Connecticon 2013 Wrap Up Part 3: Sunday, at Cons Not So Funday :(

And on the second to last day of the month I finish up my Connecticon 2013 report in comic format.

Some years I never finished it but this year in spite of my very busy work schedule (mostly self inflicted because as the Wu say, cash rules everything around me.  Also taxes.) it IS finished.  All three days complete.

So let's get to it, and as before if anyone in these pictures wants to contact me for original pictures, just to say hello, or to ask me to remove a picture feel free to correspond!

Also not only have I done this 3 part nearly 30 page coverage project, but I have painted up a character for a D&D campaign and already completed Shadowrun Returns on the PC.

Much to do in spite of having no life.  Go figure. :/

Connecticon 2013 Wrap Up Part 2: Saturday!

Here is part 2 covering the big day of the convention, Saturday!  Unlike a lot of folks I spent most of this day in two major events covering nearly twelve hours of the day.  And I didn't get down to the convention floor till around 1 PM.  So no rave (that's ok I am in my 30s and it.. really isn't a place for me), and many other events were obviously blocked out as I did these two things.

Cannot say I regret it at all.

To keep this reasonably sized, many pictures are not shown, mostly from the Call of Cthulhu game.  I do have them on the ol HD though.

Connecticon 2013 Wrap Up Part 1: Friday!

Yes I have been busy keeping me from blogging.  Also its been hot.  And work schedules.  Except this little bit of blog fodder is another reason!  Connecticon 2013.  It will be a two or three post comic thingie so let's get this party started!

See you next time for Saturday!

Connecticon 2012 a Quick Overview of Cool Stuff Part 1

Sorry I have been so lazy with the blog.  I have just..  not had the enthusiasm for it.  Or a lot of things really.

But I went to Connecticon again this year and here are some of the cool pictures of cosplayers and neat things.  I may do another follow up post with more stuff but not right now.

If I had one word to call the con this year it would be: Pleasant.  Not really awesome but not terrible either.  Mostly problem free and frustration free.  Traffic was fine getting there, got a hotel room on the 4th floor which was basically 1 flight of stairs down from the ballroom level, or 3 from ground floor.  I never had to deal with elevator issues once!  Not a ton of standing in line for anything either.

So let's just get to the pictures and other commentary:

 A really cool Rebecca Chambers costume.  I probably should have tried to talk to her some but I try not to bother people.  There was another cool Resident Evil fangirl I had a nice discussion with too but we sort of got cut off by the vendor who we were sort of in their booth area blatting away.  I think we both felt like tools.  I saw her again in a cool panel about Japanese monsters and myths but we just smiled at one another and that was it.  Bugger.  (If in some rare event said people are reading this: feel free to say hi to me!)

Buddy Christ is the best Christ.

     Ghostbusters AND Gozer?  Awesome!

    DOMO!!

A Portal cosplayer with a neat working robo thingie that made lights and sounds and moved a bit too I think.

A kicking Eldar Dreadnought with to scale 40K minis on its base.

                        The smaller Eldar heavy units from a different craftworld.  So cool.  I'm so jealous.

 A mega sized homemade Settlers of Catan game.  Niiice.

 Resident Evil cosplayers alongside Santa T.    

Amon from Legend of Korra.  There were a couple awesome Korra cosplayers there.  I just hate bothering people even for pictures.

Crazy sorta Dalek and a Weeping Angel from Doctor Who!  There were a lot of Doctor Who cosplayers this year.

A giant Creeper from Minecraft.  Which is better than normal Creepers.  I try not to be a Creeper.

 The Giant T Rex outside the next door Science Center.  I so need to get folks to go with me so we can visit that place.  They always seem to have such cool stuff going on.  And I would feel like a lamer going alone.

 My half of the Warmachine Two Player Battlebox.  I got it Monday.  Assembled and prepped my Khador to this standard to play at the con by Thursday night.

 There were some Dealer's Room issues this year so not as much I wanted to buy.  Plus I am trying to be a good boy.  However I got some cool stuff.  2 Warmachine books I needed for 20% off each, a D&D Endless Quest book for 3 bucks, the Street Fighter Heroclix set, 2 Space Hulk Card Game expansions I had been looking for a long time, and a Vinyl Gaiking figure I have also had my eyes on but it kept selling out before I had money for it everywhere.  I guess a cheap year beats some other ones when I just went stupid spending.

