[Boy Blunder]

Man, it's hell getting tickets every year. Since about 2007/2008 things have been somewhere between difficult and "good friggin' luck". I had an unbroken streak of attendance from 1996 until 2009, and since then I've only attended twice, and only for one day (Saturday in 2011, Sunday last year), and did some off-site events in 2010, before they started requiring you to have an SDCC pass to get into everything outside the convention center.

My and the folks I know are lucky, since we all have ID numbers in their system and can dip into the super-pre-reg period, but even then we do it as a group, coordinating through Skype or Discord and all in the queue at once, so whoever actually makes it in can buy tickets for some of the others.

God I miss the days of being able to buy a pass on-site if you didn't manage to pay $30-$50 for the whole convention ahead of time. /oldcodger