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    Default anime, RPG's, cards, sci-fi, etc. MARCON!

    apperently a few people on here like games and anime.

    For anyone who is intrested there is a convention in Columbus OH in may. memeorial weekend specificly. MARCON. Multiple Alternitve Realities CONvention. www.marcon.org

    I have been the last 3 years, it was great! The BEST parties I have ever been too. It seems like each party has to have a theam. "eat my cherry" where there were cherries soaked in brandy for months, "edible shots" mmmm, "paradise" with the deuling blenders making frozen tropicl drinks, all kinds of adult theamed parties. its great.

    this is also a not for profit con, so they are about quality, not what makes money.

    There are people running around in all kinds of costumes: klingons (they throw a great party ), elves, anime characters, harry potter, etc. I wore one of my nice danceing gowns to fri night parties last year. Oh yeah, the parties are great! free alchol (if you are over 21 ), lots of people just having fun. usually anyone who wants to hook up can, but i am not promising anything (and they say geeks never get laid ) There is a cosplay (where some people in costume do little skits) a masqrade, a dance, anime rooms that play anime 24 hours a day. Rocky Horror Picture Show is usueally there, there is an art room, a dealers room, larps tabletop board card and computer games galore. There is a lot more but I don't want to make this post too long...

    how much would you pay for all this fun?
    well i'll just tell you...
    if you pre-reg its only $35 for adults for ALL three days! (there is also childcare avalible for pre-reg'ers for an addinal fee)
    where to stay? the convention center is attached to the Hyatt. AND there is a special con price if you tell them you are will MARCON when you reserve your room. Its only $99 a night. total for one person who is not shareing a room? $233 (plus room tax)! I always pre-reg and share with at least 2 other people so I only paid a little over $100 last year. there is also a consuite, which is a room that has free snacks and drinks, they have fruit, wings, chips, cereal, pop, orange juice, etc.

    want to go?
    www.marcon.org
    just click on registraion (if you dont have a printer, just hand write the information they ask for on a piece of paper and send it in)

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    My wife is in the air as I type this on her way to Baltimore and then on to Katsucon in the D.C. area for the weekend.

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    When GenCon was still here in Wisconsin, I went to it twice. Huge but still friendly. Parties everywhere and always one going on. Informative lectures on a variety of topics. Contests and competitions galore. While there were the freaks and creepies there in abundance, there were also a lot of normal people ... or so they appeared. *laugh*

    Oh, and the first time I went to GenCon, I went with my live-in other and we did a big mistake. I had heard from my friends that this was the "biggest and most respected" convention in the world. With neither of us having been to a con before, we treated it as an art exhibit and dressed accordingly. She in a black elastic skin-tight microdress and high heels and I in black pants, dark red shirt, and black tie. Big mistake. We were so SO out of place there. We also seemed to be a creep magnet ... or rather my other was. In addition to being highly attractive, she was also a petite Asian with long silky black hair ... which is apparently a big turn-on for anime fans. Once when I went to the bathroom, I came back to find her surrounded by creeps. The creeps kept a five foot distance from her. An exact circle around her. Five creeps deep. When she saw me come out, she yelled out my name. I saw there was no real danger and simply walked through the creeps to her. She clung to me the rest of the convention. And the women weren't much better. My other said when she went to the bathroom, the women were treating her as if she was there to still their thunder. Oh well. Our mistake. If you go to a con, dress down ... way down ... especially if you're an attractive woman.

    The second time I went to GenCon, I went with a group of friends and had a blast. Haven't gone to another and probably won't as it is now in Indiana.

    I also went to a small con in Platteville, Wisconsin and actually enjoyed it more. It's called Plattecon. Run by the university students. A relaxed, casual, and informal convention. Not all the glitz or parties as GenCon. The vender "room" was two tables run by one guy selling his old games and comics. The costume contest was great. Better run than GenCon. The contestants handed the announcer a page (some handed him several) to read as they paraded a course through the audience. The judges gave a score to the page(s) as well as the costume and its presentation so the pages were really worked on and almost all made the audience laugh with tears. You also got to see the costumes up close instead of faraway on the stage as I did in GenCon.

    Oh, and if you want to read an EXCELLENT novel about conventions, read "Bimbos of the Death Star" by Sharyn McCrumb. It's subtitle is: "Murder most fun at the ultimate fantasy con!" It won the 1988 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Original Paperback Mystery. And, no, it isn't a put-down of women as one might think by it's title. The title of the novel is the title of a novel by one of the main characters and that's it. And, sorry, no "Death Star" either. The main character is a woman, Dr. Marlon Farley, who ... surprise, surprise ... is the lead murder mystery amateur investigator. Very funny. Very VERY accurate of the people that go to conventions.
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    I went to Arcon a few times when I was a little younger. I'm not all that into conventions.

