We've got tickets to the Lost Planet launch event in San Fran
by Christopher Grant 
{ Jan 6th 2007 at 5:28PM }
Capcom is pulling out all the stops for Lost Planet, their upcoming third-person shooter, including a bash in San Francisco.
The details: The event is being held this Thursday, from 8pm to midnight at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center - East Hall (it's here). There will be a multiplayer tournament ("Winners receive fabulous prizes and then face off with ... the Lost Planet development team!"); the Lost Planet development team will be signing things (Peter Moore is getting his other bicep signed); you can "watch Master LEGO Builder Nathan Sawaya creating LEGO masterpieces on the fly"; make your own Lost Planet t-shirt; free grub and drinks; and "the first 50 gamers through the door get exclusive t-shirts." Phew! Capcom knows how to throw a party!
In the area and want to go? You can sign up for a first-come, first-served spot on their page (username: Genesis / password: 111). Or -- if you'd rather not risk being denied -- they've graciously offered Joystiq readers 25 passes to the event which guarantee admittance. (Fine print: You must be 18 or older to attend, and agree to provide Capcom with your name and email address). All you've got to do is tell us the biggest thing you've ever lost. Certainly it couldn't be larger than a planet (tsk, tsk Capcom). Maybe a loved one?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Hannibal @ Jan 6th 2007 5:42PM
I've lost my mind. And believe me, that thing was HUGE.
Animus @ Jan 6th 2007 5:59PM
I once went to a rave at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, and when I came out I lost my car. Turns out it was just stolen.
manjeet @ Jan 6th 2007 6:01PM
Hannibal: I have found it and I'm bringing it back to you in the trunk of my UGO.
faith_lost @ Jan 6th 2007 6:03PM
When I was in college a couple of years back I went into the campus bookstore, where a lady in front asked me to put my bag and jacket into one of the cubbies and not bring it inside. I did so, went fifteen feet to one side to check out a magazine for about 50 seconds, then came back to find that the bag was missing.
I contacted the bookstore's lost and found, and ten minutes later a store clerk came down and told me that upon reviewing security camera footage, the bag had been stolen in front of the lady, and two cash register clerks. Based on the description of how the two suspects took my belongings (basically a switcheroo and one person meeting the other halfway), he suggested that I file a police report, which I did.
Over the next few weeks I would learn that the bookstore was most keenly interested in protecting its own hide and shedding responsibility. They would not share the security footage with anyone, not even the police. They claimed to have the faces of the two thieves on camera and in still-shots, but would not look through the school directory for a match, since there are so many students who attend my school, and according to the store, most thieves usually are outsiders that pose as students (or so they believed).
The school administration would later relay to me that statement that the bookstore only "encourages" patrons to leave their bags in the front cubbies.
The police detectives on my case would later reveal to me that this bookstore has a notorious history--that once they stopped and had arrested a girl who took a box of paperclips. Security somehow followed her through the cameras as she went downstairs to the textbook section, took out a single paperclip to use on some report, and returned the box to its original place. Both floors' doors were blocked by store employees who stopped her promptly.
It gets even uglier from here, but keep in my that my bag was stolen at around 15:45 on May 18th, just fifteen minutes from a midterm and a few hours before I was scheduled to drive to Los Angelos for E3 2005.
The bag and jacket contained my $1800 Panasonic R3 notebook from Japan, my iRiver mp3 player, my prescription, my wallet and driver's license, and my passport.
But it was not the loss of these items that bothered me the most--rather, it was the way my university dodged responsibility even against the police over the next month that made me lose all faith in the administration and sincerity with which my public university tended and regarded its students.
oogly @ Jan 6th 2007 6:08PM
My homework.
Animus @ Jan 6th 2007 6:09PM
I'd also like to add that my stolen car was in fact a '98 Dodge Caravan. Is that big enough for you, Joystiq?
Craig @ Jan 6th 2007 6:27PM
A ski in some back country pow : (
Einhanderkiller @ Jan 6th 2007 6:29PM
I lost all my powers in Metroid.
