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That big guy in the header image, he's the first person I met when I got in the elevator to go to my room. He told me and my friends that he was ready to party, pointed to his headband and said "you guys like ass 2 mouth" :(
"It was an absolute madhouse, where at any moment I feared I would be shived by a random passer-by like a prison inmate. It was as if the internet grew a mouth and shouted an endless, array of memes and insanities into the air."
This made laugh, also weird big guy, is weird.
This made laugh, also weird big guy, is weird.
Great story Allistair, makes me sad I missed it. Well parts of it.
Also I was reading this while waiting on an order of chinese food, sitting off to the side and giggling at my phone. I got a fair number of weird looks, so thanks for that.
Also I was reading this while waiting on an order of chinese food, sitting off to the side and giggling at my phone. I got a fair number of weird looks, so thanks for that.
Why YES, I do like to party... Dear I also like how they are using a shot of their competitor's camera guy in there header after blurring out the company in the name tag.
To the guy who met me in the elevator, ;)
My moobs do bad things to people... deal with it.
To the guy who met me in the elevator, ;)
My moobs do bad things to people... deal with it.
Yes, yes it is bad form to call out other members of the press. It's also a huge mistake to call the very lovely ladies James hangs around with "escorts". I'm certain Yvonna and the ladies from Charisma +2 will love to know they've been tagged as such considering how many times they've been to QuakeCon and dealt with the groping, sweaty, ugly masses of nerds, of which I assume you are one since you aren't familiar with someone who is pretty much a mainstay at this event.
I've never had anything bad to say about Destructoid, ever. I've met your boys out and about on many occasions, at several events and never once had a problem with them until now. I don't know you, I don't recognize your name, and you're calling out my photographer.
Oh, and an FYI... Pedobear was at QuakeCon. He sat next to me in the IGDA Child's Play Poker Tournament. The one where James was taking pictures of the "escorts". Oh, I'm sorry... were you not invited to that? Here, just in case you missed it:
http://bit.ly/roF4wl
Did you even ask what he did and for whom he worked? No? Didn't think so.
See you at the next one, jerkface.
I've never had anything bad to say about Destructoid, ever. I've met your boys out and about on many occasions, at several events and never once had a problem with them until now. I don't know you, I don't recognize your name, and you're calling out my photographer.
Oh, and an FYI... Pedobear was at QuakeCon. He sat next to me in the IGDA Child's Play Poker Tournament. The one where James was taking pictures of the "escorts". Oh, I'm sorry... were you not invited to that? Here, just in case you missed it:
http://bit.ly/roF4wl
Did you even ask what he did and for whom he worked? No? Didn't think so.
See you at the next one, jerkface.
On a more serious note, I dont think I blogged about anything at QuakeCon, so I am well aware of WHY I got a feature here ( which is totally cool with me on a personal level, I love hate and what I do being twisted, I dont mind, you have to have find something to pick on when you dont have anything else to write about at the event?) Ive been attending, working, partying, etc. at this event for 8+ years at this point, this year I covered it with a media outlet I am now properly tied to and much like you guys did BG absolutely has no problem being less then P.C. about it, QuakeCon is NOT a P.C. event for the majority of it as you well noted.I am absolutely professional when need be, but we are here to have a good time else wise as long as no one gets hurt.
The only thing that really needs to be addressed to ANYONE reading this shithole coverage post and especially true QC goers who REALLY experienced the event as its meant to be experienced is the girls mentioned in the post. Ive known them all for a very long time and before they where involved with the event. All very stand up ladies who have no involvement with the grade school drama you seem to have with our company, none of them are our gamettes nor affiliated with our site, they are however good friends of mine who have no place in your post. You could have least caught me playing shirtless quake one night in the BYOC if you wanted to try and discredit me. :)
I do hope to see you at another event soon mr journalist that doesnt like to bash other journalists... I REALLY want to get to know you personally at this point.
