NYC COMIC CON!!!!!!!11111oneoneone

ZOMFGWTFBBBQSAUCE!!!!


Amazing time yesterday at the NYC Comic Con. First of all I went as Big Boss from MGS. The old school Big Boss though, in the trenchcoat and with white hair. It was impossible to get from point A to point B without being stopped by someone shouting, "BIG BOSS! IT'S BIG BOSS! CAN WE TAKE A PICTURE?"

I was surprised how some girls knew who Big Boss was. I was surprised in general that a lot of people recognized him. Then again I don't think it was that a lot of people knew him. It's more that hardly anyone dresses up as him, so the people that DO know him go all out. I ran into a lot of young Big Bosses and had my picture taken with them - the young and the old.

I got interviewed too, but I didn't bother to ask by whom because I was in a rush to meet a friend.

"Who are you?"
"I'm Big Boss."
"And what makes you the Big Boss?"
"I was the greatest soldier of the 20th Century."

After that things got blurry because the interviewer started asking weird questions/saying weird things. I wasn't sure if she was making fun of me or making jokes. Whatever. Bitch.

So I jumped from friend to friend who went to Comic Con too, but I spent most of my time in the end with Brian and three other guys. Brian and I were trying to find the group when we ran into a fat guy wearing a Rebel spacesuit. The first thing we thought was that he was trying to be Porkins from the original Star Wars. Porkins became a cult favorite because he was this fat guy in the movie who got his ship blown up. People photoshopped McDonalds in his cockpit.
So we were like, "PORKINS! NOOOO!"
The guy looks at us like, "lolwut?"
And then Brian and I realize, "Oh, shit, maybe he's not pretending to be Porkins. Maybe he's just fat!"
Brian felt horrible afterward. I just laughed my ass off. The guy was probably trying to be Luke.

That's the thing at Comic Con. There are always two extremes. The immensely nerdy fat guys who fail to dress up and then the hot chicks who are there only to dress up as the scantily-clad women from video games and comics. And then they attract all those fat people. So it's like a food chain of sorts.

I'm that troll who goes around trying to find rare stuff like a rat trying to find cheese.

Like this samurai sword. I've been meaning to buy a samurai sword because I know Kendo, and I want to know how it feels like to really have a sword. I saw this stand and I practically jizzed in my pants and took a picture.
The Asian guy who ran the stand saw me and started shouting, "NO PEEEEKKKTURRRESSS! NO! NO! PUT CAMERA AWAY!"
I was like, "Uh--ah...right, ok."

Then there was this retro video game stand that was there two years ago when I went. I was hoping they'd have Final Fantasy 7. They did - but it's some Japanese import. I mean, that's cool and all - but I'M NOT FUCKING JAPANESE!

So I was bummed out for a while----UNTIL I FOUND ANOTHER RETRO GAME STAND! *GASP*
This was really retro this time. I'm talking NES AND SNES. I jizzed in my pants again and scoured through what they had. The best part was my SNES still worked perfectly.
I thought to myself, "Oh, man, this is so cool. Look at all the SNES games they have!"
They had Lufia, with a subtitle I can't remember. It looked like a great RPG and I always wanted to try Lufia.
"How much is this?"
"Two-hundred."
....
"Uh...what?"
"It's two-hundred."
. . . .
"Wait----how much is this?"
(in a more irate tone after asking a third time) "It's. . . two-hundred."

What the fuck is this shit? Is there like some nuclear device in this cartridge? Is the secret to life embedded in its chips? What the hell, man?

If there weren't so many people, I'd have totally just swiped it off.

And I saved the picture anyway of the samurai stand. In the picture the Asian guy is still shouting at me.

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Book of the Day:The Scarlet Pimpernel

Video Game of the Day:Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Hero of the Day:Big Boss

Villain of the Day: (technically) Big Boss

Movie of the Day:Goldeneye

From afar the lightning strikes. . .

. . . a thunderstorm is here!

Joy, joy, joy! Thunderstorms! YES!

Today has been a very productive day, and still is. I'm typing a blog whilst also typing two papers, juggling all of them at intervals. How sexy is that?

I'm going to focus then on my youtube videos in the coming days. I hope some of you have seen my channel, because within this semester I'm planning to start a series.

But here's a lineup of things I've yet to post:

1. Secrets of the Scene: Raiders of the Lost Ark 3 - alas, the long-awaited third portion of my critique on that movie. The problem with its eventual production has been the lack of any good software to record or cut scenes from the DVDs. I used FRAPs but that became a pain in the ass and it got screwed up. But now I believe I found another program. So hang on to your fedoras!

2. Back to College, Scotty - just a short video about my new year and showing the room. Nothing big.

3. And finally, the first episode of my series. It's based off a short story I'm writing, and thus I'm going to adapt it to a college setting. The series follows the main character (me) and his internal musings about the world around him, no matter how irritating it may seem. It all begins when a terribly uncultured girl asks him for help on typing a book report. The episode itself is called "Bradbury for Sale", but the series title is still in the works.

I'm thinking of also posting fun stuff at the end of each blog from now on.
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Funny Video of the Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o50_ZlMnjqY
(WOW, you REALLY must have no life to buy that, or no friends at least)

Book of the Day: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
(Slow in the very beginning but then it gets REALLY intense. Highly recommend.)

Video Game of the Day: Metal Gear Solid (PSX)
(Officially my favorite video game of all time, so far that is. Think you can beat it on Extreme mode?)

Hero of the Day: Nicholas D. Wolfwood

Villain of the Day: Liquid Snake