<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Grinding Down]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://grindingdown.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Paul]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://grindingdown.wordpress.com/author/mylifecomics/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Grinding Down on pause while I hide from furry cosplayers at MegaCon&nbsp;2012]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="3278" data-permalink="https://grindingdown.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/grinding-down-on-pause-while-i-hide-from-furry-cosplayers-at-megacon-2012/off-to-celebration-florida/" data-orig-file="https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg" data-orig-size="500,325" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-image-title="off to celebration florida" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg?w=500" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3278" title="off to celebration florida" src="https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg?w=500&#038;h=325" alt="" width="500" height="325" srcset="https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg 500w, https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg?w=150&amp;h=98 150w, https://grindingdown.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/off-to-celebration-florida.jpg?w=300&amp;h=195 300w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></p>
<p>Tomorrow, Tara and I leave behind the cold, gray skies of Pennsylvania for hopefully something warmer in Florida. We&#8217;ll be at <a href="http://www.megaconvention.com/">MegaCon 2012</a> from this upcoming Friday through Sunday, selling comics, being shy, and staring at cosplayers. You can find us at table <span style="color:#ff0000;">RED 9</span>, wherever that is. Just look for a fat bearded man and a small, attractive redhead&#8211;that&#8217;s us.</p>
<p>Let me give a quick rundown of what we&#8217;ll be shilling. Tara reprinted her girl-falls-into-a-puddle minicomic <strong>Puddles</strong>, has a new mini based on another song by <strong>Leema Mountain</strong>, has copies of <strong>Unite and Take Over</strong>, and some awesome prints based on those popular <strong>Game of Thrones</strong> peeps; <a href="http://www.tarabba.com/2012/02/04/megacon-2012/">you can see some previews here.</a> On the other hand, I will be selling copies of my <strong>31 Bad Comics</strong> challenges, the first issue of a new story called <strong>The Lost Seafarer</strong>, and some <strong>Supertown</strong> things. Also got some fancy postcards for <strong>All of Westeros</strong> to give out. You want more deets? <a href="http://www.paulabbamondi.com/index.php/blogging/a-welcome-megacon-2012-stuff-and-what-s-to-come/">Go here.</a></p>
<p>What does all this have to do with videogames and <strong>Grinding Down</strong>? Well, uh. I won&#8217;t have time to blog. I won&#8217;t have time to write up more delicious words about 100%ing <strong>Saints Row: The Third</strong> or playing the same exact character in <strong>Skyrim</strong> on the Xbox 360 <em>and</em> Steam or my early thoughts on the recently acquired <strong>Super Mario 3D Land</strong>. I won&#8217;t be able to do <strong>Achievements of the Week</strong> this time around. It&#8217;ll just have to wait for my grand return. Hope that&#8217;s okay.</p>
<p>But let&#8217;s play a game while I&#8217;m away. Wait. <em>::puts on Jigsaw voice::</em> I WANT TO PLAY A GAME WITH YOU. AND THAT GAME IS CALLED:</p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">GUESS THE NUMBER OF STREETPASS TAGS I&#8217;LL GET AT MEGACON 2012!</span></h3>
<p>Catchy, huh? See, MegaCon is looking to be a pretty popular convention, and where there&#8217;s a popular convention, there&#8217;s the chance to score a good number of StreetPass tags for my Nintendo 3DS. For comparison, <a href="https://grindingdown.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/a-weekend-full-of-streetpass-tags/">I got 51 tags back in April 2011 at MoCCA,</a> but that was also early into the system&#8217;s life; with the price drop and array of good games, I feel like the chance of someone else having a 3DS is much higher now.</p>
<p>Whoever comes close to the exact number without going over will win a prize. What&#8217;s the prize? Geez, really? You have to ask? Okay, okay. The prize is that you can pick a topic&#8211;any topic you want though try not to creep me out&#8211;and I&#8217;ll write about it. Look, I&#8217;m not made of money. Take it or leave it.</p>
<p>Place your bets below, and I&#8217;ll see y&#8217;all when I return!</p>
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