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TakinawaTonfa
Joined: 24 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:46 pm |
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| energydan wrote: | | They should be glad that's all that happened to them. It's Baltimore! Anytime you can go to Baltimore and back without being stabbed, shot, or raped, it's been a successful day! |
Isn't it like that with just about every big city the country? C'mon the Inner Harbor is pretty safe.
Anyways, as far as the heckling goes, as long as there wasn't anything physical, fine. You gotta learn to deal with jackasses sometime in your life. |
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Deltakiral
Joined: 07 Oct 2004
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Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK)
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| lillink wrote: | | Camden Yards where all of the vendors set up with their "Red Sox Suck" and "Yankees Suck" shirts and such |
I got to be honest I have purchase a Yankees Suck (along with an A-Rod is a B.....) shirt when I whent to fenway. It' was all in good fun thou, I don't wear them to the game but they are nice a piece of merchandise to remember my trip.
@mitsuki_chanx3 please don't use different color fonts, it's quite hard to read.
| PeaceMaker1 wrote: | | I'm glad the cosplayers were harassed. They need to get a grip of reality and stop running around home-made costumes that look downright ridiculous. I enjoy watching anime and that's about as far as it goes. There's no need for all the dressing up. |
Irony: your name is peacemaker......you think it's a good thing to mock a group of people because they are different.
| Zac wrote: | | The Yankees fans were just being dicks. |
 ahh Zac you bring a smile to my face with your witty humor......thanks.
| NGE1113 wrote: | | Sorry, didn't mean to offend or bad mouth the Red Sox |
None taken, Sox fan's can get a little out of control. But the ticket prices is what is really out of control about Boston.
| NGE1113 wrote: | | Heck, one of the reasons I like RFK is that I can pick up an outfield ticket for $3 most of the time. |
I am the same way I normally go to the angels games on Tuesday because there are $3 tickets, plus $7 parking. So it's still a good deal, and I normally move down into $40 seats after a few innings.
Till next time,
Delta Kiral |
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Dellchat
Joined: 03 Nov 2003
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:06 pm |
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Just wanted to mention that some of the baseball fans came a bit early and had time to kill, so paid $60 at the door just to wonder around for 2-3 hours.
Oddly, most who did this were Orioles fans. Yankees fans screamed "SIXTY DOLLARS?!" and walked away.... |
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james_bond
Joined: 13 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:30 pm |
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| Zac wrote: | | PeaceMaker1 wrote: | | I'm glad the cosplayers were harassed. They need to get a grip of reality and stop running around home-made costumes that look downright ridiculous. I enjoy watching anime and that's about as far as it goes. There's no need for all the dressing up. |
Yeah, anyone who approaches anime as a hobby differently than you do deserves to be publically mocked.
It's a convention. They go there specifically to be surrounded by like-minded people who are just there to have a good time. The Yankees fans were just being dicks. |
I love anime, and I love going to conventions and seeing all the fans come out and dress up. Although I have never dressed up and probably never will I sill respect them for it. And I feel that under no circumstance should any one ever be publicly mocked or harassed. I always felt that there was a large level of expectance at an anime convention because anime fans have learned humility but now I know there are jerks every ware only difference is jerks at anime conventions are to cowardly to say any thing there so they go home and bash people in forms. |
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Furudanuki
Joined: 29 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:46 pm |
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| PeaceMaker1 wrote: | | I'm glad the cosplayers were harassed. They need to get a grip of reality and stop running around home-made costumes that look downright ridiculous. I enjoy watching anime and that's about as far as it goes. There's no need for all the dressing up. |
Now, where have I heard this kind of thing before. That, and the variants on "they should keep it to themselves in the convention hall". Oh yeah, now I remember! "Of course she got raped! What did she expect, walking around dressed like that: she was just asking for it!" |
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MezzoFan
Joined: 28 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:24 pm |
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| What makes this news even better is the fact that some people from the baseball game got into the convention (without having badges) and were wandering around, playing games in the game room and stuff. |
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God Gundam
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:25 pm |
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I hope there's no game during the next Anime Expo. I'd hate to see what happens when Man-Faye goes to a game. 