P.S. Learn to read, I said using a picture of not using someone elses' picture. ;)
The only thing that really needs to be addressed to ANYONE reading this shithole coverage post and especially true QC goers who REALLY experienced the event as its meant to be experienced is the girls mentioned in the post. Ive known them all for a very long time and before they where involved with the event. All very stand up ladies who have no involvement with the grade school drama you seem to have with our company, none of them are our gamettes nor affiliated with our site, they are however good friends of mine who have no place in your post. You could have least caught me playing shirtless quake one night in the BYOC if you wanted to try and discredit me. :)
I do hope to see you at another event soon mr journalist that doesnt like to bash other journalists... I REALLY want to get to know you personally at this point.
P.S. Learn to read, I said using a picture of not using someone elses' picture. ;)
Honestly, CodeFire, I do expect reactions. What I don't like is the insinuations that the only way James could be hanging around with girls like that is if they were escorts.
James is easily one of the most skilled photographers I've ever worked with and he's a personal friend as well. Sum up that paragraph that follows a picture of James with the models from Charisma +2 and it's not a reaction, it's a comment about the type of guy James is and the type of girls the models are. That's what I don't appreciate.
I've worked with the ladies from Charisma +2 on several occasions and to call them "escorts" is unacceptable. I don't appreciate that bit either.
We've been nothing but courteous when meeting anyone from Destructoid and I think we deserve a little of the same treatment.
James is easily one of the most skilled photographers I've ever worked with and he's a personal friend as well. Sum up that paragraph that follows a picture of James with the models from Charisma +2 and it's not a reaction, it's a comment about the type of guy James is and the type of girls the models are. That's what I don't appreciate.
I've worked with the ladies from Charisma +2 on several occasions and to call them "escorts" is unacceptable. I don't appreciate that bit either.
We've been nothing but courteous when meeting anyone from Destructoid and I think we deserve a little of the same treatment.
@martholomule
Nicely thought out and well worded response, my friend. Why don't you go put on your "special" helmet and go play outside while the big kids talk, okay, sport?
Nicely thought out and well worded response, my friend. Why don't you go put on your "special" helmet and go play outside while the big kids talk, okay, sport?
Did the press and public have ADD or something? I was grinning and listening with great interest through Carmack's entire speech.
@Allistair: I don't need an apology... If you owe anyone an apology, it's James and the ladies he was with in that photo.
Yvonna and her girls are very classy and they commonly run into the stereotypical thinking that they must only be at the event because they're getting paid. I can tell you for a fact that most, if not all, of the girls would have been at the event whether they were paid or not.
Yvonna and her girls are very classy and they commonly run into the stereotypical thinking that they must only be at the event because they're getting paid. I can tell you for a fact that most, if not all, of the girls would have been at the event whether they were paid or not.
That group of loud mouth, drunken, screaming "carnies" are the most dedicated group of Quakecon fans there are (including James, the busygamer.com photographer you felt the need to publicly trash), and those aren't my words.
Yep, a2m is our clan tag. I'm proud to say I'm a part of it. Yes, we get drunk. Yes, we sometimes get unruly. But tell me, did your little Quakecon experience include John Carmack getting up from his seat to sit down with you before the keynote to have a 20 minutes discussion about cars? Did Todd Hollenshead take off his shirt and play Quake Live next to you in the BYOC? Did Marty Stratton wear an a2m headband and flex with your group for a picture next to the NOC? Have you ever volunteered to run network cables, do bag check, or run a registration station? If you have, you neglected to mention it.
From what I read here, you didn't even come close to experiencing Quakecon. You saw and heard exactly what all the "ordinary" people did. Not very journalistic in my opinion. This community, the core of Quakecon and the people you just finished badmouthing, are the reason Quakecon -exists-, and we have earned our right to call Quakecon our event. We are a strong community of friends and we love to have fun.
By the way, don't trash talk people based on their looks. Jim is one of the nicest people I've had the pleasure of meeting in my 8 years of attending Quakecon.
