Cosplay needs to stop

[DonCardenas]

The real villain is con funk!
We need a strong hand on bathing at the con.

That's my motion to the floor (puts on old wig like it's parliment)!

CAN I HAVE SOME YAYS ON THIS!

please take this as a joke...

Yay!

I wish it only was a joke...

[Christopher Stark]

The real villain is con funk!
We need a strong hand on bathing at the con.

That's my motion to the floor (puts on old wig like it's parliment)!

CAN I HAVE SOME YAYS ON THIS!

please take this as a joke...

Axe should jump all over this.  What do comic nerds like at shows?  Booth babes.  Axe gets a booth and hires some pretty ladies to spray anyone that comes in the booth to "test" their products.  Con funk gone and the nerds are none the wiser.

[electric mayhem]

Axe should jump all over this.  What do comic nerds like at shows?  Booth babes.  Axe gets a booth and hires some pretty ladies to spray anyone that comes in the booth to "test" their products.  Con funk gone and the nerds are none the wiser.

 

breast idea ever....   

[allen]

Spraying already funky con-goers with Axe?   

[LA Rabbit]

Spraying already funky con-goers with Axe?   

I have to agree that perfume is not a substitute for showering.  SDCC should set up showers for attendees that are sleeping in their cars or couch surfing.  That would be a valuable aid.

[Christopher Stark]

I have to agree that perfume is not a substitute for showering.  SDCC should set up showers for attendees that are sleeping in their cars or couch surfing.  That would be a valuable aid.

Well the only way people would willing go into a shower is if the women were in there also...

Hmmm... 

[BobBretall]

SDCC should set up showers for attendees that are sleeping in their cars or couch surfing.  That would be a valuable aid.

I must admit that I really didn't notice this as a prevalent problem at SDCC.

Maybe I'm tall enough so my nose is not at armpit-level.

[valance_the_hunter]

Patchouli oil is used to cover up the smell of hippy sex, but whenever I smell patchouli oil I think of hippy sex.

So if axe spray elicits a response to go jump in a bargain bin…I'm game.  

[Hassan T]

In Maryland, the police arrested a possible copycat that threaten his work place. He had 25 guns and several thousand bullets, but no costume. So maybe it isn't the costumes that we need to ban. 

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/maryland-cops-thwart-aurora-theater-shooting-copycat-discover-gun-stash-included-20-weapons-400-rounds-ammo-article-1.1123265

[Ojayy]

Save the cosplay for the bedroom!
but seriously, some people are just crazy. nothing else to blame not the parents just good of fashion and forgotten personal responsibility.

[Jordan]

So maybe it isn't the costumes that we need to ban. 

Karma for understatement of the year. 

[Tom Morris]

I think that best solution would be free mental health screenings for all.

[Wood]

Julian said it right.

While I'm not generally a fan of cosplay, I've come to accept it as part of the general goodwill of a convention.  I also think it's disingenuous to suggest that cosplayers are the major source of rudeness or logistical issues. I cannot tell you how often I've tried to navigate a con and been MYSTIFIED at the stymied, glassy eyed look on people. Non costumed people linger and meander too.  I'm also not sure it's possible for any group of people that aren't fast and nimble like a cat to really appear completely efficient in a major con setting. They're overcrowded and, in a way, going slowly is being polite.  If I pushed through people to get to where I was going, it would be faster...but I would legitimately be considered a dick in the process.

Back to Julian's point...the funk.  How on Earth can people not know they stink?  I mean, even if they somehow grew up in an environment where they were sheltered from the concept of deodorant, by now they had to have heard the stereotypes and thought, "Am I that guy?"

[BadDeacon]

Cosplay is cool, it's another fun way for people to connect to our hobby. I had a costume for the first time in SDCC, I dressed up as Pete Stanchek from Harbinger. Sure, that just means I wore a yellow sweatshirt.

People in costume, and people taking their picture, should arrange themselves parallel to the flow of traffic, not perpendicular, and they should probably not do it in artist alley, where walkways are about 2.5 people wide.

I am a sovereign American citizen, with all the freedom AND responsibility that entails. Do not take away my sovereignty, and do not take away my weapons.

[allen]

Any good discussion of cosplay and gun control should include a mention of Axe body spray, right?

