I was very tempted to go to the meetup yesterday since my Dodgeball group took the week off..but I don't think it'd have been a great idea.

You have these two complete tools in the meetup group in Hugh and Venger. Hugh seems like he has an arrogance about him in that he's better than everyone, and goes out of his way to defend people just so people will look at how awesome he is. Then you have Venger who seems to be even more offensive than I was before I was kicked out, but he does it with personal attacks whereas I just fling jokes that piss off everyone when it's not even the plan specifically to make people angry.

I also am tempted to rejoin the meetup group with my current account because of what's being talked about in the WoW vs D&D thread. I am someone who played D&D for 4 years and ended it in December finally. I would play 8-16 hours every single day, but at the same time I wasn't addicted to it. I just didn't have anything else going on in my life to care about. I'm personally against the online dating thing because it wouldn't work for me. Doesn't mean it wouldn't work for other people though. And as to making friends on the internet and not having them be considered "real" friends? That's a bunch of horsecock honestly. It has more to do with how much you put into it. I am one who likes to disconnect myself emotionally from people on the internet, but sometimes it's easy to form some friendships. I stopped playing WoW, but I've still jumped on Ventrilo with my old guild to see how people are doing outside of game.

Hugh and Venger need to set up a contest where they jump off a bridge and the winner is the one who hits the ground the fastest.

Well, Hugh has been nice to me but he does have a dominant personality.  Venger continues to be absolutely rude and attacks me at every turn.  He even deleted a thread right after becoming the organizer that he had completely insulted me in.  I guess he didn't want everyone to see the evidence of how rude he really is. 

Hugh is one of the regular players of the Fellsea Campaign, which is the game that I'm the DM of. ALthough, another player is temporarily DMing so I can take a break and get a chance to be a player for awhile.

Hugh is actually a really nice guy, albeit he can be argumentative. He has bought people food, given rides for people who need them, etc.

I just ask that you don't judge him too harshly because he blew up at that one joke.

I don't really know Venger, but he is beginning to irritate me as well. But since he usurped the meetup without any consensus, what are we going to do?

I'm considering jumping out of the boards as well. But I really don't want to miss out on the meetups.

I hate politics.

I can totally live with being a douchebag.

Personally I'm avoiding the boards simply because they seem to be going through excessive pruning.  I find it more than a little annoying when I jump in to see what has been posted on a thread (Like the one on SacConquest) only to discover it's been removed.  Here I was hoping for other opinions (particularly from the RPGA folk) on the opinion of the Con this time.

My experiences were less than ideal, but I avoid the RPGA and wanted to know how some of the dedicated gamers in that group felt the con went.