Post by Defectron on May 12, 2009 23:28:59 GMT -5
So yeah I got back from acen 2009 a couple days ago I was going to get this up earlier but stuff happened and I didn't. This particular con wasnt as balls to the wall crazy as the last few were unfortunately. If anything I think this particular con will be remembered as the con where I pretty much lied and bullshitted my way throught he convention to get out of bad situations. Due to the fact that I could potentially get in trouble for some of these lies if the wrong person sees them I will type this in code
Problem: All problems will be refferred to as "A wizard did it"
Lies/bullshitting: these questionable solutions to said problems will be refferred to as "cookies happened"
Anyway here's what happened
As usual I left on thursday to go to the con. Not too much happened thursday since the con hadn't officially started yet. Anyway when I got over tot he con I was a little concerned because I thought a wizard may have done it. After a bit of investigating I discovered that the wizard had indeed done it. I had to find a way to make cookies happen. Just when I was about to give up, I found the cookie recipe. And so after talking it over with the cookie chefs, the cookies did indeed happen which saved me alot of money.
Around the customer service area, I noticed some women making special yarn daleks which were cool
Not only a half hour after this another wizard tried to do it, but he didn't count on my tiger instincts, the battle was over before it even started.
After that was out of the way I decided to go to the staff meet and greet since I hear nabeshin would be there this year. I had plans to try and convince him to give me a piece of his fro to sell on ebay, but unfortunately I never got the chance as this was the only time we met during the con. As some of you may know I have met nabeshin at previous cons, you can read about this here
forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?t=3061
Anyway, as soon as I walk in I spot nabeshin and wave to him ( I was wearing my paper plate mask at the time). As soon as he sees me he gets this scared look on his face and puts his hands up. The meet and greet sucked this year, because someone thought it would be a good idea to have all the food brought to some place where the meet and greet wasn't happening which resulted in most of the guests not getting food and going back to their rooms.
After this I checked in with the customer service staff and find out I got transferred to registration. I must admit I was pretty worried when I heard that. Last year the people in registration were pretty much the bitches of the con due to poor organization. But fortunately they seemed to have their act together pretty well this time around.
There wasn't much else to do so I went to bed. But then just as I was falling asleep my room mate shows up with two girls. I'm guessing they were planning on getting it on that night but me being there kinda screwed things up so they left. Part of me was irritated they woke me up, the other part was annoyed they left because I was damn bored and whatever they were up to may have made things a bit more interesting.
That night I dreampt a giant gorilla with a zipper on its back attacked me. But I told the gorilla this old guy across the street in a wheelchair didn't like gorillas and cut off their feet. The gorilla got pissed and ran over to beat the crap out of him while I snuck away which was where that dream ended.
The next day I headed over to registration, after working there for a bit I went to the dealers room and found battle angel last order vol 13 among other things.
On my way out of there I got on an elevator with too many people. The elevator got stuck and wouldn't move anywhere. Everyone seemed to be scared that the cables would snap and we would plummet to our doom. Me on the other hand, for some reason this all seemed like fun and I just kept laughing at the situation. I really can't explain this other then that living in boring indiana where nothing special ever happens, where everything is always boring seems to be getting to me. I think it's problematic when your life gets so boring the thought of plummeting to ones doom seems like a fun way to kill time. But eventually we got out of the elevator and I went on my way.
After that I headed over to the main ballroom where I caught the end of the opening ceremonies. Karl Horn was back this year. After the ceremonies were over we talked about some things in the hallway. Yes apprantly Rei farts in the shinji Ikari raising project....
I was kinda hoping Karl would have that party in his room like last time, because its always fun to talk with him about stuff. But that didn't happen this year, oh well if it had I may not have met the wannabe paranormal investigator on saturday so thats ok i guess.
After that I did more registration stuff until later that night when I went to the eva panel where Karl , Aaron, Mattgreenfield and Tiffany grant talked about various things such as Tiffanys giant Asuka collection. When she was going on about what asuka merchandise she didn't have I halfway felt like bringing up the pooping asuka on the toilet but didnt. I kind of regret not doing that since it would have been funny.
According to matt greenfield the laem is getting very close to happening but he can't devulge any more details then that.
This panel was schedualed very inconveniently because it was right next to anime hell which I wanted to go to as well. This caused a wizard to do it, but once again I made cookies happen and it was alright.
