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Account Username posted:Also some of the personalities that she's claimed to have had are previous characters that she's played in various LARPS. So yes... you may be eaten by a vampire. Well gently caress.  Her current concept is based of a character from Deadlands: Hell on Earth. In short, a post-apocalyptic setting with monsters and mutations and stuff like that. Her character is a Savage, someone who's been living in the wilderness for a long time and knows jack poo poo about modern society, or what's left of it. She also has a thing for teaching kids how to fight and defend themselves. Now she wants to make a Brujah (stereotypically fighters and/or scholars) with a child army in a modern-day Vampire: the Masquerade larp.
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If it makes you feel better, it is possible to go from LARPing Vampire: the Masquerade to being a relatively sane, productive member of society. A bunch of my guy friends used to run around Kadena AFB in the mid-90s in leather trenchcoats and fedoras (at least one carrying a cane!) pretending to be bloodsuckers and they are all now gainfully employed, married to attractive, intelligent, non-batshit women, and in some cases raising kids who are also not batshit. I do still make fun of them about it whenever possible. For content, the next generation of these people is well on its way up. When my kid gets back from basic I should ask him for some more details about his weird friend Alex, he would fit right in in this thread. My son was involved peripherally in the theater department at his first high school, and Alex was one of the requisite theater weirdos. As a former theater kid myself, I tried to be welcoming to the misfits that came around to the house, but even with all my history of hanging out with crazy people I wasn't prepared for Alex. Alex wore the same dress shirt and tie every single day. He didn't stink, so I assume he washed it frequently. He had long hair that he didn't take terribly good care of (always clean, just ratty looking) and a wimpy little mustache and goatee that I'm sure he was very proud of. At the time I think he was about 15. He cornered me at my kid's birthday party one year and tried to woo me with verse. He was seriously in all-out romance mode. The poems were things he had supposedly written, but the majority of it was cribbed from various sources. I have two degrees in English, which are generally pretty useless, but they did require me to become familiar with a great deal of poetry. I was very creeped out by his attempt at hitting on me, but he was just so harmless and young and stupid that I had to try not to laugh. When my husband came into the kitchen Alex froze up dramatically and made a hasty exit. Then he spent the rest of the party eyeing my husband suspiciously. 
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angelfisher posted:No, I had to go to work. Think of it as a teaser trailer. At Upper Deck, we once got a letter in the mail from a kid who wrote "I know that Yu-Gi-Oh isn't real, but if it is real, I think you should send me a Millenium Puzzle and the pharaoh should inhabit me as I believe in the heart of the cards. So, if this is real, he should possess me." This was way more weird than the typical prison letters the customer service people had to read. So, Yu Gi Oh is either urban camo thugs-in-training or escapist lunatics. Oh, and in Chicago at minimum, there are past-midnight YGO tournaments where kids play "shiny for a shiny" and choke-outs over a tough loss and table-flipping are norms. These are held in White Castles and such. Holding a YGO tournament at a hotel might double your insurance premium/deposit due to previous destruction at that venue. It's loving insane. Blinkman987 fucked around with this message at 10:24 on Jun 27, 2012 |
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Blinkman987 posted:Oh, and in Chicago at minimum, there are past-midnight YGO tournaments where kids play "shiny for a shiny" and choke-outs over a tough loss and table-flipping are norms. These are held in White Castles and such. Holding a YGO tournament at a hotel might double your insurance premium/deposit due to previous destruction at that venue. It's loving insane. You mean loving awesome. I want to see a documentary about the underground card fighting leagues on the mean streets of the Windy City.
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Allen Wren posted:You mean loving awesome. I want to see a documentary about the underground card fighting leagues on the mean streets of the Windy City. "Nerdfights: Caught on Tape" Put that on TruTV.
