Dashcon! Dash to the EXTREME

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RecordStoreToughGuy said:
There were ballpit cosplayers at DragonCon this year. I believe this
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was one of them. There were a couple more I've seen; I'm trying to track down where I saw them.
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These are my favorite ballpit costumes:
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StallChaser said:
These are my favorite ballpit costumes:
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Here's another one from the same con:
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Good ol' Otakon.

Muncie Anderson said:
Indianapolis is only about three hours northeast of where I live.

I'm kind of tempted to show up at this thing next year, in hopes that it's as big as, if not a bigger trainwreck than DashCon was.
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Be our eyes and ears. We're counting on you.
 
You know something was hilariously bad when people start cosplaying as it.
 
- I'm not a fan of anything like this, but I suppose if their was a decent local convention I'd go and check it out to see what the vendors had to offer. My fear is getting stuck at a bad one like this, where it's far more awkward to stick around.

- Someone mentioned a good alternative name would be TriggerWarningCon. This would have been hilarious for the number of 2nd amendment types that would have showed up not realizing what it was. I would enjoy the interaction between the two groups.

- This reminds me of a even more disasterous professional wrestling convention in San Francisco in 2007; The Cow Palace of Doom~!
http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/103279
This was more professional con-artist stuff than incompetent Internet weirdos, but it sounds like just as much of a nightmare. It's even worse because a lot of pro wrestlers lost money on this convention. The podcasts on wrestlerobserver.com in the following weeks with stories from wrestlers who worked the show were pathetically hilarious. I haven't heard of any resolution to the issue, and I doubt much came of it. Maybe the hotel went after him, but as most wrestlers lived out of state, it might be too much trouble to go through to get their money.

Not really con-related, but a guy in Florida tried to promote a tribute show for Macho Man Randy Savage shortly after he died. In a bar of some sort. I believe there may have been a charitable element to it. Well, the TV equipment they rented was stolen, people were paid, and when it came time to do the traditional 10-bell salute for a called wrestler, they didn't have a bell, so the promoter for on the house mic and said "ding.....ding.....ding....."

- I know you can't judge a person based on looks alone, as I'm a burly, bearded 300 pound man who looks surly enough to be hired as a bouncer in about 30 seconds, but I amis a softee for babies and small animals, likes small European cars, and has done volunteer work helping disadvantaged urban youth repair bicycles, but I would really not want to associate myself in any way with the guy with the shirt tied up over his belly. You can't always judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can...
 
Beef Thunderpants said:
Not really con-related, but a guy in Florida tried to promote a tribute show for Macho Man Randy Savage shortly after he died. In a bar of some sort. I believe there may have been a charitable element to it. Well, the TV equipment they rented was stolen, people were paid, and when it came time to do the traditional 10-bell salute for a called wrestler, they didn't have a bell, so the promoter for on the house mic and said "ding.....ding.....ding....."
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It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I heard he was lying about the charity part.
 
dcisp said:
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I heard he was lying about the charity part.
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Oh, I'm sure he was lying about it. Randy's brother, Leaping Lanny Poffo, was pretty upset when he heard about the whole thing, some guy putting on some sham like this in his brother's name.
 
BahahahahaHAA it's not even 2015 yet and I've already spotted some delicious Da-- I mean Emoti-Con tumbluh dramu.

It all starts when Tumblrina (I forgot her username and don't care) makes about a billion rants on her blog about how Dashcon/Emoti-Con is trash and the people associated with it are trash. She's not wrong, of course, and one would assume that she's aware of the possibility that someone associated with said con would inevitably read them (they are publicly posted and tagged to make them easier to find, after all) and maybe respond to them.

Heh.

That does indeed happen. An Emoti-Con admin reads through her posts and writes a response on his blog.

Not a big deal, right? An inevitability, right? I think so, too, but apparently you and I would both be wrong!

Tumblrina freaks the fuck out and calls him out for "stalking" her, AKA finding her public, tagged posts and reading them on her blog. She goes on to say that she had no less than three panic attacks and her Dad almost called the police.

:story:

It's also worth noting that the only reason she knows that he was on her blog for a significant period of time is because she uses one of those proxy dealies to see who visits her blog and what their IP address is. Otherwise, she would have been blissfully unaware.

TLDR: tumblr teen rants about Dashcon, Dashcon admin sees it, tumblr teen gets paranoid, hilarity ensues, Dashcon amazingly does nothing wrong for once.

I was gonna link you guys to the full post with her panicked ramblings, but it looks like it's since been deleted. Darn.

