by Danneh Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:25 pm
Well, the con's over now. I went and I had fun. Synopsis mode deployed:
- DAY 1:
I had gotten two hours of sleep and shit. No big surprise there, I'm awful at falling asleep when there's something massive coming my way.
>sex jokes
We got to our hotel and it was 15 floors up. Pretty much the top floor of that particular building, really. I miss the 60+ floor suites that the actual Ren Cen had... THAT VIEW OF CANADA OH GOD
First few hours were boring. The con doesn't start till 6 PM and we got there at noon... Then there was the pre-registration line. Which zig-zagged into infinity. But we got through it in 1.5 hours so that was pretty cash
Afterwards we went to the game room. They had Saturn Bomberman. You know, the 10-player one. That was where most of my game room time was spent, to be honest. They also had a Pokemon Center there that was selling Monsters, 5 hour energies, Ramune, Pocky... and melon bread.
Jumped on the melon bread like a motherfucker. And it was good.
Didn't go to any panels, iirc. We went back to the hotel at about 3 AM and fell asleep.
- DAY 2:
Woke up around 9 or 10 or so. We got equipped with our shit and headed straight to the Ren Cen. We dicked around with a panel or two, then headed to the game room and hopped on a few computers so we could play some League of Legends.
Then we went to the League of Legends panel. And they told us how to play League of Legends. We left immediately and went back to the game room to try and play more League of Legends. But all of the computers were taken, so no League of Legends was had at that time.
So instead we sat down and played some random games. And I met a girl who's just as much of a Chao-raising enthusiast as I am after playing some Sonic Adventure 2. Score.
We went to the Cobo Center, which is where most of the meatier panels were held. We went to Team Four Star's 18+ panel and watched Hellsing Abridged's fourth episode.
We laughed so hard our dicks fell off.
After finding our lost dicks, we took them to the... wait hold on i can't remember
Well, that was honestly about it for that day. After a few more hours of roaming around and having fun where we could find it, we all headed back to the hotel and tried to go to sleep.
I failed. I walked all the way back to the Ren Cen and chilled at the game room for a few more hours. There was a drunk chick who was trying to play Sonic 3 and I was like give me that fucking controller you are a giant ball of fuck everything up
Finally got tired and headed back to the hotel.
- DAY 3:
Got like 4 hours of sleep, which was kind of lame. Checkout was at 11 AM, so we all grabbed our stuff and hauled it around for the rest of the day. With the exception of Matt, who became a volunteer so he could abuse his privileges again.
First we went to the normal Team Four Star panel. We chilled in line for a while, played a bit of We Didn't Playtest This At All, and I won a bunch of times because of the "YOU WIN IF YOU ARE THE SHORTEST PERSON STILL IN THE GAME" card.
Being a tiny little bitch has its merits, apparently...
Again, game room. League, Bomberman, Sonic. This was the day I was waiting for. Just had to kill enough time to get to the juicy bits.
It got close to the time when we'd have to get in line to get Kyle Hebert's autograph, so we went to the Cobo Center and chilled. Played more We Didn't Playtest with some random people in the line. Branden ragequit'd.
We went to the Mario Party After Dark. It was somewhat boring, no one's pants could come off this time because of "hygiene issues"
And we had shitty seats. So yeah.
We left, then headed to the Ren Cen so we could prepare for... THE RAVE
OH MY GOD YES THE COLORS THE MUSIC THE DANCING AND THE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
But then the gear I bought at the table broke. Cheap ass $8 lightsabers that are actually 3 for $6 and break even when you don't fucking drop them
With no lightsaber to swing about haphazardly, I left and... guess
yes i went to the game room again
- FINAL DAY:
This is where things went to shit. Our ride screwed the pooch on us, we had to wait till 2 PM to get home when she said it'd be like 5 AM or so, one friend lost his shit and I got in trouble with his parents over it despite the fact that I sacrificed my good time to make sure he had fun and asgkhasdfkl;gdkl;gjkasdfhgjksdg
I died on a table in the volunteer room. One intern tried to wake me up but the cosplay repair woman defended me and let me sleep.
I would marry her.
Overall, I think I would rank Youma2013 the third best con I've been to.
2010 was the most magical.
2011 was overall the best.
2012 was the worst and I got shit on basically the whole time
2013 was alright, but I had to babysit my friend and he ended up losing his shit anyways.
Now to plan out 2014. brb