Gamers in the midst: A day in the life of TSO (in pictures) Part II

OK, so now I will go on with my discussion of GenCon.  As I said before, very nice people, but very dorky.  Saw a lot of ridiculous T-shirts like

• This is the droid you were looking for.
• Will work for anime.
• My other ride is a Kodo.
• Ball State University.

Anyway, back to the pictures.

This first one made me really sad.  I know she had had some problems, first there was the sex tape of her threesome with Pappa Smurf and Gargamel, then she got hurt (and Handy was killed) when the Meth lab exploded.  Now look at her, the years have not been kind to Smurfette.

One of the major themes of Fantasy is apparenly large breasts spilling out of skimpy outfits.  I must say that this is generally something I strongly favor, particularly at Ren Faires and the like.  But as with Spandex and nudist colonies, sometimes they work, and sometimes….not so much.

This young lady was playing the Queen of Breastulon IV.

Lest you think I only pick on the ladies, I give you this cat.  I actually had to have it explained to me what it was.  Does anyone think this schtick actually worked with the ladies?  I’ve done some retarded things to get women (bar rag origami, singing Karaoke, going to a Milblog convention) but dressing up in this ridiculous outfit is not on the list of things I would do. 

But, through it all, the games went on.  Lots and lots of games.

And, I was actually tan compared to some of the folks, many of whom were actually translucent.

If I was actually good at this stuff, I would have had pen and paper to write down the games they were playing.  But, it was scary enough having to be out in public, so I kept my hands on the camera, ready to call on the Power of Greyskull if anyone got too close to me, or god forbid, engage me in conversation.

There was some big inflatable thing there I took a picture of.  Really not sure why.  At the time though I remember thinking “This picture alone could draw in 5-6 readers, making all of this TOTALLY worthwhile.”

I did like some of the modelling stuff like this picture below, and the guy was really nice.  A few years ago I decided that I wanted to do models of famous battles and stuff.  Then I remembered how earlier I wanted to make models of boats.  I still have a Roman Trireme that consists of 4 pieces of wood glued together, and no planking.  Actually Triremes don’t take as long as it would take me to make.

Then, I got tired and couldn’t handle the mass of people, so I popped smoke.  As I was leaving, I saw this arsehole, apparently an Emissary from the Kokeshian Empire, losers at the game of life.

And as I walked home, I did see the movie that was playing at the local theater:

I’ll be in my bunk.

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