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This is another picture post, but lex said she wanted captions so FINE. This is deadpool!
These are in roughly chronological order
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This friendly elf directed us to the site when we got stuck in the Mall
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I took a random pic of this girl and she asked if I wanted a photo with her. I think I might've hurt her self esteem by saying no.
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Zombies invade steak and shake, turning into brains and shake.
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There were A LOT of pikachu backpacks, I think this is a representative example.
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I'm not sure what this was, dude was lying like that for a while we played some catchphrase with random people Dsteph found.
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This is apparently a boardgame where you play Maid cards, and if you win your Maids are rewarded by going to the Master's bedchambers.
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Here's one of the girls they had dressed as maids demoing the game. I felt too creeped out to try it.
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This is a few internet friends from a chatroom/forum I hang out in.
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One of MANY surprised/unsuspecting photos I took. This is the Monarch and Girl Hitler, with a Bat-man suited dean venture mostly out of frame. That's prolly supposed to be trianna on the left but she's not getting an A for effort
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One of my favorite things about gencon is the badass giant sculptures there are for various game companies. This was from warmachine I believe. One of these days I want to put a giant beholder in my house or something.
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This guy was an awesome chainmail jester, I saw him last year too. Battle-jester should become a thing.
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Steampunk sword cowboy. One of MANY MANY MANY MANY people steampunking at gencon. Apparently that's the in thing in geekery these days. I saw SO MANY begoggled top hats.
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It's the pirate equivalent of my hat!
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This dude had a lot of trouble getting down the escalator, due to his AWESOME POWER ARMOR. I'm glad people go to that much effort.
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ABE LINCOLN, ABE LINCOLN, SIX FOOT TWENTY FUCKING KILLING FOR FUN.
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This trio of the doctor, amy, and a weeping angel was pretty cool
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I love going to gencon and seeing batman villains rubbing shoulders with mandalorians. Though when you think about it boba fett is kind of the batman of the star wars universe, so shouldn't they be fighting?
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these three sith were trying to tempt people to the dark side with cookies. Unfortunately I had to say no. I'm just too frigging good.
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I'm glad I have no idea what this thing was trying to advertise.
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I'm not sure what he was cosplaying as but he's a very high ranking whatever he is.
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This is an adorable plush beholder some people had. Fortunately plush eyebeams only paralyze you with cuteness.
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UPS had a set up in one of the outer hallways, but clearly had no idea what was going on, and tried to attract nerds with a giant rubix cube. Nerds like those right? RIGHT?!
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I love taking photos of outlandish people on cellphones
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There were obviously quite a few leias at gencon. Is this outfit bad for feminism in the geek community? Is it still bad if women are the ones wearing it? I don't know.
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I was surprised and happy to see this really good Repo Man costume. If you haven't seen Repo! The genetic opera you definitely should. It's one of a kind.
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Wonder if that child is going to grow up super scarred or super awesome from being around so many adults who dress up and threaten her.
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I really enjoy meta-photography and this is probably my favorite example of it ever. They were taking a photo of the people in the picture just above
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These guys had great costumes and were clearly into it but the 40k themed religious sermonizing was kinda annoying.
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Mandalorian and Sand-person exchange the traditional sand-person greeting.
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Sad pikachu is sad :(. She smiled when she noticed I was photoing her so I had to ask her to make a frowny face again.
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Really cool team fortress 2 cosplay, with good use of hats. Scout seems by far to be the most popular tf2 cosplay, I assume because it's the easiest to assemble.
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These Homestuck cosplayers were really adorable,
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More homestuck, hanging out with I dunno what, probably generic steampunk.
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The funny part is she probably has WAY Better aim with that thing.
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I don't know who you're trying to fool WOTC, those are definitely not scimitars.
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Perfectly timed squirrel girl photo. For those who don't know, squirrel girl is the best marvel superhero. She's beaten thanos and
Dr. Doom
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This woman really awesomely steampunkified her wheelchair.
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awwwwwwww
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I don't know why there was a santa at Gencon, but I can only hope he was secretly cosplaying as Gaiman's santa.
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A really great jarlaxle cosplay.
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Glad I'm not the only one who loves david the gnome.
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definitely my favorite of the many vaders, though technically Leia is Lady Vader I feel comfortable calling this one lady vader.
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These amusingly humongous pigs are totally inexplicable. No one knows why they are there, or even what material they are made out of. Their eyes still stare at me out of my dreams.
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I like to think that these guys had to arrest someone at gencon and were taken to be cosplayers. Hijinks ensued.
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The denim jacket equivalent of my hat!
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If only this could be an actual episode of dr who
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Sam being a dick
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You can't tell in this picture really but her eye outlines and ear outlines glowed when she leaned forward. It was pretty sweet.
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Stephanie lets out her inner nerd.
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I bought another boffer, this is Mary attacking Jace Beleren with it.
Anywho there are a lot more photos in the album, but these are the ones I felt like talking at least a little about. https://picasaweb.google.com/109853123436636819503/GenconEtc
Despite all my photos, almost all of my human interaction at gencon was with people I knew before, mostly from Madison. Am I conning wrong if I don't make any new friends or even really talk to new people?