Joel @ Jan 6th 2007 6:45PM
The biggest thing I've ever lost was my Grandpa :(
Dark-Pen @ Jan 6th 2007 6:47PM
I'm one of those people who loses things... a lot. Ever since I was a child, one thing or another disappeared without notice, whether it was in my room, or outside, or just anywhere that I've visited, I always lost something, or more so than not, I've always broken things on accident as well, but that's not the point.
But despite this, the only thing that comes to mind as far as things that I've lost that were of a material kind, it'd have to be during my trip to Washington D.C. during my sophomore year in highschool.
It was a school trip, and part of a program that some may be familiar with called "Close Up." Initially, I wanted to bring a console (perhaps a gamecube with ssbm), and I would regret not doing so as there would be 2-3 rooms on the floor I was on where some kid brought their n64 or xbox. But instead, I brought my GBA, and my small collection of GBA games that included Golden sun, Golden sun 2, Zelda: LTTP, and 3 other games that I don't remember. I had had all of those games with me up until the last day of the trip, when one morning, my room mate was telling me to wake up, as apparently we were leaving.
I hadn't even packed up yet.
I took a quick shower, hastily packed my things up, and left for the bus. It wouldn't be until the first junction that I would notice that a number of my GBA games were missing. I called the hotel that we stayed at, and recieved a call a few days later that they didn't find them.
Ever since then, I've been careful to not lose any hand held games, but that doesn't mean I don't lose other things, either.
Jonah Falcon @ Jan 6th 2007 6:50PM
My MIND. :p
drifter @ Jan 6th 2007 6:56PM
My mother. =(
Fractus @ Jan 6th 2007 7:24PM
A galaxy.
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Then I adjusted my telescope and found it again. ;P
Corey @ Jan 6th 2007 7:27PM
I lost 12 years of my life to Ms. Pac-Man. I gave her everything that a man could give a loving lady, but she cheated not only on me, but on my heart as well. All she ever did was play games with those ghosts of hers. I took her out one night for a genuine good time. I was going to ask her to stay with me forever. I went to her house an hour early, but to my surprise she wasn't alone. I let myself in with the quarters she gave me. I started to go down the hall eating as many dots as I could. Once I got to her bedroom door all I could hear was "Owwa Owwa Owwa Owwa.." I kicked the door in and found her and Pac-Man fooling around. I slammed the door and ran home, crying the whole way back. I couldn't believe she had done this to me. After I had invested so much time and money into her. She was officially dead to me. Pac-Man I will see you in hell.
Jaime @ Jan 7th 2007 2:31AM
Let me tell you a story...
A story of Christmas time and Ice...
My name is Jaime Cortes, college student in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of this comment is to rather help you (or warn you) by avoiding what I experienced on the day of my flight back home on December 23, 2006.
First of all, understand that climate changes, to be precise, Blizzards, aren’t under our control, yet. But what we have in control, airlines, can be so disorganized during a crisis.
Some backstory, I reserved my ticket from December 20 to December 23 with a confirmation number due to that blizzard that struck denver pretty bad. I felt relieved that perhaps I will be able to make it home before Christmas eve, to be sincere, I was expecting to be ok with one or two hours of extra queue, So I arrived to my flight 5 hours early.
I understand that queue lines for check-in aren’t direct control of a corporate; the people arrive thinking that PERHAPS a 3 hour period before their flight is enough time to keep everything in order. That day I spent a total of 5 hours in said queue line (goodbye to my plans and time), because the staff isn’t trained properly for such attendance (in my eyes, bigger queues mean bigger staff to make up for time), plus the fact that I had to ask about 3 different agents regarding information for e-ticket services and left with five different answers only remark this last fact. Next time there is a state or emergency where the airline is going to have an incremented number of visitors, I suggest having proper army training to save yourself; interesting enough, This airline had the biggest number of staff available on check in counters, like NPCs in any SE Game...
