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GenCon Writer's Symposium future 
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i now managed to read a soy's version of the events. everyone with half a brain knows "gen con is right - the end". it hurts me how soyboy comes to the same conclusion, but has to constantly inject his "i have to stay nice to the tribe or I'll be attacked" views into the summary.
and for whatever reason the "company" of the guys gencon has issues with even manged to bring in some hard numbers. why? no idea, to show they are true and really sacrifice shit?
Spend $500 in handheld terminals, cause ... "don't want volunteers to use their personal phones" (what for, no clue tbh). Make a measly $1k in sales, but since the money obviously goes to the authors, make $181 after transaction & author fees. So $300 in the red.
Then they sold some kind of anthology, but I honestly don't know their issues with it and I don't understand the model behind it. They claim they made ~$400 on USB drive sales. But they are ~2k in the red, "due in part to paying "pro-qualifying rates" to authors." (soy boy blog writer obviously defends this).
The numbers are obviously laughable. It just shows you what kind of amateurs are at work, but they are obviously big shots and get to tell GenCon how to do business. Cause... yeah, cause they are business experts.
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Yeah, you have to skip to the very end where you get the actual assessment. Paragraphs upon paragraphs of trying to convince everyone he's one of the good ones before he finally calls out Emily for acting like any problems with her are a problem with diversity and inclusion, which he rightly points out is both bullshit and makes all her other claims questionable.
He knows the lines have been drawn, she's clearly attacked him for not just telling her she's such a brave victim already. But he still has to fellate the idea that an aggressive black activist with no ties to nerddom was a good pick, and that the Gencon people were mean in how they went after the poor, victimised White Saviours, rather than acting entirely reasonably to a couple determined to be c*nts about the whole thing.
Hope he enjoys finding out that all that benefit of the doubt is worthless and he's now the enemy.
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