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[jazzfish]

Gah. Rant about Tcon for vt_komainu composed and wiped, because I am a twit. The short version consisted of "I'm sorry, I forget that there are people who are still idealistic about Tcon, but my experiences as staff were unpleasant. Ask Emily for more details, although she'll talk your ear off."

Reading went decently well. Attendance consisted of the Tuesday Night Music Club plus Ross and (later) Shawn Lassiter. Stuff was read. It was cool.

In retrospect it's just as well that I didn't finish Kierkegaard for today; Bliss is sick. Not that I'd be able to get back to sleep, though.

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[wyrdone.livejournal.com]

Power issues aside. (And after my own investigation of the facilities at RLI....there is more than enough power in fest hall if you take into account the 220V 40Amp circuit feeding the stoves. And I have access to a 220V to 110V breakout box.)

The real issue, James dunson didn't want a "Lan Party", he wanted a bunch of communal machines people could play games on. I personally don't own that many stations (I could have ponied up 4 usable stations and could have possibly scraped together a couple more) and most everyone else won't donate a personal machine for public access. James did not want anyone to be able to bring their own machine and sit down and be able to play. 99% of LAN gamers won't come to event if you tell them they cannot bring their boxes with them.

Anyhoo, It's a moot point since I am going to be running a Lan Party on campus in Squires on Feb 22nd. And it will be a Free event that noone will have to ponie up a dime to get in the door. (Thank you Spiel!)

[vond.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, there was that too. The whole "con facilities should serve everyone, not just people who lug their machines in" thing. That's actually a good idea I think. There is a volunteer group that puts on that sort of thing in the area, but the machines they provide are really substandard (a lot of them are Macs, which just aren't optimized for FPS gaming to begin with). Too bad I can't attend the one in Squires, maybe next time. By the way, you might want to contact Vince Rivellino at CS - he's been planning for a long time to try to run bigger events in conjunction with the LUUG.