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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:09 pm    Post subject: ROFLCon Reply with quote

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Mix up a bunch of super famous internet memes, some brainy academics, a big audience, dump them in Cambridge, MA and you've got ROFLCon.

The conference is slated for April 25th and 26th of 2008.

It's a group dissection of internet culture. What makes it work, why it works, how it works. We'll talk about where internet culture has been and where we think it's going.

Then, there'll be parties. A music show, with memes performing their work live. And then a big blowout party at the end, with everyone dancing and rocking out.

Needless to say, this might be the most important gathering since the fall of the tower of Babel.


www.roflcon.org

$30 for students before March 1st, $40 afterward.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So it's like Random, except you have to pay money to see it.

Actually, sounds like it could be cool depending on how much srious discussion there is.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In principle I can't support this kind of thing.

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It's a group dissection of internet culture. What makes it work, why it works, how it works. We'll talk about where internet culture has been and where we think it's going.


I also believe this is based on the false premises that anonymous scrubs on the internet constitute a 'culture' and that said culture' works'. I reject both of these claims.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Real mongeese go to Boskone.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So this is now entirely at MIT, instead of being at Harvard.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just had lunch with Leeroy Jenkins.

Yes, it was chicken.

No, it was not fried.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hankr wrote:
I just had lunch with Leeroy Jenkins.

Yes, it was chicken.

No, it was not fried.


What the fuck?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mchicken wrote:
hankr wrote:
I just had lunch with Leeroy Jenkins.

Yes, it was chicken.

No, it was not fried.


What the fuck?


He's a person. Name's Ben Schultz.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 3:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah I looked at the website.

But...how do you know what a Leeroy Jenkins is.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who doesn't know what a Leeroy Jenkins is? Hasn't everybody and their mother seen that video?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

But why? I don't get the internet or watching YouTube. I know why I've seen it..but I don't see how you could fully appreciate it without playing or even having done UBRS when it was hard.

Is it fun to watch YouTube videos?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you've played any MMORPG of any sort where they have a section such as that, you can relate. As for fully relating, I guess not, but do you really have to fully relate to appreciate it?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hankr wrote:
If you've played any MMORPG of any sort where they have a section such as that, you can relate. As for fully relating, I guess not, but do you really have to fully relate to appreciate it?


Did you read that jewish joke? Based on that one piece of evidence I would say the answer is yes.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mchicken wrote:
hankr wrote:
If you've played any MMORPG of any sort where they have a section such as that, you can relate. As for fully relating, I guess not, but do you really have to fully relate to appreciate it?


Did you read that jewish joke? Based on that one piece of evidence I would say the answer is yes.


Jews are a totally different matter.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll accept that.
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