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GenCon: Day 2 Part I
10 years ago
Note: This took this long to finish and post because apparently there's a lot of stuff to do at cons to distract me from blogging.
Well, today was really interesting.
I had stuck by my friend group for the first day, tailing them as they meandered around the vendor floor. Getting a feel for the culture, the behavior and what there is to do in a vendor room. Today, I struck off on my own for the first time. Went to a Gaymer panel, (my friend, a good guy, but he opted not to accompany me. Oh, well). I may be gay, but I'm not a gaymer, and this seminar was heavily skewed towards tabletop. So parts of the discussion went right over my head. Still, I showed up because you are not often able to have frank LGBT group discussions.
The panel skewed heavily older as well, which considering the tabletop majority, shouldn't be surprising. (I guess I expected there to be more of a video game presence than there actually is. Also, older seems to fit the demographics of GenCon.) There were some other youth there (early to mid twenties, I would say), but they appeared to be alone. I didn't talk to any of them. I probably should have. But I didn't want anyone to find out I was an imposter who didn't even have a DnD character.
Right after that, I met up with my friends again for lunch. We went to a real nice Brazilian barbeque. The kind where they serve you meat on swords until you beg for mercy. You may remember all those meatpics from my Twitter, well, that was Fogo de Chao. Or I think that was the name. I was pretty meat-intoxicated at that point. By the time our checks came, I was in a state somewhere twixt food coma and post-booze nap. Thank Fox we had to walk back to convention center.
There was one booth I was meaning to hit since I got there, since I had learned soon after I arrived into town. Because Kyell Gold was there.
Well, today was really interesting.
I had stuck by my friend group for the first day, tailing them as they meandered around the vendor floor. Getting a feel for the culture, the behavior and what there is to do in a vendor room. Today, I struck off on my own for the first time. Went to a Gaymer panel, (my friend, a good guy, but he opted not to accompany me. Oh, well). I may be gay, but I'm not a gaymer, and this seminar was heavily skewed towards tabletop. So parts of the discussion went right over my head. Still, I showed up because you are not often able to have frank LGBT group discussions.
The panel skewed heavily older as well, which considering the tabletop majority, shouldn't be surprising. (I guess I expected there to be more of a video game presence than there actually is. Also, older seems to fit the demographics of GenCon.) There were some other youth there (early to mid twenties, I would say), but they appeared to be alone. I didn't talk to any of them. I probably should have. But I didn't want anyone to find out I was an imposter who didn't even have a DnD character.
Right after that, I met up with my friends again for lunch. We went to a real nice Brazilian barbeque. The kind where they serve you meat on swords until you beg for mercy. You may remember all those meatpics from my Twitter, well, that was Fogo de Chao. Or I think that was the name. I was pretty meat-intoxicated at that point. By the time our checks came, I was in a state somewhere twixt food coma and post-booze nap. Thank Fox we had to walk back to convention center.
There was one booth I was meaning to hit since I got there, since I had learned soon after I arrived into town. Because Kyell Gold was there.
