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UncertainJakutten

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #420 on: August 01, 2011, 05:59:41 AM »
Kilga...I hope things get better...I'm glad you made it home safe...


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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #421 on: August 01, 2011, 06:38:52 AM »
Just made it back myself. Pretty good weekend. I caught up on sleep, played a lot of shmups while abusing free play and infinite continues, and got to meet most of you even if I'm not that talkative in the large groups. Camera says I took almost 300 pictures. Wait till tomorrow before I put them up.

Where's the MomiMimaMamiMomi pictar?

I have a shot of that as well as the preceding photos.

OH MY GOD AM I PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF CLOSING MY MOUTH OR SOMETHING

I have a glorious picture of you. It also involves your hat.

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #422 on: August 01, 2011, 09:10:11 AM »
OH MY GOD AM I PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE OF CLOSING MY MOUTH OR SOMETHING

>"concha"

Flight's in about 45 minutes; finally going hoooooooome!

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #423 on: August 01, 2011, 12:15:11 PM »
KAPPA BROFIST
IF YOU DON'T REPOST THIS TO FIVE BELEAGUERED KAPPA THEN YOU AREN'T A KAPPA BRO

Welcome aboard, every year we get a few word-of-mouth recruits from photoshoots.  Marketing at its best!

Thanks to everyone for the welcome! At this point I think it's passing out time, but I managed to grab the best shots my husband got of photoshoot #1 and compile them into a set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepy-slug/sets/72157627204068777/

I actually have one of you, too, Triangles, but your eyes are closed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sleepy-slug/5996427241/in/photostream

MARRIED TOUHOU FAN BROFIST
IF YOU DON'T APPRECIATE TAX BREAKS FIVE TIMES OVER THEN YOU AREN'T A MARRIED TOUHOU FAN BRO

* Meiling's Juicy Ponytail is shot

AHA Edible!

http://i52.tinypic.com/11j56yu.jpg

Photographic evidence of your presence!
Upper right corner!

That's actually a really nifty picture.  Looks like it was staged that way!
« Last Edit: August 01, 2011, 12:25:17 PM by Meiling's Juicy Ponytail »

Menorah Jams, Pham

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #424 on: August 01, 2011, 12:16:12 PM »
Dear self, please don't spam the boards.  Drink coffee BEFORE posting.  Love, self.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2011, 12:25:08 PM by Meiling's Juicy Ponytail »

Menorah Jams, Pham

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #425 on: August 01, 2011, 12:18:02 PM »
Quote =/= new post

Derp :-(

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #426 on: August 01, 2011, 01:30:41 PM »
Oh hello new kappa-ppa friend. Enjoyed your cosplay--not enough Nitori love around IMO.

Anyway con was fun. It was nice meeting you all and I hope to do it again. Maybe next time I'll have more time to hang out beyond the photoshoots rofl

Leaving Baltimore now to head to ~*~Canada~*~. I miss posting on a computer

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #427 on: August 01, 2011, 06:56:59 PM »
Ugh, Kilga, that is a horrible drive that I am very familiar with (my family lives up near Boston, so I have to drive up there from VA once or twice a year.) Did you take the GW bridge? I have started taking a crazy-ass way all the way through NY state and western MA just to avoid that very bridge.

MARRIED TOUHOU FAN BROFIST
IF YOU DON'T APPRECIATE TAX BREAKS FIVE TIMES OVER THEN YOU AREN'T A MARRIED TOUHOU FAN BRO

HELLS YES.

(And also thank you for welcomes that have come in since I previously said thank you.)

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #428 on: August 01, 2011, 07:04:08 PM »
Don't worry, I know well the perils of the Gee Dubya, and we avoided it at all costs both down and back, much to the chagrin of our GPS. I've found the Tappan Zee tends to be more tolerable - it's not always trafficless, but it's almost certainly much better than the Gee Dubya at any given point in time.

My route to the Mid-Atlantic these days is 90-84-684-287-Tappan Zee-Garden State Parkway. I know 84-15-91-15/Merritt Parkway also works for getting to 287, but even Jersey is better than CT-15. At least Jersey has things to look at that aren't trees.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #429 on: August 01, 2011, 07:05:10 PM »

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #430 on: August 01, 2011, 09:49:38 PM »
Home at last, running on fumes, so much work to do so little sleep.

Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #431 on: August 01, 2011, 10:18:03 PM »
Otakon was a great, great time once again.

Makoto Shinkai is very chill and down-to-earth. Hoshi o ou Kodomo was alright. It worked decently as a fantasy piece, but it didn't have anywhere close to similar emotional response as Hoshi no Koe and 5cm. I didn't feel for the characters that much. They  didn't feel as much like genuine real people as Shinkai tends to depict brilliantly. The pacing was very off. It felt like six episodes of a TV series at once packed into 20 minutes towards the end of the movie. Tenmon's soundtrack was once again extremely good. The technical side of the movie was a significant step up from 5cm, though I didn't care for the character designs over Shinkai's other work. Shinkai commented on how less "realistic" designs were intentional though.

