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It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over

September 30th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Langland
    Langland
    September 30, 2014 at 10:01 am | # | Reply

    What kind of hat is that? The ears can bend when you have some anxiety.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      September 30, 2014 at 11:06 am | # | Reply

      It’s a normal hat that happens to exist in a comic. Like Max’s hair, it doesn’t need to make sense.

      • KORfan
        KORfan
        September 30, 2014 at 7:08 pm | # | Reply

        It could also be a modified version of those ears that move based on your brainwaves. I’ve forgotten the product name, but you can buy them.

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          September 30, 2014 at 7:49 pm | # | Reply

          Yet it isn’t! 😛

          • Bernhard
            Bernhard
            October 5, 2014 at 9:29 am | #

            Now I want to kit-bash a hat that actually does that.
            Maybe once Necomimi comes down sufficiently in price…

        • Bernhard
          Bernhard
          September 30, 2014 at 9:11 pm | # | Reply

          Necomimi [sic]

  2. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    September 30, 2014 at 8:27 pm | # | Reply

    We havn’t -lost- anyone doing this… but there was the one time a guy got placed into a carefully labeled and properly recorded crate. We knew right where he was the whole time.

    • calvsie
      calvsie
      October 1, 2014 at 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      That happened to Duct Tape boy once…

  3. Kay Shapero
    Kay Shapero
    October 4, 2014 at 1:28 am | # | Reply

    Got caught in one of those earlier this year – seems the decision was made to extend the con to the end of Sunday, figuring we could stash everything in the temporary storage room. Alas, it turned out that we didn’t HAVE that particular room for more than a few hours after we closed down before the hotel had to make it up for something else coming up Monday morning. Good old missed communications. This will not happen next year. 🙂

  4. Ladybug
    Ladybug
    July 17, 2016 at 11:25 am | # | Reply

    I love how Sarah’s hat ears droop when she gets upset, it looks adorable.

  5. antrik
    antrik
    August 15, 2016 at 11:59 pm | # | Reply

    In my experience, tear-down goes a *lot* faster then setup, at least if it’s well organised. I don’t know whether this would work at anime cons: but at the Free Software conference I mentioned before, at the closing ceremonies they always ask people to stay around a bit if they can, to help out with the tear-down — and there are always some who do. (Including myself: I really like helping out with carrying stuff — it’s an easy way to make myself feel useful…) This way everything tends to be over within like 1 1/2 hours or so.

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    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

    Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

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    RISC is good


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