Conventional Wisdom

Well, it’s true. I volunteered as an emergency go-to guy at one of the video rooms (and ended up working a whopping one hour all weekend) and this exactly scene occurred during our Friday-morning briefing. I seriously cannot imagine how a human mind can process as many different thoughts as a con staffer’s has to.

(Historical Notes: I think this was the last time I ever actually did this kind of volunteering at a con.  This was the tail end of the days when the video rooms were actually run like this, with individual teams of volunteers -usually representatives from local anime clubs- manually swapping out shows and running the projectors themselves.  These days, I think it’s all streaming off of a network, and the only volunteer presence at the room is for crowd control.  Assuming the con in question even HAS video rooms anymore.)