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How many FOFCers Have You Met in Real Life?
With people talking in one of the other threads about meeting up, I got to thinking: "How many FOFCers have I met in real life?"
I know there's a global pandemic now, but this place is 20 years old so you've had time to go meet people outside of this wild simulation of reality. Poll forthcoming and feel free to expound in the comments. |
When I started adding it up, it was more than I thought. Also, if I forgot you or someone else, please remind me - I was racking my brain for a couple of days but I feel like I'm still missing one or two
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Ben invited me to meet up with him at a Cubs game in Chicago back when I lived in the northwest suburbs, but I guess my introverted side won out and I didn't go. He was with about 30 people if I recall correctly, and I feared awkwardness I guess.
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Just Pilotman when he was flying through Boise. It was good time and surreal in a fun way - I've never spoken about FOFC things (usernames, board topics, etc.) out loud with a real human, so I felt like I had been transported into an internet message board.
I'm happy to meetup with anyone passing through Boise, though we're not really on the way to anything unless you're a pilot. Edit: I believe Lathum and I were at the same U of Washington football game once - but I was with my parents and there wouldn't have been a time to meetup, otherwise, that would have been cool too. |
At least 14, probably more, but these are the ones coming to mind.
Buzzbee--2-3 times VPI97--2-3 times, including when he burned the fries at his house digamma--quite a few Solecismic--had a work trip near Ann Arbor...got together 2 or 3 times while I was there. GrantDawg--quite a few FBPro--OOTP meetup and at least one lunch Arles--OOTP meetup Shaun Sullivan--We worked for the same company for a while. (Fun Fact: he called me "SkyDog" at work multiple times in front of people.) Joe Stallings--OOTP meetup Celeval--OOTP meetup and I think maybe one or two other times JIMGA--Dinner at a bar where I was playing at an open mic night (GrantDawg was there as well.) QuikSand--Work trip, dinner at his house with his fam (back when he only had one kid. We tried to connect one other time when he was in Asheville and I was near Boone, but it didn't work out. MizzouRah--He came through Atlanta and several of us had dinner (VPI, Buzzbee, and Grantdawg may have been there, not sure exactly, but there were several of us there.) Draft Dodger--Actually found myself in New Hampshire for work. Dinner with him. The OOTP meetup in Atlanta was in like 2003. There were, I think, one or two others there that I'm not remembering. Definitely have spent the most time (by a wide margin) with GrantDawg and digamma, probably in that order, though it's relatively close. Then there was an old friend of mine I directed here and he was a regular poster for a couple of years or so. I don't recall the user name he used. I don't recall if we ever told the board that we'd known each other since childhood. That was a good 10-15 years ago. |
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I think only 2--neither of whom really post here much anymore
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You probably could have carried the conversation for both of us. :lol: |
5 but I feel I am missing someone, dang it. I blame too many concussions from playing Football :)
Macroguru - Have hung out a few times and our paths even crossed in Hawaii once when we were on vaca and he was on a business trip. Still needing to hook up for that elusive BYU game though. Poli - Also a couple of times, first in Chicago when we were attending our sons graduation from Naval basic training, then here when he was in town and went to a coaches clinic with me Jedikooter - Met up and took in a Padres game and pounded a few beers on one of our near annual pilgrimages to San Diego Izulde - Had the pleasure of catching up with him for lunch and drinks on one of our Vegas trips, sadly he failed to bring me any exotic Kit Kat flavors :) Farrah - Joined Macroguru, myself and my wife for a happy hour here in Phoenix Had tentative plans to meet up with Pilotman and Cartman, but logistics just didn't fall into place. And I still feel I am missing someone :( |
Met Rodney/Poli and Hoopsguy a billion years ago on separate occasions. Mighta been a couple more around that same time frame, but that was a lonnnnnnng time ago.
Met Fozzie at Gencon, there were a couple more FOFC's there that was I was gonna meet as well, but logistics failed. On a depressing note, me and Bucc were set to meet multiple times right after I moved to COS, but stuff always came up ... then, yeah. |
I met a small group that included Terpkristin in DC back around 2007 at a bar on a Saturday night to watch football. It was so long ago FSU beat Alabama that night in Saban's first year. I also recall watching UF lose to Auburn for Urban Meyer's first loss at Florida. Who else was there?
