Had a great visit to the home of GtG yesterday. When I first arrived I wasn't sure that I had found the right place. The sign on the door is very sun bleached and hard to see. Then I turned around and saw these signs in the parking spots and all doubt was erased.
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I surprised them a little bit as I had only interacted with Paul on thr forum a little bit, but they were very gracious and took some time to chat. In the end Adam signed some cards for my kids, Christopher gave me some secret knowledge about Unity to sharr with. my daughter (aftet I showed him a picture of her cosplaying Unity) and Paul gave me the nickel tour. If you get the chance to stop by make sure you visit the warehouse. They will modestly say that it is just a bunch of boxes, but it is more than that. Jodie has decorated the walls with all the banners the team has used at conferences in the past. Doing so she has made it into a sort of historical museum of the multiverse. Definitely worth the price of admission. All I can say is, great team and meeting them makes me happy that I have been able to take part in a little of their journey througj the multiverse.
Weird it open when I click on it. Try this.
Glad you got to go, waedens! They are a great group!
And it doesn't look like any of the attachments are working. Try a name without a space, maybe? Could be an issue with how the site stores attachments...
"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart." - Mal
Unicode U+24BD gets us Ⓗ. (Thanks, Godai!)
The attachments work for me. Our new post editing issue?
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
I can't see them either.
Just removed and reposted them. Hopfully that helps. They work for me so I am not sure what else to do.
Maybe only mods can't see them. That wouldn't be a problem at all.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
I'm not a mod, and I can't see them.
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Apparently I'm the lucky one who can see them. I assume the one unfamiliar face in the group photo is the new warehouse/inventory person they hired.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
I assume that no one can see them and you're just gaslighting the rest of us.
I can see them. They're custom "Reserved Parking" signs. waedens at least will be able to confirm.
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I'm not that cheeky.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
The one is a custom parking sign that says heroes only and the other is actually a picture of me with Adam, Christopher and Paul.
And now that I am checking from home I can't see them either. Very Weird.
Are you the one holding the camera in that second picture? (I don't think I know what Paul looks like...)
Because if so, you look oddly familiar. o.O
You can make Paul and other GtG folks dance anytime you want on this page https://greaterthangames.com/about-us
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
The site uses at least two web servers. It's possible, I suppose, that one is allowing access to the uploaded files and others aren't. I'll ping Joel.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Yes, I am holding the camera. I could be familiar...I do a bit of travel for work, conferences and the like, mostly science related.
Fun fact, Paul knows quite a bit about DNA sequencing. He spent some time doing some programing for the group that worked on the human genome project. You never know what you are going to learn when you visit GtG.
s/the group/one of the groups/
He and I worked at two of the three major sites that led the US portion of the sequencing. I believe the Welcome Trust in the UK was the biggest contributor, though I no longer recall for certain.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
Small world. Did you know Doug Johnson? I work more on the protein side of things, but have done a fare amount of DNA sequening as well.
Don't recognize the name. I was at the Baylor College of Medicine from 1994 to 1999 working as a programmer/analyst. Didn't meet many people at other sites and might not remember them 20 years later. Though Paul and I incidentally worked in similar fields, I didn't meet him until I started playing Sentinels. OK, technically I met him a few hours before.
Hi. My name's Andy. Feel free to call me Andy, since, ya know, that's my name. (he/him/his)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If not now, when? If I am for myself alone, what am I? -- Hillel
I ended up with time for a brief stop by their office myself this morning, and am grateful to Christopher for taking the time out to talk to me. Craig, and late Rae, were the only people who were around (Mark & Mara driving back from Columbus; Jennifer out of the office; nobody else in). Maybe a half hour all told, including a tiny bit of a peek at some of the RPG materials in progress, but mostly a time for me to say hello.
And now that I am back at work I can see the images again. I have no idea what is going on.
PS - I have decided that the forum needs a like button so the we can like people's posts.
*looking for a way to like the previous post*
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
-Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
Hey! When you visited the warehouse did you check out the Mr. Chomps? Some of them have become my VERY special friends!
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I saw the big ol' tub; didn't need to take one home because my 7-year-old has stolen the one that used to be my classroom talking piece.