Never have we ever struggled this much to get a fucking podcast intro in.
No, no.
Ever. What is this, the fourth take?
I think about the sixth.
Of just trying to say hello.
Hello.
Hello, everyone.
Where have we been?
Comic Con.
Nice.
So we went to Comic Con over the weekend.
Yeah, we did.
And...
Yeah.
We were a fucking L-man.
Yeah, we did.
And this year, we didn't actually know...
Okay, pack it in.
We didn't actually know until kind of like after, really, it was only when I read the
map when we got home and the pass, it was basically this year it was twinned with not
OGX because that's the hair stuff, EGX.
EGX.
EGX, which is a games expo.
So it's actually, we stumbled into a great time.
Yeah.
Because initially we were like absolutely starving.
So we were on the hunt for some food.
Oh, that's better.
That's nice and loud.
Which was some raw chicken.
More on that later.
And yeah, and it was kind of a completely different sort of setup.
The XL, where it was held in London, it's got like a north side and a south side.
And if you haven't been there, it's basically just like, what do you say, like a massive
hall, isn't it?
It was the exposition center at the end of the day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And...
Big old corridor, lots of shit on the left, lots of shit on the right.
Yeah.
Lots of shit on the right.
Yeah.
And yeah, and it was basically, yeah, they've twinned up.
So there was so much more gaming stuff there.
There were so many people compared to the beginning of the year, because obviously they
hold two conventions a year.
Yeah, you've got May and October.
And we noticed straight away, I mean, for starters, we fucked up the times.
We had the priority tickets, which gets you in two hours before everyone else.
And I thought it started at 10, started at nine.
So we missed like an hour and a bit.
But when we got through, there was, it was just fucking Ramo.
And we was like, shit, if it's rammed when the standard tickets haven't, like time hasn't
started, then fucking hell, what's it going to be like when 10 o'clock starts?
10 o'clock here or 11 o'clock.
11 o'clock.
Fuck me.
Yeah, it was slow pace moving.
But yeah, we didn't realize that it was this, this Comic Con was linked up with EGX.
So that would explain as to why it was so busy and why there was just so much gaming
stuff that was floating around, but not like your typical, not gaming stuff as in things
you can buy, but actual gaming.
Yeah, like hands on demos, previews of games.
You had Star Wars Outlaws had had a quite a big probably what would you say?
Maybe like 30, 30 PC set up to and you had to queue up and you could go and play.
I don't know how much of Star Wars Outlaws you got to play, but you could go and sit
down and play the game.
Yeah, we were Little Nightmares 3.
Little Nightmares 3.
We there was I can't remember the release date for that yet.
I think it just said 2025.
But we got to we got to play the demo of that, which I don't know if that was an exclusive
to that convention.
I'm going to hazard a guess.
Maybe that was an exclusive first, like a hands on because that's normally what happens
is they they give you the actual shit before anyone else gets it.
And yeah, you got to play maybe like 15 minutes of that.
And that seemed quite good.
Obviously haven't played Little Nightmares 2.
So I don't really know what the characters that we because there's two characters that
we were playing were.
But that seemed quite cool.
And there was quite a few people.
There was maybe like what again, maybe like 20, 30 PS5 set up to play that, which is a
lot of fucking a lot of gear.
And then just a plethora of old school arcade consoles.
And then then any console you can think of was just set up in what that was to two or
three rows.
Fucking loads.
There was so many.
And it was literally you just walk up and if it was a free seat, you just fucking sat
down and started playing whatever.
I don't even know what the fucking thing was that I was playing on with the joystick.
Yeah, one of them was a Commodore 64, which is literally like one of the first.
But they were set up on the old Tellys.
Like big, thick glass.
Well, that's all they really can be on a wire basis.
That was a lot, you know, scarlet and shit.
And so that was that was very fun to just see that I wasn't expecting expecting that
to be there.
So probably could have explored that a bit a bit more, but it was just so rammer.
And I won't lie.
I felt a bit like because how many hands, how many greasy hands have been around this
joystick?
Not fucking germaphobe, but I was like, because it felt really greasy when I was fucking
using it.
I would have really loved to have.
They had a set up where you could paint your own like minifigure.
Yeah.
I would have loved to sit and do that.
Yeah, that was cool.
