August 13, 2009
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GEN CON
So this weekend is Gen Con. I’m going to try and be there from Friday all the way until Sunday and get the whole “con” experience. Should be fun.
If there are any Xangans out there who are going and interested in meeting up, let me know in the comments or send a private message.
I promise I won’t rant at you about the necessity of Health Care Reform while I’m there…. much
^_^
Kellen
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Hey Kellen,
I might have forgotten, but what is Gen Con again? I feel like you already told me, but I don’t know. my memory is being an idiot right now.
I hope you have fun, my friend.
@Drizzles - Hi friend! Gen Con is the largest gaming convention in the world. It was originally for like board games and table top RPGs and dungeons and dragons type gaming, LARPs also. Now it has a huge anime component, a collectible card game component, and lots of just general fantasy/scifi geekdom. Like huge Star Wars components and Star Trek components and there’s lots of fantasy sci if authors and comic book artists/writers and even Web Comic artists. It’s just a big random convention.
Here’s the website: http://www.gencon.com/
I have always wanted to go, but as it is with every other year, it just cannot happen this time. Have fun for the both of us!
Oh okay.
That’s cool. How frequent does it happen in your area?
@Drizzles - once a year in the summer. It’s in Indianapolis, Indiana downtown at the convention center. It’s been held there every year for a long long time. Probably because they have some contract there and because it’s a nice big area.
@nephyo - Sounds great. Have fun, my dear Kellen.
What, go to GenCon and find myself surrounded by guys dressed like Haruhi Suzumiya re-enacting their favorite scenes from Strawberry Panic? Oh hell no.
EDIT: Or for that matter girls dressed like Ed and Roy re-enacting their favorite scenes from EdxRoy slash fiction. I won’t have it, I just won’t.
ooo sounds like fun! I hope you have a good time! Post about it when it’s done. ^_^
@ModernBunny - WHAT? But that’ like HALF the fun! You arent’ surrounded if you’re one of them
Today we were almost eaten by marauding zombies. Ahhhh Gen Con….
@Drizzles - @raindrops23 - Will do! So far it’s interesting. Lots and lots and lots of gaming fanatics all in one spot.There’s so much to do that it’s hard to figure out what to do and unfortunately a lot of it costs money. But we’ve seen some amazing stuff. I’ll write all about it after.