    I dig sci-fi, NOT into Anime (Demon Beast Invasion turned me OFF to Japaneese entertainment in a big way, they are just twisted), used to play Jyhad a little (actually I just got demolished by my kid's mom, who was the all time master of Jyhad). BIG fantasy fan.

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    Oh, and Princess Mononoke has a five minute shot of plants growing at the end. I was like "Uhhhhh...."

    Who wants to watch grass grow?

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    I used to wargame a lot when I was younger (and D&D too, although that came later). I was friendly with a lot of people at Avalon Hill and used to playtest for them. You'll see my name in the credits for a few of their games. I used to go to Origins (the big wargame convetion) every year. After a while it became Origins/GenCon and I went to it one year in Milwaukee. In fact, its the only time I've ever been to Milwaukee. I remember it being brutally humid in the afternoon, then a storm came through and it was very pleasant by the evening.

    I was there with some friends from California, who freaked out every time I wanted to jay-walk. They were always going "You can't do that!" I kept telling them "Where I come from, jaywalking is a spectator sport."

    I also remember going to a bar called "The Safe House." Of course, I couldn't remember the password someone gave me and got the humiliating treatment to get in. I still have a couple of souvenier glasses I bought there. I don't even know if the place still exists.

    As for the con....I honestly don't remember much of it. I was probably part of the crowd around PP's live-in back then. I was a bit of a fanboy/pl/get-a-lifer back then. However...I did bathe regularly! lol

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    In Demon Beast Invasion the main character gets raped by, well, pretty much everyone on the planet. I was like "What the hell am I watching?????"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Madcap link=board=1;threadid=6554;start=msg72600#msg72600 date=1076531127
    In Demon Beast Invasion the main character gets raped by, well, pretty much everyone on the planet. I was like "What the hell am I watching?????"
    This is what's call the tentacle rape sub-genre of anime. I despise it too. You can usually tell it by the cover. As I said earlier, read an anime review book and it will steer you to the good stuff. And there's TONS of good stuff. To start off with, go rent "Ghost in the Shell" and you'll be amazed by it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NVJosh link=board=1;threadid=6554;start=msg72596#msg72596 date=1076530668
    As for the con....I honestly don't remember much of it. I was probably part of the crowd around PP's live-in back then. I was a bit of a fanboy/pl/get-a-lifer back then. However...I did bathe regularly! lol
    *LOL* God, you had to remind me about their smell, didn't you?! *LOL*
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    Ghost in the Shell is great. VERY Buddhist. Ghost in the Shell 2 is in the works.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pumpkin Pie link=board=1;threadid=6554;start=msg72585#msg72585 date=1076528822
    ...With neither of us having been to a con before, we treated it as an art exhibit and dressed accordingly. She in a black elastic skin-tight microdress and high heels and I in black pants, dark red shirt, and black tie. Big mistake. We were so SO out of place there.
    at marcon people wear anything and everything. lots of coutumes of course. then "normal" (what they wear everyday) street clothes, to whatever. I bring my pajamas for comfort, some regular street clothes, a nice looking dress or two (useually my nicer work clothes). and something really out there. last year I had black laceup thigh hi boots with a vinal skirt and "barbed" wire bra, and of course a whip to go with it... ahhh.. a pic is better right? well its not a very good pic, and the skirt was a little weird on me but you get the idea. you can also see the wristbands from the parties, and my badge.

    more pics (i am under "tash")
    http://www.nd.edu/~rjervis/art/marcon03/

    there are also pics on the marcon website. under 'photo albums', for some reason though, I am not in there.

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    I've never really been into RPG's. I play Neverwinter Nights, but that's all the D&D i was ever into. I like Final Fantasy type stuff, but only in video game format.

    I consider tabletop pen and paper games a waste of time, for myself at any rate. Maybe it's because the times I've tried it the DM was boooooooring, I dunno.

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    Hey...I was in high school in the late 70s...computer RPGs were pretty much not an option back then. Pen and paper was all we had.

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    while there are lots of games of magic, d&d, vampire, etc, i mainly go for the parties. if I am awake and there is nothing else going on, then i go to a panel or something. last year there was one about signs you're a geek or something... very amuseing....

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