I’d imagine it depends a lot on the festival. I’ve never been to anime festivals but several comic & boardgame conventions, if you know people going to hang out with, or you otherwise like massive social situations it can be some great fun. If you don’t and don’t like crowds it can be a bit daunting and feel like you’re basically paying entry to walk through vendors and buy stuff.

Have had absolutely 0 issues with the official discord linux desktop app for a couple years now. Works just the same as windows

Too little too late.

Registered party means nothing other than what primary you vote in. depending on your location, being registered to the republican party is the only way to have a voice at all in primaries and try and reduce your amount of local crazies in the election.

Do you use a vpn? I find it get a ton more captchas in general when services detect I’m on a personal anonymous vpn