Adventure Gamers' forum members get-together in Amsterdam!
 

Hi fellow forum members,

Jelena will visit the Netherlands in April next year. Yay! :) We thought it would be nice to organize a small get-together in Amsterdam during Jelena's vacation here, for the AG forum members who happen to be in the neighbourhood. In that way we can get to know each other a bit better and 'speak our language,' as Jelena's husband called it :). The date we picked is April 10 or 11, in a weekend. I can, for instance, organize a lunch or a dinner at a not too expensive restaurant, so we have a few hours to get to know each other. Before or after the lunch or dinner we can do a tour through the canals on one of the special boats, to get a different view of the most beautiful city in the world!

So what do you think? Please tell us if you want to join and what date is the best for you!


Cheers, tsa and Jelena

Yes everyone near and far!
It would be so much fun to meet you all. Check your calendars and start saving up money for the trip. :D

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Ooh would be nice to meet some forummers in real life :)
The 11th is my birthday, so I'm not sure how I'll plan the weekend, but I may just as well drop by for some time. Will see. I think I prefer the 10th, maybe I'll join lunch and then move on to my parents or something.

Edit: the trip will most likely be free for me, since I am still a student, and live in the Netherlands, and by that time very likely will travel for free in the weekends :P

Where do you study Luna? I studied Chemistry in Utrecht and I now hope to soon work again at the University of Twente in Enschede.

Edit: BTW, I also prefer the 10th because I think it's the best date for most Dutch people who have to work again on Monday the 12th.

It would be wonderful. Amesterdam is not that far - when it comes to airplanes, of course - and I could flew in relatively easily, but I would have to check again in February, when I will know what my university/work schedule will be. If I have to take a plane to the Netherlands, alone or with my boyfriend, I'd like to be able to spend there at least four days :D

I study neurosciences at the VU in Amsterdam, but by the time it is April, I'll be doing my final internship, which (if everything goes according to plan *fingers crossed*) I plan to do at the Donders Institute for brain imaging in Nijmegen. If all goes well I'll be living there by then. Else...I don't know yet where I end up come 2010 :P

Hope you'll soon get to work again :) Also something with chemistry?

And to stay on topic: you are totally right about saturday being the best day. Also to be in the city I guess, but that guess is only very wild.

Yay, it would be so much fun to meet you all :)

Cool! I am just in the process of reading 'Essentials of Neurosciences and Behavior' by Kandel et al. Fascinating!

Only sideways; I'm into micro- and nanofabrication now. Blatant plug :D. But we digress...

The more people the better :)! Please also PM your forum friends who are not often on Chit Chat and thus might miss this thread!

Will this get-together be in 2.5D, or in full 3D?

Full 3D with height adjustment, and an interface that lets you go everywhere and interact with everything! It runs on high resolution widescreen with unlimited colors!

Aww, wish I could come, but I'm a poor college student in the middle of the US. :frown: Have fun!

heh, maybe we should have one in the middle of the US then!

Wait... do more than two of us in the US play adventure games?

I'd have to work out the travelling and consult with Mrs Urhan but I like the idea. Can someone prod me nearer the time so I don't forget.

Of course I will prod you all a few times in advance, don't worry. Just be sure you are subscribed to this thread!

Ehm, maybe next time we can meet on a cruiseship halfway the Atlantic and play The Game That Takes Place on a Cruise Ship?

:) :) :)

roflmao!

lolz I often think that. I'm the only person I know that plays adventure games, present company excluded of course, but I don't actually "know" know you guys from real life. :P But that's a good idea!

It has been suggested I could do a live poetry performance (something like this one) should I make it to the meet. While I've got the No Nonsense Nonsonnets (see below, just updated it today) it occurred to me it might be good to do something bespoke. On that basis, I'm throwing it open for people to suggest subjects for poetry to perform at the meet. PM me ideas and I'll see what I can come up with. Suggesting forumites will get an "inspired by" credit on anything that comes good.

