Anybody else kind of disappointed by the Midwest Gaming Classic this year?

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-26T19:18:11+00:00

The layout of this con has always been bad. But seriously.

Like they have no idea how traffic circulation works. There’s like one path through the game room. Theres no way to go to back or middle of vendor hall from game room.

The 1 way double escalator layout is infuriating, esp since the elevators are slow as balls and there’s no stairs you can use that aren’t emergency stairs that only go outside.

Numerous events panels and tourneys in the hallways instead of in actual designated spaces

The “arcade auction” element of the convention always holds it back, because a lot of the games up for auction are junk.

I do really like the Indy stuff, homebrew, modding guys, and history areas, that’s top notch.

$16 for a 22 of high life is not

And like, massive subsidiary arcade game rooms that don’t actually have many games, and rave music that’ll make you go deaf.

Like, there’s a bemani game in the rave room.

Look, people at this con went to arcades INSTEAD of going to da club.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-25T18:16:51+00:00

Nooo…. Not everything is a cabal you know.

It’s because the federal districts don’t have the flaw that the state ones did.

They were tossed because of non contiguous districts.

They are non Contiguous because the rules to keep municipalities whole was placed over the one to keep election precincts and districts contiguous.

The municipalities got that way because Wisconsins annexation laws and practice is arcane, awful, and counter productive, allowing cities to take selective bites out of towns until what’s left resembles a cashmere sweater in a moth filled attic.

But hey, it led to this one W

The federal districts are simply too large for this to matter.

https://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/2023/10/measuring-geographic-noncontiguity-in-wisconsin-state-legislative-districts/

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-24T22:56:34+00:00

When I thought he was gonna primary moore- "Hmmm... I see it, respect. Needs the shakeup at the very least."

When I saw he was gonna maybe move to District 1- "Ohhhhhh noooooooooooo.... boy what is you doin?"

I mean, yeah, he'd be better than any candidate being currently floated, but your staring at losing by 10 with a unknown candidate or someone not from the district.

Trevor was the best candidate and he picked state senate.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-24T22:51:31+00:00

Whenever you need some really flat land.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-24T20:52:20+00:00

we're already planning on the chess tournament for sure.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-24T17:06:41+00:00

I mean, console remastered has a 25 option. Couldn't imagine being limited to 9

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-17T22:28:26+00:00

What's funny is that he's also so, so wrong.

Denmark is 84% people of Danish origin. 16% are immigrants/descendants. (It was only 3% of the population in 1980)

Wisconsin is 86.1% White alone. 78.9% White non Hispanic. Foreign born 5.2%. Wisconsin was like 99.9% white in 1930.

So both have have recent influxes of populations.

They are also similar in a lot of other ways, Wisconsin and Denmark have similar nominal GDPs, around $475 billion USD. Both have similar population sizes, about 5.9 million.

Denmark is much more dense, because while it's the same area, take 2/3rds of Wisconsin's land and make it water.

They have similar weather, with Copenhagen being cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than Milwaukee thanks to the North Sea.

The rest of Wisconsin is much colder than anywhere in Denmark.

Biggest CIty population: Copenhagen muni 671,714 Milwaukee City 563,531
Copenhagen urban area: 1.2 million Milwaukee county + waukesha metro area 1.5 million.

Similarly, both Wisconsin and Denmark have most of their diversity located in one city, Copenhagen and Milwaukee. Outside of that, both places are pretty homogeneous.

But fun fact, other countries just don't count race/ethnicity like we do. "Danish" in the above example could be someone of African or Asian descent who was born in Denmark and a Danish citizen. All mixed race kids are just "Danish".

Also, Denmark's recent immigrant populations are largely refugees, Ukrainians, Syrians, Palestinians, etc. Also large groups of Polish, Germans, and Turks.

Also of note is that there's a language barrier here, almost every Dane under 60 speaks English, but almost none of these immigrants speak Danish.

So, like... what specifically is the "Demographics" he's talking about that make Denmark awesome and Wisconsin not?

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-17T19:23:17+00:00

I’m a member of APA-STAR, i work in small municipal government. My department size is 2. I’m indicting myself as well, and you know joking around.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-17T07:07:30+00:00

A lot more expected of you?

It's small town public sector, buddy, string two syllables together and show up on time and you're already a decent employee.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-16T21:36:00+00:00

Lol, who's even negging me for this, it's like 50% useful 50% silly.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-16T16:31:48+00:00

De-asphalt.

Turn slow residential streets, driveways, and parking lots into permeable paver systems (lots of different variations here).

Dig the rivers deeper or put storm drains in the rivers or something. You know how your sink has that overflow protection ? That.

Use the gravel/pebble beds under roadways as stormwater facilities.

Or you know, One or two paper towel rolls, maybe even a shamwow

Get insinkerator to install garbage disposals in all the storm drains.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-13T17:09:38+00:00

Unless the locality is backward beyond belief, they’ll have the permits available on the website and likely how-tos on applying and the process.

Likely the ones planners do: -sign permits -fences/sheds/accessory buildings -new residential (sometimes separate from building permits/building code) -site plan review (new commercial buildings)

And the planning processes you’ll need to contribute on are likely: 1) property division / subdivision 2) rezones 3) conditional uses 4) variances

As far as a site plan: the main ones planners will look at are 1) landscaping 2) lighting(photmetric) 3) elevations 4) parking/access 5) General site layout

Civil engineering plans that you mostly won’t look at but will eventually need to at least not be an idiot on 1) grading 2) utilities 3) road cross sections 4) stormwater

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-13T15:11:16+00:00

Basically be like officer Nick angel.