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Actual nerd fights are awesome. There's something very special about it. Two drunken bro's full of testosterone puffing them selves up and going at it is boring as poo poo and always ends up like a lovely UFC fight/grapple. But have any of you seen a real full blown nerd fight? First of all the impotent rage! Nerds only fight when pushed to their breaking point. They aren't fighting to defend their macho honour, they're fighting due to pure nerd-rage. Second of all the total lack of physical ability/fighting skills. They will flail their arms, slap, pull hair, and try sort of anime inspired moves. They have no idea what they are doing. Third of all the sounds!! The screaming, the yelling, the screaming. Holy poo poo, to witness a full blown nerd fight. I would pay for a movie that was just nerd fights caught on tape. I've only witnessed a few. One at an anime club I shamefully went to in my highschool days. Another I saw outside of a games workshop. A third was a nerdy bully pushing another nerd to his breaking point. Nerd fights....
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RazorBunny posted:If it makes you feel better, it is possible to go from LARPing Vampire: the Masquerade to being a relatively sane, productive member of society. A bunch of my guy friends used to run around Kadena AFB in the mid-90s in leather trenchcoats and fedoras (at least one carrying a cane!) pretending to be bloodsuckers and they are all now gainfully employed, married to attractive, intelligent, non-batshit women, and in some cases raising kids who are also not batshit. Oh, I'm quite aware. I met a lot of my current friends at a Vampire larp, but most of them were already functional members of society before joining. Most of the players have real jobs, and many of them are taking time off from the game to raise families, or have kids old enough that they can hire a sitter on game nights. It's just not as interesting to talk about the well-adjusted players.
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RazorBunny posted:Alex wore the same dress shirt and tie every single day. He didn't stink, so I assume he washed it frequently. He had long hair that he didn't take terribly good care of (always clean, just ratty looking) and a wimpy little mustache and goatee that I'm sure he was very proud of. At the time I think he was about 15. He cornered me at my kid's birthday party one year and tried to woo me with verse. He was seriously in all-out romance mode. The poems were things he had supposedly written, but the majority of it was cribbed from various sources. I have two degrees in English, which are generally pretty useless, but they did require me to become familiar with a great deal of poetry. Ahhahahaha, Jesus Christ, I know fancying older women is an absolute cliche for a lot of teenage boys, but how socially inept do you have to be to actually try it on with your friend's mother? It's so terrible it's almost admirable. And the hairstyle, age and stupidity is horribly reminiscent of a terrible poster from a forum I used to be on too.
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RazorBunny posted:I was very creeped out by his attempt at hitting on me, but he was just so harmless and young and stupid that I had to try not to laugh. When my husband came into the kitchen Alex froze up dramatically and made a hasty exit. Then he spent the rest of the party eyeing my husband suspiciously.  Ugh, loving jocks. They don't know how to treat a real M'lady. If only she could see the inner me then I'd show her. I'd show them all!Hahah the visual you paint is perfect.
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The funny thing is my husband is an even bigger nerd than these kids. But Alex really did seem to think my husband wasn't good enough for me (and that somehow he could do better?). Our son had a different friend who was constantly trying to one-up us with geeky references, and when he realized that we've been watching obscure poo poo since before he was born, he decided to switch to attempting to shock me with graphic innuendo (that wasn't really that graphic, since he has never had sex and is too awkward to even watch porn, so it was all conjecture basically). It was all I could do to not laugh in his face.
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:So wait, what did it mean when I saw two cops playing YuGiOh in a McDs in Chicago once? It means that YuGiOh started out nearly 15 years ago, and the original audience is starting to hold normal people jobs, while still goofing off to their childhood pastimes from time to time 
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Rexides posted:It means that YuGiOh started out nearly 15 years ago, and the original audience is starting to hold normal people jobs, while still goofing off to their childhood pastimes from time to time That can't be right. I was playing YuGiOh when it started (in the U.S.) and I'm not old! ... AM I?! No, I'm not. Still pretty , though, and I WAS kind of at the young side of those fads.
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And I thought the kid who believed X-men were real and that he was Wolverine ("the claws almost came out during church, I had to run into the bathroom to hide them" etc) seemed crazy. This is some next-level poo poo though. If half of the stories in this thread are actually true, humanity just became quite a bit more depressing to me. Hilarious, but painful to think about.
