thebitterguy

So yesterday Matt Forbeck posted a link on his Twitter to a video game called Today I die.

I'll admit I'm not familiar with the division of video games with artistic ambitions, being a vapid consumer of callow shoot em ups. Admittedly, this probably applies as much to my tastes in tabletop games as in video games.

But Today I Die was a really neat experience; Matt described it as poetic, which I think is a very interesting way to put it.

Apparently there are multiple endings, but unlike the Wolverine movie you can see them all without having to pay for admission three times.

So, last weekend bandersnitch, girlydoll and myself attended the GI Joe con in Hamilton.

The awesome comes after some lead in.

First, I attended FCBD festivities at a local store. The problem was this store, whicha ppears to be visiting from 1988, does not accept debit or credit cards. I don't really carry much cash on me. So I ended up getting the Darkest Night prequel book (which I liked more than iamheavenrender. A LOT more) and meeting them for Indian.

I had on my OSI shirt, which was inspired by the GI Joe logo. Brock Samson, BTW, would call Snake Eyes a douchebag and stick a knife in his kidney. Just saying.

We went to the Joe show, where I was looking primarily for Avatar action figures for Cynra. There were none (Sorry, honey!).

So I picked up a little something (LITERALLY) for absinthe_dot_ca and a tpb from shortpacked.

I considered doing my big "get all the Dreadnoks and the funky car" thing, but it would have been a bit more than I'd budgeted for the con. The Transformers/80s Toy Expo had been the previous weekend, and many of the dealers at JoeCon felt that the TF Con folk were attempting to smother the Joe Con. God, that old dance, eh?

Now, during my strolls across the hall, I saw a dealer who made custom paraphenalia for 3 3/4" action figures. One of these items was a folding chair. Idea! Sgt. Slaughter was a GI Joe figure. We should get a picture of him hitting someone with a chair!

So. I searched for a loose Sgt. Slaughter action figure. Bingo! But who to hit? Well, Cobra ne'er do well Copperhead was to be on the receiving end when we learned something wonderful. Something beautiful.

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