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GeekNights Wednesday - Space Dandy
Tonight on GeekNights, we preview Space☆Dandy, the most recent anime to "save anime" after Kill La Kill. Space Dandy is a dandy in space. It might be set in the Cowboy Bebop universe, or at least one that has superficial similarities. It's... difficult to express what this show is. You really should just watch it. In the news, Sailor Moon's anime reboot (based more closely on the manga) is tentatively to air in July 2014. Booth babes don't work. Also, be sure to submit panels to ConnectiCon 2014!
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It's also $110. That's a lot of money for a small con.
It's also in Texas... at the airport.
They require attendees to wear one wristband for the entire convention. Not doing that.
I can't tell if there are panels of any sort. It doesn't appear so.
According to their official policies, no gaming in hotel lobbies is allowed.
As for the Connecticon comparison to my stuff, the line of games is closer then you would think, and if money were to come in (outside of my own) I could easily bolster it to that level.
- They do have panels, although they seem to be pretty shit about putting a schedule up online
- No mailing of said wristbands which is also bullshit. (I almost threw up when I saw a picture of a guy who wore his wristband for the entire year leading up to the next BGG.con)
- Despite said guy, I'm hearing that as the attendance is growing, it's rapidly shifting away from neckbeard and old-guy gamer culture. Let's just say the name of the con does not give it the same vibe as the grumpy website.
- They're looking into expanding to a small convention center, but in the meantime, I don't think I really want to leave the airport in Texas anyway, and a $112 room rate does a lot of offset an expensive $110 admission.
- Being around the airport limits food, for sure, but at least they acknowledge the issue and have a free shuttle bus to the land of good restaurants not far away.
- Lobby rule is bullshit but no shortage of table space so it's kinda moot.
- None of the scheduled game/paid game bullshit that you get at the big tabletop-only cons, so they're doing it right.
- That Essen room. Damn. They quite literally send people to Essen and have them ship back crates of the new games, give them all permanent table set-ups and teach you the games/translate them to English if it hasn't been done yet.
Remember well: Magfest 8 was on our radar just barely, and wasn't worth attending. Magfests prior to that were completely unknown to us, or ignored if we had heard of them.
Magfest was one of many cons that had potential. It wasn't until Magfest 9 that it proved that potential. It wasn't until Magfest 10 that it lived up to that potential.
I was connecting in Frankfurt. I got off the plane saying bye and thanks to the cabin crew. I walked across the airport, waited by a different gate, got on the plane, and said hello to... the exact same cabin crew! A different plane, going to a different place, but the same crew on board. I thought I was going crazy.
For that matter, why does Jabba the Hutt think that Leia is hot? Shouldn't he be into Hutt ladies?
Of all sci-fi universes I can think of, Futurama probably handles this the best.
In episode 1 Jabba has a lady Hutt companion at the pod race.
Turn the tables. Let's say you were a powerful intergalactic mafia boss. You capture a Hutt princess as your slave. Do you want to lick her? Even if it was more humanoid. Would you want to sexually harass a Wookie you captured?
Jabba's probably like that. He's either into non-Hutts as a personal kink (at least he seems to like them sentient, though) or he gets off on having that sort of power no matter the species, as Luke implied. Maybe a bit of both.
It's not like this hasn't been addressed in other SciFi works than Star Wars, Space Dandy, and the like. Having a thing for alien women (notably humans) was a known character quirk of Babylon 5's G'kar, who was a reptilian-looking humanoid alien. Babylon 5 Crusade went further by stating there was actually some sort of black market for human/alien porn and by making one of its characters, Max Eilerson, a fan of it. Apparently he had a copy of "Snow White and the Seven Pak'ma'ra" in his personal stash (Pak'ma'ra basically look like human-sized Cthulhus, tentacle mouths and all).
Also, if you're so progressive, you won't take it as an insult if make your new nickname Hutt-licker, right?
Second, we don't know how common the humanoid form is across this universe. Again, it's pretty big, after all. Star Trek addressed this problem in two ways: one is the (pretty BS, but it was otherwise a decent episode) notion that some ancient humanoid progenitor species seeded the galaxy/universe with genetic material such that other species would eventually evolve into a humanoid form. The less BS one, and one that has seen limited parallels in real life with Earthly evolution, is a concept that similar environments are likely to evolve similar life forms (Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development). If the Space Dandy universe has enough Earth-like planets and if we assume that something like Hodgkin's Law is in effect there, then it would be logical to assume that humanoid forms could be relatively common across the entire universe.
Third, Boobies hires wait staff from any species with breasts or breast-like objects on their chest. The opening episode showed several booby species of alien, some with numbers of breast-like objects other than just 2 (think of the three-boobed mutant from Total Recall, for example). They may not even be mammary glands like found on mammalian species -- they might just be some sort of chest lumps that serve some other function but they still qualify as "boobs" as far as Boobies is concerned.
Fourth, again, this goes back to the vastness of the universe. This universe seems to be teeming with sentient life, so the overall population must be immense. If you add up every last sentient race in the universe, there just might be enough non-humanoids with a fetish for humanoid boobs in addition to humanoid species to keep Boobies up and running.
The point I was making is that similar environments may lead to similar adaptations and therefore similar life forms. Both whales and fish have to swim through water (never mind sharing a common ancestor) and the laws of hydrodynamics don't care if you're a whale or a fish, so it makes sense that they'd end up with similar shapes. In fact, there is a real world scientific term for this (which I didn't remember for my first post): covergent evolution.