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Australian Meetup, 8-9th Dec, Sydney NSW
Australian Meetup, Sat 8th to Sun 9th Dec, Sydney NSW
Where: Sydney (venue undecided)
What: Meet each other! (activities undecided)
When: 8th or 9th (primary day undecided), with extra days for the committed!
Why: Because, meetup! (seriously, y'all should come)
How: Any means necessary.
Who:
Spoiler
Show
Pretty much definite:
Rawhide [either or both days, depending on bed availability]
loopy
Roc Ness
Maybe:
Elm11
Red Rubber Band [Sunday only and maybe Saturday evening]
Katana_Geldar (has a gaming event to attend, but I'd very much like to include everyone if possible - perhaps we can visit for an hour or so?)
Klose_the_Sith
Unlikely:
Agamid
Dispozition
Death, your friend the Reaper
Serpentine
Black_Pants_Guy
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Re: New South Welshmen?
Tsk tsk tsk Rawhide, you know we're not meant to have threads for specific places :smalltongue:
I would LOVE to come to another meet-up. I'm hooked. If I'm at all able to make it, I will. Did you have anything specific in mind?
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Re: New South Welshmen?
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Originally Posted by
Serpentine
Tsk tsk tsk Rawhide, you know we're not meant to have threads for specific places :smalltongue:
I would LOVE to come to another meet-up. I'm hooked. If I'm at all able to make it, I will. Did you have anything specific in mind?
It's not a location thread, it's a meetup thread! :smalltongue:
No idea. Don't even know specific dates or the best location. I won't actually be in Sydney, but a few hours south of it (should be able to make it to Sydney if that's where people want to meet, I think).
Plus, I have no idea of what there is to do in and around Sydney...
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Re: New South Welshmen?
Well, if we wanted to go along the lines of the last Australian meet-up, there's Taronga Zoo and Luna Park...
Or if we wanted more like the UK meet-ups, we just need a room and a stack of games.
Or if we wanted to go the way of my recent family meet-up, we could get a place in the Blue Mountains and get in touch with nature.
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Re: New South Welshmen?
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Originally Posted by
Serpentine
Well, if we wanted to go along the lines of the last Australian meet-up, there's Taronga Zoo and Luna Park...
Or if we wanted more like the UK meet-ups, we just need a room and a stack of games.
Or if we wanted to go the way of my recent family meet-up, we could get a place in the Blue Mountains and get in touch with nature.
I do enjoy the Blue Mountains idea, but I'd really have to check out the costs. After getting all the way down there, I won't exactly have loose change to burn.
But, the real question would be if there will be any other playgrounders, or if it would just be us, sharing a hut in the Blue Mountains.
There's of course always the landmarks, as you suggest, or just gaming too. Is there anything else worthwhile that you can only experience in Sydney or greater NSW?
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Re: New South Welshmen?
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
I do enjoy the Blue Mountains idea, but I'd really have to check out the costs. After getting all the way down there, I won't exactly have loose change to burn.
It'll depend how many people we have to split it between. I was looking at it for the UK meet up, and at least over there it's surprisingly affordable to rent a cottage... if you have enough people. I don't know how it'd compare here. We'd also most likely want to rent a car again.
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
But, the real question would be if there will be any other playgrounders, or if it would just be us, sharing a hut in the Blue Mountains.
How romantic :smallwink:
Might I suggest changing the thread title to something like "Australian Meet-Up #2" or somesuch? More likely to get interest, especially as last time people came from all the way over in Western Australia and just about everywhere else, not just Queensland.
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
There's of course always the landmarks, as you suggest, or just gaming too. Is there anything else worthwhile that you can only experience in Sydney or greater NSW?
Bush, Sydney Harbour and Opera House, Circular Quay, the Three Sisters... Dunno what else.
Oooo. We should see if we can find this place I stayed at once in Barrington Tops. It was ridiculously fun, although as I was in primary school at the time I have absolutely no idea how much it cost, nor how much it would cost now - nor, for that matter, whether it's even still there.
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Re: New South Welshmen?
Well, I wasn't intending for it to be a full blown meet-up, just a get together thingy. I don't even know when I will be available yet.
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Re: New South Welshmen?
Darling Harbour is good to wander around... Ooooh! You should totally go to the Powerhouse Museum :smallbiggrin:
I actually did some research into the Blue Mountains a while back when a second Australasia meetup was suggested - it is, I'm sorry to say, quite expensive.
Not that I'd be coming... my sister is getting married December 15, so Peregrine and I will be in New Zealand. Well, I will at least, we're not sure when he's going to fly over yet... depends on when school finishes.
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Re: New South Welshmen?
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
Well, I wasn't intending for it to be a full blown meet-up, just a get together thingy. I don't even know when I will be available yet.
Wellll... would it be bad if it was? I think something in the title indicating your intent could be helpful, though. But whatevs *shrug*
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Re: New South Welshmen?
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Originally Posted by
Serpentine
Wellll... would it be bad if it was? I think something in the title indicating your intent could be helpful, though. But whatevs *shrug*
I can add something about that. And it would only be bad in the sense that people can't be spontaneous/chop and change/etc. if they are from much further away. I don't even know when I will be available yet.
P.S. I did advertise it in the Australasia thread.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
This place seems reasonable, and might be the place I went to when I was little, although there's no horserides anymore if it is.