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When I was like 5 I used to think I could be a wizard. And I thought that was silly! Holy crap this is just download depressing and hilarious! I don't know if this has been answered yet but how old are you all now? And do they still think this way? I mean I feel bad for you guys cause you obviously had some family issues growing up but wow. There is a point in your life you just have to suck it up and be an adult. I'm hoping that shes no longer this mental - if she is an adult now. Somehow, I doubt it. EDIT: Yeah just read through it holy poo poo she makes me boil with rage. I feel so awful for her father. Al Borland fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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RazorBunny posted:Our son had a different friend who was constantly trying to one-up us with geeky references, and when he realized that we've been watching obscure poo poo since before he was born, he decided to switch to attempting to shock me with graphic innuendo (that wasn't really that graphic, since he has never had sex and is too awkward to even watch porn, so it was all conjecture basically). It was all I could do to not laugh in his face. The Kid: "Yeah, there's this girl right? And she totally likes *butt* stuff!" Oh gosh, that's really amazing. Wow, total shocker there buddy. Hahah a friend of mine is a hoot to hang around. She's in her late 50's or early 60's and welp, she was a lovely and willing lady back in the 60's. Yes *those* 60's. Holy poo poo some of the stuff she got up to makes *me* blush and I'm a jaded internet nerd.  some of it was butt stuff.
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And, without being an actual psychiatrist either, I think that "sucking it up and being an adult" is what you have to do if you still waste all your time playing video games at age 30, not when you have an untreated mental condition that makes you think that you can shoot fireballs. I mean, I laughed as much as the next goon with these stories, and got angry when these people were being inconsiderate to others, but I never once thought that it was a matter of not choosing to become responsible adults over delusional man babies. Rexides fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Jul 2, 2012 |
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Have I been reading this thread too much when I heard from Marc Maron that Sai Baba died I immediately thought of that crazy law school chick story from a few dozen pages back? I didn't know he had his own incense scent (Nag Champa or some such).
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Rexides posted:I remember a thread in A/T a few years back, about a girl claiming to have an actual multiple personality disorder. Of course there were posters who doubted her, but all in all it was an interesting read, and she made no claims that she was not batshit insane. Anyway, one of the things she mentioned, from what I remember, was that she had those personalities from as long as she could remember, and considered it normal until it was explained to her that other people don't, in fact, have multiple people living in their heads. I'm pretty sure that was Lissedae, and if you've been waiting for something really good to make archives worth shelling out the money, this is it! First there was the DID thread that you remember. It's archived in the gas chamber now: http://forums.somethingawful.com//showthread.php?threadid=1796748&userid=0&perpage=40&highlight=&pagenumber=1 But wait! It gets better! Lissedae is the woman-child who had the Zelda wedding! She posted three threads about her Zelda wedding. The first two threads were posted on the same day in May 2007. The first thread was one of the most popular Lissedae threads and it's now archived in the Goldmine: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2493560&highlight= ^^^^^Pro-click if you have Archives! The second thread was an ask/tell about planning a wedding: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2493619&highlight= The third (and final) thread was a follow-up thread on the Zelda wedding posted in July of 2007. It's also archived in the goldmine. Lissedae decided that she needed to show the nay-saying goons who had mocked her plans how wonderful her Zelda wedding turned out. Fortunately for all of us (who have Archives) the photos are still intact! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2566121 (Have I told you that you should get Archives?) All three Zelda wedding threads were incredibly funny (in my opinion). If you feel bad about people making fun of self-diagnosed mentally ill drama queens, then you probably won't like them. If you just like a giant attention-whore trainwreck, these three threads are the ones for you! Enjoy. Apology fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Jul 3, 2012 |
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That's a great addition to the thread, but I am pretty sure that it was not her I was talking about. I don't remember any of her personalities being "the goddess of discord" or other drama queen bullshit, I think they were all pretty boring dudes/women who were mostly minding their own business inside a girl's head.
