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Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

Ego Trip posted:

Didn't mudcrab talk to someone about cospay is not consent last year?

Maybe she still has an email address for someone who's job it is to care about this kind of thing.

ping her in groupme, usually the best way

# ¿ Feb 16, 2019 16:50

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:46

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

Agrias120 posted:

https://twitter.com/Gen_Con/status/1098692902228639744

fuckin good

didnt take long for the chuds for that nazi who got his rear end beat to show up tho

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 22:42

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Admiral Joeslop posted:

Some of the local X-wing players play at Gencon. I can't imagine spending so long over three days to play one game when there is so much other stuff.

I'm sure I've mentioned it before but the last two years I've spent a ton of money on board games that I've never even played. This year I'm just going hogwild on RPGs, old and new. At least I can read them if my group never players them.

playing in the gencon x-wing tourney burned me out so hard i sold my stuff the next day.

and i was doing *well*.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2019 16:07

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Double Agent posted:

I'm sure the only reason it hasn't been mentioned yet is because everyone who was involved wanted to scrub it from their memories, but NSDM was loving awful.

i had ~~suppressed~~drank away those memories until just now you absolute fucker

Deviant fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Apr 9, 2019

# ¿ Apr 9, 2019 19:22

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Backno posted:

Highlight was the VP of the US, the president, the head of SAC, and the speaker of the house walking out and going to the bar, with me dropping all 4 titles on some rando at once.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2019 04:07

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CellBlock posted:

NSDM should be good, but the people running it have a devotion to accuracy that greatly hinders the game, and there's little to no guidance on how to actually do things, so people who play it all the time at different events are at a strong advantage.

The games with fewer players are better (the Doomsday game that runs on either Friday or Saturday at midnight and only has 5 players per country is fine - it's basically just the moderators trying to see if they can instigate a nuclear war between the players).

Honestly, if you like that sort of thing, I'd probably recommend looking at Mega Games (like Watch the Skies). Groups have started running those at Gen Con, and they're probably more fun than NSDM. I played Watch the Skies a couple of times locally and it was cool, but the ones at Gen Con tend to be pretty pricey. (And sometimes run like aaaaaalllll day.)

Paging OB_Juan to talk about how a national security//this-is-the-war-room/strangelove game SHOULD be run and/or played in.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2019 17:20

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Erainor posted:

Nice to meet everyone. I�ll be attending for the first time with my girlfriend Maigius. Looking forward to it!

shots shots shots shots

# ¿ Apr 29, 2019 19:38

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

Necronomicon posted:

I've heard about Shots Wednesday a couple of times but never went to it. Is it just...Goons doing shots? I'm going to be there with three friends, two of which are sort-of-Goons (they haven't read or posted in forever) so I figure we should probably do that.

Also definitely showing up on Tuesday this year. That'll give me time to see family and friends, mentally prepare myself, and also my job has unlimited vacation so why the gently caress not

shots wednesday was borne out of a dinner i organized on my first year at gencon when Mudcrab told me "deviant, the gencon goons are cool, but it's not a drunken shitshow like dragoncon" and i said "well i'll fuckin' fix that."

we all went to the tilted kilt because it was the only thing that didnt have a wait. they patiently allowed our group of 8 to grow into a group of 20, and i bought a round of shots. things rapidly escalated.

now we go to the Rathskeller, because it has an outdoor patio that can support one Failure(tm) of goons, has food, and will happily let us drink ourselves even stupider as long as we don't stand on the tables.

Deviant fucked around with this message at 18:28 on May 2, 2019

# ¿ May 2, 2019 18:25

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Drowning Rabbit posted:

I'm hoping to attend shots Wednesday, but may have my luggage with me as I can't check into the hotel until the guys I'm rooming with get in ( Which is projected for ~11pm apparently ).

I'm debating on if this is going to be a shitshow to have my messenger bag carry on and a small suit case with me...

