Now this is the big boys Robot battle competition. Located in a huge ballroom, competing on a raised platform and no sissy bullet proof glass. Muaaaaaahhhh. The rules are to just push your opponent off the platform, any side, any way. Not as many spinning blades as the micro battle but lots of mallets a smashing. Because again....it doesn't matter if the robot is in one piece when you push it off, just that you push it off. It's actually a nice place to sit back and nurse a late night partying binge. Well if you tune out all the cheering fans and pounding metal.
Awesomely BAD Japanese Music Videos
How bad can Japanese rock videos actually get? Come plumb the dismal depths of J-pop visual art.
Ok now I didn't go to this one. I was busy watching cool robots. This was all Kevin and Darkchild. I bring it up because when they got back they described it as the most raunchy, sometimes disgusting, in poor taste and somewhat just plain wrong but funniest thing they had ever seen. They said it was a definite "must see" for us for next year. It was also, apparently, standing room only.
Now at this point Dragon*Con Fatigue is kicking in. What we've noticed over the years is on Friday you look at your schedule and go: "Hey, let's go to this panel in that hotel two blocks over." On Saturday you look at your schedule and go: "Hey let's go to this panel in the hotel just next to us." By Sunday you look at your schedule and go: "Hey, is there anything in this hotel we can go to?" By Monday you're thinking: "Oh god please let there be something on the same floor I'm on." Master Johnathan and I were sitting outside and a man walked over to a group of us and said they were shooting a scene for a movie around the corner could we all come over and just look up to the sky for the camera. No one moved. See....Dragon*Con Fatigue.
Working Memory Training; the New Neuroplasticity of the Brain
Cogmed, working memory, and changing the memory capacity of your brain.
We don't get to this room much. It's two doors down from the JPL room and I think we get sidetracked. This is the next to the last event before the end of Dragon*Con. Kevin, Master Johnathan and I all have this and the lecture afterwards in this room on our schedule. We decided to hook up and finish out DC here. Probably had nothing to do with the fact that this room is in the hotel right next to the parking garage where our car was. It was an interesting lecture if you're into this sort of thing. Problem was it's the last day of Con and the room is small and packed with people sitting in the aisles and leaning against the walls and it's getting really warm....The three of us kept falling asleep on each other.
Needless to say we bailed on the second lecture and called it...well not a day yet. We still had Meaticide Atlanta to attend. See we had a reservation at a Brazilian Steak House to be joined again by Mistress Niki and Master James. Now....it's a day.
The End
*applause here*
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