But the thing is, whenever I’m up there in front of the audience, and some crazy ass idiot is just going on, and on, and on, and everyone else has either a look of total boredom or annoyance, and then they all look at me with the please do something! expression, I simply have to comply…

My theory is that he might have been in fact been a furry himself, since he was the only one that was oddly silent when I went into my tirades against him. Though my big fear was that immediately after the final exchange, he went rushing off to the bathroom to hide in a stall to cry. Either that or get a weapon.

The next day, one of the guys tried to do some investigating and see if any threads from the Battlestar Galactica Guy had popped up, but there was nothing. Though he did somehow managed to discover that BGG has tried to go for the slot of forum admin, but was shot down. Gee, I wonder why….

Its my dream to one day moderate a panel with Battlestar Galactica Guy and Lochane, that crazy vampire/pirate motivational speaker from two years back.

I mean, it’s not hard to grasp that if “someone kept spamming the boards with nonsense and how he had to constantly engage in a battle of the wits.“, he automatically loses on principle. Every time.

Once again, it was too bad you couldn’t make it to the show (though I hear Miami kicked ass, which was great to hear). But as I mentioned at IC, Jason & I thought Dan was pretty awesome, and hilarious at times; I just loved how he was so matter of fact and no-bullshit, like that cool kid in class that just says stuff that pisses people off, but in a manner that’s impossible to argue because he’s so aloof, such as when he asked out loud “Why do most PC games, umm, suck?” which got a bunch of folks’ panties in a bunch, yet they couldn’t find the words to even mount a response.

As for the top 10 list, I will admit that a bit of it was designed to make the audience happy. So in that sense, it wasn’t entirely honest, which I’m a bit embarrassed to admit. Otherwise, you would have seen Gunstar Heroes, NiGHTS, and Radiant Silvergun listed.

Actually, I did plan on mentioning them in a “honorable mention” capacity (like “Super Mario 64 is awesome, but around the same time came another 3D game that blew the landscape away, but in a different fashion, and in some ways did Mario better, and its NiGHTS”), but I simply ran out of time.

And yeah, no fight with the furries, I’m afraid. Though I’m certain that that if I were confronted, they wouldn’t be so much trying to punch me, but perhaps lick my face.

Anyway, tell your friend Sara congrats on the win! I actually wanted to check the contest out, but my heavy schedule got in the way… Also, good luck with the date this weekend!

And yeah, for every clever game related shirt Hot Topic sells (I liked the Green Herb from RE shirt), there are like 10 or so that are way too blatant (I scored with the princess!). Its a shame that the quality Japanese shirts cost so much to import, guess why I stick to Macy’s like the other fellow in the comments.

Too bad no Furries threatened you, that would have actually been hilarious… though they don’t really seem like the type of people to do anything in person, merely threaten you on a message board (does GAF even have a large furry contingent aside from that sonarrat guy?). Its weird, I knew this one girl in HS… she was very quiet, didn’t have any friends, liked anime and cartoons maybe a bit too much… I was like the only person who was nice to her. After I finished college, I ran into her in the local Borders, she worked there… she invited me to her birthday party or something, so I told her I would go. Went there… and then while all her friends were mentioning stuff like “anthro-con” came to the horrific conclusion… that her and her friends were furries. She was a nice girl, I don’t know if I could hold it against her… its just very odd.

Personally, I consider myself “outside of the mainstream” but I tend to buy clothes from department stores like Macy’s more than Hot Topic.

I tend to distance myself from other gamers. Mostly because a lot of them are… Well, depressing. I hate getting into tech spec battles since, most of the time, they don’t matter to me. But, when you get into it with a person they usually bring up the “mainstream” and how “appearances help.” Ah well. I’m happy I bought Rez.

The Battlestar Galactica guy creeps me out.

As for webcomics. Some are good, and I’d like to try my hand at it someday. But, nothing really beats looking at a printed page. When you’re out at the doctor’s office, or sitting on the john. Or even laying in bed. I like some webcomics but, really, they haven’t proved how superior they are yet, outside of a way of massively distributing your content on something that is cheaper than printing out a color comic.

Of course, I’ve only read Understanding Comics and… not the other book.