I also met Lathum and his wife for drinks in Seattle. I don't recall any other meet-ups. |
Zero.
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Saldana and Captain2711(he rarely posts) are my best friends IRL
Neon Chaos/ Barkeep/ Hoopsguy/ Passacaglia- We met up in Chicago once because Neon was in the states for work KSyrup- Had a lovely lunch with him in Seattle DaddyTorgo- Met up with him a couple of occasions in Boston St Cronin- Met up with him and in GF in Vegas. Wonder what happened to him PAth12- Met up in Seattle for a few beers before a sounders game Cartman/Jeeber- Met up a couple times in Dallas and Cartman in Vegas. Never met up with the Cinci/NKY guys despite living there for a long time. Was supposed to meet up with BYUCougar but it didn't work out. I think thats everyone. |
Lathum, Captain2711, and St. Cronin in Vegas
Lathum and Jeeber in Dallas Antmeister and Lorena at my house a few times Izulde in Vegas MacroGuru at the Salt Lick and his wedding in Salt Lake City area My memory is hazy, but I believe I met QuikSand briefly in Vegas at the WSOP. We were going to play the same event, but I arrived too late to sign up. PilotMan in Austin during one of his layovers Emiliano in Houston when he was on a visit to the US Groundhog and his at the time newly minted fiancee, now wife, in Vegas when they were on their extended trip to the US sterlingice at an Astros game in Houston. I went to the game the next night as well, and that was when Yu Darvish had 8 2/3 perfect innings I am certain I am forgetting a few. If so, accept my apology and thoroughly berate me in the thread. |
In the Las Vegas airport a couple years ago, I'm wrapping up a work conference, and a stranger walks up and says with deliberate airs, "mister {my work title}." Now, since I've been at a work-related conference the last several hazy Vegas days, I figure this is someone I swapped business cards with at a meeting or somesuch. Took me a solid 30s of awkward not-recognizing-him before he blurts out... "it's cuervo72 from FOFC you dumbass."
Yeah, he lives only an hour or so away from me, we've hung out a couple times. Once at Subby's place in NoVa with Morgado and Simms... was that all? Once in DC for a college hoops game, I think. We got critch, sjshaw, and Buddy Grant roped in once, too. Am I forgetting others? And, the notorious FOFC-takes-WSOP experience, parts I and II. BEL at my house for take-out seafood a few years back... geez, that was a long time ago, as I place our one rather young daughter at the time, who's now nearing 16. |
I've met Butter when he came up to the Metro Detroit area for a work thing several years ago. 2014, I think?
I'm Facebook friends with Pilotman, so I kinda feel like I've met him, even though I never have. |
There is someone else I've met but I can't for the life of me remember the screen name. We work in related industries and met at a couple of conferences. Now I'm going to be racking my brain. I can picture him, oddly enough, but can't remember either the real name or user name.
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cartman/Lathum - Beers in Dallas (Addison, technically) at the Flying Saucer
Macroguru - Beers in Dallas (Las Colinas, technically)...I think cartman was supposed to meet up too, but bailed Cap Ologist - He lives in the same small-ish town as me (or at least he used to)...but the one time I "met" him is when I waited on him and his wife at Olive Garden. He didn't tell me who he was, but he left a note saying hi when he paid the bill I'm friends with a bunch on y'all on FB, so there's that. |
When you guys have gotten together do you call either other by your FOFC usernames?
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haha. No. |
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I can't remember, it's been a while. But I have close friends and family that call me Jeebs or Jeeber, so it wouldn't have been that unusual for me. |
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VPI97 and I met twice.