After some more wizards and cookies I headed back to my room for some sleep. But my roomate was up and he was drunk. He was going on about how he was going to score some major weabooty tonight and that I should come along for the action. Well I was bored again so I went along with it, worst case scenerio some girl shoots him down and I can laugh at him or so I thought. We headed over to the video game room in the basement where he heard some girl was. After asking around about her the video game staff said "I think she's underage" to which he responded
"I don't care if she's underaged! I'm horny and drunk!" but despite his protests it looked like he would receive no weabooty tonight. So he headed over tot he DDR pad and started dancing away on it. It was at this point I began to wonder why the hell I was following this guy. Wasn't something interesting supposed to happen? Why was I in the basement watching the "King of Weabooty" play DDR? Well it soon became clear that this was a wasted effort to not be bored and I headed back to my room.
The next day I went over and did some more registration stuff. After this a wizard happened, but once again cookies were easily obtained. It was then I learned that there was a second eva panel here. The con must have been making up for not having one last year by having two this time around. But first I went to the villain creation panel where I made a character sheet for "Muffin", the girl whose the leader of the lost children in my short story anthology. On the way over there I happened to run into a really good haruko cosplayer
After that the second eva panel started I sat down around the front of the room, Aaron was there too. Not sure if Drinian was since I dont know what he looks like.
The panel was about an english majors look at evangelion. It was an alright panel, except I think they focused way too much on religious symbolism in the show. As Tsurumaki said alot of that was just thrown in to look cool. The fact that Gendo has some similarities to Moses is probably just coincidencidental. As Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
As I came up from the basement I saw a really fat man in a yoko costume. Funny thing, his manboobs were so fat he didn't need to pad the bikini at all.
After that I went tot he tokusatsu hell panel which was one of the funniest things in the whole convention. It was sort of a weird clip show like anime hell except it was all about tokusatsu. I managed to track down a couple of the videos they showed there here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPt6zqqyrM
The above clip is the "Ninja Dragon" trailer, I didn't notice it at the time, but it looks like whoever did this stole some parts of dagger of Kamuis soundtrack. I wonder if they got permission for that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWeeiQ-CqDc
Now this movie short is one of the best I have ever seen. This is easily the best short I've seen on youtube about sentai heros or pretty much anything with the possible exceptions of kung fu love and Daicon IV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Rwm88P84U
And here's another one that was shown, not nearly as cool as the freshmen earth defender movie though.
After that I did some other stuff I can't remember and then I went tot he acen ghosts panel. Once again this is the panel that talks about how the hotel is haunted. The person hosting it talked about how a ghost kept on knocking his hat off his head last year. Some of the stories were damn cool, one person recounted their encounter with ghost samurai which was awesome.
Once again though I must stress that assuming that these are all ghosts is a mistake though. Lets assume these encounters happen for real. All we know is that something unusual is happening. But even if it appears ghosts are behind them we can't rule out other possibilities. After all if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck sometimes you'll get a guy in a duck suit.
After it was over I met one of the people who talked there, a man who likes to pretend to masterbate with a lightsaber and sometimes gets attacked by bowling balls. He introduced himself tome as a wannabe paranormal investigator, a title I too share. So we thought in the future we should team up. I still gotta contact him. Who knows, maybe I'll have a powerful new ally in my search for the truth (or at least in my search for ways not to be bored)
The night ended with me watching an ep of sex warrior pudding which was a ludicrously bad hentai.
The next day a wizard did it and cookies happened. After that I noticed where someone got a little out of control
I gotta ask how the hell someone would do that? The walls wernt fragile at all they'ed need something like a big hammer or pick to do that sort of damage since you couldnt just do it with one of those prop weapons the cosplayers carried around.
I went to the kaiju panel, I got beat in the kaiju quiz not because I didn't know the answers but because the other guy had faster hands grabbing the roll of duct tape we were supposed to go for when we knew answers to the questions. After that I showed the kaiju panel guys my short film and tried to get the 300 godzilla parody from them which somehow caused my thumb drive to die. This is the movie I tried to get from them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoEVJCfHQE
After watching some eps of Moribito no seirei I left. As usual it felt pretty depressing after it was all over, it was time to go back to boring indiana. Well not yet actually. I went and did some stuff with my freinds afterwards. They both got drunk which resulted in me and one of my two freinds setting fire to stuff in his car. It was around this time though I realized that I left my liscense in my car and with thsi questionable stuff going on there was a good chance we would get pulled over. One of my freinds got int he drivers seat and stopped at a park where he and the other guy almost got in a fight because he was supposed to meet a girlo later and he got him drunk. Somehow we got back after which we watched the second to last urusei yatsura DVD as well as the movie "Ten nights of dreams" which i botught at the con. Ten nights of dreams is an awesome surrealism anthology film which i can't recommend enough. The directing is cool and it even has a wood sculptor who makes art by doing the robot dance.