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Note: there seem to be a lot of southern Ontario folks in this thread, so I'm changing names. Please no internet detectiving. While I didn't really know any crazies in highschool or college, I went from working for the Canadian government on contract to needing a new job asap when it ran out. I'd made friends with a cool dude named Joe, who was running anime viewings at the college down the street from me. He was working full-time at a local comic book store that was actually a two minute walk from my house. It's really hard to get an interview there because, as you can imagine, every nerd, 14 and up in the area drops off a resume there. Now, the thing you need to understand is that the reason they were hiring was that they'd bought out a separate store in the same mall and moved all of their anime stuff there, and the new store was a bit understaffed. The boss, Dave, had promoted a long time employee, named Liz, from the main store to be the manager there, and they were looking for someone who wanted to work there because they 'wanted to work' as opposed to 'wanted to work in a cool awesome comic book store devoted to things from Japan'. Joe managed to get me an interview within the week, and I got the job because I had years of sales experience, knew the products, and wasn't batshit insane like most people who applied. For the first little while, everything seemed great. My co-workers were all pretty down to Earth, wacky things constantly happened (like my boss bringing in armour and swords so he could take pictures of his staff in fake death matches) and the customers, while sometimes a little weird, were nice enough. It got to the point where I'd sometimes hang out with my co-workers after work, which progressed to kind of being friends with some of them. Liz actually introduced us to some awesome people who are currently some of my best friends. I think that, if I had really been looking out for it, I'd have seen the signs and maybe stepped back a bit--every work place has its little dramas, and I was no stranger to weird retail in-fighting and back-stabbing, but the level of crazy poo poo that happened beyond this point was horrible and stressful enough that I'm not sure I could have predicted that it would ever get that bad. Enter Frank! Also, raaaan does inventory and finds suspicuious things!  Liz, the manager, was probably two years younger than me and had been working at the store since she was 14 (at this point, she was 20). She'd dropped out of highschool, and Dave took pity on her. It was at about that time that anime/manga was just starting to gain interest over here, and since Dave wanted to make sure he was keeping up with the times, he hired Liz on the spot because she knew a little about it. She'd progressed into a 'family friend' kind of person for him and his wife and kids, and when I was hired, she was in the process of moving in with her boyfriend, Frank. Now, when you're working in a place that has under 20 employees, word usually travels fast. It travels even faster when your manager's boyfriend comes in and tells someone he's only recently met (me!) that the reason they're moving in together is because he, Liz, Liz's ex and a mutual female friend had all been 'dating'. Like, a group. When they'd entered this four-person relationship, Frank had been with female mutual friend until he and Liz couldn't control themselves and started seeing each other behind Liz's ex's back, at Liz and Ex's apartment. Naturally, he caught them in the act, and after two weeks of dating Frank, the two of them applied for an apartment (in the same building as Ex), were moving in together and had gotten 'engaged' (promise ring, not real ring). Frank told me all of this with the smuggest smile. I had no idea what to make of this, because we had 1) just met, 2) he kind of went into a lot of graphic detail and 3) it was too much information. This was before I'd even really started hanging out with people after work--I was busy, I was planning my wedding for later that year, and all of my interaction with Liz at this point had been purely professional. And Frank thought I needed to know aaaalll about how a four person relationship worked, and what the group etiquette for who was sleeping with whom, etc., was like. Oooohhhkaaay. Anyhow, I was still learning about the store, and it was about this time that I noticed something--Liz was lazy as poo poo. She was our manager, but her job seemed to consist of her delegating all the work to Joe and myself while she would read the latest yaoi mangas a local reviewer who was working for several magazines had sold back to the store. The way that worked was that she'd get new titles weeks before they came out to review, and then, since she was reviewing because it was her job and not because she wanted a pile of free anime crap, the reviewer had worked out a deal with Dave where she could sell them to our store at the same price that Diamond would have sold them to us, in exchange for cash instead of store credit. That meant we'd have a copy of a book that we might not even necessarily have ordered on the shelf before it was even released. This was especially true with yaoi titles for some reason. So Liz would spend most of her day behind the cash register, ignoring customers, reading trashy yaoi and generally