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November 3, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Rhode Island Comic Con

Rhode Island Comic Con and the Importance of an Attendance Cap

So Rhode Island Comic Con was this past weekend, and apparently it was a bit of a mess. You see

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October 28, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Epic Con Ohio

The Epic Failure of Epic Con Ohio

Contrary to rumor, Epic Con Ohio did actually happen this last weekend in Dayton, OH. Of course, the show it

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October 22, 2014 Trae Dorn Aki Con, Con Scene, Conventions

Aki Con Is At It Again, Sends Artist’s Personal Information To Random Person

Washington’s Aki Con seems to be determined to keep screwing something major up every year. We talked about their history

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September 25, 2014 Trae Dorn AnimeCon.org, Animinneapolis, Chrono LC, Con Scene, Conventions, MetaCon, Robert Carl Goodew, Ryan Kopf

An Animinneapolis and MetaCon (Ex)Staffer is a Convicted Predatory Sex Offender (Updated)

Update: AnimeCon.org staffer Cay Combs has posted a response to this article stating that they were until recently unaware of

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September 17, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, GaymerX

GaymerX Kickstarter Hits its Goal

GaymerX is putting together their third convention (rebranded as “GX3: Everyone Games”), and to do so they’ve been running a

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September 3, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, DashCon, EmotiCon

DashCon Rebrands as EmotiCon, Hopes You Won’t Notice

For those of you who don’t remember, DashCon will likely go down as the worst managed convention of 2014. Even

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August 26, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions

The Convention Generation Gap

I make no secret that I have strong opinions about the diverging age gap between the attendees at Anime and

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August 18, 2014 Trae Dorn Anime Kaiju, Anime Midwest, Anime ZAP, AnimeCon.org, Animinneapolis, Black Materia Inc, Chrono LC, Con Alt Delete, Con Scene, Conventions, MetaCon, Ryan Kopf, Star City Anime, Taiga Con

Do Some of Ryan Kopf’s Conventions Break the Law? Quite Possibly

Update: Since posting this article, Chrono L.C. has registered with the State of Minnesota and the State of Illinois (not

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August 14, 2014 Trae Dorn Con Scene, Conventions, Mineorama

Was the “Mineorama” Convention the other kind of Con?

So Minecraft conventions just seem cursed — or at least appear to be run by incompetents and/or scam artists. Unofficial

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Strum your sitar and prepare to launch all Eagles as Miles and Charlie once more become the Space Scamps as they make a second trip to the moon for three more episodes of Gerry Anderson’s ‘Event Horizon meets Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace’ show Space 1999. Miles is now worried he has created a monster by showing Charlie this show, and in doing so they get to talk about psychedelic trippiness and Kano’s obsession with Computer in ‘Black Sun,’ Christopher Lee (although he’s totally phoning it in) and the dispatch of a weaselly middle manager in ‘Earthbound,’ and then with ‘The Troubled Spirit’ Halloween comes a little early and it’s probably more spooky than whatever we’ll end up doing for our Halloween episode…

EPISODES DISCUSSED:
00:11:32 Black Sun
00:34:20 Earthbound
00:58:40 The Troubled Spirit

Talking Points Include: More Space 1999, Death Stranding, a trip to Scotland, the science is impossible, Moon Base Alpha’s limited resources, British Pessimism vs. American Gung-Ho, Gene Roddenberry would never, Hard SF has a tendency to go full magic weirdness, Bohemian Rhapsody deserves it’s rep, Christopher Lee is phoning it in, Simmons is the David Brent in Space, cowardly heroes, our brave explorers enjoying shouting MMMMUUUUUUUUTAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNT like in ‘Mission of the Darians,’ Charlie repeats a Johnny Byrne joke from the last episode, awesome sitar music this is the most Halloween episode we’ve done for the show, a wicked burn from Charlie’s old teacher Mr. Jafferji, is Moonbase Alpha a liminal space? M. Night Shyamalan films and surprisingly… some Star Trek.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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