Monday, December 30, 2013

60 - First lan of the year

Tony mentioned off hand that he might be free on Wednesday so we unofficially decided that there should be another sojourn at his house. Someone should really let Tony know about this.

WHEN: Wednesday 01/01/13 check facebook for times

WHERE: Tony's place (bargara)

WHAT: Starbound seems likely to make an appearance.

WHAT TO BRING: BYO Fan seemed to be a hit at the last sojourn.Sam can buy yet more pepsi and dinner can be arranged as per usual by putting it off until we're hungry and scrounging together money for whatever shops are open.

WHO: Sam, Ben, Eugene, and possibly even both Hicks seem likely to make an appearance - hopefully Tony as well or we'll need to find somewhere else to host.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

59 - Even later end-of-year lan

There was a short notice 1200-2400 sojourn on 30/12/13. Consisted almost entirely of Starbound.

WHEN: 30/12/13

WHERE: Windroom

WHAT: Starbound

WHAT TO BRING: Edward bought chicken and salad and we all ate like refined gentlemen

WHO: 7 attendees all up? Sam's sister attended but did enjoy starbound, which was unfortunate because it wound up being the only game we played

Monday, December 16, 2013

58 - Bonus Stage

Sam has his parents' house to himself this weekend so this calls for one last hurrah as we end 2013 in  airconditioned comfort.

WHEN: Saturday 21/12/13. Any time after 9am until midnightish. Maybe spilling over into Sunday if schedules permit.

WHERE: Sam's Parents' place. Ask on Facebook if you need the specific address

WHAT: Killing floor was apparently quite successful last week. Path of Exile worked well for those who can't attend physically. LoL and a handful of others may contend for Install Wars' time.

WHAT TO BRING: Sam apparently has a large tray of sausages and a bit of chirstmas ham at his disposal. Will probably wind up buying a box of pepsi max but other flavours are more than welcome.

If everyone can try to bring a few LAN cables that'd help as I don't have Ben's existing infrastructure.Ben's second switch would be helpful and maybe even a table if attendance picks up. I won't be able to confirm what's available at the house until I arrive on Friday night.

WHO: Sam hosting. Josh, not-Stan, Ben and Kyle expected to show up some point on Saturday. Ben-kin may still be in town? Sam will be playing on his tablet or his sisters' computer while his has its PSU replaced but there should be at least one other subpar gaming computer in the house.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Friday, December 13, 2013

57: Josh organised this one

Very well then, this Vote is canceled. And the Day selected is Sunday, from 12pm until 12am. there will also be a mini game session on Friday from whenever we start until whenever we finish.

WHEN: Sunday after church ~3pm till 12 midnight

WHERE:  Ben's Place?

WHAT: Path of exile id the only one slated

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Ben - PC + HTPC running ububtu or XP
Sam
Eddie
Joseph - has no computer
Levi - has no computer
Josh
Peter Chantler

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Sunday, November 17, 2013

56: polar

VRBones soon to go north
Raskalnickoff heading south
Start of the Xmas shopping season

WHEN: 30 November 8am till 12 midnight December 1

WHERE: Bargara

WHAT: More Terraria in the morning
A smattering of League
Possibly begginning on Path of Exile and the new Chivalry

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Rasklanickoff leaving for SA around about lunchtime.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

DEBRIEF:
After LoL difficulties (including a single comp stomp in LoL that was plagued by drop-outs before Ben had to leave) we moved on to few hours of tower climbing madness in 'Mount & Blade: With Fire And Sword' until a dinner upstairs with the Bowser family.

After determining that LoL was not an option with even the original router, an off-hand suggestion of Free-to-play Diable clone "Path of Exile" led to a few hours of solid co-op gaming before calling it a night at around 11:30.