And then you ruined that for me.
But no, it's like origami.
Oh, yeah.
That was cool.
There was there was a lot of stuff there.
Way more interactive.
Yeah.
To sit around and sort of do your own shit, which I would I would imagine unless you're
really, really into that, that's sort of like a weekend pass type thing.
This is literally what I was about to say.
It's something that for the first time walking around as we did, I could see a merit in
myself getting more than one day because it's the sort of thing that I would have
previously you think of.
Yeah.
Like there's nothing more to sort of see.
And obviously, we don't when we go so far, we haven't, you know, sort of paid out for
a meet and greet or an autograph with anybody.
We haven't gone to any panels and stuff.
But yeah, I could sort of see this.
This was the first one where I was like, oh, I actually kind of do wish that we had more
time because myself, the same thing like there was like a quite a big element of overstimulation
in some in some parts of it, especially when you don't realize you might be like a bit
hungry, a bit thirsty, you're flagging a bit.
And then, yeah, so things start to get a little bit more, you know, just like not as comfy
and you can sort of go, yeah, you know, I'm sort of ready to head home.
But I do think, yeah, there was just like so much more interactive stuff this time.
It would be good to because I'd imagine where we're relatively close to it, it's not that
much of an aggro to to get there, especially not considering that we went from our mums as well.
Maybe that's the reason as to why we don't really look into it when you look at the
guests and who's going, but the actual things that are going on throughout the day, I don't
really look at them.
It's like I was talking to someone at work and they went, oh, would you get up to the
weekend? And obviously I said it.
And they're like, oh, who did you go see?
I was like, no one.
Oh, like what?
There was like, what are you into?
I was like, nothing.
Like it was kind of just like, oh, well, but everything really just walk around blindly.
But I could see potentially like obviously it takes a, you know, they won't announce
anything for May this early.
It's going to be sort of, you know, you're talking like springtime next year when you
start to see like who's turning up and whatever.
Can they milk Baldur's Gate for a third year kind of thing?
And I would be sort of more potentially obviously see where we're at with everything,
you know, actually in our lives.
But I potentially could see like go the Friday and the Saturday potentially.
Yeah, I could see doing a two day.
Yeah.
If we actually were to dress up in a couple of costume cosplay.
I'd do it and then plan it out.
Yeah.
Plan plan out the days and know that you're not going to spend two days of just pure walking
around if you're going there for a specific and then and then maybe the second day is
when you decide I actually know I'm going to walk around and have a look at other things.
Well, as we were leaving, there was someone, you know, you sort of catch wind of conversations
and I can't remember what they were cosplaying and they were like, yeah, yeah.
So tomorrow is going to be my shopping day because literally, oh, these two, you know,
yesterday and today just been so, so busy doing, you know, like whatever they were doing.
I think, oh my God, like, yeah, you don't even we've only so far experienced it in the sense
that, well, I'm going to go today and then I'm not going to come back.
Like this is it.
If I don't, you know, buy this thing or, you know, do whatever, then I'm not going to do
it this time, you know, and some things are the same, like even something as simple as like
I was kind of looking forward to the what I'd eaten in May and no, they weren't there,
you know, it's like little things like that.
And I'd be intrigued to have a such a quick compare because now, obviously,
where I've been to the Star Wars celebration as well, but Friday, Saturday and Sunday have been
done for myself.
Like I've been to a convention.
Yeah, no, you're not done Friday Comic Con though.
No, not Comic Con, but the celebration was a was that Friday?
I don't think so.
Swear I've been to one on a Friday.
I don't think so.
OK, ignore the Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
We've seen the comparison of those two.
But you get more for your money on Saturdays.
Well, a lot more time.
Well, it would be it would be cool to see a direct comparison immediately.
So if you were doing a Saturday and Sunday or you're doing a Friday and a Saturday to
be able to see straight away, you go right on this day, there was this, this and this,
and it was this busy.
And then the following day for the same convention, there was this, this and this
because I'd like because obviously there is a variety in the days.
Otherwise, I feel like that would be a bit of a cop out if every single day was exactly the same.
Well, no, and it's not like there was there was
certain things like when I was flicking through because I didn't realize a couple of people
were there.
So I had a little look and you look and you go, oh, it's tomorrow, you know,
and things like that.
