May31

75 days to Gen Con 2013

by mugumbo on May 31, 2013 at 1:02 pm
Posted In: Conventions, Site News
YAY!! It feel like a lifetime since lasts years convention. Here is an email I received from Gen Con….
75 Days to Go
Gen Con Indy 2013 is approaching rapidly! With Event Registration underway and less than 75 days until showtime, it’s officially time to kick your planning into high-gear!In less than one month, Pre-Registration will end. If you have yet to purchase your Gen Con Indy 2013 badge, you have just a few weeks to save yourself $10. After Pre-Reg closes on June 29, badge prices will increase. Also, if you sign-up for your badge during Pre-Registration, you can have your badge and event tickets shipped directly to your home (additional shipping charges may apply). Event tickets and badges purchased after Pre-Registration closes may be picked up at Will Call.If you’ve already signed up for a badge, please make sure that your shipping information is correct and up-to-date.

To get your badge for this year’s show, click here.

Great Benefits For Volunteers
Not sure if you can afford to attend Gen Con Indy 2013? Sign up to volunteer, and you can get reimbursed for your 4-Day badge, along with other great benefits!You can volunteer for as few as 16 or 32 hours during our show. For 16+ hours of work, we will reimburse your 4-Day badge; for 32+ hours, you also will be reimbursed for part of your hotel stay.All you have to do is fill out an application, complete your onsite timecard, and turn in the necessary paperwork after the show. Take a look at the website for specifics. The deadline to sign up as a Volunteer Page is July 1.

Join the Gen Con Family
Want to become an Apprentice and possibly grow into a volunteer leadership position at Gen Con Indy? Good news! We are extending the June 1 deadline this year in hopes to get a few extra volunteers interested in joining our Mentorship Program. Apprentices are people who love Gen Con – people who want to learn and grow and eventually become a full-fledged Gen Con Captain, responsible for their own area of the show.Interested?Take a look here for more information, and get your application here!

Looking for More Hotel Options?

Are you hunting for lodging options for Gen Con Indy 2013? Check out our travel site for updated listings in the Indy metro. Many great rooms are still available.

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Apr19

Gen Con Registration in 1 Month

by mugumbo on April 19, 2013 at 1:10 pm
Posted In: Conventions
Following text if from the official Gen Con email.
Event Registration to Open in One Month
Few pre-show activities create as much excitement and anticipation for Gen Con attendees as the opening of Event Registration.Good news, it’s only ONE MONTH AWAY!

Gen Con’s Events team is busy reviewing event submissions (there are nearly 9000 so far!), and will provide Event Listings to the public prior to the opening of Event Registration in the coming weeks. Check out upcoming newsletters for further details. To register for events, attendees must have a valid Gen Con Indy 2013 badge, so that event tickets may be linked to an attendee’s account. Important note: a badge and event tickets cannot be purchased in the same transaction. Also, make sure to go to the Gen Con Indy home page (you can click here) to make sure your account information is accurate and up to date. It won’t be long until August!

First Media Guest of Honor Announced
If you missed the news from earlier this week, Gen Con announced its first Media Guest of Honor, Peter Davison!
Peter Davison, Gen Con Indy 2013 Media Guest of Honor
Best know as the Fifth Doctor in the famed Doctor Who Classic series, Peter Davison also has appeared in the recent Doctor Who BBC series and numerous other television shows. Peter Davison is appearing at Gen ConIndy in partnership with Indianapolis’ own Who North America, Inc., a multi-year Gen Con exhibitor and Doctor Who retailer. As a Media Guest of Honor, Davison will take part in signings in Gen Con’s Autograph Area with official times to be announced prior to show. He also will take part in several Who North America, Inc. events, which will be announced in the coming weeks. More information regarding those events will be made available at www.whona.com.For more information regarding 2013 Media Guests of Honor, click here. More guests will be announced in the coming weeks and months!

Final Film Festival Deadline Rapidly Approaching
The deadline for entries in the 2013 Gen Con Film Festival is midnight April 30. Filmmaker response has set all new records this year, and the Gen Con team hopes to see even more sign-ups before the submission deadline closes. The Gen Con Film Festival takes place throughout Gen Con Indy weekend at the Westin Hotel. The Festival features films and independent series that have strong ties to the world of gaming, geekdom, fantasy, sci-fi, and horror.The submissions team is open to many styles of film fiction, non-fiction, animation, live action, documentary, comedy, drama, action, and more. Categories of competition include Series, Feature Films, Short Films. Many film-related panels throughout the festival also will feature festival filmmakers. In addition, those interested should attend the Filmmakers Meet & Greet, which is open to all attendees. Tickets are also available to the GenCon Film Festival Awards Ceremony, which will take place around midday on Sunday with more information as the show approaches.

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Apr03

Traumatic Cinematic has moved

by mugumbo on April 3, 2013 at 11:49 am
Posted In: Everything Else, Site News

In case you guys haven’t noticed we have moved the podcasts 100 % from GenXnerd to it dedicated site TraumaticCinematic.com. Same generation x flavor but with a much more focused web presence.

