The geek shall inherit the Earth
Summer’s on the way and, despite how clean the house is, it still proves to be a haven for flies, stuck on an endless loop of buzzing around.
It’s a fruitless task trying to get rid of them.
Whether it’s trying Jackie Chan-style moves to swat them or going through endless cans of fly spray to no avail, they’re a pain.
So maybe spend five minutes searching
Man Vs Fly
on to this day. Needless to say, this early foray into cosplay was less than a success, and back then, being a geek was something to be ridiculed.
Fast-forward to 2018, and everything has changed.
For thousands attending Auckland’s annual Armageddon Expo this weekend, cosplay will not only be de rigueur, but it’ll be the end of months of planning, sewing, stitching, and crafting.
For some, it’ll be intricate; for others, it could just be a flourish of makeup and a quick trip to the local $2 shop. For many though, it’ll be a shared experience.
The point is, now it’s cool to be different and Armageddon is the one place where we are all equal.
For more than a decade now, I’ve been seriously impressed by the costumes, the creativity and the passion on show.
But I’m ashamed to say I’ve yet to re-embrace my desire to cosplay, even though I openly bathe in the geek culture.
Maybe 2018’s Armaggedon will see me take the plunge – after all, I will be in the best non-judgmental company – and a world away from a childhood scarred by the cruelty of others.
More emotional scars are on offer in new biopic First Man at the movies.
La La Land director Damien Chazelle re-teams with star Ryan Gosling to thrust his take on Neil Armstrong into the claustrophobic cockpit of space capsules and test flights.
Ramping up the soundtrack, every bolt rattles, and every rivet creaks and echoes in the cinema – the flight material is edge-of-your-seat stuff.
And equally – albeit from the comfort of your front room, PlayGround Games’ Forza Horizon 4 (XBox only) puts you in the virtual seat of a series of racing cars and lets you throttle through England’s pleasant pastures.
Mixing addictive arcade racing gameplay with some truly gorgeous graphics, Forza Horizon 4 is every petrolhead’s gaming dream.
YouTube to offer some creative ways to rid these demons from your home. This series of sports-style shorts is overblown in its presentation and offers such hints as seeing a magician use a deck of cards to subdue one in under a minute, a boxer trying to take them down, or a ballroom dancer using B-boy moves to win the day.
If anything, it will give you a bit more creativity to fall back on when they come calling all summer.