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Title: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 11, 2007, 01:04:10 PM
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FlameofCallandor,
 
I am pleased to announce that your film "The Big Pull" has been accepted for the 2007 Dragon*Con Independent Short Film Festival.

yay
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 11, 2007, 01:06:23 PM
To be shown right after the latest Magic:The Gathering FanFlick and right before Monstrous Compendium: DM Under Siege, amirite?
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 11, 2007, 01:07:25 PM
Yea probably,  :(

At least its not between some japafag fan editing contest where they just take random animu clips and edit it to matallica.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Shuri on July 11, 2007, 02:48:02 PM
isnt dragon'con some sort of furry convention?  >:(
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 11, 2007, 04:32:31 PM
Oh shit son.  You coming to the screening?  If so I gotta start planning on how to terrorize you NOW.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Saint Cornelius on July 11, 2007, 04:33:04 PM
Does Comic-con count?
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: abrader on July 11, 2007, 05:06:23 PM
Iv only been once - but I must say its a place to pick up a different delictable piece of ass each night.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Saint Cornelius on July 11, 2007, 05:08:19 PM
Iv only been once - but I must say its a place to pick up a different delictable piece of ass each night.


What, Comic-con?
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Fragamemnon on July 11, 2007, 05:16:04 PM
What, Comic-con?

Think he's referring to Dragon Con. It's always been quite the meat machine with easy hookups from what I've heard-I blame the Atlanta heat.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: anongrl on July 11, 2007, 06:07:25 PM
Comic con is only two weeks away!!!! wooohoooo!
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: tiesto on July 11, 2007, 10:01:52 PM
I'm going to Otakon in Baltimore, I wanna go to Atlanta but not for a con, I'd rather go just to hang out and shit. I'm getting sick of it here.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: demi on July 11, 2007, 10:58:14 PM
I'm going to E For All in October, staying in LA for a week
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Ichirou on July 11, 2007, 11:00:04 PM
What the hell is DragonCon and what kind of hambeasts are you guys sexing at that convention?
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: abrader on July 11, 2007, 11:30:07 PM
What, Comic-con?

Think he's referring to Dragon Con. It's always been quite the meat machine with easy hookups from what I've heard-I blame the Atlanta heat.

All those freaky chix in vinyl and such....yes bingo.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: abrader on July 11, 2007, 11:30:33 PM
What the hell is DragonCon and what kind of hambeasts are you guys sexing at that convention?

Slutty gothic whores dressed like BloodRayne
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 12, 2007, 12:33:45 AM
Beggars can't be choosers, Ichirou
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Ichirou on July 12, 2007, 03:50:23 AM
Beggars can't be choosers, Ichirou

I can't imagine any female under 200 pounds ever attending one of those conventions, though.  :-\
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2007, 03:50:49 AM
Beggars can't be choosers, Ichirou

I can't imagine any female under 200 pounds ever attending one of those conventions, though.  :-\

Oh how wrong you are.  Lots of socially inept women aren't hambeasts.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: abrader on July 12, 2007, 03:56:08 AM
Yeah - If you assume they are all montrosities you are wrong...

Companies hire models, "booth babes" etc...

They are usually normal girls working in a sea of comic nerds...

Usually the hammies are show attendees.....Im talking about girls hired to actually draw attention to a vendor or product.

EDIT: My limited one time experience may not reflect how it is all the time - I have no idea.

Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2007, 04:01:31 AM
Certainly you're going to have your share of whales in the ocean, but there are plenty of attractive girls who just go as fans too.  Look at all the cosplay threads for example.  Then you have the goth crowd, and they go to DC and a whole lot of them are real sexual freaks and deviants, I guess because it pisses mom off.  Whatever, I don't care as long as I can do twisted things to them!
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 12, 2007, 04:03:42 AM
I've met my fair share of women that would dabble in that stuff.  They're attractive and freaks underneath the sheets, but they're also looney.  A convention like this is your best shot to hit it and quit it, so you can get out of town before they get attached and bring their baggage.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: abrader on July 12, 2007, 04:05:05 AM
I've met my fair share of women that would dabble in that stuff.  They're attractive and freaks underneath the sheets, but they're also looney.  A convention like this is your best shot to hit it and quit it, so you can get out of town before they get attached and bring their baggage.

Zakly

Why were you hatin before? You sound like a pro.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 12, 2007, 04:10:09 AM
I was never a hater!  I just told Ichirou that beggars can't be choosers.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Ichirou on July 12, 2007, 04:11:47 AM
Certainly you're going to have your share of whales in the ocean, but there are plenty of attractive girls who just go as fans too.  Look at all the cosplay threads for example.  Then you have the goth crowd, and they go to DC and a whole lot of them are real sexual freaks and deviants, I guess because it pisses mom off.  Whatever, I don't care as long as I can do twisted things to them!

I just always assumed the attractive cosplay girls were attention whores.  Never really thought of them as socially maladjusted.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: The Fake Shemp on July 12, 2007, 04:14:00 AM
No, they're crazy.

I dated this one Korean chick, she was pretty and certainly on the petite side.  She was also CRAZY.  And the first thing she wanted to do was dress up at some anime convention.  I jumped ship pretty quick from that one.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: abrader on July 12, 2007, 04:15:30 AM
yeah lets be clear - partying with these female types and dating them are COMPLETELY different things.

I was fed up with emo baggage "I need a daddy" girl types by age 22.

Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on July 12, 2007, 04:23:57 AM
it's true, the hot nerd types are all maladjusted social freaks

poor Jade Raymond, former cosplayer
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: bork on July 12, 2007, 10:50:11 AM
Maybe things have changed since I last went to Dragon Con (I think that was back in 1999), but I don't remember seeing many "delectable-looking women."  I worked there for a few years in a row when my old store had a booth, and that shit was SCARY.  Gwar was always cool though.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: tiesto on July 12, 2007, 11:44:44 AM
Anime has gotten a lot more mainstream since 1999. I think I was one of the only kids in my HS (graduated in 99) to be into it in any measure.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: bork on July 12, 2007, 11:57:46 AM
Anime has gotten a lot more mainstream since 1999. I think I was one of the only kids in my HS (graduated in 99) to be into it in any measure.

Dragon Con isn't an anime convention.  There's tons of it there, sure, but it's a fantasy/comic con that's been going on for years and years.

I'm the same as you, Tiesto.  I remember the days when the only "Japanimation" that people knew were Akira, Ghost In The Shell, and Ninja Scroll.  My high point was back in the early-mid nineties...I was fucking NUTS for Ranma 1/2.  I had multiple fanboy orgasms when the first tape from Viz and the mediocre SNES game hit the U.S. in late 1992.   :lol  Shit's just not the same anymore.

There was this scary nerd-girl I found out about when I was a senior.  She was either a freshman or a sophomore, and called herself "Michi."  "Michi" claimed to be Japanese, even though Michi" was a white girl with blonde hair.  Apparently her great grandmother on her father's cousin's brother's side was Japanese or some shit.  Yeah.  "Michi" called herself Michi because she loved a fucking character in Sailor Moon with the same name.  She even dyed her hair green to match this character at one point.

This was one of my earliest tastes of actually being turned off to something I liked because of a super-nerd.  And then following this wave were the hardcore elitist prick types who would scoff at anyone not watching the latest fansubs, joining the game nerd pricks (ESPECIALLY fighting game players...incredibly fucking elitist), and you knew anime was here to stay.  I couldn't stand going to cons either; I used to go just to hit the dealers' rooms, and after anime exploded, it was easy to find and order everything on the internet, so no need.  I sure as hell didn't miss the putrid odors emitting from fat Son Goku cosplayers with cardboard hair, either.

Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 12, 2007, 12:02:50 PM
You guys are all nerd fegs.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: bork on July 12, 2007, 12:07:52 PM
You guys are all nerd fegs.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/galeninjapan/bill2.jpg)


You gotta understand the difference between nerds, SUPER NERDS, and SUPER ELITIST PRICK NERDS.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2007, 12:33:03 PM
You guys are all nerd fegs.

Yet we're able to spell, don't chew our toenails and none of us want to pop our girlfriend's zits.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 12, 2007, 12:39:28 PM
You guys are all nerd fegs.

Yet we're able to spell, don't chew our toenails and none of us want to pop our girlfriend's zits.

I'm sorry, all I heard was Git R'done
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2007, 12:44:12 PM
I shaved my beard the other day, you illiterate fucktard.  Now I look like Jon Lithgow.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 12, 2007, 12:49:27 PM
Yea, well I look like John Lennon which make me way cooler than you.

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Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2007, 12:53:10 PM
Yea, well I look like John Lennon which makes me way cooler than you.

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I CAN SPELL

Also,

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Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 12, 2007, 12:54:03 PM
I'm sorry what film festivals are you in again?

Oh thats right you edit youtube videos. I guess youtube could be considered a giant shitty film festivals where dancing cat videos always win.

 :tbslol :tbslol
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 12, 2007, 01:03:56 PM
Turdlicker, I edit commercials and corporate videos.  Your movie got accepted to a film festival at a convention where I once saw the guy who played C3P0 whip a crossdresser.  Real legitimacy there!
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Tauntaun on July 12, 2007, 01:17:27 PM
Turdlicker, I edit commercials and corporate videos.  Your movie got accepted to a film festival at a convention where I once saw the guy who played C3P0 whip a crossdresser.  Real legitimacy there!

:rofl :rofl that's awesome
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 12, 2007, 01:18:20 PM
Turdlicker, I edit commercials and corporate videos.  Your movie got accepted to a film festival at a convention where I once saw the guy who played C3P0 whip a crossdresser.  Real legitimacy there!

And it's showing at the Director's Guild theater in L.A.  :D
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: The Sceneman on July 12, 2007, 04:20:57 PM
As a Magic: the Gathering player I would go to Dragoncon If I was in Atlanta
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: bork on July 13, 2007, 03:05:41 AM
I'm sorry what film festivals are you in again?

Oh thats right you edit youtube videos. I guess youtube could be considered a giant shitty film festivals where dancing cat videos always win.

 :tbslol :tbslol

No.  You can't talk shit because you are in fact going to Dragoncon where you are showing a home-made movie.  YOU ARE THE UBER NERD. :bow
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: FlameOfCallandor on July 13, 2007, 10:04:58 AM
First off, I'm not going to any ner conventions. Second off, its not a home movie.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: border on July 13, 2007, 10:37:51 AM
Congratulations.

I have skipped the DragonCon film festival for the last couple years, but generally they have some pretty good stuff showing.....a lot of it isn't even nerd-related.  I think the event has been somewhat marginalized by YouTube though.
Title: Re: Anyone go to nerd conventions? Dragon-Con in Atlanta
Post by: Stocky on July 13, 2007, 02:44:49 PM
I've met my fair share of women that would dabble in that stuff.  They're attractive and freaks underneath the sheets, but they're also looney.  A convention like this is your best shot to hit it and quit it, so you can get out of town before they get attached and bring their baggage.

Is this how you met the love of your life?