So I ended up going to that expo yesterday.

It was pretty much what I was expecting, fat girls in overly tight clothes, showing off every single possible roll of flab, weaboos getting in everyone’s way as they try to photograph one another in their frankly fucking awful costumes (that looked like a retard had attempted to put them together). Worst of all though were the people that were carrying around “free hug” signs. There was just something about them that was utterly vile. When Mimi and I got out of the DLR station and were walking towards the Excel center, we saw one particular person approach a group of these particular weirdos and get hugged by 3 sweaty, acne ridden fatties, it was disgusting, very much like how I imagine having sex with a dirty prostitute would feel like. Just feeling dirty and ashamed. Anyway, what kind of fucking loser craves human contact that much, to want to have random strangers hug them? urgh, just thinking about it is making me want puke.

Anyway, aside from the vast majority of the people, it was alright. I’m not a comic book guy, but I did spot Kieron Gillen there, who happens to be one of the only few gaming journalists worth a damn. He was signing copies of his comic book Phonogram, which is rather good if you’re into britpop culture. So yeah, had a go at a few new upcoming games, which were alright, aside from being on consoles obv.

Bit of an unsatisfying, if deeply amusing day really. Certainly had some very big laughs at other people’s expense.

Headache’s still going strong, 20mg doses of codeine seem to tame it for a few hours, but it always comes back. I’ve got another appointment at the doc’s at 5pm today, so hopefully they’ll be able to give me something good, or check to see what the fuck is going on.

It’s the London MCM expo this weekend, and I’m tempted to go. Of course, I still feel like something is repeatedly kicking me in the brain, but the paracetamol/ibuprofen/sumatriptan cocktail is mostly dealing with that.

Anyway, yeah. I want to go laugh at sweaty, overweight guys trying to dress up as comic and animé characters, because I know it’d cheer me right up to see losers like that. I’m a terrible person really. I’d be tempted to go for the games there too, but they’ll be console games, and I absolutely fucking suck at playing those. Which idiot thought playing FPS games with a controller would be a good idea?

I’ve been having an absolutely killer headache since tuesday afternoon which standard painkillers don’t seem to be solving, so I’ve not really been able to be very productive this week. Got an appointment to see the doc this afternoon, hopefully I can get something a little stronger to deal with it, 4 days of headache isn’t really all that nice.

I’ll try get some actual work done once this headache fucks off.