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So this was one of the most exciting months in my life. After being on NG for 7 years I got to meet everyone involved and many more people from flash industry not related to Newgrounds. Let's see...

Kongregate.com staff, Mochi Media staff, Newgrounds staff, I-Mockery staff, Armor Games staff, Cyanide & Happiness staff, The Behemoth staff, creator of Line Rider Bostjan Cadez, DrNero; Fancy Pants Adventures, Afro-Ninja; Territory War, Luis; do I even need to say, k2xl; Boomshine, John Perazza; Erik the Juiceman, rtil; Flash Comedy Extravaganza, Krinkels; Madness series, Gel; Wink, The Swain: Blockhead series, uhhh the list goes on. As for celebs, Saylar from Heroes (whichever his name is), Kevin Bacon, Robert Downey Jr., Rosario Dawson and others. As you can see, it was a really wild month when it came to meeting people.

I was living with DrNero in San Francisco for a week where we got to see a lot of stuff and showed off Nuclear Eagle on a Wii to a bunch of people including a Wiiware staff member who liked the game. We also went to San Diego by the coast with a car and stopped by the Armor Games office where we slept for the night and played Guitar Hero 2 with two guitars. That was awesome. Each night at San Diego, well, two nights, we were out with many flash people from Newgrounds, drank a lot of beer and had fun with each other in many nasty ways. All verbally. Overally, everyone was amazingly nice and fun.

I was trying to avoid NG's Jeff because I gave him a bad review for 300 Queers and we got into a minor PM fight but we ended up having a great conversation at some random mexican bar. I drove 410 miles the next day and now I'm preparing for a 20 hour flight back home. I may be as far as in Eastern Europe but I ain't missing another Comic Con.

I also learned that my accent isn't as nearly perfect as I thought. It actually isn't nearly as good. Bummer. Practice makes perfect. God, my flight is leaving in 7 hours and I haven't went to sleep yet. Well, see you.

ps. I hate blogging. Seriously. But since everyone wrote about their Comic Con experience I went on to share mine.

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Aug. 1, 2007 | 7:26 AM The-Swain says:

I haven't blogged about Comic Con yet, I've only posted in everyone elses.

AND I GUESS I WAS THE FIRST ONE IN YOURS, HUH?!

You and Brad were awesome dudes, I hope to see you guys making more games together in the future. And don't sweat the accent, man. At least you were easy to understand. I know native speakers of English about whom I can't say the same thing, haha.

Aug. 1, 2007 | 1:16 PM Luis says:

yeah your accent is terrible, and you took all of Brad's dirty laundry with you.

YOU ARE WIERD.

Aug. 1, 2007 | 2:02 PM MarkP0rter says:

sounds like you had an awesome time and really gives me that "DAMN I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE" feeling. i can relate to the whole accent deal very well myself. in certain cases it really hurts when people cant understand you and you are like WHAT THE HELL I THOUGHT I DID EVERYTHING RIGHT. i would love to make a lot of movies with dialogs and stuff but people complain about my voice and tell me they cant understand a single word i say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRiXM F1W5Y what do you think? I REALLY dont believe them that its THAT TERRIBLE- in fact i think my voice is easy to understand and certain natives (americans) are just not smart enough while Europeans and people from the UK have the brains to understand me- thats just something I noticed and some kind of a theory but you know what theories are- bullshit people make up that isnt true at all so LOL i dont know. its also funny how people can be PERFECT spellers but then they cant speak any English or their English is bad but I guess the reason is just because they arent used to speaking it. Like last year i visited it a good friend in sweden. chatting was always alright but when i met him the first time i was like WTF because i could hardly understand him- his english was just awful. its also REALLY weird to finally see people in real life, dont you think? like you know them from pictures and stuff and suddenly you are standing NEXT TO THEM- WOW impressive feeling, eh? how did you feel about that?

Aug. 3, 2007 | 5:42 AM luka responds:

It's a bit different when you go from typing your whole life to suddenly speaking. But I'm sure it wasn't that bad. They are just fucking with me around :) It was great being with them, that's for sure.

Aug. 1, 2007 | 3:31 PM jmtb02 says:

Lol, I can't imagine what its going to be like for the next few months ;)

Aug. 3, 2007 | 5:49 AM luka responds:

Don't worry. I'm sure they are exaggerating. ;)

Aug. 1, 2007 | 4:37 PM JohnnyUtah says:

as i was saying, you look like a friend of mine..sort of
http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/dailyp hoto/2005/img/apr12b.jpg
(but without the fangs and bloodlust)

*high five

Aug. 3, 2007 | 2:35 AM Krinkels says:

You're fine, sir. see you next year.

Aug. 4, 2007 | 1:39 AM Krinkels says:

Actually, what is your AIM?

Aug. 24, 2007 | 4:40 PM Fatmandoo says:

Haha, hey! Dave from Explosm (cyanide and happiness) here. I spoke to you for a good while in the little oriental bar/restaurant, where Tom Fulp and Roger from I-Mockery were hanging out etc. Great to meet you! Hope you had a safe trip home.

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