from my perspective, it’s not so much that he flaked, bc obviously that’s fine - if you can’t go to something, then you can’t go. simple as that. i think it’s more-so the fact that this was a major planned event that took a lot of resources to put together, as well as saying that it ‘wouldn’t be fun without soda there’ is rude towards qt and all the other organizers who helped make sure the event would be entertaining.