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<blockquote data-quote="Shakeshift" data-source="post: 8544809" data-attributes="member: 7034572"><p>Justin Lanasa wanted nothing to do with GaryCon initially. He wanted to have his own con, on his own weekend, and siphon off some of the convention money he was seeing everyone making <em>but</em> himself. Justin's biggest mistake was in not realizing how much work a convention requires. It's months of planning, problem-solving, phone calls, emails, and crisis-dealing.</p><p></p><p>As we've seen with Justin Lanasa on multiple forum boards, he's incapable to running a convention no matter his claims to the contrary. He's not motivated enough to put in the serious work required to make it successful. He just wants to be a part of the TTRPG industry and thus far he's been able to fake his way through the majority of it, but now everyone is onto him and he can't bluff his way past anyone any longer. He's a one-trick pony. He can't design a sci-fi gaming system, he can't launch a successful Kickstarter, and he can't manage an RPG convention. It's beyond his ability to understand and run.</p><p></p><p>Every time he tries to run a con job past people (like his Star Frontiers rulebook), people call him out on his obvious scams and point out the flaws in his plan, like no table of contents, no author, and no samples of his gameplay. Rather than admit defeat, he just does the "deny everything" strategy and claim that he's succeeding wildly and that everyone else is wildly jealous of his unheralded success.</p><p></p><p>Cut to a month later, and Justin can't even book the same venue, or get the weekend that he wants for his convention, because he doesn't have the funds to make a downpayment at the venue and he waited to long to organize and schedule his first-time con. Rookie mistake.</p><p></p><p>So instead Justin tries to affix himself (like a lamprey) to the successful GaryCon, and tells Luke Gygax that for $5000.00USD he can pay Justin to "take some of the heat off of him" and let the DHSM handle some of the overflow from con weekend. Naturally, Luke can find better uses of 5K than to throw money at an untried, untested person with zero gaming credentials, who is already making amateur mistakes left and right. Justin looks at this point a bit like a fan, trying desperately to hitch his own failing wagon to someone far more successful.</p><p></p><p>Now Justin's just trying to affix himself like a full parasite onto Luke with the intent of trying to finish him professionally. Justin reaches out to the U.S. Army to try and get Luke's 26 year pension revoked. Justin reaches out to Luke's wife to try and destabilize his marriage as well. These are all the efforts of a small person, behaving poorly. These are the efforts of a desperate and somewhat-sad individual.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shakeshift, post: 8544809, member: 7034572"] Justin Lanasa wanted nothing to do with GaryCon initially. He wanted to have his own con, on his own weekend, and siphon off some of the convention money he was seeing everyone making [I]but[/I] himself. Justin's biggest mistake was in not realizing how much work a convention requires. It's months of planning, problem-solving, phone calls, emails, and crisis-dealing. As we've seen with Justin Lanasa on multiple forum boards, he's incapable to running a convention no matter his claims to the contrary. He's not motivated enough to put in the serious work required to make it successful. He just wants to be a part of the TTRPG industry and thus far he's been able to fake his way through the majority of it, but now everyone is onto him and he can't bluff his way past anyone any longer. He's a one-trick pony. He can't design a sci-fi gaming system, he can't launch a successful Kickstarter, and he can't manage an RPG convention. It's beyond his ability to understand and run. Every time he tries to run a con job past people (like his Star Frontiers rulebook), people call him out on his obvious scams and point out the flaws in his plan, like no table of contents, no author, and no samples of his gameplay. Rather than admit defeat, he just does the "deny everything" strategy and claim that he's succeeding wildly and that everyone else is wildly jealous of his unheralded success. Cut to a month later, and Justin can't even book the same venue, or get the weekend that he wants for his convention, because he doesn't have the funds to make a downpayment at the venue and he waited to long to organize and schedule his first-time con. Rookie mistake. So instead Justin tries to affix himself (like a lamprey) to the successful GaryCon, and tells Luke Gygax that for $5000.00USD he can pay Justin to "take some of the heat off of him" and let the DHSM handle some of the overflow from con weekend. Naturally, Luke can find better uses of 5K than to throw money at an untried, untested person with zero gaming credentials, who is already making amateur mistakes left and right. Justin looks at this point a bit like a fan, trying desperately to hitch his own failing wagon to someone far more successful. Now Justin's just trying to affix himself like a full parasite onto Luke with the intent of trying to finish him professionally. Justin reaches out to the U.S. Army to try and get Luke's 26 year pension revoked. Justin reaches out to Luke's wife to try and destabilize his marriage as well. These are all the efforts of a small person, behaving poorly. These are the efforts of a desperate and somewhat-sad individual. [/QUOTE]
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