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Just wondering if anyone has any details on the show. Got a couple questions and I was wondering if anyone here knows the answers to them before I shoot an e-mail off to gabe. Ok, here goes...

First, how do you get in? Is it by invitation or is it open to the public?

What time does the event start?

Will it cost money to get there on the ferry as usuall?

Will there be any free/notfree stuff? Next gen graphics cards, HL2 tshirts, hats, etc...

And lastly, if Gabe said he is going to be there, does that mean he didn't go to Japan? When did the Japan event end?
 
I seriously doubt you're getting in without a press/industry invitation.
 
If you are close (and it appears you are) just call the Alcatraz tour people and ask to book some rides. Ask questions like what is availiable for that day and what times. If they give you gaps aks what is going on durning that time frame and if you can go then cause a family member is leaving town...yadda yadda yadda. If not someone else closer can use my advice.
 
Originally posted by Aknot
If you are close (and it appears you are) just call the Alcatraz tour people and ask to book some rides. Ask questions like what is availiable for that day and what times. If they give you gaps aks what is going on durning that time frame and if you can go then cause a family member is leaving town...yadda yadda yadda. If not someone else closer can use my advice.
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Im close enough, a good 20 miles or so but traffic into the city is horrible day and night. Taking the subway is the best way to go and it gets you close to the docks. Just would suck if the event is late at night cause mass transit closes at midnight.

No one have any info?
 
Originally posted by creationist
you must go...
you could become a celebrity like spitcodfry
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Actually, Spitcodfry needs to go so he can use his "Gabe, old buddy, old pal" credentials to get in and get us a report.
 
Originally posted by creationist
you must go...
you could become a celebrity like spitcodfry
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Im going for sure... and grabbing a digital VIDEO cammera too. See what they let me shoot :)
 
dont expect to get in, seriously i doubt youll be able to. noone really knows whats going on there aside from ati announcing its new cards...why gabe is going to be there beats me, aside from the deal about hl2 being bundled, but it seems odd for him to be there

/last fleeting hope - perhaps the delay was a lie...
 
why was/is it in alkatraz? i'm just wondering i mean was it really nessesary to bring the whole thing all the way over there?
 
hmmm interesting interesting indeeed.......hmmmm.......
 
Kinda sucks to rent out a whole prison then not get to release your product like you thought u would eh valve?
 
Alcatraz kinda feels and looks like one of the Hl2 levels from the demo. Dirty, busted cement everywhere, brooding rusted atmosphere, inscrutable staircases, structures built into rocks. Maybe thats why they picked it? If they could fully model it, inside and out, it would make a great level for almost any game.

I'm surprised they don't use the large cafeteria room, which I believe still has the pipe work for filling the whole place full of tear gas incase the press start rioting.
 
Kinda sucks to rent out a whole prison then not get to release your product like you thought u would eh valve?
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It's an ATi event.
 
Maybe they've stolen some rockets along with VX gas and intend to have Vivendi transfer their funding to the poor people that won't be able to play HL2 on the 30th. Then, oh yes.. then we get to have a SEAL team with Michael Beihn come and attempt to retake the rock but Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery will be the only ones left alive to deal with the threat. Too bad Nicholas Cage falls off a cliff and Sean Connery breaks his hip in the difficult operation... Let's hope nothing else goes awry.
 
Just go... act like you're supposed to be there... if they're checking ID's and stuff... well, you could always try the whole sneak-in route or just pretend you're with another group... hehe...
 
Maybe they've stolen some rockets along with VX gas and intend to have Vivendi transfer their funding to the poor people that won't be able to play HL2 on the 30th. Then, oh yes.. then we get to have a SEAL team with Michael Beihn come and attempt to retake the rock but Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery will be the only ones left alive to deal with the threat. Too bad Nicholas Cage falls off a cliff and Sean Connery breaks his hip in the difficult operation... Let's hope nothing else goes awry.
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And then we can make a movie about it!

Oh, wait...
 
Originally posted by mutt
just brake in, it will be really easy, trust me
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Yeah, all you have to do is enter a tunnel down by the cliffs, wade through the sewer system and mining shafts, roll under some flaming piece of machinary, unlock the door to impress the others with you, then come up through the shower.. let's just hope that the motion sensors don't pick you up as you enter the event..

could you imagine someone coming through the grate on the floor during the party? LOL, would remind me of Ghostbusters 2 when they enter the fine dining, fancy resteraunt all dirty and wet.
 
