Megaplex 2025 was my first con so this very much resonated with me. Several times I said OMG I recognize that background or I felt a lot like the MC lol. My experience was super similar in that the friend I was rooming with decided to show their true colors and was temporarily just left stranded in Orlando. Some are saying that it seems like Swift's life is worse now, and I definitely felt the same way at the time, but something I (unfortunately) learned on the way home is that sometimes you just have to let go and that the end of a friendship isn't always a bad thing. It's the burnt bridges that make you stronger and help you build the new ones back better. It's weird, I had been friends for years with that guy and now I think about some people I met at the con more now. I get the feeling this was supposed to be more realistic in the way that sometimes there is no grand design to the overall narrative; there isn't supposed to be a resolution to every conflict and threads are left severed rather than tied up, these people will go on living without Swift, and it is intentionally bitter. In the end, I think it was those "side-shows" that made my con experience so much fun, like in Swift's case getting to know all about this guy's worldview, going to a rave you didn't really wanna go to, or going to this panel you thought you'd be bored by. Three days to live is better than no days, I suppose.