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GENCON 2018 Guests ofHonor

Started by waltshumate, June 01, 2018, 06:31:42 AM

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waltshumate

June 01, 2018, 06:31:42 AM Last Edit: June 01, 2018, 09:15:05 AM by waltshumate
https://www.gencon.com/experience/industrygoh

Well GENCON has been thoroughly infiltrated. Anita Sarkeesian (need I say more) and 2 SJW moderators.

jeff37923

#1
June 01, 2018, 07:06:28 AM
Fuck, scooped. I tried posting this in the Pundit's Forum but it hasn't gotten approved to post there yet.

Yeah, I predicted that GenCon was going SJW a few years ago and they would not receive my money because of it, this is just more proof.

Because really, what in the fuck does Anita Sarkeesian have to do with tabletop RPGs as a hobby or an industry?
"Meh."

ArrozConLeche

#2
June 01, 2018, 07:29:09 AM
Oh, I can't  wait for Anita's cherry picked examples of crimes against  female NPCs! So excited!

John Scott

#3
June 01, 2018, 07:52:50 AM
More like guests of horror..

Mordred Pendragon

#4
June 01, 2018, 08:07:41 AM
If SJW's are the new Religious Right, then Anita Sarkeesian is the new Jack Chick.

The only difference is that Jack Chick was funny and entertaining, if in an ironic sort of way.
Sic Semper Tyrannis

jcfiala

#5
June 01, 2018, 11:58:06 AM
Who goes to Gen Con to listen to the guests?

I doubt I could come up with one guest from the previous 40 years of Gen Con, although if I don't have to name a year I suppose Gary Gygax was probably a guest one time. :)
 

thedungeondelver

#6
June 01, 2018, 12:05:50 PM
Anita Sarkeesian like Anita hole in the head

*bada-ching*

Thanks I'm here all week.
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Mike the Mage

#7
June 01, 2018, 12:15:45 PM
Quote from: thedungeondelver;1041570Thanks I'm here all week.

LOL

Yep, this is all to launch her follow up to Tropes vs. Women in Video Games.

You guessed it! Tropes vs. Women in Tabletop Games.

She'll hang around no longer than she has to in order to launch and promote that.

You read it here first.
When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed

Mike the Mage

#9
June 01, 2018, 12:36:16 PM
Quote from: WillInNewHaven;1041577I already wasn't going. Now I have to figure out a way to not go twice.

Nicely put.
When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed

Gronan of Simmerya

#10
June 01, 2018, 03:05:27 PM
MUCH as I hate to interrupt the swooning and repining, GenCon is so fucking big and so fucking disorganized that their "guests of honor" are utterly irrelevant.

GENCON has become a "pan-con" much like DragonCon and ComicCon.  There are thousands of anime cosplayers who have never played a game, media fans of various varieties, hogs, frogs, dogs, cats, bats, rats, goats, boats, and stoats.

The overwhelming majority of attendees neither know nor care about any of the guests or panels.

I have 99 reasons never to return to GenCon, but who their stupid guests of honor are ain't one.
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.

Gronan of Simmerya

#11
June 01, 2018, 03:06:23 PM
I was there last year, incidentally.
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.

Lurtch

#12
June 01, 2018, 06:36:53 PM
Nobody cares about the guests of honor like Gronan said. It's social media fare. I still think it's awful she's being recognized but GenCon is run out of Seattle now.

I wish guests of honor actually liked games and gamers but it is what it is

Christopher Brady

#13
June 01, 2018, 07:02:08 PM
The problem is not that she's at Gencon, it was that they figured that she was IMPORTANT enough to invite in the first place.
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Koltar

#14
June 01, 2018, 07:24:06 PM
I don't go to GEn Con based who the Guests of Honor are.
 
I go there to see friends that only see there each year. These are friends I made between 2000 and 2008 when the Klingon Jail & Bail for charity was going on.
Almost wish I didn't have to pay Gen Con to see my old friends.


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