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New York Comic Con Report
13 years ago
I just got back from New York Comic Con yesterday evening. Meant to post a journal about it, but I got lazy and started playing Guild Wars 2 for my first time. I'm terrible at that game so far but I'm still having fun with it. :P
This con was my first time in New York since I was in elementary school. It was an interesting place and there was definitely a lot to do, but man, the price of even canned drinks there was about 75 cents beyond outrageous. Don't get me started on the price of bottled drinks. XP
The con itself was great though. I loved the panels I was able to attend and I was able to pick up some nice stuff. All the walking I did there was probably pretty good for me since I refused to use any cabs or the subway to save some money.
I have to admit the size of the con was a bit surprising for me. The largest con I had been to before this one was Otakon in Baltimore and this one was significantly larger than that one. There was more people and more stuff than I was expecting, but I guess that was a good thing. It made me take things slow and see things I might have missed. Besides, all the people in the con were extremely polite so the crush of people was pretty easy to deal with.
Also got to meet some people from here on FA in person for the first time. There was
sheela, 
jetslasher (who was taller than I thought he'd be), 
meisterli, 
dinosaur, 
luchalibrelibro (whose face I never saw because of his rather nice Protoman costume), and 
dietyofdooky. All of them came off as great people. It was also nice just randomly running into Jet and Sheela again on my last day at the con and getting to talk to them again. Also spotted Dinosaur in her great looking Tali outfit even though I don't think she saw me while watching the "Mass Effect: Paragon Lost" movie (which actually did a pretty decent job fleshing out Vega's backstory).
I'm just sorry I missed
duncan while I was there.
All in all, I enjoyed the trip. It was a lot of fun and this was the furthest con from my home in Virginia that I have attended. Makes me want to give AC a shot one day, but I don't really have anyone to attend that one with.
Oh, and before I forget to mention it, I also now have a twitter account. Don't know how much I'll be using it since I'm really only using it to keep track of others for now, but who knows, I might find further use for it in the future. If you want to follow me there it is twitter.com/Neopuc
This con was my first time in New York since I was in elementary school. It was an interesting place and there was definitely a lot to do, but man, the price of even canned drinks there was about 75 cents beyond outrageous. Don't get me started on the price of bottled drinks. XP
The con itself was great though. I loved the panels I was able to attend and I was able to pick up some nice stuff. All the walking I did there was probably pretty good for me since I refused to use any cabs or the subway to save some money.
I have to admit the size of the con was a bit surprising for me. The largest con I had been to before this one was Otakon in Baltimore and this one was significantly larger than that one. There was more people and more stuff than I was expecting, but I guess that was a good thing. It made me take things slow and see things I might have missed. Besides, all the people in the con were extremely polite so the crush of people was pretty easy to deal with.
Also got to meet some people from here on FA in person for the first time. There was
sheela, 
jetslasher (who was taller than I thought he'd be), 
meisterli, 
dinosaur, 
luchalibrelibro (whose face I never saw because of his rather nice Protoman costume), and 
dietyofdooky. All of them came off as great people. It was also nice just randomly running into Jet and Sheela again on my last day at the con and getting to talk to them again. Also spotted Dinosaur in her great looking Tali outfit even though I don't think she saw me while watching the "Mass Effect: Paragon Lost" movie (which actually did a pretty decent job fleshing out Vega's backstory).I'm just sorry I missed
duncan while I was there.All in all, I enjoyed the trip. It was a lot of fun and this was the furthest con from my home in Virginia that I have attended. Makes me want to give AC a shot one day, but I don't really have anyone to attend that one with.
Oh, and before I forget to mention it, I also now have a twitter account. Don't know how much I'll be using it since I'm really only using it to keep track of others for now, but who knows, I might find further use for it in the future. If you want to follow me there it is twitter.com/Neopuc
But yeah, trips to the other coast can be a bit daunting. Good luck trying to get to AC one day.
Hope to see you again some time!