just making it harder for us to do our jobs because we'd have to work around her or interrupt her to use the computer. Now, because they were moving in together, and both Liz and Frank had rather large anime statue collections and a lot of the same manga collections, Dave was letting them sell stuff back to the store for cash, too. They'd brought in about 7 giant boxes full of stuff, and Dave asked me to go through it and take inventory of everything so that we could look it up in the system and he could make her an offer for it. I did, and as I was doing it, I noticed something really strange. I was pulling a bunch of yaoi mangas out of these boxes that, according to our system, we had never had in stock. We'd never had one in the system, and we'd never sold one to anyone, including Liz. But they were absolutely titles that I remembered our friend the Reviewer bringing in to sell back to the store. In short, the procedure for that is: Reviewer sells us yaoi, usually to Joe or myself> Liz reads yaoi behind counter instead of actually working> Liz finishes reading manga and eventually gets around to entering them in the system> They go on the shelf. Buying things as an employee's procedure goes like this: Take things you want to buy to the counter, like a regular customer > you get 25% discount, and the employee at the counter transfers it out of the store's inventory instead of making a sale > employee at the counter pulls out binder and hand writes list of things you bought down, how much it cost before and after discount, and how much you paid in cash, or how much money went on your tab if you didn't pay right away, and then signs for it> you take your poo poo home. From where I was looking at things, what looked like went down was: I bough yaoi books from reviewer, which is why I recognized the titles, using money from the till> Liz read them, took them home for a couple weeks, did not ever enter them in the system, and then decided to sell them back to the store with all of her junk. If anyone but me had been doing inventory, no one would have noticed. And it wasn't just a couple books, it was like 25 of them, and she wanted to sell them back to the store at $7 a piece 9because we usually sell them for between $14 and $22 Canadian. $175 of books, and there were other things that were suspicious in the boxes, too (like two of the same dvd box set, both unopened and with the original price tags still on them). At this point, I brought the issue to Mark, the manager of the regular comic book main store. Up until this point, I had no idea that Mark hated Liz and was itching to get her fired. He sat me down, had me explain my findings, and then the both of us played detective and scoured through every purchase she'd ever made in the binder, and every transfer out that was listed as something being sold to her. Those books were just not accounted for. Past me buying them initially, there was no record of them. Mark brought this info to Dave and broke the news that Liz had been stealing things and was trying to sell them back to the store. So this is where she'd get fired and possibly charged with something, right? Hahahah, no. So, basically, here's how it went down in several points: 1) Dave checked over all of our evidence, and completely ignored it. 2) He went to Liz and told her that things looked suspicious, but he was sure that she had just borrowed them from the store and forgot to return them. naturally, she took that out and agreed that that was what had happened. 3) He took Joe and myself aside and attempted to convince us that, perhaps, we had been mistaken, and that we hadn't actually seen what we had seen. 4) Mark took me aside and told me that Dave could not believe that his family friend, Liz, would ever do something like that so he had chosen to disbelieve instead. He also told me that Dave was constantly coming to Liz'a rescue--he just gave Liz a large pile of money when she decided to move in with Frank, and also bought them furniture because they didn't have any. He urged me to keep any eye out for any more weird stuff. And that was that. I know that this doesn't sound like a story about a delusional crazy, but oh my god this escalates. Anyhow, it's hot as poo poo in this room, and I'm currently 8 months pregnant, so I'm going to have to give it a rest. Here's preview of what I will be writing about next, in chronological order: Liz is the QUEEN of cosplay, because everyone else is too fat. Liz accidentally hires her eventual replacement. Frank needs to one-up everyone with...misery? And also expensive things. Liz gets Wrath of the Lich King....uh, I mean, sick. Really sick. For a year. Dave makes excuses to give Liz free money! Dave's wife does not approve. Frank buys a house to one-up me (who did not buy a house?) Frank loses his job, Liz is STILL sick. But they buy a dog and all new furniture anyways! Joe loses his poo poo and quits because Dave is trying to rewrite our memories! Liz actually comes into work (to steal t-shirts), despite her newly developed agoraphobia! Frank loses three part time jobs; house. 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raaaan posted:Liz is the QUEEN of cosplay, because everyone else is too fat. Thank you for letting us know that she does get what's coming to her eventually. My faith in humanity survives to see another page of this threat.
