Meetups
From TNL Wiki
Believe it or not, TNL members have gotten off their asses to meet up with one another.
In January of 2004 Xeno G, Nomi, Tain and Thief Silver had a brief run-in at Ohayocon 2004 in Columbus Ohio. Xeno G bought a couple of games from Nomi. Xeno G left the con early to get to a party on Ohio State's campus and was not seen again.
In Feburary of 2004, TNL members Hot Like Wasabi and Tones had a brief run-in. Not much occured other than the transaction of Super Monkey Ball between the two.
That same year Dolemite, burgundy, shinjohnpv, Frogacuda, JeffmcC, raz0r, Mezz, and Werewolf met up in New York City. At Werewolf's suggestion they went to a bizzarre little pub in the Village called the Slaughtered Lamb. It was made to look like a medieval torture chamber or some shit. The waitress tricked the gang into buying her drinks, and they gave Werewolf some kind of grief about a coupon he used, but a good time was had by all.
The next year, another NYC meetup went down, but only burgundy, Mezz, shinjohnpv, and Frogacuda showed. At Mezz's suggestion they headed down to a joint in Brooklyn called The Alligator Lounge. It was a good call. The place gave patrons a free pizza with every beer they ordered. Much beer and pizza was consumed, and the gang indulged in some karaoke. Despite the small turn out, it was probably more fun than the previous one.
E3 has also been a usual meeting place for TNL members. E3 2004 is the most memorable.
For E3 2001, there was a GameGO! meetup at Universal Studios City Walk in Hollywood. Attendees included ECM, K3V, Kenshin, Mezz, MVS and others. K3V defeated ECM at Daytona USA.
K3V attended Philly Classic 5 and its later incarnation VGXPO to showcase his love for the Nuon. He ran into Frogacuda, Glass Joe and others.
In the Spring of 2005 Gohron and FirstBlood ran into each-other at a Metal show in Philadelphia.
In the summer of 2005, Corey Vs. Corey (Josh, Hubbitron, and Mykozo) met Tracer and station82o on a tour stop in Houston, Texas. The show was excellent, despite CvC having to go on first before a bunch of noob bands and the alarming sounds emanating from the ska festival upstairs. The band would break up shortly after this meeting. In Dallas, Texas, after playing the second stage at the Warped Tour, the band imploded. station82o was glad he was able to see the classic "definitive" line-up of CvC, and refuses to witness the band in any other incarnation.
In 2008 lots of TNLers got all gay for each other. Meetups broke out in Los Angeles, Maryland, New York, Austin, and Chicago.
The LA "event" happened in march, with Nick, Josh and bunch of people who don't matter. They had like 10 people show up and ate dinner, but they felt pretty good about themselves anyway.[1]
The New York event began June 5, 2008 and lasted four days, through TNL's 10th anniversary on June 8. The events on two of these days lasted from noon until sunrise. The list of attendees included: Advocate, Atlas, bahn, burgundy, ChaoofNee, Cowdisease, Cowutopia, Destin, Dolemite, Frogacuda, Galaxia, K3V, kingoffighters, Mezz, Netwurked, Portnoyd, Razor Ramon, Rhydant, Rich, Shin_JohnPV, Sinista, Some Stupid Japanese Name, Thief Silver, TrialSword, Rama, and a bunch of other people who may or may not have had anything to do with TNL, totalling over 30 people in all. Hangouts included Chinatown, some Sushi joint, several bars, the Beer Garden in Astoria, Barcade in Brooklyn, the met, and a Cambodian death march in 105 degree weather. Rhydant and Thief described it as the best weekend ever.
