Aside from a couple of local events happening in the next few months, I'm feeling this will probably be my last true con. I'm currently planning on sitting out FWA and other major cons next year to focus on paying off my debts so that I can leave with a clean conscious.

I enjoyed CozyCon. The tight-knit community they've built up on Discord is always fun to interact with, and they've been doing it for long enough that they've got a formula down for making things work. The majority of the staff are based in Canada and they have stopped doing business with the United States, so most of the storefront was broken for me. They're supposedly working on it...they've been very supportive of trying to keep the community together, and I commend that.

I've made no secret of the fact that I've always felt locked-out of whatever community I'm in, but at CozyCon I feel like that matters less, or is somehow less true?

I have come to a decision on VR however. I am going to stop trying to engage with it. The few snippets of actual interaction I've gotten out of it I do not feel warrant the financial costs of getting a rig, and I still do not trust the devs behind VRChat. Just like in real life I am talked over, marginalized, or ignored and I don't feel like dropping hundreds of moneys to get that same experience. You'll be able to find me on Discord or telegram if you really want to chat with me.