And some some people aren't there every day.
They might be there Friday, Saturday.
They might be there, you know, Sunday.
And I wonder if the vendors are all the same throughout the entire thing or if they swap
them out.
I think artists, I think they are all the same.
I think those things stay the same.
But yeah, but even then, there's people who, like between October last year and May this year,
I feel like there was a lot more similarities of the people that were there versus May this year
and October this year.
I thought there was actually there were some people that were still the same,
you know, had been there May.
But actually, there were quite a few people who who then weren't there again.
If you think like, you know, we bought prints off of them, the like little goat thing,
the fox, like they I didn't see them.
No, no.
And some other people.
What I like about it is that it's definitely something that you could do on your own.
Yeah, you don't you don't need people to come with you because I felt you could very easily
spend the day of just dawdling around doing your own thing, fucking looking at whatever
you want.
It was a lot of fun.
Doing your own thing, fucking looking at whatever you want.
There's no there's no rush there because it's just so fucking busy.
So busy trying to.
And that's the first time we've been to a sold out day, I think.
Neither Friday nor Sunday did sell out.
Just Saturday sold out.
And I think from what I read the other day, like Saturday is the most popular day.
And I think because it's the longest day as well.
It's not which makes sense because if you go on a Friday, then you have to look at work
and things like that.
And then, yeah, Sunday, shorter day again, you have to think of work because you got
work on the Monday.
This is it.
And yeah, I mean, it's I think I kind of love how it's become like it is something I genuinely
look forward to.
I'd love to go to a convention outside of the Excel, like something in Liverpool or
because I know the Liverpool Comic Con's meant to be like really fucking good and quite
a bit bigger.
So it'd be cool to be cool to experience those types of things.
Dear on.
But yeah, and I think as well, look at some some more sort of, you know, like gaming
specific expose that, you know, like I'd love to do PAX East in America or something like
that.
I'd love to go to a Blizzcon, man.
I really would.
They're never over here.
We could go.
Oh, no, you wouldn't want to go over there, would you?
What America?
Yeah, I don't know.
I'm so worried about going and just getting my head blown off.
Okay.
Just saying the wrong thing and someone putting a gun on me.
I'm just slightly concerned.
That's not what it's like.
I won't lie.
It's not.
It's not what it's like in my experience.
Anyway, I'm still here.
Yeah.
Customs is a fucking shitter, though.
Is it?
Yeah.
Why?
Because it's long, really long.
And you just stood like little sheep in a big hole.
I was going to say it'd be even longer for us now that we're not part of the EU, but that
makes absolutely no fucking difference going to America, does it?
No.
And like, I'm lost.
Wasn't the last time I went.
It must have been time before.
We went to New York and I was just about to turn 13.
And that's the age where was it 13 or 14?
I can't remember whichever age is younger than that.
You don't you're not fingerprinted, but older than that.
You are.
And he really, really fucking frightened me because I'm a kid.
And he was like, you won't get away with this.
Like this or something like this is the last time you get away with this.
And this fucking guy at Brick Shit House looking me dead in the fucking eyes.
And I was like, I mean, like whatever else he said.
And then he went, because it's your birthday next week.
And after that, I was just like, no, you can't fucking do it to me.
I've just shit myself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm being sent back.
Yeah, and they like always when the times we've been, and even as an adult,
when she's gone, Charlotte just gets fucking done by TSA.
They always just, yeah, sorry, we're going to completely search all of your bags.
Literally take everything out, strip down to your T-shirt and take your shoes off and all that.
They just they just hate her.
Do they have to check your suitcase or do you not have it at that point?
You don't have it at that point, but they can go through it.
My cousin had hers was was searched.
That's why they say don't lock your suitcase.
Or if they do, you can get like a TSA lock where they have like a master key to it.
But even then, they're not going to fucking take the time.
A lot of the time, they just they break it off or they open it.
Well, yeah, I would like I would like to start going to other things and.
Do you think you could do the flight?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I reckon I could.
Because what are you going to do?
I don't particularly like flying.
I'm not a massive fan of it, but then.
I suppose you have done it.
You have done a long flight.
I've done many long flights, but there comes a point now where when we're up in the air,
where I have this acceptance, I can't go anywhere.
And if the plane's going to crash, it's going to crash.
