The Days After....

[teddog]

I am sooooo far behind on Prisoners of Gravity stuff. Laura suggested over the weekend that I buy Signal Loss a domain name. SignalLoss.com is open, but so is PrisonersofGravity.ca and .org. The latter two are more direct.

Fan Expo was.... uh... interesting. Sorry I didn't visit you, pyat. I couldn't find you and the staff was not helpful in the slightest.

I did get to meet some nifty people here and there. And there was shopping - I got myself a Yuki plushie and a 2001 t-shirt, although I found it was hard to locate anything sci-fi related that interested me. The problem is that my interests run in funny circles and nobody likes to admit that they like cheesey stuff unless that cheese is currently in fashion. That and I like books. :-\

In WoW news, we now have an official hang out for our Horde characters - "Kodo Lodge" over on the realm Moon Guard. Look us up if you're over there and bored. I have a little orc hunter on there, but I might focus on my extremely silly blood elf mage because being a hunter again means doing the exact same things for 60 more levels. I normally HATE blood elves, but... eh... this one is special in the same way my human priest is special and TBC starting areas are fun to level in.

More Warcraft/Wrath of the Lich King stuff has been released.

Highlights:
- Pre-WotLK, the "final" raid (thus far) for Burning Crusade is going to be the Sunwell Plateau, which is probably going to be a another step in the "Merry Misadventures of Kael'thas Sunstrider" plot.
- Death Knight class will be unlockable in the 55-60 level range. People will still whine.
- There will be more Caverns of Time instances, with one announced based on the Culling of Stratholme campaign. I perdict that it will be like normal Stratholme mixed with Escape from Durnholde; you escort Arthas and he kills a dragon who claims to have a role in the plot but doesn't at all. Sadly, you will not be able to moon Kel'Thuzad this time.
- Malygos will be a raid encounter. I want to see him that jester outfit from The-Novel-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.
- Naxxramas Take Two: Electric Boogaloo is going to be the first 25 man raid.
- Inscription still seems extremely strange.

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

No worries! Our booth wasn't listed in the program, for some reason. They shoved us in between some comic artists.

I think I saw you scurrying along the edge of the Artist Alley at one point.

I don't think I'd attend this con as just a normal con-goer, unless I had a lot of friends going. I prefer smaller "relaxacons."

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Short fat kid in the CBC shirt? That was me. Aside from the CBC shirt, that was probably about 50% of the con.

I was scurrying around for two reasons. 1) I was trying to catch Ty Templeton in the Artist Alley, but was having NO luck with that. We chatted before through email and he invited me to stop by if we were at the same con, but think I could find him? 2) I left the con to get some cash from Union and then lost the rest of TWiG group and spend two hours shopping/searching for them! D: (and I STILL could not find the second half of Kate's birthday present!)

There really wasn't much there for a normal con-goer, or as normal as I am. If I wasn't helping with interviews on the Saturday, I would have been bored out of my skull. A lot of events felt like they were based around celebrity culture and if I don't buy into celebrity culture on a pop culture level, I'm not going to buy into it on a geek level (which often breaks down into "I am a geek and we made you famous, so you OWE us" and is countered by "That's nice, $50 for a photo"). If there's anyone remotely famous that I have an interest in, it's because I deeply respect their work as a student of media who wishes to aspire to greater things. George Romero would probably fall into that catagory, because I still think that Night of the Living Dead is a damn fine horror movie.

/random rant

[pyat.livejournal.com]

CBC shirt=red? I think it was you!

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

On Friday it was a blue shirt and on Saturday it was a black one.

Red shirts are bad to wear at con with Star Trek fans. :)

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ah, then it was NOT you, unless I'm remembering wrong.

[mbehemoth.livejournal.com]

What about the woodworking? What about Goblins in the Marsh (no one is still going to go there)? When are they going to nerf below 58 in Shattrath City?

And I had wondered about flying mounts in Northrend. Something seemed fishy there.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Woodworking - I dunno. It seems like they're just brainstorming ideas and it's not something I'd jump on. However, Lisa did point out that there's no profession that can craft staves, so there's no epic craftable weapon for casters, much like there's no craftable epic bow for hunters.

On a side note, I think they mentioned SOMEWHERE that the next Legendary is going to be a ranged weapon. Frostmourne: The Gunblade. 0_0

Goblins in the Marsh - I'd run it if it worked like Tranquillien (best quest hub ever). That would finally explain the few goblins that are in the marsh already.

I don't mind having the flying mounts "nerfed" until 78. We have our epic land mounts, so it's really no big deal.

[thebitterguy]

For some reason, none of the gaming guests got assigned tables.

I wonder if they're paying me enough for this.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Well, we DID end up between some pretty big artists. We got a lot of extra foot traffic as a result.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

That probably caused the trickle-down effect where none of the staff knew where the gaming guests were. I was told to look on the 700 level for the guests, of all places.

[thebitterguy]

That's actually where some of the gaming was going on, so it's not a horrible idea, but the gaming guests (pyat, normanrafferty, koipond and judgefang) all ended up being seated in open spaces* within artists alley.

* i.e. "the orginal guest in that spot cancelled".

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I found the games going on upstairs, but no guests. I figured that my problem was that it was my first year at Fan Expo and there was some logical place for the guests that I hadn't figured out yet.

[thebitterguy]

If all else fails, Artists Alley is the place to look.