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djfooboo posted:They were there. I had to explain to my fiancé what they were. I bet her reaction was a combo of  and 
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Backno posted:I bet her reaction was a combo of My girlfriend thinks they're hilarious. Of course, she also is the one dragging me to anime expo. GenCon is much more tasteful than anime expo, as an aside.
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Sigma-X posted:My girlfriend thinks they're hilarious. Of course, she also is the one dragging me to anime expo. Having been to a few anime cons, this is definitely true. Also way fewer cosplayers at GenCon.
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Andarel posted:Having been to a few anime cons, this is definitely true. Having been to Anime Central in Chicago way too many times inthe 2003-2011 period, GenCon is a lot better if you would like to actually do any of the programming and not just stand in lines or see cosplay. GenCon is also better for a wider age range, you don't feel like the oldest person ever if you're over 25.
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Kaddish posted:I was flipping through my AD&D players handbook last night and saw this on the back page. I either forgot it was there or just overlooked it so many years ago: Then on a hunch I checked Archive.org's records and ... yep. I am not surprised that things then seemingly changed abruptly in 2002 when Peter Adkison took over. Almost as though a reasonably tech-savvy person who actually knew what he was doing was suddenly in charge! It also helps explain why my memories of learning about Gen-Con in the 1990s are so fuzzy...you probably still had to find out poo poo in writing(!) even then, barring Usenet posts or other BBS-quality heresay about the convention dates. I do remember feeling kind of like I was being tricked in 1997 the first time I went to Gen-Con in Milwaukee, as I had no proof beyond "our buddy who is driving says this thing is happening" to go on. A very different time. Sionak posted:GenCon is also better for a wider age range, you don't feel like the oldest person ever if you're over 25. I also went to Dallas ComiCon, and now I forgot if I asked Mudcrab Merchant if they were in attendance there. I definitely feel like I passed a sexy cosplay booth. But I was too busy trying unsuccessfully to role-play that I was actually at Gen-Con to remember much other than meeting Merle/Yondu
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My score of the con, somebody was selling Warhammer Invasion + first booster cycle + first three deluxe expansion for $20.
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Crackbone posted:My score of the con, somebody was selling Warhammer Invasion + first booster cycle + first three deluxe expansion for $20.  oh poo poo. Is it any good? I've never pulled the trigger on it.
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Crackbone posted:My score of the con, somebody was selling Warhammer Invasion + first booster cycle + first three deluxe expansion for $20. That game is solid. It's a steal at that price.
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I'm thinking that I will... PROBABLY not be there next year? At least, not unless the economy improves around here. I do wanna try and make it in two years tho. Bunch of my friends from here also wanna try and go.
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One of my buddies apparently came down with Con Plague early Friday morning. I guess it needed some time to incubate. Anybody else feeling like death?
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BlackIronHeart posted:One of my buddies apparently came down with Con Plague early Friday morning. I guess it needed some time to incubate. Anybody else feeling like death? My girlfriend's been in and out of action since Tuesday, and I've been feeling under the weather.
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Aug 9, 2015 00:54
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Dude, I slammed so many Airborne supplements before and durning that if I still got sick I was going to sue. Worked for me!
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We had a pinkeye scare but that's because the kids at work were passing that poo poo around right before we left.
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I had a bit of a cold the weekend before the con, and ended up hibernating and using a nety pot religiously and feeling fine by the time I got to the con, I hope I didn't pass anything on. But my sniffling and sneezing was completely gone by then, so I think it was fine. I just had a bit of sniffling afterwards a day or two ago, but it was more likely allergies or otherwise it just passed real fast.
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I caught a cold at the con itself and then, after I got over it on Wednesday, caught another one this Thursday. Who knows if it's residual con cooties or just work stress, though.
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Alien Rope Burn posted:I had a bit of a cold the weekend before the con, and ended up hibernating and using a nety pot religiously and feeling fine by the time I got to the con, I hope I didn't pass anything on. But my sniffling and sneezing was completely gone by then, so I think it was fine. I just had a bit of sniffling afterwards a day or two ago, but it was more likely allergies or otherwise it just passed real fast. Remember I was feeling bad that one morning in the hotel? Was that you!? Just kidding, it was definitely from sleeping under that 55 degree AC vent.
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CaptainRat posted:I caught a cold at the con itself and then, after I got over it on Wednesday, caught another one this Thursday. Who knows if it's residual con cooties or just work stress, though. One of the guys I went with passed out big vitamin C tablets every morning. Did it help? I dunno. Did I get sick? Nope! I mean, they were chewable and kinda nasty, but eh... Better than getting sick.
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I got a little sick literally as I was leaving the show. Sore throat and runny nose for a couple days, but as far as con-crud goes it was pretty mild.
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I managed to avoid the crud this year, though I did find a pothole in the sidewalk the hard way Sunday so I got to bring home a twisted ankle to walk around on for a few days.
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8one6 have it replaced with a powerful bionic ankleBlackIronHeart posted:One of my buddies apparently came down with Con Plague early Friday morning. I guess it needed some time to incubate. Anybody else feeling like death? CaptainRat posted:I caught a cold at the con itself and then, after I got over it on Wednesday, caught another one this Thursday. Who knows if it's residual con cooties or just work stress, though. Only the second time I have ever felt under the weather post-Gen-Con, perhaps unsurprisingly also the second time one of my roommates I was spending a lot of time with got sick during the convention. Other than having to drive from Ohio to Vermont while not really feeling good enough to even get out of bed, no harm done though  though then I got to call in sick to work guilt-free on Friday, so lose/win???
