EirtakuMeet Spring ‘07
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The first Eirtakumeet of 2007 saw a few new members embarking on (what I know can be) the somewhat intimidating venture of meeting people from the Internet.
How will I recognize people? Will they recognize me? Is this all an elaborate hoax designed to make me appear somewhat foolish? |
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Well, perhaps the last one is not so likely, but we did stand around for a while at The Spire unable to determine who Raito Yagami was in the crowd! True to his namesake, we didn’t know it was him until he introduced himself.
Myself, DrPepper, cade, MarkMI6, Daitokuji, I_forget, AskwinK and Raito made the traditional run to the Oriental Emporium to stock up on asian junkfood like Pocky and a bunch of random other samples that invariably taste atrocious. While there nadir joined us, then ZeroQI, who was utterly exausted from carrying his gargantuan, anime filled, 4TB hard disk array. |
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“pleasant to the palate give first choose treasure.” |
| We spent longer than usual in the shop, browsing around and laughing our asses off at the hilarious engrish on the various packaging. Myself and daitokuji were momentarily exicted upon our apparent discovery of fireworks in the form of sparklers deeper in the store; we were disappointed when it was pointed out that “joss sticks” are, in fact, incense. A brief smelling of which confirmed the unfortunate fact. With Pocky, strawberry-koala-things, and an array of foods that would later turn out to be utterly inedible, we made our way towards our democratically elected eatery: Ukiyo. | |
| Ukiyo were thoroughly accomodating hosts; they even pushed their two large tables together for us, wherupon I_forget decorated the table with an assortment of girly manga magazines and DVDs, shortly after which she began dispensing. Enthusiastically I was handed a copy of Shojou Beat, which I took and opened warily; looking around to ensure my manhood was not in question. Forunately, I was sitting next to nadir, who I dragged with some confusion into flipping through the magazine - a visual assault of flowers, smiles and gentlemen of extreme height - to satisfy our young newbie. Eventually I purloined a copy of Neo from cade, which contained the much more comforting visage of boobs and blood courtesy of the Ghost in the Shell manga. | |
| Having sated our palate (and purchased some sake), we made our way towards DrPepper’s courtesy of Dublin Bus, daitokuji doing a good job scaring various passengers with his documention by photography (will update the article with these when we have them!). We quickly arrived at DrP’s and everyone began to set up their equipment. ZeroQI, as ever, the centre of interest setting up his hard disk array. Experience from many previous meetups has taught us that there is no such thing as too many power adapters, and we were well set; several laptops, external drives, routers, switches, and - of course - the HD projector and surround system. | |
| We started off watching Riding Bean, which was well received all around. Throughout the evening we watched a variety of other first episodes, mostly the best of the recent seasons; Black Lagoon, etc, as well as AMV Hell Championship Edition, and several AMVs. Coming up to midnight myself and Hybridchild paid a visit to the local chinese (just before closing) for some hot food, and some discussion of the upcoming EirtaKon for which I’ll be presenting the Friday night pub quiz et al. At this stage we had picked up a few extra people, and jtang had come and left (thoroughly unenthused at the prospect of watching the Evangelion parody Redeath). | |
Later, as people began to doze off (and ZeroQI had left and returned several times), daitokuji exposed us all to the hilarious Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. If you haven’t seen this yet, you should see it  Thoroughly redeems Yu-Gi-Oh. The filesharing, sake-drinking, pocky-scoffing, and anime watching continued well into the wee hours of the morning, but my memory of the events in those hours is somewhat hazy as I was busy drifing and out of sleep. All in all, a thoroughly successful meet, and one I hope some of the newer members enjoyed as a sample of the eclectic nature of eirtaku. |
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‘Twas a good meet, great to see everyone again and fair play to the newer members for showing up and joining in.
Here’s to the next meet I say \o/