I just got back from traveling like 12 hours back from Montreal. I think I spent more time flying, waiting at airports, and driving than I did actually in Montreal. But that doesn't matter, because Gooncon was awesome! I took plenty of pictures (and video!), but I just need some time to upload all of it. In the meantime here's a few previews:    Goon mosh pit at Foufounes Electroniques, a really awesome alternative club that we went to   Montreal is THUPER, thanks for athking!      Cute goonette My2k (aka Jessica)   The meetup and raffle at McLean's Pub, amid much yelling of Internet catchphrases ("MY GIIIIIIRLFRIEND!")  I pretty much want to be just like Nightmarez and his clone here when I grow up (Yes, Nightmarez, I'm posting your picture on the Forums just like I said I would  ) Sephyroth (forgot his rl name) brought his cute local friend to go pub crawling with us. We later on met them at another club but we lost track of them   Instead I ended up with these guys, two 18 year old friends of bosko's, both drunk off their arses by the time the club crawl arrived. They actually started becoming lots of fun, once I started drinking myself.  We ended the night (and Gooncon) at a place called The Loft, where they played r&b in one room and electronica in another room. Apparently people from Montreal REALLY like Rihanna, Sean Paul, and Nelly Furtado, because that's pretty much all they played. Ever. That's all the music I heard there. As an added bonus I also ended up getting rejected by no less than 4 girls there. So I guess I still have my virginity. Leland Gaunt said if I didn't lose my virginity by the end of Gooncon he'd f*ck me himself but JOKES ON HIM! I left too early for him to get to me! Hahaha! So that's the end of this part of the pictures. Stay tuned for more pictures, PLUS video. Eventually I'll get my Livejournal entries done about Gooncon and I might post them, because I know how much you guys love my SCROLLING WALL OF TEXT tl;dr LJ entries. But yeah, Gooncon was awesome. Everyone there was cool and not at all the goon stereotype. Even the guy who poked a crying baby with a stick. |
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Jul 30, 2007 00:13
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HarryLerman posted:how many people went? I think there were something like 90-100 total, it was actually the lowest attendance Gooncon ever  But it was a lot of fun, there was a lot less talking about the Internet than you'd think and a lot more chillaxing and hanging out over a couple of beers or whatever. I just wish I had more money so I could stay until tomorrow instead of leaving this morning and missing the tam-tams at Mount Royale 
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postitively posted:did you cuss No but a bunch of kind-hearted goons were trying to give me advice and pointers on me losing my virginity so yeah, goons helping goons. 
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Jul 30, 2007 00:16
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Joe Der Maus posted:hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha No, not goon girls, there were a bunch of hot girls at the Loft, the club we went to. I was in one corner of the electronica room getting my dance on and there were these cute girls dancing right next to me and one was this kind of shy girl with glasses on and I couldn't make up my mind whether or not she liked me. I spent like half an hour trying to get her attention, then finally I steeled up my nerves by taking a shot of rum, walking up to her (actually more like bumping into her, it was a very dark and smoky room)...then I chickened out and yelled "HEY GIRL IN THE BLACK SHIRT I REALLY LIKE YOU!" and ran away. Maybe I got lucky and she didn't speak English v v
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Jul 30, 2007 00:19
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pwn-michel Jarre posted:what sort of advice and pointers Just stuff like "Don't put your virginity up on a pedestal, it's not some special thing to treasure and save, when it happens it'll happen, it's not really going to be some big great thing anyway". All good advice, and I seriously will take it to heart. Oh yeah, and Friday night after Foufounes a group of us ducked into a falafel stand for some drunk food and had a real "Breakfast Club" bonding moment over what it was like when everyone had their first time. (I got skipped over) I honestly think people were really trying to help me, it was really cool |
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Jul 30, 2007 00:21
