Dashcon! Dash to the EXTREME

[littlebiscuits]

(my apologies if this thread belongs in lolcow. It was kind of a toss up, and if a mod feels like lolcow is the right place for this thread, please go ahead and move it. )

After years of whining and bitching about it, Tumblr finally went ahead and threw themselves a con! However, to no one's surprises, it has turned out to be a complete and utter fiasco. Pull up your popcorn folks, Dis gun be gud.

So in a nutshell, the tards who decided to host the con booked a venue but didn't bother to pay for it. At this time, it is believed that the host-tards (these peeps http://dashcon.tumblr.com/tagged/meet-the-admin) thought they accumulated the required amount via ticket sales and...er...something..

Just an FYI because I know it will come up (understandably) the people who threw Dashcon were not actually affiliated with tumblr.

They booked a ton of panels ( Welcome to Night Vale live recording, among others) but paid no one. Many of the panels have been canceled as a result.

Most of the venders have also not shown up, though at the moment no one knows exactly why. Most suspect lack of payment.

When the hotel convention center became angry that they hadn't been paid, they naturally threatened to shut the whole thing down. And then the unthinkable happened. The staff gathered all the con-goers into one giant room and shook them down for cash, 17,000 dollars to be exact.

Unfortunately...this goal was achieved in less than a half an hour.

Here is a picture of the game room. Notice the lack of games.

Fun Panels!!!11!

Also there is a ballpit. You have to book time to play in it because with no pannels, no guests, and no dealers room, there is literally nothing else to do at the con.

More info:

http://www.dashcon.org/
http://dashcon2014b.sched.org/

 

[Randall Fragg]

HAHAHAHAHAaaaah.
Oh man, that's just, woow. 17,000 bucks for a ball pit. Really, could anything planned by a community of spazzy teenage girls achieve anything greater than that?
I really hope they do a SJW parade next.

 

[spaps]

 

[Tenchi]

A good sign that your convention is going great

An empty room where you gather in a circle to just stare at each other.

 

[Randall Fragg]

A good sign that your convention is going great

An empty room where you gather in a circle to just stare at each other.

That is exactly how I pictured tumblr users.

 

[littlebiscuits]

Update: Dash-Con is no longer a disaster; more ball pit time has been allotted for all those who have been disappointed.

 

[Tenchi]

Guys it was totally not their fault, it was the big bad hotel that ruined your time in the ball pit. The admins figured you were suckers and would come back tomorrow.

 

[Some JERK]

I love watching people who have no idea WTF they are doing manage large, complicated gatherings. Reminds me of all those years of watching my mother fuck up thanksgiving.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

You know, when I first heard of the name, I thought it was just another Brony-related convention around Rainbow Dash. Now that I see this, I wish that was the case. Because this sounds like, and from the looks of it is, a complete fail.

But hey, ballpit (and I won't lie, I'd have went there for that alone).

 

[Ariel]

A good sign that your convention is going great

An empty room where you gather in a circle to just stare at each other.

It's like a SJW zoo!

 

[The Dude]

A good sign that your convention is going great

An empty room where you gather in a circle to just stare at each other.

It looks like they're getting ready to play Duck, Duck, Goose. I knew Tumblr was basically like going back to elementary school, but fucking Kindergarten?

 

[Some JERK]

It looks like they're getting ready to play Duck, Duck, Goose. I knew Tumblr was basically like going back to elementary school, but fucking Kindergarten?

c'mon dude. you should be able to identify a massive circle-jerk by now...

 

[Ariel]

“chill. it’s okay these cis able bodied crackers blindly donate to a poorly planned con and then turn around and refuse to donate to poor people and make a million excuses to why they cant. it’s their money. it’s okay. they’re not trash for being ableist, racist and transphobic. chill.”
— ppl defending dashcon

 

[Coster]

My sister's a Tumblr user, even she thought this was fucking stupid.

Also that ball pit is ass.

 

[Colress]

according to the hotel there was no additional fee. the main post that the staff made begging for donations is gone, as well as the 17,000 smackeroos.

 

[Male]

A ball pit huh, fitting because there's going to be a lot of blue balls in that con

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

A ball pit huh, fitting because there's going to be a lot of blue balls in that con

"So blue, they'll fall off from frostbite."

 

[Dollars2010]

Some other fun and exciting images from this brilliant convention!

Spoiler

"Many of the hallways and lobbies were barely populated at all; as a person who prefers going to larger conventions, I was disappointed. The Dealer’s Room/Artist’s Alley left much to be desired. There were practically no dealers selling official merchandise of any kind. It seemed as if everybody in there was a freelance artist, selling the same cheap buttons/stickers/decals/piling-prone fleece shit you’d know all too well if you’ve been to a convention before. I suppose the schedule and the panel descriptions speak for themselves. but I did sit in one panel called “Name That Anime” for a cool three minutes or so before walking out the door. It started 15 minutes late and was so poorly improvised on the spot it was terrible; they were giving out hotel mints as prizes if you could name the anime where “clothes are used as weapons!!!!!”

Spoiler

"The worst part, though, had to be the so-called “video game room.” Having gone out to Anime Midwest last weekend, I expected a room full of Xbox/Wii/PS3/PS4 playing stations. In reality, there was only ONE TV in the entire room, along with a bunch of tables."

From this blog.

 

[Male]

God damn I've seen children's birthday parties with more energy than this
Hell I'm not suprised if that's where they got the ball pit and the bouncy house.

 

[Coster]

God damn I've seen children's birthday parties with more energy than this
Hell I'm not suprised if that's where they got the ball pit and the bouncy house.

For $17,000 I would've much rather just rented out a whole Chuck E Cheese's for a weekend. That would've been infinitely more entertaining than their planned event of "awkward silence at the Renaissance hotel."