First time coffee at the airport near Amsterdam, he had to switch airplanes there and I took the train up north for it. I remember wearing the IHOF t-shirt he had arranged for me, but I actually forgot to mention it (I think it was cold that day). Second time was in Maassluis. I showed him around the old part of Maassluis for a bit and we grabbed dinner at a bar on the dyke (named De Dijk). He was in the Netherlands for work and his hotel was a short taxi ride and a 5-minute ferry away. We talked about IHOF for a good bit. Jughead Spock and I met once. He was supposed to fly with 3 back from the UK to Germany, but due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland, there was no plane travel possible for about 2 weeks throughout the northwest of Europe. He was playing in IHOF back then as well and seeking some advice. They ended up taking my advice and the ferry from the UK to the Netherlands gtting on shore about 10 miles from where I live, which appeared to be the best alternative. I offered to welcome them there into the Netherlands at the ferry harbor. We then the took the train to Rotterdam, I went off in Maassluis, while they continued their journey. |
Let's see. Most of you have gotten mine already, but:
Izulde-- We've had dinner a couple times when he was in Vegas. cartman--As he said met on a layover Austin. Butter--He used to work 15 minutes from me and we've met for business lunches a few times. daddytorgo--Met on Boston layover a couple different times for meals over the years. molson--as he said, on a Boise layover. That was a good time. MacroGuru and Render-- Got together on a Buffalo layover a couple times. sterlingice--as he said, went to an Astros game in 2013 while I was in Houston for training and they stopped by the house and met the Mrs when they were in town for a wedding. BillJasper--Met in a restaurant by total chance, only said hi. bjceac--met him in Hattrick and got him here and eventually pulled him into the CJBL with me. We've gone to an NDSU/Ball St football game, visited his house in STL on a few layover and generally been amigos for years. The worst is that I haven't gotten together with any of the Cincinnati crew. From crimsonfox, to Lathum (when he was here) cougarfreak, damnMikeBrown, korme, Warhammer and I'm sure that there's some others in the close area. It just hasn't happened. I actually feel pretty bad about that. Like we've had this chance and missed it. We were supposed to go to an indoor football game and see Jared Lorenzen, but he had just broken his leg, and then bad weather blew the whole thing up. I've had informal plans to catch up with BYU 14 and H_B, but layovers haven't worked out for those yet. I know that Lorena has brought it up too. CW is really pushing for a simulator ride, speaking of that, CW if you see this PM me, because September and October I'm spending copious amounts of time in Denver. I should try and catch TK sometime in DC when I get another layover there. I'm FB friends with a bunch of others, and always willing to try and get together. It's a nice diversion from the work grind. I'm sure there's an LA get together that's possible. I mostly just need to find where people are and connect from there. FB is a pretty good point of contact in general. Lately with the international schedule there's not much of that going on. Once I get back to a different plane with more domestic flying there will be different opportunities. |
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Let's just say that Shaun is NOTHING like the polite, unassuming character he plays on the internet! :lol::lol::lol: |
At least he didn't say "Get those patriotic undies in your seat!"
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I've met one person who's posted already, but apparently I was so boring he doesnt remember it.
Other than that, a selection of current and past FOFCers, all FOBL related. And Cuervo at a cat show or two. And Subby when he was still podgy. |
(if it was me and it was in DC, I had to go look at who I wrote down was there because that was like 10 years ago and it was incomplete knowledge at best - I've slept since then and I'm awful with names; if it was not me, phew - I dodged a bullet but I'm pretty sure I missed a couple of people)
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Just one - MrBug and I went to the NCAA Championship Soccer match back in...2004, I think?
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Same here, and it wasn't a group meetup either :( |
ah crap I knew I was forgetting someone.
I met bhlloy in Las Vegas, the same night I placed 2nd in the world record setting wing eating competition at the Amazon Web Services conference. |
I was wondering whether I should drop a wing related pun in there somewhere :D
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Did you mention that to us? It seems like something I would have remembered but, again, more than a decade ago and, frankly, I was working 60-80 hour weeks most of the time in Richmond so sleep was in short supply and a lot of my time living in Richmond is a bit of a blur now. SI |
I might have met 1 member about 15 years before I ever joined the board. I was applying for a job at a small radio station in north Georgia and I believe Jon was the one running the station at the time. We spoke for all of about 2 minutes. I can't swear it was Jon, because when I returned a couple of weeks later he wasn't working there anymore, but I know he worked at that station about that time.
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I'm pretty sure I ran into Cam Edwards a few times in the neighborhood. He and I lived very close to each other.
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I definitely remember Toddzilla's story. I remember following along the thread and couldn't believe everything had unfolded like that.
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I still remember that, still in the area, how about you? |
We've never met in-person, but in the pre-FOFC mid 90s I was in a Front Page Sports Baseball league with Butter and Zē+. Also in that league was one Dave Dial.