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w00trow wilson posted:two worlds if you promise to tell us all your goony stories from this gooncon, and all the goony poo poo you saw (even if it leads to you getting made fun of) i'll goldmine this thread for you I'm going to be leaving to go to a party soon (I'm so tired and mostly want to sleep until 10am tomorrow but this girl is leaving for college so I want to see her off), so I'll have time for a more in-depth series of posts later. In the meantime we'll see what happens once other Gooncon people come back home and see this thread or whatever. |
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Wow, this thread grew like a mutha. I'll catch up on the posts in a minute, but for now it's time for VIDEOS! I decided to make the best of the video function on my crappy bulky Wal-Mart digital camera and record several videos, anything from 30 seconds to 2 minutes. Some of them may not interest you, since a lot of it is just people-watching type stuff I took of people walking on the street or in clubs or at the Biodome or whatever. But I also took some goon footage. Some of it shows goons talking about the Internet, something shows goons talking about anything BUT the Internet. It just gives you some idea of what Gooncon is like--not just people from the Internet meeting to talk about the Internet, but people meeting people--a social thing. OKAY, VIDEO #1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK6Zlzt2SMk This is a group of goons having some fresh air outside of Vinyl, where the first goonmeet was. The bartender was talking with us and trying to find out what exactly this "Something Awful" was. So we were trying to explain it in the most easy-to-explain way that someone who is not from the Internet would understand. Then somehow we started talking about XJAKK. Bad idea. I think the bartender had some sort of  moment during the raffle and Blackbelt Bobman's True Tales of A$$hole Border Patrol stories, in which we were all yelling and carrying on. One particularly funny moment was when some moron put on Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" on the jukebox and we all joined in with a chorus of "MY GIIIIIIIRLFRIEEEEEENND".More videos and stories to come! |
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Okay, to answer a few questions posed in the thread: Sett Chaos, I talked to you for a while, but I didn't hit on you, probably because the whole time you were pretty much clinging to some guy which I assumed was your boyfriend  I did upload my pictures, so I'll search through for a good one I took of you two for you guys.Petey, I resisted the tempation to go to Supersexe. We were at Foufounes and there was a breakaway group that wanted to go to the titty bar, and I was very sorely tempted, believe me. But I held on to my strong Lutheran faith (that's a joke, by the way) and stayed with the people who were just chillin' at a group table. It turns out I made the right choice. Pretty much everyone came back with stories of how sh*tty the strippers were, how mechanical they seemed, and how much not-into it they were. Javaman98 (Stos) and Nightmarez (Kris) even speculated that they just might be sentient Realdolls or fembots. But yeah, I'm glad I didn't go. While they were at Club Supersexe I was rocking out with my cock out in a mosh pit to AC/DC. I've never really been to an alternative or rock club before--I'm more of a electronica/house-type person when it comes to nightlife--but I still had tons of fun. It was a great new experience, and I saw a lot of  -worthy punk rock girls there.
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BONUS: Because you asked for it! More pictures of Parahexa-whatever. Poking Muslim babies, admining Wikipedia, talking to himself in front of a mirror...warming the hearts of goons everywhere.      My theory is that Para's stick is like Linus' security blanket. He has formed a close symbiotic relationship with it, a "soul pact", if you will. |
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HarryLerman posted:i seriously want to know how someone get's to Two World's situation in life. How can that happen? Porn. Lots and lots of porn. |
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VIDEO #2! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJZpTy3KpWM In this one we're just chillin' and having some random chatter in the rear terrace of Vinyl. The party's pretty much been spread out to all parts of the bar. Meanwhile, in back of the bar Nightmarez is trying to trade some smelly hobo a bottlecap for his dirty kitten  Here we see I-Forgot-His-Name drunk off his arse yelling stuff into the camera ("I f*ckin' love you, Internet!") because apparently he has started celebrating Gooncon (and his premature legal drinking age of 18 in Quebec) a little too early. My2k and a few other goons are reading some kind of trashy fantasy smut novel someone found at an airport bookstore or something. And there's some other stuff too. PLUS: A SPECIAL message JUST FOR HELLDUMP!
