X-ray guy “so what did you do?”
Me “I literally have no idea”

Like yes okay, there’s some logic happening here, T admin was not playing 5D chess, they really were just plowing through, pissing off their base and emboldening everyone else with no plan for how that would impact midterms

Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."

It's pink 😍

If I were writing one of the blurbs, it would be directing people to take meetings in public locations or GDC lounges, drink safety, and explaining the safety regulations of approved events, as well as explaining what related behavior is against the code of conduct and reportable

Anyway if anyone relevant is reading this, please at least put a warning about drink safety on the website 😭 I hear about like 5+ cases every year (and those are just the ones I know about!). There seems to be only safety info focused on property damage and strangers on the safety page.

Feedback for next year, can you convince them to take out the 5 year limit? Small independently owned companies can be slow growing. The people who benefit from this are companies who make new incorporations every time one goes under.
In the least, I wouldn't count LLCs in the limit.

Hearing what people I know involved fought for, and seeing how it is being advertised or how it manifested is wild. I'm particularly perplexed by "Purpose-driven meetings that create ROI"

Yes I love "creating ROI" (this doesn't even make sense if you're money brained, this is a nothing sentence)

Thinking on it, it must be bc they are specifically focusing on big money tech startups. The ones that specifically need to hit big in a certain number of years or they flop. I'd have to assume they do not care about slow growing indies (like mine), because our potential short term upswing is lower

This is why I think official meeting spaces and official night events are good, because then the con can control the environment, and the safety, but the higher ups would have to actually prioritize that, and then also communicate that for it to be effective.

I can't stress this enough, Crimes against GDC attendees are much much more prevalent from OTHER attendees, not people outside of it. I know people involved who are working so hard to advocate for systems that help with that, but it's seems GDC itself doesn't want to advertise that that's needed.

Are those the new meeting spaces? Honestly I can see a use case in lessening the amount of meetings in hotel suites or public bar areas, I hear those can be really unsafe. I haven't looked into details about how the lounge spaces work though

As someone who recently started Vyvanse I feel this deeply

I'd say the biggest element in the US is suburban development blocking out BIPOC since inception. I don't know if Canada's suburban areas formed differently. There was a lot of racism in the perception of cities before then, but certainly increased by that.

Lifelong issues are tough because whenever you actually start making it better (even temporarily) it's awesome, but it's always accompanied by "Why couldn't it have always been like this?" or "Why couldn't I have figured this out before my knees got old"