Lessons Learned:

  • LoL at Tony's house is inexplicably restricted to three players
  • You can get a horse into the corner tower in M&B
  • Path of Exile could be our new Titan Quest / GW2 / Warframe in terms of painless drop-in / drop-out gameplay

Sunday, November 3, 2013

55:SS

Continuing monthly format
Month of the moustache
Arrive sat morning if joining in Splash for Cash
Path of Exile experimentation
Halloween and Cosplay
E.Y.Ǝ would be nice but VRB isn’t keen.
Sunday morning Church 10am-12am
From lunch to the beach for an evening of
LOL still our mainstay for teamwork
Terraria may be worth another trial?
Back to Path of exile once the kids are in bed
Xmas will be next Sojourn

WHEN: 10am lunch on Sunday 10th November

WHERE: Tony's place (Bargara)

WHAT: Maybe also sins of a solar empire and crusader kings two

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Monday, September 30, 2013

53: Puzzelling Query?

Finishing holidays, reactivating school term.
Birthday celebration, Monday pleases Queen.
Cooperative gameplay investigation of Steam TV.
Are betas downloaded? May need, reconfirm.
Can everyone here perhaps see theme?
Complex, obscure puzzles reign supreme.


WHEN: 12pm on sunday the 6th, TBC

WHERE: Wind room's fine with me

WHAT: What games are planned as major events?

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!


I dont knowe if anybody actually reads these...

Saturday, September 21, 2013

52: unsheduled followup

From Sam ^ Diane's Bday we decided to have a followup sojourn

WHEN: Now till mifnight

WHERE: Bens place

WHAT: lol, balderdash, Betrayal at the house on the hill, Settlers of Catan

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Ben and Josh are here
Tony ~2pm
Sam, Alex Bryon...

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!




I dont know why but we often seem to end up playing several games at once.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

51: Political Dhrama

Dont forget to vote, cost me $100 last time to forget.

The laws of nature determine that today the political battle comes to a head, but we probably wont tunr the telly on or anything.

WHEN: Sat the 7th in the afternoon.

WHERE: Tony's place (Bargara -a Archies Beach)

WHAT: Crusader kings 2, see the humble bundle. TF2 to celebrate the political battle of Red verses Blue + we can wear funny hats like the Katter party.

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Tony has to leave for dinner ~5pm till 7pm
Ben has a BBQ 10am-4pm, come visit me at lake ellen
Josh probably has assignments.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Monday, August 5, 2013

50: Golden Anniversary

RoflHarris will be returning to Bundy late Friday 16th August and is ready to get some Lanning done either on the Friday or Saturday night (Raskalnickoff had something on the Saturday, possibly?).

Also he missed Raskalnickoff's birthday so this will be a late one of those.

Also its apparently our 50th lan according to the unofficial count on this blog so I guess "golden anniversary" could be a contrived theme there. I think Titan Quest had a Gold edition? I guess we can just play LoL and stack Gold/5 items.

WHEN:Friday 16/08 OR Saturday 17/08

WHERE:Presumably the Wind room, but the beach-house could also be an option.

WHAT: Make sure LoL and Warframe are updated so we at least have those to fall back on.

WHAT TO BRING: Roflharris can bring softdrink but it won't be cold if he's in the car all day Friday before lan. If someone else wants to buy and refrigerate a box of pepsi max, he can pick up a tray of steaks / sausages / other bbq things for dinner instead. Clear this up in the comments or on Facebook or something.

WHO: Roflharris will be there with his desktop (and maybe be trying out Lanning on his MS Surface Pro). Assuming someone is at home when he lets himself in, that will make at least two people at the Lan.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Thursday, July 25, 2013

49: Late Late Notice

In a dark dark town there was a dark dark street,
and in the dark dark street there was a dark dark house
and in the dark dark house there were some dark dark stairs
and down the dark dark stairs there was a dark dark cellar
and in the dark dark cellar three skeletons lived

there was a big skeleton
and a little skeleton
and a skeleton dog
.... Woof

Well this has remained half remembers and partially recalled for a while now, I wonder if Jollubones recalls the score?
Eventually I've gotten back here to give notice that there will be no notices for a while. For next weekend I have the cane to coral funn run then the following weekend I have my birthday bash, whitch for a change involves no processing power at all, though possibly an overactive kidney or liver.
WHEN: Sunday 28 July 2pm till 12pm

