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Space Fish posted:Among larger conventions though, I always have a good time at C2E2 and HeroesCon. They'll attract some celebrities for the casual crowd, but also plenty of talent for panels and signings. Nothing that overpowers the show itself. Something for everyone, and without drowning in a mob like at the big Comic-Cons or DragonCon. HeroesCon is pretty drat awesome. I've gone for the last four years, and it's been super fun every time. Last year I got attacked by Matt Chapman and the Homestar Runner puppet. It was great. 
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Frankly I do not go to cons or comic book shops. Both are full of undesirable people (workers and customers).
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Aug 21, 2016 06:49
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Mr Hootington posted:Frankly I do not go to cons or comic book shops. Both are full of undesirable people (workers and customers). 
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Aug 21, 2016 06:52
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Holds up for the most part, I'd drop The Cosby Show a couple spots just because of what we know now. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Aug 21, 2016 |
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Aug 21, 2016 06:53
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Seriously gently caress McLean Stevenson!
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Aug 21, 2016 06:54
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Wow. Hudson Hawk and the metric system? gently caress you buddy.
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Space Fish posted:Libraries across America have been putting on miniature "cons" the past few years, with admins at other libraries all leaning over their younger staff and asking, "So how about those conventions, huh? What if our library had one?" The result is usually a day-long mixture of cosplay contest, artist/vendor alley, some local talent, a woefully misplaced local author or two ("Why don't these pop culture nerds want to read my book? Historical fiction is its own form of cosplay!"), a make-your-own-comics lesson for the kiddies, and if they're lucky, a big name that draws an attentive crowd. Oh my god a local library in my city did one of these, I didn't even know it happened until I saw it on the news that night. Judging by the report all they had was some artists I've never ever heard of and some of the saddest Batmen I've ever seen. I don't think I've ever felt a stronger sense of second-hand embarrassment.
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TwoPair posted:Oh my god a local library in my city did one of these, I didn't even know it happened until I saw it on the news that night. Judging by the report all they had was some artists I've never ever heard of and some of the saddest Batmen I've ever seen. I don't think I've ever felt a stronger sense of second-hand embarrassment. Our local library wanted to do FCBD two years ago so they worked out a deal with us to get books. Then half the poo poo they ordered ended up not being all ages appropriate despite my warnings so they left us holding our dick on 1000 books. So this year they asked to do it again and we were like "sure but here's a written contract." Then then don't contact us until 4 days before and ask where their books are and we're like "where's the order you were supposed to place?" So then one of the employees reaches out to diamond to bitch about us not following through with our deal and wow did our rep get pissed off at us for a while. I really hope they call about it this next year so I can slam the receiver down as hard as possible.
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Aug 21, 2016 07:12
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Reminder that Marvel Coolometers aren't a list of things that are cool to uncool, it's a ranking of topics being discussed that month. Case in point, this one isn't saying serial killers are cooler than Beverly Hills 90210.
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Aug 21, 2016 08:06
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Dario the Wop posted:Case in point, this one isn't saying serial killers are cooler than Beverly Hills 90210. Well, that wouldn't be wrong.
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Dario the Wop posted:Reminder that Marvel Coolometers aren't a list of things that are cool to uncool, it's a ranking of topics being discussed that month. This poo poo is like Little Kid Message Board. 
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Aug 21, 2016 08:18
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Druids are never not cool, I don't know what's going on there.
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Aug 21, 2016 09:50
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Mr Hootington posted:Frankly I do not go to cons or comic book shops. Both are full of undesirable people (workers and customers). This, plus undesireable physical paper based products. The future is better.
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Aug 21, 2016 10:12
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I don't mind reading digitally, but I just like having some thongs on physical form and in my hands.
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Roth posted:I don't mind reading digitally, but I just like having some thongs on physical form and in my hands. You are absolutely not getting out of this slip.
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END ME SCOOB posted:You are absolutely not getting out of this slip. He just said he preferred having the slip!