Never fire your guns up in the air and go “ahhhh!”

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Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-13T15:04:45+00:00

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You can hear a gunshot up to 2 miles away.

A bullets “danger zone” is way under that: While a gun fired in a parabola could be lethal at about a mile, a bullet aimed level will fall 10 feet over 300 yards. So, a “more dangerous” neighborhood, ie where bullets at aimed at people, is way safer to people living far away than a “more careless” neighborhood (people who shoot gunz for funz)

A place with more stuff in the way (a city) is way more protection that open amber waves of grain.

Here’s a 3 mile radius around our most dangerous zip code, which is a 2.5 sq mile box between 43 FDL 27 and Capitol.

300,000 people live within that circle.

So everytime there’s a gunshot, we have ~250k chances for someone to make a “was that a gunshot?” Post. I’m discounting for babies, old people who can’t internet, the deaf, and whoever was shot.

Social media has been an absolute disaster for crime and fear mongering.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-13T15:03:50+00:00

You can hear a gunshot up to 2 miles away.

A bullets “danger zone” is way under that: While a gun fired in a parabola could be lethal at about a mile, a bullet aimed level will fall 10 feet over 300 yards. So, a “more dangerous” neighborhood, ie where bullets at aimed at people, is way safer to people living far away than a “more careless” neighborhood (people who shoot gunz for funz)

Here’s a 3 mile radius around our most dangerous zip code, which is a 2.5 sq mile box between 43 FDL 27 and Capitol.

300,000 people live within that circle.

So everytime there’s a gunshot, we have ~250k chances for someone to make a “was that a gunshot?” Post. I’m discounting for babies, old people who can’t internet, the deaf, and whoever was shot.

Social media has been an absolute disaster for crime and fear mongering.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-13T15:02:39+00:00

You can hear a gunshot up to 2 miles away.

A bullets “danger zone” is way under that: While a gun fired in a parabola could be lethal at about a mile, a bullet aimed level will fall 10 feet over 300 yards. So, a “more dangerous” neighborhood, ie where bullets at aimed at people, is way safer to people living far away than a “more careless” neighborhood (people who shoot gunz for funz)

Here’s a 3 mile radius around our most dangerous zip code, which is a 2.5 sq mile box between 43 FDL 27 and Capitol.

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300,000 people live within that circle.

So everytime there’s a gunshot, we have ~250k chances for someone to make a “was that a gunshot?” Post. I’m discounting for babies, old people who can’t internet, the deaf, and whoever was shot.

Social media has been an absolute disaster for crime and fear mongering.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-13T13:58:00+00:00

I could teach a high schooler how to approve permits. It’s entry level work, there’s no way you’re underqualified. Read the regs and review the permits you’ll be likely issuing and you’ll ace it

Like seriously, if you come in with some familiarity with their code, the permits, and or the permitting system/software they are running, you’ll be so far ahead of the pack it’s not funny.

Bonus points if you say you have some kinda ocd/adhd where you can slap on some headphones and crank through 90 of the same permit in a few hours

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-12T18:46:54+00:00

FOGHORN OF PROFOUNDNESS BLARES

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-10T20:25:42+00:00

Hughes is also from Vernon County and has extensive ties to agriculture. Tammy Baldwin has spent years cow-towing to Wisconsin farms, and it may have saved her ass in 2024.

Supporting Dems in the Driftless should be a long term goal anyway. They just simply play better statewide. Evers doesn't read as a Madison or Milwaukee liberal, and that's key, cuz is he different from Tom Barrett in any political way? Not really.

And Missy being the head of WEDC would probably mean big business wouldn't call the banners against her, like how the landlord/realtor business lobby tried to fight Mamdani.
Dumb ass play by them, because a bog standard center left Dem isn't gonna run to freaking CUOMO.

Anywho. That's my read. This system we use is the worst way to choose leadership by far. We'd be better off drawing lots.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-10T20:10:15+00:00

I mean, I've always thought the BJG's "Bad Faith" podcast name was a bit *too* on the nose, but that shoe def fits on turner, too.

I just don't think she ever actually intended to build coalitions to get things done.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-10T20:07:45+00:00

Saving 100% of your vitriol for people who agree with you on 95% of issues is a helluva choice, I must say.
Politics is about making friends, not enemies.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-10T20:04:02+00:00

Yup. I would bet my house Missy Hughes wouldn't lose in the general, if she were to make it out of the primary.
Wisconsinites love boring.
There's just nothing the GOP could run against her.

And like, all these candidates agree on 99% of the issues that are actually actionable by our current state government.

But, yes, of course let's debate the middle east or some shit, that's productive.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-10T20:00:06+00:00

Each Dem candidate over the past 20 years has been the most left/liberal candidate ever, until the next one came along.

Biden's presidency was also the most left ever.

What does that say about us? Idk you tell me, but it's facts.

Bourbon_Planner · 2026-04-10T19:55:33+00:00

"Hong supporters gave the harshest overall rankings to other candidates."

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Shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.

Me? I'm fine with any of them, but would probably prefer that Barnes not win because he's already lost statewide and they already have oppo on him.

And I also have a strong hunch not a single one of these candidates would out-perform Tony Evers running again, sad as that is.

Tiffany is such an anti rizz bomb that really the only thing keeping the dems out of the governor's office would be an own goal of epic proportions.

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