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Lucca Blight posted:All these places 13 miles away kinda seem like public transit deserts and you're screwed getting to the convention center. Indianapolis is a public transit desert, yes. Plan to share an uber.
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Lord Of Texas posted:Indianapolis is a public transit desert, yes. Plan to share an uber. Indianapolis is a very weird city, where it appears that if you aren't at the very center or the very edge there's nothing at all.
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Last few years I've been able to get skybridge adjacent hotels. This year I'm 12 miles out. Sigh that's the lottery for you.
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That's basically it. I've found the downtown hotels that aren't skybridge to be pretty good too. I was at the Sheraton City Centre one year, and last year some friends were over at the Hilton Garden Downtown. None of us were hauling lots of stuff so being a 5-10m walk was good, and finding chill tables at those hotels was easier because they were a bit further. Plus the Hilton was caddy-corner from a liquor store. :-)
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Stuck out by the airport again this year. Small companies don't get in on the exhibitor block anymore so get to haul miniatures game stuff in an Uber for 4 days. Lottery was cruel this year. We got stuck at the Extended Stay America last year and it was horrible, so I don't recommend that one if you are still trying to get a room.
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Four friends and I had time slots, and I had the earliest at 2:01 PM. I managed to get a hotel in Monument Circle, five blocks away from the convention center, and it sounds like basically everything else was sold out shortly after. Edit: If anyone is savvy with Python, there's a neat utility on GitHub that will automatically check the housing portal for you: https://github.com/mrozekma/gencon-hotel-check You still need to have a badge (it uses your Passkey ID as the lone mandatory parameter). Necronomicon fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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CellBlock posted:I’m not 100% on this, but there’s a Gen Con minimum of $2 per attendee per 2 hour block, but you can add to that and pocket the difference. (Games with take home stuff like MtG sealed/draft events or miniature paint-and-take, and games where there’s a lot of extra stuff going on like Call of Cthulhu games with music and props and whatnot often charge extra.). Once your event gets to be over $20/2 hours, the con starts taking a bigger cut. Awesome, I guess I'll be setting this up then!
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I managed to get a 10 minute time for the hotel slot and for the first time am staying a mere minutes walk away. looking forward to this like crazy, being in the JW is even better with how much of a To Go place the ballrooms are for open gaming
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i will find you. don't make me find you.
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My dream is to stay at the JW one year but $200 a night is a lot for me. Unless they're cheaper through the lottery?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:My dream is to stay at the JW one year but $200 a night is a lot for me. Unless they're cheaper through the lottery? Lol, that is the lottery price (a little higher actually). Double that for out of block.
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You just need to pack the room with goons, then the hotel bill is like $230 total You’re only ever in the room to sleep anyway
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Do not forget being in the room when trying to sneak off to have sex, with the 100% guarantee someone will show up looking for you no matter how unlikely you think that is Look I get it, everyone at Gen-Con is single forever, but I am tackling the real issues here Admiral Joeslop posted:My dream is to stay at the JW one year but $200 a night is a lot for me. Unless they're cheaper through the lottery? Mudcrab did you get the blondies recipe yet
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Fellis posted:You just need to pack the room with goons, then the hotel bill is like $230 total Shots Wednesday is about the limit of nerdass Goons that my partner will put up with. She'd murder me if I let anyone else at all stay with us.
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I slept on my hotel window and now my options are by the airport or straight north of the convention center on 465. Is one better than the other for traffic? Guess I'll be uber/lyfting again.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Do not forget being in the room when trying to sneak off to have sex, with the 100% guarantee someone will show up looking for you no matter how unlikely you think that is there isn’t enough time to play *games* at gencon, who is spending time getting crazy con strange Admiral Joeslop posted:Shots Wednesday is about the limit of nerdass Goons that my partner will put up with. She'd murder me if I let anyone else at all stay with us. I have located the problem, however you may not be interested in the solution. Also self-deprecation of the members of this website aside, goons at gencon are probably above average in comparison to gen con gen pop. But a very understandable excuse.
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Fellis posted:there isn’t enough time to play *games* at gencon, who is spending time getting crazy con strange Ah, but I kid. She hasn't encountered anyone through me that she's disliked, she's just 100% not into anything gaming related. Why is she at Gencon, you may ask? Turns out she's the perfect demographic for all the non-gaming things.
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Fellis posted:there isn’t enough time to play *games* at gencon, who is spending time getting crazy con strange Nelly ran a speed dating event at Gen Con for a while and even found her husband at such an event at Gen Con, so it happens. She recently posted on facebook somewhere about how soulcrushing it kind of is for the women that participate because the guys are just there to have fun but they have expectations that just make the woman nervous and not have fun at said speed dating events.
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nesbit37 posted:Nelly ran a speed dating event at Gen Con for a while and even found her husband at such an event at Gen Con, so it happens. She recently posted on facebook somewhere about how soulcrushing it kind of is for the women that participate because the guys are just there to have fun but they have expectations that just make the woman nervous and not have fun at said speed dating events. I'm a guy, but I honestly cannot even fathom how a woman at GenCon would even want to participate in that.
