Conventional Wisdom

Hey, I got a comic out of it, so it still counts as being work-related!

No, but seriously, I don’t think I’ve missed anything about conventions quite as much as a fully-stocked WEDOCA Game Room.  Even though this year felt a bit more spaced out than the past, most likely for crowd reasons, I still wound up blowing SO much time in there over the weekend.  And, of course, the traditional few rounds of Saturn Bomberman were an absolute highlight, most notably because I actually managed a rare WIN.  Also, somebody went and sprung for a set of snazzy new Bomberman-themed controllers… which were awesome right up until somebody accidentally flipped one of those “slow motion” switches which just started pausing the game over and over.  Oh, the stupid gimmicks we used to think were cool back in the day… wait, no.  Even back when I was a kid, I only remember those being an obnoxious distraction we only ever turned on by accident.