Abunai

Starting tomorrow at 3pm until Sunday 8pm I will be over at Abunai (アニメ convention) so that means no Epps this weekend. No idea what I am going to do over there but I think there will a lot of alcohol, flirting and cosplay involved. If for some reason you NEED to contact me you can just tweet or mail me at chipmonkey666@gmail.com

That will be all, carry on.

Have a good time, man

Missing you already!

Ow, to make things worse my TF2 got fucked up from the last update. Everytime I connect it freezes on Sending Client Information followed by a steam id error. Already verified my cache etc but so far no luck. Good thing the steam servers are fr from busy right now so it is downloading pretty fast

So yeah, Abunai was a lot of fun. I didn't made a lot of pics myself because I had forgotten to put the memory card back into my camera after formatting it (DOH!) but luckily for me others had made a lot of pics. Anyway here is my report with some pics made by others.

Long Lines
The highlight of Abunai were all the long lines. To get into it you had to wait for 3 hours outside in the cold. That is of course unless your name is Epps and happen to have connections. In other words, less lines for me and my roommate. Still all the major events were filled with long lines so unless you timed things right you had to wait... A LOT!

The acts
There were some competitions with some awesome contestants but must where pretty boring/dull. During the cosplay acting competition there were 13 acts and 5 of them used the same Final Fantasy Victory Fanfare joke after a battle; NOT FUNNY!

The dealers/merchendise
As an アニメ fan in Europe I already know all the decent dealers around here so there wasn't a real surprise for me. Archonia (online shop and main sponsor) had a stand and just as on their site they sold for cheap prices (€7 instead of €12) so erm yeah... btw I only bought one manga and an EVA-01 figure.

Cosplay
There were of course a lot of cosplayers and crosdressers around. Some were pure win, some were fail but who cares? It's a con after all and we are all there for one thing; having fun (and drinking). Anyway I spotted two Chell (Portal) cosplayers one having a near perfect match with a portal gun and as for TF2 there were a funny demo, a tall soldier, a medic and me, the engineer. Kinda bad tho, according to some forums there were supposed to be more TF2 cosplayers around, ow well...
Also they had very strict prop rules; no metal, only use of little wood, no sharp edges, no blunt items and no 'fighting' with them. Seriously, they even gave warnings to some who posed for a pic -.-

BTW, the Yoko cosplayer was fucking hot! She looked like the real deal only in 3D, a real instant-boner even for me xD

pics:

The hotel
The hotel was a four stars luxury hotel yet no one had a bathtub in their room, not even those with an extra luxury rooms (I know because I visited one). The beds where rather small, around 200x120cm and that's supposed to be a bed for two! Still they were soft and since my roommate was a female friend of mine I didn't mind (until I woke up with morning wood).

The alcohol
Best part of being in a hotel is how you can buy alcohol EVERYWHERE. The food court sold beer, the spa sold beer and mixed drinks and the bar sold almost every drink in the world. The main beer brand was Heineken and sold for €2 a glass but since I hate beer and only do strong drinks I went for the whiskey. They had like 5 brands but since they were expensive (€4 to €10 a glass) I sticked with my friend Jack without ice. Also the barkeeper liked us (our group was at the bar 12 hours a day) so we often got more for less Also there was this big guy from Microsoft there (nicknamed Microsoft) who bought us drinks, or rather bought the girls drinks who bought us drinks with his money. Seriously, Microsoft was showing his rolex and cash all the time and thought the girls would do him for it even tho we were just using him to pay for our drinks. SO MUCH FUN, not to mention how we ended up with a €150 alcohol bill ON HIS TAB! Also, the girls didn't gave him any


Anyway that's it, I am back again and well rested. Time to play some TF2 right NAO!

Wait, something is wrong with those pics. The demo is supposed to be black.

You better have erected a dispenser for the medic if you know what i mean

Chuck wrote:You better have erected a dispenser for the medic if you know what i mean

Oh real mature Chuck, real mature...

Epps that is a quote worthy of going in your signature amirite?

Chuck wrote:Epps that is a quote worthy of going in your signature amirite?

Done, at least until someone else makes some brilliant remark towards one of my posts :p

This girl inspires me to work on the female medic again! I will show her off on the orange server soon.

Anyway seems like you had a nice time Epps. Is that girl Rosa?
Haha that Demoman looks funny although he should be a black scotsman.

Eraserhead wrote:This girl inspires me to work on the female medic again! I will show her off on the orange server soon.

Anyway seems like you had a nice time Epps. Is that girl Rosa?
Haha that Demoman looks funny although he should be a black scotsman.

No Rosa couldn't go because the thought buying an iPad which she now hates was more important than an アニメ convention (true story). This is someone else who I think I have seen before on the web and now have on Steam as well

Epps wrote:Ow, to make things worse my TF2 got fucked up from the last update. Everytime I connect it freezes on Sending Client Information followed by a steam id error. Already verified my cache etc but so far no luck. Good thing the steam servers are fr from busy right now so it is downloading pretty fast

may want to try a video driver update

Chucknorris wrote:

Epps wrote:Ow, to make things worse my TF2 got fucked up from the last update. Everytime I connect it freezes on Sending Client Information followed by a steam id error. Already verified my cache etc but so far no luck. Good thing the steam servers are fr from busy right now so it is downloading pretty fast

may want to try a video driver update

I own a HP laptop so my drivers update automatically every week due to a brilliant program from HP, not to mention how big of a geek I am. Anyway redownloading TF2 only takes me one hour and fixes almost every problem I get (usually after updates). It also made my FPS go up to 100 on Dustbowl instead of 40 which is weird yet cool =D