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You weren't even there, Al Ninio, you don't know how it was.

Well, I tried to download some of them but it's taking a very long time on my poor, old connection. I did see the Indiana Jones one though. Some of the shots were actually dead impressive.

Although I don't know why you're not composing your own music, Mr Lovegrove

Even though I lied about having seen Mark's car before

And although I wildly claimed to get car sick and other such nonsense

And despite not being able to call shotgun until I see it

I still get the front seat

Because Mark said so

and it's his car

so what he

says,

goes.

Yes, one tends to ignore this trivialities when one is in love.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get that sexy Chris/Iqu picture off my phone.

..."I'm uglier" contest...

I'm a straight female, so I'm not about to go into detail about how goodlooking Bambi is, but any guy that went to Gilbertfest will tell you (with a certain degree of caution since she is engaged) that Bambi is hot/fit/cute (whichever the UK word for it is). And Andy looks like Tom Cruise.

Yeah but since they knew and accepted that they were probably not going to make much out of Psychonauts by the time they got to it, I'd say they'll base their judgement on the NEXT game rather than on Psychonauts.

I don't think Psychonaut's success will dictate the future for Double Fine. Majesco have taken many creative games under their wing recently, and Psychonaut's was one. When they rescued it from Microsoft, they understood that Psychonauts probably would not make a great profit after having such an uphill struggle for so long.

With Majesco firmly by their side now, Double Fine can enjoy producing another original game title without all of the struggling.

Since Psychonauts has been so badly distributed (places not getting it in for weeks, etc) and that Europe won't get it for months yet, it'll be a while before we can start to see Psychonauts real sales results.

Since he is picking us up, that would suggest Mark is driving.

And I can't drive anyway.

So 'Shotgun 2' means nothing.

Except that you don't know what 'Shotgun' is.

I'm Ron Gilbert!

SHOTGUN.

Most surreal moment of the whole day was when we were walking around what we thought was Hyde Park, trying to find an entrance gate. Eventually I got irritated by the lack of a gate and started hammering my fists against the wall in frustation, whereupon a little old lady wearing a crown peered over the wall and snapped sharply, "Do you mind?!"

Turned out to be Buckingham Palace.

Okay, so my flights would be from Waterford to Luton this time (never again Dublin Airport, never again). One is flying out on the Friday, at 2:50 PM, and the other returns from Luton at 5:15 PM on Monday. Gilberteers will notice the emphasism on PM.

Since I don't know where Luton is, or how far the Brittens site is from there, or what time everybody is expected to meet up, are these times okay? Or will people more than likely stay around longer?

See you all there

Ron,

You are a legend!
Look behind you...

If anyone can suss my meaning, I will sleep with you!

You want him to look behind him! ! I WIN.

I can't remember what I wrote.

Once off sex encounters!??

That's nice.

Okay, to elaborate since I had sleep:

You're going to have far better results by coming to mittens and meeting up with a bunch of people you already know you like, than you are meeting up with one person at a time to see if you get on with them.

Maybe this'll work out for you, and I'll be wrong. But probably if you want to meet somebody online, you should try meeting up with people you already know rather than develop a relationship with a stranger online. You already know you get on with all these people, and that you have stuff in common and you like. Then all you have to sort out is who you have a spark with, and then worry about developing a single spark. Something like Gilbertfest, you know? Everybody had a lot in common that day, and two people were bound to have that spark there. Although nobody expected it coming from Iqu and Chris, admittedly...

That seems a lot more sensible than finding one person you have something in common with then going all out of your way to see is there a spark. I mean, quite besides being a painstaking process of elimination, meeting a bunch of people you have known online is scary enough, but meeting a single person you've developed a personal relationship with over time online must be terrifying. I'd also find it rather creepy.

Does this make sense, because I can re-explain it tomorrow morning after I get sleep.

Why is Dave wearing horse blinkers in that picture of me, dave and arthur?

By the way Mark, THANKS!

Right after I told Ron I'd love to get in to Game Design through art, I went an drew the 'Gilbertfest Group Sketch'. Then, Mark mentioned Beyond Reality.

[Best parts of Gilbertfest:]

Everybody post your favourite bits/memories

Best parts of Gilbertfest:

When Iqu kissed Ron Gilbert's neck, grabbed his ass and hugged him. Legendary stuff.

Ron Gilbert telling us that Chris Remo and Jake Rodkin running into the Apple store five minutes before they interviewed Ron, to print questions.

The Pidgeon Park! I don't know where it was, but we went to a park full of Pidgeon that looked like things. One looked like Vin Diesel. One looked like Martha Stewert. One didn't look much like Ron Jeremy, but he kept giving himself a blowjob. One of them looked like a chicken.

Iqu making out with Chris.

Mark phoning directory inquiries to find a pub that was open; "She hung up on me! Probably thought I was a piss-head."