Comic-con: the grand review!
OK, so it's not really so grand, as I'm basically gonna summarize what happened -- and why is it that everything starts slipping out of my head the second I started writing this damn thing? D:
Wednesday (Preview Night): Made plans to meet with Mera at the con at 5:00, but she called me for directions two hours before that and got there an hour early. Good plan: 163 southbound was backed up worse than an obese man after a cheeze pizza binger.
And so I arrive to a badge line triple the length of the convention center itself! So after saying hi to Mera outside, I cut the line. Har har, unethics, for the win.
I also got to meet with Felix and Jessica that night and hit it off really well with them. I wish I'd been able to spend more time with them, as we kind of formed this "from-the-four-corners-of-America" gang together (I'm from Georgia, for the short-term memory challenged). They were cool -- they played with toy Japanese busts with impossibly exaggerated breasts AND BOUGHT SOME.
I was more conventional (har har *shot) and bought dragon prints. It was cool that Ruth Thompson recognized me from the year before, very nice.
Thursday (Day 1): SPOOOOOOOORE
Now that I have that out of my system, Will Wright is possibly one of the most wickedly funny minds I have ever encountered. He knows how to work an audience -- he came right out and explained everyone present was a creepy Japanese otaku (at least on his powerpoint. The visuals would continue to play counterpoint to his words, most effectively by presenting a "Happiness Booster" geared to improve morale on a colonized planet as a skyscraper-sized wind sock puppet.).
Thursday would also kick off a three-day-long fish and chips habit -- every time lunch came around, I'd have fish and chips. The Tin Fish is an excellent establishment and I can't wait to go back next year. I think it says something that their clam chowder's better
than what I can find in Washington. xD
Met up with Mera and her posse again, but Jessica got replaced with Kara... who apparently has a beach house. I was very much jealous. She seemed nice, which is always good. After a while, I split off to raid the video game section and got my drumming ass handed to me in Rock Revolution, Konami's upcoming answer to Rock Band. Didn't stop me from 5-starring "Given Up" later on, though!
I'll do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday some other time. Right now, I'm just tired, and hope this'll suffice for the moment.
Wednesday (Preview Night): Made plans to meet with Mera at the con at 5:00, but she called me for directions two hours before that and got there an hour early. Good plan: 163 southbound was backed up worse than an obese man after a cheeze pizza binger.
And so I arrive to a badge line triple the length of the convention center itself! So after saying hi to Mera outside, I cut the line. Har har, unethics, for the win.
I also got to meet with Felix and Jessica that night and hit it off really well with them. I wish I'd been able to spend more time with them, as we kind of formed this "from-the-four-corners-of-America" gang together (I'm from Georgia, for the short-term memory challenged). They were cool -- they played with toy Japanese busts with impossibly exaggerated breasts AND BOUGHT SOME.
I was more conventional (har har *shot) and bought dragon prints. It was cool that Ruth Thompson recognized me from the year before, very nice.
Thursday (Day 1): SPOOOOOOOORE
Now that I have that out of my system, Will Wright is possibly one of the most wickedly funny minds I have ever encountered. He knows how to work an audience -- he came right out and explained everyone present was a creepy Japanese otaku (at least on his powerpoint. The visuals would continue to play counterpoint to his words, most effectively by presenting a "Happiness Booster" geared to improve morale on a colonized planet as a skyscraper-sized wind sock puppet.).
Thursday would also kick off a three-day-long fish and chips habit -- every time lunch came around, I'd have fish and chips. The Tin Fish is an excellent establishment and I can't wait to go back next year. I think it says something that their clam chowder's better
than what I can find in Washington. xD
Met up with Mera and her posse again, but Jessica got replaced with Kara... who apparently has a beach house. I was very much jealous. She seemed nice, which is always good. After a while, I split off to raid the video game section and got my drumming ass handed to me in Rock Revolution, Konami's upcoming answer to Rock Band. Didn't stop me from 5-starring "Given Up" later on, though!
I'll do Friday, Saturday, and Sunday some other time. Right now, I'm just tired, and hope this'll suffice for the moment.