Comic-Con brain dump
I need a break from homework, so here's the complete, almost Twitter-y brain-purge of everything that I can think of from the vacation.
- Palm Springs was a great place to visit, but could never live there. 106 degrees in the summer, and we lost power on the first day. Losing power in Seattle means, at worst, you need extra blankets in the winter. Losing power in Palm Springs mean you watch the thermostat in terror as you have no AC to keep you cool.
- Mark of a good vacation: we went to a casino and I walked away up $40 from playing blackjack. I promptly spent that money getting everyone booze.
- Booze happened a lot, actually. Erik and Ashley (our hosts) are big fans of cocktail nights, as were we. :)
- The line for Comic-Con preview night damn near scared Val away from the whole thing. But it eventually got under control.
- Val's original plan: attend a few panels, then leave me to do my own thing while she goes to the hotel and watches VH1. Instead, she actually had a blast with everything. She's even interested in trying out Spore after attending the Will Wright panel. This is a woman who's had such bad gaming experiences that she couldn't figure out how to crash the car in Burnout. When we were at the airport, she was already trying to make plans to go next year. I had to actually talk her out of it.
- Best panels: Will Wright (as good as his games are, his PowerPoint presentations are better). Entertainment Weekly's Visionaries panels (for TV: Chuck's Josh Schwartz, Lost's Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller, and Sarah Conner Chronicles Josh Friedman; For film: Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Zach Snyder and Frank Miller). And Doctor Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog on a projection screen was awesome.
- Worst panel: World of Warcraft managed to ensure Val will NEVER play with me, as the questioners were some of the biggest neckbeards I've ever seen. The final question was par for the course, as some dipshit chick from Goon Squad asked a panel that was largely about the assorted merchandising products plus Blizz's main lore guy a convoluted question about why Blacksmithing wasn't raid-viable. Also, any panel where the line was too long for me to actually get in. Dollhouse, I'm looking at you.
- Got to meet ehadams and Ches! Or El and Gary. You pick how you want to refer to them. Either way, they were good people and it was cool hanging out. Sadly, I forgot that I was wearing a camera around my neck and thus forgot to document it.
And on that note, I'm going back to work!
- Palm Springs was a great place to visit, but could never live there. 106 degrees in the summer, and we lost power on the first day. Losing power in Seattle means, at worst, you need extra blankets in the winter. Losing power in Palm Springs mean you watch the thermostat in terror as you have no AC to keep you cool.
- Mark of a good vacation: we went to a casino and I walked away up $40 from playing blackjack. I promptly spent that money getting everyone booze.
- Booze happened a lot, actually. Erik and Ashley (our hosts) are big fans of cocktail nights, as were we. :)
- The line for Comic-Con preview night damn near scared Val away from the whole thing. But it eventually got under control.
- Val's original plan: attend a few panels, then leave me to do my own thing while she goes to the hotel and watches VH1. Instead, she actually had a blast with everything. She's even interested in trying out Spore after attending the Will Wright panel. This is a woman who's had such bad gaming experiences that she couldn't figure out how to crash the car in Burnout. When we were at the airport, she was already trying to make plans to go next year. I had to actually talk her out of it.
- Best panels: Will Wright (as good as his games are, his PowerPoint presentations are better). Entertainment Weekly's Visionaries panels (for TV: Chuck's Josh Schwartz, Lost's Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller, and Sarah Conner Chronicles Josh Friedman; For film: Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Zach Snyder and Frank Miller). And Doctor Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog on a projection screen was awesome.
- Worst panel: World of Warcraft managed to ensure Val will NEVER play with me, as the questioners were some of the biggest neckbeards I've ever seen. The final question was par for the course, as some dipshit chick from Goon Squad asked a panel that was largely about the assorted merchandising products plus Blizz's main lore guy a convoluted question about why Blacksmithing wasn't raid-viable. Also, any panel where the line was too long for me to actually get in. Dollhouse, I'm looking at you.
- Got to meet ehadams and Ches! Or El and Gary. You pick how you want to refer to them. Either way, they were good people and it was cool hanging out. Sadly, I forgot that I was wearing a camera around my neck and thus forgot to document it.
And on that note, I'm going back to work!