I'll hang out with you on the 25th if you want, essexjan. I'm going to be out of town the 16th-20th, so I'll be missing this one.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 3:31 PM on July 1, 2008

I'm pretty sure I can make it, but I just need to figure out if I can bring any food. Will update on this.

For the benefit of others who might want to bring enough for the whole class: Are there any vegetarians/vegans attending for sure?
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 1:37 PM on May 29, 2008

I was on the uptown 1 train and saw a dude with a crowned eagle bedazzled on his fedora. It was a lot of bedazzline too. The wingspan of said eagle took up half the circumferance of the fedora. It was super shiny. I just wanted to share this.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:07 PM on June 3, 2008

I honestly am too broke even spare the cash to go to the actual convention, but I'll keep my eye on this space as well and if there's any extra-ComicCon meetups to be planned I'll see if I can make it. Though I'm 94.889% sure I agreed to go see Tokyo Police Club on the 20th.

I'm pretty disappointed about missing out on the Con though, because I'll miss out on [OMFG]MikeMignola[OMFG] and making it two for two on "turn into a giddy blubbering mess in front of Grant Morrison."
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:13 PM on April 10, 2008

To what Kokuryu is saying...

I'm going to have to chime in that I've had friends from Japan who do think all positive attention isn't exactly positive. It might come from a place of genuine affection, but just as how Americans might be annoyed by all foreigners thinking that Americans are gun-toting assholes and that Hollywood movies are just like how the States are, not all Japanese people like being equated to the crazy and kooky things people attribute to the country,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 10:28 PM on March 18, 2008

Unfortunately, while some people may think this thread is the best, there's also some ugly things in here. I must've missed the previous comment you were referring to in your "apology" klang, but if what you're saying is what I think you're saying, wooooooowwww...just wow. And I know you tried to apologize for it, but repeating the very offensive insult in your apology kind of defeats the purpose. I can see why the mods want to leave the apology and such, but, ugh, that's just sticking... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 6:14 PM on March 18, 2008

Because she hasn't read the comment

Well, it seems you haven't read my comment. My point was I didn't know exactly what you said, but your apology makes it sound like you said something pretty horrid and without context it sticks out like a sore thumb and probably reads worse that whatever the original issue was. If I remember how quotation marks work correctly what you put in quote is what you're saying you said originally, right? So it might've been... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 9:47 PM on March 18, 2008

I'm up for a meetup. My only thing is I might be on the road on the 29th or 30th.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 11:05 PM on March 10, 2008

I don't think this call out is so stupid or trollish as people are saying it is. Some people seem to point that the answers in the question are a learning experience whether it agrees with the OP or not, in the same way is also OK in my book because I'm about to say, dun, dun, DUN, the question jarred me too when I first read it. Wait, first let me pull out my race card and hold it up for y'all to show I'm half-black and half-Korean.

Now I didn't think it was racist but... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 12:59 PM on February 26, 2008

23skidoo: I think I get what you're trying to say but I'm not sure why you're saying it.

I have no problem with the answers even if some of them are "oddly presumptuous," because I have no problem with the discussion. I also don't really think the question should be deleted. It sounds tone-deaf, but it's not hateful. Sorry if I'm being presumptuous myself (I'm getting tired of typing "presumptuous" =( ) as to why you made the comment you did, but it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:53 PM on February 26, 2008

I wish this thread would close because the person this thread was originally addressed managed to successfully sidestep and throw the argument into other directions completely and has decided to no longer participate. And now the discussion has moved on to something completely different. Congratulations indeed.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 8:17 AM on February 27, 2008

Er, or what breezeway said.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 8:19 AM on February 27, 2008

Obviously, my brain is still in this month. That should be February 9th...*cough*moderators, por favor*cough*.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:37 PM on January 21, 2008

'Pregame' as in when you drink before going out to drink...I thought grabbing some dessert type snacks before Valentine's Day weekend hit qualified as sort of pregaming, ha.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 7:01 PM on January 21, 2008

I'm coordinating an appropriate outfit!!! ...please don't comment on this.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 3:10 PM on January 29, 2008

Actually, Pink brought up that the guy we stared down looked like Anthony Rapp, and I agreed whole-heartedly. While I'd like to think it was Mr. President Steve Guttenberg Bible trying to totally act like it wasn't him because it's just so hilarious if it's true, the Anthony Rapp thing made me think of another even funnier possibility: WHAT IF IT WAS ANTHONY RAPP? That would totally explain the weird knowing look and smile/smirk the guy shot us that made us stare him down in the first place. He... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 7:43 AM on February 11, 2008

Ueee~ T0T I wanna hang out with gomi tooooo T-T. I say "yay," but I'm in New York...-_-;
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 6:30 AM on February 5, 2008