And my friend's birthday gift which I got this far from Monday-Thursday.  The Menoth from the 2 player set all assembled, primed, basecoated, and flocked.  Plus he got the Menoth token set, the rulesbook and other goodies from the 2P box, plus I printed him out cheat sheets and army lists for the 15 and 25 point game sizes, giving him what he would need to look out for to buy for those levels of games.  (Not a lot.  Sadly no dealers had what we needed.)

Like I said.  Pleasant.  But I wasn't blown away by the con this year.  I did have a good time.  My issues will be in part 2.

Connecticon 2011 VLog Part 5: Day Two Afternoon

This one is kind of short.  Mostly just the big cosplay event thing line.  Next one will be a fireworks show.

Connecticon 2011 VLog Part 4: Day Two Midafternoon

Here is more con footage.  Midafternoon stuff here.

Not the most exciting of updates, but anything over 8 minutes or so at 720p takes AGES to upload and hope there is no wifi or other internet related connection fart.  So we get this amount.  Like I said though, Saturday is the biggest day.  So I have the most footage.

Connecticon 2011 VLog Part 3: Day Two Morning

More mayhem.  Youtube was being a pain so it took quite some time to get the bloody thing uploaded.

Connecticon 2011 VLog Part 2: Day One

Here is part 2, the actual stuff I did Friday.  I didn't actually record as much today as I did the next two days but that's ok.  Was faster to quasi edit.  I pretty much leave all my flubs in.  

                Next time we start on Saturday!  Where the magic happens.

[Connecticon 2010 Week] CTCon Week Part 4: Cosplayers

Yep.  Today we cover the Cosplayers, which is weeaboo speak for Costume Players.  Aka "People dressing up in stuff".

Some folks do it for the attention.  Others because they love whatever character they are dressing up as.  Some because its a damn challenge of sewing and creativity to get a good rendition of a movie, tv show, videogame, or cartoon character.

Sadly due to a Hard Drive crash all my Connection 09 Cosplay pictures are gone, but we at least have this year's to show you.

Now as to the pictures I took?

I had various requirements.  Have a cool outfit was a big one.  Be available for a picture at the time I noticed and wanted to take it.  (I don't like bothering people and some really cool ones I saw but not when it was convenient to take the shot for either of us.)  Not be something stupid I don't like.

As we will see my pictures weren't just to get shots of cute women in sexy outfits.   There was some assclown in the Artist Colony pretty much who seemed to have his stall open as a place to grab pictures of young women in scantily clad outfits in the skeeviest poses he could convince them to do.

I hope his camera broke.  Pervert.

Anyhow, on to the pictures.

(And as an aside to ALL my Connecticon 2010 posts:  If you are in any of the pictures over any of these articles and do not want your face used, please feel free to contact me and have some reasonable proof it is you, and I will edit the picture and blur your face out.  While I am being a bit punchy in these installments it is NOT my intention to cause any undue discomfort or negative attention towards you unless you were being a tool and thus deserve my ire.  And even then you don't deserve to have your face displayed on my blog with mocking commentary.)

(Here we have a group of "Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" cosplayers and somebody from "Death Note" doing the opening credits dance from said show with Melancholy.)

(These are some really awesome Ghostbusters at a booth promoting an active Ghostbusters club in the region, similar to what the 501st does for Star Wars.  I didn't feel like bugging them for a cool shot, and honestly the detail on their backpacks needs to be seen anyhow.)

(This dude had a KICK ASS Riddler from Batman.  Cool guy too!  He beat me at the Pirate Munchkin game.  And I was so close to winning too.  Well played Mr. Nigma.  Well played.)

(This nice lady was cosplaying as Quistis from Final Fantasy 8.  Alongside Selphie, she is cosplaying one of the two things about that game that almost made that utter abortion of a JRPG bearable.  What it says about me that the schoolteacher with a whip and the nunchaku wielding girl in a "Gogo" 60s style outfit are the only things I liked about said game perhaps should be left unsaid...)

(While sort of blurry and I humbly apologize for failures as a photographer with a 7.1 megapixel camera you can now get in a box of Cracker Jacks, these guys were pretty cool.  Cosplaying as classic green Army Men toys?  THAT RULES.)

