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 Aug 2 2006, 08:22 AM
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The back-up plan  Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910  |
Beyond the swag, I hear through the grapevine that there will be individual certificates of achievement in various categories...
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Aug 4 2006, 11:38 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 28-August 04 Member No.: 6,609 |
Derek do you have a place to crash when needed?
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Aug 4 2006, 04:32 PM
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Jacked In, Up & Out Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 232 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oceanside, CA Member No.: 95 |
Well, I was going to get a hotel room, but since I haven't completely confirmed my trip yet, I haven't reserved a room, and I have a slight feeling many of them are all booked up...
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Aug 4 2006, 04:54 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Retired Admins Posts: 1,784 Joined: 28-July 04 From: Cleveland, OH Member No.: 6,522 |
Downtown Indy hotels will most likely be completely booked. However, it's usually possible to get a room at one of the less expensive hotels out near the airport later.
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Aug 4 2006, 06:22 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
If I didn't already have five people in one hotel room, I'd offer up some (more) ground-space.
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Aug 6 2006, 06:06 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 28-August 04 Member No.: 6,609 |
Well if you are interested I have a room to myself right acrossed the street from the convention center.(Not hard since alot of hotels are right acrossed the street) :rotfl: Anyway I wouldnt mind sharing the room especially with peeps who are willing to um say split the room cost. So if you are interested then post here and we will see about swaping contact info and meetup place and time at the con.
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Aug 7 2006, 05:32 PM
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Jacked In, Up & Out Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 232 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oceanside, CA Member No.: 95 |
Bah. Well, looks like the USMC has changed my plans. I won't be able to make it out to GC. Maybe next year, with a bit more prior planning. Thanks for all the info, from everyone, and especially thanks for the offer of space to stay, Mekalus.
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Aug 7 2006, 05:42 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
Sorry to hear that, Derek.
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Aug 8 2006, 10:40 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 115 Joined: 28-August 04 Member No.: 6,609 |
Thats too bad man. Sorry to hear it. Well if anyone else is looking for a room or a better room than they have then look Mekalus up at Gen Con. I could use bodies to share the rent with. cya all there!
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Aug 10 2006, 11:42 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
reason #265 why getting called back into service still factors strongly into my nightmares.
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Aug 11 2006, 02:23 AM
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Jacked In, Up & Out Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 232 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oceanside, CA Member No.: 95 |
Well, it has mostly been good to me, but there are occasional drawbacks.
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Aug 13 2006, 11:09 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,948 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
GenCon 2006 is history.
I had a great time. Unfortunately after the second day of sleep deprivation followed by being up for 36 hours straight, I think my body was susceptible to picking up somebodies cold. So today I have been in bed with a sore throat, fever, and aches and pains, and have missed the last day. I hope everyone had a good time and has a safe trip home. :) |
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Aug 14 2006, 02:45 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 398 Joined: 25-August 04 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 6,599 |
well, then it's official...there was an epidemic among the gamers because there were a lot of sick people (i just caught it today...thankfully it wasn't sooner). |
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Aug 14 2006, 02:50 AM
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Jacked In, Up & Out Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 232 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Oceanside, CA Member No.: 95 |
Hopefully, you had fun before you got sick...
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Aug 14 2006, 05:29 PM
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Grumpy Old Ork Decker Group: Admin Posts: 3,794 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orwell, Ohio Member No.: 50 |
Yeah, I got hit with something too :( I managed to mostly muddle on, but it meant I had to drop outta the tourney.
I blame the unbathed Anime geeks for the plague :) Bull |
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Aug 14 2006, 05:38 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Retired Admins Posts: 1,784 Joined: 28-July 04 From: Cleveland, OH Member No.: 6,522 |
I've been blaming smoking too much and screaming too much at the bar for my sore throat. But, I suppose the anime folks are a much better target. ;)
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Aug 14 2006, 06:19 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
*nods* That's happened to me every Gencon, especially the sore throat part. I think it's partly that a lot of us aren't getting the sleep we should, at 'con. I think it's partly that a lot of us are talking more, and being forced (by background noise) to talk louder than normal, all day long. I think it's partly that it's a group of however many thousand people all milling around in an enclosed space all day, sharing cooties. I think it might also be that gamers, in particular, are sometimes known for having more than a normal number of cooties to share.
