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Wow didn’t realize badges went up to a $110. That might put mine and my wife’s plans of going in jeopardy.
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110 for three full awesome days that I look forward to all year is pretty good in my eyes.
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Jan 15, 2018 04:09
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Looks like this will be my first year of going to GenCon. Got my badge and my hotel plans with friends.
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Jan 15, 2018 04:32
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Got badge, looking to see if anybody's looking to take a room crasher (paying my share as usual, of course). Worried to risk the room lottery and get stuck with something on my own, not quite sure how that works.  Have various people who can vouch for me not being weird(er than usual for GenCon) if necessary.
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Jan 15, 2018 04:47
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djfooboo posted:110 for three full awesome days that I look forward to all year is pretty good in my eyes. It’s our vacation away from everything for 3days but I just found out I have to have my chimney rebuilt so the price plus hotel is just a little too steep. I’m going to be very sad if we can’t make it.
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Jan 15, 2018 04:55
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Got badge, looking to see if anybody's looking to take a room crasher (paying my share as usual, of course). Worried to risk the room lottery and get stuck with something on my own, not quite sure how that works. Can vouch that this guy was a good roommate and we were the assholes up until 2am drinking entirely too much lovely liquor.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:04
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Got badge. Hotel lottery sucks, we've always had to stay on the edge of town, which is fine, but when you've got games scheduled at 8am it blows rear end, and trying to find parking is a pain in the rear end.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:27
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Philthy posted:Got badge. Hotel lottery sucks, we've always had to stay on the edge of town, which is fine, but when you've got games scheduled at 8am it blows rear end, and trying to find parking is a pain in the rear end. I have literally never had an issue finding parking if I'm going to things at 8AM. Try the underground lot on Capitol right before Louisiana, next to the food truck court. At 730AM there's always a spot, and it's right next to Bee Coffee so you can get your caffeine before gaming.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:45
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djfooboo posted:110 for three full awesome days that I look forward to all year is pretty good in my eyes. Technically, it's $110 for the opportunity to pay more for events and products. Not that that stopped me from getting my tickets.
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Jan 15, 2018 05:59
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Len posted:Legitimately jealous of you guys that 1) can afford VIG and 2) can actually get the ticket I've had it since the second year it was available. It sold out year three. The peace of mind that comes from the early access to the room block is worth enough that my friends and I happily split the extra cost of the badge every year.
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Jan 15, 2018 06:36
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Yeah, I'd love to get VIG. Maybe one of these years...
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Jan 15, 2018 06:54
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I sadly won't be making it this year. Please continue the goon trend of SHOT WEDNESDAY without me!
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Jan 15, 2018 16:45
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Exmond posted:I sadly won't be making it this year. Please continue the goon trend of SHOT WEDNESDAY without me! I will have a shot for you.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:58
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Exmond posted:I sadly won't be making it this year. Please continue the goon trend of SHOT WEDNESDAY without me! Shot Wednesday is kind of its own monster at this point. Short of the con not happening, it's going to be a thing.
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Jan 15, 2018 20:39
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This year I will eat dinner before Shots Wednesday.
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Jan 15, 2018 22:55
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Double Agent posted:Shot Wednesday is kind of its own monster at this point. Short of the con not happening, it's going to be a thing. I am fairly confident that if the con didn't happen Shot Wednesday would still occur
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Jan 15, 2018 23:25
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Alien Rope Burn posted:Got badge, looking to see if anybody's looking to take a room crasher (paying my share as usual, of course). Worried to risk the room lottery and get stuck with something on my own, not quite sure how that works. I think you are free to cancel. Like one of the strategies is for a bunch of people to agree to share a room before the lottery, and whoever has the best reservation gets a room for everyone.
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Jan 15, 2018 23:30
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Ego Trip posted:This year I will eat dinner before Shots Wednesday. A wise plan.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I am fairly confident that if the con didn't happen Shot Wednesday would still occur Every day is Shot Wednesday if you try hard enough.
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Jan 16, 2018 03:35
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I might be looking for goon roommates I had two friends wanting to go and one just had to back out. Course I won't know until late last month if I actually get the days off or not but at least it's all refundable
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Jan 16, 2018 03:44
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SirPhoebos posted:I think you are free to cancel. Like one of the strategies is for a bunch of people to agree to share a room before the lottery, and whoever has the best reservation gets a room for everyone. Thought there were crazy cancellation fees to stop this.
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Jan 16, 2018 04:54
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Does anyone know if it's possible to reserve a room to use as a private gaming space? I want to organize a bunch of games and events for fans of my podcasts. I don't want them to be official events because I want to choose who gets to play. Does anyone know if something like this is possible?
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Jan 16, 2018 05:08
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clockworkjoe posted:Does anyone know if it's possible to reserve a room to use as a private gaming space? I want to organize a bunch of games and events for fans of my podcasts. I don't want them to be official events because I want to choose who gets to play. Does anyone know if something like this is possible? You might check with whatever hotel you're staying at to see if they have a room Gen Con didn't reserve, bt I don't think there's an official way to do it through the con. You could also try reaching out to Derek Guder, the event programming manager, to see if there's a way to reserve a private room.