Allistair, and anyone else who's never been, next year I encourage you to come spend some time with our group and see the event for all its true glory and grit. Then, if you feel the need to do another dastardly write-up, I'll say you've earned the right. I guarantee you that you'll get a better story, at the very least.
Yep, a2m is our clan tag. I'm proud to say I'm a part of it. Yes, we get drunk. Yes, we sometimes get unruly. But tell me, did your little Quakecon experience include John Carmack getting up from his seat to sit down with you before the keynote to have a 20 minutes discussion about cars? Did Todd Hollenshead take off his shirt and play Quake Live next to you in the BYOC? Did Marty Stratton wear an a2m headband and flex with your group for a picture next to the NOC? Have you ever volunteered to run network cables, do bag check, or run a registration station? If you have, you neglected to mention it.
From what I read here, you didn't even come close to experiencing Quakecon. You saw and heard exactly what all the "ordinary" people did. Not very journalistic in my opinion. This community, the core of Quakecon and the people you just finished badmouthing, are the reason Quakecon -exists-, and we have earned our right to call Quakecon our event. We are a strong community of friends and we love to have fun.
By the way, don't trash talk people based on their looks. Jim is one of the nicest people I've had the pleasure of meeting in my 8 years of attending Quakecon.
Allistair, and anyone else who's never been, next year I encourage you to come spend some time with our group and see the event for all its true glory and grit. Then, if you feel the need to do another dastardly write-up, I'll say you've earned the right. I guarantee you that you'll get a better story, at the very least.
Proven fact: All gamers are complete dicks to other gamers!
Telling little girls to 'watch out for pedobear', whether a costumed pedobear is around or not, is still fucking disgusting, and if I were their father, I'd have fucking socked you. Go ahead and insert some witty nonsense about my response and blablabla, you're still creeps.
Telling little girls to 'watch out for pedobear', whether a costumed pedobear is around or not, is still fucking disgusting, and if I were their father, I'd have fucking socked you. Go ahead and insert some witty nonsense about my response and blablabla, you're still creeps.
This was my first ever Quakecon, and while I worked as a volunteer, I still had a lot of fun. Of course, I don't expect a writer for DToid to get all of the "ins" about Quakecon, but I do suspect my fellow gamers would.
Ive been waiting on more comments to throw this out there, but said chicks in question, also present on the night of this, I only saw the end as I passed by and didnt snap any shots, I was actually real careful to not carry my camera in public areas for obvious reasons as well as I had a corographer and like 5 parent attempt to recruit me to shoot their dance event as I have worked said events in the past and got recognized by a Michigan squad. Now, this shot: http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/263304_10150257249798311_584253310_7588831_3683835_n.jpgfeatures which girl that was in the elevator with us that night? What color shirt/dance team was on the back? I guess you had to be there for both occurances to get it as funny and it not be creepy... *shrugs*
@Amory
Making pedophile jokes to little girls is wrong. I didn't bother drafting a long response because I figured you'd understand me. You can still go fuck yourself, if you haven't already.
Making pedophile jokes to little girls is wrong. I didn't bother drafting a long response because I figured you'd understand me. You can still go fuck yourself, if you haven't already.
I was wondering why this page got so much comments all of a sudden....don't judge a book by it's cover I suppose, even if they're creeping you out and saying weird shit, but instead deep down think that the mans a serious photographer.
Jesus christ these people take shit WAY too seriously. being a completely dick about is only makes you look like a bigger dick, like armory.
Sorry, but I instantly lost all respect for you morons, when you started walking around a convention with ass 2 mouth written on your heads. Fucking idiots.
Also: Your boy has some huge titties... you might want to get him on an excercise program, before you lose a member of your "strong community of friends"
Also: Your boy has some huge titties... you might want to get him on an excercise program, before you lose a member of your "strong community of friends"
I wouldnt EVER go to Quake-com if ppl like the ones getting butthurt are the "real quake-con nerds". Sounds like they need a good ego-busting kick in the face!