Regardless of the overall cause, it stands true that I've been sick by day two of every Gencon I've gone to. That said? I still have enough fun that I'm already working on plans for next year's. :) Nice to run into ya, Tisoz -- sorry to interrupt that game to say howdy, and sorry I couldn't stick around and chat, but I'd just happened to find myself in the right place (while on my way to a game about to start), and thought I'd swing in and say howdy. Glad you still had a good time despite getting sick. |
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Aug 14 2006, 06:24 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
hahahaha
He was in your midst. |
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Aug 14 2006, 07:17 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Retired Admins Posts: 1,784 Joined: 28-July 04 From: Cleveland, OH Member No.: 6,522 |
So ... you travelled to GenCon. Paid for admission. Walked around. Then, didn't have the courage to introduce yourself to the people who work on the game that you're obviously so passionate about?
I, very sincerely, feel sorry for you. |
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Aug 14 2006, 07:20 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
Who said he didn't?
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Aug 14 2006, 08:05 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
Uhh, no, actually, I did introduce myself to them (those I found). I didn't play any of their games, but I spent a good ten or fifteen minutes or so at their booth, discussing (what I see as) the merits and flaws of SR4 compared to previous editions. I didn't go out of my way to hunt down and talk to everyone involved in SR4 (mostly because I assume most of them were running games people had paid to play in, and I felt bad enough for my twenty-second interruption of Tisoz's game), but I had a pretty decent (and polite, make no mistake) conversation with three or four people (some were coming and going as customers arrived). I mentioned that I was a DS member, and told them my user name. Sorry if that's not exciting enough for you, but it happened. Maybe you were expecting me to log on the moment I got home from Gencon and rant about it, maybe you were thinking they'd log on the moment they got home and rant about it, I dunno. I'm not sure where you're coming from at all, to be honest. And, make no mistake, it's not like Shadowrun was why I went to Gencon or anything. I spent most of my time playing other games, roaming the exhibition hall (like everyone else), etc, etc. I got in a thoroughly mediocre Serenity LARP (the game itself and the folks I played with were fun, the people running it did their best to ruin it, though), tried out a few new wargames, tossed some Champions dice, and talked to a few people about freelance writing. Shadowrun as a whole just wasn't on the top of my list -- finding Tisoz was a priority (to save some shipping costs, and shake his hand and thank him for running his contests), though. I'm just curious -- did something in particular make you think that leaping on a table and ranting at the SR developers was, somehow, why I was going to Gencon (IE, "travelled to GenCon, paid for admission, blah blah blah")? I don't think I ever actually said anything like "I'm going to Gencon to argue with the Shadowrun developers, rrrar!" or anything. In fact, the only post of mine on this thread was me offering up some hotel room to someone. What gave you the idea I was going to Gencon to hunt down the SR developers? |
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Aug 14 2006, 08:09 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
A stupid assumption would be my first guess. Maybe because you didn't introduce yourself to him (especially because you didn't apparently go out of your way to talk to him) he felt like making a wild-ass assumption wrapped in a shitty attitude.
I don't know. If I were Crit, I'd be hunting down Rob if I bothered at all. I barely read the Missions, so BFD on that. |
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Aug 14 2006, 08:24 PM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
I for one put a lot of faces to names, so thank you to everyone who managed to come and find me at the Con, and I'm sorry to any of you who had to suffer through my games the last 12 hours of the con...
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Aug 14 2006, 09:18 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,948 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
As far as faces to names goes, Critias was my biggest surprise. He was wearing shoes and pants so I did not notice cloven hooves or a tail, but his buzz cut definitely did not hide a pair of horns and he was kind of pale. ;) Comparisons to Lucifer aside, you were about as far from any expectations that I had.
Probably the next biggest surprise was how ... "preppy", maybe, McQuillan was. What name was Dashifen going by? I wound up running into the guy that introduced me to Shadowrun back in like 1990. I wound up GMing for a guy that used to be in my gaming group and it wasn't until after the game when Plain White Socks was telling about his amazement at the heretic running his game that everyone started introducing themselves, that we recognized each other. I hadn't seen either of those guys in about 10 years. I found out that my group from 10 years ago was still playing. (This is the group I got going after the Sphynx debacle leading to his "No walls in Denver" rant.) I wound up talking to/at Plain White Socks until the sun came up one day. I thought he was a pretty decent guy until he logged on and declared I should be attacked the next time I rear my ugly head. ;) And from now on I'm hitting the vitamins for cons. |
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Aug 14 2006, 09:27 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
The devil comes in the form you'd least expect. |
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