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Mild Distractions

August 12th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Bernhard
    Bernhard
    August 12, 2014 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    That’s a rather interesting pattern on the carpet.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      August 12, 2014 at 12:20 am | # | Reply

      It’s from a real ugly hotel carpet

      • Sarah
        Sarah
        August 12, 2014 at 3:05 pm | # | Reply

        What is it about hotels and having ugly as shit and often migraine inducing carpet patterns?

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          August 12, 2014 at 3:45 pm | # | Reply

          It may just have to do with the limited pattern options for high traffic carpets. That and design fashion changes faster than the carpets wear out.

          • KORfan
            KORfan
            August 12, 2014 at 7:53 pm | #

            Given that most convention center carpets are rather ugly I believe it is intentional and is due to some marketing/hotel management dogma, such as the idea that a disinteresting carpet will make you interact more with people and therefore have a better time at the wedding reception, convention, or meeting you are attending.

          • Nex
            Nex
            August 13, 2014 at 8:01 am | #

            @KORfan – given that most conventions and conferences destroy lots of furniture and carpets solely by its traffic, managers may do their best to get rid of the worst carpets in hotel and change them after con to more tamed designs (like these now popular little yellow squares in corners of imaginary big squares, that whole on bordeaux bg). You can always hope that you finally destroy it and next time will get no migraine from deep purple x bright green galaxies 😀

  2. Dessa
    Dessa
    August 12, 2014 at 1:45 am | # | Reply

    So… any anime in particular that they’re talking about?

    • Nya-chan Production
      Nya-chan Production
      August 12, 2014 at 3:33 am | # | Reply

      Any and all of them (based on manga that has at least three volumes)

  3. Langland
    Langland
    August 12, 2014 at 5:41 am | # | Reply

    I’m guessing Wage Project

  4. Langland
    Langland
    August 12, 2014 at 8:46 pm | # | Reply

    I just noticed that Rick the blond cop was in the same cop that talked to Phil a couple cons back when a congoer was trying be Batman.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      August 12, 2014 at 9:23 pm | # | Reply

      Yep.

  5. Takchik
    Takchik
    August 12, 2014 at 8:47 pm | # | Reply

    Always fun to be in the hotel lobby and seeing an arrest. It’s even better when its 7am and you’re just sitting there, drinking coffee waiting to go head to the con to work, watching a HEAVILY drunk man resisting arrest and trying to go back to sleep on the couch. Felt kind of sad no one else was awake to enjoy this with me.

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