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going to watch some Ryan themed content today while at work... probably start with the CAH PAX panel from last fall.

can't believe its been a year already.

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Aaron said:
If we've decided the money is going to me, my paypal e-mail address is here. There's nothing in my account right now, so it'll be easy to tell what it adds up into. In the meantime, people should decide what we're buying. I'll start putting together the order, and see what's leftover.
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Sent. If you do spend it on strippers and blow, at least make sure you post a picture.

Jintor said:
I forget, do we send as family/friends or pay for services?
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I did friends/family. Otherwise doesn't Aaron have to pay all the fees?

Jimmyfenix said:
Hi Alex!
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How do you know they're reading?
 
People should probably put what they want to be listed by in the comment, for the letter that someone else will compose to go with this. So I can pass on the name list when we get to that. We're already up to $80 in paypal btw.
 
Aaron said:
If we've decided the money is going to me, my paypal e-mail address is here. There's nothing in my account right now, so it'll be easy to tell what it adds up into. In the meantime, people should decide what we're buying. I'll start putting together the order, and see what's leftover.
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Send my $ 5, really curious about how much money we are going to end up with and how stupid we will make the fridge look.

People should probably put what they want to be listed by in the comment, for the letter that someone else will compose to go with this. So I can pass on the name list when we get to that.
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Woops, forget to put something in the comment section. List me as Roy van Nuenen (roytheone on the site) or something like that.
 
Aaron said:
People should probably put what they want to be listed by in the comment, for the letter that someone else will compose to go with this. So I can pass on the name list when we get to that. We're already up to $80 in paypal btw.
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I didn't do that, but I'd prefer to be listed as "Abendlaender" which is my username on GB.
 
Brashnir said:
If anything is left over, we should send something to Leigh Alexander or one of the other people who get sent uncalled-for bile by GB "fans," on twitter and elsewhere, along with an apology card from the GB Community.

I'm not a fan of Ms. Alexander, and while making dumb "775 million" comments is one thing, some of the crap she and others get is pretty despicable, and we're not all like that.
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I liked her letters feature she does with another journalist and wasn't following GB when she famously got drunk on a podcast so I'm definitely down for this, but perhaps it would be better to set up a donation or contribute to one of the scholarships given to women interested in making video games? I'd have to do some research but feel like that may be more appropriate.

Antiwhippy said:
Wait, 45F is 7C.

Do you really need soda colder than that? Might as well get a slurpee then.
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Americans like everything cold, I was shocked when I visited the UK and ordered a beer at a pub and it was room temperature.
 
Antiwhippy said:
Wait, 45F is 7C.

Do you really need soda colder than that? Might as well get a slurpee then.
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I think they advertise 4°C, but yeah, doesn't sound that bad.

Brashnir said:
If anything is left over, we should send something to Leigh Alexander or one of the other people who get sent uncalled-for bile by GB "fans," on twitter and elsewhere, along with an apology card from the GB Community.

I'm not a fan of Ms. Alexander, and while making dumb "775 million" comments is one thing, some of the crap she and others get is pretty despicable, and we're not all like that.
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I'm starting to like her "fuck everybody, here's what I think" attitude.
 
Antiwhippy said:
Wait, 45F is 7C.

Do you really need soda colder than that? Might as well get a slurpee then.
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It's definitely just a minor inconvenience, and the very definition of a first world problem, but the degree (hurr hurr) to which it bothers Rorie is kind of endearing.
 
Well fuck.
I almost never use paypal and now my account is limited for some reason. I can't send my $10 so put me out of the list for now while I try to figure this out.
 
Sent $5.00, let's save Rorie from this warm drink nightmare.

If we have surplus i think we should just use it for the fridge deocrating or sending a 12 pack of soda with it. Sending a card to people or donating money to an organization should be a separate thing imo.
 
Dragon said:
Americans like everything cold, I was shocked when I visited the UK and ordered a beer at a pub and it was room temperature.
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What kind of pub was that?! Whenever I've been in London for work the beer has always been cold.

Amsterdam was pretty sweet though, even the glass was ice cold at the pubs I went to.
 
I like the idea of apologizing to those who suffered the brunt of the harassment, but that sorta feels like something that might not be our place to do, you know? I'm worried that it could come across as patronizing and/or insulting rather than something genuine, especially given that the community has a long way to go before it's better at this point. I think the donation to a scholarship or something similar might be the better idea.

(Don't you just hate when your browser crashes and you have to retype a post?)
 
Myggen said:
What kind of pub was that?! Whenever I've been in London for work the beer has always been cold.

Amsterdam was pretty sweet though, even the glass was ice cold at the pubs I went to.
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It was either in Richmond or Feltham, can't remember. I don't like warm beer :/.
 
BTA said:
I like the idea of apologizing to those who suffered the brunt of the harassment, but that sorta feels like something that might not be our place to do, you know? I'm worried that it could come across as patronizing and/or insulting rather than something genuine, especially given that the community has a long way to go before it's better at this point. I think the donation to a scholarship or something similar might be the better idea.

(Don't you just hate when your browser crashes and you have to retype a post?)
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I don't really agree that it can be seen as patronizing and/or insulting.

edit: Oh, you're not talking about the mini fridge. I feel you then.

Dragon said:
It was either in Richmond or Feltham, can't remember. I don't like warm beer :/.
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No one does!
 
Dragon said:
It was either in Richmond or Feltham, can't remember. I don't like warm beer :/.
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They were probably serving it somewhere around 12C, not room temperature. If you're used to drinking beer ice cold it's going to feel much warmer, of course.

You don't taste shit if the beer's freezing, so good beer is better when it's a bit warmer :)
 
Isn't beer having to be served cold just a marketing thing?

I remember that from an article about videogame marketing ("No girls allowed"):

There are plenty of ideas that have been sold to populations through marketing — ideas that go deeper than what color Santa wears.

Cotteleer cites the example of Coors beer. "There's not a lot to distinguish between American canned and bottled beers like Coors and Miller, and they were having a hard time figuring out what they could market," she says. Coors decided it would differentiate itself from its competition by owning "cold," she says, so that when people think of "ice-cold beer," they think Coors.

"It was Coors that said, 'We are the coldest of the cold. We are brewed in the mountains; we ship in refrigerated trucks.' They put a stake in ice-cold beer and people literally began to think and continue to think to this day, 'I've got to drink my beer ice-cold.'"

Of course, there is a practical reason for drinking beer cold: Chilled beer is harder to taste. Coldness neutralizes the flavor, which makes many beers — particular cheap beers — more drinkable. "So it actually does a really great job on two levels," she says. "It convinces you that you need to have a cold beer, and you actually think this product is superior because it doesn't taste as bad as the competitor, which is slightly warmer."
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