Yeah, i just saw busygamer for the 1st time... What a joke! Ur pics look like crap, and u post every 2 WEEKS!? Get real, try making a REAL gaming site!
I'd love to attend QuakeCon, but I never will sadly. There are just far too many idiots and uncivilized people that attend these things. I mean, honestly, that fat fuck with the bitch tits? Why would he think it's funny/necessary to say what he said to those little girls? Then we have the mass amount of jack asses who think it's funny to scream endless profanity for everyone to hear, let alone shit that isn't even funny. Most of these people have the maturity level of a high school male who just discovered porn.
Don't care about your man boobs. Don't care about your female "friends".
What I do care about is your pervy pedo ways. Screw you, fat guy.
What I do care about is your pervy pedo ways. Screw you, fat guy.
Not mad guys, just jealous of dem titties. Those things put my ex girlfriend to shame, and she was a GG.
The Carmack keynote speech is a big thing, which is why it starts off as standing room only. A lot of people get the buzz to see if Doom 4 will be released, but in the end it was just that, buzz. Now I didn’t know majority of what Carmack was talking about, but my friends do, and just like you mentioned, they got a lot out of it. I asked and got my question done which is if BethSoft would be going public anytime soon, which to be fair he didn’t know. It was going to be my only chance to ask someone that high in BethSoft a question like that, so I had to. They released the Doom 3 source code, which is huge for the community, as it shows that id still cares about the community (you can tell, since they still put together QuakeCON).
I won’t touch too much on the fact that the dance troupe convention was the same weekend, but the Anatole is a business, and in the business to make money. These moms who spend so much damn money on random things like dance lessons and outfits, would be able to spend money on food/drinks for them and their kids throughout the weekend. I would have turned away QuakeCON for these girls 10 times out of 10, but why not have both when you can!
Now when you’re talking about “This Guy”, his name is Jim Brown, and a very good friend of mine. First of all, Jim likes to party, and there is nothing against the law about partying. If you wanted to know what QuakeCON was about, it’s about alcohol and video games. Getting together with friends from all over the country, and just having fun with everyone we know. To call the girls he was with escorts, or to insinuate it with that term not only pisses me off, but pisses off a large group of the community. One of the girls in question is a good friend of mines girlfriend, and to make such a ridiculous statement is just funny. Jim is a very nice guy which is why the ladies love him. He’s not afraid to be himself, and that’s probably why he’s hanging out with models and you’re hanging out with… well, I don’t know who you hung out with, so I won’t make assumptions like you do. Also, about the pre-teen cheerleaders, you should check out the photo with one of them being carried away by Pedo-Bear. I guess you should’ve been there for that as well, but I DO understand if you missed the first part, where you would be confused.
Now onto the BYOC. I was one of the many people who “clapped for no reason”, but there was a perfect reason. Look back up to my statement about Quake CON. Getting together with friends from all over the country and just having fun with them all. That’s what the clapping is. We are a group with the clan tag a2m, and we wear it proudly. QuakeCON is a place that allows our inner nerd to be out and run wild. A lot of us have real people jobs (because to be honest, the study of journalism is just a joke), so we can’t go around doing that, but in a place like Quake CON, we have the ability to do it. Now I can’t speak for the people in regards to the pink dildo comment, but we say “woo woo woo you know it”, which isn’t profane at all. To complain about profanity and then use profanity in your column is not only contradicting, but makes yourself look like a tool. You only brought fear onto yourself though, as I have been attending LANs for 15 years now, and have never had a problem at a LAN. Stuff like this goes on at big lans and small lans alike. It’s not for everyone, I’m sorry you may not be one of them.
There were a lot of single player games this year because of the way the servers were set up (did you mention that? Nope!), that you could not search the network for local servers. It sucked, but in the end it’s just how it happened. People started drawing on large whiteboards server addresses and using IRC to help promote their server.
