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Nov. 28th, 2015 10:09 pmDani: Do you want to go to Gencon with me?
Me: Ack. Gencon is huge. I'm much more comfortable at a convention with 1000 people than one with 50,000.
Dani: So you'd prefer Pennsic be smaller?
Me: At Pennsic the 10,000 people in attendance aren't all trying to move through the same corridor at once.
Dani: Battlefield.
Me: That's a feature. And the 3000 people involved chose it. I'm not one of them so I don't care. :-)
In principle I do want to join Dani at things that he enjoys and that might be interesting to me. It sounds like Gencon has a lot of interesting programming (gaming, filk, SF...). But I find Worldcons to be overwhelming and they're a tenth the size of Gencon... so maybe not this particular one.
I wish I didn't have an "ack, too many people!" reflex, but I do.
Me: Ack. Gencon is huge. I'm much more comfortable at a convention with 1000 people than one with 50,000.
Dani: So you'd prefer Pennsic be smaller?
Me: At Pennsic the 10,000 people in attendance aren't all trying to move through the same corridor at once.
Dani: Battlefield.
Me: That's a feature. And the 3000 people involved chose it. I'm not one of them so I don't care. :-)
In principle I do want to join Dani at things that he enjoys and that might be interesting to me. It sounds like Gencon has a lot of interesting programming (gaming, filk, SF...). But I find Worldcons to be overwhelming and they're a tenth the size of Gencon... so maybe not this particular one.
I wish I didn't have an "ack, too many people!" reflex, but I do.