Author Topic: MAGFest 13 - RIP students (Read 48368 times)

Edible · « **Reply #60 on:** January 07, 2015, 06:46:36 PM »

Oh man, I can join you guys with my new ocarina

I know how to summon epona and literally nothing else

triangles · « **Reply #61 on:** January 07, 2015, 07:00:05 PM »

Level up to learn Zelda's Lullaby and not only will you be able to fix broken signs you can pop in when we play it!

DX7.EP · « **Reply #62 on:** January 07, 2015, 11:26:22 PM »

Looks like I will be getting improvised cosplay material in time for this too. Won't be mentioning what it exactly is here until it arrives.

Jq1790 · « **Reply #63 on:** January 08, 2015, 12:52:04 PM »

Need to remember to gather peoples' numbers before this...i have SOME peoples' from previous events but I'll need to check who I still need so I can hedge my bets.

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #64 on:** January 08, 2015, 02:30:37 PM »

Quote from: Edible on January 07, 2015, 03:58:06 PM

Magfest is especially great because it attracts so many different circles of friends IRL and online.

Hooray ~~music~~ the 80s dance we've been craving to go to since we were 16!

If anyone's trying to find our peoples, just look for me - I'll be running around the con in a long olive drab Italian Army alpine parka and ushanka, spamming the announcement sound from Papers, Please and stamping temporary visa slips that deny people entrance to MAGfest.

SO HYPE FOR THIS CONVENTION

Quote from: Edible on January 07, 2015, 06:46:36 PM

Oh man, I can join you guys with my new ocarina

I'll bring my acoustic theremin

Edible · « **Reply #65 on:** January 08, 2015, 04:09:19 PM »

Quote from: Muchos Jollas, Por favor on January 08, 2015, 02:30:37 PM

If anyone's trying to find our peoples, just look for me - I'll be running around the con in a long olive drab Italian Army alpine parka and ushanka, spamming the announcement sound from Papers, Please and stamping temporary visa slips that deny people entrance to MAGfest.

Oh my god

You need a cardboard border checkpoint booth, made like Lucy's psychiatry booth from Peanuts.

triangles · « **Reply #66 on:** January 08, 2015, 04:18:49 PM »

We thought about it but transporting it down is the issue, we're filing all 7 of the seats in a minivan.

We can fit a meter stick so he can carry around my wonderful reproduction of the masterpiece "Arstoka Hero". I hope I can do it justice.

Edible · « **Reply #67 on:** January 08, 2015, 04:34:10 PM »

It's cardboard, just fold it in half and put it in the trunk or something :V

Quote from: triangles on January 08, 2015, 04:18:49 PM

We can fit a meter stick so he can carry around my wonderful reproduction of the masterpiece "Arstoka Hero". I hope I can do it justice.

oh jeez

Reddyne · « **Reply #68 on:** January 08, 2015, 05:02:52 PM »

Still bangin' out room arrangements and payment info. I think this is a heavy case of too many cooks spoil the soup since we've got a few people trying to arrange things for 40 people but if we just split things up a bit this would all have been done weeks ago.

Quote from: Edible on January 08, 2015, 04:09:19 PM

Oh my god

You need a cardboard border checkpoint booth, made like Lucy's psychiatry booth from Peanuts.

Shipping and handling has been the death of many a great costume idea. Make it built to stand the test of time and it'll be too big and cumbersome. Build it to fit and it'll fall apart when someone so much as shifts their weight.

triangles · « **Reply #69 on:** January 08, 2015, 05:28:25 PM »

Yeah folding and then unfolding cardboard isn't going to look so good. We were able to hide the fold seam on Chiyo's Dad with the felt. I mean I'm sure there's a way to craft it in a way to assemble it on site buuuuut I ain't cosplaying at this con I am not taking on any more things to worry about other than my groups' registration woes (we got someone who got a panelist badge and who's coming/not coming now and ahhhh) and working on my music because hahahaha.

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #70 on:** January 08, 2015, 06:27:16 PM »

Allow me to state the reasons why this is going to be an awesome Papers, Please costume despite lack of border booth:

1) custom soundboard app on my phone with the announcement noise and "papers" being the sole buttons

2) borrowing a small portable speaker to enable spamming announcement noise

3) this stamp

4) this badge (it's getting painted tonight) to be pinned to an ushanka
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:616888

5) these things that I'm printing in droves

So yeah

Quote from: Edible on January 08, 2015, 04:09:19 PM

Oh my god

DX7.EP · « **Reply #71 on:** January 09, 2015, 12:04:07 AM »

Glorious. Now I have to get my passport* stamped at your kiosk. :getdown:

* - or at least my sketchbook and/or badge anyway :V

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #72 on:** January 09, 2015, 03:11:02 AM »

Quote from: DX7_EP on January 09, 2015, 12:04:07 AM

Glorious. Now I have to get my passport* stamped at your kiosk. :getdown:

* - or at least my sketchbook and/or badge anyway :V

Sure, I'll stamp your passport.

Just make sure you also have:

-Your transit papers
-Your immunization certificate
-Your entry ticket
-Your identity supplement

:]

Jq1790 · « **Reply #73 on:** January 09, 2015, 03:28:47 AM »

Quote from: Muchos Jollas, Por favor on January 09, 2015, 03:11:02 AM

Sure, I'll stamp your passport.

Just make sure you also have:

-Your transit papers
-Your immunization certificate
-Your entry ticket
-Your identity supplement

:]

Or, presumably enough presidents' photographs to endorse yourself elsewise?

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #74 on:** January 09, 2015, 02:38:09 PM »

Quote from: Jq1790 on January 09, 2015, 03:28:47 AM

Or, presumably enough presidents' photographs to endorse yourself elsewise?

