Thanks for the offer robin, I'd love to catch up with you! I have a friend who lives somewhere in Portland that I'm most likely staying with, but I'll keep that in mind.

no problem. ill see you there, or look me up if you get in early.

Hey Robin I always think you look like your avatar, and then I remember thats a charactar from the movie.

not quite

haha, needs more curls. great picture.

Haha robin that should be your avatar!

Also, I may need to hit this up. Looks to be a 4-hour drive for me. I'd love to meet some of you guys!

everyone knows theres gonna be a NWC contest there right? (im not eligible)

That pic of you is awesome

Wow, this thread is turning into something amazing. Before you know it Fred Savage and "Lucas" will be in attendence. I hear Lucas has 97 and that he knows all 97.

Portland is about a 4 hour drive for me. I think I might just do it...I've never been to a classic gaming expo, and I've wanted to go to one for awhile.

cool, you should definitely come!

My wife and I will have a 2 month old by that time.  If everything is going well with her then I will absolutely be there.  I'll have birthday money and can get started on my collection.

Oh and it would be awesome to meet you guys as well.

rofl my first wife worked in one back when she was 18-19. I didn't meet her until she was working at one in texas though a couple years later.

Wow is she from there?

She was born in Misawa, Japan to a Thai mom and a White+Native American dad, on a USAF base. She lived in the Pacific NW for a while before moving to Texas, now she lives in Florida.

so you coming to Oregon Thor... or what? I hear Robin is looking for a rematch of sorts...

qix, have you seen thor play blockles? i got my rematch, and i crawled back in to my 3rd place dungeon.

^ whaddya know, he just posted a video. hes actually faster than that guys

If I come out to Oregon, I'll help you tune up that PC, and we can get you going proper. Blockles is picky about running smooth, I still haven't figured it all out myself.

P.S.- I think you were a more dependably good player than the #2 guy.

not sure what that means exactly, but all i know is i think i got you maybe 4 out of maybe 40 times, and 3 of those times you were misdropping.  seeing you in that vid thought, i can tell where your biggest advantage is:  speed after getting a line/lines.
    for some reason (old age?) my brain has to reset when i get a line and the wall lowers.  i need to work on that.

That's the cool thing about being able to share these kinds of things, and playing them back, you can better analyze what's going on. Unfortunately for me, my biggest obstacle is being able to control the KB and get the responses I want, which is a pretty tough thing to improve on at the grand old age of 32.

Thor really, wow I was born in Misawa too..  Never heard or anyone else being born there.

That's awesome!