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Melissa Rogerson: Top 10 Reasons NOT to Go to BGG.con
10. Seventeen hours on a plane is 17 hours you are not on BSW.
9. All the Super-Deluxe-Advanced Civilisation games are too short.
8. The game library is too small.
7. People you know on the Internet are not people. They are computers posing as people with little fake avatars. This myth can be prolonged as long as you are not in the same room as the computer.
6. The myriad bloggers and photo-posters updating regularly make you feel like you are there anyway.
5. Who needs free game giveaways?
4. Someone said it would be boring. (Oay, he wasn’t a gamer and had never been to BGG ... but still ...)
3. We have Irish Pubs and Mexican food in Australia, too.
2. Essen games are so widely available in Australia, who needs to go overseas to play them?
1. Derk in a catsuit.
(This article first appeared on Gone Gaming on the date referenced below.)© 2006 Melissa Rogerson
Posted by Melissa Rogerson on Nov 11, 2006 at 01:00 AM in Columnists, Melissa Rogerson, Gone Gaming / 243
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