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My group (mostly) loves Yard House; the food is perfectly acceptable and giant beers always go well with Gen Con. Looks like Nevermore still sucks given the reviews, but somehow manages to stay open.
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The last time I ate at the mall I dropped goatse in the groupme.
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CellBlock posted:Looks like Nevermore still sucks given the reviews, but somehow manages to stay open. I gave them a second chance last year and it's still absolutely miserable. Shockingly bad.
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Dr. Quarex posted:Exciting update nobody seems to be talking about more broadly online yet: seemingly the entire Circle Centre Mall is going to be gone by the time Gen-Con happens this year the teardown will take longer than you think and the buildout will take less time than you do is usually how it goes with this type of work, lots of complicated utility things usually involved with this type of preservation & demolition of existing structures
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Got my badges
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GEEEEEENNNNN Today has been a day of great upheaval as my VIG Companion plays with the hotel script to try to get a fancy room. Even in elitist rear end in a top hat land there is disappointment for Gen-Con
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I hope he can survive with disappointment. I can’t see pretty much any scenario where some other VIG gives up one of those suites or other larger fancy rooms.
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nesbit37 posted:I hope he can survive with disappointment. I can’t see pretty much any scenario where some other VIG gives up one of those suites or other larger fancy rooms.
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The housing chaos is this Sunday. Be sure to buy your badges TODAY if you haven't done so yet and are not a snooty VIG.
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nesbit37 posted:The housing chaos is this Sunday. Be sure to buy your badges TODAY if you haven't done so yet and are not a snooty VIG. You have until Friday at 11:59 PM Eastern to buy a badge and get into the lottery in time. quote:Important note: Badges must be purchased by 11:59 PM EST, Friday, February 23, 2024, to be included in the randomized access queue. Any customers who purchase badges after the randomized housing access times have been issued will be placed at the end of the initial queue. Admiral Joeslop fucked around with this message at 02:59 on Feb 21, 2024 |
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1:31pm, I'll take it. Might be my best time ever.
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Hey that is workable! Looks like we are on track to have a similar setup to last year where downtown hotels sell out by 1:45, though certainly you never know
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Feb 24, 2024 15:27
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12:33 PM Looks like I won Gencon
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12:22pm here, but I’ll be staying with a buddy in town as usual.
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Feb 24, 2024 19:31
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12:45 - will this finally be my year of connectivity?
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Feb 24, 2024 20:50
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Anyone under 1pm should be solid. I would normally say you are ok up until close to 2pm but with how nuts it was last year it’s hard to say for sure.
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Radio Free Walrus posted:12:45 - will this finally be my year of connectivity?
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I got 2:47. Over a decade of Going To The Con and I've never been able to stay downtown. At this point it is better to have not known how staying downtown actually is since I've never known anything else.
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This is my 10th year of going to Gen Con and I've been able to stay in a skywalk connected hotel for the last 9 years. I've known the pain of driving in and it is a far-reaching shadow that looms over every housing lottery.
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The Hotel Dragon has been slain. Got my room at the JW Marriott. Everything else is booked, now I just gotta wait.
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Last year was my first use of the housing lottery and I got the Omni. It wasn't bad but this year I managed a JW room. My fat rear end has even less walking to do.
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Feb 25, 2024 19:20
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Downtown was sold out by 1:20pm this year.
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At least having never gotten a downtown hotel room this time of year I can bask in some schadenfreude on the angry posts on Facebook Gen Con Fans or their message board. "DEAR MR. GENCON, THIS IS AN OUTRAGE THAT I DIDN'T GET A DOWNTOWN ROOM!!! Here are 5 paragraphs as to why it should change in such a way that somehow just benefits my own situation!" Always a treat.
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Yeah those are classics. Discord was surprisingly low-key in that regard, really just one guy throwing a fit because you are GUARANTEED a room in the hotel block (who said that?) and one person threatening to talk to a lawyer over ADA not having its own entire connected hotel just for disabled people. Like obviously I have no ill-will towards that reason for needing a connected room but I trust Gen-Con specifically to be about as good on that as any convention
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By 1:45 My friends weren't able to get a room closer than 7 miles. But they've been able to get downtown hotels by diligently watching for openings, especially as the cancel deadline approaches.
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Yeah, you'd think people who ostensibly play a lot of games would understand that sometimes you roll poorly and poo poo doesn't go your way.
