Welcome to my wankfest! Consider this a fair warning: this post is all about how Dtoid has influenced me in the last year and my Dtoid related traveling. It includes the extreme overuse of the following words:
Amazing
Awesome
Incredible
Unbelievable
Sternocleidomastoid
Well, maybe not so much the last one. But you get the idea.
Originally this post was pages upon pages of text. It got to the point where I’m pretty sure that even Hideo Kojima could have been more concise. So in the interest of not making you read for an hour, I’ve decided to do an audio-blog for most of the content.
10 Minutes of your life that you will never get back.
Hopefully you are either downloading that right now, or are enjoying it as we speak. Or not enjoying it. Whatever, it’s my anniversary and I’ll do what I want :) Regardless, here are some things that I missed on that recording...
- Technophile, Dexter and lvl99Ron were at the Kyle/Momma Donna party too!
- I made a complete ass of myself by dancing during the LA karaoke night!
- Lips is the gayest game ever!
- Husky Hog is also fucking awesome and is the secretary of good ideas for team awesome!
- That multiplayer pac-man game at Dysons with everyone was bad-ass
- Dyson and I could not beat Ridley in Super Metroid for some reason :(
I won’t attempt to recall ever thing that I did and didn’t mention in the audio portion and put it on here. Suffice to say there were many parties and lots of good times were had during my Dtoid related travels. Enough reading and listening to me blather on and on. Let’s look at some pictures chronicling my journey back from Africa and into Australia!
WARNING: I’ve posted many of these pictures in various places already and you will probably hate looking at me (and by extension you will of course hate me) by the time you've seen them all.
First: here’s a great picture of Aerox doing his favourite thing in the whole world
Myself and Suff0cat dancing. Soon after this I head out to the dance floor... alone. I’m super cool.
Everyone wants a piece of Chad!
I honestly don’t remember getting on stage. I was reeeeeeaaaally drunk.
Party at Kyle Gamgee and Momma Donnas place. Chad faces for everyone!
Alex shows up and I tell Kyle that either the Mexican goes or I go.
Despite my threat, we both stay. But I AM UNAMUSED.
I CONTINUE TO BE UNAMUSED, EVEN WITH TACTIX STANDING RIGHT OVER ME.
Staying with Naia and Zero Atma. Plushies and slime hats FTW!
ZOOM! Off to San Francisco to see the bridge with Ben Perlee! (Topgear Gorilla)
Me being a tourist.
The OFFICIAL team awesome trophy!
Blurry shots at Dysons place! Husky and I look fucking retarded in the first one.
Dyson jerks off a nutcracker!
CTZ sees Gutless wonder with his pants down. Starts salivating!
Sushi time group shot!
Arcade night with Dysons friends!
IRC asks for a picture. Ben, Dyson and I deliver!
The last thing I do before leaving North America? Hug DJ Duffy.
Now I’m in Australia with Liz, her boyfriend and their friends!
Hoo boy. I’ll bet you’re sick of me after all this, aren’t ya? Well fortunately for you I’m all done. I also pledge not to post another photo of myself on Destructoid for at least a few months because these last few days I've been uploading like crazy :P
Thanks again everyone (espcially you Niero!) and remember to stay classy Destructoid :)
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It is my life's goal to meet you.
And give you a hug.
Awwww awesome pics. I hope someday I can attend a NARP and have amazing memories with other Dtoiders.
You can do much better than that Mikey, trust me ;)
YOU SHOULD COME TO NEW YORK
:D
Samit: No I don't. NEW YORK NEEDS TO COME TO SYDNEY! :D
Alright, alright. I need to go to New York. I'll get Aerox to fly me there.
That was great, GHost. And feel free to post as many pictures of you as you wish, we never get sick of seeing that sly mug of yours. (Well, I don't anyway.)
Jeez you are right, I am sick of you and you disgust me... I mean that in the best possible way of course. ;)
Also... you were hanging out with a man (if you will call him that) that hates Super Mario Bros. video games. *cough*topgeargorilla*cough*
Also again... I thought you had been here longer than I had, weird. You are just one active dude I guess. =)
Finished listenting to the entire audiio file.