There's nothing I can do about it.
So it is what it is.
I might as well.
There's a maybe like a 40 percent level of anxiety there as opposed to the 80 percent
when we're fucking in the first hour.
I'll go get me off this fucking thing.
I'm in a tube about 40,000 foot up.
I don't like it.
I don't like heights.
I don't like cramped spaces.
And I mean, I mean, both of those things at the moment.
Get me the fuck out.
Yeah.
A big crowd.
Yeah.
Tin can.
But then I start to settle down and I go, well, if we're going to die, we're going to die.
I'm next to you.
There's no one more.
I'd want to be next to if I'm going to die.
So.
It's what it is.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
The person I care about the most about if I die, I worry that it's going to be more impactful for
you. I'm not worried about myself, but you're here as well.
So you're going to die as well.
So I ain't got to worry about you being upset because you'll be dead.
What if I make it?
Fuming.
You've made it and I ain't.
Yeah.
Not a chance.
I'd probably just if yeah.
That's not right.
Let's not think about it.
But yeah, other conventions would be would be lovely to experience.
We didn't buy that much this time around.
I got a really cool dice roller, which was decent.
And yeah, that was that that was sort of about it.
I bought a mystery dice bag, which was quite shit, to be fair.
Oh, you weren't happy.
I mean, it's all right there.
It's nice.
I'm glad you have it.
It's nice to have more dice.
I mean, I've now got what?
Four sets of dice.
Maybe fucking one of them will roll nice for me.
Maybe possibly.
But that's down to the dice roller because I'm not rolling a single fucking dice anymore
because that that fucking raven on a skull is going to do it for me, which I'm happy for.
I like it.
A lot more 3D printed shit this time.
Loads that seem to be the going fucking theme on it.
3D printed lizards.
Yeah.
The freeze dry candy lady wasn't there fuming.
And there was there was no little food store, like donut stores and shit like that.
No, no.
Few minutes about there was a fudge man.
Yeah.
And there was like two fudge stores and that was it.
Oh, the entire thing.
And I was like, oh, I won't.
I weren't happy with that because last time there was loads of sweets and shit.
I was like, give me the give me the sweet stuff.
Yeah, exactly.
Although I suppose you and Darryl got the notebooks, didn't you?
You got those little things.
They were cool.
Yeah, because I because I basically grown up
and realized that if you're going to play a game like D&D
with that much info being thrown at you almost consistently,
writing that down actually makes it more enjoyable.
Wow.
Who would have fucking thought that understanding exactly what's going on?
And that's the problem, though, is I bought this nice notebook.
You're not going to want to write in it.
Yeah, it's not just fucking scraps of paper that I can just bin off
and have to write actual structured shit in.
I'm going to because that's what I bought it for.
And those pads, like when I bought the little notepad I bought,
they had a thing there and I was trying to get your attention
and you just weren't coming over at all because they had it.
I mean, I think we did see one a bit later on where it was like had areas to write in.
Why were you trying to get my attention?
Desperately. You know, when I was tapping my card and it wouldn't work.
I got the little froggy notepad.
Yeah. And I could just ask this like.
So why don't you just walk over to me and fucking tap me?
Because I was because I was paying.
I couldn't I couldn't walk away because I had it in my hand.
If you could have paid and then.
I mean, I did. And then I said and then.
But anyway, it doesn't matter.
I was in full swing.
You were you were happy little face.
I think that's when we were searching for something like sweet treat.
So I think your mind was on other things.
We made the mistake of rocking up without on an empty stomach.
Yeah, we were actually so stupid with that.
Empty stomach, which we've done before and.
Walking around the place, trying to find what food we're after.
Big fucking mistake because it.
I love spending 31 quid on two chicken burgers and some chips.
Oh, shit.
God, you go up to the fucking chicken place.
Chicken bites or whatever.
Oh, fuck it was.
Chicken, whatever.
And pay our money looks decent.
And then immediately someone walks up with their half eaten burger
and they go like chicken burger and they go, oh, I'm not trying to be like rude
or anything like this, but but this chicken's raw.
I don't want to refund or anything, but I'm just letting you know this chicken.
This chicken burger is raw and sure enough, it was raw.
Raw. Yeah.
And what have you just ordered?
Two chicken burgers, please.