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angerbotsd posted:Were any goons beaten up by Quebecois? I have a bet going. Not that I saw, but keep in mind I wasn't able to attend the tam-tam hippiefest at Mount Royal Sunday afternoon (my plane left at 10am). Oh yeah, and while we didn't get beaten up we did get a few dirty looks on the way back to our hotel after Foufounes. A few of us had gotten the idea to "HI-FIVE!" people passing us up on the street, Borat style. Some thought it was pretty hilarious, some gave us stupid Americans the stink-eye. Oh yeah, and after some trial-and-error inquiry we found out the French word for hi-five is "tableau": "TABLEAU! TRES BIEN!" |
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Petey posted:hmm theres not a hd2k thread about this yet slow on the uptake i suppose They're having fun about it in goons.txt and goons.jpg, exactly as I predicted. YOU HEAR THAT, HELLDUMP? I have been pulling your strings this entire time, not unlike a puppetmaster and his marionette, mwahahahah!  But yeah, apparently I'm Mormon, even thought the denomination that I'm really part of, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, doesn't even view Mormons as technically being Christian. We "confessional Lutherans" don't cotton much to the Reformed churches 
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Jul 30, 2007 05:35
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Okay, one more video for now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUvKCZa8k50 In this one Blackbelt Bobman tells his story of how the border patrol people were a bunch of arseholes and thought he was a cyberterrorist or something. The person who is constantly screaming "OFF WITH HIS HEAD" is probably Para...that guy. The person who was yelling "POST A THREAD IN D&D ABOUT IT" is me. |
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Jul 30, 2007 18:43
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Groundbase posted:please answer my question seriously: what happened in your life that produced you as you are today? Serious answer: --My mom and dad divorcing --Me always getting picked on in school --My mom taking me to psychiatrists for most of my childhood and adolescence and being medicated for the last 12 years --My sister becoming a stripper and going out with a guy 15 years older than her --Being 24 and never being in a relationship or even kissing a girl Take your pick, really. |
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quote:what twisted torture machine could produce such a creep. Quotin' dis because calling my mom a "twisted torture machine" is pretty lol Okay, enough about me, let's get to more fun at Gooncon! I'll try to upload more video. I think I might have some more goon action, I recorded a lot of the Biodome we went to and some video of the penguins swimming around. I learned in Montreal that little kids become a lot cuter when they're speaking French. Imagine little kids pointing at the penguins and being all like "Mama! Mama! Je'suis penguin!" or whatever like that (I don't know any French, haha) |
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Okay, time for more video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZkW1yQC7qo This is some footage of us all waiting outside of the Biodome. A few of us are still behind inside the Biodome, so we're all waiting for everyone else. Most of the video isn't really goon stuff so much as just people-watching, which I sometimes like to do. When this was filmed the group of goons sitting at the floor are talking about different fast food restaurants such as Whataburger and In-and-Out. Apparently one of them has opened his own chain of calzone restaurants on his local university, which is pretty  Also, like I said, keep an eye on the LJ Scrapbook link, because I'm right in the middle of working on it. There's lot of commentary on the pictures in it too. |
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bosko posted:No, this won't work for Two Worlds. Here's why: haha, that was a pretty great moment too. The Loft was great, I just wish I couldn't gone club-crawling with more than 4 goons. But we still managed to have a good time on our own. Like for instance when I was dancing a few clubberhead Montreal guys pulled me into their little group and started yelling something at me in French, which was probably the equivalent of "We're so drunk man, you gotta dance with us!" It was kind of weird to have a bunch of guys speaking to me in French. I think you're supposed to converse with someone in French until they address you in English in Quebec. Oh yeah, and in the hip-hop room they were playing Lil Jon and bosko and I brought a bit of the US to Montreal by doing our best Lil Jon impressions. It was great fun, at least as long as I was drinking. After that the DJ played "Pretty Fly for a White Guy", I wonder who he could've been referring to 
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I've been adding more pictures to my LJ Scrapbook of Gooncon here, but I'm going to take a break for now (I go to work at 5, just to let you know in advance). So those are most of the pictures up til halfway into the Biodome visit. I'll continue to answer questions and tell Gooncon stories in this thread until 5, though. Other Gooncon people are free to add their own stories and adventures in here too 
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Zelda posted:Two Worlds doesnt realize that the reason this thread is currently gold is due to the fact that everyone is having a good time by laughing at him not because of his witty write up of a fun day out for a byob poster you're pretty un-byob Edit: Wait, you're Russ? Geez...what happened to you, man? |
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In Cahoots posted:Don't you know any loving humility? I mean, its all well and great to "march to the beat of your own drum" and all that other trite poo poo, but there comes a point where it wouldn't hurt to listen to what other people are saying. Have fun dying a virgin. You too. Geez, what has BYOB become?
