--- dub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Actually, I wasn't suggesting anything for financial longevity.
> Simply a couple of things I know of that are coming up that may
> interest people in the group and may help get some group activity
> or interest up.
>
> The exposure I mentioned was also more on the geek participant side
> of the house than on the people with moneys side.
>
> So, yeah, my post wasn't intended as competition for any other
> suggestions on this thread, just additional infos for interested
> parties.
> I know we have some gamers here.
>
> Figure I should pop up and participate at least once a year! :p
>
> -dub
Yeah, I apologize for being a smartass. Gamers are great, and I think
supporting them and getting them involved would be great, I'm just not
a gamer, so I don't know much more about it than what my kids play. I
played FF7 for over an hour a few months ago - it was the first time
I'd tried to play a video game since about 1979 when I gave up on
Galaga [the arcade version - as a starving college student, there just
were not enough quarters to sustain any such habit I might try to
develop].
I did write a song called "Video Games" back in the 1980s which my
current band is thinking of reviving - it's a bit dated, though:
"You've made me just a token for your video games" [it's a love song,
of course, in the punk rock tradition], so I don't know if anyone
nowadays will understand the references in the lyrics.
I do love Nethack, though, if anyone here remembers that. And if you
worked at TSYS back when BBS gaming was popular, you may recall having
run up against my [programmatically automated using Telemate scripting,
of all things] battle cruiser named "Elven Star" in a Trade Wars 2000
game on one of the local boards (can't recall the name of the board,
offhand). It was my understanding that the major cabal on that board
consisted of TSYS employees using multiple phone lines to get multiple
accounts ("6" was the number my sources quoted, but office phone
systems were a lot smaller, back then).
In any case, we should get together.
>
> On Sep 30, 7:19 pm, 0x0000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- dub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > As a side note (on the CHAOS side of the house):
> >
> > > The Columbus JayCees are organizing a gaming tourney for (i
> think)
> > > early next year. I'll have to check on the date.
> > > They (we) wanted to know if CHAOS was interested in lending a
> hand.
> > > Possibly a good place to start back up and get some interest out
> > > there?
> > > I think "The Campus Nerds" from CSU may be involved as well. At
> least
> > > on the planning side.
> > > There would probably be some good exchange of interest (manpower/
> > > nerdpower/geekpower) between Campus Nerds and CHAOS/CFn.
> >
> > > As far as publicity:
> >
> > > PTAP and some others are sponsoring/organizing a Halo 3 tourney
> at
> > > the
> > > old Parisians in the mall on Nov. 10.
> > > I think this would be at least a good place to plaster for CHAOS
> and
> > > CFn promotion.
> > > Even if its just people participating in the tournament and
> poppin
> > > caps (do the kids still say that?) with CFn shirts on.
> >
> > > Lemmie know if there are any bites on any of this. Post. E-mail.
> Slap
> > > me in the face when you see me on the street.
> >
> > > -dub
> >
> > I'm curious about why a gaming tourney might be considered a
> fiscally
> > viable project for CHAOS/CFn and the idea of providing network
> access
> > to vendors at an art show is not? Technically, the problems are
> almost
> > identical, the amounts of money changing hands at the art show
> promise
> > to be much larger, and the people that would see the t-shirts at
> the
> > art show are (imo) much more likely to have disposable income to
> put
> > into IT and network -related projects than college students who are
> > trying to get rich winning a game tourney... ? Back when I was in
> > school, the geeks were all broke - of course, that might have
> changed
> > over the last 30 years...?
> >
> > Very simply, if you are trying to get and stay financially viable,
> it
> > would behoove you (us) to go where the money is, and the AotR event
> is
> > the highest grossing art show in the south east ....??
> >
> > 0x0000
>
>
> >
>
0x0000
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