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My friend's girlfriend set their wedding date for PAX.
Buckshawt
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So now three of my other friends and I have to choose between going to PAX East and attending our friend's wedding. They didnt bother to check with any of us, for all they knew there could be a funeral on that day. They set it for March 12'th. I already bought my three day pass, and there are people I don't get to see for the most part except for at PAX East.
I'm so goddamn angry right now. I love PAX, I can only afford to go to the one on the East Coast because I live in Virginia. I got to met the Omeganauts last year, and Robert Khoo, and Tycho! I got all their autographs and it was the most magical weekend I've ever experienced. Now i'm not going to get to have that, after patiently waiting for an entire year.
I feel crushed. I'm partly angry because I know I can't blow off my friend's wedding, but because I know what PAX feels like. I know the touch of that lithe, gentle hand stroking my cheek and enticing me out of an unfamiliar bed to walk the chilly expanse of March Boston with my best friends. It calls to us to walk side by side like an adventuring party, but with the promise of more loot and more experience than any dungeon could ever hope to hold.
I won't get to sing Still Alive or Bohemian Rhapsody A cappella again this year. I wont get to play co-op with thousands of other people who are like me, but not exactly like me, but all potential friends. I wont get to see the masterminds of the gaming industry showing off their newest, shiniest toys and I wont get to shove my nose into countless new adventures like last time, where my first experience with D&D was on the microsoft touch, an experience that touched me and my friends so profoundly that we immediately all ran out and got 4'th Ed books. Now we're playing stuff like Werewolf, and Aberrant, and having the time of our lives. I made new friends back home because I started hanging out at the comic shop, friends who are now dear to my heart that might not have ever met me if it weren't for PAX showing me these things like a father taking his son to the bike shop for the first time.
Somebody please help me. Make this not be a nightmare!
I'm so goddamn angry right now. I love PAX, I can only afford to go to the one on the East Coast because I live in Virginia. I got to met the Omeganauts last year, and Robert Khoo, and Tycho! I got all their autographs and it was the most magical weekend I've ever experienced. Now i'm not going to get to have that, after patiently waiting for an entire year.
I feel crushed. I'm partly angry because I know I can't blow off my friend's wedding, but because I know what PAX feels like. I know the touch of that lithe, gentle hand stroking my cheek and enticing me out of an unfamiliar bed to walk the chilly expanse of March Boston with my best friends. It calls to us to walk side by side like an adventuring party, but with the promise of more loot and more experience than any dungeon could ever hope to hold.
I won't get to sing Still Alive or Bohemian Rhapsody A cappella again this year. I wont get to play co-op with thousands of other people who are like me, but not exactly like me, but all potential friends. I wont get to see the masterminds of the gaming industry showing off their newest, shiniest toys and I wont get to shove my nose into countless new adventures like last time, where my first experience with D&D was on the microsoft touch, an experience that touched me and my friends so profoundly that we immediately all ran out and got 4'th Ed books. Now we're playing stuff like Werewolf, and Aberrant, and having the time of our lives. I made new friends back home because I started hanging out at the comic shop, friends who are now dear to my heart that might not have ever met me if it weren't for PAX showing me these things like a father taking his son to the bike shop for the first time.
Somebody please help me. Make this not be a nightmare!
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It's quite possible I missed the memo, but there's still going to be a PAX East next year, yah? It sucks that you already got your pass for this year, but guess what, life happens.
edit: be sure to post what happens next.
The fuck? Who plans a funeral four months in advance?
You can choose to not show up, they just might not appreciate you choosing a video game expo over a very important day for one of your friends.
This wedding will be the most magical weekend your friend has ever experienced and they want you to be there too.
It's all win.
2. You need a bit of perspective, Buck. If any more than that needs to be said, I'm not sure how much actual help we can provide you with.
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No, they don't. That's because the wedding is about what's best for the couple. It's their day, not someone else's.
Thanks. I had already decided to go to the wedding before posting, I was just looking for a little comiseration.
You guys are real dicks. Way to break Wheaton's Law.
We survive. It's a hollow existence but I fill it with scotch.
On the topic - the decision is up to you but do not suggest they move the wedding because I can assure you they've already spent vastly more money to reserve shit for their wedding than any costs you may have incurred for PAX. I'm getting married in October of next year and the thousands we've spent on reservations means we're bloody having something going on that day, wedding or not.
Then you can take the groom to PAX with you to make up for it, no point in being an asshole.
Anyways if it is I'm not changing it and you guys can have kakos come in here and whine too.
So what's it like being the only person on Earth that matters?
No.
OP: Sell your pass (or give it away) and deal with it.
"Being there for a friend at a once-in-a-lifetime, personal event" vs. "Being there for your own enjoyment at a biannual public convention"...
yeah, very hard to tell which is the right thing to do.
I'm not being sarcastic, I do sympathise. I hate other people's weddings. But you have to put up with it. There will be other PAXes. It's not about you.
Grow up.