We're going to go in a couple of weeks to Emerald
City Comic Con. Are we, Alex? It's not this weekend,
is it? Are we? Yeah, we know. I will be there.
I will be there. I. Whoa. Did you feel that Octokitty
doesn't believe you, Alex? You don't have tickets
yet. I will get them. Don't worry. Oh, my gosh.
You're going to be like buying tickets. There'll
be a there's going to be a dude right up front.
I'm just kidding. But ECC Edward City Comic Con
is coming up. We're going to cover stuff there.
But, Jay, you were looking things. What do you
got on your list here? Yes, I'm going to go.
That's it. Let's just roll the credits now. I'm
kidding. All right. So, yeah, I have some topics
here. Some things I'm looking forward to this
year, the grunge prom. You know, that's gonna
be really fun. Um, there's a lot of workshops
that I'm kind of excited for. I in the past have
not been able to do like the kind of the building
hands on workshops because they always fill up
like really quickly, which there's a little bit
of a little bit of a sour taste in everyone's
mouth of how they did it this year. I guess a
lot of people complained about that very topic
of like workshops. Because in the past, I don't
feel like I ever got like notified, like, oh,
hey, like you can sign up for this workshop.
Now is just randomly like on their website. And
by the time I found it, it was already filled.
And typically they're pretty small. So you can't
they go really quick. Well, this year they did
based on your past level. So like VIP celebrity,
you whatever. You had a time slot where you could
go in and I think every day you could choose
up to like four like workshops or panels or whatever
And just reserve your spot ahead of time now
It sounds cool in theory But then a lot of people
got pissed off because essentially everyone with
like the celebrity VIP passes just went in and
just reserved all the spots and I will say it's
a it was a little clunky. So I I bought tickets
for my wife and I, but I used my email address.
So therefore, because it was based off email
address, I could only reserve my spot. I couldn't
reserve a spot. Oh, it's like, well, shit. I
don't know. I guess you can sit there and watch
me or Like it's kind of that was kind of shitty.
But yeah, I'm also something that they're doing
this year that I don't I, you know, maybe Alex,
you can kind of speak to this. I haven't ever
noticed this before, but they're doing their
10 minutes of hate. I'm sorry. That was that
was 1984 again. They're doing a panel where you
can. It's with the staff. They did this. They
did this last year. Did they really? They did.
OK. I did not hear about it last year. Did. In
fact, I think there's somebody in the chat who
went to the panel last year where they take feedback.
I don't know how much they take. Last year at
ECC, I was working. A booth, the booth of the
booth that I normally do. I'm not doing that
this year. I'm just going to kissing boots this
year. No. I. Yeah, somebody in the chat did go
to that that panel last year for Emerald City
Comic Con. I'll be curious to see what they changed
this year. These events are unwieldy at best.
So making big, drastic changes to how they run
operations is a big undertaking. So. I. Chat
saying they were very receptive to feedback to
me being receptive and hearing the feedback is
different than implementing it. That's very true.
I want to know what they're going to do. So I
will be curious to see the show this year. So
Dog Dad, how how was it? Because I imagine because
I know I saw a lot of people very angry last
year. Um, like people yelling and cussing about
how stuff sucked. Um, so I imagine a panel where
you're like, Hey, come tell us why we sucked.
Um, I think it could be, I think that might turn
into like a riot. Like in my head, there was
a, there was a lot of issues last year. So I
don't know. Um, yeah, dog, dad, I'm, I'm interested
was Oh, it's very civil. Wow. That's nice. Okay.
Other things that I'm excited for. I'm always
I always love the cosplay, you know, the triple
crown cosplay. I love going to that this year,
like getting some stuff signed. There's not to
me. There's like not a lot of super big celebrities
going. I am I have a giant Funko pop. Oh, of
Shenron here that I'm going to get autographed
by the voice actors of Dragon Ball Z, one of
my favorite, like, animes. So I'm going to get
that signed. I'm going to get a comic book sent
off and graded. I'm going to get my. What is
this? The the new order helmet. John Boyega.
Yes, that's going to be cool. And this like,
if you haven't noticed, I kind of have a helmet
collection going on. So there's like a helmet
back there. This helmet. I got a Katie sack off
to sign this helmet right here. So, yeah, I definitely
have like a helmet collection going. So I'm going
to have him sign this. I'm going to do the classic
like blood, you know, handprint on the face before
he signs it. But, um... I don't know. What do
you think? Oh, wow, you're back. You're back.