Yeah.
And you're like, oh.
And they basically just got like cut up microwave scraps.
Yeah.
You know, oh, no.
But I thought it tasted really nice.
I know you were put off because you thought you were worried it was going to be raw,
but I just I just fucking steamed in and I actually thought it was nice.
Good.
I liked it, but I wasn't happy about waiting fucking 20 minutes for it.
I mean, when it was cold, it was cold.
Yeah.
But.
30 quid.
Woo.
Yeah.
Woo.
Woo. That's the thing.
You just well, eight pound forty for two monsters.
Mental.
I mean, there was one geezer there that had the bollocks because I'm not being funny.
I've paid 21 quid here.
I want my burger to be hot.
This ain't hot.
Give me another one.
And they're like, yeah, yeah, of course.
Yeah.
We should have done the same thing.
You go, look, I know you're having a rough day, but I've just paid 30 odd quid.
So I'm now having a rough day as well.
Paid 30 plus quid for breakfast.
So I want this a bit warmer, please.
We just haven't got the social adeptness to do that.
No, no, take it or leave it.
Yeah.
But it was good.
It was a good day.
Always feel tired after because it's just so much walking.
There was a Tekken tournament there.
It was.
Which was very interesting.
Actual commentators and shit like that.
And I was like, how are you?
You sound so into it.
No, I find that so difficult.
I wait.
Whenever I watch anything that has commentators to do with with gaming, I'm like,
gaming, not so much football because I feel like that's a like that.
That's a bigger culture of itself.
But gaming as a whole, like with the race to world first for mythic Raiden for World
of Warcraft and then even for like arena champions for for WoW and League of Legends
and like Dota and CSGO and things like that.
Tekken.
And I often think like.
At first, I think these commentators are a bit because they're so overly excited.
And then when you when you sit back and you think, no, that's that's quite a skill to be able to
to hype it that much, even when it's boring as shit.
Yeah.
And they're still hyping up what's going on.
But then to to know the moves and everything, especially with something like WoW or with League
of Legends, for some reason, when I look at League, my brain melts because I don't know what the fuck
I'm looking at.
I know that that's because I've never ever played League or shown any interest in it whatsoever.
And I won't because I know I think it's too toxic.
That's probably that's probably why I'm not interested in the fact that the fact that John
has literally started practicing Buddhism because of League of Legends to me screams that it's
too toxic for me. I'm not interested in it.
And whenever I see clips of it, I cannot understand what the fuck is going on.
I don't know who's moving what.
I don't know what moves are what.
I can't read the UI.
I don't get any of it.
So to then have a commentator that's like, how do you how do you know this shit?
No different to a football commentator where they know every single player.
It's fucking name and their stat.
I know they have a long list of notes where they they pre-write a lot of stuff, but even
the ability to see a ball be passed to someone and then quickly look at your notes and then
pinpoint that person and then fucking something about his nan that she did last week that
has anything to do with the game that they're playing.
Like it baffles me.
Commentators are cool.
Yeah.
And I think it comes from having a genuine interest, isn't it?
Like you you you can't I don't think just anyone could do it.
Whereas I think at the same time, though, like you could say, for example, I don't know,
you were like, I was about to say annotating commentating a raid.
You would know who it was you were looking at because you give it well, you might do
like with a smaller group or like and you'd also know potentially like what they were
doing or you could imagine if you could like commentate yourself.
How naturally it would come.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
I suppose it would be I wouldn't be able to commentate some random guild raiding.
However, I would be able to commentate if I was watching my guild.
Yeah.
I mean, raiding, I'd be able to know each character and like a bit of their background
and what they're doing because I know these people and in turn, like if you're watching
someone else play well, you'd be able to sort of you might not know like who's not aware.
But I'd know what they're doing.
Yeah.
But it's just it's just weird to.
It's fucking yeah.
Like when we walked past it, it was just crazy.
Like they were so, so into it as well.
Yeah.
And then even the crowd at points were were fucking I don't know if that was random people
that were coming up and fucking playing or what.
I don't know.
And that's the thing.
Like I love I would if I could turn back time and have that like when you were younger,
like to be part of something.
Like I remember people go into Comic Con when it came over and stuff, but it was just it
was like something that other people didn't like that no one no one like no one I hung
out with like we we didn't do it even though we were like nerdy thing like Meg and whatever.