I'm sure glad I didn't witness anything like this at Anime Boston this year, seeing as how the Red Sox were playing. But then again, Steve Blum would've knocked out anyone who dissed the cosplayers.  |
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Dark Chi
Joined: 23 Sep 2005
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Location: Hades
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:25 pm |
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| Nabeshin wrote: | | RezSav wrote: |
It was funny because this guy knew what he was talking about, a few quotes where: "What, you don't watch Family Guy? No Lupin the third?" He even pronounced Lupin right, good stuff. |
It's nice when the rest of the media gets it right once in a while-- unlike virtually every NY Times article ever written on the subject. Samurai Champloo about ninjas?  |
AGREED! |
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God Gundam
Joined: 05 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:27 pm |
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| MezzoFan wrote: | | What makes this news even better is the fact that some people from the baseball game got into the convention (without having badges) and were wandering around, playing games in the game room and stuff. |
Yeah, the same thing happened at Anime Boston. I was talking to this guy playing Halo, and he said, "It's cool that this con is free," to which I replied, "Dude, you're supposed to pay $50 at the door." He was like "Screw that," and didn't even notice the staff member who overheard the entire conversation. I would've stayed to see what happened to him, but I had DVDs to get signed. |
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Bob Loblaw
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:29 pm |
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Who gives a flying 'eff what a bunch of meatheads think? These dopes would probably heckle an old lady who'd fall into the street and get hit by a car. Heckling cosplayers is just another day for 'em.
| TAKAVAR wrote: | | Well, cons are there for anime fans, and cosplay is acceptable within the fandom, but you take it out side of it, well , thats what you get for not going by the norms. I think a con without cosplayer is pointless, and a cosplayer outside a con is just stupid. |
Uh, yeah, keep thinking that buddy. Half the things people wear around Manhattan look right at home in an anime convention, and few people give a damn because it's Manhattan; par for course.
I've never cosplayed, but I give some props to people who do. Many do it for the attention (obvs) and for the fun. But anyone who cosplays should do so with the understanding that they're going to get mocked. I'm not saying they should just hide in their rooms or something, between panels and contests. Nuh-uh. Just be prepared is all I'm saying. This isn't an ideal world. And not even conventions are a safe-haven from the usual immature BS. To most folks reading this, I'm probably not even writing anything you don't already know.
Of course, if you go as a real-deal Grappler Baki cosplayer or someone who looks like they can kick the collective asses of drunk baseball fans, I think you'll be all right.  |
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Crawly
Joined: 19 Feb 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 6:52 pm |
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| username115 wrote: | | Heh, when I was up there, I didn't get heckled. It was more people trying to avoid me and/or get their kids away from me. And I wasn't even in one of the 'stranger' costumes out there. |
This was similar to what happened with us the year we went. We didn't cosplay, and I think that's why the foreign tourists stopped us to ask what was going on. They actually looked a little scared until we explained what it all was (the husband's English was slow, but good, and he translated for them). Then it seemed to make perfect sense to them, though they still seemed a little iffy on what side of the street to walk on. The picked a heck of a weekend to come to Baltimore.  |
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SharinganEyes92
Joined: 27 Feb 2006
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Location: Chilling out on summer vacation....
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:14 pm |
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| biliano wrote: | | I don't think it was a wise idea for Orioles fans to be heckling the cosplayers. Last I checked, the O's haven't done much of anything since 1997. |
Last I saw, none of their sports teams are doing very well. The last good team was the Ravens in 2000, winning the Super Bowl. Their lacrosse team sucks (NJ Pride do too, so I really shouldn't talk, but we have Kyle Harrison!), they don't have an NHL team, and the Orioles just suck.
But when I go to MangaNEXT, I don't plan on cosplaying, just wearing my kick-ass Bleach shirt from Akihabara. |
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Wyvern
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:07 pm |
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The best exchange I heard was between someone dressed as one of the Shinigami from Bleach and a guy in a Yankees jersey. Yankee guy yelled something how it's gay to dress up in costumes in public, and Bleach guy retorted, "oh yeah? And what position on do you play on the Yankees?"
The point is obvious: about half the people at the game were cosplaying, too, even if they didn't realize it. Either that, or there's a WHOLE lot of people with the last name "Jeter."  |
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stagedive_25
Joined: 20 Jun 2004
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Location: San Francisco
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:33 pm |
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This stuff NEVER happens in California. That's why I don't want to ever step foot in the East Coast nor the MidWest.
At Comic Con in San Diego, people cosplay in weirder anime, comic book, and sci-fi stuff yet the Padres fans never give any of us grief. |
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hikura
Joined: 21 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:51 pm |
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No matter where you go people will be made fun of.Examples:People who are computer experts/gamers get a bad rap for being "nerdish".People who are comic book/sci-fi lovers are "geekish".People who are into anime/cosplayers are "weirdos".
This makes me a nerd geekish weirdo.I admit my "faults".
People have their opnion.You have two options you can choose to ignore them or try to discuss it with them. |
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