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GeekNights 080326 - Night Wizard, Legendary Gambler Tetsuya
Tonight on GeekNights, we review Night Wizard and Legendary Gambler Tetsuya. In the news, anime is coming to America zero-day, we talk a long while about the issues at Anime Boston, and Scott GeekBites Green Lantern Rebirth.
Scott's Thing - Bitstrips (forum thread)
Rym's Thing - Uninstall
Scott's Thing - Bitstrips (forum thread)
Rym's Thing - Uninstall
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For the record they had 5 machines to start with then they increased it to 9, and I agree with the inadequacy of that amount.
1. Normal Staff - 70%
Average staffers doing an average job. Perfectly competent, but won't ad-lib and usually lack the experience to handle extreme situations. These people are the backbone of fan convention staff.
2. Super Staff - 15%
These are usually, but not by any means always, the high-level staff. These are the people who don't just do their jobs competently, but do them professionally. Nick and Jim from Katsucon and Otakon are perfect examples. When disaster strikes, the super staffers are the ones who step up, come up with a clever work-around, and get the congoers and other staffers on board with it. They can usually be identified by their largely invisible status during the convention itself, only to suddenly appear whenever there's trouble, solution in hand.
3. "Those" Staff - 15%
These people are staff only because:
- They are friends (at least nominally) with other staff
- No one has the guts to tell them they're incompetant
Every con has these people. They end up on the staff at some point, but are generally unreliable. It's awkward to ask someone who's already staffed not to come back, so most people avoid doing so. This provides a shield for these people who, due to their immunity, will eventually rise to high-level positions. Once confronted with actual, important responsibility, they'll fail epically, usually resigning a few weeks before the con.Now, I'm not saying that the person who was supposed to be running registration is one of these people: complications can arise beyond a person's control. I'm simply noting that, as I said before, EVERY convention, fan club, etc. I've ever worked with has had these people. They are ticking time bombs.
Edit: No, I will not be naming any of the time bombs I've encountered along the way, so don't even ask. ^_~
Besides, the Sinestro Corps is where its at - mainly because Senestro (the guy with the yellow power ring) proves himself smarter than the vast majority of DC villains and actually recruits a lot of fairly powerful villains around the universe that DC heroes kind of forgot about.
I do find it amusing that Rym and Frank Miller have almost the same approach to dealing with the Green Lantern: All Star Batman and Robin #9.
Radical example... but say Martin Luther King goes nuts and becomes evil and tries to take over the world!!! MKL then had a change of heart and disappears for many years. He wants to make a comeback, and your his PR rep. It's logical that you are gonna play "I have a dream" a billion time just so the message is pounded onto the peeps, can't do it in a subtle way. Some punk kid who wasn't there and just sees the new RP swamp of "I have a dream" is gonna find it annoying as hell. Geoff Johns needed to whack the readers over the head with the whole willpower bit.
I like how they turned something as ridiculous as a weakness of yellow into something that makes sense; should have been done ages ago. Hal Jordan is a top tier character in the DCU, his return better raise the Spockian eyebrow of Batman and Superman.
Thats my attempt at justifying the book. It's more of a corrective measure and a base being set for future books Geoff Johns has set up for his Lantern trilogy (yes Sinestro Corps was much more entertaining than this and I'm confident that when Blackest Nights drops, it's going to be better than that). Fans want to see Hal put back up there as the 4th/5th (depends on Flash) top ranking character in the DCU and I definitely think this was a successful attempt to revive the character. Heck for one thing it beats Spider-man's magically history washing...
Also I totally thought of the yellow lemon-aid room also when Rym went on about the yellow oval. I know its a horrible read, but this is the only book I pick up just for the art.
And Night Wizard, while setup like a harem, there really isn't much harem stuff. It's more of a "friendship conquers all," monster of the week show, but funny.
Anyways, yes, come with the list of 100 Rym.
Series I've bought:
Bebop
Escaflowne
Trigun
Outlaw Star
Hellsing (though I probably wouldn't again)
Initial D (I'm a car nut)
Shows I'm going to buy:
Baccano (why has no one licensed this yet?!?)
Shigofumi (waiting to preorder it on Amazon)
Haruhi (have the first DVD, just haven't gotten around to getting the rest yet)
Of course you're wondering, "sure it's good, but it's not as good as Bebop." If it ends well (I reserve judgement til I've seen it) it's the closest anything has ever come to that level for greatness.
SPOILER QUOTE FROM SHOW! Select to see~
Chiaki: "Yeah, that's right. Unlike you, I'll always be blessed with youth."
Fumika: "In other words, you're going to be eternally undeveloped."
Chiaki: "Like you can talk!"
Fumika: "I'll have a nice body in five years."
End spoiler quote.
I'm a Chiyaki fan as well but I still love Fumi.
@Myself: The OP is win!
The line on Saturday wasn't that bad in length, but I got into line pretty early and it was pretty short for me. It still moved fairly slow with the self-service part of the check-in, especially compared to last year where I had a much longer length of line to wait in but still got done sooner.
The AMVs weren't as good as last year when we got Hold Me Now, Red September, and Conter les Heures.
At the concert I have to say that first, the video they showed us while they were still seating people was really awesome. If you haven't seen Dead Fantasy and Dead Fantasy II go and ask Google about it. The Pillows were awesome, and Love and Response was relativly non-painful.
Also, where's that list with 100 anime? A month should be long enough to make it, no?
And where's our list of 100 animes?