Another year, another penguicon. I've bounced ideas around about trying to sync vacation back to Michigan and con time.... it's not an impossibility, but this may have to be the last P-con I do for awhile
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1) I'm very annoyed that I agreed to do the Tigers game before I realized it was at 3:45 instead of 1:00, and missed your panel. Pistons last year, Tigers this year. However, my lovely wife said it was great, and is all excited that the Powerpoint presentation is on her laptop.
2) Angie and I are both thrilled that Hurley is back safe and sound.
I mentioned this last year, but it's only gotten worse. I know that geeks operate on a special set of rules in terms about what it considered appropriate behavior, but the attention whoring and entitlement displayed by people this weekend was beyond what I could tolerate.Amen to that and the rest of your rant. Every panel has one or two people in the audience that think they are smarter than the panelists and everyone else in the room. I don't understand that, since it often seems that the same people think they are experts on four or five different subjects
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Good to see you online again ;) Im gonna have to make a trip over there for Penguicon one of these years, hearing you speak of it for so long makes me curious.
God pics of the cosplay? I would comment on the vid but i'm at work -_-
Most of the panels I run tend to be open discussion when I encourage audience interaction at any stage, webcomics, anime, you name it I tend to go for that style (which in turn has the aforementioned comments) but during my "serious" transformers panel this year we had a little of that, but it was drowned out by the noise of all the attendees playing with transformers (*clickclickclickclick*)
I can understand where you're coming from. Perhaps it might have been a good idea to arm Nick with a nerf baseball bat to embarrass those retards?
I agree that that might the problem here. Most of the panels I went to were the open forum type, and, if people are sued to that, they're not gonna understand why you have issues with them interupting.
Didn't get to see your panel, but I heard good things about it.
I really enjoyed your panel. I did interupt once, to ask if a patient's pupils on Cocaine would be reactive, but I think it was before you said to hold the questions until the end.
Have you ever attended a panel run by John Scalzi? He pretty much lays down the law right at the start, "There will be no, "This is more of a comment then a question" questions at this panel. And, if we say we'll take questions at the end, we'll take questions at the end. Wait until then" (Probably not a 100% accurat quote, but pretty close).
Your question illustrates the difference - you asked a quick clarifying question, which wasn't designed to show off how much you know. Those I don't have a problem with.
That's the key: have a moderator on the panel who lays down the law, who makes sure each of the panelists gets to talk, and who shuts down audience members who want to hijack the panel (as well as panelists who want to dominate it).
I have arrived at the age where people talking over something I'm trying to listen to (i.e., a class) makes me want to kill them. I'd imagine having a hard time not telling them to shut their fuckin' pie holes.
Glad your panel went well, that you had fun, regardless, and that you recovered Hurleybutt.
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1) I'm very annoyed that I agreed to do the Tigers game before I realized it was at 3:45 instead of 1:00, and missed your panel. Pistons last year, Tigers this year. However, my lovely wife said it was great, and is all excited that the Powerpoint presentation is on her laptop.
2) Angie and I are both thrilled that Hurley is back safe and sound.
I mentioned this last year, but it's only gotten worse. I know that geeks operate on a special set of rules in terms about what it considered appropriate behavior, but the attention whoring and entitlement displayed by people this weekend was beyond what I could tolerate.Amen to that and the rest of your rant. Every panel has one or two people in the audience that think they are smarter than the panelists and everyone else in the room. I don't understand that, since it often seems that the same people think they are experts on four or five different subjects ( ... )
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God pics of the cosplay? I would comment on the vid but i'm at work -_-
Most of the panels I run tend to be open discussion when I encourage audience interaction at any stage, webcomics, anime, you name it I tend to go for that style (which in turn has the aforementioned comments) but during my "serious" transformers panel this year we had a little of that, but it was drowned out by the noise of all the attendees playing with transformers (*clickclickclickclick*)
I can understand where you're coming from. Perhaps it might have been a good idea to arm Nick with a nerf baseball bat to embarrass those retards?
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Didn't get to see your panel, but I heard good things about it.
(Also, thanks for taking a wonderful pic of me!)
-The Duck Guy.
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Have you ever attended a panel run by John Scalzi? He pretty much lays down the law right at the start, "There will be no, "This is more of a comment then a question" questions at this panel. And, if we say we'll take questions at the end, we'll take questions at the end. Wait until then" (Probably not a 100% accurat quote, but pretty close).
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Your question illustrates the difference - you asked a quick clarifying question, which wasn't designed to show off how much you know. Those I don't have a problem with.
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I have arrived at the age where people talking over something I'm trying to listen to (i.e., a class) makes me want to kill them. I'd imagine having a hard time not telling them to shut their fuckin' pie holes.
Glad your panel went well, that you had fun, regardless, and that you recovered Hurleybutt.
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