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MinisterSinister posted:I've lived in Indiana all my life and I've never been to Gen Con. Glad to have you aboard the Gen-Goon Train! Whether you are going for the shots or the stats or the victory points, you will have a good time. nesbit37 posted:Gary con has a hotel debacle this year that may top Gen Cons. The main hotel where the convention is sold out on minutes last march. Yesterday, for a mystery reason, they started sending people emails that they were being booted to another hotel 1.5 miles away. Supposedly this was for some error the hotel didnt notice for about 20 minutes, but people that booked seconds after the block opened are reporting getting the boot. Its indisciminent, vendors, people with accessibility issues, the people that run miniature games with Tupperware upon Tupperware of figures and terrain. Hundreds have posted on facebook complaining about it and to top it off the hotel is not apologizing in any way and generally being dicks about it. Gary con is less than 3 months away. Something tells me Gary Con will not be at the Grand Geneva again in 2021? Glad I went to Ye Olde Former Playboy Club to accidentally continue my "former Gen Con locations tourism" run when it still was. Now, who wants to go to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with me and just stand around Edit: poo poo GEORGE WILLIAMS COLLEGE WAS DEMOLISHED DECADES AGO, I CAN NEVER GO TO THEM ALL EDIT AGAIN: OH WAIT that was a different campus, the Gen Con site is now called the "George Williams College of Aurora University," whew Dr. Quarex fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Dec 19, 2019 |
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Admiral Joeslop posted:The only good thing about living in Indiana is being close to Gencon. Three hours north or south? I'm the former, up by Chicago. One of the reasons I never went to GenCon is because we have C2E2, but from the media I've seen, GenCon looks better.
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Gary Con really should leave Lake Geneva but I also really don't want it to. It's getting kind of weird anyway the more popular D&D is getting, and as Luke Gygax gets sucked a little further into "hollywood" each year vis a vis celebrity D&D DMs and players.
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MinisterSinister posted:I'm the former, up by Chicago. One of the reasons I never went to GenCon is because we have C2E2, but from the media I've seen, GenCon looks better. nesbit37 posted:Gary Con really should leave Lake Geneva but I also really don't want it to. It's getting kind of weird anyway the more popular D&D is getting, and as Luke Gygax gets sucked a little further into "hollywood" each year vis a vis celebrity D&D DMs and players. Also, I have certainly never heard anything to this effect, but I wonder if the Original Gygax Children are annoyed that the half-sibling usurper is the one everyone knows? Probably not, as he seems like a pretty cool dude all-around and it is not like Ernie or Heidi seem desperate for fame Hoping for Dave Arneson's daughter Malia to challenge Luke Gygax to a team-captain D&D tournament soon, despite having no idea if Malia actually plays and only knowing she exists due to watching Secrets of Blackmoor
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Dr. Quarex posted:Also, I have certainly never heard anything to this effect, but I wonder if the Original Gygax Children are annoyed that the half-sibling usurper is the one everyone knows? Probably not, as he seems like a pretty cool dude all-around and it is not like Ernie or Heidi seem desperate for fame The Gygax sisters are happy to do things at Gary Con but its mostly just a party for them. I try to play in the game Heidi and Elise usually do each year. Oddly there isn't a lot of ticket competition for that one though there is for Luke and Ernie's games (not really a surprise considering how many of the attendees are). Malia wants nothing to do with D&D. She did an interview for the Great Kingdom D&D documentary that tied up the D&D Documentary in court, but that was because they paid her for the interview. This was sad, but nor surprising to hear, and also bad because people tend to say what you want them to when you are paying them to talk for you.
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MinisterSinister posted:Three hours north or south? South. Slightly less harsh winters but murderous summers.
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Dates to note: *January 26th badges go on sale *February 7th date by which you need to have a purchased badge in order to access the randomized housing queue. quote:Any customers who purchase badges after the randomized housing access times have been issued will be placed at the end of the initial queue.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Now, who wants to go to the University of Wisconsin-Parkside with me and just stand around If you do decide to loiter around the campus and Kenosha in general, let me know. I can show you around.
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Gencon Hype! Will this be the year I finally Admiral Joeslop posted:+SHOTS WEDNESDAY
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OB_Juan posted:Gencon Hype! Will this be the year I finally Probably not. I always say I'm going to try the pods, and then I'm bummed out by how outdated they are. Starship simulators are where it's at now. (And there are like half a dozen different ones; don't pay a bunch of money for Artemis; do Empty Epsilon or Greenemyst or whatever the gently caress they're all called now.)
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nesbit37 posted:Are the current simulators getting any better? It's been 4 years or so since I played Artemis at home or a con. Things at the time felt like they were stagnating. Probably not, but maybe? I just think an hour or whatever of farting around in space and perhaps crashing into a planet is better than like 15 minutes in the battletech pods. If you had like a VR bee simulator, you'd probably get everyone in the GroupMe to come play it. Just sayin'
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I'd love to try some VR stuff if they have it. The arcade a couple cons ago (Christ it's already been 1.5 years?) had a PC setup with something but some kid, probably belonging to the person taking tickets, hogged it the entire time I was in there. Don't give money to the arcade.
