Grape job!

This whole thing is disappointing.

I think the thing I’m most disappointed in here is not the original action, but the subsequent reaction — posting a wildly insensitive and unfunny photo is one thing (“a rare miss”, sure, it happens) but then telling people to “relax” and “chill the fuck out” as a defensive posture is invalidating of a truly intelligent community that cares enough to point this rare misstep out.

It’s one thing to be wrong. Everyone is wrong sometimes, everyone messes up sometimes. It’s how we handle ourselves in those inevitable moments that defines the person. And this was handled poorly. Don’t make people feel stupid for caring about being good people.

So. Videogum is kind of over for me.

I am conflicted! Not that this convention doesn’t sound like a horrible nightmare convention of greedy awful shoddy-convention-organizing a-holes taking advantage of the innocent nerd market (that’s a big market) by the bucketful. Because it does.

I remember way Back In The Day when Gabe went to that Louie C.K. show and then had a Long Dark Night of the Soul on the train ride back as he struggled to find things to hate on about the experience, and I feel like that was a real pivotal moment in our lives and the life of this blog and probably something we will all remember forever and ever like a president exploding or a space shuttle getting shot.

But this is different — Gabe seems to have visited this event just to hate on it, *specifically* to hate on it, and what’s worse some of the innocent nerds (who probably just wanted to dress up like superheroes and drink a little bit) have gotten hit in the splash damage of Gabe’s white-hot, fully justified hate on the doubtlessly greedy shoddy-convention-organizing a-holes. So, conflicted.

This might be the biggest little mistake of Gabe’s life!

They should have just waited until 13/13/13 like I am for my movie.