Fuck can't wait till PAX.
GHost, you can do whatever you want. You better visit us again!
Ugh, makes me envious. I wish I could start traveling like that, I hate being poor. ; ;
Bigby: the trick is to get into massive amounts of debt. So much so that an extra trip here or there doesn't matter :)
You signed up on my birthday, it's a sign.
I will meet you one day and tickle your ghostly ghostlies. Take that however you want.
Okay, I forgot all about the picture with V for Vendetta. Classic.
THE GHOST
IS THE BEST
OMG IT'S THE GHOST
You are rad man. I want you to come back to LA some day.
You are wearing a shirt with Domo-kun freaking rockin' it out . . . I am very jealous since my Domo-kun shirt is not of that epic magnitude! As I have said in the Google Group, be cool man, come to PAX.
3 more days and we'll have a blast!
The Ghost Is AWESOME.
Last FM said this when I listened to you :P
There are, almost, three bands named “The ghost”:
1- Popular during Britain’s Folk Revival of the 1960s, Shirley Collins is pretty much unknown outside of the United Kingdom. Her otherworldly voice soars like the fabled sirens when she’s singing runic inflections over traditional British folk. Collins also dipped deep into Renaissance-inspired music and British Folk Rock. If you can imagine the ghost of the late, great Sandy Denny singing warmly to you when you’re under your sheets on a cold night — that’s kind of what Shirley Collins sounds like. ( http://spain.real.com/music/artist/Shirley_Collins/ )
2- The Ghost are a postpunk/emo band hailing from Chicago, whose heartfelt and passionate songs have guaranteed them a cult following if not mainstream success. 2002’s This Is A Hospital was followed in 2004 by This Pen Is A Weapon, and the band have toured with scene luminaries Hey Mercedes, Rise Against and Sparta.
3- The Ghost play a mix of electro-pop and indie rock, and are from the Faroese scene, but sing in English. The members are Filip Mortensen (vocals) and Urbanus Olsen. They are sparkling new!
I came 10 times during this post. 10 times!
I'm happy to have met you in person.
<3 <3
Next time GHosty-poo...I'll join you on the dance floor and detract from your coolness.
Thanks for all the accolades everyone! I really appreciate it :)
Suff0cat: Pretty sure that I was insanely un-cool until I asked that girl to come up with me :P
Fuck this post was hilarious
A Fat Mexican Appears, Do you A) Punch in the throat or B) Punch him in the nads
I need to meet you people.
You sure do get about, you slut!
I WANT TO GO TO PAX SO HARD :O
Happy 1 year anniversary Mr. GHost. I would just like to say for the record that if we ever meet, I will be buying you a strong drink! :-)
I could listen to you talk all day <3.
D:
I can't listen to that until I get home. =(
<3 GHost anyway.
I want your body, GHost. And if we meet, well, I want to party. Hard.
GHost , why do you do that? Showing you dtoid friends to me is like bullying , you heartless bastard ...
You had me at sternocleidomastoid
Nice bong at Dyson's house. That Team Awesome trophy is, appropriately enough, quite awesome.
"Dyson jerks off a nutcracker" is also the greatest photo caption of all time.
if you don't come to PAX i will cry!
Someone transcribe the audio so I can read it at work!
I don't think anyone will ever be able to beat you for the crown of "person who has met the most dtoiders irl"
I don't even want to think about how many different types of aids you must have by now.
You rock, man! Can't wait for PAX!
@Jay Ar
Here's pretty much the whole thing: OMG I LUV YOU DESTRUCTOID! :DDDDDDDD <3
That's more, or less it. :)
Nice photo's! Come to Holland when you've got the time.
hey Ghost, happy anniversary! So good to see you again before you're off to Sydney, hope you're having fun! See you at PAX, got my fingers crossed ;)
How did I miss this first time around! The GHost is the best :)
<3 <3 <3