It's comments like this attached to neg rep that truly make my day. Why? Because obviously this person either takes me too seriously or else they have no concept on what being a jerk really is.

Yes I come off as a bit brash at times and I am not all warm and cuddly but anyone who knows me or at least gets to meet me in real life knows that I am one of the nicest people out there.

I cannot tell you how many times people say to me "I really thought you were an ass but now I don't" or "I wanted to hate you but I can't".

Ok I am sure that there is a small percentage of people who still don't like me after they meet me (they are usually just jealous on how ruggedly handsome I am though) but thats their prerogative. A few have said it to my face and that is actually very cool in my eyes because they have the balls to say it and not put on some fake polite front.

This goes both ways. There was one particular person that I went to GenCon with a preconceived notion of them (and they of me). Perhaps we would have just avoided each other but inevitably we were right there face to face with each other and I believe after it all we had a new "respect" for each other...but I could be wrong..after all I am just a jerk right?

Onacara

Earlier this week Truth asked me if I could put together a picture report on Gencon. How do you say no to the guy who does so much for the Heroscape community? Well, you don't, so here goes.

All of the pictures have been posted on the forum before. A lot are mine, but some were taken by GaryLASQ and I even used one of Cleon's pictures. Also, since there was nothing new at the WotC boot, the pictures were mainly of scapers having fun in the tournaments.

Thursday: I took pictures of Dragon Wars, General Wars, and Damnation Alley, but the best that day was my "exclusive" pictures of the elusive "Agent Bunjee"


Here are a couple Dragon War picture -- these games were really interesting. You would see several different strategies (one I didn't expect was bringing Shades), and several games came down to dragon vs dragon fighting it out.
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truth

Earlier this week Truth asked me if I could put together a picture report on Gencon. How do you say no to the guy who does so much for the Heroscape community? Well, you don't, so here goes.

First a little background. Last year (2007) was the first year I went to Gencon. You would think living 15 miles from downtown Indianapolis, I would have gone before. But I thought it was just a bunch of "game geeks" and I wouldn't really fit in. Hahn talked me into going last year. I only bought a one day ticket (for Thursday). I took a lot of pictures of the previews of wave 8, AA, and TJ (see: Retlaw's 2007 Gencon Picts ), met some of the scapers from the site, stood in line to got a Woo, and overall enjoyed the day. I didn't play any games, but did watch several.

This year, I bought the 4 day ticket and when Grungebob asked for volunteers, I signed up to work Thu, Fri, and Sat mornings. Can you think of a better way to get to meet a lot of fellow...

Retlaw

This is the first of (hopefully) many music reviews done by me for the community. I'm going to go with the A+ - F ranking system. So without further ado, I present to you, Menchy's Myoozik Review: M.I.A./Diplo's Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1.

Artist: M.I.A. and Diplo
Album: Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1
Grade: A-

I will start out by saying that I listen to quite a bit of music, and I am certainly not a person who is easily impressed. I can spot generic $%!# a mile away, and there are very VERY few artists whom I respect. M.I.A., however, happens to be one of those few. I was initially impressed by Kala, the first of her albums that I heard, then moreso impressed by Arular, her earlier album. But this, her earliest work, takes the cake by far. This album, originally handed out before the debut of Arular, is everything I love about M.I.A. without anything that I hate about her. I have always been attracted to Maya's originality, catchy...

Menchy

Hey there, SuperflyTNT here putting out more innane facts, opinions, and other random stuff than you can possibly care about....

Here's my first thought:

I live in Kentucky, which is not exactly the most "progressive" place on earth, in fact it's pretty much ass-backward in a lot of ways. I travel a lot for work, and as such I see all kinds of things, some interesting, some disturbing, some just plain stupid.

One such event happened not too far back as I was heading south on I-75 toward Tennesee. There's a place called Corbin, Kentucky that's only claim to fame is that the original Kentucky Fried Chicken was there.

I had to stop for gas in the vicinity and so I got off the exit ramp and made a quick right to the local fillin' station. I was dressed in a suit, and so I wasn't exactly fitting in to begin with. As I got out, I noticed a mullet-bearing twentysomething wearing a trucker cap, no shoes, no shirt, and his Levis...

SuperflyTNT