After missing my flight by misinformation and misunderstanding by your sources of information (think bad camera angles), I decided to re book, as one of the agents recommended. A simple line was formed on the other side of the terminal with no more than 40-50 people (Now, think of it as the queue for Realm Entering, you WoW gamers). I was relieved that I could at least make it for the afternoon flights (My flight was a simple Direct flight to Tucson, Arizona). What I faced was 4 counters with two agents attending one person at a time… each person took around 5 minutes at most, yet the problem and excuse I was given was that the “systems where slow, they had to reset every time someone was done”. How can that be? How much time a machine takes to reboot and continue? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? No, each machine take an average of 15 minutes to restart and THEN start taking information. On top of that, the number of agents always fluctuated between just one person and three, never four. I decided to talk to customer services, but, OH SURPRISE, guess that ALL THE LINES DIRECT TO A VOICEMAIL; how can someone feel helpful when the Help HQ is buried underground? I tried checking The website, but it cites no useful information and no agent really knew what to do. I decided to wait another 4 hours in line for go to the front line of the queue, to be patient and not erupt as an angry mob. What burst the bubble of the other passengers and me was when suddenly ANOTHER Agent told us to move to a different area. We followed with patience, just to find out that he redirected us to the OFFICIAL Re Book section, plus the fact that we had to wait BEHIND another 20 or so number of persons.
When asked why was this, he, as a good drone, kept repeating that “The systems where better here, and that we would be attended in an ordely fashion”. I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I replied, saying “Words! What are those good for? Actions is what we need! How can YOU help us get out of here?”. His response was offensive and rude by saying “Sir… Its Christmas Time! Why can you be polite and wait in line?”. I snapped...
Me - "I consider this to be an INCREDIBLE OFFENSE. After wasting MY time, the excuse that FU AIRLINES offers me is the Excuse of CHRISTMAS TIME. Is Christmas a time to make the passenger irate and tired of failed issues? Is the time for procrastination of services that WE paid for? Is it the time for a complete and utter drop of BULLSHIT on the CUSTOMER?"
Drone - "...well, I... Uh..."
By this time, the general manager peeked out to see what was going on, The drone tried to explain that I erupted, but I addressed the Manager personally...
Me - "We all know that Time is Money, and Money makes the world around. Today I wasted around 12 hours in a silly queue. Frontier, I ask You, How much is your time worth? Multiply that by twelve and you have exactly how much money I wasted on you today. But not just me, think of all the other customers you disgraced with so called “professional customer services”. I still have a return flight on December 30, but I am fearful… Will I be able to return home before the end of the year? Or I will be buried under customer services from hell again?"
The General manager looked at me, and the other passengers waiting in line... his resolve was fairly simple, he took over a single pc and helped us personally... Such an easy fix for a not so complicated problem.
I still was stranded, The flight they gave me was to Tucson on the Morning of the 24th at 8am. and It was a STAND-BY Ticket. I paid IN FULL FOR A SEAT, and this gave me the possibility of a seat in a flight that’s different from original. This isn’t a raffle ticket, we are talking about a professional business...
This is relevant, why? because I didnt just lost my time, I lost my money, my time, my own sanity, my own persona... For a moment there, I was stranded on unknown grounds, trying to get back home. No mystical Items, no Legendary quest... This was Real, Real Life.
The night at the airport was spend playing DS games while resting on the queue line for the next day (they opened at 4am and the line was looong like longcat). Story short, I maded it back home... But with an experience that I hope everyone can learn from. Always defend yourself and be alert... do not hesitate to leave your confort bubble if the situation is needed.
Thank you for reading...
driven2sin @ Jan 6th 2007 7:59PM
I lost my virginity by hooking up with an older woman found in a BBS chat room before the web (Q-Link) her husband came home after i was back on the bus so i didn't lose anything else..
Tucker @ Jan 6th 2007 8:18PM
Sadly, I lost my plane ticket to San Francisco, so unless Capcom wants to hook me up, even if I win I can't go :(
Justin @ Jan 6th 2007 8:39PM
" All you've got to do is tell us the biggest thing you've ever lost. Certainly it couldn't be larger than a planet (tsk, tsk Capcom). *Maybe a loved one?*"
Wow guys, talk about a bringdown. Biggest thing I lost in my life was a girlfriend of quite a few years to the great beyond. Thanks for making my night. =P
Bodie @ Jan 7th 2007 10:57AM
The largest thing I've lost would be my contact lense. It's bigger than my favorite piece of lint, my lucky BB, and the grain of sand I kept from a trip to Zimbabwe.
I live in the Bay Area and would love to go! If I could get a second pass for my gamer wife, that would be swell too, but I don't want to push my luck.
