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Marvin said:
Also, my friends had this, and I have no clue what it is:

It's some herbal bullshit from the Dominican Republic. There is no ingredients list and no alcohol levels listed or anything. I suspect it's "medicinal" rum.

Also, if any kiwis want to hang out, let me know. Anyway, brb, time to get blitzed.
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Mamajuana! I remember that shit from back home. It's supposed to be an aphrodisiac. They sell it at gas stations and Santeria stores.

Anyway, if I had knowm about Otakon, I would of have gone, if only to hang out with @Meowthkip again and meet the man in the pickle suit. In the meantime, I have no idea when Pittsburgh's con is going down. Just hope it isn't next month or on a day when I have to work.
 
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Mamajuana! I remember that shit from back home. It's supposed to be an aphrodisiac. They sell it at gas stations and Santeria stores.

Anyway, if I had knowm about Otakon, I would of have gone, if only to hang out with @Meowthkip again and meet the man in the pickle suit. In the meantime, I have no idea when Pittsburgh's con is going down. Just hope it isn't next month or on a day when I have to work.
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Next year's the last year they're having it at the Baltimore Convention Center, and it could be the last year I show up. Depends on how much fun I have at that next one, maybe.

But yes, I would love to meet some Kiwis at a con.
 
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I go to a lot of cons and colossalcon is great. I've also heard good things about Dragon con.
 
Shuu Iwamine said:
A-Kon here in Dallas, TX is pretty good. A bit crowded, though, and ever since they moved hotels due to stupid Homestuck fans, getting around hasn't been as easy. Still, it's pretty fun, and the panels and guests can be entertaining. Dallas also has A-Fest, which is coming up in the next couple months -- I plan on going to that one this year, too. It's smaller than A-Kon, but still sizable and fun. It's also still held at the hotel A-Kon used to be, which gives it extra brownie points in my eyes.
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Wait, what did the Homestuck fans do?
 
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Wait, what did the Homestuck fans do?
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They thought it was a good idea to jump into the roof pool without washing off their grey body paint. It clogged the filtration system so bad, the hotel had to pay a ridiculous amount of money to have the pool drained, cleaned, and have the filtration system repaired.
 
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Since we're talking about conventions, have some stories I've heard of or have experienced myself!

Anime Boston
In 2010 (I did not attend that year) a bunch of Hetalia cosplayers (of the Germany character) did a Hitler salute on photo. I wasn't there. The kicker: This was during Passover apparently, and it was near a Holocaust memorial.

In 2012, some shit went down at the "informal dance" (this is the way they sugarcoat the word "rave") - someone had pot, it was overcrowded (fire safety hazard) and some guy was attacking EMTs. I wasn't at the rave. Here's an article about it. Since then they removed the rave forever a lot of people got really upset. Too bad.

In 2013 I was on my laptop in the hotel lobby talking to friends on Steam. There were convention attendees in line to get their hotel rooms, a whole load of them. Suddenly, a REALLY REALLY REALLY HUGE guy comes in from the doors of the Sheraton's front, and sees his REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HUGE friend in line. He calls out at he top of his lungs his friend's name, forgot what it was. They charge at one another and "glomp" (tackle hug) each other, frightening a few of the anime people and the hotel staff, and knocking over some rope partitions. Some girl yells "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!"

This year I was dressed as Clover from Payday 2. Some guys complimented me, and I said thanks. I then noticed them talking then looking at me. One of them said "he thinks you're cute." Note Clover is a Payday 2 character. All except one are usually masked. I pointed out they don't know what I look like under this mask, and walked away.

I've seen some cringeworthy stuff sold at the Artist Alley. Things like "Demisexual pride" scarves, or "SJW" "Tumblr famous" buttons and all that. Most of the stuff in the artist alley is usually laminated prints of fan art or buttons, sometimes acrylic charms for phones or whatever.

Anime Weekend Atlanta
I only went in 2013 for Touhou shit. People there were decent for the most part, but someone stole some merchandise that was expensive, and during a Q&A with the guests from Japan, an unwashed nerd tried to talk to the Japanese people in broken Japanese. Nobody knew wtf he was saying. He then said his comments in English "YOU GUYS ARE LIKE GODS TO US!" There was also a guy in the Dealer's Room selling Yaoi Nazi bondage gear. Links to a different convention forum but same guy.

SOE Live (The EverQuest convention)
You know, the funny thing is, is that I literally had no problem at this convention when I went in 2014. Was mostly older nerds there. The only fedoras I've seen were on middle aged women. The developers also talked to me a lot. Cool people. Not that the other conventions weren't fun, I mean, if I didn't have fun at these things I wouldn't go.

I heard that one year at the EQ con someone shit on a hotel bed, took pictures of it and posted it all over the forums.

AnimeNEXT
Oh man.

I wore a cosplay that revealed my midriff. I was a Green Lantern. I was hit on so many times by nerds, like "in brightest day babe" and grabbing my ass and stuff. I was propositioned for sex twice. Some sentient pile of lard dressed as a pony gave my friend's girlfriend a dirty look because she was Lilith the succubus (Morrigan's sister) and she's fit. A few guys took my photo without my permission. It was also overcrowded, but I did get to hang out with my friends and finally met some EQ people I knew for years, so that was nice.
 
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The only convention I have been too is Crowda Con in New York. My friends want to go to PAX East but that is going to be tricky with a group of seven, assuming that a majority of us survive the ticket crush. Besides the larger cons, my friends slowly are taking interest in cons that are slightly smaller and local. Two of my friends went to Too Many Games and enjoyed themselves. I'm going with another friend to an upstart convention called "A Video Game Con" in September. Currently, the only con my friends are apprehensive about are smaller comic cons where the primary focus is comics in contract to NYCC's "pop culture tilt (that includes the vidya)". One of these days.
 