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Jan 16, 2018 06:26
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clockworkjoe posted:Does anyone know if it's possible to reserve a room to use as a private gaming space? I want to organize a bunch of games and events for fans of my podcasts. I don't want them to be official events because I want to choose who gets to play. Does anyone know if something like this is possible? A group of friends from New Jersey does this every year at Gen Con. They just reserve some tiny conference room in one of the hotels and its theirs 24 hours a day for all of Gen Con. I have no idea what this costs, and there are like 20+ of them to split the cost so I don't know if that means it works out to be super cheap or its that expensive it needs that many of them. By tiny it's still big enough for like 4 tables of gaming, but small enough Gen Con doesn't care about it, apparently.
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Jan 16, 2018 15:52
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Philthy posted:Thought there were crazy cancellation fees to stop this. Its $50 to cancel a reserved room. The only other fee would be the badge, but assuming you are going regardless of the room you get that is moot.
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Jan 16, 2018 15:53
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My group is going to try the lottery for the first time this year, but trying to coordinate my friends is like herding cats and boy oh boy I am not looking forward to the Three Stooges shitshow that is going to be our lottery day.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:13
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Reserved our hotel a week or two after GenCon last year. It's about five minutes away, which is easily done with Uber or Lyft. We're also going up Wednesday, I plan to see the spectacle that is Shot Wednesday. I don't actually have my badge yet but my girlfriend does and boy won't that be awkward if they sell out in the next couple weeks.
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Jan 17, 2018 08:27
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This is going to be a weird Gen Con. I'll be getting in on Tuesday and leaving Monday, and then will be doing a presentation at Trade Day for educators and running a booth all week. Looking forward to it but wondering how much this experience change is going to impact how I look at Gen Con.
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Jan 17, 2018 15:23
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My wife just informed me she will not be going. This means I can revert to games all night depravity!
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Jan 17, 2018 17:04
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Badge Registration Day +3 and still no new thread? You disappoint me, Quarex.
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Jan 17, 2018 17:06
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I am happy and sad that the Shot Wednesday discussion now comes up without me to prompt it. *sniff* I am become the proud papa. Ilor posted:Badge Registration Day +3 and still no new thread? He said it's coming soon, had a personal thing. You'd know that if you were IN GROUPME. https://groupme.com/join_group/9123611/dMNjpU
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Jan 17, 2018 17:09
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Deviant posted:He said it's coming soon, had a personal thing. You'd know that if you were
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Jan 17, 2018 17:11
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Eh its not a super chatty groupme in the offseason, just some gaming news now and then. Not like dragoncon which gets like 500+ messages an hour
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Jan 17, 2018 18:12
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Fellis posted:Not like we went skiing.
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Jan 17, 2018 18:16
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I will know by the end of the month if I'm going but I most likely will be. Just in time to take part in the room lottery and face the crushing defeat that will come with it.
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Jan 17, 2018 19:18
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I am really curious to see if the no-room trade policy impacts the hotel lottery death day or not this year.
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Jan 17, 2018 20:26
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Where was the no-room trade policy written? I didn’t see that. Seems like it just narrows the circle of room trades to people you trust with your last 4 digits cc and billing address?
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Thats exactly what it does. http://www.gencon.com/attend/housing_travel/housing_terms_service Gen Con Housing Page posted:10.Room Assignment Management. Room assignments are unique and personal to the Gen Con account holder who purchased the badge and requested the assignment. Room assignments cannot be transferred, traded, or otherwise re-assigned among Gen Con accounts, and room assignments connected to one Gen Con account will remain associated with the account until housing registration closes or the room assignment is cancelled. Also: someone at gencon posted:Account holders who find themselves unable to attend the convention can modify their room assignment to designate a friend or family member as the primary guest for their room assignment. With cardholder consent, they can also put the primary guest’s credit card on file to secure the assignment and pay the hotel deposit after housing registration ends; but the account holder retains the ability to modify or cancel the room assignment at-will and remains liable for the Terms of Service and any declined credit card transactions. If a room assignment is cancelled and the credit card on file is declined for any reason, the account holder remains responsible for settlement as required to keep their account in good standing. Accounts that fall out of good standing will lose their housing eligibility as described under the Terms of Service.
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nesbit37 posted:Thats exactly what it does. Thanks for digging those up for my lazy rear end, I appreciate it! Those changes don’t seem to affect much, unless there was some room scalping happening on reddit or something I don’t know about. E: and just general jerky behavior of sitting on a reservation till you know for sure if you can go or not instead of letting early birds have the good stuff as intended
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djfooboo posted:My wife just informed me she will not be going. This means I can revert to games all night depravity! WOOOOOO!!!!
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