Man, maybe I'm talking crazy but I'm afraid all this poo poo-ing of asking someone out that you spot on the street might be discouraging legitimately OK guys who do it in a not creepy way because they're actually the types to be mortified into not doing something after hearing their peers tell them how stupid it is; and somehow it's just letting the creepy type guys who don't give a crap about what anyone else thinks or says and will continue to holla at a girl to flourish. And it scares me from... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 9:54 AM on December 19, 2007

Cortex: Exactly, there is a distinction and that's my worry =( Just being all "don't hit on girls in the streets" in general doesn't make that distinction and scares away the nice guys who just might be moved to talk to that girl and ask her out for coffee vs. the ones heading out for pussy shenanigans. It's just creating another extreme! This is how guys like Patrick Moberg happen, though I still maintain that whole thing had to be some kind of marketing set up for the Americanized... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 10:17 AM on December 19, 2007

Aw, melissa may. That is indeed a sweet story. I'm not downplaying anyone's inner anxiety or even their need to get on with their day, and again, I'm not arguing FOR the type of lady-approacher the original poster is. Hell, I know I'm not the most charitable person I know when it comes to human nature and can be pretty cynical, but I don't know, I live in New York too, and yes I'd be damned annoyed if some guy pestered me on my way to work and wouldn't let up even though I'd said no, but I'm... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 11:45 AM on December 19, 2007

Will be there mos def. I was starting to wonder if everyone decided to go into hibernation for the winter or something.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 10:02 AM on November 15, 2007

Yea, and I heard T.I., Fall Out Boy, Bob Logan were going to be there too. Maybe Foxy Boxing as well.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 1:43 PM on November 15, 2007

...I just realized that for some reason I typed out "Foxy Boxing" like it was a proper noun...and I'm kind of sure it's not. Even if it is, let me just go on the record to say that I did not type it that way because I was being grammatically correct, but because I had a brain fart and for a split second was conflating foxy boxing with Foxy Brown.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 3:56 PM on November 15, 2007

I wish someone would say I resembled someone like Winona Ryder. I don't look much like anybody or anything (I'm looking at you, dude who asked me if I was an Eskimo), and the one time someone said I resembled anyone, they said I looked like the legendary Korean singer In Soon-Ee. But I think they just said that because she's Blasian too. But it's cool. Girlfriend is fierce, and she's an awesome singer and performer.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 12:03 PM on November 17, 2007

I find it so appropriate that I had to explain key parties since my outfit theme for the evening seemed to be "your alcoholic aunt who tells you inappropriate things in a drunken haze."

And hooray for mefite Blasians. Represent.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:35 PM on December 16, 2007

yeti: Whoa, your friends are Faux Punk? I almost went to that.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:42 PM on December 11, 2007

I realize the above was more of a MeMail type of comment since no one cares about my weekend hypotheticals and it adds nothing to this discussion. I would like to sincerely apologize...and I'm not making it any better by appending this follow-up, but I figured I already made an ass of myself...
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:49 PM on December 11, 2007

Don't be ridiculous IndigoRain! You can always go to Anime Central in Chicago! And there's several smaller ones too (spoken as former Chicago-area person who had to go to one that wasn't Acen for a j-school assignment).

Hell, I'll go just for the Go! Go! Curry! I'm tempted to attend Saturday because there's nothing like people gawkin' at an anime convention ("festival", whatever...), but I'm very on the fence about it. I'll use the rest of Friday to figure that bit out.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 11:27 AM on December 6, 2007

That last sentence did irritate me, but it wasn't because it was sexist, but because it was a gratuitous inclusion of some unnecessary random opinion in an FPP. If a woman (or someone of the male-loving sexual orientation) had made the exact same FPP and instead said, "BONUS - the male half of the development team is cute," as much as I love cute males, my response would've been "Oh for crying out loud. GYOFB."

The "I got to play it"... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:12 PM on December 5, 2007

It's simple. Y'all are hatin' because you're jealous that when someone lays down some pimpin' ass beats, I can get on the floor and dance like this, while y'all can only dance like this.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 10:10 AM on December 5, 2007

I wanted to say thank you to pineapple and thepinksuperhero and probably some others who I'm missing in this long discussion for saying what's been on my mind in regards to people asking for change.

