Damaramu 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 I've seen you, you'll look like an idiot. Yeah that's why I plan on losing about 60 pounds before I perform such a feat. Only works on the extremely skinny. 60 Pounds would put me at 190 and with this frame.....I'd be to skinny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 There are plenty of cosplay opportunities for the chunkier types that would be acceptable. For example: Mario Kirby Jigglypuff Wally Tusket Pac-Man Dr. Robotnik Hell, you could be any number of great characters. Rep-ree-zent! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 I have a friend whose friend cosplays. I made fun of him and he ran out of the house bitching. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Doomsault Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Just because you've got cool pics of Igor "Ivan Drago" Voychanchin in your sig doesn't give you the right to stretch the screen out like that, and I'd say that most of the girls in these pics look better in their outfits than you would. Yes it does. Well I would hope so, but I'm also not a social outcast that sits in my room playing Dungeons and Dragons while watching Sailor Moon and making fun of American animation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jingus 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 My point exactly: I only know one cosplayer, and she's never played D&D and she loves all cartoons. (She's also working on her graduate degree in marine biology and hasn't lived at home in several years.) And having the cool pic of the cover shot from Zombie doesn't give you the right, either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 So what's wrong with D&D? I play D&D and I'm definetly not a social outcast. As a matter of fact more people think it's cool than anything. Which is why I hate mentioning it b/c most people don't understand it so I have to spend 20 minutes explaining it to them before they finally go "Sounds complicated.....I don't know if I could do that! It sounds hard!" That is how every one of those conversations ends. I have actually never been made fun of for it at all. The only places that ridicule people for it are the mass media and the internet. People in real life usually don't give a shit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Tyler; Captain America 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Actually, you're wrong, Dam. D&D is typically ridiculed by people because individuals waste perfectly good hours and hours playing a roleplaying game with a bunch of pasty-faced, undersexed gothics. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Yeah, seriously. I played in high school. Fun but Gay. I'll admit it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DerangedHermit 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 BLACK YUNA Holy shit. Is that Shaniqua? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Actually, you're wrong, Dam. D&D is typically ridiculed by people because individuals waste perfectly good hours and hours playing a roleplaying game with a bunch of pasty-faced, undersexed gothics. Actually you're wrong. I do it because it's fun. It's no different than wasting countless hours playing video games. On top of that nobody I play with is a pasty faced undersexed goth. As a matter of fact everyone I play with is a normal person that either A) Works a full time job and goes about a normal life with there friends and girlfriends B) Is going to college and working a part time job and continuing on there normal life. The stereotype is just that. A stereotype. Most of the people I've met are just normal people that are married and have normal lives just like you and me but happen to play a game once a week. And yes I have met the occasional(notice i said occasional) stereotype but that's VERY rare. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 You say that as if wasting countless hours playing video games is socially acceptable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 between time spent posting on this forum and playing D&D, i'm really starting to question and doubt Damaramu's social status...just kidding, calm down, Dam... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Suicide King Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Ahem. I run a D&D game once every two weeks. Half my group consists of hot chicks. If this is geekdom, baby, I don't wanna be cool. Got your back, Dam. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jingus 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 I wasted YEARS of my life playing video games... and until I got to college, I sure as hell WAS a social outcast, by gawd. You don't build up thumb muscles like mine without shunning all human contact for the pretty flickering screen for long, long periods of time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 You guys are acting like you have to pick one or the other. Video games or life. I balance both perfectly......why can't you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 shit bro, I used to play Magic and Marvel Overpower...relax dude! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hero to all Children Report post Posted June 30, 2004 D&D is still a total queerness and abnormal hobby to a certain degree. It doesn't matter how normal YOU and your friends are, you're not the poser child gamer group. I should know, I play it. My friends who share this hobby (and Shadowrun, god bless Shadowrun) are all geeks to a certain degree (including me) or far beyond that. I met a girl while working as wannabe actor. I made a geeky reference for my personal enjoyment and half an hour later we're still talking about pen and paper roleplaying history. She had weird teeth, rad hair and was as pale as the moon. Also: Kind of thin, glasses, geeky clothing. And don't give me this "Geeks are the best boyfriends, the most caring lovers, etc" bullshit either. That's just more or less true by the virtue of isolation and humiliation. After a while a geek boyfriend will realize "hmm .. if I can get this pretty girls to have sex with me for being so attentive and caring, maybe I could get an ever prettier girl to have sex with me for the same!" and zoom they're off into normal guy asshole mode. D&D is a geek domain until I see it avertised on MTV with Justin Timberlake and Brittney Spears miniatures for a fantasy adventure of epic proportions. Even then there'll be the pasty and now angry geeks who see themselves deprived of their special toy and from now on insist on being "true" D&Ders because they can tell you how to calculate tHaco. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jingus 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 (and Shadowrun, god bless Shadowrun) HTAC, you're rapidly becoming my favorite new poster here. And John Kerry should pick Dunkelzahn as a running mate. I met a girl while working as wannabe actor. I made a geeky reference for my personal enjoyment and half an hour later we're still talking about pen and paper roleplaying history. She had weird teeth, red hair and was as pale as the moon. Also: Kind of thin, glasses, geeky clothing. Sounds like my type exactly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Damaramu 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Yeah I played some Shadowrun in my days. Deadlands is still my favorite though. And for the record.......I'm a nerd through and through. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Hero to all Children Report post Posted June 30, 2004 QUOTE (Hero to all Children @ Jun 30 2004, 05:08 PM) (and Shadowrun, god bless Shadowrun) HTAC, you're rapidly becoming my favorite new poster here. And John Kerry should pick Dunkelzahn as a running mate. I am all-together flattered. Yes, he should. By the way, my version of the source book isn't the newest. Did Dunkelzahn actually fake his own death and turn into until-then-unknown-Elf with his greater dragon shapeshifting powers? It seems so obvious so I thought they may have revealed that. Also: If I meet her again I will tell her that a strapping young man on TSM forums wants to get to know her. But I think her English is pretty bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jingus 0 Report post Posted June 30, 2004 Yes, he should. By the way, my version of the source book isn't the newest. Did Dunkelzahn actually fake his own death and turn into until-then-unknown-Elf with his greater dragon shapeshifting powers? It seems so obvious so I thought they may have revealed that. I don't know, when they released Version 3.0 is about when my interest in gaming waned. I think there was a 3-part novel series about solving the whole assassination, but I stopped buying the books once Nigel Findley died and the rest of their good authors seemed to just disappear, replaced by random hacks. Also: If I meet her again I will tell her that a strapping young man on TSM forums wants to get to know her. But I think her English is pretty bad. Or a semi-strapping semi-balding twentysomething, anyway; and I'm sure her English is better than my German (about half of which I learned from repeated viewings of Das Boot.) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2004 cosplayers have too much time on their hands... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2004 I didn't want to mention it, but I dressed up as Geese Howard once under duress. The best part was saying everything in a terrible accent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Cerebus Report post Posted July 7, 2004 Actually, you're wrong, Dam. D&D is typically ridiculed by people because individuals waste perfectly good hours and hours playing a roleplaying game with a bunch of pasty-faced, undersexed gothics. Actually you're wrong. I do it because it's fun. It's no different than wasting countless hours playing video games. On top of that nobody I play with is a pasty faced undersexed goth. As a matter of fact everyone I play with is a normal person that either A) Works a full time job and goes about a normal life with there friends and girlfriends B) Is going to college and working a part time job and continuing on there normal life. The stereotype is just that. A stereotype. Most of the people I've met are just normal people that are married and have normal lives just like you and me but happen to play a game once a week. And yes I have met the occasional(notice i said occasional) stereotype but that's VERY rare. I've had the opposite experience. I'm not a pimplefaced geek, but I do pimplefaced geek things with other non-pimplefaced geeks. I play boardgames, consul RPGs, program, and, yes, play D&D. And, in my experience, most people who play D&D ARE pimplefaced geeks (but that's starting to change with the popularity of the new version of D&D) The problem is, most geeks play such a disgusting style that it practically SCREAMS "nerd" and preptuates the steryotype. Like Dam, I perfer, and do, play with normal people who jealously hide the fact that they play D&D as if they were going to a bondage club or something. However, when we do play, it is actually an engrossing experience that is enjoyable, fun, and surprisingly, no more nerdy than talking about professional wrestling. Oh wait, Cosplay: I'm thinking about convincing my wife to do this stuff. Does that make me sick? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted July 7, 2004 You say that as though talking about professional wrestling isn't nerdy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted July 7, 2004 If I step up my weight program and get a haircut, I'll be Zangief for a halloween party or something. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Der Kommissar 0 Report post Posted July 11, 2004 The people who do this stuff seem like they are completely, yet rather enthusing. I could think of worse than spending the day around a bunch of cute Japanese girls who are dressed like their favourite anime character. Speaking of which... Lucky bastard... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AndrewTS 0 Report post Posted July 11, 2004 Nice, although kinda flat. There aren't many Asian chicks who could pull off Mai, proportionately. Although Will knows I'm a fan of his avatars/sigs... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thoth 0 Report post Posted July 12, 2004 Me at Fanime 2004. I'm on the left, in my ghetto Ash Crimson cosplay. Click here for the goodness Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