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In Cahoots posted:well, considering i regged in april of this year, i'd say it hasn't changed at all Reading this thread you'd think it's more like fyad or Helldump. C'mon, I thought we weren't supposed to be like this. I thought we were supposed to be a tight-knit community-within-a-community. And anyway this is supposed to be a thread celebrating adventures and experiences at Gooncon specifically, so keep out the personal attacks. I mean, I dunno, I expect those to happen so whatever, but it's just inappropriate for this thread. |
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In Cahoots posted:the least liked x-men will always and forever be jubilee qft Also, that picture was taken for a Halloween costume I wore two years ago. Helldump seems to have not gotten that through their skulls (or, at least, not WANTED to realize that), and it's a sad thing that most of you people are taking a page out of Helldump's playbook. |
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w00trow wilson posted:ariel you're okay in my book and you know i'm not going to tell you to shoot yourself, but why in the gently caress would you even begin to think that helldump cares WHEN that picture was taken? Good question. Consider the previous comment withdrawn. |
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:should I repost the picture post I put in the gooncon forum here for shits and giggles? Holy crap, I thought you'd never get here  Edit: What all happened after I left? I got to the airport and home with no problem, I just had to get a cab ride by a fat guy who sounded like he had at least 3 heart attacks on the way there. How were the tam-tams? |
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Blackbelt Bobman posted:by the way Ariel I told MY2k that you thought she was cute and she said she felt sorry for you. haha When I asked if you could tell her that late Saturday night I was kind of half-joking, half-asleep, and half-drunk
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Also Bob you took pretty much the exact same pictures that I did at the Biodome except yours were normal and mine came out all fuzzy-looking and messed-up for some reason. I may talk to my brother about this, he's a pretty big amateur photographer |
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Plastic Innards posted:i will personally pay for two world's transportation to and from yobfest 2k7 Should I hold you to this?
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Lekk posted:Lekk posts I was going to come out with a bunch of stories about Para but actually I'm kind of hesitant to do so because after talking to Zratha at the meetup at McLean's she's talked to him a few times before and it sounds like he might actually have some mental problems. Not just "lol, Internet", but real problems. So I don't really want to be accused of making fun of someone like that
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Man, now that I've seen those LARP pics I am so depressed that I couldn't make it. That looks like the best time ever. Plus apparently one of my favorite trance music duos Blank and Jones were playing at a Montreal nightclub Sunday night so yeah, kinda  there.Looking at those pictures...so tempted to say a certain Greek-related Internet catchphrase... |
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The_Ez8 posted:Well it is kind of sad when BYOB starts making fun of you as a whole. I mean I don't want to be a jerk and I am sure that some cool people were there, but so far it's not looking good. Awesome things and people from Gooncon 2k7: --CordlessPen (Maxime), the Montreal goon who was awesome enough to give me a ride from the airport in a strange city with people who speak a strange language, and on the way give me a quick run down on Montreal. Did he ask for any money in return? Nope. Great guy. --the anti-FYAD Krew, Javaman98, Nightmarez, and Leland Gaunt. To be honest last year I got kind of annoyed at them kind of quickly but this year these guys were nothing but pure awesome. They gave me some really great advice about losing my virginity, and Leland Gaunt (Alex) even thoughtfully offered to anally rape me if I hadn't lost my virginity by the end of the weekend. Seriously, they were some fun guys to hang around, and my only regret was that I didn't stick with them for Saturday night because apprarently they ran into a coked-out Brendan Frasier somewhere in the Montreal night. --Blackbelt Bobman, my roommate and brother-in-goon-arms. A great guy, funny and great to accompany with to a rock club like Foufounes. I promised him I'd buy him lunch at the Biodome but I never got around to that... --My2k, who, even though she was underage, was still a really nice girl and singlehandedly disproved every goon girl stereotype. --Leon Belmont, who is like the only BSS goonette who knows the awesomeness of Bill Willingham's graphic novel series Fables. We can be Fables buddies  --The goon mosh pit at Foufounes Elecroniques. Truly a sight to behold. It just doesn't get better than moshing to AC/DC with fellow goons. --Sobering up at some hole-in-the-wall falafel eatery with goons over doner kababs. We bonded, we told tales, we cried on each other's shoulders. And then we talked about swap.avi and drove prospective customers from the restaurant. The cook guy was cool with it, though, and didn't kick us out.