{"id":13479,"date":"2009-08-11T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2009-08-11T09:54:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:54:22","slug":"the-eyes-of-the-world-turn-to-indianapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13479","title":{"rendered":"The Eyes of the World Turn to Indianapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13481\" title=\"gencon1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gencon1.jpg\" alt=\"gencon1\" width=\"471\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gencon1.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/gencon1-300x57.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of you, those living in a bubble, or perhaps with the cognitive abilities of Matthis Chiroux might plausibly ask why anyone would be looking towards Indy. Is it because I discovered today that I can golf each night, 3.25 miles from my Apartment for $15, including golf cart rental? \u00a0Why no, although that is the reason I am totally stoked today. No my faithful friends and fellow travellers of the intertubes, for those of you few\u00a0cretins not aware, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gen_Con\">GenCon is coming to Indy<\/a>this weekend, and TSO, your humble blogger, bon vivant, and hero will be in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>I knew something was afoot when I saw the various groups descending on this wonderful town. Haggard-looking prostitutes with eyes all a&#8217;glitter at the immense gratuities they can anticipate, biker gangs ready to eschew real violence and engage in some war-gamming and pre-pubescent boys with acne\u2019d faces desperately clutching their multi-colored Icosahedrons (+3 saving rolls v. STDs) and v3 of the Dungeons and Dragons Players Handbook. Yes my friends, a veritable cornucopia of\u00a0life forms\u00a0here for one purpose: to show others just how astonishingly cool they are.<\/p>\n<p>And I shall be there. I\u2019m still debating the costume. Do I go as my cyber-self, Healidin extra-ordinare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wowarmory.com\/character-sheet.xml?r=Anvilmar&amp;n=Cv\">CV of the Anvilmar Realm<\/a>, lower ranking officer of the Legacy Guild? Shall I wear my Chestplate of the Great Aspects, my Bone-Framed Bracers, even Margroth\u2019s Meditative Cincture? Or shall I embrace the future, and go as something from Starcraft, maybe a Space Cowboy, complete with <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">assless<\/span>chaps and a 10-gallon hat made entirely of tin foil (they are impervious to Xel&#8217;Naga ray guns.)<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know, but the world is my oyster, laden with the biggest pearl in the history of <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Geekdom<\/span> Azeroth.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the fine ladies I may see, perhaps even interview for TAH:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13482\" title=\"wtf4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf4.jpg\" alt=\"wtf4\" width=\"491\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf4.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf4-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf4-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13484\" title=\"wtf2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf2.jpg\" alt=\"wtf2\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13491\" title=\"wtf5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf5-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"wtf5\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf5-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wtf5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I invited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/\">Laughing Wolf of Blackfive <\/a>fame to go with me, but alas, he has something far more important to do.\u00a0 Possibly a pedicure, or watching a toaster oven decompose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, Dude, this is gonna be great!\u00a0 Man I love this blogging stuff.\u00a0 I&#8217;m even going to charge Jonn for the price of admission to this hallowed event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you, those living in a bubble, or perhaps with the cognitive abilities of Matthis &hellip; <a title=\"The Eyes of the World Turn to Indianapolis\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13479\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Eyes of the World Turn to Indianapolis<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}