Originally posted by Letters
Just go... act like you're supposed to be there... if they're checking ID's and stuff... well, you could always try the whole sneak-in route or just pretend you're with another group... hehe...
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OR.. you could use your Splinter Cell training to use the shadows.
 
Originally posted by Joneleth
And then we can make a movie about it!

Oh, wait...
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Ah man, that would make a really fun action movie! Then they could have the greatest movie soundtrack composer create a great soundtrack to go along with it! Man, I need to get into hollywood!

(I love The Rock - fun movie :p )
 
That's it i'm doing it i may be in NJ but i'll hichhike there and i'll use the plan of the obove person ok rope check guns check goofy name double check.
 
Let's see.. you'll need tactical black BDUs, a balaclava, a goofy looking NODs (w/ IR capabilities), a Beretta M9 with tranquilizor ammo, a harness for weilding your tactical gear and the funny name is optional.

Ah yeah, if some old lady looks at you funny you could just say you're cosplaying (that weird dress up stuff).
 
maybe valve will get all the press int he showers then have them bend over finished copies of HL2, rape them, then yell "its released, we had you guys fooled!" because well, the media would be raped if it was released tomorrow.
 
Originally posted by Cheetarah654
maybe valve will get all the press int he showers then have them bend over finished copies of HL2, rape them, then yell "its released, we had you guys fooled!" because well, the media would be raped if it was released tomorrow.
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It's sad how many people will go through that for HL2.... I know since I am one of those people :x
 
Originally posted by Ares
Yeah, all you have to do is enter a tunnel down by the cliffs, wade through the sewer system and mining shafts, roll under some flaming piece of machinary, unlock the door to impress the others with you, then come up through the shower.. let's just hope that the motion sensors don't pick you up as you enter the event..
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That's not exactly necessary. I mean, you start at the docks. All you have to do is grind up the rail on the right side, then go into the bowl and grind on the pipes to get around to the back by the baseball field. Now, there might be a ramp with a loop that you can ride up to get to the roof, and you can just ollie and crash through a skylight, and end up in the half-pipe, where the event is most likely taking place...
 
Originally posted by NothingMan
That's not exactly necessary. I mean, you start at the docks. All you have to do is grind up the rail on the right side, then go into the bowl and grind on the pipes to get around to the back by the baseball field. Now, there might be a ramp with a loop that you can ride up to get to the roof, and you can just ollie and crash through a skylight, and end up in the half-pipe, where the event is most likely taking place...
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Or not, i would imagine indoors out of the weather
 
I'm pretty sure Gabe won't be there, I remember hearing something about fat, sinking, and catastrophe

Edit: For the "special" readers here that means he'll make the island sink
 
Originally posted by NothingMan
That's not exactly necessary. I mean, you start at the docks. All you have to do is grind up the rail on the right side, then go into the bowl and grind on the pipes to get around to the back by the baseball field. Now, there might be a ramp with a loop that you can ride up to get to the roof, and you can just ollie and crash through a skylight, and end up in the half-pipe, where the event is most likely taking place...
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LOL, nice one :p
 
Originally posted by sportz103
I'm pretty sure Gabe won't be there, I remember hearing something about fat, sinking, and catastrophe

Edit: For the "special" readers here that means he'll make the island sink
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you cant make fun of someone just because of there weight.

learn some respect for your elders headcrab
 
Seeing as how I'm a fatty like Gabe I'm going to have to defend Gabe because it's what big people do - we defend each other... I dunno, I think we do because I'm just guessing here.
*shrug*
 
i find as a thin person that fat people usually invade my personal space.

/telefragged
 
Hehe, I find that thin people don't eat enough :p (Just kidding of course - not all fat people are large because of eating habits, like me :p)
 
What is it, aliens abducted you and filled you full of fat, or wait are you big-boned, I really wanna know, oh and a picture of yourself for me to poop on. Maybe you don't crap.
 
LOL this i funny, cause its a prison and everyone wants to get in...LOL:cheese: you'll get in all right...but i bet you won't be able to get out...
 
I bet ATI will have Alcatraz fully modelled and mapped in the Source Engine and there will be people there, just like the event is planned and then therre will be monsters invading on the game and then there will be people dressed up as zombies and midgets dressed up as headcrabs.
 
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