Pause Gaming Console Event for 6th February at Conflag 2010

[Gunder]

Pause gaming is taking part in GUGS own Conflagration (http://www.conflagration.org.uk/) this year. Conflag is basically going to be one big convention that encompasses a whole host of different Glasgow Uni societies, including GUGS (http://www.gugs.org.uk/), Pause, GUMAF (http://www.khanate.plus.com/gumaf.html), IO (http://www.khanate.plus.com/io.html), The Chivalric Dreams Society (http://www.khanate.plus.com/cds.html) and a few more. Basically our presence at the event will be in the form of one of our Console events that will take place on the Saturday only. Please read the section about pricing below! This event will NOT be free.

Details:
Date: Sat 6th February 2010
Time: 13:00 - 22:00 (or as long as the gaming goes on for)
Location: Food Factory, Queen Margaret Union, 22 University Gardens, G12 8QN. Handy Map! (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=queen+margaret+union&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=18.461747,39.550781&ie=UTF8&ll=55.873746,-4.288917&spn=0.008535,0.019312&z=16&iwloc=A)
Price: Conflag will be £5 per day, £8 for the weekend. £1 discount for people affiliated with any of the clubs present. All proceeds go to the British Heart Foundation. Seeing as Pause will only be there for the Saturday then you might want to just pay for the Saturday!


Sign-Up
Head over here (http://pausegaming.com/events.php?goto=details&eid=51) to sign up and give us an idea of the numbers coming along or just turn up on the day.


Timetable
Halo 2v2 tournamnet - 3pm
Street Fighter IV tournament - 5pm
Mario Kart tournament - Indeterminate time pending interest.

Winners of each tournament will get a medal to prove what a special and unique snowflake you are!

Games
We'll be bringing along 360s, PS3, Wii, and a SNES with a whole bunch of games. Feel free to bring along any games you'd like to play and your own portable consoles.

Games will likely include:

Halo 3
Halo 3: ODST
Left 4 Dead 2
Rock Band 2
Super Smash Brothers Brawl
Mario Kart
Wario Ware Inc Mega Party Mini-games
Street Fighter 4
Castle Crashers
Little Big Planet
Wipeout HD: Fury
Soul Calibur 4
Splosion Man
House of the Dead:Overkill

and many more!

Logistics
5 x 360 (Me, Giga x2, Lewis, Scott)
1 x PS3 (Saladin)
1 x Wii (Octavion)
1 x Rockband instruments (Saladin)
1 x Projector (Viper)
1 x Projector Screen (Pixie)
5 x Screens (Me, Giga, Saladin, Pixie, Scott)
6 x Speakers (Me, Giga, Saladin, BluePixie, Scott x2)

[saladin]

That website a) is shit and b) doesn't mention Pause at all.

edit: oh sweet jesus it's not as bad as a GUMAF (http://www.gumaf.com/) one.

[Sideshow]

Holy sweet Jesus it's 1997 again.

[Cloudwalker]

Holy shit. Someone designed that page? Intentionally?

[Fyndir]

I looked at the URL bar, fully expecting to see geocities, or .tk...and then I felt mildly ill.

Why are we demeaning ourselves by association with such blatantly, patently, 100% homosexual, downs syndrome, drooling, windowlicking, cunt avoiding, cock sucking fucknuggets?

Also, fuck Gunder.

[Gunder]

Hey, they're the D&D society, not the HTML society.

[Fyndir]

Hey, they're the D&D society, not the HTML society.

That's no excuse for that abomination of a website.

[Sideshow]

Oddly, the html is actually (apart from requiring Frames for no apparent reason) pretty good. The design though...

[neogramps]

I particularly like the information page, where you discover that the flames are not a background image, but float above the text. Awesome.

[brialzebub]

That website a) is shit and b) doesn't mention Pause at all.

edit: oh sweet jesus it's not as bad as a GUMAF (http://www.gumaf.com/) one.

I'd like to mention, that as Pres of GUGS at the moment, I've mentioned that the conflagration website should be improved, but it is in the hands of the conventions convenor. In fairness to him, someone else offered to do the conflagration website, which was taken up by the busy conventions convenor, and that website is the result. It doesnt look like it's had a lot of time spent on it. Contrast with a placeholder I made for the site in 5 mins in March last year: http://www.catfink.ismyforum.co.uk/conflag/ - but still, it tells you some things like the date and time n stuff. I guess. At the end of the day I should have been more insistent on improving it or just redone it myself, but we were both constantly assured it would be updated and improved as time went on. And yeah, with two weeks to go... Never fear, lessons have been learned and Conflagration 2011's website will significantly better.

