Conventions?

[ERROR_ENTRY]

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)

 

[Holdek]

I've only went to a Comic Con that was held here in Kuwait

What was the vibe like? I assume no scantily clad cosplayers?

 

[dunbrine47]

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

 

[Terrorist]

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.

 

[dunbrine47]

Found this cosplay while browsing photos from this years NYCC:

Spoiler: Meta AF

 

[melty]

Found this cosplay while browsing photos from this years NYCC:

Spoiler: Meta AF

That's pretty high effort tbh.. katsucon has a gazebo in the convention center that's infamous for everyone taking photos in it because it's very picturesque. There are similar gazebo cosplays and memes

Spoiler: Gazebo

 

[Meowthkip]

That's pretty high effort tbh.. katsucon has a gazebo in the convention center that's infamous for everyone taking photos in it because it's very picturesque. There are similar gazebo cosplays and memes

Spoiler: Gazebo

Long live the Gazebo.

 

[dunbrine47]

Anybody here ever gone to G-Fest?

 

[Antipathy]

I'm hoping the Autism Schwarzschild radius is exceeded at one and we have a literal black hole of spergery.

 

[Black Waltz]

I saw this at a convention I was at a couple months ago

 

[Antipathy]

We're close. A few more spergs and the Autism Singularity will be formed.

 

[Marvin]

I'm going to magfest this year. Anyone else going?