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raaaan posted:Liz is the QUEEN of cosplay, because everyone else is too fat. Oh man. I can only hope the grand finale involves Dave and Liz eloping and moving to Japan. Frank reminds me so much of some of the crazy guys I know, too (though I'm no Canadian). I can't wait! 
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Lolance posted:After so long with so little I am so excited about this thread. I also feel I missed out on a lot in life by never diving in with these people. Yeah, I knew a lot of crazies, but nothing on this scale of insanity. I'm glad of course, but part of me can't help feeling disappointed somehow.
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Yoshi Jjang posted:I... think you mean Frank? Unless that Chris guy has only been mentioned once in this story. Haha, that's what happens when I'm distracted while writing. Chris was someone I was talking to while I was typing. I'm bad for that. :/ Anyhow. Liz is the QUEEN of cosplay, because everyone else is too fat. Part of working in a store that almost exclusively sells anime is going to conventions (the biggest reason I'm changing names--I've already seen people mention at least three conventions in this thread that my past employers have a major presence at), and part of getting people's attention at your store's tables is generally cosplay. A lot of the girls who work for the store, as well as volunteer, tend to pick a theme and collaborate on who's who so there isn't three people dressed as the same character, and for a lot of them, cosplay is a major hobby. I never got into it myself (especially after seeing the kind of money they end up dropping on it), and, in truth, have only ever worked one convention--it was horrible and every year after that one I either volunteered to man the counter back at the store or managed to get an artist's alley table and booked the weekend off so that I could actually make real money. Liz and a girl who works at one of our other locations, Andy, were both big into cosplay, and often wanted to be the same popular character of the year. The first time I noticed the drama around this was because they basically had an all out blow-up at each other over the phone, in the middle of the store, and then through the store's email address where the rest of us were supposed to be checking in often in case people wanted to order things by mail or ask us questions. The costume in question was Yoko from Gurren Lagann, who, for anyone who isn't familiar with the show is basically a chick with a too-small bikini top, short shorts, cowboy boots and a giant wig. While she ranted and screamed on the phone (in front of increasingly uncomfortable customers that Joe and I were trying to placate in the background), it became clear that her reasoning for why Andy couldn't dress up as Yoko was that it would be 'unflattering'. Here's a drawing for comparison:  The key differences here are the lack of them--height, weight and figure are mostly the same. Otherwise, Liz generally wore clothes that were too small for her and gave her awesome, extreme muffin-top action, wore dayglo makeup and was covered in full body acne. By comparison, Andy dressed like a normal human being and wore clothes that actually fit. I had a sneaking suspicion that 'unflattering' meant something else in this instance, and it was confirmed for me later that day when we were trying to make polite conversation and maybe calm her down a little.  "I don't see the big deal--it doesn't really affect either of you if you happen to be wearing the same costume. Especially since you're working on different days at the con." "I just feel sorry for her. She's going to embarrass herself." "I think she'll pull it off okay. The both of you will." "No, I mean that there are plenty of anime characters that she could cosplay that are black if she looks hard enough." "...sorry?"Yeaaaaah, so despite the fact that the two of them were supposedly on friendly terms, Liz was apparently some sort of closet cosplay racist! Who knew! The both of them ended up dressing as Yoko, and the difference was that Liz was generally seconds away from a costume malfunction the entire time because it was, again, too small for her. Bonus stuff: 1) The following year, since Liz and Frank were both crazy attention whores, the two of them dropped nearly a thousand bucks on costumes each. While I won't tell you what fandom or characters they were dressed up as (since I think you can find a video of it up on youtube), I can tell you that Frank also bought a huge rear end, $6000 engagement ring (while he was between jobs!) and the two of them made a giant spectacle of themselves by getting engaged in the middle of a scheduled [fandom] photoshoot. Frank did not shut up about how much that ring cost for months, and Liz kept