[Christopher Stark]

Any good discussion of cosplay and gun control should include a mention of Axe body spray, right?

I did

[Former Poet Laureate]

I worked on the Gore campaign during my senior year at UT and that was a major factor.  FL wouldn't have mattered if Gore had won his home state.  I believe in hunting but only a lazy pussy hunts with a semi automatic machine gun.  Use a bow and arrows like our ancestors did.  Gun nuts just want hide how small their dicks and boobs are. 

Do Democrats just not understand the 2nd amendment on purpose, or is it pure ignorance? I'm really curious why they think the founding fathers thought it necessary to expressly preserve the right to....hunt.

I get the debate about what a "well-regulated militia" may or may not mean, but the 2nd amendment never had anything to do with hunting or sports. It has to do with the right to protect oneself from those who would take the other rights away, which the governments of our European ancestors did with regularity.

I've always had no problem with "open carry", in which anybody can walk around with a gun openly displayed, as long as it's openly displayed, because now everybody else knows you are armed. It was common to see this out west prior to California freaking out about the Black Panthers and reflexively banning what had been common practice for the first 200 years or so of the U.S.  In my childhood, on hunting trips, we brought shotguns into restaurants when were at lunch, and nobody cared (they weren't loaded, of course, but we didn't want to leave them in the back of the truck...)

[evaD]

Do Democrats just not understand the 2nd amendment on purpose, or is it pure ignorance? I'm really curious why they think the founding fathers thought it necessary to expressly preserve the right to....hunt.

I get the debate about what a "well-regulated militia" may or may not mean, but the 2nd amendment never had anything to do with hunting or sports. It has to do with the right to protect oneself from those who would take the other rights away, which the governments of our European ancestors did with regularity.

I've always had no problem with "open carry", in which anybody can walk around with a gun openly displayed, as long as it's openly displayed, because now everybody else knows you are armed. It was common to see this out west prior to California freaking out about the Black Panthers and reflexively banning what had been common practice for the first 200 years or so of the U.S.  In my childhood, on hunting trips, we brought shotguns into restaurants when were at lunch, and nobody cared (they weren't loaded, of course, but we didn't want to leave them in the back of the truck...)

I don't think it's on purpose, but I don't think your defense argument really works in this day and age either. I don't care how well armed you as a U.S. citizen are, you can't compete with the U.S. military. If it makes you feel safer, great, but I seriously doubt an armed citizenry is going to hold up well against a fully funded military.

[Dean S.]

It was common to see this out west prior to California freaking out about the Black Panthers and reflexively banning what had been common practice for the first 200 years or so of the U.S. 

This is a huge tangent, but it's interesting to me how many of our gun laws have their original roots in racist ideologies.  A lot of the early gun control laws were directed at trying to keep black people from having guns because they were worried about black folks retaliating for slavery (imagine that!) and because having black folks be unarmed made life easier for hate groups.  They mostly did this by banning cheap guns because blacks folks didn't tend to have much money (again....due to slavery).  Later this same tactic was used to keep the Irish and Italians from getting guns.  Even now, you see a trend in the gun control conversations that tries to identify gun owners as ignorant rednecks who are prone to irrational, violent acts because they can barely read.  This is nothing new....

In fact, I think it's generally interesting if you think (as I do) that owning a gun is an important freedom in our country.  A lot of the talk of banning guns addresses the inevitable black market by saying, "Well, it will at least make guns more expensive."  So, do poor people deserve less freedom than rich people?  Should rich people be the only ones who can afford to buy a gun that is in compliance with the regulations?  Should rich people be the only ones to can afford to pay the myriad fees associated with getting these licenses or taking all these safety classes?  Should rich people - who can more afford to take all day sitting in a government office waiting for their permit - be the only ones to qualify?

Mind you....I don't thing this is the most important aspect of the "gun control debate", but it is a side that I don't see brought up very often and it's worth considering.

And....I am strongly PRO SOAP at cons.  I always assume that the smelly people probably got up in the morning thinking "it's not so bad", but they stink by mid-afternoon.

[john_k]

The Aurora shooter was let in because they thought he was costumed and that the weaponry was costumed.
AMC is now and for the future banning costumed theater goers and any prop weaponry.

Is any of this true? (Apologies; I don't follow the news very closely but this doesn't resemble what I found with a quick Google.)