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Furnal Equinox 2024 aftermath (sorta)
a year ago
Posting this now given I may or may not be going Sunday despite having intended to earlier (very sorry). It depends.
tl;dr: it was kinda fun but social anxiety is real 💀💀💀💀💀
Friday I ended up having to cut things short because I was tired. Useful advice: do not wake up several hours before you depart. In my case, I woke up at 1 AM, departed at 5 AM, and arrived at 8 AM and already I was feeling exhausted. Maybe at most one hour before you depart for the convention. I was basically running on empty by noon and proceeded to peace out, which sucks because some events in the schedule interested me.
So that was unfortunate...
Saturday went way better. Ended up joining in on the Smash Bros. Wii U event they had. I mostly lost but still had fun with some of the cursed memes that went on, and also played a bit of Mario Kart Wii there...turns out I still can kinda play it well even after 10 years of having not seriously played it. It was a blast, if mostly games- it was really fun to finally play local multiplayer for the first time in almost a decade or so, but did I ever hang out with anyone? Well, uh... no. While sensory-wise the convention wasn't overwhelming (the city outside is louder to me than the convention inside), I am that bad about talking to random people to the point where I just don't bother trying at all.
So I mostly just wandered around and vibed. It was nice to finally visit a convention like I had wanted to for a while and this weekend visit crosses off another item on my questionably long bucket list of places I'd like to visit.
Would I go again? ...If I had friends, maybe? I don't mind going by myself but given the walls to interaction (admittedly self-imposed) it wouldn't really be as fun as it otherwise would. I stress this is through no fault of the convention and my experience was still positive in spite of that. Also trying to figure out how to position both my badge and the convention badge on my lanyard was really annoying but that's a skill issue from me.
I don't really know how to end this, I'm mostly just rambling again.
tl;dr: it was kinda fun but social anxiety is real 💀💀💀💀💀
Friday I ended up having to cut things short because I was tired. Useful advice: do not wake up several hours before you depart. In my case, I woke up at 1 AM, departed at 5 AM, and arrived at 8 AM and already I was feeling exhausted. Maybe at most one hour before you depart for the convention. I was basically running on empty by noon and proceeded to peace out, which sucks because some events in the schedule interested me.
So that was unfortunate...
Saturday went way better. Ended up joining in on the Smash Bros. Wii U event they had. I mostly lost but still had fun with some of the cursed memes that went on, and also played a bit of Mario Kart Wii there...turns out I still can kinda play it well even after 10 years of having not seriously played it. It was a blast, if mostly games- it was really fun to finally play local multiplayer for the first time in almost a decade or so, but did I ever hang out with anyone? Well, uh... no. While sensory-wise the convention wasn't overwhelming (the city outside is louder to me than the convention inside), I am that bad about talking to random people to the point where I just don't bother trying at all.
So I mostly just wandered around and vibed. It was nice to finally visit a convention like I had wanted to for a while and this weekend visit crosses off another item on my questionably long bucket list of places I'd like to visit.
Would I go again? ...If I had friends, maybe? I don't mind going by myself but given the walls to interaction (admittedly self-imposed) it wouldn't really be as fun as it otherwise would. I stress this is through no fault of the convention and my experience was still positive in spite of that. Also trying to figure out how to position both my badge and the convention badge on my lanyard was really annoying but that's a skill issue from me.
I don't really know how to end this, I'm mostly just rambling again.
