Takaoni goes to Japan - Oct

[Kulldam]

Well we left Tokyo and arrived at Takamatsu yesterday and the internet here doesn't seem to be as high quality. I got on for a few minutes this morning which looked promising at first but now I can't get connected at all

I think you wont be able to count on me for the next couple of days - I'll contact you as soon as I can

Np, thanks for the update Taka, enjoy your trip!

[Takaoni]

Heya all!

Back in Tokyo now but something weird happened to my phone and it thinks that it's Aug 21st and also apparently decided to desync my mobile authenticator. Hopefully I'll find some wireless to get back on but it's not looking promising. I doubt I'll be available til I come home on the 11th but then I'll be back to normal

Sorry for this delay!!!

[Kilwenn]

No raid tonight man. Enjoy the last of your trip. See you Wednesday.

[Takaoni]

Yay I'm back in the US yayyy... except that I've landed in Texas and the Houston Airport is a shameful mess. I, perhaps, am more irritated by this airport than I am by Rift. We walked about 10 miles to get through customs going through large, abandoned, warehouse rooms and were ultimately dumped out at the end of terminal E. All this time we're passing a ridiculous number of shops and seeing very few gates despite being in the terminals themselves. During this time we pass a sign on the ceiling for Terminal B (our terminal) that's pointing dead ahead. Past this sign, though, there are no further signs for other terminals, only the Terminal E "gates". Thinking I missed something I turn around. The SAME SIGN says that Terminal B is ahead and to the left ON THE FUCKING OPPOSITE SIDE. After I facepalmed myself into and out of a coma I walked back the other way hoping that Terminal B would fucking materialize, platform 9 & 3/4ths style. Walking perhaps 30 more miles we arrived at Terminal C which was identical to Terminal E and really in no way logically separated from it. Lots more stores, not so many fucking gates.

Walking 30 more miles takes us to a shitty little mandatory monorail to all of the other terminals. Hey why did we just fucking walk for 2 hours to get to this monorail? Shouldn't this have been more centrally located? Good thing they installed it too because the exactly 20 second ride ahead REALLY saved on walking. Exiting the monorail at the "Terminal B" exit I am shocked to find a huge amount of stores and no gates. One of these stores was a gigantic Chilies (like bigger than you'd find in small towns) complete with a To-Go! Window. Like, "oh hey I'm in a fucking rush in this airport right now if only I had some Chilies to go.. seriously don't their meals take like 10 minutes to make, er, reheat? in the first place?" Following signs for the gates we find a long tunnel. 10 miles later we see our first gate at Terminal B. Guess I had time to eat the Chilies after all.

So our gate is gate B84E. Walking down to this tiny cluster of gates we find 85 to 88 in a typical end-of-the-terminal circular arrangement (except there really wasn't a terminal body, just some shops and 10 miles of tunnel). We notice a tiny little hallway leading down to "All 84 Gates." Apparently the people in charge of numbering these gates were equally lost in this sprawling monster and completely omitted at a minimum 15 gates so they just decided to name these missing gates "Gate 84a b c d... n" It goes to at LEAST "N". If I wasn't sitting here right now I'd say there's not enough alcohol in a TGFriday's Long Island to get Ansum drunk enough to make this shit up. Also, the Gate 84s waiting area can only be described as "most depressing hospital waiting room ever" You can't even go to your specific 84 gate because there are 4 numbered doors (1 through 4) that lead to a singular hallway that (probably) ultimately end in the actual gates. So 4 doors leading to the same hallway that eventually dumps out at 15 gates. Airports designed by humans refer to this setup as a Terminal and you actually sit at the gate for your flight so you can get flight specific updates.

Seriously Houston, you fucked this airport thing up badly. So badly that I hate you more than a combo-point building class with finishing moves and a yellow energy bar or making your experience gains pop up from the bottom of the screen in purple letters saying XP: _____ and then fading off in a shallow arc.

See you tomorrow!

[Ansum]

Ansum and Long Island's...

[Khrash]

Bua ha ha