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8one6 posted:I managed to avoid the crud this year, though I did find a pothole in the sidewalk the hard way Sunday so I got to bring home a twisted ankle to walk around on for a few days. I feel your pain, slipped on a wet lobby coming in the hotel Sunday night. No signs or anything, and when I told the front desk the response was "oh." Banged up my knee and hurt my already messed up back. Won't be using that particular Marriott ever again.
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Released the RPPR post Gen Con episode: http://slangdesign.com/rppr/2015/08/podcast-episode/rppr-episode-118-limping-away-from-gen-con-2015/
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Me and a friend are looking to go to GenCon next year. Looks like we will be staying within driving distance and I found a site called ParkWhiz that lets you buy a parking pass for the whole weekend at certain spots around downtown and I was wondering if anyone has used that site before and how legit it is?
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Rad Valtar posted:Me and a friend are looking to go to GenCon next year. Looks like we will be staying within driving distance and I found a site called ParkWhiz that lets you buy a parking pass for the whole weekend at certain spots around downtown and I was wondering if anyone has used that site before and how legit it is? I used it this year without any trouble. You just print out the pass for the day and stick it on the dashboard. The lot I ended up in ended up being a bit further out than I would have liked, but I also didn't reserve anything untill literally the weekend before the con.
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I parked at Lucas Stadium the whole weekend. All day parking cost 10 bucks a day, with the exception being Friday when they're was a One Direction concert. That day it was 25 bucks. If you pay mote than that your spot better be within a block of the ICC or you are paying too much.
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Carteret posted:I parked at Lucas Stadium the whole weekend. All day parking cost 10 bucks a day, with the exception being Friday when they're was a One Direction concert. That day it was 25 bucks. If you pay mote than that your spot better be within a block of the ICC or you are paying too much. How far is Lucas Oil Stadium from the convention?
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We parked at the stadium also except on Friday. It's like 2 blocks away, if you park as close as possible to the east side of the stadium it's like a 5-10min walk from the lot to the center max.
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There's a lot of leeway somehow. We got there at 8:30 one day and it was empty, 11 on sunday and still lots of spots.
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Andarel posted:We parked at the stadium also except on Friday. It's like 2 blocks away, if you park as close as possible to the east side of the stadium it's like a 5-10min walk from the lot to the center max. We should have parked there. Stupid hotel charged us $20 a day and it was 5 blocks away. Would have been easier to stash my loot in the car than walking all the way back to the hotel. They wouldn't even let us leave without tacking on another $5. Don't stay at the Alexander.
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Andarel posted:There's a lot of leeway somehow. We got there at 8:30 one day and it was empty, 11 on sunday and still lots of spots. Wow that sounds better then paying a bunch in advance for a parking pass.
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It was really convenient. I left the lot at close to 3 am most nights and it wasn't an issue. Bring an umbrella I guess? Or never rained, but that's the only real issue. Most of your walk is down the big rear end corridor inside the ICC so even then it's like a block outside, max. It's where I'm parking next year.
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Oh in case anyone was wondering, Hilton has finally closed the loop and has all of its downtown hotels 100% unavailable (even for Diamond members!) for the entirety of the convention, even if you try to book a day or two early or late to trick it into thinking you are not going for Gen-Con. Sigh.
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Grab what you can/what you can afford with the housing lottery. I got a decent, quiet 92 a night room about 20 minutes drive from ICC. It was inconvenient to have to drive instead of just walking out of my hotel room door to get to the convention, but I was part of #CarCrew2015 so driving wasn't an issue.
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Carteret posted:Grab what you can/what you can afford with the housing lottery. I got a decent, quiet 92 a night room about 20 minutes drive from ICC. It was inconvenient to have to drive instead of just walking out of my hotel room door to get to the convention, but I was part of #CarCrew2015 so driving wasn't an issue. I was looking at spending about $100 per night also didn't know there was a lottery. I'm guessing that's for the rooms connected to the convention or something or does Gencon just control the reservations for that weekend in all the hotels? Rad Valtar fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Aug 9, 2015 |
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Rad Valtar posted:I was looking at spending about $100 per night also didn't know there was a lottery. I'm guessing that's for the rooms connected to the convention or something or does Gencon just control the reservations for that weekend in all the hotels? It really depends on how many rooms each hotel is going to put into the housing block. Its usually a pretty fair amount, but no hotel is putting 100% of its rooms into the housing block. Especially if there are other events happening that same weekend. They'll also leave some open for people who decide to go at the last minute so they can charge them rack rates. Now, I don't know if there's an agreement with each hotel for a set percentage of their rooms or if each hotel allots whatever they want to it. If a hotel isn't in the housing block, then you should be able to book whenever they open reservations for the show dates. As for the lottery, this was the first year they used it. Last year's hotel reg system couldn't handle the amount of traffic it got and a lot of people got screwed out of rooms that they thought they had/were just about to book when it poo poo itself. For example, I got dumped from the queue and it took me 20 minutes to get back in. All of the downtown hotels were gone by then.
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Yeah the guy in our group who was doing our booking had a super short wait then the system froze when he went to pick the room. By the time he got customer service to straighten it out everything was gone 
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Was able to snag a room within a mile of the convention center. This is my first time going so it's a shot in the dark and will probably end up horrible but hey it's all part of the experience.
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Early committals for next years GenCon from my group of friends is like 6 people. Isn't there some hotel that has suites or something?
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