My Little Pony and Madoka cosplay took over the con. Daryl Surat's Anime's Craziest Deaths was awesome. It was even better because the audience was very new-school and hadn't seen Angel Cop, MD Geist, Baoh, or much of anything. Noboru Ishiguro is always very interesting to hear from. He has lifetimes of industry experience.

Apparently I'm going to write an in-depth convention report for the front page at some point.

I took over 100 cosplay photos and such. Highlights include a Heavy who looks right out of TF2, blazingly hot Sucker Punch protagonist, professional tier Mashyu, a real dog dressed up as Okami's Amataresu, very cute episode 10 Homura, Madoka with an impressive bow, and much more. http://www.flickr.com/photos/linkington/sets/72157627208963181/
« Last Edit: August 01, 2011, 10:29:31 PM by Link »

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #432 on: August 01, 2011, 10:31:38 PM »
Persona cosplayers good.

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #433 on: August 01, 2011, 10:35:15 PM »
Persona cosplayers apparently got kicked out of their shoot spot Friday night by the Ryukishi shoot organizer. Persona then proceeded to break the 100 cosplayer count while Ryukishi got 40 if he was lucky. That was kinda awkward.

I'm sure Sillentsword and Yucari could provide more details than I, though.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #434 on: August 01, 2011, 11:05:05 PM »
Got home a little while ago, after an exciting trip up 95 full of turns I didn't remember existed and other turns I could have sworn went the other way. Very thankful no one was in the car with me for that hour; I wasn't actually falling asleep, but it was impossible to keep focus for lengthy periods of time. Thankfully all of Eastern Massachusetts shuts down at about 10 PM or so on Sundays so the roads were empty.

Exciting weekend capped off with the exciting discovery that my computer refuses to load Windows! Oh boy! I'll be relegated to my phone for the time being.


If you need halpz with tech, I'm here for you. I do work in Tech Support after all... you know how to get in contact with me.

In any case, Otakon was pretty awesome. Lots of fun times, lots of fun people. However, I almost caused the Touhou panel to become derailed by not doing my job on the panel. I must and will test more to be sure that we have no issues for the next time I help with that. Nvidia's drivers were probably what screwed us, I had a developer version of the drivers installed for some performance GPU computing I was doing and then I forgot to replace them with the standard ones before the panel.

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #435 on: August 02, 2011, 12:55:14 AM »
Wall of text time. Cons are so wonderfully friendly and communal. Everyone shares hugs and wonders about the big manhunt going on at night. Still, I wasn't hugging the cabbie that drove me down there as I seriously doubt he wanted one and I still haven't been able to find out anything about that apparent manhunt. I also refuse to proofread all this.
Lily Black cosplayer Friday, Koakuma cosplayer today. Great stuff.
Yuuuup. Any con with 3 Meilings is a great turnout in my book.
I'mma thinking about Koakuma for next year, since I am lazee :O
It's a nice closet cosplay even if there are a couple of things you need to cook up yourself.
Crab Battle where?
This was such a strange and pleasant thing to watch. It was comical as much as it was entrancing to watch. It was a thrill. With darkness and silence through the night.

LIVEBLOGGING THE TOUHOU PANEL AWWWWWWWW YEAH

(okay not really)
I think we did pretty well for the most part outside the little errors. Lots of heads-up backup when things weren't going the way we wanted them too. Hurrah for being prepared otherwise. My trusty thumb drive was at the ready.
wheee back home. I'll get around to uploading some photos tonight for you guys. I wasn't there for the Friday photoshoot or the impromptu shoot after the panel but I got plenty of pics from Saturday's touhou photoshoot.

in a completely unrelated note. Makoto Shinkai took a picture of me and my friend on friday and tweeted it. http://lockerz.com/s/124825898 I'm pretty sure I told everyone at the con already but just to make sure I need to fangasm a bit
Now that's a REAL hoot. I missed Nobuo AGAIN because I had 0 time to look at the schedule and originally got it in my head that his autograph session was 90 minutes after it actually was.
This just in: interchanges 3, 4, and 5 all take you to I-295, which runs directly parallel to the Turnpike and get you spit out onto Route 1, which then can let you jump onto the Turnpike AFTER all the Six Flags and car/truck lane split.  After that it's a clear run back to 2005, 2007, 2008, and 2011 town, ya gentlemen.
We could've used that info more than two years ago now. :'( Oh well. Thanks for the free goodies! And that was SS in the Touhoumoubile.
God I miss Otakon.
Then get back over here!
I just joined the forums here (actually happened upon this thread while I was phone-googling for the location of the second photoshoot this weekend), but I wanted to say hi-- I was the lone kappa hanging around Friday and Saturday. I had a really good time at the photoshoots and panel, and got approx. eleventy-bagillion pictures, which I will post some of on the flickrs soon.
Welcome aboard! And if you look around, you'll find that you probably bumped into many of us as about half of us cosplayed a Touhou in one form or another . Not to mention that a few of us were part of the panel.
Oh god I walked for like ten minutes and my ribbon is falling off already ;;
WAIT. Were you the Index Accelerator-what's-his-face guy at the panel on Sunday?