Yeah.
But I just because it just it must be so lovely like to be part of something like that.
I mean, I know like we go, but there's there's things that you don't I mean like we're not
community of it.
Yeah.
I mean, it's the only time I see Darrell.
So it's like so you're the next one, you know, and it's like that it is lovely.
Like you see people and they're genuinely just like they're chilling and like having
the best time in a costume that was probably like 400 quid and about 80 hours to fucking
make you know, like the when we got off of the train and there's this guy and he was
like fucking what was he like eight foot tall with this wing and you could see all of the
like mechanical elements of this thing that he'd made.
We didn't even see it working.
Unlike I didn't know who he was and then he's just like she's like, oh, do you want a coffee
and she's fucking toe in half of her costume in her.
And you know, yeah, I can trail.
Yeah.
Oh, you want to talk about eight foot tall, the fucking mushroom man.
Fuck me.
Jesus Christ.
I've never I felt like a hobbit.
The case was fucking huge.
No exaggeration.
He must have been what seven and a half nearly eight foot tall.
Easily.
He was huge.
He was massive.
Big fat gut.
I don't know that was part of the costume or what, but he was wearing a top that basically
was a crop top.
No, I'm not digging him out.
He was huge.
He was he was he was an absolute unit.
Yes, absolute unit.
He was scary.
I'm sure he was lovely.
I'm pretty sure he was on his own, but he was he was told from.
Yeah, but he was he was genuinely.
Yeah, like a massive human, massive human.
I couldn't I couldn't fathom it was incredible.
He was incredible.
Like you don't you just don't see people like that every day.
Like I said to Darrell, if that geezer went to the gym and went fucking mental with it,
he would be unstoppable.
I'm sure he's unstoppable.
Don't they make equipment that big?
He's just so tall.
I've never in life seen someone that that was that that was that big ever, ever, ever, ever.
And it wasn't like because you know, like sometimes you see people and they're mega
tall, but they're like quite slim, like quite slim or they look like they've sort of been
like stretched up.
He was just he was proportionately giant.
His hands were huge.
His penis must have been fucking ginormous.
If it's in proportion with the rest of his body, he he was fantastic and he was everywhere.
He was everywhere.
Everywhere we looked, he was there.
And then we joked around and we were like, he's so tall, I bet you could fucking point
him out in a crowd.
And then sure enough, we looked over the stalls and then you can all you can see out of the crowd
is just this mushroom hat walking about fucking two foot above everyone else.
I was like, it's incredible.
I love it.
Every every walk of life fits into that building for those three days of the of the year.
Every single person, whether whether they never leave their house or their their what
what society would perceive as normal or fucking proper nerdy, really weird.
I like there's just every type of people.
Don't get me wrong.
There are some weird people there.
About one hundred and forty times of BO.
Of BO.
Yeah, there was one that I don't know who it was, but we walked through them.
You can chew it.
It had a chemical tang to it.
Yeah, layers.
It was it was medically wrong.
Yeah, there was something not quite right there.
And I don't know what it was, but it it it burnt.
Yeah, their smell burnt.
And I don't know where it come from and the amount of farting.
I did some crop dusting myself.
Oh, I bet you did.
I said to Darrell why there was a couple of people that were sat down.
I walked past them, not not not over them, but I walked in their vicinity and
maybe like a five, six second fart just just come out.
And because it's loud, it like it don't matter.
No one's hearing your fart.
But yeah, there was there was there was there was this one one
one gaza that was walking in front of me and for some reason, like considering
how busy it was, he was like walking on his own and had like an area where he
was just on his own.
And I was walking behind him and then all of a sudden it just absolutely stunk of
shit.
But for a good like 20 seconds while I was still following, I was like, that was
you.
I'm smelling your like a club for them.
And you be in a club and it was just like some drunken, dirty fucking.
And no one and everyone's got immunity because no one knows.
No one knows who's five.
The person who genuinely farted might not even know they're farting because they're
just so pissed.
But we're all smelling it and everyone's looking around like who's done that?
And the person that's done it is like, who's done that?
They're known full well that you're the one that's fucking shit themselves in
the middle of a crowd.
Yeah, it was all the smells.
The smells were mental.
