Everybody come to brighton right about.... NOW

[Pumaman]

Ok, I'm back! Thanks to Andail for putting us all up and allowing us to sleep all over his house.
T'was good to catch up with you guys, despite the cold it was a good weekend!

Pictures are here:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/brightens/

[Pet Terry]

Woah, everyone has had their hair cut.

Except m0ds!! Whee!

[ManicMatt]

I find Yutzster attractive.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[edmundito]

m0ds looks like Dark Stalkey now. ¬¬

Manic, she IS h4wt, after all.

[Becky]

m0ds does not look like DarkStalkey.

[scotch]

I just got back, what a lot of fun that was! And thanks to Yufster for making it happen! (Just a pity she was only there for a small part of it, and 90% of that was her talking to Spaff who I begrudgingly admit is a cool guy and exactly perfect for her, ass.)

Thanks for the DS, Spleen (yes I'll get Animal Crossing, Rusalka). Also thanks to Andail for sharing his bed with me, Spaff for the MI coasters and everything else. Really enjoyed hanging out your housemates and Azadeh, Andail.

[magintz]

Piff, DS had short hair and now is long, m0ds had short hair and now is long!

Who's next?

CJ?

[AGA]

Here is a list of various quotes from Brightens:

"I'm barely a man" - CJ
"In my day, phones only had two buttons" - CJ
"You walk through a doorway and the doorway's made of pig fat!" - spleen's excuse why being a vegan in the UK is too difficult
"I just realised I'm taking photos with the off button" - Matt
"I just realised he was talking to her son. I thought he was bent down to talk to her breasts..." - CJ on Catherine Zeta Jones and her son in the film Traffic

[Helm]

WHY WASN'T I INVITED?!

[AGA]

We don't like your kind 'round these parts.

[Helm]

*Helm burns his 'I organized a Mittens meeting and lived to tell the tale!' non-t-shirt.*

[Matt Goble]

"I just realised I'm taking photos with the off button" - Matt

: I'm putting that one down to old age (and the red wine).  Took me a couple of attempts to work it out as well!! 

- EDIT -

Oh yes, I am also back!

Chris - cheers again for the lift, glad to see you didn't fall asleep and kill yourself on the way home...

A great weekend, great to see everyone again.  Good booze, good food, good company.

Now, listen up people, I want you to name a philospher beginning with "C", and no, you can't use a pro-lasped, possessed infinity or anything else remotely clever!

[m0ds]

Hahaha Helm! Non t-shirt? so your pants?? :O

You weren't there but you were in spirit, there was a huge building called something something HELM outside the rock club so I instantly associated it with you! Hehe!

I had a phat trip! It was a great evening and and interesting Sunday morning lol!!! It was great to see everyone again & catch up a little and also have a bit of a laugh! It was definitely a shame Spaff & Yufster couldn't come & enjoy the Party in the Avenue, though it was still good to see you guys briefly, and get COASTERS as scotch mentioned I've not been to Brighton since I was a wee lad so it was cool to see some old familiar sights!

And it was uber awesome to see Petter, be hosted by him & meet his coool friends! They were all a lot of fun. Thanks again dude(s)

There were loads of highlights lol and it was all crammed into one Mittens-style-evening Shame I couldn't make the pier part but it sounds like you guys all had fun! Soooome of my highlights weeere

- On entry, Spaff hands out MI coasters
- CJ can't stand up, despite being perfectly sober
- Spleen decides to take a seat on the rock club floor
- m0ds pulls?
- Matt offers DVD duplication
- Matt wants special contributions for AGS Annual 2
- Matt's face after eating mustard
- Spleen eating mustard, Spleen asking the waiter "Can I get a pillow?"
- Spleen generally being Spleen and funny
- CJ saves a family from a burning house
- Spleen buying me stuff in return for music for a game he hasn't even thought about yet
- Team Spleen and Andails frustrations
- Matt samples Spleen's "green & red" dinner
- Being absolutely goddamn wasted & going to a rock club
- St Anger debate with Christian
- Catagories by Eric, fun game I didn't know about
- Andail appears to have a girlfriend, & that feels right (& she is cool! or, saaaaaafe)
- An african animal beginning with N
- Spleen suspects I have pissed on the back seat of my car
- Spleen realises its actually his beer, upside down in his pocket
- m0ds bundles Spleen out of his car at 60mph
- Spleen lies drunk in the gutter
- Spleen aer befriended by tramps
- Wait, that last ones the other way round
- AGA attempting to find an african animal beginning with N
- Yufster asks me for a FoY demo release date & out of stupidity I tell her one
- Why Ron Gilbert couldn't possibly have used AGS whilst he worked for LucasArts
- Wimpy is still open & I eat two tasty burgers
- Breakfast, mmmmm. Even tho I don't eat it all :p
- CJ eats veggie burgers because he's currently experiencing shell-shock
- I get to drive about & drive to & from brighton & love it
- Cold maybe, but certainly today the weather was lush
- Matt's new Mittens-style-gathering catchphrase, "Good booze, good food, good company."