--walking back at 3am to our hotel Friday night. Two words: HIGH FIVE! --Zratha, who organized the entire Gooncon so that everything went off without a hitch --The bartenders at both Vinyl and McLean's Pub. Also I think there was a goon who worked at McLeans' Pub, and I would thank him for letting us have his place of work for our goonery and fun. --Gravitee (Stacey), who gave me some honest heart-to-heart advice about losing my virginity that, while I might not like it, I will remember it and take it to heart --the trip to the Biodome, which included penguins, stuffed animals, piranhas, and a huge freakin' hive of bees. --the completely random local goon who I met on the way to track down the pub crawl goons and OUT OF NOWHERE offered to walk with me all the way from St. Catherine Street to the St. Sulpice bar on St. Laurent Street (that's a lot of St.'s). That, ladies and gentlegoons, is why I love SA so much. --Sephyroth and his cute Montreal female friend who had the hottest French accent I've ever heard --Bosko and his two goon-possibly-non-goon friends who were underage (in the US, that is) and drunk off their arse. They reminded me every 10 minutes that their third friend passed out after playing Guitar Hero in their hotel room and drinking so much, so they gave him a bucket to throw up into and made sure he wouldn't die before they left. Anyway, they were the only people cool enough to meet me in the lobby for the club crawl (including another guy, Jacob, but I forgot his SA name). Also they had the courage not to ditch me after I made an arse of myself at the Loft. Too bad we couldn't get into the ultra-swanky Club LeBoom, guys --the Loft. Highlights: --dancing like a stupid American tourist to equally stupid American rapper Lil Jon --"Pretty Fly for a White Guy" --bosko assuring me that there was DEFINITELY a girl eyeing me pretty hard while I danced to Rihanna --"HEY GIRL IN THE BLACK SHIRT, I REALLY LIKE YOU" *runs away* I guess I'll never really know now. --doing the flapping-arms-pelvic thrust dance like I'm holding on for dear life at the slightest probibility that the pudgy girl in the blue will notice me --random Montreal guys yelling at me in French and dancing with me --some sort of bachelor party that was in the club at the time, including a fat hairy guy dressed in a blonde wig and drag, and another guy who did a striptease in one of the dance cages And, of course: --Parahexavoctal, the man with a stick. No matter how awkward that stick may look it came in plenty handy when it was being used to point out menu items at a smoothie stand that was entirely en francais. Para, I know an LSFer friend of mine named Adam that I'd like you to meet. You really remind me of him (just with more stick and less confessional Lutheran theology), and I mean that in a totally non-demeaning serious way. |
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The_Ez8 posted:Listen Two Worlds, you seem like a good guy and all but I don't think you realize what you are doing in this thread to help gooncon look better. People see what they want to see in my stories or pictures. If they expect to see nerdy shut-ins then that's what they see. I'm just trying to relate my own personal experiences and viewpoints. I mean, yeah, there were some people at Gooncon that might've fit into "the stereotype", but most people really didn't. I hope everyone had as great of a time as I did, and I'm sorry if some people didn't. I just wish more people would go to these things so that they could see that it's not really as creepy or scary as people make them out to be. I wasn't paying money to meet people from the Internet, I was paying money to visit a beatiful city and have great times with awesome people. |
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Thanks for the pictures and the inspirational essay in the Gooncon pictures thread, Kumo, that was great. I only wish I could write that well myself. Thank you for putting into words what I can only stumble around with my awkwardness and bad examples. (If you want to re-post said essay on Gooncon here you can do that, otherwise I'll leave it up to you) Do you have any pictures other than what you posted there? I'm putting together kind of a large scrapbook on my Livejournal, sort of a "multiple POV" kind of thing. |
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