For days following the two monster threads I've been wracking my brain trying to say exactly what it was that bothered me about the whole discussion and I'd kind of gotten an idea, but couldn't really make it concrete, but just wanted to say. The thing is, I think it's cool... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 4:32 PM on November 18, 2007

Hey guys, so um....like where do I go if I want to say I totally see and have no problems with the deleted threads having been deleted? I was just informed there's too many people being quiet and silenced and, well, shucks, I didn't know, and I'd hate to be contributing to a problem by not saying anything and nobody's viewpoint is really representing my own. Well, I did my part. Carry on then.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 12:41 AM on November 17, 2007

No.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:32 PM on November 2, 2007

There's never any fucking milk in the kitchen at work first thing in the morning. What, I have to bring my own milk in now if I want white coffee? Is this how low we've sunk? Jesus. Fuck.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, flashboy...just hold on a tick. What the hell do you mean by "white" coffee? What, you need a little white because your BLACK coffee scares you? You know what I want to vent about? The white man appropriating and spreading his influence... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 8:04 AM on October 31, 2007

On a more serious note, no milk in the office fridge also annoys me, but that's because I'm the asshole who uses it for cereal, thereby depleting the milk supply at an exponential rate.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 8:07 AM on October 31, 2007

I know I personally won't rest until we bring back the img tag just so I can have a sig for each of my posts that take up half the screen with results of "Which Naruto character are you?" quizzes, glittery GIF fairy "paperdolls", ASCII rendered sparkles and accents, quotes from other members about me that are all painful in jokes that really do not translate out of context, 20-line poems about what makes a best friend for life and inspirational stories about overcoming... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 1:57 PM on October 29, 2007

Your mom stinks, no?

Ooooooooooohhhh snaaap!! Yo, son! You gonna just take that? You best step up or be called out a punk!
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 11:15 AM on October 23, 2007

I'll probably show up for about an hour of Revival-ing.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 9:48 PM on October 24, 2007

I'm gonna be honest. I'm loving this like it was McDonald's (barah bah bah bah~) simply because seeing "new mail/message" notification icons always makes me happy.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 3:06 PM on October 19, 2007

Man...you students with you fancy classes, and schools and your Columbus Days off...and...and your youth =(
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 9:03 PM on October 2, 2007

What? Jello wrestling? Weak. Dude, for maximum internet guys appeal I have a modest proposal: girls bikinis and cat ears vying for chrismear's attention by Halo tournament whilst riding an iRide. Place all bets/sign ups with me, thank you very much.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 2:20 PM on October 8, 2007

YES! YEEEEEEEEESSS!! I have been vindicated!!! I *told* y'all it made sense to be pronounced that way! Oh, how you all recoiled in horror when I uttered those two syllables. Oh, how you laughed when I said it! Well, who's laughing now? Aaaahhhahahahhahahaha!
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 7:23 PM on October 5, 2007

Yay~ It was so nice meeting you (finally) DaShiv! I'm sorry I couldn't make it to the big welcome one, then I felt like at the good-bye one I didn't get to talk to you as much thanks to "The Last Supper"-esque seating we had going on and I was stuck against the wall right about where Judas would've been. Anyhow, you were a sweetheart and don't be a stranger to NYC. And next time finish your dinner before you start snapping away!
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 1:31 PM on September 29, 2007

Ha! I know famous people!! Yea, I had a sinking feeling it'd be that type of Styles piece specifically beating people over the head with one view of a "trend", but seriously, folks, I'm with CunningLinguist that one good of this article is founding out the name of Hotty Photog McGoodLookingston. Let's share leads, CL.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 9:30 AM on September 29, 2007

OMG GrammarMoses...first applehead dolls, now this? You are awesome. OK...um...so can you dig anything up on Danny Dumas from Wired? 'Cause I actually saw what he looked like for the first time on G4 last night and wow...Oh, wait what? Ooohh...sorry sorry, I see that we're trying to PROVE we're NOT creepy internet people in this thread. Sorry, guys, carry on.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 10:15 AM on September 29, 2007

I'll be in attendance!
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 6:11 PM on September 23, 2007

Yaaayy! Thank you, everyone. You all were very lovely and you got me alcohol as well. Always a winning combination. Thanks for coming out. Sorry to folks I didn't get to talk to a whole lot who did stop by as well. I'd give everyone hugs if I could.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 3:42 PM on September 21, 2007

(Back in New York now...)

Hey Chris, too bad you couldn't make it =(

I wish I'd taken more pictures myself so I feel like I'm contributing to the Flickr group, but got only 2 or 3 from the whole thing...and everyone's photos looks so much better too.
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 9:12 AM on September 23, 2007

I also wanted to add that this has been an exceptionally educational trip for me. For one thing, I now get cillit bang's username! I saw it on TV! It's the UK version of Easy Off Bam! I don't know, that was very exciting for me.

I also realized my idea of what "pickles and cheese" sandwiches are was very incorrect. I always thought it was cheese with dill pickles or some such, but after actually eating one I now know they meant Branston Pickle. I had not know... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 11:36 AM on September 23, 2007

Sorry for the weird silence. I've been relying on public internet access. Anyhow, lots of talk upthread of when different people want to meet up in London, so just to clear it up a bit for people showing up for THE 20th, it will be at the Glasshouse Stores starting at 6:30 as flashboy has so kindly stated upthread.

Also I forgot to warn everyone that I really really can't identify people that well in a crowd. I'll be um...wearing a blue/green patterned shirt. Kind of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kkokkodalk at 8:43 AM on September 19, 2007