Quote from: MonsterSlayer;960393I wouldn't talk to them either because:

1)Happily married

2) Pretty sure my local mega convention is crawling with under cover vice. Much like an STD, an arrest record is the gift that keeps on giving.

Ehh? It has always been no trouble at all to meet a new life companion and/or mistress/paramour at either Origins or GenCon. Origins has all these summer parties going on in the nightclubs across the street from the convention center, and usually they have the Rainbow festival the same weekend as the gaming festival, so it's pretty easy to meet new friends of just about any inclination, or preference. I spend time actively dodging these offers at Origins, just so I can keep focused on the gaming.

...GenCon. Well, there's the GenCon private parties upstairs in the Westin and the Marriott, and if you can wrangle an invitation, you're in. Last two time I been to GenCon I was invited to attend private parties. There's also the dance in the Crowne Plaza on Saturday night, and often private gatherings below that in the basement nightclub of Union Station beneath Crown Plaza. Saturday night is best for those as well. There's the Vampire / White Wolf gathering as well, the girls there have fangs and actually like drinking blood, so look out. Pretty sure they especially like married guys as they can get some leverage, and practice their vampiric arts of extortion, and bribery.

For those of you looking to partake, have to be wary of the jailbait as well, that would be the underage (under eighteen) cosplay crowd, whose moms or daddy also likes to partake in some good old fashioned extortion. Good Luck with all that.

Pretty sure the cops just stay away from the hotels as they have their own security, except in the Indianapolis convention center itself. As a former security chief for the Cincinnati Bengals (who was at the convention center/RCA Dome/Lucas Oil Stadium for plenty of Colts Playoff games and other events), I can tell you they have lots and lots of hi-def security cameras that record every time you scratch yourself.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;960367But at Minicon, they aren't hookers.  A couple of the local ladies of negotiable affection wandered in once and the hotel security told them "Good luck, girls, it's being given away for free all over the place."  They left after a few minutes.

hah! Someone else mentioned that too at the con nearly word for word. (Was that you?) I was dubious till saw the postings for the BDSM party... :eek:

Nope, weren't me.  But if you can't get laid at Minicon, give up.

I have to say, US gaming conventions seem very different from my experience in the UK...

When I went to Dragonmeet in 2015 I noticed their brochure included a new SJW-inspired anti-harrassment policy. Given the gamer culture here that seemed unneccessary bordering on insane. But if US conventions really are hotbeds of sexual activity, I guess I can see why that stuff originated there and then migrated here on SJW wings - our SJW geeks are always looking to copy their US counterparts despite the lack of US cultural basis.

That was, I believe driven by Pelgrane who refuse to attend a con unless there is a anti-harassment policy. I think it might be their female person in charge that dictates that rather than Simon Rogers though.

The US convention culture has also changed.  The 1976 World SF Convention specified in its hotel requirements that skinny dipping had to be allowed.

And a lot of people did, both male and female.  And some of them were quite nice to look at.  And some were not, but nobody said they couldn't skinny dip too, and if anybody had they'd been held under the pool till the bubbles stopped.