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I got a huge bag of trail mix with a variety of nuts and M & M's and also some jerky that sustained me through my time in the dealer hall.
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LLSix posted:I'm planning on bringing stuff to make jamon sandwiches so I can spend more time doing anything but wandering around looking for food. Any suggestions on what else would make for good con' snacks or meals? To keep your energy up i recommend a 10lb bag of pure sugar (my go to is usually a couple boxes of protein bars, but i usually go out for full on meals since food tourism is a part of the experience for me) Sloober fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Aug 11, 2017 |
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If you aren't making time to eat cool food during the con i'm sorry but you're having BadWrongFun
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:If you aren't making time to eat cool food during the con i'm sorry but you're having BadWrongFun 
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Aug 11, 2017 17:57
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Last year I handled most of my day to day caloric intake with Quest bars, apples, bananas, and Soylent. Which isn't to say I didn't hit up a couple of food trucks while I was there - it's just a hell of a lot cheaper to bring your own food for most of your meals.
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Lol just lol if you go to GenCon and don't experience a groverlunch or 3
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Treat Gencon like it's an actual, literal hike through the woods and pack appropriate food based on that. Hunter sausage sticks (aka Slim Jims) or jerky, nuts, protein bars, stuff that packs easily. Have space in your bag for water and try to make it last. But also, yeah, c'mon, try a food truck or three (or eighteen, like Ilor's kickin' rad wife) and get some grub at High Velocity with goons.
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I'll be showing up late Wednesday (assume there's a meetup on Wednesday?); and am still debating like hell over what games to bring. Either way, my default mode is going to be trying to push games on people in the games library as much as possible. Time for groupme I suppose! EDIT: I need some help figuring out what games to drag out. Here's a list of of stuff that I want to play all of and want to pare it down to stuff people will actually play. I'll be bringing some smaller party games / filler stuff as well (Gravwell, Arboretum, Bling Bling Gemstone, probably not Codenames because someone's gonna have a copy right?) Food Chain Magnate Indonesia Roads & Boats Antiquity Great Zimbabwe Vinhos deluxe Gallerist CO2 Kanban Lisboa Wildcatters Arkwright Mombasa Container Archipelago Argent: The Consortium with expansions Lignum If any of these games are something you'd want to play, lemme know. Trynant fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Aug 12, 2017 |
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djfooboo posted:Recap: No shandy. Not since the incident.
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BlackIronHeart posted:But also, yeah, c'mon, try a food truck or three (or eighteen, like Ilor's kickin' rad wife) and get some grub at High Velocity with goons.
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Carteret posted:Lol just lol if you go to GenCon and don't experience a groverlunch or 3 fuckin lmbo if you aren't pilfering food from sleeping con-goers like a big sweaty raccoon
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Trynant posted:I'll be showing up late Wednesday (assume there's a meetup on Wednesday?); and am still debating like hell over what games to bring. Either way, my default mode is going to be trying to push games on people in the games library as much as possible. Time for groupme I suppose! I won't get in till late Wednesday but if you will teach/play any of the following during the 17th-20th I'd play: R&b Antiquity Vinhos D Gallerist Kanban *Lisboa *Wildcatters *Arkwright *Container *Lignum * games I really really want to play
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Alien Rope Burn posted:It'll be great to see you this year, Quarex, you were missed last time (albeit with very good reason).  Thanks!!! I once told my now-spouse that the only reason I would ever skip Gen-Con is if we had a baby then, and I even mentioned "since it seems so incredibly unlikely, I guess it is going to happen" and there you go.Alien Rope Burn posted:Pricing stuff for the auction is a headache this year, I have a number of books that are ridiculously priced on Amazon / Noble Knight Games / eBay to a level where I would be shocked to see anybody pay for. $50+ for a copy of Hacker? Yeah... sure... Oh you posted a really helpful guide to pricing things on the next page so I am glad I just decided to put in a general "how to decide whether you care whether you make money" suggestion. Oh and then Sionak also posted good stuff. Hooray! I hope you are still working on your delightful T.O.V.A. idea. You still have the weekend! As far as any other pricing suggestions, well, not really about pricing per se, but this is Gen-Con 50. I suspect that memorabilia collectors will be sporting full-on nostalgia arousal this year, and I am basically trying to unload every single TSR-era D&D thing I have that I do not specifically want forever, with the hopefully accurate assumption that people who may have never attended before but have been fans forever will be all too excited to finally own, say, a working copy of the Mattel Electronics D&D Labyrinth! Trustworthy posted:This is the part of my annual Gen Con tradition where I regretfully inform Quarex that I'm still not that guy. I'm a slightly different guy with short lame-o hair whom Quarex is, at best, only mildly excited about seeing. Trynant posted:I'll be showing up late Wednesday (assume there's a meetup on Wednesday?); and am still debating like hell over what games to bring. Either way, my default mode is going to be trying to push games on people in the games library as much as possible. Time for groupme I suppose!
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Carteret posted:Lol just lol if you go to GenCon and don't experience a groverlunch or 3 I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how groverhaus fit into this. This is a Sesame Street Grover thing, isn't it?