And considering how many people there were, I didn't smell the odour at once.
No funny that.
You know what I mean?
The whole thing didn't smell bad.
There was just sections of it where it didn't smell great.
But it's like I didn't smell anything that smelled nice.
No, I mean, no one smelled good.
I'm sure I didn't.
There was a bit.
And what what what was what's what gets in your fucking head about is that I was
wearing a jumper.
What's the buttons hoodie?
And I took that off.
And then and then as I took it off, there was just a massive stench of B.O.
And I was like, there's no way that's me.
It wasn't.
But I convinced myself I was like, I was like, I stink of B.O.
But it wasn't me.
As you and Darrell both took off.
Yeah, sunk of B.O.
But it wasn't us because I smell my armpits.
I was like, no, I smell fine.
I smell like deodorant.
I was like, how?
Comic Con, baby.
Fantastic day.
Absolutely fantastic.
I love it.
Every time we go, I think it's great.
It's just so much fun.
But I would I would love to go but be more invested in actually what is there.
Yeah, I think next time we'll sort of have a little look beforehand because I was quite
surprised.
And that's the thing.
Each time we've gone, there's been people there that I like, like really, really like.
But I just don't know.
In my experience, I think meeting the couple of people I've met, it just gives me like a new
thing that keeps me up at night.
You know, you like lay down and you think of all the embarrassing shit you've done, even
though it wasn't like that bad.
That tends to be what sticks with me and not like the oh, my God, I can't believe I met
them.
What do you mean?
What?
You know, so like, say, you know how like Ashley, what's her face?
Who was Ellie?
She was there.
But last year, wasn't she?
Or like Neil Newbon was there.
Ali and AJ, Lana Pereira and like people that were there this time.
Oh, you'd be worried about going to them and then doing something embarrassing.
Well, it's like I remember.
You got paid to meet this person and I've just spat on them.
No, but like, I mean, so say me and Meg, we went to a stage show and afterwards the cast
came out and I mean, I didn't really know any of them, but like I got them to sign the
program and I said like, oh, it was amazing.
Like, oh, it made me cry.
And this woman, I don't know who she was, one of the performers, quite a big role.
She let in, she went, I don't see any tears like that.
And it was like, well, no, I'm not crying now.
Yeah.
This was about an hour ago, babe.
And it just really pissed me off.
And I thought, oh, have you got any tippex?
Because I don't actually want your signature anymore.
You know, little things like that.
You know, like, I don't know, just little things like that.
Like, not that that's what they'll be like.
I think ultimately is like overwhelmingly positive and people have a great time.
But I just think, yeah, I'm one of those people.
I think you either are or you aren't.
You know, like when we met James Norton at the we were at a gig in Victoria Park and he was there.
And like we got a picture and Knight said, oh, you know, you're great or whatever.
And that was really positive.
But yeah, I just don't know.
It would make me really nervous because a lot of the time with Comic Con, you pre-book, don't you?
You know, you've ordered that before it was gone.
It would just make me fucking dread it.
Like leading up to it, I think it depends who I guess.
Do you think you like, do you think, say, I don't know who would who would be there for you that
you would you would go, you know what?
No, I really want a signature.
Like, OK, let's you take one.
No fucking.
I mean, Ian McKellen ain't going to turn up.
But you know, I mean, like imagine that Q.
Do you think that you would?
What if there was someone there and I could.
Yeah.
Do you think you would do it?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would.
But I would also have the.
You'd have the answer.
So say like, say I've got a Funko pop sign.
What I wanted to have actually get my my early signed.
You'd have that.
That's where you would need two days because there ain't no fucking way I am paying for a signature
going and now getting a prized Funko signed by a prized person
and then walking around with that for the entire con.
Oh, really?
Well, I just put it in like a hard case or something.
But have a take a.
Oh, yeah, but then you need a bag that's fucking.
Just get a backpack that isn't shit.
Yeah, my backpack is terrible.
Well, it's a laptop bag.
It's a laptop bag.
It's trying its best.
But yeah, shit for a backpack.
I suppose a hard case would fucking be the the would be the solver of that.
Because it would be the same if you had like a poster.
Well, you saw the geezer with the poster.
That geezer that had that had like a poster signed.
Yeah.
