Who the hell
on February 16, 2014 at 12:01 amSometimes, in the earlier BotCons, before all the cliques were formed, you’d actually be approached by people you didn’t know who wanted to talk Transformers, because this was, well, BotCon, so if you’re gonna talk about Transformers this is probably the place. Anyone who still remembered Transformers existed were there, as this was the late Nineties. This meant sometimes you’d find yourself with a hanger-on who kind of followed you around like a lovesick puppy, sort of whispering things to you or really anyone in particular about Transformers under his breath.
Either that’s what was going on or I’m just not great at making friends.
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Waitwaitwait… You can just go up to people at cons and talk to them about whatever the con was about? That must be what I’ve been doing wrong everytime I went to ACen. I’d just show up, admire the costumes, spend all my money on stuff in the dealer room and artist alley, watch some anime, try and figure out where the pannels were (almost went to one last year), then go to McDonalds and wait for dad to show up. Maybe next time I should talk to all the people around me.
I’m rubbish at cons. I have enough trouble talking to new people at the best of times, doing so while they are dressed as Steampunk-Harley-Quinn-as-a-Ghostbuster just makes it more awkward.
“That’s Duela Dent!”
[j/k]
I’m pretty sure that joke was mandatory, under the circumstances.
At the Discworld Convention, I mostly talk to people I already know online. And I feel kind of awkward doing that.
I’m getting better; last time I almost spoke to Pterry, and the time before I was in the Maskerade, so I spoke to some people there. (Although mostly I was too busy drinking water because I hadn’t realised how warm my costume was going to be.)
This is why I tend to favor small local/regional conventions for stuff over the big nationally known ones. They’re typically small and intimate enough that you’re seeing the same people throughout the convention rather than having it where this person you just met is now going to vanish into the crowd never to be seen again or you’re going to meet their friends/clique and inadvertently manage to offend someone in the group and they’ll all fade into the crowd never to be seen again except at the least convenient times.
I remember one year a dude came up to me trying to talk about Buffy since Spike was at the con. I have never watched the show so I had no idea what he was on about.
Weirdest thing: I had someone talk to me about my PHONE.
Not because it was the latest and greatest, but because it was the OLDEST and WORST. And he’d had one and how did I manage to keep mine in such pristine shape.
“Either that’s what was going on or I was GREAT at making friends.”
I’m relatively certain that Omega Supreme has beaten Devastator every single time they’ve clashed.
I’m pretty sure Mr. Last and Greatest would have to change his name if he didn’t win.
It seems like most conventions are made up of people who aren’t very good at convening.
Some Dude has to have shown up in Shortpacked! at some point.
Now that I think about it, he kinda looks like a young Arch.
Is this a Pre-Cynicism/Strawmanification Duncan?
Hm. But he seems to be genuinely curious as to the answer, as opposed to having already made up his misinformed mind.
Maybe this moment convinced him to never try and care about other people’s opinions and just always figure out his own and treat it as law?
Originally posted:
July 26, 1999
“Some dude” kinda looks like he could be a younger version of Leo, aka Leslie’s ex-husband from Shortpacked! He may not have been prominently geeky like the main cast, but he did have a Star Trek TNG sound effect as his phone’s notification sound, so it’s not too implausible that he was into other nerdy fandoms IMHO.