Just slip it over and ignore me reaching for the Detain button

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA

DX7.EP · « **Reply #75 on:** January 09, 2015, 10:52:16 PM »

Looks like the improvised bill of materials is set. Seems to do the job too, but only time will tell if it'll be a hit at the convention.

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #76 on:** January 10, 2015, 01:50:48 AM »

Oh hell yeah

Reddyne · « **Reply #77 on:** January 13, 2015, 12:16:24 AM »

Schedule is up.

I got all of the room stuff in order on the same day that I finished my most recent costume. I also got a hefty shrug of indifference from the one person who could've thrown a fit about all of the organizational stuff I half-railroaded that needed to happen sooner or later. Yesterday for con prep couldn't have gone better or been more successful!

EDIT: Some great stuff here but the prom STARTS at 11:30 pm on Friday. Well gramps doesn't need to be depressed AND tired, so you can forget that, thanks very much.

Double Edit: 8 people out of 40 have flaked out over the last week now. I now realize that so few people volunteer for this job because no one likes it.

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #78 on:** January 13, 2015, 02:27:58 PM »

The prom timing SUCKS. So not happy.

But there's a freaking UN Squadron tournament. Holy shit

HOLY SHIT

triangles · « **Reply #79 on:** January 13, 2015, 05:51:52 PM »

That is some really pesty schedule layout, I need to wait for a pdf or Guidebook to really get planning. And that has to be incomplete since they have basically nothing on Monday (which I guess is the normal con-Sunday?) Gotta plan when we're going to do our not-really-a-concert things :V

Not having two concert rooms might mean the open band jam room is the smaller concert room from last year which would be fantastic, as the few times I wandered there it felt like I was trekking through some sort of murder alley and no one was in there but the staffers.

Reddyne · « **Reply #80 on:** January 13, 2015, 06:17:00 PM »

By the way, how do the concerts work out? There's like big blobs of music just slam-jammed together where one band's on for 40 minutes and then the next group is up. Does the stage just fly off into space while the next band layer waits below on a backup stage below or what? Can I jump into the concert room at the last moment to see Bit Brigade thrash it to a Mario 2 speedrun or do I have to hang around until they show up onstage?

Edible · « **Reply #81 on:** January 13, 2015, 06:20:32 PM »

I've never seen anyone at magfest do a roomclear or anything. I've had a friend pretty much just camp in one room all day listening to various bands. People walk in and out at all times, so you can't be too early or too late.

triangles · « **Reply #82 on:** January 13, 2015, 07:01:17 PM »

You can be too late if you miss the concert :colbert:

Reddyne · « **Reply #83 on:** January 15, 2015, 05:46:42 PM »

Railroading the room/payment situation went so well I might do it at every con. BV

Looks like there's some good panels. Sega Does What Nintendon't and Cho Kusoge on Friday. Saturday Morning Cartoons, Obscure Game Gems, and Unintentional Humor in Games on Saturday. Extra Credits (for EC dorks) on Sunday.

BTW what's the game room like here? Anything particularly engaging for game cabinets?

Quote from: triangles on January 13, 2015, 07:01:17 PM

You can be too late if you miss the concert :colbert:

snark snark restrictions of space-time are for scrubs git gud snark snark

Edible · « **Reply #84 on:** January 15, 2015, 06:20:25 PM »

Quote from: Reddyne on January 15, 2015, 05:46:42 PM

BTW what's the game room like here? Anything particularly engaging for game cabinets?

Imagine otakon's game room. Remove several of the huge displays and replace each one with additional miscellaneous consoles. Now add an entire extra room filled with nothing but arcade cabinets.

And that is magfest's game room.

It is a thing of beauty.

Jq1790 · « **Reply #85 on:** January 15, 2015, 07:08:19 PM »

Quote from: Edible on January 15, 2015, 06:20:25 PM

Imagine otakon's game room. Remove several of the huge displays and replace each one with additional miscellaneous consoles. Now add an entire extra room filled with nothing but arcade cabinets.

And that is magfest's game room.

It is a thing of beauty.

So much this. It's always hard during the daytime to pull myself away from the place. Technically that's most specifically DDR's fault usually, but still.

Menorah Jams, Pham · « **Reply #86 on:** January 15, 2015, 07:32:26 PM »

Quote from: Reddyne on January 15, 2015, 05:46:42 PM

snark snark restrictions of space-time are for scrubs git gud snark snark

m8 wut da fuq you say about me wife
ill rek u swer on me mum

Quote from: Edible on January 15, 2015, 06:20:25 PM

Imagine otakon's game room. Remove several of the huge displays and replace each one with additional miscellaneous consoles. Now add an entire extra room filled with nothing but arcade cabinets.

And that is magfest's game room.

It is a thing of beauty.

Please tell me there's STUN Runner

Edible · « **Reply #87 on:** January 15, 2015, 07:45:39 PM »

Quote from: Muchos Jollas, Por favor on January 15, 2015, 07:32:26 PM

Please tell me there's STUN Runner

Oh wow. Nostalgia just hit me like a truck.

Sadly, no. I don't think I've ever seen this one at magfest.

DX7.EP · « **Reply #88 on:** January 15, 2015, 09:45:33 PM »

Arcade room's always a very fun place to stop by, especially as a whole group in cosplay.

I just hope that this time the 6-player X-Men cabinets are working and open. :V

Edible · « **Reply #89 on:** January 15, 2015, 10:06:41 PM »

Quote from: DX7_EP on January 15, 2015, 09:45:33 PM

Arcade room's always a very fun place to stop by, especially as a whole group in cosplay.

I just hope that this time the 6-player X-Men cabinets are working and open. :V

Last I heard, they were both actually functional!