he was thinking out loud about a staff orientation field trip to ACen this year so that anyone thinking running a 7000+ convention would be cool would be properly traumatized.

ACen is about the biggest con that I would care to casually attend.

I might someday go to Otakon again with friends, but if I do, I'd rather be volunteering/otherwise helping the staff, just hanging around in that large a crowd is a bit much.

So in other words, the bigger/worse it is, the more enthusiastic I get about staffing it. I work better when there's more work for me to do...