Back from the Boogaloo!

[edmundito]

I can't believe it's been and gone and I didn't even notice anyone was missing, and now you're all back in your respective homes.

I haven't posted or browsed that much lately.

All the photos are great, one obvious standout was the rubix one, the linking of the onion rings.

Well looks like a great time was had by all, and the location looked spectacular (and I'm sure it still does)

I didn't want to bring up any future mittens, but just out of interest, if it was in the Southern Hemisphere would people still want it in June/July (middle of winter [just like an English summer]) or maybe spring? Sep-Nov

Hmmm... keep in mind that some of us in the northern hemisphere do not have school from may/june until august/september, but I'm not sure how many people from this side of the world will go to Mittens Oz anyway (as of now, I can't go... then again, I just spend a bunch of money on Mittens and who knows if next year I'll have extra money ), and I have no clue what the school schedules on that side of the world are.

[Andail]

I still think we deserve cooler titles. How about this:

Attended one mittens = mittens crew
Attended two mittens = mittens veteran
Attended three mittens = mittens elite

Whether it was '02 or '03 etc doesn't matter.
I dunno, maybe I'm just a title whore. Still, variety is fun.

[Mr Jake]

four mittens = 1337 m1773n5 g03r  ?

[Privateer Puddin']

Does 1 mittens and 1 brittens get a title? :p but yeh, i prefer the 'crew' than 03

[edmundito]

What about addng the word Crew to the end of "Mittens '03"?

Hmm.. maybe if you went to both mittens and brittens you should get the title "MittBrit"?  or.. there should just be a second title, otherwise it would be something like "Mittens (('02/'03/<null>) Crew/Veteran), Brittens Crew" and that's a pretty long title.

But I'm not the commander of justice (CJ) of these forums, so I can't solve your problems.

[Privateer Puddin']

I don't think chris wanted too many titles, so Andails suggestion, or what we have at the moment..

[Andail]

My chief points would be the simplicity of having just three different titles, the coolness of not having a lame year in your title, and the reward for having put up with you computer geeks three bloody times!

[AGA]

I think the forums would collapse under their own weight if I got any more custom titles...

[Dave Gilbert]

Finally, back on the track...the last few days have been weird, and I've slept intermittently and on unusual hours.

Mittens 2004 Electric Boogaloo was a great event, thanks to Eric for hosting it, he did almost as good a job as I did in 2003. Thanks also to Dave for putting up with me an additional day and night, his touring was great and I didn't want to leave so soon.

I've browsed the pictures, and I guess no event so far in history as been this well documented; more or less every minute is covered. The last supper picture should almost go in the front page of the AGS homepage, it's completely awesome.

Some highlights:
1. Bonfire with mashmallows and guitar and an extraordinary night sky by the lake
2. Dodge ball
3. The ultimate GTD ala Eric's punch verb
4. The Jet Ski ride
5. May-lay water polo
6. Illegal drinking in Saratoga
7. Sharing bed with Mark
8. Beating Fransisco in various Atari games one extremely late night
9. New York sightseeing
10. New York nightlife with Dave's homosexual karioke crew

and a hundred other happenings...

if I may add...

11. Getting lost 5 minutes outside of JFK airport
12. Late night adventure game theory discussions
13. Overflowing septic tank
14. Wooood
15. lots and lots of rain
16. The prophet crow of DOOM! ("Caw! Caw!")
17. Finding Scummbuddy camped out on the Mittens lawn
18. Cramming 9 people into my small studio apartment
19. Getting my ass kicked numerous times in Puzzle Fighter Turbo
20. Getting to meet all you guys!

[Tiki]

21.  Wishing Tiki was there with you

[edmundito]

17. Finding Scummbuddy camped out on the Mittens lawn

That was my favorite because we were almost ready to kill him! I hope that m0ds or AGA took a picture of him parked out in the lawn.

And don't forget:

22. Grundislav playing the Ace Quest Adventunaire "theme" every 5 minutes
23. Blowing up a bed every night
24. AGA and Dark Stalkey eat 300 donuts each (rough estimate, probably more than 300!)
25. Exploring the secrets of Diarrhea Island
26. Burying m0ds in the sand and giving him anatomically correct sand-made body parts
27. Christopher Walken and the Crazy British Lady
28. Walking in the warm and wet puddles
29. Chris Jones being amazed at the American bartender, the neon signs, and other genuine American things.
30. Meeting "Richard Dreyfuss"

(he was in Jaws, ok?!)

[Pumaman]

I still think we deserve cooler titles. How about this:

Attended one mittens = mittens crew
Attended two mittens = mittens veteran
Attended three mittens = mittens elite

Sounds good to me, would definitely be easier to administer than the current system.

Ok, I've sorted out the titles. Please let me know if I've missed anyone.

m0ds, the reason your title isn't showing is an issue with the forum software, where if you're a local moderator it overwrites your title. If you look at your posts in other forums, it does show the mittens title.

[Phemar]

Teh lol! CJ car:



I also have an AGS road near where I live

[evenwolf]

Christopher Walken only made half the attendence he should have.

[Grundislav]

Trust me, Christopher Walken was there just enough.Ã,  I'd like to add my favorite moments:

31. The Europeans trying Cap'n Crunch.
32. The first expedition to Diarrhea Island (in the rain).
33. Playing poker with Mills and Eric at ungodly hours of the morning.
34. Listening to the GTAIII soundtrack while driving through New York.
35. Singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" and NOT being told to "Shut the f-ck up!"
36. CJ's girly screams.Ã, 
37. The horrific realization that we had been eating cereal out of a cat's dish for 2 days.

My pictures won't be up until later in August, probably around the 21st or so.Ã, 

[Pumaman]

36. CJ's girly screams.

When he says "girly" he means "manly", folks.

[MillsJROSS]

38. Trying to cook hotdogs by fire.
39. Finding out that smores aren't as universally known as they should be
40. Fighting for supremacy in Risk.
41. Fighting got supremacy in chess with Andail...what a close game!
42. Arm wrestling!
43. Schooling Eric in Fransico in poker and winning nothing.
44. Looking at all the new and upcomming games from fellow mitteneers.
45. Going from one place to another for a pool table, and never finding one, other than the kiddy one.
46. Getting out of the ice cold shower only to be told that the faucet works backwards.
47. Waiting for 17 hours, just Eric, Jess, and myself, for the other mitteneers to come.

Easily this has been one of the highlights of my life.

-MillsJROSS

[glamrocksuit]

48.jess and eric meet mills at the air port with a nerdy sign that says"Ace Quest". Having no knowledge of adventure games, jess is confused, Mills is more confused.
49. CJ discusess the diferences between the english and american kit-kat
50. MEATLAND is overthrown!
51. Jess schools dave in super puzzle fighter, and anyone else who crosses her path
52. jess schools eric in mit-olympics arm wrestling competition
53. The americans school the europeans in the ways of Aqua teen hunger force
54. Jess gets schooled in a one week crash-course about adventure games, and realises why her boyfriend is having an affair with the computer.

(Jess draws crazy caricatures of the allways in motion mittens crew, engaged in discusion most likely. Jess also realises she did no justice to mill's massive afro in her sketch)

The new king of sweden

FRANCISCO GONZALEZ! ::guitar strum::

(p.s i'm Jess)

[Haddas]

It wasn't really that hard to figure out :...

[edmundito]

I like the drawing of me... I didn't see that one when I was there! I even got the big monkey ears.. I look like my avatar!