(That is an awesome Beetlejuice in the center.  The undead Samurai to the right is a pretty unique idea.  Sadly, we have a furry in the picture.  Oh well.  I didn't want to be a jerk and tell him to get his freaky butt out of my picture.  For as we all know the Furry deserves but one fate.  The fate our most holy God Emperor on Terra decrees for the Mutant, the Heretic, and the Unclean.  The fate meted out by holy Bolter and blessed Chainsword...)

(This fine lookin lass is probably playing someone from an anime or console game, but to me it looks like Alice from "American Mc'Gee's Alice", which has Alice of Wonderland fame wrecking face and going on a most righteous killing spree.  Either way we have someone covered in blood with a cool look and a bloody machete.  AWESOME.)

(This gang looked great!  Apparently they are bad guys from the Kingdom Hearts series known as the Heartless.  They went for a groovy "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" group pose that is really neat.  The costume work looks good, and I SO respect people willing to wear such warm outfits in the middle of a high 80s-low 90s Connecticut heat wave.  I was sweating merely wearing a backpack.  I can only imagine what they were going through!)

(Remember kids, ALWAYS BET ON DUKE to... never actually come out with a sequel to the 1996 DOS hit.  I'm not quite sure where the unicycle comes into play though.)

(Here we have one of the many 10th Doctor "Doctor Who" cosplayers, this sadly being the only one I got a shot of.  But he even has the Sonic Screwdriver and the 3d glasses Tennant used in one episode.  Must be that wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff in action.  There were even a few 11 Doctors out too.   I apologize for not getting more of yall playing the LAST TIMELORD in picture form.)

(Here we have this cool to talk to lass playing what I think is Chii from some CLAMP show about walking girl robots whose power switch is in their groinal area.  I don't like CLAMP stuff so I dunno for sure.  But her costume ROCKS and she was a cool person and thus she joins the picture crew.)

(Its Rogue from the X Men, and one of the older outfits everyone's favorite mutant southern belle wore, and honestly probably the one I like her in the most.  So our subject has class and comics knowledge.  Well done and kudos!)

(A cast of Sailor Moon cosplayers.  I think they are doing their outfits from a later season.  I am not sure but I stopped watching since there comes a point in any nerd's life when one wonders why one is watching a show about high school girls fighting evil in short skirts and one should probably not be watching such a show.  That being said its cool because there is a lot of work that must have went into their outfits and its a mid 90s show.  Not as old school as say Macross or Space Cruiser Yamato, but its nice to see folks dressing up as something they clearly care about instead of the latest flavor of the week.)

(Its Hit Girl from KICK ASS, one of the cooler movies I have seen this year, though by all reports the comic it is based on is a joyless miserable mess as is the writer (Mark Millar) is wont to write.  Hit Girl was hilarious in the movie, and its a neat choice.  Rock!)

(ITS GIANT HELLO KITTY!  This cosplayer was pretty much in character both days I saw them.  Why am I fistbumping the HK?  Well see there are many doofuses at these nerd cons carrying signs saying "FREE HUGS" as a form of attention whoring/excuse to feel people up in a legal manner.  I think this is stupid even though I could probably use a good hug from time to time.  Well, I choose to change the game and hope anyone out there reading this does the same.  Let us end the FREE HUG and turn it into FISTBUUUUUMP!  If nothing else it will confuse the beejesus out of these hug people when you fistbump them in a sign of Nerd Brotherhood.  LETS DO THIS SHEET!)

And since there are all these fine folks who took a minute or so out of their fun day of probably sweating like a pig in the outfit they spent dozens of hours putting together AND being willing to get pictured and possibly lusted over/mocked on the Internet by people of cruel or deviant dispostions I shall post myself as I was 18 years ago cosplaying as a member of the Navy:

Oh wait.  I really was in the Navy.  Even though I look freaking TWELVE in that picture.  This is what not having the sorts of underaged drinking and smoking "fun" people with happier albeit unhealthier high school experiences does to ya.  Clean (ish) living does have a use after all.  

Someone go back in time and tell me to run from my nerdy existence while I still can ok?  I guess I did get some horrible stories of people and some valuable life and work experience out of it all..

Thanks for reading and anyone who happens to be in the pictures feel free to say hi!