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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MUKid" data-source="post: 2255875" data-attributes="member: 4289">I'm a Troll!  Wheeee!Nah, I'm not being a troll, just really aggravated.  Crothian's ratio of posts to mine is 1762:1.  Erik's is a more tolerable 37:1 (love what you've done with the mags, by the way -- Dragon looks great these days, although I'd like to see more adventures in Dungeon).  Either way, if you took the weight of all the electrons spent storing these guys' posts it'd be greater than my (not insignificant gamer-sized) dry weight, so I promise I'm not trying to troll.  If I were, I'd use ALL CAPS or mean smiley faces like this  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  or something.The thing I'm most annoyed with (this year) is event registration.  Note I am not bringing up hotel registration, which (if you didn't know) was a fiasco this year as most people were told the servers would be closed up until the next morning, but then you could register for hotels all that night (I should know, I was able to do it).  (Okay, so I just brought it up.  I learned this trick of saying, "I'm not even going to bring up..." and then bringing up just what you said you weren't going to bring up while I was watching the presidential debates one year.)I KNOW it's really hard to run a con, and the computing technology to put the thing together makes a Federation Starship's Library Computer look like a Vic-20.  I know Peter Adkinson is a swell guy and a gamer's gamer and has a +5 Charisma bonus even on his bad days.  I realize that there's no place like GenCon, and that you're never going to find so many gamers in one place at one time, and they have tons of cool seminars and events aplenty.However, the registration system bites.  It bit last year, it bit two years ago, honestly it has bitten huge bites ever since it went online back in the days of WoTC running the Con.  This year is probably the worst it's been.I am not a techie and I don't have access to GenCon LLC's books.  I make no statements like "They're making tons of money, why can't I get into my events?"  I don't say, "If only they'd get a hyperthreaded dual overhead cam shaft multi-processor server running Unix all would be well, how could they be so dumb?"  All I'm saying is that it is awful, that I've complained about it in the past, it's not better this year, and I think if a few industry buddies of Peter's were to take him out for beers and say, "Dude, our customers are really pissed... what can we do to help make this work out better?" maybe things would get better.Or maybe not.  But it can't hurt to try.  I got a nice reply back from the True Dungeon guy already.  He seems nice.  Maybe he should run GenCon.And see, with this post I have increased Crothian's ratio to a mere 1669:1.  Sweet!</blockquote>

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