It was all great! But right now I'm too shattered & still a little hungover. Hope everyone made it back alright, and I hope nothing got broken in your house Andail & I hope you found teh space maez!!!11 CJ - loved the photos! Hehehe, and yep - my hair just keeps on getting longer. I may get it cut for a ball in May, but only if we get a stretched hummer :p I just want to let it grow, and look scruffy a while LOL and was there really a dress-code in the restaraunt?

Brightens was coooool!!

[Renal Shutdown]

I sat on the floor? And who did you "pull"? One of us or one of the Swedes?

Anyhow, now my memory and general sobriety has recovered..
My Highlights:

- The three retards on the train down, who seemed to have elected a leader by him being the tallest, arguing about pocket billiards and perving on every girl they could find.
- The tuppence machines on the pier.
- The Ninja Something arcade machine, which has a light-gun thing.
- The music on the pier.  Muzak with lyrics.
- Matt's fruedian slip regarding trampolines.
- The Chav-spotting scorecard.
- The comedy toilets in the pub, that were so small the hand dryer was bolted to the back of the door.
- Baffling two tramps with a combination of maths, logic and my odd interpretation of reverse psychology.
- Spaff bringing Monkey Island beer mats, which I subsequently lost.  Unfortunately.  Thankies, Spaff.
- A poncy restaurant.  Spaff and Yuffie have fancy tastes.  Except when it comes to the actual food.  I still haven't a clue what that meal I had was.
- Going to the bar and asking for mustard, after we'd eaten.  Then asking for a spoon.
- Meeting Andail's house mates, and then playing several odd party game things.  Where I answered "Oberst" as three different subjects beginning "O".  I've still got no idea where I got the word "Oberst" from.
- The world according to the Swedish.  Which is still in 1977.
- Going to the off-licence and returning with enough booze to fuel Andail's party's for the next week.  Enjoy it, Andy.
- Trying to find the rock club, and going in the wrong place by accident.
- Spending a fortune in the Engine Room, one of the worst dives I ever found.  And I been in lots.  Like all the classics, there was sweat dripping of the ceiling.
- Ordering tequilas, it goes kind of hazy after that..  And I can still taste them now.
- Arguing with the guy who worked for the Engine Room, about my band's website.  Which, I now realise he's not actually seen.
- Being called an "Edmundo" by some guy outside Wimpy.  Apparently, "Edmundo" is some kind of odd slang version of the C-word in Brighton.  I still want to kick his ass.
- Calling 118118 and asking for a cab firm in Brighton and getting put thru to a place in Doncaster.  Or somewhere up north.
- Waking up still completely smashed.
- Hearing CJ talk about sausage bones.
- Tripling the 7UP sales in Brighton.
- Always going up hill. Always.
- Hearing about how well organised paedophiles are on the radio.  Juice FM, I think.
- The awful 4-train journey home after CJ dropping me outside a tube station.  Thankies for the lift, Mr. J.  It's much appreicated.. And lastly:
- Marie.  She rocked.  Hard.  (Unfortunately, chances are, I'll never see her again.  Insert sad face here).

Thankies to Andy and the other Swedes, for hosting and generally putting up with us.  You did a fantastic job.  Thankies to Yuffie for getting us to go there in the first place, even tho you weren't around for the majority..  And thankies to Marie for making my night, and I really hope you manage to get your coat back.

[Kinoko]

I'm trying to see if Yufster is hot or not but I can only see the back of her head... :\ Is there a decent pic of her that I missed?

Looks like fun anyway, I hope I can go to one of these things someday

[Andail]

Yeah, that was great fun, thanks a lot, all who attended. And thanks for all the booze, Spleen, that was very generous of you!

[Haddas]

Piff, DS had short hair and now is long, m0ds had short hair and now is long!

Who's next?

CJ?

Me with short hair.

EDIT:

"Scotch gives Yufster his undying attention"

[Anarcho]

How inappropriate.

[lo_res_man]

Well I am glad every one had a good time, too bad I couldn't come but hey, teleporters still in experimental stages. now does anyone have a TIME machine?

[scotch]

You didn't come? I thought you were coming...