OK I'm sure others are posting similar complaints on their blogs today, and I'm occasionally one to beat a dead horse. I mean I don't want to get off on a rant here, but...

HOW HARD CAN IT POSSIBLY BE TO GET AN EVENT REGISTRATION SYSTEM THAT WORKS?!?!?!
Especially when it's like, I dunno one of your major functions for the annual convention. Really I know working with gamers is like herding cats, but what percentage of your customers are IT geeks that are REALLY turned off by things not working smoothly? Folks who then rightly or wrongly think they could do it better and get angered and eventually vote with their feet?
I mean c'mon are they just not willing to spend the cash? Or is it that this is mainly done with volunteer support? What gives. Every year we go through this, every year they promise "We'll fix it next year" and it never does... It should not have taken me 4hrs to try to check out only to have things freeze and make me now scared what happened to my first pass of CC info. It finally did go through, giving me a receipt which I can use to raise hell when things are oversold like I'm betting they will be as a result, but it was just painful.

So BHMinnocent_man asked us to do this meme. For what ever reason this seemed to interest me. Some of the attitudes might surprise those who think I'm just the "right wing looney" that plays games with him. Others might not be so surprised...
Anyway, here's the ( meme )

Anyhew that's the Meme. 2 posts in as many days. A record for me...

OK So we started a new game in my Tuesday night group and well I'm trying to A) record this crap. B) Post more on my LJ.
It's only a transitional game 2-3 sessions to stall while some Real Life(TM) stuff happens to a couple of the players and the next GM in the troupe get's his act together. I love this particular campaign/group of characters. Questor is a fun character, cross the Joker (well not Heath's, more Jack's) with Doc Strange and throw in a little more silliness. The power levels are near Godlike -- 900pt GURPS 4th ed supers will do that. If he wants to do it mostly he can. This is fun thwarting my GM's plans in ways he never thought of. But the four-color power level makes it so it's hard to play for extended periods of time and feel challenged, so I'm glad we're only using it as a transition.

The back story is long, but I provide it here for your amusement and cause my GM went through the trouble of compiling our misadventures. From there I'll lead into what happened last night. But for starters here are the principles:

( Current Roster of East Coast Crusaders )

( Crusaders Backstory )
( …the story continues… )
Ok that's a long one - I'll target Matt's(innocent_man) meme tomorrow. Too many blogs in one day might make my friends heads a$$plode!

I know I don't usually post much here but hey innocent_man posted this and since the last question asked us nicely to do it as well... Here goes...

( Fill it out if ya like. If not well then, 'suck it Trebeck...' )

I'm now in the Lost game as well... my link is here
(Updated link)