No, this is important, okay? Because now I have
my Comic -Con tickets. I just bought them right
now. You're just like, are we going? Yes, I'm
going, okay? I bought my Comic -Con tickets while
we were on the stream, okay? For me to go and
then my wife and kid will come Sunday. Like because
they like to go for a day. Right. Sunday is really
the best day. Kind of close that day to let you
kind of go through. So there you go. I have my
comic con tickets. You heard it here first, YouTube
and Twitch. And you believe you called everyone
a bitch on. He he Jay had to call me out of it.
Are we going? Are we fine? You know what? Just
going to buy them on the Internet. I was wondering
what you were doing because you're like super
like. I was just. Just burning through it. Just
click, click, click, click, click, click, click.
They've always like, what are you looking forward
to seeing? Shut up. Just give my damn tickets.
I don't need you to ask me questions. So I will
go to will call. I will be there. It's it's there.
I'm not again. I'm not working at this year.
So this is actually good to just go. For the
first time in like 10 years. Wow. I have not
been to a convention that I have not worked.
in 10 years. Do you know like the rules? Because
I imagine like the rules have changed. I mean,
I've still been there. I've been at every ECC
for a decade. I think you've probably seen it.
But in my office over here to my to this side
of me is a giant wall of all of my badges, all
my badges for every con I've ever been to. Right
on lanyards. I saved them all. you know, I am
going to be doing cosplay this year and Let's
see if anyone can guess what I'm doing. So I'm
gonna show you a picture of what I bought Yep,
what is that? What is what am I going as chat?
Come a minute. Um, I actually need to look at
a couple of things For those that are interested,
yeah, the identical booth will be there again.
They're doing their thing. So, yes, they will
be at the convention. Doing stuff. What else
is happening? I kind of want to do some magic
events this year because I don't have to like
there's a couple of drafts. Yeah. That's I'm
saying, like, I want to do. I want to do some
magic events. I kind of want to do like a draft
or like a sealed event. Right. Yeah. I'm trying
to think if there's any exhibitors I'm particularly
looking forward to. This is like your first time
looking at it, isn't it? No, I mean, I kind of
glanced through before because I knew humanoid
was going to go. Nineteen eighty five games always
has some cool stuff. because they've got all
that like retro like dice sets and things like
that. I love artist alley. I always spend a lot
of time buying custom art. So to me, the biggest
surprise and the best part about Comic -Con is
the artists that I've never seen before. That's
right. I have up at the top of my stairs in my
house on our superhero wall. We've got like a
custom flash drawing, like the flash, like Barry
Allen. I. I love walking artist alley and just
finding new people who I'd never seen before.
That's a lot of fun. Finding comic books, like
the indie comic book guys, last year I bought
my daughter a bunch of them, right, because she
loves graphic novels. Right, she is really into
graphic novels and so just there's so many good
indie ones that don't get a lot of play that
I really am looking forward to. To finding just
random crap. That's one of my favorite things
to do find random crap You know, oh, yeah, I
love that. I love I actually I think I have like
post comic -con depression like after spending
four days of comic -con and just seeing all the
art and all the creativity and then going back
to work you're like Everything's bland and boring
and depressing All right, so I'm going to give
you guys another hint. What is that? What is
that? Who is that? You're going to have to tell
them, I think. No, you're going to have to find
me a comic on. You're going to have to find me
a comic on. Like me, I come no kidding. I will
try and get we'll try and get some some interviews
done at Comic Con for the show right after Comic
Con. So let's show it or comic cons can be a
little rough for me, but we will figure it out.
Yeah, absolutely. We'll get some we'll get some
nice stuff. I'm looking forward to it. People
can find us at the con. We will be there. Yeah,
I'll be honest, that really is it for me. It's.
It's all the new stuff. It's the people I'd never
seen before, the artists and comic books that
I never would have heard of had I not just wandered
through Artist Alley. That's my favorite part.
Also a place when we were when we were doing
gaming development, when we were doing developing
Identico, this is one of the places that we would
find artists for the for the book was walk through
Artist Alley, look at the different styles and
find people who were willing to work. You know,
there you go. Yeah. That's really smart. That's
great for it. So All right. Are you guys go to
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