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So phase con day after review:

It honestly went amazing. Sure there was scuff, like fish man forgot the cookies for Shiinas cookies for cookies and lots of small technical delays, but it genuinely felt like a precovid anime con, where it's like everyone has this thing in common.

The phase community was super engaged and excited for each other. They made spontaneous pop up events and meet ups, made freebies like ribbons, stickers and random things to give out, and organized trading of the randomized talent merch that came with the registration bag. Multiple times someone's sad bee or plush or merch bag was lost and people would announce it on twitter and make sure it got back to them. People brought in stuff from lucky boxes of talents they don't watch to give away if they find a fan of that girl. I saw one cosplayer receive a daki and acrylics or charms of the girl she was cosplaying.

There was always something going on, if not a panel or karaoke then there's one of the phase girls exploring on the robot. I actually ended up not having any time to hang in the game room between events like I usually do at cons. Which was unfortunate cause I met a lot of people into mtg and getting into oshi push.

Oh and they did fix the official phase booth line day 2. Someone made an excel sheet of everything they had, blacked out the few sold out items, and it was distributed and picked up while in line so they could pack it up while you wait. Not that there was very much con exclusive merch. Most of all of it was drops they had sold or announced online before.

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and some other random notes before I forget.

I didn't get to meet Shiina but gf did and asked her to bless our sad bee and to record a shout out to me.

I won 2 lost 2 and had 1 no show for the oshi push tournament so the deck I made a week before the con worked decently well.

The attendees were like 90% 25 or older white, asian, or southeast asian men. Either cause that's the fan demographics or the cons proximity to silicon valley.

And about the Bibi cosplayer foot juice thing that happened, huge nothingburger. It was just an ethot cosplayer copying what happened at the park outside fanime last month for attention. The con shut it down immediately since she was selling alcohol.

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So phase con day after review:

It honestly went amazing. Sure there was scuff, like fish man forgot the cookies for Shiinas cookies for cookies and lots of small technical delays, but it genuinely felt like a precovid anime con, where it's like everyone has this thing in common.

The phase community was super engaged and excited for each other. They made spontaneous pop up events and meet ups, made freebies like ribbons, stickers and random things to give out, and organized trading of the randomized talent merch that came with the registration bag. Multiple times someone's sad bee or plush or merch bag was lost and people would announce it on twitter and make sure it got back to them. People brought in stuff from lucky boxes of talents they don't watch to give away if they find a fan of that girl. I saw one cosplayer receive a daki and acrylics or charms of the girl she was cosplaying.

There was always something going on, if not a panel or karaoke then there's one of the phase girls exploring on the robot. I actually ended up not having any time to hang in the game room between events like I usually do at cons. Which was unfortunate cause I met a lot of people into mtg and getting into oshi push.

Oh and they did fix the official phase booth line day 2. Someone made an excel sheet of everything they had, blacked out the few sold out items, and it was distributed and picked up while in line so they could pack it up while you wait. Not that there was very much con exclusive merch. Most of all of it was drops they had sold or announced online before.

[ambidisastrous]

every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

I wonder what OP thinks about mass migration?

[ambidisastrous]

Honestly don’t know the exact meaning of the buzzword.

In short:

- migration is a human right

- corporations are the one taking advantage of us, it’s not the fault of immigrants

Does that help?

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

No, it doesn't help at all. Mass migration is used by corporations and governments to flood countries with people willing to work for far less money than the native populations.

You can't logically support both higher wages and infinite immigration, they are literally at odds with each other.

This is why Bernie Sanders used to refer to open borders as a "Koch Brothers Project" - socialists before the modern "woke" era understood that importing foreigners was the equivalent of bussing in scabs to break a strike.

[queen-of-the-valkyrja]

Why do you guys argue with women and then shun any woman that actually has political views?

[arizona-green-tea-absolutist]

Do you understand the difference between being a woman and being retarded?

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Sorry no day 2 con photos. Sunday was completely packed from Panko karaoke, to Lia maid cafe, to official phase booth (now that the line fit in the same room) to the Shiina and cookies meet up and finally to an oshi push raffle (I did not win anything with 1 raffle ticket but I did have the joy of seeing the guy with 15 tickets also lose, which he would have had to drop around 1500$ on stuff at their booth for)

[tendie-defender]

Spotify, SoundCloud, or Pandora? 

None of them. I use the music that’s been on my phone since the iPhone 7.

[hawkinthird]

As it should be

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Tidal

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So the main takeaway I'm seeing from people for day 1 was that the merch line was too long.

Some people genuinely waited 6 hours or longer in line, and some of those didn't get in before the hall closed.

With how many events, talent meet and greets, random fan meet ups, or vtuber robot roombas going around there were, I think you're genuinely retarded if you made your experience entirely waiting in line.

And to be clear, it was only the line for the official Phase booth that was crazy. I went to every artist booth and the capipalists and got everything no problem, and still had time for events, a tcg tournament, seeing both pippa and panko on their robot streams, etc.

Like yeah sure next year they'll have to work on the logistics of it, maybe have staff with ipads go down the line to take orders ahead of time, but it's entirely unfair to blame phase when you're one snowball part of an avalanche of a line

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tummy hurty but there is an oshi push tournament at 7 and I need to lock in

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The phase con ball pit is real btw

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Part of the ball pit is coming home with me

My jelly orb #myjorb

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The phase con ball pit is real btw

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