Attendance at the meet not mandatory for making suggestions. I'll aim to PM poems to anyone that can't make it.

We'll celebrate your birthday a lot more than just a birthday thread in chit chat! It will be worth it, trust me! :D

We (husband, daughter, perhaps son and I) are also planning on staying four days. We're flying as well. Ryan air has got great prizes and are flying from my hometown. (I've got 15 minutes to the airport!)

Check your PM! :)

Wow, poetry! I have to arrange a special location then. I will ask my friend in Amsterdam as soon as he is back from vacation :). Nice to see so much positive feedback!

OMG, that's awesome! I hate it when one of my posts goes ignored!!! :crazy:

I'd better get my travel expenses paid for, if that happens! :)

Hmm...

Much as I'm tempted by the idea, I have a feeling that university degree number two is going to get in the way. Even if the meet-up is technically during the holiday...

But Rob, you can always get your University degree later in life. Meeting your fellow AG-ers is a once in a lifetime experience. So what is more important? ;)
But seriously, it would be grate if you could make it! Please register to this thread so I can keep bugging you! :)

i am there
 

i am so there! And if there is anything I can help there organization wise (I can come earlier) you tell me Tsa.

Can't wait to meet you all and will try to be more active on here :)

I will try to be there as well. :)

Sorry - I'd love to participate but, alas, tis impossible.

Why? :frown:
If your parents say you can't go, tell them you have a forum mum who'll take care of you. ;)

Or is Amsterdam too far from Over there?

I need my money for rent, bills and food.
Plus my education!!

Edumakayshun sure's 'mportan', mhm.

^ What he said.

Hi all!

So, we set the date at April 10, 2010, and we have the following people who will surely come to Amsterdam:

Jelena
Tsa
Stepurhan
Luna with the difficult name
Maruca

People who want to come but are not sure if they can yet:

Andrea
Erwin_br
RLacey

Significant others and family are of course also welcome! The list of people who (want to) come is still quite short, so PM your fellow AG forum friends about this please.

I'd like to come but I'm not really sure whether money and time will permit with our house mercilessly sucking both in at the moment!! I haven't been to Amsterdam since art college so it'd be nice to see it with fresh eyes and of course to meet some of you despite being relatively new to the forums.

I'll let you know if we can make it!

It would be so much fun to meet you. Bring the wife! :)

Sorry for the off-topic, but this made me giggle :P Especially given that I get that comment with my real last name as well (that, and people complaining that it is so long :P)

You make me curious Luna! What is your real last name? :P

Haha :P
I prefer not to post any possible link between my real name and my nickname on a forum open to the whole internet (yes, I am paranoid like that, but the first link google returns is my facebook account :P), so I'll PM you about that.

If my budget will be in good health, I'll either come to Amsterdam for the fantastic film festival (which starts April 14th), or go to the Brussels fantastic film festival (from April 8th - 20th), so there's a good chance I'll be in the neighborhood for the meeting. Heck, if I'll be in Amsterdam for the whole festival, hopefully I'll hang out with the forum locals more than once :)

Me needs teh subsidies!


So unfortunately, I'll be stuck in this continent at the time. alas.

To me the name's odd only because the end is a Finnish last-name ending. Like Mäkinen or Virtanen. And actually it's not just the "nen" part but the whole "ainen". For example Tiainen (a name, but also means 'tit' or 'titmouse' as in the bird, not the body part...). And for example 'breakfast' in Finnish is 'aamiainen'...

I guess that's also part of the reason I've never had trouble remembering the name...

You know, I actually created that name my goal was to make it sound like a Finnish last name. I was at that time in a 'I want to learn Finnish because the language rocks'-period of my life (never found time for that though...). I once created a protagonist named Sevithiah, and decided to try to make that sound like a Finnish last name :P (I hope it doesn't mean anything odd in Finnish :P)