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Cap! Yep, still in the FloMo, no plans to leave any time soon. We love the schools...well...so far this year we're having our issues...but probably will stay where we're at at least until both kiddos graduate. |
Dang, I'm within 30 minutes drive from at least 3 FOFCers here. And I still haven't met them (we are friends on FB however).
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Two that I can recall. WSUCougar twice (once in his state and once in mine) and JHandley (had lunch in the airport together). I spoke with Breeze on the phone once back in the 2000’s for some reason, maybe related to a golf simulation he was working on?
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Izulde visited my city in Spain (Toledo) a few years ago and we had a good time walking around as he loves medieval history and my city is famous for that. I bet it inspired some of his CK dynasties! :)
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met daedalus at Gameworks (where he worked) when my family and I went there for my 21st.
Took in a Dodger game with MrBug around that era. I think daedalus might have joined us for that one. Worked with Tony at GameSpy for a bit in the early 2000s. Have invited a couple FOFCers to my impending nuptials next year, so that list'll probably double'ish sooner or later. Oh, and I guess Izulde lives near me now. We're supposed to grab a beer at some point. |
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Got to knock Coffee Warlord off the list today. I think he had a good time in the box. No crashes, and only some scared Japanese farmers. I'm happy that it worked out for him to come get a ride along on today's sim flight. He's commanding a 787 there.
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Yep, that was a blast.
Japanese villagers near mount fuji will forever remember the day a 787 buzzed them. |
That is so cool! was that in CO?
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Yep, up in Denver.
I have a lovely 5am wakeup call to drive up there this morning, but it was worth it. And no. I did not crash. Landings were a mixed bag, and I took out some runway lights on takeoff, but we lived. :) |
Nice!
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I wonder if I ever met an FOFCer w/o realizing it.
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I've been traveling more and have more opportunities to do so, but I haven't really connected with more FOFCers since I drifted away. I've been fortunate enough to meet up with a bunch of family I haven't met before, though. DataKing, RavenHawk, Mizzourah, Hoopsguy, Barkeep, WSUCougar, primelord, BUY14, the Coffee Warlord and his world's most comfortable futon gave me a place to sleep one night. Solecismic was a pretty darn special one to snag. Passacaglia and his wife I think round it out. I was "this close" to Chief Rum a few years ago on a work trip to City of Industry...and I could have high fived terpkristin last year if it were not for the COVID concerns. |
Before FOFC existed, digamma and I went to the same school (and had classes together) for 7th grade.
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I've never slept on the floor of an FOFCer's bedroom.
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Shoot, that reminds me. I was in first grade with Hawglaw...and Hulsey was a friend of mine who registered but I don't think ever posted. I spent more than a few nights over at Hulsey's for a time. Hawglaw told me about family I didn't know I had...I believe he was friends with what turned out to be my cousin's husband.
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One other now that it's on my mind: Tarcone and I had dinner one night before I went out for a HS football game at Pacific, MO.
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Interesting choice of words. But thanks. It was great meeting you and a few other FOFCers. What a crazy month that was for me - driving cross-country to meet quite a few people here and there who I had only known online during a very difficult time. I'm trying to think of who else on FOFC I've met other than that St. Louis luncheon. Several sim developers at various times. We comprise this fraternity of sorts that defies all reason. That would include Gary, Arlie, Marc, Markus, Andreas and Clay, though I'm not sure Clay has ever posted here. The EA people who produced FOF2 and 3 (unfortunately, Dan Wasson's sudden outburst - one he almost immediately understood was unwarranted and felt terrible about - and greatly out-of-character for someone I had worked with a lot and was one of the nicer people I've met in this business - that pretty much ended their participation on FOFC). A couple of the reviewers for the old magazines. Tony at an E3 convention - we went to an Angels game. Ben stopped by when he had business near my old home in Michigan - we went and played bar trivia. I think everyone I've met from FOFC is included in this post. I hope that number increases some day, though I'm afraid an event like Comic-Con is unlikely for the sports sim market. |
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Met Fozzie and one other person at Gencon a few years back. For the life of me I can't remember who the other person was.
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I once accosted Pumpy in front of a gas station.
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I need details one this one. Was he rich from his infallible gambling strategy? |
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It was a great time! Any mention of the Sons of Sam Horn raises the bar for me! lol |
I was suggesting that cubboyroy met him.