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Mar03

Clock is Ticking

by mugumbo on March 3, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Posted In: Conventions, Mind of MuGumBo, Site News

Finally it seems like there is a light at the end of this conventionless Winter.. I have finally started seeing information for Gen Con popping up on FaceBook and Days of the Dead is starting to stir up the Indianapolis pot. Also Mike announced that he is going to C2E2 in Chicago which sadly I will not be able to attend.

Just as a reminder you all should be following the team on Twitter and our Facebook pages.

Lewis R. Cougill – Twitter @GenXnerd

Mike Wickliff – Twitter @Greymattersplat

David DeMoss – Twitter @AYTIWS

And check out and “LIKE” our FaceBook Page

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Feb03

Convention Off Season

by mugumbo on February 3, 2013 at 12:12 pm
Posted In: Conventions, Mind of MuGumBo

Wintertime is a tough period here in the Midwest. It seems all the good stuff starts in spring and ends before Thanksgiving. Sure there are a couple shows that we could travel too but with the family and “Day Job” it is hard to take away more time from the important things to travel somewhere and sit alone in a hotel room. We will we save that for the REALLY big shows like Gen Con, C2E2, Comic Con, and Days of the Dead! We are eagerly awaiting the season to arrive!

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Jan03

New Nerd in the House!!

by mugumbo on January 3, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Posted In: Site News

Folks and fiends I am proud to introduce the newest GenXnerd of hope and wonder! Mr. David DeMoss and signed the papers and sold his sold his soul to become part of this insanity. My guess is he will really clean the place up around here! Check out Mr. DeMoss’s main site And You Thought It Was Safe? and welcome him with knives and hammers!

http://blip.tv/and-you-thought-it-was-safe/aytiws-reviews-the-hobbit-1977-6486888

 

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Sep17

MuGumBo’s Horror Hound Recap

by mugumbo on September 17, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Posted In: Conventions, Mind of MuGumBo

Remember folks you can listen to the interviews and our thoughts about our Horror Hound experience by clicking play on the player bellow or following this link! Also don’t forget to check out the hundreds of photos we snapped at the show in our Horror Hound Weekend photo gallery.

This was the first Horror Hound convention that I was both aware of and attended and I was impressed from start to finish. We traveled to another horror convention earlier this year and it was half the show Horror Hound turned out to be. Granted the other show is still young and growing and learning HH really seems well-organized and had nice execution. I really like how they screened their films and laid out the show spread around the east side Marriott. Greymattersplat and I were both granted press passes and we walked the halls all three days and night. Something at these conventions I will never get use to is almost all of the famous people are right out in the open for the fans to see. There were a couple hidden behind doors but for the most part everyone I wanted to see were approachable. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep09

Horror Hound Gallery is up

by mugumbo on September 9, 2012 at 10:48 pm
Posted In: Conventions, Site News

Alright folks there is not enough time for me to discuss the Horror Hound Weekend tonight but I do want to let everyone know that the photo gallery is up and functional. I hope that you all find something you say WOW about in there and I encourage you to share the photos with your friends and on Facebook. I do want to thank everyone we met for being awesome and the promoters of Horror Hound for putting on a very well-organized show. Also don’t forget that we will have a podcast or two available soon (at Traumatic Cinematic) with all the interviews and reviews we recorded during the show. I have a stack of movies to watch, about 60 business cards to email/ contact, and several videos to edit and upload so it will be a busy week.

 

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Sep06

RAGE!!!!! How it affects our gameplay and how we keep our cool.

by xCherubiMx on September 6, 2012 at 11:43 pm
Posted In: xCherubiMx's Freak Show

Rage, everything from calling your opponent every name in the book, to silently having your mind wrapt in anger. It happens to us all to some degree, yes, I even see a little anger in WhiteRa’s face from time to time. It is a natural reaction. you invest emotion into the game, and you try to impose your force, sometimes it doesn’t work. Anger comes from a primal part of our mind, early man, on thru evolution to relatively recently, anger to a degree got us thru a lot. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep01

Happy Horror Week

by mugumbo on September 1, 2012 at 10:13 am
Posted In: Mind of MuGumBo

I have dubbed this week as horror week. This is not a national holiday nor is it October but it is 6 days away from the Horror Hound horror convention that is coming to my home town September 7-9. So in anticipation of this show I thought it might be enjoyable to explore our favorite horror movie experiences and share with you at home.

My earliest memory of the horror movie genre was going to the local theater with my mother and seeing Poltergeist. It was 1982 which would have made me 6ish and I loved the film all the way up to the end with the coffins popping up through the houses floor. This scared the happy out of me and I remember having trouble sleeping for a couple of weeks afterwords. Even though I was young I could appreciate having a work of fiction affect my emotions and I loved it even though I was afraid of every bump in the night for a while. I can honestly say that is the first and last time a movie actually scared me. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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