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thebitterguyThe bell has run, Pandamonium is OVAH!
This weekend, for those of youwho weren't within five feet of me for more of the last 48 hours than my wife (which is pretty much just Dave Creighton), I have been at Pandamonium. It was run at the Inn on the Park.
Digression the first. The Inn on the Park is at the corner of Eglington and another street in Toronto (No, I don't remember the street. Bite me). It is attached to another hotel. The two hotels are, essentially, the same. Yet one is the Holiday Inn, the other is The Inn on the Park. Why? I don't know. It annoys and confuses me.
Anyway, this year's Pandamonium was well run. There were some glitches (I had no badge, which was no problem as I never need one). The entire weekend, DC & I ruled Duelists Ally (a mis-spelling of Duelists Alley, but an amusing one). We had the table in front of the door.
Whenever anyone came in the door, they learned Sack Armies. It was inevitable.
We also ran a Rifts tournament and A Babylon 5 tournament. Both of which were Very enjoyable.
I also played Hack!, which is a great game. Based on Abduction, it's based on my least favourite comic book. But still very enjoyable.
Digression two: I dislike KotDT because I read it and see a group of very unpleasent people acting in strange ways. I like Dork Tower because it's just quirky. The only way to describe the differences is to invoke art films, and I promised I wouldn't do that. I have a friend who cannot understand that.
Not a single person went to Panda this weekend who DIDN'T get introduced to Sack Armies. I'm rather proud of that. We ran a Sack Armies tournament on Sunday with 7 people in attendance. This may not sound good, but listen. There was a Magic: The Gathering tournament held the same weekend. They had 5 people. They had $300 in cash prizes. We had more Sack Armies.
I'll have visions of Sacks in my head for months to come.
I'm also afraid I've ticked off the local Decipher Rep, because I made a couple Demo Team leader jokes. I was swift to note that I wasn't referring to him, as he's a peach. Really. Somewhat absent minded, but what can you do?
Unfortunately, cons are incubating chambers for germs. I think I may have picked up Strep, as my throat is kiilling me. Ich.
I'll see if I can go to work tommorow. If I can, I'll see if I'm too sick to stay.
This weekend, for those of youwho weren't within five feet of me for more of the last 48 hours than my wife (which is pretty much just Dave Creighton), I have been at Pandamonium. It was run at the Inn on the Park.
Digression the first. The Inn on the Park is at the corner of Eglington and another street in Toronto (No, I don't remember the street. Bite me). It is attached to another hotel. The two hotels are, essentially, the same. Yet one is the Holiday Inn, the other is The Inn on the Park. Why? I don't know. It annoys and confuses me.
Anyway, this year's Pandamonium was well run. There were some glitches (I had no badge, which was no problem as I never need one). The entire weekend, DC & I ruled Duelists Ally (a mis-spelling of Duelists Alley, but an amusing one). We had the table in front of the door.
Whenever anyone came in the door, they learned Sack Armies. It was inevitable.
We also ran a Rifts tournament and A Babylon 5 tournament. Both of which were Very enjoyable.
I also played Hack!, which is a great game. Based on Abduction, it's based on my least favourite comic book. But still very enjoyable.
Digression two: I dislike KotDT because I read it and see a group of very unpleasent people acting in strange ways. I like Dork Tower because it's just quirky. The only way to describe the differences is to invoke art films, and I promised I wouldn't do that. I have a friend who cannot understand that.
Not a single person went to Panda this weekend who DIDN'T get introduced to Sack Armies. I'm rather proud of that. We ran a Sack Armies tournament on Sunday with 7 people in attendance. This may not sound good, but listen. There was a Magic: The Gathering tournament held the same weekend. They had 5 people. They had $300 in cash prizes. We had more Sack Armies.
I'll have visions of Sacks in my head for months to come.
I'm also afraid I've ticked off the local Decipher Rep, because I made a couple Demo Team leader jokes. I was swift to note that I wasn't referring to him, as he's a peach. Really. Somewhat absent minded, but what can you do?
Unfortunately, cons are incubating chambers for germs. I think I may have picked up Strep, as my throat is kiilling me. Ich.
I'll see if I can go to work tommorow. If I can, I'll see if I'm too sick to stay.
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I'm telling you....
Date: 2002-01-21 07:18 am (UTC)I KNOW DT is superior in just about every way to KoDT. Better art, generally better jokes, etc.
I like KoDT precisely because they ARE unpleasant people, dammit. I don't want to read a comic book about about pleasant, well-adjusted gamers. Well, actually I would because I'm just that lame, but KoDT is funny precisely because it deals with the least sociable and most twinkish of gamers. When I was 14, RPGs WERE essentially a fight between the GM and the players. I've outgrown that, but it was still fun.
What's funnier? Trekkies, or a fan-made documentary about how well-socialized and open-minded most Trek fans are? Trekkies, of course. You HAVE to see it, BTW.
I like the inside jokes in KoDT. I like the nastiness, goshdarnit. I like the occasional serious tone it throws in. Dork Tower is "vanilla" geek humour. Anyone can read it and laugh, and that's fine. I like it too.When Dork Tower is serious, it's serious in a really ham-fisted obvious way, like an editorial cartoon. KoDT is like pickled herring - an acquired taste.
For the record, though, the guys in Dork Tower are just as hack-happy and dysfunctional as the KoDT crowd.
And anyway, Nodwick is better than EITHER of them.
You lie!
Date: 2002-01-21 01:12 pm (UTC)Shit. Don't tell Kovalic I said that. He'll plotz. I was about to ask him for some money, too.
We're never going to agree on this, so I don't know why I'm bothering. But let me say this. I disagree. I don't find DT's to EVER be serious. It's a great sitcom about people I find amusing. KoDT is the Tom Green show (or Howard Stern). It's a GM fucking a dead cow in the middle of the street, or an annoying sidekick braying into a microphone. It's ugly. The guys in DT are hack happy, true. But they're nice about it. And dysfunctional? It's a cartoon. They HAVE to be dysfunctional. Otherwise you've got Mary Worth with d20, and who the hell needs THAT?
The art is atrocious, too. You may find JK's work to be of editorial cartoonist quality (shock, that, since he did hold that job for several years), which I find to be a surprisingly weak derision, but KotDT strikes me as mostly rough sketch work. True, I haven't been there to watch it evolve, but that's only because the main storylines (which consisted of "guys around table, arguing about rules") and art have never engendered in me a great love of it.
Feh.
So, when do you want to get together and talk pirates and pilots?