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Aug 21, 2016 12:23
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I can't type with touch screens I'm not even fixing it, wearing that typo with pride.
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Aug 21, 2016 12:24
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Roth posted:I'm not even fixing it, wearing that typo with pride. Like your thongs.
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If you're going to cons to just wander the dealer room you're Doing It Wrong.
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X-O posted:This, plus undesireable physical paper based products. The future is better. What paper products? Conventions and comic book shops sell POP!s and Steampunk attire.
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Aug 21, 2016 18:42
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X-O posted:This, plus undesireable physical paper based products. The future is better. Yeah I've come around to this. Don't have to keep 30 long boxes around.
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Mover posted:Druids are never not cool, I don't know what's going on there.  "Agreed."
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NorgLyle posted:
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Did this get posted before?Letters of Note posted:In 2013, a then-9-year-old boy named Joshua wrote to his hero, Alan Moore, the genius responsible for writing such classics as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Joshua’s father recently told me by email: The whole thing is a bit long but is worth checking out.
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Oh, so it's okay for the nine year old to love Rorschach, but I can't.  (joking)
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WickedHate posted:Oh, so it's okay for the nine year old to love Rorschach, but I can't. You're right, we shouldn't expect more from you than we do of a nine year old 
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Rorshach's an interesting character, but people who idolize him are really creepy to me.
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Alhazred posted:You're right, we shouldn't expect more from you than we do of a nine year old Exactly! Roth posted:Rorshach's an interesting character, but people who idolize him are really creepy to me. I don't think he should be idollized per say, I just don't think he's as much of a monster as people tend to paint him as. He absolutely has bad mental issues and a notable problem with women and gays*, but part of the appeal of Watchmen is how flawed the entire cast is in their own ways. *possibly internalized homophobia? must investigate further
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WickedHate posted:Exactly! Don't forget minorities and the left.
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Confession: Have never actually read the book, just adore the movie. I've just honestly never had the opportunity, but I've listened to and read a lot of analysis of it.
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Mystery solved.
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Rorscach is easily my favourite character in Watchmen, but the whole point of him is that he's damaged beyond repair by society. Looking at him and going "alright, so he's hobo Batman with gay issues" is reductive - he spends most of his page time making nihilistic monologues to himself which makes him seem cool to teenagers, but he holds deeply conservative values across the board because tradition offers meaning and stability; he's completely detached from society and judges it from the perspective not of an outsider but a cast-out. When he fails to rescue the girl and 'becomes' Rorscach he frames it as understanding the meaninglessness of life, but it's not true - the Comedian is the one who understood it, Rorscach denied it and lives in denial; he uses his vigilantism as a structure to hide from the horrors of meaninglessness. He's retreated from an actual life into the only meaning he can find - obsessively fighting crime. His cowardice is culminated as he kneels in the snow begging Manhattan to kill him to protect Ozymandias' plan, as he searches once more for a way to give life meaning. His journey is the inverse of Manhattan's - they both begin the book detached from society, but whereas Manhattan returns to it finding new purpose in his life, Rorschach moves further away from it into the filth he defensively has surrounded himself in and dies in want of purpose because he cannot accept that all of the horrible things he's seen, done and had done to him really meant nothing.
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WickedHate posted:Confession: Have never actually read the book, just adore the movie. I've just honestly never had the opportunity, but I've listened to and read a lot of analysis of it. Oh my god
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WickedHate posted:Confession: Have never actually read the book, just adore the movie. I've just honestly never had the opportunity, but I've listened to and read a lot of analysis of it. Reading analysis without reading the work for yourself when it's something as accessible as Watchmen is kind of dumb.
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WickedHate why must you do this every week.
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WickedHate posted:Confession: Have never actually read the book, just adore the movie. I've just honestly never had the opportunity, but I've listened to and read a lot of analysis of it. JFC
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Hey, I knew yall'd react that way. It's not like I don't want to read the book I've just never gotten around to it.
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