For starters, train delayed by 2 hours, which was fortunate cause we needed to wait for 2 hours at the train station anyways, they gave us a free cookie and drink (and we also got 25% money back)

During the delay we took the time to colour in our ref sheet that we printed out.

We stayed at the Premiere Inn, the room and a lot of the theme was weirdly Asexual coded, all purples and grey-scales which was funny. Not much else we could say about the Hotel, besides a really awkwardly placed light switch which was behind the open door for the bathroom, we called it "that lightswitch that I hate"

We've attended the neurodivergent pannel, it was full of information on how self care can help recharge your mental battery. Wish we had a video of the event, someone did tape the whole thing but we haven't found any upload of it so far.

A friend of ours, Livretro, wanted us to meet up with Jinxit, we're not too familiar with their work but boy the placement and line at the dealers den to get to them was loong.. we also met Chipflake, we enjoy some of their animations and there was a self discovery video that resonated with us.

Gamedev pannel was nice, got to see some of the indie stuff people have made (ManikoBunneh even showed off a little game he'd made during Artfight that was Vivie and cheese cave themed, funly enough there was another cheese cave based game also shown off). We stuck around for the gamedev meet, didn't get to talk much about what we've done ROM hackingwise but we met with some folks who are super into hardware related cool stuff, hoping to see them online.

Somehow every time we went out to go eat, we ended up getting anything but german food (partially because we wanted to introduce our friend to Francesinha and there was a chill portuguese café as well, we even found a market with all sorts of goodies from Portugal. I swear these places are a time capsule for us, as they have all the goods and eats without the downsides of traveling to Portugal and the new age methods of doing stuff (boy do I sound like a boomer)). One of the things we wanted to do was introduce the weird germanified Poutines to someone who just came back from Canada and had the real stuff... just to find a place that made legit cheese curds and that backfired hard >w<. We did get fresh fish at the river, so we still had some german cuisine.

This papyrus cosplay is stellar, unfortunately their badge covers their name so we don't know who to credit, please let us know so we can update this .w.''

Big cat, Smol cat...

There was a Demoscene pannel and they brought their modded Amiga A500 to show some of them off. That was a really nice pannel to attend for me in particular since this is very much my turf. They did bring it to the Artist Lounge where we did some art pieces in there. Hopefully some day we'll get the raw files for the pixelart we pulled off on DeluxePaint II (surprising capable tool for its time, the perspective feature and some of the palette cycle capabilities were quite fun to mess with)

We did some trades and pieces at the Artist Lounge, all of them were traditional pieces and Vivie had a wonderful time getting creative. Not all of them were masterpieces and we forgot to take a picture of all of them, but here's the ones we didn't forget to take pics of!

As for the plushies ye may have seen earlier, we have away 8 of them to close friends (and new friends), 3 of them will eventually arrive in the US where we'll have them sent to some more folks. That leaves 3 that didn't get a new home and had to come back to the box of Toofs. We even made some posts on Bluesky and Mastodon about it at the time but didn't get any replies outside of folks from outside of the event who really wanted one (we're working on that~)