(note: well aware it's highly unlikely we'd go there. Just throwing things out there for consideration)
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
I'm interested in coming, although I don't think I'd be able to make the blue mountains.
Put me down for the city area, assuming the date doesn't clash with school times.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
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Originally Posted by
Serpentine
This place seems reasonable, and
might be the place I went to when I was little, although there's no horserides anymore if it is.
(note: well aware it's highly unlikely we'd go there. Just throwing things out there for consideration)
That place looks surprisingly like the place I stayed at in the Blue Mountains (but definitely isn't).
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Originally Posted by
Roc Ness
I'm interested in coming, although I don't think I'd be able to make the blue mountains.
Put me down for the city area, assuming the date doesn't clash with school times.
So, the weekend then? Or when does school term finish?
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
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Originally Posted by
Rawhide
So, the weekend then? Or when does school term finish?
Yeah, weekend preferably. School ends Friday 21st, which is much too late for Lady M.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
Bore da, Welshmen!
Oh wait, you're fake Welsh people. >.>
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
I'd be interested but city sounds better than Blue Mountains. I like the idea of a gaming meet up and I can bring Paranoia.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
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Originally Posted by
Roc Ness
Yeah, weekend preferably. School ends Friday 21st, which is much too late for Lady M.
Actually, we're likely to be back home in Perth by then :smalltongue: but we wouldn't be able to come either way, we're poor. (well, poor-ish)
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
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Originally Posted by
Roc Ness
Yeah, weekend preferably. School ends Friday 21st, which is much too late for Lady M.
It won't be that late. If it's the weekend, it will be 8-9 or 15-16, but I may not be there for one, the other, or either. Dunno yet.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (Meetup in Dec)
So, if we're doing gaming, does anyone actually live in Sydney with a place large enough to fit several gamers around a table?
Looking much more likely to be the weekend of the 8-9.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (AUS Meetup in Dec)
What about Good Games in Burwood? They're nice and big, but I have no idea what they're like weekends.
Wait a sec, what am I thinking? Macquarie Con is on that weekend at Macquarie University. Why not make it there?
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Re: New South Welshmen? (AUS Meetup in Dec)
I'll try saving to come; hopefully Paizo doesn't release any more Pathfinder books.
If most, if not all, the members of last years meet-up are gonna be in town I'll be there with bells on.
After all, what would a AUSitp meet-up be without me?:smalltongue:
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Re: New South Welshmen? (AUS Meetup in Dec)
It would be pantsless.
And that's terrible.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (AUS Meetup in Dec)
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Originally Posted by
Katana_Geldar
What about Good Games in Burwood? They're nice and big, but I have no idea what they're like weekends.
Wait a sec, what am I thinking? Macquarie Con is on that weekend at Macquarie University. Why not make it there?
At first I was like, CON??? But then I saw that it's really just a hall hire for people to game. I don't think 3 hours is really going to be enough for us. Heck, I was considering options for staying overnight in Sydney (anyone have a spare bed/couch/mattress/whatever?), so that we can get maximum gaming/activity time!
I'll be a few hours away, and others such as Serpentine and Black_Pants_Guy are even further away.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (AUS Meetup in Dec)
I'll possibly be in Canberra, so I might be interested in coming down to Sydney and putting up with its UNMITIGATED AWFULNESS if the chance of gaming with Playgrounders exists. File me under 'maybe'.
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Re: New South Welshmen? (AUS Meetup in Dec)
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Serpentine
It would be pantsless.
And that's terrible.
That doesn't sound too bad. :smallamused:
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Re: Australian Meetup, 8-9th Dec, Sydney NSW
Ok, this is officially happening, whether you like it or not. I've changed the title in preparation.
I will be near enough to Sydney to attend on either the 8th or 9th of December and, if I can find a bed/couch/mattress/whatever to crash on, I will be able to attend both days.
Let's start discussing what day(s) we want to do this on, what activities we'd like to do (see stuff? game? etc?), and where we'd like to do it. Also, we need to start making a list of definites and maybes.
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Re: Australian Meetup, 8-9th Dec, Sydney NSW
I'll be definitely coming, unless I can't. I know, not very helpful :smalltongue: But I simply have no idea where I'll be by then - Hell, I just now applied for a job in Cockburn*, WA!
Assuming I do go, I'll have somewhere to stay myself, but won't be able to offer a bed to anyone else (and honestly, if I can I'd prefer to stay with other Playgrounders).
*tee hee :smallbiggrin:
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Re: Australian Meetup, 8-9th Dec, Sydney NSW
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Serpentine
But I simply have no idea where I'll be by then - Hell, I just now applied for a job in Cockburn*, WA!
You should try applying for something near Brisbane, that way you can hang out with Agamid and I, it'd be cool to have more playgrounders in town. :smalltongue:
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Re: Australian Meetup, 8-9th Dec, Sydney NSW
I've applied for a few up that way. I'll probably try bugging Gold Coast libraries directly soon, seeing as I've worked for them before, but seeing as I've worked for them before I figure I should check my info on my resume about my time there is right before I do so...
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Re: Australian Meetup, 8-9th Dec, Sydney NSW
Honestly, I could probably get you a job in a library near here. I know a guy who knows a guy*. But you're probably fed up with library jobs.
*Ok, it's a lot more direct than that, and also female.