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April 7th, 2015 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Bryan E
    Bryan E
    April 7, 2015 at 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Welcome to the cesspit where I live called Florida. It’s not as bad as it once was, but there was a point in time where this was the norm.

  2. Dessa
    Dessa
    April 7, 2015 at 12:45 am | # | Reply

    That poor man…

  3. Kay Shapero
    Kay Shapero
    April 7, 2015 at 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Once you’ve got your foot in your mouth, you should at least try not to chew…

  4. Vince
    Vince
    April 7, 2015 at 6:55 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, we get this all the time. NYC anime fans despise crossing into NJ for a con even though it’s nigh-impossible to run a mid-sized con in NYC due to costs. Trust me, we’ve checked.

  5. Bernhard
    Bernhard
    April 7, 2015 at 7:05 am | # | Reply

    I believe t’s called a “rack focus,” Mark.

  6. Langland
    Langland
    April 7, 2015 at 1:02 pm | # | Reply

    What’s a real con? I mean what defines a Fake con from a Real con?

    • calvsie
      calvsie
      April 7, 2015 at 3:45 pm | # | Reply

      same criteria as gamer girls?

      • fourthirteen
        fourthirteen
        April 7, 2015 at 8:30 pm | # | Reply

        Same criteria as real cheese?

    • Ray Dannelly
      Ray Dannelly
      April 7, 2015 at 8:46 pm | # | Reply

      ‘Is he personally involved with running it, and take pride in doing so?’ Anything less, not a ‘Real’ Con.

      • Bernhard
        Bernhard
        April 7, 2015 at 10:31 pm | # | Reply

        Are he and his staff going to turn out to be from Chicago?

        • Trae Dorn
          Trae Dorn
          April 8, 2015 at 12:04 am | # | Reply

          *whistles whle looking off to the side*

          • Nick Schneider
            Nick Schneider
            April 8, 2015 at 4:23 am | #

            You daffy bastard!

        • KORfan
          KORfan
          April 10, 2015 at 9:38 am | # | Reply

          That’d be like people from Minnesota and Illinois running a con in Iowa! 🙂

  7. xheralt
    xheralt
    April 14, 2015 at 4:33 pm | # | Reply

    @Berhard, Not quite as crazy as it sounds. Well, maybe it would be, for Milwaukee proper. Congenial (a Racine-area relaxacon) was started by Milwaukee fen and then taken over (relatively amicably as such things go) by Chicago fen who were heartily tired of the existing Chicago con scene. Not sure if it’s still operating, haven’t heard any references to it in a while. The “not a real con” comment was used non-ironically in the 80’s and 90’s to refer to any “media” (television-series- or movie-oriented) convention, because (as the gatekeepers held) “real fans read books”. Book books, not comic books. Comic cons, such as existed then, were more like flea markets or swap meets. Really boring if you weren’t really into it. “Real” cons were not-for-profit, had an art show, a hospitality suite, a masquerade for the costumers, discussion panels, and catered to a broad spectrum of interests….if your interests were literary, that is, because the GoH’s were authors and artists. Now it seems that you have to be a big glitzy (read: expensive) for-profit event with Big Name guests to be “real”…

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