>>103919802
We talked about performances mostly. We also talked about penlights, things we saw, merch, who was handing out free stuff, what we were doing.

A large part of it was definitely plans. I know people /here/ are opposed to it and I am too but sadly there's no way around it, there's just no better way right now to coordinate things than Discord. Especially with the number of people we had this year. Twitter is too slow and people don't always check it.

Even Discord isn't perfect, I was on 4 separate Hololive Discords for the event, two of them Ruffian focused, and there was still sometimes miscommunication and missed communication. I would highly recommend that if you ever go to one, you either begrudgingly install Discord on your phone just for that event like I did, or stick to a Ruffian who is on one of the Discords. More often than not, plans to hang out were finalized at the last minute, where to go, what to eat, and the plans would change as various people went and left.

The greatest thing about the Ruffians is how welcoming and chill they are, you don't have to know anyone, you can just walk up, BAU BAU, and then follow along. There were no cliques or shit that I could see, yeah some people might have known each other from other events but there wasn't like a hierarchy or anything. Ruffians were free to come and go as they pleased. There were some Ruffians who I never saw talk at all, but they stayed with the group the whole time, maybe they're more introverted Ruffians but I hope they had fun all the same. On the flip side, this openness makes it hard to plan things ahead of time because you never know who will show up and who won't. There was a plan for a 15 man karaoke and a 12 man room for overflow. There were vastly more Ruffians interested in that then RSVP'd and I don't even think most were on Discord. So they ended up going with other groups.

Anyways I had a great time and I highly recommend it. I'm not a very talkative or loud person but I liked hanging out with everyone.