The gugs website itself .... well, that is kinda my responsibility to update that (no wait - it's the Secretary's - w00t!) :) ... but yeah, kinda mine too. Product of laziness/forgetfulness/busy-with-other-stuffness. I have 3 half finished website designs for gugs, 2 of which are functional CMS things.

Back on topic: The other day of the convention shouldnt be too bad either. Why not try out a few demo games? There'll be blood bowl on one of the days too. :)

[Gunder]

I'd like to mention, that as Pres of GUGS at the moment, I've mentioned that the conflagration website should be improved, but it is in the hands of the conventions convenor. In fairness to him, someone else offered to do the conflagration website, which was taken up by the busy conventions convenor, and that website is the result. It doesnt look like it's had a lot of time spent on it. Contrast with a placeholder I made for the site in 5 mins in March last year: http://www.catfink.ismyforum.co.uk/conflag/ - but still, it tells you some things like the date and time n stuff. I guess. At the end of the day I should have been more insistent on improving it or just redone it myself, but we were both constantly assured it would be updated and improved as time went on. And yeah, with two weeks to go... Never fear, lessons have been learned and Conflagration 2011's website will significantly better.

The gugs website itself .... well, that is kinda my responsibility to update that (no wait - it's the Secretary's - w00t!) :) ... but yeah, kinda mine too. Product of laziness/forgetfulness/busy-with-other-stuffness. I have 3 half finished website designs for gugs, 2 of which are functional CMS things.

Back on topic: The other day of the convention shouldnt be too bad either. Why not try out a few demo games? There'll be blood bowl on one of the days too. :)

Ahh, I wondered if that was you, but I didn't know your last name and couldn't be sure.

[To0]

I've seen this before and been confused. Gunder, why did you quote his entire post with no alterations or additions?

[Gunder]

I'm replying to him. I got into the habbit of always quoting who you're directly replying to because I generally post on somethingawful.com and their forums move so fast that if you didn't quote everyone who you were talking to directly then it wouldn't be clear who you were addressing.

[Octavion]

I love boys. Especially when they are in fursuits.

I believe this is the correct method.

[To0]

Exactly, at least that makes sense.

[Fyndir]

I'm glad you admitted that, To0, my fursona is a deer, and I'll nuzzle your bark anyday...if you know what I mean...

Dear god, what did I just walk in on?

[Monsieur Clopin]

That website a) is shit and b) doesn't mention Pause at all.

edit: oh sweet jesus it's not as bad as a GUMAF (http://www.gumaf.com/) one.
All kinds of hey! The problem with that website is not its design, anyway, it's the people ¬¬ They no do good on t'internets. At least there aren't flames covering our text, only TEARS!

And all unfortuanately I won't be seeing Pause at conflag. Cause of work, I can only go up on the sunday, so I'll be missing out on the video games (weep). Actually, cause of work, I'll forever be missing out on the video games, because you guys only run console things on saturdays, and I only work on saturdays. Rage.

[Octavion]

Anything that uses the word "fandom" instantly summons images of tragic, no life, obsessives; it's a poor choice of society name.

I almost feel ashamed to admit that I'm at Glasgow Uni and enjoy Japanese animation in case someone thinks I'm associated with GUMAF. :(

*strokes neck beard and watches some Ghost in the Shell while levelling a Gnome Warlock*

[To0]

Anything that uses the word "fandom" instantly summons images of tragic, no life, obsessives; its accurate.

I feel ashamed

fixed?

[brialzebub]

*strokes neck beard and watches some Ghost in the Shell while levelling a Gnome Warlock*

Yeah it's sad when people dont get out there and do some productive things with their free time. Levelling Belf warlocks for instance, you alliance scum.

*goes back to watching some Natsume, between Modern Warfare 2 sessions*

[Octavion]

Belf

/facepalm

[Gunder]

Logistics section added. If you can't remember what you're bringing, consult that! Please feel free to bring extra controllers and games if you want to play them!

[Bluepixie]

Photos up (http://pausegaming.com/gallery.php?dir=/2009-2010/Console3%20Conflag%2006-02-10/)