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NetRodent
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:09 pm

This is a very interesting read. There is apparently already an offer on the table. Unfortunately it's already a bit over my budget.

http://www.livingdice.com/783/gen-con-f ... s-pending/

Seems like the offer was rejected.

http://www.livingdice.com/841/gen-con-p ... -rejected/

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:17 pm

Hi,

apparently it was a hostile takeover out of Kentucky to oust Peter Adkinson.

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 1:28 pm

As long as Gencon continues I really don't care who owns it

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:58 pm

This has all the markings of Troll and Toad trying to take over Gen Con officially...

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:34 pm

bclarkie wrote:This has all the markings of Troll and Toad trying to take over Gen Con officially...

That would be one of the worst things I could possibly think of.

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:23 pm

bclarkie wrote:This has all the markings of Troll and Toad trying to take over Gen Con officially...

Jeez. I've been wondering all day "Who in Kentucky would make a play for Gen Con?" Yours is a disturbingly believable answer.

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:33 pm

Contrarian wrote:Yours is a disturbingly believable answer.

I agree. Both disturbing and believable.

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:44 pm

Blackmoor wrote:As long as Gencon continues I really don't care who owns it

I do. There's a big difference between a company run by someone who deeply loves gaming and by a corporate dumbass out to make money.

See the history of TSR, as an example.

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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 11:58 pm

Contrarian wrote:
Jeez. I've been wondering all day "Who in Kentucky would make a play for Gen Con?" Yours is a disturbingly believable answer.

Wow, we are all on the same wavelength, because I thought the EXACT same thing once I read the story.......

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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 12:07 am

So what if T&T owns GenCon... big deal. Attendance fees jump to $100 / day, with a shipping rate to send them FedEx 5-day at the unbelievably low cost of only $40, and then, when you finally get them, they're tickets for an Indianapolis Colts game... from three years ago.

Yeah, that'd pretty much rock.

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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 3:11 am

For my .02, I by no means really "know" Peter but I've had several opportunities to sit around discussing "things". There are only a few people I know of who I would trust Gencon to other than Peter and all but two of them have already told me they're not involved with nor do they know anything about GAG.

Maybe the Auction Charity should go to "Gencon" this year?!?!?!

SERIOUSLY! Consider recent events and the expected economy in 2009!

It may not be tax deductible and Gencon would have to report it as income but hey, if you're only giving if you can get a tax break then your heart is in the wrong place!

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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:48 pm

serleran wrote:So what if T&T owns GenCon... big deal. Attendance fees jump to $100 / day, with a shipping rate to send them FedEx 5-day at the unbelievably low cost of only $40, and then, when you finally get them, they're tickets for an Indianapolis Colts game... from three years ago.

Yeah, that'd pretty much rock.

I'd try to say it better, but I couldn't.

"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus."

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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:27 pm

Wags wrote:
Maybe the Auction Charity should go to "Gencon" this year?!?!?!

SERIOUSLY! Consider recent events and the expected economy in 2009!

Why not give it to me instead?

Its for Charity man, Gencon is not a charity

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

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