Conventions?

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I've presented several panels which got good feedback and used to go to cons 4+ times a year but I haven't been to one in two years. So many reasons why:
  • I'm from a small country where anime isn't very popular and most of the cons that actually attracted crowds have closed up shop
  • The cons that are still running are basically just the same thing every year. the same panels, events, guests etc.
  • Panels/events are the focus of a con for me because its an opportunity to learn something new but often there's just one or two good ones at a con. When cons are 3+ days filling the rest of the time becomes a problem.
  • The heavy focus on mainstream series in the scene just annoys me. Getting recommendations on new series is pointless because everyone seems to have only seen Attack on Titan/One Punch Man/One Piece or whatever the flavor of the month is.
  • I don't have any friends who are interested in anime and I have 0 interest in cosplay. I always went to cons alone (my own fault really)
 
This past weekend something happened that could be called the dashcon of retrogaming: The Coleco Expo in New Jersey.
TL;DR: The company who currently owns the Coleco trademark pissed off the homebrew part of the community, tried to have and expo and ended up with this:
https://www.facebook.com/paul.snearowski/posts/1788570141157268
Article with pictures: http://www.gambitmag.com/2017/08/coleco-expo-hilariously-embarrassing-disaster/
Some salt with your fries: https://www.facebook.com/colecovisi...41828.596195503873576/826765087483282/?type=3
 
I went to a new jersey dental conference for extra credit once. Was pretty lit tbh, apparently you can get cheap opioids there if you know certain people. Dentists know how to party.
 
Found this cosplay while browsing photos from this years NYCC:
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I'm hoping the Autism Schwarzschild radius is exceeded at one and we have a literal black hole of spergery.
 
We're close. A few more spergs and the Autism Singularity will be formed.
 
I'm going to magfest this year. Anyone else going?
 
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