WHERE: Beach
WHAT: Same as last time.
WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

48: Darker than Sunday

My shadow has caught up to me
Which means life's a slower pace
and is nolonger such a race
Thus once again I'm free
and I declare its no discrace
to live in the dark, the dead of night
slaying evil with all my might
WHEN: Sunday 21 July 2pm - midnight
WHERE: Wind room
WHAT:
Sacred2 since its sunday,
Dark Souls because Josh likes
System shock 2 as an old school Sam includer (if the internet is friendly)
Warframe/LOL/Boarderlands2/GuildWars2 as our co-operative fallbacks
WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here, bens cupboard is once again bare.
But I have a roof,electricity,internet and cordial.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

47: Juxtapose, bleeding edge retro gaming

Any sufficently advanced techology is indistinguishable from magic.

Maybe we can match the Pokemon emmulator with the nintendo controllers and the Occulas Rift and have a 3D experience like on the Pokemon X&Y on the 3DS?

WHEN: 22nd of June, around of about 2pm till dinner

WHERE: Durdins Road, you know the one.

WHAT: GW2 (dragon events), LOL, MWO, HAWKEN, Sacred, Warframe, Capcom D&D

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here. Probably sort it out once we arrive, join the bowed for tea at 6PM and go to woollies before that to find some sacrifices to make.

WHO: Sasha is a probable. Josh is to be bringing a Nintendo and occulas rift. Bowes will be there already, probably painting.

Nintendo will have pokemon stadium 2 running. For this reason I've been blogging about Gold. Which it turns out I've played before. There are four controllers and something like super smash bros, so we can all be retro.

Occulas Rift, well I dont have one but we have two. HAWKEN was supposed to be rift ready on 12.12.12 but ... In the mean time we can load it up and have a bash. It's mostly the same as Mechwarrior Online, but they have drifted more towards a League of Legends model since Alpha. Major bonus is that once everybody is on the same match it just keeps on rolling and you don't have to recreate it.
If the roller coaster and Tuscan villa are still the only functioning programs then.... I suppose I'll just have to wait for somebody with a Dev kit to make something new.
For new we can play the CAPCOM Dungeons and Dragons beat-em-up
For retro I also have System shock 2 functioning now.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Land Voyage - A Rocky Road Travelled Tentatively

Life isnt always smooth sailing. Usually there are a few bumps and potholes, then occasionally its a really rocky road. Getting tossed and turned, sliding sideways around corners, trucks that very nearly dont miss. Nevertheless we persist, aiming to be better than the me of yesterday, for nothing builds charachter like tribulations. And so northwards we are bound to seek an as yet undetermined advasary.
WHEN: Saturday morning the first of June I will depart ~10am with whoever wants to carpool. Depending on the circumstances and who also journies with me I will aim to arrive home 9pm on the second or 12am on the third.

WHERE: Wherever it is that ROFLHarris dwells in Rockhampton

WHAT: What games are planned as major events?

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Additionally collectin our new business cards for distribution.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

45: Banana Chicken

SFX: boing
B2: Are you thinking what I’m thinking B1?
B1: I think I am B2
B1&B2: Its running time!
SFX: Imperial March
All: Bravely run away, away
When danger rears its ugly head
We bravely turned our tails and fled
Yes, we bravely turned about
And we gallantly chickened out
Bravely taking to our feet
We beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave, BANANNAS!


WHEN: 17-May 1700-2400

WHERE: Down by the beach

WHAT: What games are planned as major events?
Well we should at least all do our dailied for GuildWars2
Then a League of Legends ARAM or three with Mini
As well as a bash at the new dragon game on facebook (cross betwix Hoard & LOL)
We should have the right numbers for another bash at Sacred#1.
Trying also to get VR into Warframe like the rest of us, once the kids have gone to bed.
Also there is the virtual reality headset to have a play with
and that may lead us to Mechwarrior online or Hawken.