Also of note, those goons traveling, better to wait on getting a flight sorted closer to the event or farther out? I haven't booked my flight as of yet, but also don't want to get stuck with a 8 hour flight that could be less than 2.

any decent hotel will hold your luggage for you and give you a claim ticket even if you havent checked in yet

# ¿ May 2, 2019 23:24

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Dr. Quarex posted:

Edit: Anyone with archives can enjoy this ... thing ... I found in 2007 where a soon-to-be-banned poster tried to start a Dr. Seuss-inspired play-by-post game and received zero responses

i wish i was creative enough with rhymes to drunkenly run a dr seuss game

# ¿ May 4, 2019 16:12

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OB_Juan posted:

Maybe those lamps will be back.

well if lamp guy is anything like me, he never came back to pick up his unsold auction items

# ¿ May 8, 2019 14:39

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

the magic of the auction is going to the charity auction, finding the one item you must have, and shouting down another nerd who dares to challenge you.

# ¿ May 8, 2019 18:31

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

Dr. Quarex posted:

But I wish I could have seen this. Well unless you did it in 2017 when I did not remember what anyone looked like somehow and I did see it

it was 2017 i think? i decided i really wanted the elderwood dice tower and carved dice, and I got them up by request.

:geno:

:"40 50 60 70 80"

:btroll:

: *smug expression, eyeing me from across the room*

me, internally: "gently caress it, it's charity."
me, externally: "gently caress IT. TWO HUNDRED."

that'll learn that fat gently caress to eyeball me.

Deviant fucked around with this message at 22:05 on May 8, 2019

# ¿ May 8, 2019 22:01

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Fellis posted:

8. Win a tova toy auction against a child and ~~refuse to feel shame about it~~ then give the toy to the child anyway because that is how we do things here.

Deviant fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 10, 2019

# ¿ May 10, 2019 17:53

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

god emperor quarex doesnt go to shots wednesday anyway.

# ¿ May 11, 2019 15:17

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Admiral Joeslop posted:

Certainly not your liver enzymes.

i definitley didn't reschedule my yearly bloodwork to be BEFORE gencon instead of after

nope

didnt do that.

but if i had.

# ¿ May 11, 2019 16:08

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

I am formally declaring
Shots Wednesday

to begin at 6pm Wednesday at The Rathskeller

http://www.rathskeller.com/

Be there and be square. They close at 10, so we're starting early.

It is an uber, not a walk. We will sit in the outdoor beer garden, because it does not require a reservation or hard numbers, as is tradition.

# ¿ May 14, 2019 17:44

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Admiral Joeslop posted:

There is an outdoor entrance to the beer garden, you don't have to walk through the likely very crowded restaurant to get there.

Have they always closed at 10?

Edit: It still amuses me that the German beer garden serves "French Asiago" pizzas.

closing early has always been a problem yes, which is why i am upping the start time to 6, since no one shows up on time to anything ever anyway

# ¿ May 14, 2019 18:38

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Carteret posted:

As is tradition.

we do it that way because we have always done it that way :geno:

# ¿ May 15, 2019 14:53

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nesbit37 posted:

Haha, I forgot about that attempt at a post. Maybe it's foreshadowing for my 2018 PAXU post that I am pretty sure no one but me posted in.

where the gently caress are my bees, bee man

# ¿ May 16, 2019 03:59

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Ego Trip posted:

Are you just going to follow him around the internet demanding bees?

until it stops being funny.

so about six posts ago.

# ¿ May 16, 2019 14:38

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

please queue up for the shots wednesday lottery, we will begin shortly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lottery

# ¿ May 20, 2019 02:47

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NeurosisHead posted:

I'm attending GenCon for the first time this year, which is cool. I guess everything big is sold out already, which is less cool. Is wandering around the booths something that I can send the whole time doing, or should I start figuring out what else in Indianapolis I want to do?

shoooooooooooooooots

weeeeeeeeeeeednesday

# ¿ May 28, 2019 12:42

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

dragoncon fuckin rules

but it is totally different

we have a thread for anyone going to nerd mardi gras over in Goon Meets

# ¿ Jun 11, 2019 13:52

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Dr. Quarex posted:

Well, assuming that game is worth anything at all, which it probably is, you can still get some excited bidding going by starting at $1. The danger is if you have some kind of garbage game and put it at $1 without thinking and... get $1 for it.

first of all, this is the wrong way to look at the auction

you start ALL your items at $1, because the auction is not where you go to sell things for money.

it is a trash can you throw poo poo you don't want any more into, and a month later hopefully get a check in the mail.

but if you don't, well, you still got rid of all that stuff.

it is a slot machine in which each pull of the lever costs you one board game.

it's me. I'm the guy who doesn't pick up his unsold items.

