edit: I'm about the same but I'm not hyper. I'm pretty sure on here I seem hyper but thats just because I'm bored and GW TALK, I'm REALLY REALLY fucking laid back though and pretty friendly if you aren't a total douche.

yeah what do you do? when my brother's internet friend (mine too but less so) came to our house we called him by his internet name but that prompted a dinner discussion with my mom on "handles" and it felt really strange.

also i think steel's going to law school in minnesota so it probably wouldn't be a road trip

Also no one better call me coxswain because you probably can't pronounce it and that shit is lame...

yeah it is a tricky word. are you a coxswain? probably not

yeah uh I was asking because if I do go to Minnesota it won't be that far.

also names don't come up much in individual conversation, I mean how often do you do it IRL, but yeah I think Chef called me Mark and whenever I refer to him I am very careful to say ERIC who my mom thinks is an NC State undergrad.

its pronounced "cocksen" and yes I am one thats kind of why I picked it.

Yeah but even if you're in NC or whatever I don't mind shelling out a little bit to fly you there if you're broke or driving and picking you up if you really want to go and have your mind set on it.

Edit: you can even pay me back when you start practicing law if you're that NO CHARITY and stuff, its cool.

i thought you just picked it because you work on ships and it had cock in it, i have a high opinion of you apparently (also i know it's bosun with cox instead of boat)

that is great! you constructed a story about who chef was so your mom wouldn't think you're a weirdo going off with a very youthful murderer. let's organize a northeast meet again, just organize it though

btw: WHO ARE THE BLACK GUYS.

The black guys were there to watch UFC on Saturday night. One of them works with Izekeal, and the other is a pal. I didn't talk to them much, but they seemed pretty nice.

Konix: That was me in the video "Noz, first one on the floor." I did that purely for GW because no one else really knows our real names. As for perpetually calling each other by our internet names, it happened sporadically. Bart is Bart because, well, Bart's name is Bart so. . . My brother was a huge fan of calling YourHero 'Inflamed Penii' because that happened to be her GW name during the weekend; I think it was more for comedic value than anything else. I got a lot of Mamamacks, especially as more alcohol was consumed. Otherwise, we generally used our real names.

EDIT: More on the names thing. . . well, almost completely unrelated, but anyway: Izekeal, Sarevok and I went out to lunch with my dad, who I introduced as 'Dad.' It wasn't until a friend of his popped by the table and called my dad by name that Izekeal and Sarevok learned his actual name. Whoops.

man this sounds really, really awkward.  DINNER CONVOS.  why would you have him over for dinner!

we didn't have him over for dinner. he came over because he and my brother and some other people were going rock climbing and i think he was giving my brother a ride, so he was only there for a little while. my mom just thought it was an interesting topic for discussion.

we're kind of an awkward family though, i don't mind it


is there a stigma associated with internet meetups? there's one in my head but you and your family/roommates/girlfriends? don't seem to mind at all. i guess they're used to it though

there absolutely is a stigma and a legit one. I have met a sad amount of people from the internet (over 10 ) and it has almost always been a bad experience. other than chef who sredni and I think I had a decent rapport with (considering I was dying when I met him this is astonishing), a girl I introduced to my friend who he then dated and destroyed and this girl I knew from a bookclub, they've all been strange. some have honestly been UPSETTING, like this dude Keith I met who was just an awkward motherfucker and all the Ron Pauls. god the one girl who said the Fountainhead changed her life fffffff.

these are weird people. they can also be dangerous people; one of the SA goons at State shot himself in the head about a week before this thing I went to that he was invited to. internet strangers are weird and I definitely advise everyone to bring a friend with them or at least meet in a public place.

also to wax a bit philosophical there's always a small divide I think between real life and internet, no matter how much you like someone. the fact that Chef and I had to participate in a web of lies to convince my mom helped overcome that awkwardness like some weird team building exercise ("so Eric do you know Steve?" "...possssssibly?") but I genuinely think even if I was gregarious as fuck and well lubricated there would be way too many awkward silences at a large GW meet. I could meet people individually (h...hundley) but I mean come on if nothing else the fact that I think I have called almost everyone on this site a piece of garbage is going to occur to someone at some point.

seriously if I was at this meet I'm sure I'd come out and catch Sarevok whispering something to Mamamack then turning guiltily back to Soul Calibur 4.

okay i've waxed jamicus enough!

my mom is way more open to GW now btw because some people sent cards and I CAUGHT HER CRYING over ASE's (she could not understand GZs) so I think I could just say "goin to an internet" now and be okay. but I couldn't go from NC to Canada without her completely going insane, hell no.

ps before anyone says it yes I'm totally under her thumb. radiation costs over 45,000 dollars for one go, and I'm on her insurance and you know cancer is tough enough, I don't wanna do that shit alone!

one day...mom will respect me for who I am inside *posts furiously on gw*