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Anime Boston -- Group Dinner?

Postby OtakuForLife » Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:16 pm

I was wondering if there was going to be some type of workshop
dinner thing for AMV creators like at Otakon. I thought that was
one of the best parts of the trip. If not thats cool, just asking
around and see what's up... I'll be their that thursday.
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Postby turboneko » Wed Mar 17, 2004 4:44 pm

That would be nice... we are totally up for it :D
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Postby OtakuForLife » Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:30 pm

I was trying to figure out where there's Fish co.... erg
Maybe China Town somewhere or order a crapload of pizza. :)
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Postby dokool » Wed Mar 17, 2004 8:25 pm

For this to work, there are two main things that need to be determined:

1. Where this dinner would be
2. What time it would be

While I'd have no objections to a Thursday-night AMVer gathering, I'd like to play devil's advocate. We'll all be checking into hotels, picking up badges, preparing for the chaos to come, etc.

Now, there will probably be an AMV Creator Clubhouse in the hour BEFORE the AMV Contest, like there was last year. I propose that any sort of dinner be held AFTER the contest. We'll all be in attendence, it doesn't take much to say "hey, let's all meet in front of the stage after the last video" and move from there. Unfortunately, if you take the Anime Boston Restaurant Guide as gospel, a lot of places close at around 11PM, which means that we wouldn't have much time to eat after walking/subway-ing to the place.

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Postby OtakuForLife » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:36 pm

Well, there's always delivery right?
After the AMV contest?... I didn't enter anything becuase
of that wonderful DVD/VHS requirement. I couldn't even burn
an MPEG2 SVD.... Anway, that sounds cool ,but, what will
be open?
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Postby dokool » Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:53 pm

OtakuForLife wrote:Anway, that sounds cool ,but, what will
be open?


Well, if you'd clicked the link I provided, you'd see that... well, not that much is open. Bennigan's is open till 1:30AM, seems to be on the low scale of prices, and looks like a 10-15 minute walk from the hotel. The Hard Rock Cafe is somewhat further away and open till 1AM, and Chang's China Bistro, which is in the area of Bennigan's, is open till Midnight.

Any opinions one way or the other as to restaurant?

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Postby OtakuForLife » Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:31 pm

All those places sound good :)
I'll go with what the group decides...
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Postby Guyver2019 » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:34 pm

I'm for it, and I'd suggest PF Changs. It's good food, not to expensive, and open till midnight, and it's about a 5 minutes walk from the hotel max.
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Postby jbone » Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:22 pm

Rule #1, laways disregard most of what Dokool says, as he's perpetually clueless. ;-)

That being said, I'd be up for dinner/lunch/mignight snack/drunken orgy/whatnot.
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Postby OtakuForLife » Wed Mar 24, 2004 9:03 am

Wow, man that was kinda mean :)
Probally, just dinner somewhere.... After thinking about the options
a bit. Hard Rock would be neat becuase non-drinking people
could get in and theres a musically sort of ironey involved.
In people who work with audio clips visiting a rock themed
resturant chain. Only problem might be the distance involved
according to the map.
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Costs of dinner.

Postby phrea_Vicious » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:20 pm

Isn't Hard Rock expensive? Considering I'm cheap and I know you're broke, brian, that might be a bad idea. Remember, cheap is good and also don't forget, we will be loud. A bunch of anime nerds talking loudly/yelling/etc. in a restuarant is a great way to get kicked out. Honestly, hanging in a hotel room with an huge amount of pizza might be the safest solution. I have never been to this particular hotel, but many hotels have doors that open between rooms. If that's the case, we could maybe hang in a couple rooms that are next to each other. But even if that's not the case, noise and size of the group is a major issue.
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Re: Costs of dinner.

Postby dokool » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:25 pm

phrea_Vicious wrote:Isn't Hard Rock expensive? Considering I'm cheap and I know you're broke, brian, that might be a bad idea. Remember, cheap is good and also don't forget, we will be loud. A bunch of anime nerds talking loudly/yelling/etc. in a restuarant is a great way to get kicked out. Honestly, hanging in a hotel room with an huge amount of pizza might be the safest solution. I have never been to this particular hotel, but many hotels have doors that open between rooms. If that's the case, we could maybe hang in a couple rooms that are next to each other. But even if that's not the case, noise and size of the group is a major issue.


That requires finding two rooms that are next to each other. AMVers at many, many other cons have managed to pull off the dinner thing, I don't see why we can't. So what if we're loud? Restaurants in general are loud, especially places like Hard Rock...

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Postby phrea_Vicious » Wed Mar 24, 2004 1:30 pm

How many people do you think are going to be at this dinner? If it's more than 10, you have a serious noise problem. Let's face it, nerds like to agrue with other nerds. We will be shouting over each other to be heard, I can see it now. If we are too unruly, we will be thrown out. Oh and btw, getting two rooms together shouldn't be that hard. Isn't there a section of rooms set aside for the con? We can manage, but we have to plan this out.
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Re: Trust me, loud anime nerds are not welcome.

Postby dokool » Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:00 pm

phrea_Vicious wrote:How many people do you think are going to be at this dinner? If it's more than 10, you have a serious noise problem. Let's face it, nerds like to agrue with other nerds. We will be shouting over each other to be heard, I can see it now. If we are too unruly, we will be thrown out. Oh and btw, getting two rooms together shouldn't be that hard. Isn't there a section of rooms set aside for the con? We can manage, but we have to plan this out.


The convention itself doesn't have a block of rooms that it gives to people for the sake of being communal or whatever. But still, the HRC is generally a loud environment, and I think we're all self-contained enough to be able to keep it down if we're asked =)

And yes, it all depends on how many people are going. So far, I count:

-DOKool (me)
-OFL
-phrea_Vicious
-jBone
-Marcos and Cristina (turboneko)
-Guyver2019

That's seven so far, not counting any hangers-on. I know there are plenty of other creators attending (incl. Tom the Fish, mckeed, Matt Pyson, Grover, and Ashyukun although he's staff and probably can't go, plus any that we're not aware of), so there's always the possibility of a group as large as 15-20.

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Postby OtakuForLife » Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:27 pm

It's a little pricey bob ,but, it's vacation, damn it!
I'll just save like 10 -20 bucks for my share no prob :)
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