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kevin_standlee ([personal profile] kevin_standlee) wrote2014-01-13 07:28 am
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Occam's Razor

Because I'm banned from commenting there, here's my reply to a stated question here:

Then why does Loncon lie to us? This is perhaps the core issue I fail to grasp. Lying takes so much time.

The simplest answer is that they're not lying, and that like other conspiracy theorists, you're so in love with your conclusion that you must find ways to contort reality to adjust it to your conclusion.

I seriously would like to see him try to hold a Worldcon. It wouldn't work, and he'd be constantly railing about how everyone else but him is an idiot for not doing what is so blindingly obvious to him, but it would be fun in a schadenfreude sort of way.
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[identity profile] daveon.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
So now that people are seeing through the utter tosh and calling him for it, he's now turning this into a disability access issue which apparently he didn't want to do previously because.

Seriously. Give me strength.

[identity profile] britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
TBH, I thought his initial post was a lot of angry venting. I'm guessing he's pretty disappointed at not being able to make the convention as he'd hoped and was in a bit of a sulk about it. Fair enough, one's blog is often a preferred spot for venting a bit of spleen. I'm the QUEEN of taking disappointment poorly, so I can empathize with that.

And he moved the goalposts and you want to call that out. Fair 'nuff.

But... beyond that, do you think it's really useful to keep drawing attention to the situation? Yes, you can certainly point to some of what he's had to say as a case of privilege in action and that makes us all look bad but, well, I'm a little worried that what I've seen while linkhopping is straying near the line that lies between eyeball-rolling and vindictiveness.

[identity profile] jbriggs.livejournal.com 2014-01-13 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
He's been making the same complaint at least since ConJose won (i.e when I first became aware of him). I suggest you just ignore the perp, as his behaviour is unlikely to ever change.

[identity profile] yourbob.livejournal.com 2014-01-14 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
I lost my patience with his conspiracy victimization gripes long ago.
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[identity profile] lisa-marli.livejournal.com 2014-01-16 11:56 am (UTC)(link)
I've had a helava time getting a hotel room for the Spokane Westercon, and because we never did get anything at the con hotel (and Moose was a little kid and so non-con hotel was not an option), we ended up not going. It was one of the reasons I didn't vote for them for Worldcon. I didn't like the way the hotels were spread out.
But I'm on the Committed anyway. AND the hotel spread will definitely be ugly. The Party Hotel is no where near the Convention Center. And because of Big Harold, we need the hotel closest to the convention center. He was not happy that for San Antonio, I chose the hotel where all the evening events were, rather than the hotel nearest the convention center. But he did admit it was convenient for a lot of reasons, so only grumbled some.
And we won't go into how far our hotel was in Glasgow. We had to take a taxi almost every time. Walking was barely feasible.
But he sure seems to not pay attention to all the notes from the committee about when the rooms are opening up. I know it is hard, I really had to scramble for Gally, but you have to pay attention, set your alarm clock, and sign up ASAP. Everyone else is.
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