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The pods are incredibly overrated. Mine was calibrated so poorly that by the time I figured out how to adjust for it, I was done.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I'd love to try some VR stuff if they have it. The arcade a couple cons ago (Christ it's already been 1.5 years?) had a PC setup with something but some kid, probably belonging to the person taking tickets, hogged it the entire time I was in there. Are there VR bridge simulators or something else? Part of the space I run at this university is a VR lab for up to 12 simultaneous users, would love to use a bridge simulator or something else in there.
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nesbit37 posted:Are there VR bridge simulators or something else? Part of the space I run at this university is a VR lab for up to 12 simultaneous users, would love to use a bridge simulator or something else in there. As far as I've ever seen, the bridge simulators are all non-VR, but usually with touchscreen PCs, and sometimes with other immersive features, like lighting that changes colors and sound systems. Star Trek: Bridge Crew just came out on Oculus Quest, so someone might set up an area of that (since it wouldn't need a bunch of PCs or PS4s).
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My bad! shoulda checked the thread. I didn't see them on the website, but that's typical for gencon.com Also that was like a month ago
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I am sure at least one person reading this thread: a. needs a job b. does accounting c. wants to work for Gen Con https://www.gencon.com/join/jobpost-accountant-2020
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lgQep1mnbs&t=5s EVENT SUBMISSION TIME I am honestly not sure I have ever noticed when event registration begins in previous years, even for all the times I have vaguely contemplated running or presenting something. WELL IT JUST STARTED ON SUNDAY, SO THERE YOU GO. Maigius posted:If you do decide to loiter around the campus and Kenosha in general, let me know. I can show you around. CellBlock posted:Probably not. I always say I'm going to try the pods, and then I'm bummed out by how outdated they are. nesbit37 posted:I am sure at least one person reading this thread: I wonder if I will find a job by the time of the convention  temp agencies HATE him!*They have, in fact, started posting jobs as of 2019, yes. Still makes me wonder what hiring system they were using back when I lived in Seattle and was occasionally contacting them to ask if they had any openings and never getting a response.
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Eastmabl posted:Is it too early to freak out about the housing lottery? I'm still feeling it.
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Eastmabl posted:Is it too early to freak out about the housing lottery? The housing lottery will be fine! 
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Hotel registration for us exhibitors starts on Wednesday. Time to get pumped!
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Time to get pumped? My dear Nesbit37... I think you mean we are pumped *cocks shotgun* ...to get time *simultaneously destroys temporality and goes to jail with mega-blast* Also come now, we have already been excited for months. I think. Did I already posit in this thread my precise annual Gen-Con Hype Flow? I think the only time I am not actively excited on some level is from about three days after the previous convention ends for about three weeks until I remember to book my hotel for the next year. And fortunately, since my birthday is usually in that timeframe, I still have some reason to keep going!!! Edit: also what the heck I just saw the Twitter/Facebook/whatever? buttons for the first time while making this post, and they are not there when editing, what is going on
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My nephew said he wanted to go all 4 days. He's 10 and I don't think he really understands what he got himself into.
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Ask him if he also wants all this ice cream (reveal 3 gallon bucket) and all this pizza (reveal 30" pizza) for breakfast.
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He'll be fine. I've been attending gen con all 4 days since I was 12.
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Similarly, I have been eating 3 gallons of ice cream and a 30" pizza for breakfast since I was 12, and I can almost still stand. Ain't no thang Did everyone remember to buy their badges before they sell out in only six more months?! Well everyone who is not a volunteering sucker like me. "Why do you want to have less free time at your favorite event of the year?" "I STILL DO NOT FULLY KNOW WHY I DO THE THINGS I DO O.K."
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I've had a similar dilemma since I started exhibiting. I like exhibiting, but wish I had more energy in the evenings to do more Gen Con things. Last year was better than the year before. Hopefully this year is even better energy wise.
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Hay guyz A chance encounter with a shopping bag from Gen-Con 2002 I just noticed I still had led me to discovering this pre-GenCon.com Gen-Con webpage! I mean, granted, I think the page itself still existed on the Wizards site until somewhat recently, but I had no idea it had a web presence by at least 1999. ... HOLY INTERNET THE RADIO AD LINKS WORK? oh I cannot get any audio out of them but...I have the file? What Haahaha VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE EXHIBIT HALL wait is this 1999's hall or did this page go up after the 2000 show? I AM SO CONFUSED
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Dr. Quarex posted:Hay guyz You're gonna want to find something that can play RealMedia for those badboy radio ads. There are a lot of video game booths too; THQ, Activision, Sierra On-line, whatever QuikLink is.  Anthony Daniels got his own spot!  I have got to know what WotC was selling in 2000 that was WCW branded. Edit: It was a trading card game.  Edit edit:   My, how they've grown. Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Now that Admiral Joeslop and I have just spent a week playing with that archived page, OH NO I AM NOT DONE YET because I just noticed their picture example for the Art Show is literally a picture of Origins' Art Show. The advanced technology to take a picture of art in Indiana was years off Also I want "Berlyn's Old Friend" to be a code phrase for this thread somehow
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Dr. Quarex posted:Now that Admiral Joeslop and I have just spent a week playing with that archived page,  Do you dare call yourself Berlyn?
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