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Great video! Didn’t know about it being cashless & no outside food/water. I was planning to bring cash, just to help out with my budget, looks like I’m out of luck😂. And I think I’ll risk bringing a water bottle or two. Thanks!

Thanks for sharing. I got a lot out of watching this. I was getting lots of third hand accounts this weekend. We were supposed to go and enjoy the con as regular guests but we were also up for providing a bit of coverage if things were interesting. That said, super glad we didn't go. I would have been a cranky miserable mess dealing with the heat and seemingly horrific air quality. I also never let my girlfriend suffer in situations that I can't stand so we probably would have left quickly. I would have been livid if I paid for a hotel and would have fought tooth and nail for a full refund. As far as the 21+ stuff, I was hoping for some interesting content aimed at adults but also glad it didn't turn into hentaifest. Sure, we are very sex positive, but adult panels can end up just feeling dumb. We were very disappointed that the panels seemed lackluster and shallow when they were announced. Even worse, the panels that we were interested in seem like they were cancelled before the convention weekend so that was a big loss. That said, I wasn't excited about Shenanicon for the 21+ content, I was excited for a con that was 21+. Not having to deal with a lot of the kids and the bucket loads of drama and noise they can and often times do bring to the cons was a huge draw. Sadly from what I've heard no one was checking IDs and some kids did make it in. I hope they are able to make a true 21+ event to keep the kiddies out and try their best to get in better programing. It would also be nice if they looked for some nerdnite thinking man panels to cater to the adults. My biggest issue with the convention was and still is the allowing of vendors to deal out of the hotel rooms. It just screams disaster in the making and I would NEVER stay at a hotel that allows that. It's my understanding that the con just didn't have enough room to fit all the dealers and cons that were needing table space. That's just bad event planning. Even worse, having all the vendors operate on all the floors scattered about is just insane. At the very least keep it to a floor but instead, like you said, you would had congoers going to every floor looking in peoples windows in the hopes of finding vendors. That's just stupid. From what was said at closing ceremonies this seems like something the con is going to continue to do in the future and I cannot at all be ok with it nor promote it at all. I took down my videos & shorts where I was pushing the con because it's just not OK with me. Hopefully they don't do the same thing with DerpyCon this year. If so I'm just going to stop going and speaking so highly of them. I hope they come back even better next year and either the hotel bs gets fixed or even better, they change locations. As is, I'm not excited about having to go to that location for a con. The many, many issues that I've seen and heard about the space makes it seem like it's just not worth visiting at all. That your room was as bad as it was is beyond inexcusable. Anywho, thanks for sharing. I'm glad you had a decent time in the end. Happy Friday.

I'm the first one to watch your video

Hey dude. I re-watched your video about last year’s Otakon and I have a question. When you said they were going cashless, does that mean I can’t bring cash at all? Because I have used a card in the past, but it didn’t work half the time.

First year so I'm excited

All true

Hi. One of the performers from the dance, here. I think you might've enjoyed it. 🐾

I normally go to awesome con (Same convention center location) However i missed out this year do to college so I wanna try this con this year in August.

From someone who stayed off-venue, getting off the bus at 9am and walking into the orchestra was kind of magical ngl

It got an A

Great review. Great Con. Hotel - Staff is great and always helpful. Room our outlets were so loose to the point of being not useable. The TV had an issue with lines running down the screen ....on all channels...assume it was the TV not the connection ...

The Bust-a-move tournament was a wild goose chase for me.

It's called the MUSIC and Gaming Festival and you don't like the music aspects of it?

Hello Hello Hello. So i help run panels for magfest and i am looking for all the feedback i can for the Con. I can tell you right now i Can't do anything about Nando's. What i can do is what to select for panels. However saying they are bad is not good enough to really improve. i need more specifics. what you did not like and what you would like to see.

I found that Thursday was lacking in panels, but Saturday was back to back panels/shows/games ... wound up being the best day for us. The Shredventure was one of my most favorite moments in Mag in the 8 years I've attended.

Regarding instrumental bands: Get the fuck outta here with that. Instrumental bands are one of the pillars this fest was built on, and VGM music is mostly instrumental as well. With the exception of Protomen, bands that add vocals are usually trash

For tech, I heard they started using new people instead of bringing on tech veterans. The lasers during Metroid Metal was/is a heated topic, esp.

Yeah Nandos was slammed. I think they had a shit ton of Uber eats or takeout orders.

I agree with what you are saying.

i’m scoping out cons to visit for 2024 and have never been to zenkaicon, so this was super helpful and informative! great review

Oh, so the hotel block is the reduced prices for the hotel I assume? For 2024 they said it’ll open on the 7th which is 3 days after the final day of the con?! That’s on purpose?

Wonderful Mall Fountain!!!! F+L, Corey

Great video as always, while I kind of agree they could diversify the dealers room and have more voice actors for fans around your age group might recognize more. At the end of the day a good majority of the attendees are going to be younger. Even me being 28 I kind of felt like the old one there, so I can't really blame them for that. My registration experience was a little bit of a headache compared to yours. Some of my Newgrounds friends were trying to register at 9 pm Friday to come to my Newgrounds Panel at 11:45 pm and this lady whos probably in her 40s who was staff came up to them telling them they couldn't because it was closed even though they already pre-registered and payed and the woman didn't really seem to care too much. It wasn't until the young lady with the curly brown-blueish hair helped them out. I brought that up at the closing ceremony and they actually told me it didn't close until 11pm. I also wasn't a big fan of the room they used for Karaoke. The one they used last year was way better. The music seemed kind of quiet and the room was too small. Other than that and the internet issues, this was a pretty good con, maybe even better than last year overall. Also for me personally parking seemed to be better. Both Friday and Saturday I was able to find a spot on the 1st floor very close, although I could've been lucky, and went at 6pm on Friday and 4:30 on Saturday, although Sunday I had to park on the 2nd floor but it still wasnt too bad. Last year I had to park in the garage down the street. Hope you had a great time at Derpy Con, and maybe I'll see you at Magfest lol.