bringing the youtube video of their engagement up on the work computer to show pretty much every customer who ever came to the counter for the next six months. :/ 2) He was mentioned way back in this thread, but I, too, had an encounter with Glue Guy in an artist's alley at a convention. It was my first con ever, and also first time selling. He approached, started his pitch about wanting to commission me, and as soon as he got to 'stuck in glue' I interrupted him and told him that I was already up to my ears in commissions and had to pass. My table-mate was a male friend of mine from college, and he, liking money, jumped right in with 'I'm available to do one!' Glue guy looked a bit stunned that I'd just cut him off, and I guess he forgot half of his pitch or something, because he agreed, and told my buddy he could draw any character, and forgot to specify female. When he came back to pick up the picture the next day, my buddy handed him a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog trying to escape from glue by running really fast. I have never seen anyone so disappointed with a commission. 3) We got a lot of crazies at the comic store. The best by far was this one guy. I was putting some books on a shelf, and there's this nerdy couple a couple rows away having a loud conversation about naruto or something, and one of them addresses this guy who was looking at stuff in the same isle. he curtly answers their question, and then leaves the isle, and approaches me. We make small talk about the store for a minute, and I don't notice anything particularly off about this guy--he's actually kind of good-looking, well dressed, good hygiene, good teeth. Looks kinda like Ryan Gosling but maybe 17-19 years old, I guess. He even makes a joke about the couple who spoke to him--something about how they were a bit too nerdy to make conversation with. And then he busts this out:  "Yeah, I'm not really into this stuff, but I have nothing to do. I lost my job, so I'm putting out resumes." "Yeah, this recession is kind of bullshit." "Oh, I wasn't fired from a regular job. I was dishonorably discharged from the Canadian Armed Forces for pulling five people out of a burning building, against my CO's orders." "Uhhhhh...." "Worse still, my leg was crushed by falling debris, so they had to replace my bones from the knee down with robotic parts. *rolls up his pantleg* Feel this!" "I have to go take my lunch break now." "That's okay! Oh, here comes the mother of my child! Bye!"In the following weeks he actually came back a couple times, and while I didn't deal with him directly, my co-workers all had stories to tell me, including the time where he was talking to one lady at the counter and, mid sentence, did a bunch of Naruto-esque hand signals whilst shouting 'Tiger, Eagle, Wolf!' and then announcing that he could now 'run faster', and the time where he tried to convince another co-worker that he had predicted his grandmother's death using Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. :/
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Please don't stop writing.
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raaaan posted:My table-mate was a male friend of mine from college, and he, liking money, jumped right in with 'I'm available to do one!' Glue guy looked a bit stunned that I'd just cut him off, and I guess he forgot half of his pitch or something, because he agreed, and told my buddy he could draw any character, and forgot to specify female. When he came back to pick up the picture the next day, my buddy handed him a picture of Sonic the Hedgehog trying to escape from glue by running really fast. I have never seen anyone so disappointed with a commission. This is completely magical. The fact that I'm picturing it in my head as the little GOTTA GO FAST crayon-Sonic-blob only makes it better. (Did the dude still pay up? Or are commissions at cons a pay-up-front endeavor?)
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raaaan posted:
 Antivehicular posted:Or are commissions at cons a pay-up-front endeavor?
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Apology posted:I'm pretty sure that was Lissedae, and if you've been waiting for something really good to make archives worth shelling out the money, this is it! This almost makes me feel bad for my Warcraft-Themed Groom's cake. I guess i haven't read far enough into any of the threads because they don't seem that crazy to me(have not seen anything furry-related yet). My wedding wasn't themed outside of that cake. My wife's aunt made the cake and placed figures and little weapons we bought off of ebay and we were proud to have some sort of nerdiness in our wedding. 
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Difference being that your cake is loving awesome as hell
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