TA-DAAAAAAA! 61 blood donations and counting! 
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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #436 on: August 02, 2011, 01:56:48 AM »
Man that was awesome! We need some more PC-98 next round, ne?

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #437 on: August 02, 2011, 02:09:34 AM »
Gotta say.

I saw more Homestuck cosplay than any three other shows combined.  At least.

Edit: Big thanks to Kiro and Link for sharing the room.  Next year I'm definitely getting a place with two beds though, even if it is a bit pricier.
« Last Edit: August 02, 2011, 02:11:42 AM by Edible »

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #438 on: August 02, 2011, 02:20:16 AM »
Gotta say.

I saw more Homestuck cosplay than any three other shows combined.  At least.
Holy shit

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #439 on: August 02, 2011, 02:31:42 AM »
In fairness, Homestuck cosplay isn't exactly difficult to put together. >_>
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

Rin Kagamine

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #440 on: August 02, 2011, 02:57:14 AM »
In fairness, Homestuck cosplay isn't exactly difficult to put together. >_>
You'd be surprised how into it they get

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #441 on: August 02, 2011, 02:59:43 AM »
In fairness, Homestuck cosplay isn't exactly difficult to put together. >_>

i read mspa before it was cool and i was like the only person who knew of it
,
now everyone knows it and they dress up as it, it kind of scares me.  :derp:

Ryuu

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #442 on: August 02, 2011, 04:31:06 AM »
WAIT. Were you the Index Accelerator-what's-his-face guy at the panel on Sunday?

No I was Mokou. I think I know who you are talking about though

http://ryuukyunplaysstuff.tumblr.com/ read about me playing league i guess

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #443 on: August 02, 2011, 06:05:17 AM »
All of you Touhou cosplayers wore my camera out, just so you know. :( I couldn't hang around too long to holla at you folks because all of the other photoshoots popping up at the con.

Y'all folks are cool people. Now to put my pics up when I have some downtime...
How many times have you woken up and asked yourself: What the hell am I doing?
Today, your plane did not blow up thanks to the cooperation of Touhou Girls and TSA Officers.

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #444 on: August 02, 2011, 06:45:19 AM »
Quote from: Momiji
http://www.distant-mind.com/images/n1/Otakon2011/IMG_20110729_182657.jpg
My life has been enriched knowing that such a cosplay existed. Thank you good sir.

Anyways, pics I took are up. Still using derp Photobucket because lazy. Also, the red eye removal tool doesn't work well so after a few feeble tries, I gave up and didn't fix anything. A few of the Friday night photos suffer from red eye as well as overall blurriness. :fail: The pics on Saturday were much better due to the lighting. There are some good pics throughout, but here are some highlights:

15 - MomiMomi
16 - MomiMamiMomi
17 - MomiMamiMimaMomi

34 - MJP sliding RESCUE!
43 - The Man, The Myth, The Legend!

88 - Tengu
99 - Obligatory
136 - PyroMokou has the right idea...
140 - Final group shot of Friday night
153 - Fighting over Princess Wriggle

193 - Unzan danmaku
205 - Momiji, Hina, Nue
221 - Yamame being moe
239 - Sikieiki

240 - Kefka and Ultimecia
245 - Aya about to destroy Kilga
260 - Final group shot on Sunday

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #445 on: August 02, 2011, 07:18:50 AM »
Oh wow, those are some pretty good cosplays on the photos there  :o
Nice work all of you!

And MJP's Morning Rescue made me crack up.

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #446 on: August 02, 2011, 07:30:31 AM »
I love how my Tokin was messed up for the Friday shoot. Never rush out the door to a shoot, kids.

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Oh, don't worry, that cat will carry off your body, so you'll be able to live in our place!"

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #447 on: August 02, 2011, 10:33:04 AM »
And MJP's Morning Rescue made me crack up.

It made his ribs crack up, too. He ran in late and actually dove onto the concrete to get into that shot.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #448 on: August 02, 2011, 10:37:14 AM »
That sounds painful.... but looking at the resulting shot it was worth it V:

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Re: Otakon 2011 - once more, with feeling!
« Reply #449 on: August 02, 2011, 10:41:03 AM »
Oh, it was plenty worth it for everyone else there.
[22:40:12] <Drake> "guys i donwloaded esod but its not workan"
[22:40:21] <Drake> REPORTED
[22:40:25] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> PROBATED
[22:40:30] <Drake> ORGASM
[22:40:32] <NaturallyOccurringChoja> FUCK YEAH

[22:28:39] <Edible> Mafia would be a much easier game if we were playing "spot the asshole"