WHAT TO BRING:
Computer+Periferals
Ethernet
Powerboard
Food sacrifices
Drink contributions
towel
WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

I may knock off work early, unless I need to give Xdrag0rX a lift. If I'm too early I'll be going for a swim. incidentally lunch today is a bananna ans some chicken flavoured 2minute noodles.
Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

44: Off the top of my head

lol
not by the hair of my chin

WHEN: 0800 on 27/4/13 till 0000 on 27/4/13

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: Warframe mainly, possibly also GW2 and LOL/MWO/Notorious as backups

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Possible business cards

So there have been a few ideas bandied about and here they are:





Note: The first one has the wrong QR Code; The bottom three all have a 5mm bleed area that would be trimmed from the actual card printing process.

Monday, April 8, 2013

1+3x14: Answers Sojourn

The answers this sojourn will be sought all saturday.
WHEN: 0000 13/04/13 - 2400 13/04/13
WHERE: Wind Room
WHAT: GW2 Guild event, Sacred (may need a plot restart). Also update LoL & MWO.
WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?
Sam should be around exept for at tea time.
Ben will be at the beach 0600-0900
Josh may work 1200-1600
Eddie miscalculated and will be missing
Tony ?
Paul ?
Dan ?
Byron ?
Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Lego is also prepped and ready to go.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

42: Sacred Sunday Sojourn

Its that answer to life, the universe and Everything

WHEN: Sunday 24 March 4PM till late

WHERE: Beach

WHAT: Sacred is the aim, though if tomany peeps arive, will have a go at MWO/LOL/GW2 So check them for updatedness.

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink her, Really when did we last do this?

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

I'll probably be in town at this stage for easter and thus will go to the friday play practice immidiatly after church. Then ono the Beach from there.

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

41: Sams Somewhere Sojourn

So, Sams somewhere close from today till tuesday the twelfth.
Since sequentially it's a sabatical I'll be bailing 6:30-9PM.
Afterwards abstract anomolies apply then church consumes chronos.
Inbetween, the incidence of indecision inconcistency increaces.

Also Happy Birthday Brett!

WHEN: Sunday after lunch till 12

WHERE: Wind room
WHAT: Sacred Gold
WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Logo GIF

Being what it is I'm happy to say any orientation of needle and letters should be fine. My other comment is that is seemsto be stable for a while, though it's definatly a smooth animation.
Later today I'll put a couple of static images up. 
So if you dont like the logo then say so and suggest an alternative.

Nicole asked about diagonal directions and graduations, Sandy can do it better but here I go...




Now for some Card Ideas. this is the first to arrive. A guide is here.


Monday, February 25, 2013

Logo?

Still trying to find a group logo. My initial idea was a map of a network, but it lookes like a plant instead.


An iron hand wreathed in flame? Possible POVRAY pic as well?

Maybe a nautical compass with WSAD in lieu of NEWS.

Eye with the iris replaced with a burning earth with Australia visible.
no pic
Something with ASCII art?
═╦═ ╔═╕
   ╚═╗
   ╘═╝
I like Sam’s Minecraft text and unicode ☤♨☬☠☢

Pixels?


Once we have a logo, then a business cared then we can hand it out and brag.

Sunday, February 24, 2013

40: First of the fridays

Having a go at friday afternoon sojourns. Last Sojourn lasted ~2days, not sure what will happen this time or how hard and fast the 12AM packup deadline will be.

WHEN: 4PM-12AM

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: LINUX TF2, LOL, GW2 Jump Quest, MWO

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Thursday, February 14, 2013

39: Forgotten Valentine

Guess what else I forgot this week? Although nobody will tell me off for that at this stage.
Possibly changing the day of the sojourn, likely candidates are Tue 7-12PM, nobody ever really turns up at 4pm anymore. Sunday (2?)-7-12PM but Tony may not be able to make it then.
Friday is also a possibility but I think that would turn into a long sojourn and thus would only happen monthly or so.