Oh, and then he was just walking around with a poster.
Yeah.
No, fuck that.
What are you supposed to do with that?
What the fuck are you supposed to do with that?
Yeah, no way.
I mean, you could let it dry and then put it in a thing and then roll it.
Maybe you've got that poster in my way.
What was that poster?
I was a lawyer from the Lego Horizon.
Oh, it's dented girl.
That's OK.
Hold on.
I can't hang on to hold them.
It's very nice.
It's cute.
It's cool little poster.
Yeah.
What's that?
A little device thing.
A little device thingy.
Do you think you'll get that?
Horizon.
Yeah, maybe.
Looks interesting.
Don't know when it releases.
The nice sound.
Fucking.
Here we go.
Yeah.
Maybe we'll do that next time.
We'll get we'll get the weekend.
Yeah, and have a little preview.
What's the weekend ticket?
See what's going on.
And then that was that.
That was the end.
It's not that.
No, I know.
I will have to play Little Nightmares 2.
Oh, wait.
Aside from Comic Con, obviously, you finally killed your doobie, didn't you?
Oh, yeah.
We're now ahead of the curve.
Raiders for this season for the first season one of the war within for World of Warcraft.
And we maintain our status as being a head of the curve and AOTC guild.
And fuck me, was it painful?
Five weeks, I think five or six weeks, something like that.
Oh, grim.
You want to know what the ironic thing is, is that apologies if these people are listening.
They're almost definitely not.
But I'm not having a dig at you.
But like four people left the guild that day or the day before.
Oh, you spoke to or?
Yeah, they raided with us.
Not fucking not OG.
They're not OG.
I mean, I didn't I didn't know I didn't speak to them personally.
Oh, right.
They were just in the raid and stuff like that.
Have they been in there a long time?
Since the beginning of the war within.
So nothing.
Oh, yeah.
Nothing crazy.
But four of them left.
So trimmed the fat, did we?
Well, it just meant that our team rather than being like 30 people strong, it was it was 19.
So it scales down to that.
So effectively, without us doing it, it made it easier because there was less people involved.
There was less going on because what what what DVS did, which is a guild that Hooves and Hoes ran with
once or twice and it just didn't really work out.
They're like a mythic raiding guild.
Oh, I remember you doing that.
Yeah, I never did.
I remember you saying it though.
I know.
And they they got curve quite early on.
But what they did is they cut their team down to 10 people.
So they could get curve because at 10 man, it is piss compared to 30 people.
But we originally said as a collective, no, we're we're ahead of the curve guild.
The team that we have is the team that we have and we will do it with these people.
It's not a real fucking curve unless you do it with the people that you've got,
which is what we were doing.
So the the conversation point did happen of shall we drop it down to a smaller team
just so we can fucking get curve and then start pulling other people in
that haven't got it so that they can they can get it as well.
And we never we never got to that.
But yeah, passively, some people left, which then just meant that our team was smaller.
And then, yeah, we we two banged it.
Two pulls, three pulls, and it was done.
Congrats.
And I was like, thank God.
So now I'll put that to bed until the next season comes out.
Yeah, of course.
Not World of Warcraft as a whole, but the character, my paladin Teardra,
I'll probably sunset for the minute and start playing other characters because I
there's no point to me.
Obviously, I'm playing a lot of New World anyway.
Yeah.
But with World of Warcraft, I've got the fucking I've got the keystone master for doing mythic plus
got ahead of the curve.
I'm not fucking interested in anything else, man.
I can't be bothered.
Yeah, so I might make a character and make it a tank because I've never ever played one
properly in my entire time of playing World of Warcraft because I'm just too scared to do it.
The anxiety is too high to do it.
It's just too much responsibility there.
So I'm going to give it a go and just see what the crack is on that one.
Nice.
And that's it.
Decent.
I mean, you haven't played anything.
I haven't played a fucking thing.
Still trying to get you to play New World.
Yeah, maybe I'll give it a go.
We'll have dinner and then I'll do my thingies.
And then yeah, it's just good.
I think it's your type of game in a sense of you really like ESO.
Yeah.
And it is a nice ESO like.
Yeah, man.
Yeah, I'll give it a go.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, fuck it.
Leave it there.
Much love.
See you later.
Au revoir.
Uru.
Au revoir.