This was the first panel I gave in the afternoon at Toracon 2018. Like the others, it started with like 6 to 10 people there at first and went up to 15 to 20 as people trickled in, but aside from the fact that it's a local convention where probably not so many people know me anyways, there were also lots of weird scheduling hiccups with my panels where they were listed differently depending on which guide you were using, and only one was correct (but often no one was sure which until the time came).
I expected to be doing these at a table like is usual at conventions, and had brought my mic with its arm mount, but since I ended up doing this panel standing, I couldn't use it. Also, the camera I'd brought had died somehow, and so this was filmed by my fiancee Pantsu Party on her cell phone. Surprisingly her hands are really steady, and the audio on here is actually better than on the clips I took on my camera anyways, so yay I guess??
Anyways this one starts pretty slow and meandering as I get a feel for the crowd and how much they know of me, and develop more confidence that I'll actually be able to keep the panel going for an hour in spite of having so few people to take questions from. I just kind of let my answers take me on entire journeys until I can't remember what I'm talking about anymore.
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