On my way back I kept on having to hit myself to make sure I didn't fall asleep at the wheel since I didn't get alot of sleep at the con.
So yeah, during this con alot of people got their photo taken with me.
And that was acen 2009, before its all said and done I'd like to say a few words about my other identity. The paper plate guy.
I've sort of developed a bit of a cult following at acen. They all call me plateman. But despite this, despite all the photos people have taken of me posing with cute girls I can't find them on the internet. I wonder if I'm using the wrong search terms. Some guy even interviewed me on the first day of the convention about who I was supposed to be. Now I tend to give alot of answers about this, I suppose most of them are corect in some way like when I say "I'm that guy over there" but for the interview I told him I was cosplaying as an alternate version of myself I used to role play as, this guy was a techno sorceror who wears a paper plate mask. Buit the problem is I can't remember which came first, my paper plate mask cosplay or the rpg character? So that might not have been correct.
Alot of people who see me seem to assume I'm supposed to be Anonymous, but that's certainly not correct either. Besides werent all of them supposed to look like V?
What was funny is on saturday my freind pulled up in front of the convention and I was about to get in the car wearing my mask. Some random guy ran out of the crowd with a microphone and tried to interview us. That was pretty funny because my freind freaked out and drove off as soon as he sees this guy with a mic coming our way.
For those who are curious I've RP'd as several different versions of myself totaling in four. Why the hell do I RP as variations of myself? The answer is just because! That's why. Here's what they are
1. The paper plate mask techno sorceror
2. The tentacle girl
3. The scorpion girl who changes into a giant frog monster
4. A version of me whose made of rubber for some reason
Needless to say out of all of those the paper plate mask techno sorceror is the easiest to pull off as I literally did it with a shoe string budget since I used a shoe string to tie the mask to my head, and no matter how sexy the female versions of me are in the RP's I don't think anyone wants to see me try dressing up as them in real life.
Sadly I wasn't able to get Nabeshin or any of the other japanese guests to sign my mask this year since I never got an opportunity to really meet them since I was always busy with other things.
In conclusion
Problem: All problems will be refferred to as "A wizard did it"
Lies/bullshitting: these questionable solutions to said problems will be refferred to as "cookies happened"
Anyway here's what happened
As usual I left on thursday to go to the con. Not too much happened thursday since the con hadn't officially started yet. Anyway when I got over tot he con I was a little concerned because I thought a wizard may have done it. After a bit of investigating I discovered that the wizard had indeed done it. I had to find a way to make cookies happen. Just when I was about to give up, I found the cookie recipe. And so after talking it over with the cookie chefs, the cookies did indeed happen which saved me alot of money.
Around the customer service area, I noticed some women making special yarn daleks which were cool
Not only a half hour after this another wizard tried to do it, but he didn't count on my tiger instincts, the battle was over before it even started.
After that was out of the way I decided to go to the staff meet and greet since I hear nabeshin would be there this year. I had plans to try and convince him to give me a piece of his fro to sell on ebay, but unfortunately I never got the chance as this was the only time we met during the con. As some of you may know I have met nabeshin at previous cons, you can read about this here
forum.evageeks.org/viewtopic.php?t=3061
Anyway, as soon as I walk in I spot nabeshin and wave to him ( I was wearing my paper plate mask at the time). As soon as he sees me he gets this scared look on his face and puts his hands up. The meet and greet sucked this year, because someone thought it would be a good idea to have all the food brought to some place where the meet and greet wasn't happening which resulted in most of the guests not getting food and going back to their rooms.
After this I checked in with the customer service staff and find out I got transferred to registration. I must admit I was pretty worried when I heard that. Last year the people in registration were pretty much the bitches of the con due to poor organization. But fortunately they seemed to have their act together pretty well this time around.
There wasn't much else to do so I went to bed. But then just as I was falling asleep my room mate shows up with two girls. I'm guessing they were planning on getting it on that night but me being there kinda screwed things up so they left. Part of me was irritated they woke me up, the other part was annoyed they left because I was damn bored and whatever they were up to may have made things a bit more interesting.
