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I just wanted to send out a well-deserved thanks to Fatty, Mav, and everyone else who helped organize and put FF09 together. It was my first FF and it was great. I look forward to seeing everyone next year and I am sure I will see many of you online before that. Also a wanted to give a shout out to those who made the vital food runs.

It could be any time that the stock market and the economy will recover, no one knows for sure. There is a lot of cash sitting on the sidelines earning nothing and imho, when the stock market does start to recover it may be very fast because no one will want to miss the boat (pension funds, institutional investors, mutual funds etc.) In a recession the last phase or stage is rising unemployment and we are certainly well into it. Outside events (terrorist attack, war, etc) could always cause a retrenching but if things stay as they are it may even end up being a good year for your 401k by the end of the year. Keep in mind the stock market is a leading indicator meaning it is forward looking. It will start to recover at least six months before the economy begins to show true signs of recovery. If you are in the market in for the long haul remember you want to buy low. The best stock market returns are actually at the end of recessions! Four or five years down the road though inflation may become a huge problem for a number of reasons.

I know....I added up all of the costs and figured another $10 isn't going to matter so I bought it.

I don't want to question fatty's authority/guidance/leadership (take your pick) ....but are we going to do FlatOut 2 for sure? I don't really want to purchase the game unless we are because it typically isn't a game I will play outside of fragfest.

Okay, just to make sure I am clear on this since I am a fragfest noob. The actual fragfest is at the holiday inn in Hudson, OH but the rooms that were reserved for fragfest are at a Clarion? If this is the case, does someone have the address of the Holiday Inn?

I think THX was right in his counting, there was just a time warp and all of the numbers in-between were lost. Stuff like that happens you know. Almost forgot....9.

I took a look at FlatOut 2 on steam, $9.99. It seems like there are different game modes (racing, stunts etc.) I am assuming the tournament will be on the racing part of the game? Also anyone else interested in some L4D sometime during the weekend, I know quite a few people have it in gc. Doesn't have to be a tournament of course. I also still like fatty's idea of an older team RTS game.

Maybe I've seen it. Is that one a board game too? Yeah it is. You are a survivor and your goal is to reach the helicopter before any other survivors do. You also move the zombies around and have them attack the other players. The city is randomly created so it is a different board every game.

I would recommend 10 vs. 10, I think 8 vs. 8 is a little too small for the maximum. Besides, it generally hasn't been too much of a problem over the past few months imo. It is rare we even get that many people on at one time (except possibly Sat customs). As far as recruitment, I think most of the people who play on the server are GC members already. Haven't seen too many that consistently play on the server that are not (other than dooly maybe).

I'm in if you need another. I am certain there will be enough players if we make it into a drinking game. I also have the game Zombies I can bring as well (also easily convertible to a drinking game). Are you familiar with that one Jackie?

I have Command Conquer Red Alert 2 and Starcraft w/expansions on CD probably burnable? Are we planning on doing any Left 4 Dead this year too? Jackie, always wanted to see that game Last Night on Earth, cool. As far as boardgames/strategy games/card games I have a ton of them so if anyone has specific requests let me know and I will bring it if I have it. Anyone ever played Bang! or Citadels? Two very fun card games imo.

Noob Question: Since this is my first FF, are we allowed to bring our own alcoholic drinks as well?

I talked to my brother last night again and he said it is still up in the air as to whether there will be subscription fees or not. The designers originally wanted to waive them and have microtransactions within the game be the primary revenue source. There is some debate as to whether this will really happen or not. Personally I think their only chance to upstage WoW is to elimanate or charge minimal fee and offer the microtransactions as well.

I agree the game does look great. My brother has done some research on it and from what he told me there isn't going to be a monthly fee to play. Instead if you want to customize your character (skins, etc) and get various additional add-ons/customizations you pay on a transaction basis. It's really the way to go if they want to compete with WOW for the business. I refuse to pay a monthly fee to pay any game on principal.

So skittles new slogan should be ..... Taste the zombie splatter!

I know she is going...just attempting some humor. Is shaft going?

Now, now let's not get too excited yet she didn't say she was going to FF, just that the seat wasn't for sale anymore. There are two other possible scenarios. One, she isn't going to sell it and somehow write it off her taxes instead of selling it. Two, the most likely scenario, Shaft was the only person who wanted to buy the ticket for $50 and out of principal Dragonfire decided she would eat the $50 cost of the ticket as opposed to let shaft get the ticket.

Puberty Pepperoni or Sausage (Pizza)?

I agree that 2 vs 2 is too few 4 vs 4 seems about right (5 vs 5 would be max)

Touche Ringadon, a most excellent riposte (notice I didn't give the courtesy of an alert)

Dungeons and Dragons Batman or Superman

crossroads

gyros He-Man or Thundercats?

trolls salt or pepper?

football (American of course)