Shuu Iwamine said:
They thought it was a good idea to jump into the roof pool without washing off their grey body paint. It clogged the filtration system so bad, the hotel had to pay a ridiculous amount of money to have the pool drained, cleaned, and have the filtration system repaired.
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As if I needed another reason to dislike Homesucks.

Shiny Marshtomp said:
Since we're talking about conventions, have some stories I've heard of or have experienced myself!

Anime Boston
In 2010 (I did not attend that year) a bunch of Hetalia cosplayers (of the Germany character) did a Hitler salute on photo. I wasn't there. The kicker: This was during Passover apparently, and it was near a Holocaust memorial.

In 2012, some shit went down at the "informal dance" (this is the way they sugarcoat the word "rave") - someone had pot, it was overcrowded (fire safety hazard) and some guy was attacking EMTs. I wasn't at the rave. Here's an article about it. Since then they removed the rave forever a lot of people got really upset. Too bad.

In 2013 I was on my laptop in the hotel lobby talking to friends on Steam. There were convention attendees in line to get their hotel rooms, a whole load of them. Suddenly, a REALLY REALLY REALLY HUGE guy comes in from the doors of the Sheraton's front, and sees his REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY HUGE friend in line. He calls out at he top of his lungs his friend's name, forgot what it was. They charge at one another and "glomp" (tackle hug) each other, frightening a few of the anime people and the hotel staff, and knocking over some rope partitions. Some girl yells "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!"

This year I was dressed as Clover from Payday 2. Some guys complimented me, and I said thanks. I then noticed them talking then looking at me. One of them said "he thinks you're cute." Note Clover is a Payday 2 character. All except one are usually masked. I pointed out they don't know what I look like under this mask, and walked away.

I've seen some cringeworthy stuff sold at the Artist Alley. Things like "Demisexual pride" scarves, or "SJW" "Tumblr famous" buttons and all that. Most of the stuff in the artist alley is usually laminated prints of fan art or buttons, sometimes acrylic charms for phones or whatever.

Anime Weekend Atlanta
I only went in 2013 for Touhou shit. People there were decent for the most part, but someone stole some merchandise that was expensive, and during a Q&A with the guests from Japan, an unwashed nerd tried to talk to the Japanese people in broken Japanese. Nobody knew wtf he was saying. He then said his comments in English "YOU GUYS ARE LIKE GODS TO US!" There was also a guy in the Dealer's Room selling Yaoi Nazi bondage gear. Links to a different convention forum but same guy.

SOE Live (The EverQuest convention)
You know, the funny thing is, is that I literally had no problem at this convention when I went in 2014. Was mostly older nerds there. The only fedoras I've seen were on middle aged women. The developers also talked to me a lot. Cool people. Not that the other conventions weren't fun, I mean, if I didn't have fun at these things I wouldn't go.

I heard that one year at the EQ con someone shit on a hotel bed, took pictures of it and posted it all over the forums.

AnimeNEXT
Oh man.

I wore a cosplay that revealed my midriff. I was a Green Lantern. I was hit on so many times by nerds, like "in brightest day babe" and grabbing my ass and stuff. I was propositioned for sex twice. Some sentient pile of lard dressed as a pony gave my friend's girlfriend a dirty look because she was Lilith the succubus (Morrigan's sister) and she's fit. A few guys took my photo without my permission. It was also overcrowded, but I did get to hang out with my friends and finally met some EQ people I knew for years, so that was nice.
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I was at Anime Expo a month ago and I was pretty disappointed by Artist Alley there. A lot of the art seems so Tumblr-ish and I'm not even talking about the "muh pronouns" crowd. I guess a lot of the talented people stopped showing up once they got super cool art related jobs. Oh well.
 
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I wanted so badly to go to The My Little Pony Fair this year in Chicago, but I didn't have the money. I might go to the big reptile convention near Toronto to see about maybe finding the Tarantula a stud to make a couple dozen babies.
 
My roommate was showing me pics from AWA and wtf there was homestuck and all sorts of stupid non-anime shit. What happened to their NO FUCKING KLINGONS (only anime/game costumes) policy?
Do they no long burn Magic cards on sight, too?
 
Is anyone going to New York Comic Con? I'm there all four days.
 
I was planning to go to Vcon but I couldn't find anyone to go with
 
I went to a very small, first-year con in my college town. It was very nice and family-friendly and actually didn't have anyone in terrible cosplay. They even had a team of 'Ghostbusters' who visit sick children in the hospital and do charity events. In other words, kind of boring. :\
 
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One day I'd like to go to a furry con and sell art and sit back and see all the crazy shit that goes down because the antics and bullshit has to be worth the price of admission and a booth alone
 
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http://www.bigwowcomicfest.com/

This one in San Jose is great. It's big enough to have great guests, and small enough that it isn't a hellish mass of people like SDCC. Plus it's mostly writer and artist focused, so if you're a comics sperg there's a lot to enjoy.
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Huh. My friend that's from San Jose and makes it her lifelong mission to go to Fanime every year (an anime convention also in San Jose that takes place during Memorial Day) has never mentioned this despite this being up her alley. Looks neat though.

I don't go to conventions that often but I went to Famine a few times. I had fun. I really want to go to Comic Con one day (both San Diego and New York) but idk when that's gonna be.
 
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