That night I dreampt a giant gorilla with a zipper on its back attacked me. But I told the gorilla this old guy across the street in a wheelchair didn't like gorillas and cut off their feet. The gorilla got pissed and ran over to beat the crap out of him while I snuck away which was where that dream ended.
The next day I headed over to registration, after working there for a bit I went to the dealers room and found battle angel last order vol 13 among other things.
On my way out of there I got on an elevator with too many people. The elevator got stuck and wouldn't move anywhere. Everyone seemed to be scared that the cables would snap and we would plummet to our doom. Me on the other hand, for some reason this all seemed like fun and I just kept laughing at the situation. I really can't explain this other then that living in boring indiana where nothing special ever happens, where everything is always boring seems to be getting to me. I think it's problematic when your life gets so boring the thought of plummeting to ones doom seems like a fun way to kill time. But eventually we got out of the elevator and I went on my way.
After that I headed over to the main ballroom where I caught the end of the opening ceremonies. Karl Horn was back this year. After the ceremonies were over we talked about some things in the hallway. Yes apprantly Rei farts in the shinji Ikari raising project....
I was kinda hoping Karl would have that party in his room like last time, because its always fun to talk with him about stuff. But that didn't happen this year, oh well if it had I may not have met the wannabe paranormal investigator on saturday so thats ok i guess.
After that I did more registration stuff until later that night when I went to the eva panel where Karl , Aaron, Mattgreenfield and Tiffany grant talked about various things such as Tiffanys giant Asuka collection. When she was going on about what asuka merchandise she didn't have I halfway felt like bringing up the pooping asuka on the toilet but didnt. I kind of regret not doing that since it would have been funny.
According to matt greenfield the laem is getting very close to happening but he can't devulge any more details then that.
This panel was schedualed very inconveniently because it was right next to anime hell which I wanted to go to as well. This caused a wizard to do it, but once again I made cookies happen and it was alright.
After some more wizards and cookies I headed back to my room for some sleep. But my roomate was up and he was drunk. He was going on about how he was going to score some major weabooty tonight and that I should come along for the action. Well I was bored again so I went along with it, worst case scenerio some girl shoots him down and I can laugh at him or so I thought. We headed over to the video game room in the basement where he heard some girl was. After asking around about her the video game staff said "I think she's underage" to which he responded
"I don't care if she's underaged! I'm horny and drunk!" but despite his protests it looked like he would receive no weabooty tonight. So he headed over tot he DDR pad and started dancing away on it. It was at this point I began to wonder why the hell I was following this guy. Wasn't something interesting supposed to happen? Why was I in the basement watching the "King of Weabooty" play DDR? Well it soon became clear that this was a wasted effort to not be bored and I headed back to my room.
The next day I went over and did some more registration stuff. After this a wizard happened, but once again cookies were easily obtained. It was then I learned that there was a second eva panel here. The con must have been making up for not having one last year by having two this time around. But first I went to the villain creation panel where I made a character sheet for "Muffin", the girl whose the leader of the lost children in my short story anthology. On the way over there I happened to run into a really good haruko cosplayer
After that the second eva panel started I sat down around the front of the room, Aaron was there too. Not sure if Drinian was since I dont know what he looks like.
The panel was about an english majors look at evangelion. It was an alright panel, except I think they focused way too much on religious symbolism in the show. As Tsurumaki said alot of that was just thrown in to look cool. The fact that Gendo has some similarities to Moses is probably just coincidencidental. As Freud once said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
As I came up from the basement I saw a really fat man in a yoko costume. Funny thing, his manboobs were so fat he didn't need to pad the bikini at all.
After that I went tot he tokusatsu hell panel which was one of the funniest things in the whole convention. It was sort of a weird clip show like anime hell except it was all about tokusatsu. I managed to track down a couple of the videos they showed there here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPt6zqqyrM
The above clip is the "Ninja Dragon" trailer, I didn't notice it at the time, but it looks like whoever did this stole some parts of dagger of Kamuis soundtrack. I wonder if they got permission for that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWeeiQ-CqDc
Now this movie short is one of the best I have ever seen. This is easily the best short I've seen on youtube about sentai heros or pretty much anything with the possible exceptions of kung fu love and Daicon IV.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Rwm88P84U
And here's another one that was shown, not nearly as cool as the freshmen earth defender movie though.
