Comments on: Emptyeye.com Week 12/Post MAGFest Wrapup.

By: Post-MAGFest 8/Speed Demos Archive Charity Marathon Wrapup | Emptyeye

Post-MAGFest 8/Speed Demos Archive Charity Marathon Wrapup | Emptyeye — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:02:31 +0000

[...] this particular run). Kareshi, for his part, said that his piano playing was a lot better than at MAGFest VI, and the people watching online (Somewhere in the neighborhood of 600!) seemed to really enjoy it [...]

By: The Post-MAGFest VII Wrap-Up | Emptyeye

The Post-MAGFest VII Wrap-Up | Emptyeye — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 02:33:11 +0000

[...] a four-day music and gaming convention. This time, it started off even less eventfully than the previous year, as we left at about 7:45AM and. having learned from last year, avoid I95 through New York City [...]

By: Yay, MAGFest Challenges! | Emptyeye

Yay, MAGFest Challenges! | Emptyeye — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:26:00 +0000

[...] such performances as “Taking second in last year’s Challenges Booth” and “beating my ass at Dr. Mario“) noted that I have an analytical play style when it comes to gaming. I suppose this is true, [...]

By: The Rash is Dead; Long Live the Rash | Emptyeye

The Rash is Dead; Long Live the Rash | Emptyeye — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:57:16 +0000

[...] may actually know me (Especially if you were at MAGFest VI and got to see Pianotoads live..click here for my assessment of how it went) as “That Battletoads [...]

By: cynthia

cynthia — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:42:02 +0000

maybe next year you’ll have a real photographer there. and jess won’t have to be your photoslave.
haha…
by that i mean, next year maybe i’ll be there…
probably, joey seems all for it.

By: emptyeye

emptyeye — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:52:24 +0000

I should’ve proposed a DDR-off for second, heh. I think Dr. Mario was picked because, as it was one of the challenge games, they had easy access to it. As for Battletoads, yeah, there was quite a crowd, amazingly. A lot of people from The Shizz, but a fair number of non-Shizzies too, which did nothing to alleviate my nervousness. It definitely worked out okay, though–I did speedrunners proud.

I suppose I should be more clear about the DDR tournament. It actually started at a slightly more reasonable 12:45 AM, but there was a “Light/Standard” Division and a “Heavy” Division. I entered the Heavy Division, which didn’t start until 1:30ish or so. It was actually supposed to start at 10PM Thursday, then got moved to Midnight Saturday (Pending arrival of machine). When machine failed to arrive, someone brought in metal mats that they had made and a copy of the Japanese version of DDR Extreme and the tournament was finally held on that.

And yeah, that was longer than I’ve ever driven before, by far. I did pretty well, all things considered.

By: James

James — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:29:27 +0000

Awesome, sounds like too much fun! You should have played PGA Tour Golf to decide the challenges winner. Great job on Battletoads too, was it a healthy crowd watching? That stinks about Jess’s camera, but you’ve earned your stripes I’m sure in the gaming world.

And who STARTS a tournament at 1:30 AM? I guess that gives the edge to raver kids who stay up all night.

As for the driving, you conquered your fear of being in a car quite nicely. Bummer about the cell phone though. Overall it sounds like a blast though and glad you’re home safely :)