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Fellis posted:there isn’t enough time to play *games* at gencon, who is spending time getting crazy con strange (also definitely hoisted on my own petard there; true, if no time for gaming, then hey, Dr. Q, no time for love) Admiral Joeslop posted:Ah, but I kid. She hasn't encountered anyone through me that she's disliked, she's just 100% not into anything gaming related. nesbit37 posted:Nelly ran a speed dating event at Gen Con for a while and even found her husband at such an event at Gen Con, so it happens. She recently posted on facebook somewhere about how soulcrushing it kind of is for the women that participate because the guys are just there to have fun but they have expectations that just make the woman nervous and not have fun at said speed dating events. Speaking of disgruntled teddy bears, I am disappointed that I have now finally watched all of Nelly's videos, as there is seemingly nobody else out there who both has a good-quality camera and wants to make nerd convention travelogues (not focusing exclusively on like boring 10-minute interviews with game designers anyway) sportsgenius86 posted:I'm a guy, but I honestly cannot even fathom how a woman at GenCon would even want to participate in that.
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Fellis posted:there isn’t enough time to play *games* at gencon, who is spending time getting crazy con strange as it turns out, nerds are extremely horny
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Dr. Quarex posted:I know some women who attend who could probably be talked into a speed-dating event, and who would totally just think of it as a joke but one they are willing to play along with. Which honestly might be what Nelly was thinking, too, before accidentally meeting someone I could totally see that. I guess in my head I always assumed it was women just having a fun time and creepy weirdo guys like the ones who want to take pictures of every cosplay girl there.
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Necronomicon posted:as it turns out, nerds are extremely horny 
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Clanpot Shake posted:I slept on my hotel window and now my options are by the airport or straight north of the convention center on 465. Is one better than the other for traffic? Guess I'll be uber/lyfting again. Not a major difference but as an Indy resident, I'd say stay near the airport. It's all highway to downtown. If you hear horror stories from last year it's because there was nasty construction between the airport and downtown at the time.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:My dream is to stay at the JW one year but $200 a night is a lot for me. Unless they're cheaper through the lottery? It's 272/night via the block for a standard room I usually only spend on vacation for gen con, so i have money kicking around to splurge on a good room placement, and i also rarely buy anything at gen con other than food. i usually have 4 folks so it sits at way less total!
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Is there a trick to getting a room connected to the convention center or are you just at the mercy of the die roll?
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Clanpot Shake posted:Is there a trick to getting a room connected to the convention center or are you just at the mercy of the die roll? Luck of the roll. My brother got a great placement last year first he’d ever tried only one request for our whole group. This year we tried for three time slots by buying our badges individually, we pulled one subpar time and two garbage times.
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The literal trick is getting your hotel in September.
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Dr. Quarex posted:The literal trick is getting your hotel in September. The real trick is abusing the hotel points system to reserve your Gencon 2020 room on August 14th of 2019.  The even realer trick is getting your wife getting pregnant so she has a due date of August 4th 2020.
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Hahahaha You know, I have tried both of those tricks myself, which is why I missed Gen-Con 2016 Also wait did you mean to doxxx yoself
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Dr. Quarex posted:Hahahaha Whoops!
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Dr. Quarex posted:Yes this whole debacle has reminded me that I probably just sent a link to this new thread to the GroupMe and was like WELP OBVIOUSLY THAT COVERS EVERYONE Welp, this has now informed me that when my last phone died, and I upgraded, I didn't re-install GroupMe. I need to fix that ASAP. I got SUPER hosed on the hotel list, I got 9pm. So now it's 12 miles away, or just stay in Carmel with the random guys I met and stayed with last year ( Which was awesome ). The problem, it's in loving Carmel, so a Lyft/Uber is about ~$30, and I likely don't have a place to store my luggage on Sunday. I ended up lucking out most days and got rides back, and rode in with the gents I stayed with, but I can't count on luck again. Also lucked out and stored my luggage with a friend in their car that I literally met at the Con from the Wyrmwood community. I at least had talked to them previous to the con online. 
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Settle for a lovely room now, and keep an eye on the housing portal as the cancellation date for rooms approaches. You might get lucky and find something! You could also use the script I posted earlier to do the whole thing automatically
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Time to randomly bump the thread because I realized I forgot to link Some Dude's Guide to Going to Gen-Con that I do think is about as complete and useful a summary as I have ever seen in one place. Other than the collective astounding wisdom of these threads here, of course. I feel like I only disagreed with his advice two or three times, which is extraordinarily low, considering I think of Gen-Con as more of a trip to Disneyworld at age 6 than as a convention where adults play and buy games.
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Hey, its the thread I paid my $10 to post it! I know a few of you, most of you will know me at Toshimo's tag-along. Our luck with the housing portal was crap. On the upside, our housing is about a block and a half from shots Wednesday. I'm thinking of bringing one of those rental scooters inside overnight so I don't have to search for one in the morning.
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omg Join4Gen The real pro move is to not even get a hotel and create a makeshift shelter by throwing a tarp over a bunch of those electric scooters; that way you ALSO know you have one in the morning
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ketchup vs catsup posted:likelihood gencon is canceled due to coronavirus? If we get to the point where a nerd convention in Indiana is canceled, society will have degraded to the point that your largest concern will not be that cancellation.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:likelihood gencon is canceled due to coronavirus? It's all the way in August so probably not. Or if it is cancelled you're not going to be very mad because we'll be in week 6 of our self isolations.
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