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Don't recall if I've tipped over to the 6-10 category yet. Vegas was great for meeting up with FOFCers. Now that I'm in north-central Wisky, it's a lot more difficult.
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Ran the Boston Marathon with digamma, gambled with Quik and Primelord and Malificent in Vega$, ate a meal with cuervo, critch, and sjshaw in DC. Had Simms, Morg, and Quik over to the Shue Estate and Spa for a meal. Met Vegas Vic at the Spice Market Buffet in Vegas. Whiffed on a few. I'm old. My memory is bad.
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I was at meatfest too. Left a pair of watermelon croc sandals, size itty-bitty.
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Oh, and we met Buddy after eating at the pizza place, too IIRC.
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Still the last time anyone's flirted with me, btw.
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(Our probably gay waiter, not Buddy.)
In addition to what Subby listed, scaring Quik at the airport, and fawning over fuzzy creatures with Critch, I've also taken in an O's game with (I believe) DukeRulesMAB, Malificent, and pbot (where I made an ass of myself limping along because I can't boogie board, while Mali had an actual reason); visited Morg along with Simms and tauter (introduction to SodaStream); took in a MD/W&M football game (Morg says goodbye to an umbrella, Wade decides he has better friends). |
Shot fired at Wade.
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I'm up in Green Bay for our long time friend Sackattack's wedding tomorrow!
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I'm flying a bunch in the next 3 months (at least for me). Maybe we'll cross paths? Of course, you only live about 90ish minutes away...
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I'm going to bump my own post from 2 years ago because I remember who it is - Heybrad. He and I work in the same industry, and in fact, we might be doing some business together soon (although I doubt he knows it yet - at least that I'm with a company he's talking to). He hasn't posted here in about 5 years, and I haven't spoken to him in a long, long time. He's moved up to a pretty high position in his company, so it looks like he's doing well. |
This topic had me thinking of other internet meet-ups. I've met way more people from music-related groups/message boards than from here.
Anyone have stories of meet-ups that went horribly (or mildly, I guess) wrong? This was probably 20-22 years ago (just based on when we owned our house in Tallahassee). My wife and daughter were away, probably visiting family while I stayed home to work (during my law firm days). King's X was playing Tally and a bunch of people were coming to the show. One dude had no place to stay, so I let him stay at my house. I did not tell my wife because I know what she would have said. But I knew this dude for years and completely trusted him. Anyway, he brought this special bottle of wine from his wife to give to one of the guys in the band, and... he dropped it in my kitchen. Not only did it bust and shoot wine and glass everywhere, but the bottle left a gouge in the tile. We had to buy some grout-cleaning stuff and worked for a couple of hours to clean it all up. Couldn't do much about the dent. When my wife came back, she eventually noticed the gouge a couple weeks later and I said one of us must have dropped something and didn't realize it left a mark. That was almost a disaster for me. Show was great though. And we still got to hang out with the band and this guy re-supplied the band with weed after they got pulled over on I-10 for being ID'd as a tour bus and basically threatened with jail if they didn't give up anything they had on the bus. They were appreciative, ha! |
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I've probably told this story before, but I was in the beginning of a long-distance reelationship & I flew this woman up for the weekend and got her a room at a fairly nice hotel nearby....but I did not know the hotel was hosting a furry convention that weekend. |
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Izulde is the only one I've met. We got together to go watch a Razorback scrimmage back before Petrino's first year here. I think Izulde was going to school at the U of A at the time? It's been awhile, so I don't remember all the details.
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I'm your Trump walker!!!!:devil: |
I've not met anyone. I did get an offer of support when I was breaking up with my ex-gf, but that was like 20 years ago.
I figure this community is going to die off since there won't be new FOF games. |
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Get to add DanGarion to my list now too. We both happened to be in Nashville and got went to Third Man Records and got some dinner when I had a short layover. Met up with cougarfreak last year when he came to a Strat-O-Matic baseball game day I was hosting. He actually lives like 5 minutes from me now. Plus CoffeeWarlord from a previous post when I was able to host him during a sim session while I was in Denver. That brings me up to 13 total now. If anyone else is interested hit me up and I'll see if things can get matched up one day. [Edit: Totally need to add Chiefrum too. We got together for dinner on a layover too. So, 14 total. ] |
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