After that I did some other stuff I can't remember and then I went tot he acen ghosts panel. Once again this is the panel that talks about how the hotel is haunted. The person hosting it talked about how a ghost kept on knocking his hat off his head last year. Some of the stories were damn cool, one person recounted their encounter with ghost samurai which was awesome.
Once again though I must stress that assuming that these are all ghosts is a mistake though. Lets assume these encounters happen for real. All we know is that something unusual is happening. But even if it appears ghosts are behind them we can't rule out other possibilities. After all if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck sometimes you'll get a guy in a duck suit.
After it was over I met one of the people who talked there, a man who likes to pretend to masterbate with a lightsaber and sometimes gets attacked by bowling balls. He introduced himself tome as a wannabe paranormal investigator, a title I too share. So we thought in the future we should team up. I still gotta contact him. Who knows, maybe I'll have a powerful new ally in my search for the truth (or at least in my search for ways not to be bored)
The night ended with me watching an ep of sex warrior pudding which was a ludicrously bad hentai.
The next day a wizard did it and cookies happened. After that I noticed where someone got a little out of control
I gotta ask how the hell someone would do that? The walls wernt fragile at all they'ed need something like a big hammer or pick to do that sort of damage since you couldnt just do it with one of those prop weapons the cosplayers carried around.
I went to the kaiju panel, I got beat in the kaiju quiz not because I didn't know the answers but because the other guy had faster hands grabbing the roll of duct tape we were supposed to go for when we knew answers to the questions. After that I showed the kaiju panel guys my short film and tried to get the 300 godzilla parody from them which somehow caused my thumb drive to die. This is the movie I tried to get from them
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FoEVJCfHQE
After watching some eps of Moribito no seirei I left. As usual it felt pretty depressing after it was all over, it was time to go back to boring indiana. Well not yet actually. I went and did some stuff with my freinds afterwards. They both got drunk which resulted in me and one of my two freinds setting fire to stuff in his car. It was around this time though I realized that I left my liscense in my car and with thsi questionable stuff going on there was a good chance we would get pulled over. One of my freinds got int he drivers seat and stopped at a park where he and the other guy almost got in a fight because he was supposed to meet a girlo later and he got him drunk. Somehow we got back after which we watched the second to last urusei yatsura DVD as well as the movie "Ten nights of dreams" which i botught at the con. Ten nights of dreams is an awesome surrealism anthology film which i can't recommend enough. The directing is cool and it even has a wood sculptor who makes art by doing the robot dance.
On my way back I kept on having to hit myself to make sure I didn't fall asleep at the wheel since I didn't get alot of sleep at the con.
So yeah, during this con alot of people got their photo taken with me.
And that was acen 2009, before its all said and done I'd like to say a few words about my other identity. The paper plate guy.
I've sort of developed a bit of a cult following at acen. They all call me plateman. But despite this, despite all the photos people have taken of me posing with cute girls I can't find them on the internet. I wonder if I'm using the wrong search terms. Some guy even interviewed me on the first day of the convention about who I was supposed to be. Now I tend to give alot of answers about this, I suppose most of them are corect in some way like when I say "I'm that guy over there" but for the interview I told him I was cosplaying as an alternate version of myself I used to role play as, this guy was a techno sorceror who wears a paper plate mask. Buit the problem is I can't remember which came first, my paper plate mask cosplay or the rpg character? So that might not have been correct.
Alot of people who see me seem to assume I'm supposed to be Anonymous, but that's certainly not correct either. Besides werent all of them supposed to look like V?
What was funny is on saturday my freind pulled up in front of the convention and I was about to get in the car wearing my mask. Some random guy ran out of the crowd with a microphone and tried to interview us. That was pretty funny because my freind freaked out and drove off as soon as he sees this guy with a mic coming our way.
For those who are curious I've RP'd as several different versions of myself totaling in four. Why the hell do I RP as variations of myself? The answer is just because! That's why. Here's what they are
1. The paper plate mask techno sorceror
2. The tentacle girl
3. The scorpion girl who changes into a giant frog monster
4. A version of me whose made of rubber for some reason
Needless to say out of all of those the paper plate mask techno sorceror is the easiest to pull off as I literally did it with a shoe string budget since I used a shoe string to tie the mask to my head, and no matter how sexy the female versions of me are in the RP's I don't think anyone wants to see me try dressing up as them in real life.
Sadly I wasn't able to get Nabeshin or any of the other japanese guests to sign my mask this year since I never got an opportunity to really meet them since I was always busy with other things.
In conclusion
