The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[niklinna]

I wasn't at the first conventions, but since 1994 at least (and the DexCon of that year), "con crud" was already an old facet of gaming conventions. That and the habit of skipping hygiene so as not to miss games.

Back when I had a fair number of pagan friends, I went to a few of their gatherings, including PantheaCon, held at a hotel convention center in San Jose. A common saying was "Patchouli is not a deodorant".

 

[Cadence]

:::New Years 2062, a thread gets heated, and the AI automod hasn't wiped a post yet for getting off topic:::

"It was 2022 and from their archive they obviously still ate animal products with most meals, kept their AC below 25.5 and heat above 20, drove a fossil fuel powered car, upgraded their perfectly functional electronics on a regular basis because they weren't quite shiny enough, and traveled long distance for pleasure multiple times per year?!?? It wasn't a secret how many countries they were making uninhabitable and billions of people they were going to help impoverish or kill. They were a monster and they knew it."

 

[Deset Gled]

Back when I had a fair number of pagan friends, I went to a few of their gatherings, including PantheaCon, held at a hotel convention center in San Jose. A common saying was "Patchouli is not a deodorant".

Sometime around the turn of the century, ACen (Anime Central convention) used "Soap!" as their yearly theme . They also had a dance called The Soap Bubble. It was... necessary.

 

[darjr]

I feel like Clem Fandango

 

[niklinna]

Sometime around the turn of the century, ACen (Anime Central convention) used "Soap!" as their yearly theme . They also had a dance called The Soap Bubble. It was... necessary.

"You paid for that bathroom in your hotel room—get your money's worth!"

 

[niklinna]

I feel like Clem Fandango

I had to look that up, and I'm glad I did. Almost makes me want to start watching TV again!

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

:::New Years 2062, a thread gets heated, and the AI automod hasn't wiped a post yet for getting off topic:::

"It was 2022 and from their archive they obviously still ate animal products with most meals, kept their AC below 25.5 and heat above 20, drove a fossil fuel powered car, upgraded their perfectly functional electronics on a regular basis because they weren't quite shiny enough, and traveled long distance for pleasure multiple times per year?!?? It wasn't a secret how many countries they were making uninhabitable and billions of people they were going to help impoverish or kill. They were a monster and they knew it."

Even worse. They still put pineapple on their pizza and taught kids that their was some place they would go if they were bad called …. NEW ZEALAND.

 

[Cadence]

Even worse. They still put pineapple on their pizza and taught kids that their was some place they would go if they were bad called …. NEW ZEALAND.

As long as they realize they will rightfully be judged as being excremental for doing so (although not as much as those who put canned Tuna on it), because they are fully capable and equipped to know it's wrong now while they continue doing it.

 

[Cadence]

Ah, and the evergreen continues into the new year (not much of an evergreen if it didn't). But now with an extra emphasis on using particular definitions of the big ideas as if agreed upon by all.

 

[prabe]

The same person can be both foundational to a (sub)genre and a despicable human. The latter can poison the well of the former.