Anthrocon kinda sucks

[eevee]

This is about the con itself and the silhouettes of it that I saw; I don't mean to imply that my experience was bad, just that the con as an entity is... bad.

I present some events, and some thoughts.

Comments

[eevee]

The last paragraph sounded fine! In fact, I was about to say that you're half proving my point and probably providing some accidental enlightenment.

Yes, there are a lot of furries who are good at X. But they are harder to find because they're more busy doing X than being furry! None of the good programmers we know are the sort to commentflood around FA or otherwise make themselves known and visible and popular, because they have things to do.

The furry community is based ultimately on a social definition, rather than a talent or medium or anything concrete and intellectual and creative. Other communities intersect with it, sometimes for obvious reasons, but the core of furry is really just an isolated social network, and its most involved members are the people who have nothing better to do than network socially.

[eagle_bird]

I don't recall the balcony or the roof being closed off previously, only this year because someone was showing off their mad balancing skillz yo