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Admiral Joeslop posted:I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how groverhaus fit into this. For the uninitiated, groverlunch is as follows: I had a very good idea, to grab a bunch of goons and go have a nice lunch at Harry and Izzy's. I had six people. Given goons propensity for showing up to things, I called ahead and got a table for eight. Ten showed up. Then two more. Then two more. As I'm apologizing to the waitress as hard as I can and we are just generally taking up space for quite a while. I may have also threatened to exile anyone who didn't tip well. As far as how that relates to grover, see groverhaus ( http://imgur.com/gallery/tI8ys ) an old GBS project whose designs were so awful it was easier to become an engineer and certify his own crapshack than it was to get it up to code.
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Wow, was that 2015? I remember showing up to a Harry & Izzy's lunch where I expected a handful of people and there were seemingly all the people from our entire chat at the same table.
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Here's the games I will have with me. Tried to bring a variety of games to accommodate various player counts and length while still fitting in one tote. A Feast for Odin Scythe + expansion Tiny Epic Quest Tiny Epic Galaxies Megaman Pixel Tactics Onitama Tak Mint Works Valley of the Kings Afterlife 7 Wonders Duel + expansion Also, I'm searching for a few games, some are out of print or hard to find so please give me a heads up if you see the following for sale anywhere: Akrotiri Paperback Targi Xia Legends of a Drift System Deep Space D-6 Arboretum (allegedly this reprint will be available) Gloomhaven (lol)
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Carteret posted:One and the same. No wonder I have the vague recollection of having people be surprisingly horrified to see me despite me being So Amazing. Fortunately I am indeed an amazing tipper
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Bottom Liner posted:
I'm probably bringing my copy with me to play. Fwiw it's in stock on Tim fowers' site if you can't find a copy at the con.
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My friends and I made out annual trip to Sam's Club for Con snacks today. It's officially the start of Gen Con!!!
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I got all my stuff, I am all ready for Wednesday.
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Only three more days of work, uggggh
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Just boarded my flight to Indy. Here's to a crazy week to come, folks. 
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Alright, so at least according to the groupme, nothing has been settled about a Wednesday meetup. If so, I'm going to suggest the Rathskeller Pros:
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Haystack posted:Alright, so at least according to the groupme, nothing has been settled about a Wednesday meetup. If so, I'm going to suggest the Rathskeller Im down for Rathskeller but don't rely on the not crowded part
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Haystack posted:Alright, so at least according to the groupme, nothing has been settled about a Wednesday meetup. If so, I'm going to suggest the Rathskeller Looks like a cool place.
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Stoked again for another GenCon! Come play Heart of Crown at my booth, its really good. We are the Japanime Games Booth. Ask for Rob.
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That Rathskeller place looks super cool and how the heck do i keep not finding interesting places in indi.
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Merauder posted:Just boarded my flight to Indy. Here's to a crazy week to come, folks. Rathskeller has always been in my mind when in Indianapolis since I have never been to a bad German restaurant, I am nodding at the suggestion. And it will not be (Gen-Con) busy for obvious distance reasons!
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The Rathskeller is a fine establishment, worth the Uber or long walk, then you are only short distance away from Mass Ave, one of the best streets in Indy proper.
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I tried Rathskeller a year or two ago. Thought the food was pretty meh but the beergarden was dope and it'd be a good meetup spot, weather permitting Any Indy locals have suggestions for places to eat for people who are pretentious assholes about food? Milktooth and Bluebeard look like your most recent nominees for James Beard awards...good? Lawen fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Aug 15, 2017 |
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Lawen posted:I tried Rathskeller a year or two ago. Thought the food was pretty meh but the beergarden was dope and it'd be a good meetup spot, weather permitting It's probably an Uber ride away due to distance but you might check out St Josephs Brewery on College Ave? They're kind of a gastropub. I've been three times in the last couple years, but they've had consistently wonderful food and beer. I've not been to Milktooth or Bluebeard, but I've heard great things about the latter. The one time I tried to go they were closed so welp. If you dig Greek food, there's a place called Santorini's (I think) in Fountain Square that is pretty good too. Last time I was there, I got a gyro that was bigger than the drat dinner plate.
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Remember when we went to Sun King in 2014 and had to take a taxi back? The past was wacky.
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Rathskeller food is amazing, unless there has been some sort of drop off in quality in recent years. My family would go there for special occasions quite often, a really cool place.
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Trynant posted:
won't get in til' late, but i'd absolutely loved to try roads & boats and lisboa
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Rathskeller's kitchen has either gone downhill (likely) or Indy's food scene has just outshined it so much these days (also likely). But the atmosphere and history makes it a worthwhile haunt. Drink beer, eat spicy pretzels, listen to live polka music.
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For anyone in town today, I'm gonna try to organize some games this afternoon/evening.
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djfooboo posted:Rathskeller's kitchen has either gone downhill (likely) or Indy's food scene has just outshined it so much these days (also likely). I'm gonna need more convincing, i can do this real easily in WI
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Sloober posted:I'm gonna need more convincing, i can do this real easily in WI http://www.rathskeller.com/ http://www.athenaeumfoundation.org/the-rathskeller/ https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-rathskeller-indianapolis?osq=german 
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