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Does anyone have pro tips for flying to Gen Con? We've always driven, but we're moving across the country this year and will have to fly to get to Gen Con. In particular, how do people handle buying big items? Do you just ship it back? Pack light and have some way of putting it in your suitcase while preventing baggage handlers from molesting your bag and dinging up your nice new stuff? Take your haul as carry-on? Employ quantum teleportation?
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Deviant posted:But definitely take a big steaming dump on the NSDM game I have literally never been able to read this as anything but National Socialist Death Metal.  Carteret posted:I've flown in twice, and my Lifehack(tm) is to have a duffel bag rolled up in my carry-on, and then just check my bag filled with nerd poo poo on the return trip. Checked-bag fees < Postage fees (especially considering the Convention Price Hike) That's not a bad idea, especially since I flew enough last year that I have status on Delta, so we'll get a free checked bag each. Maybe if I just wrap shirts and stuff around my precious board game boxes, they won't get dinged up by the baggage handlers.
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Jan 25, 2018 22:15
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Yeah, mine is 4:53 PM. I’m glad I got a backup like 6 months ago.
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Feb 10, 2018 08:12
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Dr. Quarex posted:Wizards of the Coast has abandoned Gen-Con entirely What's all this then? I hadn't heard that. Granted, the only "WotC" stuff I do at Gen Con is one AD&D 1e (or 2e) game a year, so it won't affect me like at all, but I do like hearing about scuttlebutt.
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Feb 16, 2018 04:26
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Dr. Quarex posted:The Gen-Con update e-mail has me wondering, what do we call Pathfinder 2nd Edition? 3.875th edition? Does that mean they're slowly moving towards a D&D4e clone? 
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Apr 6, 2018 20:39
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As long as they still have the unbelievably embarrassing summaries of the bands that are playing, I'll be ok.
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Apr 19, 2018 01:07
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CellBlock posted:Giant Lego Robo Rally don't do super robo rally it's really bad i just want all the tickets, it's actually the best event at gen con
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May 3, 2018 16:27
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It's also on your wishlist page.
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May 6, 2018 17:16
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I got like 5000th in line because the site timed out when I clicked the button, but crisis averted, I got into 2 Super Robo Rally events after they opened up a bit later.
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May 6, 2018 17:52
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Clanpot Shake posted:How do returns work? There's an event or two I want to jump on if people drop them and I'd have to drop some things myself to fit them in. Is there a way to get notified if a slot opens in an event? If you go to My Transactions, you can refund tickets for system credit. I don't think there's a way of getting notifications though, unless you just reload your wishlist page periodically (or have a computer thing do that for you).
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May 6, 2018 18:52
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WerrWaaa posted:Where abouts? I'm on my way from LA. Ditto, I just moved out here. I used to be able to drive to Gen Con.
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May 8, 2018 18:47
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WerrWaaa posted:I game in Pasadena if you're ever looking for people, PM me. Cool, I've been meaning to head out to Pasadena to check out Game Empire, but haven't had a chance. I haven't gotten all my game stuff unpacked yet, but when I do I'll try and remember to PM you!
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May 8, 2018 22:35
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nesbit37 posted:Enjoy incel tears goons! Dammit man I stopped reading the incel thread here for a reason. For serious, I noticed that spending a nonzero amount of my free time reading about truly lovely people just made me feel worse in general.
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May 31, 2018 18:47
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RocknRollaAyatollah posted:she's alright in my book now for triggering the chuds. Let's be fair here, this is an exceedingly low bar.
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Jun 1, 2018 07:14
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Funzo posted:They've got a whole Puppet program for some reason. There's something about the puppet program that I just find vaguely creepy. Maybe because it's too close to clowns.
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Jun 5, 2018 17:40
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Slimy Hog posted:That meeple pin is super disappointing and ugly. It's the only one pictured that I would not have immediately thrown out.  I would have thrown it out the next day.
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Jun 20, 2018 00:32
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Oh it's like a whole thing? That's lame.
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Jun 20, 2018 01:44
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Clanpot Shake posted:Badge and event tickets arrived in the mail today, guess I really am going to gencon Yeah, I got mine yesterday and had a brief moment of panic when I saw how few event tickets I had. Then I realized that they're moving towards scanning your badge for some events. (I know Super Robo Rally is doing that this year, and they're the most important event of Gen Con by far.)
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Jul 6, 2018 19:49
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I know people have mentioned lots of good food places, but are there any recommendations for some that are at least reasonably healthy? I'm sure I'll eat plenty of sugary, fried stuff too, but it'd be nice to have some options for when I don't want to punish my stomach.
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Aug 1, 2018 03:18
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Haystack posted:Cafe Patachou is solid for breakfast and lunch. This looks like a solid pick for when we arrive since it's super close and also we'll be feeling bad since we're doing a red-eye flight (I am not happy about this part). Ethiopian sounds good (I used to live down the street from an Ethiopian place), but a 30 minute walk might be pushing it. I could use that time to do a thing! I guess I could grab a cab or whatever though.
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Aug 1, 2018 19:20
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Clanpot Shake posted:Nevermind, I made it. It's nice to know I have a friend who will drop everything and race to the airport Ok that's a lot less bad than how I read your previous post. I thought you'd already arrived and were considering another round trip to get your tickets and I was like "that is some serious Gen Con dedication".
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Aug 2, 2018 04:02
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Today I learned there was a Blizzard booth. They have the best carpet in the whole of Gen Con. My feet are going to marry that carpet.
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Aug 4, 2018 00:53
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Gen Con was fun, although I'll say this was probably the worst time I've had of all the times I went. It had nothing to do with the convention itself though. More that we had to take a red-eye flight in (we used to drive in, but moved far away), so we ended up too tired to do some of the events we had tickets for; and then had to get a backup hotel that forced us to pack up all our stuff to change rooms partway through (and then they gave us our same room back after all that). Still, I got some cool stuff that I mailed back to myself (maybe next year I'll just take a second suitcase so I can do it myself) and I got to play Super Robo Rally twice. It's now to the point where the SRR organizers know us by name.
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Aug 6, 2018 18:42
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Alien Rope Burn posted:GenConspicuous Consumption. Lemme know how the Witcher RPG is. I was thinking about that one and the Dark Eye RPG, but I haven't even unpacked my other RPG books after moving... 
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enigmahfc posted:At least that one dude chose to pass out in a chair instead of the gross-rear end carpeted floor. It's almost normal looking. I chose to pass out in a bed.
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