Although Otakon might greenlight us too.

I wish I could be at the convention where Rob has his pannel. I would go to that in a heartbeat. I’m not sure what con he’s doing it at, so if it hasn’t happened yet then I wish him the best of luck with it.

Keep doing what you guys are doing.

Being professional doesn’t mean you have to be super serious. Fuck, being a professional means that you write for your audience! That’s what we do! We create a service in entertainment. We are entertainers. We aren’t professors that are here to give a lecture you are forced to listen to. We are here to entertain in what we think is a respectful manner.

Hell, it was our “professionalism” that made us start DO XIII in the first place. We say we are professional geeks becuase, well, partially becuase we get paid for this shit, but also becuase our duty is first and foremost to the fans. It’s that same professional attitude that seems to piss people off.

It seems like the people who make these comments are of a very different type of fandom than Disorganization XIII and even I feel they are a part of. They are the high holier than thou fans who now take everything to seriously because they’d landed themselves a job as a reporter or they’ve been fans since the days of trading VHS tapes. I can see how some sort of “professional writer” might take offence. You have taken the con panel and crossbred it with standup comedy. There are things shown that can’t be unseen. Spoiler does make me need to close my eyes at times. But I’m 22 someone talks a stab at my fandom I can take it. I don’t go condemning Uncle Yo because in his effort to express how anime is different than western cartoons he says don’t go holding it up to porky pig.

They’ve lost have Disorganization XIII sees as a strength and what makes the Spoiler series so great the ability to gather together with others and celebrate the insanity inherent in Anime, Videogames, and Comics.

While I haven’t attended any of your RPG panels, if I recall correctly the biggest stab you took at FFXII was describing the battle system in terms of strategy as “let you little sister hold the controller for you while you go make a sandwich”. I haven’t played that game for fear of it getting in the way of school work and I don’t trust AI characters after the auto reload in Kingdom Hearts 2 left me out of ethers.

Some panels are like the Fan fiction panel and the Kingdom Hearts one are based heavily on the type of people who are in the audience. The fans do try to bring up slash fic and the yaoi but as far as I remember from NYAF you more often than not look at and attempt to explain things objectively and not subjectively. You don’t say that slash fiction sucks because it man on man it’s bad because most of the writers have no real clue about what they are writing. The most enjoyable part of the panel is when you do go into how “Study in Emerald” and things like the star wars EU are basically fan fiction. You have the ability to look at things and explain them and there should be nothing wrong with you joking around in the process. God knows I’ve heard some raw stuff joked about by actual marvel comic writers at actual marvel panels at the New York Comic Con.

Unless I can’t get away from the L.A.R.P. In which case, I’ll have my friends slap me upside the head, then kick my ass for forgetting.

Can’t wait to hear your thoughts!