ConnectiCon!

Hooray! The one key event in my trip to the United States to meet Vael!

        Woke up an hour in advance of our alarm like usual, which was good because it didn’t go off. Left here at 8 am, arrived at 10 am. Got in and spent about three hours in the dealer’s room examining many fine wares, as well as dropping by the booth manned by the creator of Billy vs Snakeman to score me some free stuffs and chat about the game long enough to lose Vael’s interest and learn he recognized me by my character name for being awesome. Later, we split up - basically twenty feet between us - while he bought something and I went back to BvS man’s anime booth and talked about the game long enough to lose Vael himself. So then we meandered around looking for eachother, and after a while I recognized him from afar and bounded over to catch up with him.

        At that point we realized we had spent three hours buying crap and hadn’t even seen the rest of the con yet, so we went to a local tavern (complete with sticky floors) before running back to see stuff. We went in to a panel only to realize the thing we were looking for was actually on Sunday (today was Saturday for those not keeping track at home) and quietly excused ourselves after attracting attention by being obviously disinterested. Then we went looking for a the Steampunk Music Experience thing only to find out it had been cancelled and replaced by a Rock Band tournament. Great, but not good enough.

        I think at this point we had a bit of time before the next interesting panel, so we went back to the dealer’s room and looked at more stuff (including some awesome but inconvenient steampunk goggles) before watching a Super Art Fight featuring, among others, Yuko Ota, Garth Graham and Lar deSouza. Then we saw a panel about Why You Can’t Move To Japan and Instantly Be Famous. Then we went to a Secret Webcomic Panel, which was so secret nobody showed up. So we went to see the guys behind Atomic Robo and 8-Bit Theatre, which was fun. Then we went absolutely nowhere and waited for Cyanide & Happiness to come to us, and while only one C&H guy was there, it was funny and great. We eventually began giving standing ovations to anyone entering the room late. We got some stickers from one of the stand-ins for his own webcomic so that was good.

        After that, we ran by the artist alley (which seemed to be closing down anyway) because we hadn’t been there and checked out stuff and talked to people at booths because we learned from the Cyanide & Happiness panel that it’s weird when people totally ignore you. I snagged a shirt for $10 which was great and then we took off.

I acquired:

Total: $152, proving we did in fact spend money so we could spend more money

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