Lewis @ Jan 6th 2007 9:56PM
I lost my sense of dignity and self respect for myself ¬_¬
ChrisW @ Jan 6th 2007 10:15PM
Well I have lost all kinds of things both useless and cherished, but lately I lost (or actually it was stolen) was my backpack. Now it was a nifty backpack that had some notes (which sucked) along with a few textbooks (an $80 textbook damn college!).
I had a question though can you bring a friend since I got my friend whose place I would be crashing at up in SF that I'm sure would like to go.
Ryoga Vee @ Jan 7th 2007 12:02AM
I lost my CAR, and then i was all like, DUDE! wheres my car. and when I find it I'll be heading up to SF next week.
AX @ Jan 7th 2007 1:51AM
I lost my hat last time i was in SF, but this would give me a reason to go back and find it!
Weston @ Jan 7th 2007 9:15PM
My roommate went out of town and wanted me to watch his car for the two weeks he would be out of town. Living in San Francisco i had to move the car every so often for street cleaning. I went to sleep one night and when i woke up i couldn't find the keys anywhere. I went outside and the car was gone. I was a mess and didn't know what to do. I started calling everywhere.
Turns out, my other roommate took the car for to run some errands and i didn't see the car for another 3 days.
ANOTHER More Recent time I lost something was I got a Nintendo Wii and played it for about a month when my dad couldn't find my little brother a Wii for christmas, i had to wrap mine back up and give it to him for the holiday. Now i have no more wii.
dan @ Jan 7th 2007 4:43PM
I think I lost my dignity, because I'm going to go to a video game launch party.
Stephan Krause @ Jan 7th 2007 7:08PM
I lost the very first version of the Gameboy when I was a kid.
Nate @ Jan 8th 2007 2:40AM
I lost my wedding ring... I have a lot of time for games now.
Ed @ Jan 8th 2007 12:53PM
Weight.
Jose @ Jan 9th 2007 11:19AM
I lost my belove dog tobby at McLaren Park in San Francisco for about 3 days after going after a squirrel.
We search the whole park the day that happen and pretty much the 3 days that he was gone.
And on the 4th day i went back to the park early morning before i went to work and to my amaze tobby was there at the entrance to the park (near Felton+Madison St) with it's tongue out of thirst, I started to go crazy and started to yell and hug him we had this dog since its was a puppy about a month old hes 10 years old.
And now i dont let him out of sight and always have the leash on him.
Man if only dogs could talk i would have listen what he got to say about those 3 days missing in the park.
Thankz
Jeramy @ Jan 9th 2007 12:45AM
my remote. turns out it fell into the trash conveniently located adjacent to my nightstand deal.
Christopher Boyle @ Jan 9th 2007 3:06AM
I lost my xbox 360 in a car accident, well actually it got smashed in a car accident, but same thing right? around the time when it was hard to find one. I got it on launch day then it got smashed 2 weeks later and couldnt get one until early january :( so sad.
hector @ Jan 9th 2007 5:29PM
I've lost 4 dogs in the past two years. 1 died of old age and the other 3 got run over by cars. I am so terrified that the dog we have now will suffer the same fate that i haven't even took her for a walk...
Aaron Peckler @ Jan 8th 2007 9:57PM
When the psp came out i could not find ones instores or on ebay so i tried yahoo auctions and so i found one that was at $123.67 with like 10min left so i bid and lost and then i say a buy it now for $100 and got that right away but them after i bought the $100 one it said i won the 123.67 one also i said hell ill get both there still cheap. so i paid the 123.67 on with paypal and the 100 one this money order. the guy who sold me the 12367 one was not responding to my email and when he did he said so SHI* and retracted the paypal payment but i did not get my money back. i contacted paypal and they said only refunds with EBAY!!! so now to the money order one the guy sent "something" right away and right as i was about to get it it got lost at the main post office in my city and they could not find it. and after all that i lost around 250 dollars and still no psp i had to wait 6months before i got one and then i relized its not that good....
Jetfire @ Jan 9th 2007 12:28AM
My heart. I left it in San Francisco. I am out in SF briefly for the MacWorld Conference, and it would be a great highlight to go to this event.
Marin Perez @ Jan 9th 2007 5:33PM
I lost my ATM card two days before Vegas.