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apparently this is the tool my friends used in previous years to find rooms after the lottery. https://genconhotels.com/
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A bunch of rooms just got added at ~10:40am EST, might be that ghost inventory they mentioned after everything sold out. EDIT: Also quarex doing the needful and letting the GC Forum users know that this is as good as it gets, rightfully so.
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Do rooms within a few blocks tend to pop up closer to the deadline? This was going to be my big-ish vacation for the year so if I'm doomed to a hotel 8 miles away I'd rather cancel and plan something else.
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BlackIronHeart posted:EDIT: Also quarex doing the needful and letting the GC Forum users know that this is as good as it gets, rightfully so.
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caedwalla posted:Do rooms within a few blocks tend to pop up closer to the deadline? This was going to be my big-ish vacation for the year so if I'm doomed to a hotel 8 miles away I'd rather cancel and plan something else. They open up all the time, but only like 1 at a time and you'll be competing with people using scripts to try and grab them. You can do it but its going to take a combo of luck and effort.
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Thing is Gen Con isn't even close to the largest event held in Indianapolis, like the NRA convention is a bit bigger, and the Indy 500 attendance is easily twice Gen Con. So why don't they have trouble with rooms? I'm guessing the answer is... Gamers
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Bucnasti posted:Thing is Gen Con isn't even close to the largest event held in Indianapolis, like the NRA convention is a bit bigger, and the Indy 500 attendance is easily twice Gen Con. But yeah the privileged attitude is probably more powerful in the gaming conventiongoers. Not saying it is entirely unjustified, as I imagine Gen-Con attendees are far more likely to arrive at the event carrying 2 pounds of things and leave carrying 50 pounds of things and want to get rid of said things as quickly as possible
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Yeah during things like the 500 basically every hotel in Indy + some of the donut counties gets an influx of people. But that event, while being far larger, is only 1 day and a good percentage of the people going are local or only a few hours away, reducing the number of rooms needed. As for other big conventions, the people in the Indy and surrounding areas going to them I assume are just going to drive in, see the show, and drive home. Compared to those same people going to Gen Con where some decent percentage of them are going to try and get a hotel room downtown so they have a place to store stuff, stay up stupid late, etc. What will be interesting to watch after they get the new hotels built is if they see enough demand from not just Gen Con, but some of the other events to want to build another hotel. The city very much wants to host another Super bowl for example, but were told after the one they hosted that they needed at least 2 more JW level hotels and then some to even have a chance of hosting again.
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Backno posted:What will be interesting to watch after they get the new hotels built is if they see enough demand from not just Gen Con, but some of the other events to want to build another hotel. The city very much wants to host another Super bowl for example, but were told after the one they hosted that they needed at least 2 more JW level hotels and then some to even have a chance of hosting again. I will do my part and build a 1-room hotel in my car
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The biggest thing that makes no loving sense is WHY ISN'T THERE A LIGHT RAIL FROM AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN??? Any sort of mass transit option would make it way easier instead of relying on Uber/Lyft madness to get from all these outskirts to the main hubs/downtown. They even have footbaw games and other stuff. If I knew I could take a relatively affordable train downtown from the lovely hotel at the airport or elsewhere it would make it really no big deal and would probably solve things for the most part. Also what ever happened to Gen Con running the shuttles they had that one year? I remember it being Very Cramped and the the shuttles were super late but it seemed like a more affordable way to get there from all these outskirts we are banished to.
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Syntaxed posted:The biggest thing that makes no loving sense is WHY ISN'T THERE A LIGHT RAIL FROM AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN??? Any sort of mass transit option would make it way easier instead of relying on Uber/Lyft madness to get from all these outskirts to the main hubs/downtown. They even have footbaw games and other stuff. unfortunately, america
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Syntaxed posted:
I am guessing the shuttles either wern't enough, they were under utilized, or they wern't profitable. I used the shuttle program once around 2013 when I stayed at Candlewood Suites which was like 2 miles from the ICC. I loved it, and also never had problems with the shuttle being late or being too full or anything. Quite the opposite in fact, at least when I went to Gen Con those days the shuttle was almost empty on the way there, and there were more people on the way back but it was by no means full. It really had me wonder if enough people had bought shuttle tickets to make it worth it. Granted, that was my experience at a closeish hotel. I have no idea what the shuttles were like for the masses out by the airport, and I could easily see for them it being the opposite problem.
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