We've still got nine months. Bring on moar drama. B)
 
Indigo said:
Tumblrina freaks the fuck out and calls him out for "stalking" her, AKA finding her public, tagged posts and reading them on her blog. She goes on to say that she had no less than three panic attacks and her Dad almost called the police.
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You see this alot with SJW-types on tumblr. They'll post something on a public blog and then complain when a member the public comments on it. It's as if they expect their posts to be like a diary that can only be read by people they know without them ever having to tell their computer who to restrict it to. If only I could remember who that reminds me of...

I don't think anybody ever taught these people how the internet works.
 
Billpalazzo-sama said:
You see this alot with SJW-types on tumblr. They'll post something on a public blog and then complain when a member the public comments on it. It's as if they expect their posts to be like a diary that can only be read by people they know without them ever having to tell their computer who to restrict it to. If only I could remember who that reminds me of...

I don't think anybody ever taught these people how the internet works.
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Mhmm, and I saw at least two other people express similar reactions. "Oooomg those Dashcon ppl are reading my posts too wHAT A BUNCH OF STALKERS!!!!11"

Here's a short list of points they can reference:

1) You tagged your posts in a public bloggosphere
2) People track those tags, including the people you're shit-talking
3) Refer back to points 1 and 2 until you fucking get it
 
Billpalazzo-sama said:
You see this alot with SJW-types on tumblr. They'll post something on a public blog and then complain when a member the public comments on it. It's as if they expect their posts to be like a diary that can only be read by people they know without them ever having to tell their computer who to restrict it to. If only I could remember who that reminds me of...

I don't think anybody ever taught these people how the internet works.
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More to the point: I think SJW-types treat not only the Internet, but the human race as a whole, as their own personal support group, and expect validation and praise no matter what nonsense they spew onto Tumblr. They see activism not as a serious effort to influence public policy, but as a form of therapy where they can project all their private hurts and hatreds onto The Cause of the Week, and never encounter any form of opposition or criticism -- a genuinely delusional and dangerous attitude, if one is in the arena of politics.
 
I am so sad I didn't read this thread sooner. I saw the title and like a lot of people thought 'oh, it's some brony FIM bullshit' so I didn't read it.

I missed out. I really missed out.

There are some interesting perspectives out there, but most seem to be laced with tumblr aids (why would you list your pronouns when you're a cis female?! WHY?).
 
It appeases the rest of the SJWs. It's how they separate us from them. Us and our evil, unchecked cis male white privilege.
 
PurpleSquirrel said:
More to the point: I think SJW-types treat not only the Internet, but the human race as a whole, as their own personal support group, and expect validation and praise no matter what nonsense they spew onto Tumblr. They see activism not as a serious effort to influence public policy, but as a form of therapy where they can project all their private hurts and hatreds onto The Cause of the Week, and never encounter any form of opposition or criticism -- a genuinely delusional and dangerous attitude, if one is in the arena of politics.
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"Safe spaces" are just inherently fucked up, yeah? You always end up with a group of sad and damaged people, some otherwise-decent folks who made the mistake of letting their guard down, and predatory sociopaths who have learned the right shibboleths and proceed to fuck the community sideways for their own amusement.

Let me see if I've got this right: Through some combination of earnest incompetence and predatory intent, DashCon took a lot of money from its attendees - many of whom were young and sheltered enough to have a blast spending a few nights in a hotel without parental supervision, even in the absence of an ostensible tumblr theme.

That's...actually not a terrible business model, if you're a shitty enough person to go for it. I wouldn't be surprised if someone makes good money off EmotiCon.
 
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I, too, came to this thread very late, thinking it was some mlp thing. I was so wrong. I have laughed, I have cried (not really), but mostly after 10 years experience in event coordination I have been incredibly strong in resisting the urge to sperg out completely on everything that went on. I'll just grab one thing. What was the point of this con? Diversity issues? Tumblr users? Fandoms? BDSM? It seems like a bunch of people had gone to one event and never thought about what actually went into it besides "OMG the Phelps twins were there swoon!" I know this doesn't add much to the discussion but jeez, at least figure out what your con is FOR before having a seperate committee for every fandom on earth. Rant over. I hope.
 
The point was that tumblr needed a con for people who go to tumblr. The end.
 
A con for tumblr users could be feasable, but only barely. If that was the point the focus should have been on social media, not werewolf vampire drwho sherlockiness. Therr are a whole buncha tumblr users, not all of them are focused on fandom. And from what i read in this thread, it seemed every commitee was focused on that. Of course every one wants to be on the comittee that lands billie piper. But someone has to run the one that makes sure she is paid, the one that makes sure water is on the speakers table, and the one who figures out that billie piper has very little to offer on whatever the con is for, and can't be afforded anyway. holy cow i need to shut up now. Further didactic crap will ensue.
 
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