RE: Worldcon 2019?
08-09-2018, 02:11 PM (This post was last modified: 08-09-2018, 02:12 PM by Dartz.)
08-09-2018, 02:11 PM (This post was last modified: 08-09-2018, 02:12 PM by Dartz.)
It's one thing to play an Ars Magica game in your home town - and quite another to play an Ars Magica game set in the very pub you're playing the game in. The chance for some absolute metagaming was sort of missed though...
Anyway, Science Fiction conventions in the traditional sense have always been sort of an outlier - Gaming con's and Anime cons have been bigger things with some common bleedthrough between the pai
A con in Belfast just pulled the plug on its next running.
They called it Titancon. With 40 members before they pulled the plug with 3 weeks to go, Titanicon may have been more apt. At least they had the grace to bow out. Even Eurocon and the regular Octocon are fairly quiet affairs, by all accounts.
With just over 2100 registered to attend, Worldcon isn't even bigger than most of the local Animé cons (Thew last Eirtakon grew to 3k before it gave up due to committee burnout). Then again, that is a year out.
For example, the same venue is holding DCC this weekend - with easily a full capacity 10,000 in the door. And held GamerCon last year which had 20,000 tickets and became notorious for the 8- lines and for the rather daft idea that people would only stay inside for an hour or two despite paying a full price for the ticket.
Anyway, Science Fiction conventions in the traditional sense have always been sort of an outlier - Gaming con's and Anime cons have been bigger things with some common bleedthrough between the pai
A con in Belfast just pulled the plug on its next running.
They called it Titancon. With 40 members before they pulled the plug with 3 weeks to go, Titanicon may have been more apt. At least they had the grace to bow out. Even Eurocon and the regular Octocon are fairly quiet affairs, by all accounts.
With just over 2100 registered to attend, Worldcon isn't even bigger than most of the local Animé cons (Thew last Eirtakon grew to 3k before it gave up due to committee burnout). Then again, that is a year out.
For example, the same venue is holding DCC this weekend - with easily a full capacity 10,000 in the door. And held GamerCon last year which had 20,000 tickets and became notorious for the 8- lines and for the rather daft idea that people would only stay inside for an hour or two despite paying a full price for the ticket.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.