Overall it was a fair assessment. This is coming from a complete stranger on the internet He's never met you before.

I think a B is fair. Totally agree about the guest line up, wasn't the least bit interested. I do think if they had a little more space it would help - we kindof always felt like we were in peoples ways. Personally, as first-time attendees we found it to be disappointing and left early on Saturday because we weren't having enough fun to justify hanging around for the masquerade knowing someone would probably end up posting it online later. Not planning to go back anytime soon, but hope the con grows and does better in the future - maybe once it gets an 'A' we'll try it again ;)

I got mine at Walmart for 5 bucks 😂 I wanna watch Little Prince

the red blazer staff there was trash and that one annoying guy who kept yelling

First and only previous Otakon was 2012 in Baltimore. Liked it overall but had so many complaints about it that I was very ambivalent about ever returning. Glad I did this year, just to give it another try. I was surprised to see they still had some of the same communication issues as they had over a decade ago. But line management has certainly improved over the years. Honestly think the photoshoot area would have been better done if the shoot spaces had been spread out - there was a LOT of empty space toward the far end of the gaming hall, near the stairs up to the food - that's where the dining tables should have been placed. Would have allowed more spacing for the photoshoot backings, which would have helped with the crowding.

This year was my first otakon and convention in general , didn't really see too many problems but I can agree with most of this.

I didn't go to Otakon this year since I already went to another Con in early June. But do you know when they'll start doing the countdown on their website for next year? The days for next year are August 2-4.

He's awesome.

Also enjoyed seeing him in the Prelude to Axanar fan film on UA-cam.

That paper schedule was useless. Alot of people who used them complained. Even I notices alot of the times that got messed up. They also didn't have many things labeled for the photo ops. No one knew where the lobby stairs meet up were supposed to be. I went to my photoshoot and and everyone went to different stairs in the lobby. There was honestly alot more wrong with the con this year but I dont want to post a bunch of paragraphs. I've been going to this con for 8 years now and this one was the worst year yet tbh. Although I do 100% agree with you on the game room.

Just an AMAZING ACTOR !!!

It's a festival... It's in the name I was having serious trouble with cell coverage, on TMobile. Otherwise great video, glad you had an overall good time. I look forward to next year. I'd like to share some information i learned as a contributor to the PC museum this year since that may interest you on the arcade side as well. Apparently they had a few key contributors that were either usually staff or vendors drop this year. The PC museum suffered the most this year because of it, but the arcade was affected too. MAGfest is actively working to own more of their own equipment now because of this and is hoping to make a bunch of acquisitions over the year between then and next Mag

Oh nice

I love the stories you hear from the actors of the show, even after all these years you can tell that ds9 was a really special time in their lives, in a way im jealous. These guys and ladies made something great together.

Rene vs. Avery arguing was priceless

Brass Tap ain't that bad. They just have man power issues IMO

Honestly I don’t see the restaurant prices around the Harbor ever going down so if you going to pay then may as well go for quality. I would recommend Succotash if you are in the area as both times I went there wasn’t a line, you have the option to make a reservation and the food and drinks although a bit pricey are certainly worth it.

Thanks for joining us once again!

The Potomac District Cafe and Market is a major game changer: eating around town is overcrowded, cold and annoying, so not having to leave the convention area was great!

Hello I know you don't have any clue who i am because i really do work for MAGFest in the shadows. Overall thank you for y our feedback. I would like to know what panel you attended that was not the subject listed. As in I work in the panels department and schedule the whole thing so i need to know what went wrong and who do i have to add to the "do not invite them back" list.

Back in 2015 or 2016 they did do a food truck. It was fried chicken. It was really not good. They never brought it back. I was lucky to eat at Nandos twice this year before it got rocked in Friday with a 3 hour wait. I always hit up Potbellies which is satisfying if you know what to get and what to put on the sandwich. Never had the pleasure of going to the bars in National Harbor, but this year I was at the Westin and drank there. The Gaylord killing off the hot buffet “Pienza”. 30 bucks all you can eat… just to make the grab n go food section bigger along with a huge coffee bar. Ahh it is what it is. The Gaylord National is always changing

The cell phone coverage was not a problem for our group. Maybe a Verizon issue.

I had so many fucking issues with the hotel booking process and even with general hotel fuckery once I checked in at the Gaylord. I would be writing a novel if I put it all in this comment so I'm not gonna do it. But I have never been more angry in my life. Because I was getting ping pong'd around and gaslit at every step. And it ended up costing me an extra almost 400 CAD that I need to chargeback on my CC. It was so fucked. As far as coverage goes, I found there were only a few incredibly dead spots. I would drop connection while streaming somewhat frequently but that might be due to congestion with 19,000 people all being in the same, singular area. I'm honestly surprised I was able to do what I could with that many people there. But they need like a DAS or something in there. Or at the very least have those providers roll out COWs for big events. Especially in the lower areas where signal has more difficulty penetrating. I obviously can't know for sure what those carrier's engineer coverage maps would look like. I don't know where their towers are and I don't know what their tilts are like or even what their full list of carriers available on those sites are. Given they are city sites, I would assume they have many carriers and spectrum in all directions with good overlap. But even at the telco I work for we find the odd inefficiency once in a while that requires some tilt changes and modifications to configurations on our site equipment.

Did you visit the arcade Museum? Had a lot of retro arcade machines there and almost all them were operational.

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I cannot help but imagine Andrew Robinson waking J.G. up with one of his charismaticaly threatening Garak expressions.

I could listen to him for days and not get bored