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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2501862" data-attributes="member: 24969">What type of cons first off? When I was growing up, there had been a split between the fandom cons and the gaming cons. Some people went to both but for the most part each group disdained the other because they saw them as losers who needed to get a life. At the gaming cons, there were games and lots of games and everybody did nothing but buy and play games 24 hours a day all weekend while at fandom cons they dressed in costume, spoke in fake accents, filked, and drank. For the most part neither group cared to do what the other was doing. Personally, I liked gaming cons because I could play new and different games with new and different people and the dealers room had most of what I was interested in. As for fandom cons, I generally didn't care to do anything there except go to my friend's room parties so I never buy a badge.I moved to the other side of the country and found the same state of affairs. The fandom con organizers didn't want to deal with the gamers* and the gamers didn't want to deal with the fans. *To which one of my friends who helped run the large local con couldn't understand because "you arrange for a large room with nothing but tables and chairs and they'll come, pay full price for a ticket and sit there all weekend without being any sort of trouble. It's like free money."</blockquote>