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Room parties really have been going the way of the dodo in Wisconsin anime cons, and it is sad. Also, I stand by using the contraction cons're -- it (of course) is a shortened 'cons are'
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March 19th, 2015 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Bryan E
    Bryan E
    March 19, 2015 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

    Why do I find it awesome yet somehow disturbing that Veronica is cosplaying Attack on Titan?

    • xero
      xero
      March 19, 2015 at 2:04 am | # | Reply

      because she’s obviously Potato girl

  2. Runic
    Runic
    March 19, 2015 at 2:48 am | # | Reply

    I’m from New Jersey and I’ve been going to cons since 2009; literally the only mention of room parties I’ve heard was from your comic series.

    • Geekfeast
      Geekfeast
      March 19, 2015 at 5:28 pm | # | Reply

      Same here.

  3. Nick Schneider
    Nick Schneider
    March 19, 2015 at 6:45 am | # | Reply

    Jesus. Didn’t we have this discussion…oh a few months ago, Trae?

    I think we’ve got a soft spot for the ol’ room party at NebKon, otherwise we wouldn’t have started a room party block…

    Either way, agreed its a dying art. Part of it has to do with several cons adapting late night programming…part of it. The rest of it I think just stems from some conventions just not wanting to deal with it anymore. I know Naka in KC has greater difficulty with room parties due to Kansas laws (Kansas laws suck donkey balls btw).

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      March 19, 2015 at 11:47 am | # | Reply

      A few months ago? More like a year or two ago. 😛

      • Nick Schneider
        Nick Schneider
        March 21, 2015 at 5:45 am | # | Reply

        bah, it hasn’t been that long

  4. Langland
    Langland
    March 19, 2015 at 11:30 am | # | Reply

    I also think the interest has died too. One year my brother and I had bought food like Doritos, Ramen cups, and yes even marshmallows as a way to barter at room parties because we knew food might be an issue at the parties.

    However that year there was a huge lack of parties. I also think behavior has also contributed like 2 years in a row at No Brand Con, some drunks have shattered glass bottles in the pool area prompting the staff to drain the pool.

    Overall the room party is a dying art but overall i feel it has to do with a lot of different factors.

  5. Vanessa M.
    Vanessa M.
    March 19, 2015 at 12:48 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t even want to think about where that poor hairbrush had been…

    • Geekfeast
      Geekfeast
      March 19, 2015 at 5:30 pm | # | Reply

      No, just… no

  6. Viga
    Viga
    March 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm | # | Reply

    Anime cons in the NE region of the US doesn’t have room parties like the ones in the strip. It’s usually just a friends thing. Sci Fi cons however are Saturday night dens of nerdy debauchery that Baccus would love themselves. Comic cons and other cons has there’s too.

    So. Many. Stories.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      March 19, 2015 at 5:35 pm | # | Reply

      Room parties are still huge at SciFi cons here too — they were a thing at Wisconsin Anime cons for a long time, I think, because most of the early Anime cons there grew out of people who had planned SciFi cons previously… so we promoted Room Parties.

      Because that’s a thing you do.

  7. Heather B
    Heather B
    March 20, 2015 at 3:10 pm | # | Reply

    (hey look, I’ve caught up!)

    Tables are far more productive, so we’ve been leaning towards those.

  8. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    March 22, 2015 at 10:29 am | # | Reply

    I’ve noticed a decline in the notion of the room party at furry cons, but the room party hasn’t been something other cons use to promote themselves. It’s just “Hey, let’s hang out, maybe with some modest theme.” FurFright was the big Room Party con during its Waterbury years, due to half the rooms facing a central atrium.

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