Huzzah!! @ Jan 8th 2007 10:52PM
Two years ago, on this very day, I lost the oval-shaped piece of Gouda cheese that I have had since birth. Witnesses say that it came out of the womb with me, making it my brother, but no one was ever sure, since the only person that videotaped my birth mysteriously died the next day, and the tape mysteriously vanished. Some say "conspiracy," but I say, "It's all gouda!"
yukiryu @ Jan 8th 2007 11:03PM
I lost $220 and an iPod Nano(1Gen) 2GB on a trip to the mall (well, University Ave). It was pretty sad, they just fell out of my pocket and I was never able to find them. I was going to buy annother Nano for my brother that year but had to settle on a NintendoDS, which I ultimately think he is much happier with.
Rohit @ Jan 8th 2007 11:34PM
I lost so many competitions like this that I think its high time now that I win this one
Rohit
bernardo @ Jan 9th 2007 12:47AM
I've lost my sister at disneyland , when i was 15 and she was 8...wow was in trouble
Greg @ Jan 9th 2007 2:10AM
I lose all sorts of crud... um, I'm dumb.
After one Christmas break in San Francisco, I flew downstate to college; it was after I landed in Los Angeles when I realized I didn't have my apartment key, it was back home upstate. Took a while to get that one back, I had to sneak into the building a few times to get to my bed.
My favorite was sitting on the deck of a small sailboat; I had my cell phone secure in a plastic holster, when it suddenly slipped out and slid all the way over the side of the deck. It was surreal watching it glid across the white fiberglass hull. We called it afterward but it didn't ring :-P
I also left a cell phone and an umbrella in varying airports... if found, call... well, I wouldn't have the phone anyway.
Kyle Ramirez @ Jan 9th 2007 3:01AM
Back in the day, I lost a Gameboy pocket. I was trying some pants on at my local Ross clothing store, when I noticed a neat little pocket on the side of the leg of the jeans. "Cool," I said, "I wonder if my gameboy fits in there..." And I slid it into the pocket. After admiring my taste in fashion through the mirror, I took off the jeans. I don't know how you could forget where you put things within a ten second period but I had left that gameboy in the pocket of those jeans. I put the pants back on the hanger, and put them back on the rack. Now whoever had the same taste in jeans as me probably picked that pair of jeans up, and found a nice little bonus. A new, black gameboy pocket with a copy of Pokemon Yellow. From then on, my personal belongings stay in my pockets, and I'll see what I can put in the pockets when I get home. Haha.
woceyes @ Jan 9th 2007 11:34PM
my family and I were going to move from vegas to kentucky so we decided to rent our our house in vegas to my moms freind and her kids so that they could live resonably cheap in vegas while we are in kentucky....well we left a few boxes in our garage so as to get them later...our garage had family photos,my moms antiqes and some other non important junk...we thinking that the family friends would take care of our stuff and our house...well things were going fine we were in kentucky staying with some of my moms other friends when her freinds wife just snapped one day and starts yelling at my mom and accusing her and the ladys husband of cheating....(mind you we were on a air force base) she also called the MPs to come and take my moms gun which she had because shes been an armed gaurd for as long as i can remember....the lady told the MPs that my mom was crazy and threaten to shoot everyone....now here is where in and instant we lose all but a few boxes of clothes and my moms car....my mom had put her stuff in storage in kentucky but the lady went and changed the lock and would not let us get our stuff..so we left and headed back for vegas (this all ouccured in bout 2 months)when we got to vegas we found out from one of our neighbors that my moms ex husband threw everything that was in the garage out onto the street and told anyone who wanted anything to take it free....my moms friend who was supposed to be renting the house from us did three things they 1.never paid the rent 2.never stoped the ex and 3. ruined the house they didnt take care of anything...we saw that in our garage there was torn up boxes with ripped up photos of our family every where all of our memories gone... our house went into forcloser because my mom couldnt afford the payment since she still needed a job so we lost our house,photos,memories,material objects, and the biggest videogame collection for the n64 i have ever owned we were force to move near my grandpas house where he helped my mom get back on her feet...
sorry for this being long there was one major loss after anouther till the suffering ended and we saw that we can get back on our feet...
woceyes...