WHEN: 6:30PM 15 Feb 2013
WHERE: At the beach
WHAT: GW2 fractals dungeon, MWO, LoL

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO:
Tony should finish work ~6PM, will be home after that. The rest of the Bowes will be home and eating tea at that time.
Josh maybe will finish work at 6PM, I (Ben) will collect him from his home on my way east.
Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Monday, February 11, 2013

38: Forgetfulness

Been a bit of a distracting week. I was going to post of the re-registration forms. I was going to suggest shifting sojourns to sunday afternoon/evening. But I havent so the regulat event will be on this week.
Also over the flooded week I got my first level 80 in GW2.

WHEN: Thursday 5pm

WHERE: Wind Room

WHAT: GW2, LoL, Mechwarrior Online
WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Sunday, January 20, 2013

37 Multinational day

Soon there will be less multinationals in Australia, So lets celebrate by playing games with Australian themes or made by Australians. Like the crocodile in LOL and the sniper in TF2 and Civ4 and fruit ninja and I cant actually think of any others.
WHEN: TBC, 25th Jan @4PM through to Midnight Monday 28th is available.
Primarily planning Sunday afternoon though.

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: Anime, Xbox, Wet T-shirt competition, Install wars & beer pong.

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drink here, Shrimps? Lamb Chops? Laminations?

WHO: Sam suggested this sojourn.
Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

I'll be (Ben) leaving home @5am for a BBQ breakfast at the beach basin on Sat morning. Also Sunday ~9:30-12AM is church, other than that my house should be available. I have ~5spare mattresses (including the sofas).


Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

36: Coordination Complex

We don't have complex about coordination do we? They make pretty colours when they work together and we can too. As a result of the recent discussions we are continuing on for the following year at least officially. Subsequent to that I (Ben) will be pushing a bit harder for a logo/business card with which we can brag about our accomplishments.
Further to this I'm keen to have a go at ranked lol team games. I'll keep an eye out too for any Brisbane events we could attend for our next Land Voyage.
Aso on the agenda is board nominations. and I should have our financial statements printed out.
WHEN: 4PM Thursday 17th January

WHERE: Wind Room

WHAT: Lol, Chivalry, NotoriousDB, MWO, Hawken, GW2 & Minecraft

WHAT TO BRING: Arrange food and drik below. I have a carton of coke, that is all.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Winding up?

I (Ben) have the annual government check form. Do we want to keep the incorporation going for another year?
seems I was wrong and there is an annual renewal fee of $45.
Also we are a "Level 3" organization with assets and revenue <$20,000
we also need to record a date for an AGM, was done on skype I forget when but remember a transcript.
and to attach "a copy of the association's financial statement" which would be $129 out for the cost of registration. I paid that and there has been nothing else.
I'm the president, Dan the secretary and Sam the treasurer.

So do we want to stay official?
this is part of the reason I have been pushing for a logo + business card. but so far have not had a majority agree on anything.
 Currently the pol on Facebook stands at:
  • wind up the association: Josh, Nicole, Bryon, Sam
  • Continue: Tony
  • Migrate to ATW: Nobody
Uunfortunately to date only 7 people have looked at this comment and that is the minimum number from a govt. perspective. I was pretty keen to operate this professionally with business cards and the like to give to people to prove we exist and that E-Sports is a real thing.
We could have been something like Fnatic or Azubu and gone to a tournament somewhere.
And another day or so later:

  • wind up the association: Nicole, Bryon, Sam
  • Continue: Tony, Bryon, Eddie, Nicole, Josh, Levi
  • Migrate to ATW: Nobody

I'll roll over all the details from last year and start on the form this afternoon.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

35: New years Revolution

We have evolved once before but now is the time to be better than we were before, to evolve again and become Stronger than we were yesterday.

WHEN: date and timewas forgotten, lets say Thursday 5am till 12pm give or take.

WHERE: Wind room

WHAT: M&B, NotoriousDB, Chivalry, EYE; in all these we can rebel against our overlords

WHAT TO BRING: Josh is organiseng Pizza, for more food comment below.

WHO: Who's expected to be coming? Who is coming late? Who is leaving early? Who doesn't have a computer?

Comment below to discuss. Otherwise, see you there!