When I go to QuakeCON, I go there to see friends, meet new people, and enjoy a long weekend away from work. I mean, where else would I meet a huge group of guys, and party with the likes of John Carmack, Todd Hollenshead, Marty Stratton, Slinger/QT3.14 (or Chris and Lindsey), the Master Pancake guys, and a bunch of random people that go there to have fun and enjoy their time spent together sharing their common hobby of video gaming.
I wear my clan tag proud, I am an original member of ass 2 mouth, and if you have a problem with that, then take care, spike your hair, and let us be.
I won’t touch too much on the fact that the dance troupe convention was the same weekend, but the Anatole is a business, and in the business to make money. These moms who spend so much damn money on random things like dance lessons and outfits, would be able to spend money on food/drinks for them and their kids throughout the weekend. I would have turned away QuakeCON for these girls 10 times out of 10, but why not have both when you can!
Now when you’re talking about “This Guy”, his name is Jim Brown, and a very good friend of mine. First of all, Jim likes to party, and there is nothing against the law about partying. If you wanted to know what QuakeCON was about, it’s about alcohol and video games. Getting together with friends from all over the country, and just having fun with everyone we know. To call the girls he was with escorts, or to insinuate it with that term not only pisses me off, but pisses off a large group of the community. One of the girls in question is a good friend of mines girlfriend, and to make such a ridiculous statement is just funny. Jim is a very nice guy which is why the ladies love him. He’s not afraid to be himself, and that’s probably why he’s hanging out with models and you’re hanging out with… well, I don’t know who you hung out with, so I won’t make assumptions like you do. Also, about the pre-teen cheerleaders, you should check out the photo with one of them being carried away by Pedo-Bear. I guess you should’ve been there for that as well, but I DO understand if you missed the first part, where you would be confused.
Now onto the BYOC. I was one of the many people who “clapped for no reason”, but there was a perfect reason. Look back up to my statement about Quake CON. Getting together with friends from all over the country and just having fun with them all. That’s what the clapping is. We are a group with the clan tag a2m, and we wear it proudly. QuakeCON is a place that allows our inner nerd to be out and run wild. A lot of us have real people jobs (because to be honest, the study of journalism is just a joke), so we can’t go around doing that, but in a place like Quake CON, we have the ability to do it. Now I can’t speak for the people in regards to the pink dildo comment, but we say “woo woo woo you know it”, which isn’t profane at all. To complain about profanity and then use profanity in your column is not only contradicting, but makes yourself look like a tool. You only brought fear onto yourself though, as I have been attending LANs for 15 years now, and have never had a problem at a LAN. Stuff like this goes on at big lans and small lans alike. It’s not for everyone, I’m sorry you may not be one of them.
There were a lot of single player games this year because of the way the servers were set up (did you mention that? Nope!), that you could not search the network for local servers. It sucked, but in the end it’s just how it happened. People started drawing on large whiteboards server addresses and using IRC to help promote their server.
When I go to QuakeCON, I go there to see friends, meet new people, and enjoy a long weekend away from work. I mean, where else would I meet a huge group of guys, and party with the likes of John Carmack, Todd Hollenshead, Marty Stratton, Slinger/QT3.14 (or Chris and Lindsey), the Master Pancake guys, and a bunch of random people that go there to have fun and enjoy their time spent together sharing their common hobby of video gaming.
I wear my clan tag proud, I am an original member of ass 2 mouth, and if you have a problem with that, then take care, spike your hair, and let us be.
I don't give a flying fuck if he likes to party, I've been to all night LAN's with lots of alcohol and energy drinks... I've seen how they can get, but I've still never seen any of my friends making inappropriate jokes to small children, and if I ever did, I would knock fuck out of them. I mean honestly... you wear your a2m tag "proudly?" jesus christ, you guys are exactly the kind of retarded, inappropriate, socially maladjusted fuckwits, that gamers have been trying so hard to distance themselves from.
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