# ¿ Jun 12, 2019 04:30

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

Fellis posted:

Gallant:
Installs groupme and turns off notifications until gencon proper

Goofus:
Installs groupme and shouts at the beeman about bees

WHERE THE gently caress ARE MY GOOFS GOOFUS MAN

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 05:20

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

no, it was definitely pornography.

# ¿ Jun 14, 2019 22:14

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

just imagine i posted about the bees, bee man.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2019 18:24

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Ceebees posted:

Anyone who uses the actual flavor names for gatorade is a cop.
I'm not sure what this makes you.

cops aren't welcome at shots wednesday

# ¿ Jun 22, 2019 04:06

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Admiral Joeslop posted:

The first two years we got our badges at Will Call. First year was Thursday morning, maybe a 2 minute wait. Last year, Wednesday night and at least a half hour wait. We're trying the mail option this year and between the two of us, hopefully, we don't forget. I still have to break the news to my boss that I'm taking that Thursday and Friday off, since someone else already requested the week.

Also, guess the location!

this shots wednesday video game sucks

# ¿ Jul 2, 2019 01:24

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CaptainRat posted:

You can probably save money by passing on Shadowrun 6th based on the Shadowrun thread.

a) how the gently caress would they know anything about it?

b) it has to be better than 5e

# ¿ Jul 8, 2019 00:14

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

so, since someone asked, let me remind you all the deets on

:siren:

shots motherfucking wednesday :siren:

Wed July 31, we're all gonna go down to the Rathskeller in Indianapolis and drink our faces off. They have an outdoor garden that can accomodate a failure of goons, the beers are huge and the food is good.

https://www.rathskeller.com/
Location: 401 E Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN 46204

This is not a walkable distance. Share an Uber or something, I'm not your mother.
(1.2 miles per google. Might be walkable if you're the type that does those things.)

Time: July 31st, 6pm - whenever they boot us out or we get bored

Be there and be square!

# ¿ Jul 20, 2019 23:50

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Eastmabl posted:

Rathskeller closes at 10, but the party often continues at High Velocity.

this is why we start at 6 now.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2019 17:48

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

can't wait to pick up a limited edition soda mug and drink some delici-

welp.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2019 20:19

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Dr. Quarex posted:

Repeating restaurants from the original post?!? That's a paddlin'

Everyone knows the professional Gen-Connio only goes to as many restaurants as there are evenings, eating a hotel breakfast and stuffing your face with granola bars for lunch to preserve Precious Exhibit Hall Time

O.K. this rule may be bent at times. And I GUESS if you do not have a hotel breakfast or hate the idea of eating lunch from a backpack you are excused

Wow, do you have a week-long layover or are you taking a boat? Certainly no other possibilities. Nothing else to see in the world besides Indianapolis

you are forgetting the 3 hours i had a table at loughmillers because people kept rotating in and out.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2019 17:29

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

there are three ground rules for shots wednesday (and really any poorly organized bar/restaraunt shitshow i'm involved in)

1) pay your loving check
2) tip the bartender/waitstaff for putting up with our poo poo and letting us occupy tables with board games
3) don't be a shithead

or i will loving find you. you do not want me to find you.

# ¿ Jul 30, 2019 14:37

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Bottom Liner posted:

I didn�t get a single picture of passed out nerds all weekend what the gently caress goons

i have a bunch from shots wednesday and i didnt take all of them

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 04:39

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

oh yeah on saturday night i definitely chased 2 dayquil with a 5 hour energy and could see the fabric of the universe

so that was cool

# ¿ Aug 6, 2019 23:42

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

i am a selfish man

and volunteering would get in the way of just doing whatever the hell i want all day.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 03:52

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 01:46

Deviant: Sep 26, 2003; i've forgotten all of your names.

Shots Wednesday Photos :siren:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/npaM8KaqmnoxaGbQ9

Hit me up if you'd like any of these taken down, I didn't scrutinize them for embarassing poo poo.

# ¿ Aug 8, 2019 18:41

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