Be Excellent To Each Other

The Golden Joystick awards are on the 30th of October, at the Park Lane hilton. I think there is a free bar.

If Beexers want to go on behalf of uptojump, you should get someone to email Will Guyatt ([email protected]) asking to go.

I'll probably be there with my SavyGamer crew.

I don't think Ian Lee is presenting them either.

Is Barratt going?

That's a no.

Is there a free bar?

Is it during the day?

I'm happy to drink for free anytime.

I would be well up for this if I wasn't in Barbados.

I think there is a free bar, I don't know when it is. They will be announcing more details about it in the next few days.

Would I have to pretend to be interested in what was going on?

Sounds like the kind of awards where Julian Rignell would appear in full mullet splendor wearing some terrible jumper with a huge grin and doing thumbs aloft poses to every passing photographer.

I would go if modern games didn't leave me feeling angry and confused.

FTFY

At least you won't freak out like the last time we sent you to an awards:

I like Iain Lee.

I might be tempted by a free bar.

I'm sure he'll be thrilled to meet his fan.



One of those wouldn't make me like Iain Lee.

Part of me is pretty tempted, a more common-sensical part is screaming "What the hell do you know about computer games?" I have a terrible fear that I'd be forced to admit to never having played Bioshock, and spending most of my time on the deeply unsexy IL2:1946, Silent Hunter 3 and Space Rangers 2.

At least I love L4D and rather like Fallout 3.

Anyone here ever been to an awards thing where they hand out awards? What are they actually like? Am I allowed to get drunk and start harranguing the various mag staffs that they should be more like Amiga Power was? And then get confused about where I am because it's so massively unlikely that I'd be at a gaming industry awards shindig? And then walk around scared and wondering where the exit is? And then find myself again through a burst of righteous wrath in punching Iain Lee on his oversized chin at his woeful God-awful stand-up and in a deep-seated desire for revenge that has festered ever since I had the misfortune to first clap eyes on 'The Eleven O'clock Show'?

If so, then cool.

Let's both go. I'll tell all the developers what's wrong with the industry today before shoving a champagne bottle directly into Peter Molyneux's anus. You can punch Iain Lee. Excellent.

Don't forget to replace that article-up-the-anus with the Golden Joystick itself for extra points, if Molyneux wins!

'course you can come, Grim... You're the only one of us who can afford the lawyers.

Hang on a second, I have to come too, to do all the drinking.
And Lewie has to come to protect us from bigger boys by letting them hit him instead of us.

I'm free all day on the 30th.

Someone consider me in.

I can deffo go.

Grim, sort me out.

If you go you should go dressed as staff from Imagine circa 1983, including rolling up in a Porsche that you have hired.

I intended to turn up in a 57 seater that drops me off outside.

I'll always remember rolling up for the Student Radio Awards in a convoy* of chauffeur driven Mercs. The following year we hired a limo and rolled up at Alexandra Palace to find that the ceremony was in a fucking tent bolted onto the side of the building. In mid November.

I have rarely been so cold.


* 2 or 3, can't remember.

I'm drunk and tempted, but I'll be working that Saturday, so unless I take the day off it's no go. And in wanting to have a stupidly long holiday in America again, it's a tough choice to do that. Still, it is tempting. Will be think of this throughout the weekend, fully expecting offer to be filled before I come to a tardy decision on the Monday.

a_ what is uptojump b) what do I say to this "will"?

uptojump is some shitty web site about electronic video games.

and you don't, you just wait for someone else to be more organised and do it for you, but as them to put your name down.

Uptojump is the internets eleventh best source of Amstrad CPC news and game reviews. Sometime before 2020 we might publish a top 50 of our favourite games.

I think we've lost our chances of winning the Home To The Biggest Cunt On The Internet award.

The email address in the OP is no longer the correct one.

Also: Sean Lock is hosting.

Organise yourselfs, and pick someone to be the uptojump representative, and I'll do my best to sort it out.

Two or three times, even.