/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Any major conventions through Q1 2021 are going to be cancelled. Probably beyond that as well, but it's too early to call all of 2021 a wash yet.
Best case scenario, we get a vaccine approved for mass production in the first half of 2021, and events can start happening in the second half. Not holding my breath on that though.

>>10459768
I dunno if it's burying their head in the sand. A major issue is that lots of venues aren't letting their clients off the hook unless the state declares a closure, so they have to keep on keepin' on until that happens.

>>10459859
They've already called off the hotel room block hold with the Gaylord, which is how people are reserving rooms now on those dates. Previously, reservation systems/the hotel were indicating there were no rooms available on those dates.

MAG can now no longer afford a physical office, and will be vacating their Baltimore office on October 1st of this year. They are now scrambling to figure out what physical mailing address to use for billing, the IRS, etc. and are now officially furloughing all unnecessary paid employees. They are going to bet the farm, on hopeful merchandise sales to keep the company afloat, so be sure to buy all the t-shirts and MAG tiaras you can!

>>10459768
>Applying for educational grants
ah yes, when they got the polish embassy to host a demoscene symposium.

>>10459768
>doom theme
>currently making doomguy cosplay
>wouldve been first magfest ever
>mick gordon mightve come for a concert
it hurts...

>>10461547
Yeah but with the whole corporation dying in a pandemic, the Doom theme is even more appropriate.

Corona is pretty much exposing which cons have their shit together internally and which do not. If this virus still doing its thing at the rate it is now in 2022 then a lot of cons; even well established ones will collapse and die off.

https://super.magfest.org/blog/a-quick-update-from-magfest

Still cockteasing the event while pushing a survey, asking if you'll "donate".

>>10462385
from the last thread.

>>10462385
Minor /v/ sperg, but what kind of CalArts bullshit interpretation of Doom is this that they are using for event artwork?

>>10462385
Those survey questions dont mean shit because it will be the state and county health officials who will determine magfest's fate. Also take note that Dragon Con called it quits and cancelled even with the state of Georgia allowing everything to go on as planed.

>>10462555
its stalling for time in the form of "we want to hear your opinions." also why does mag care so fucking much about 41 percenters?

>>10462224
Virus will be gone in November if Magfest cancelled let them burn.

>>10462476

I don't know what the fuck that is, but kill it with fire.

>>10462224
Maybe if MAG didn't blow thru hundreds of thousands trying to buy their way into CA with that MAGWest event instead of saving like they were told to so many times they wouldn't be begging for a bailout now.

>>10462593
wtf do those have to do with anything?

>>10462642
Good to see someone being hopeful on cgl for once

>>10462856
It's not about being hopeful it's about trying to get back this economy which why these lockdowns(politics) has hurt everyone mentally and physically.

>>10462423
>>10462843
Or, blow this much on a double tap Kegerator for their warehouse.

"NOT THE KEGERATOR!"

>>10462871
>Or, blow this much on a double tap Kegerator for their warehouse.

It was a steal, how else are we gonna make sure our musicians are comfortable in the green room while our volunteers eat canned chili made in the staff suite bathtub?

>>10462873
That's the thing. They don't bring this out of the warehouse, ever. It stays put, and is only for MAG staff at the warehouse.

>>10462849
mag has a big hardon for alphabet inclusivity they cover up all the gender signs at public bathrooms so its always a fun game guessing which one youll barge into.

>>10463036
shit in your hotel room bathroom and possibly enrage your roomies, or risk it all, and go bomb out a public "gender neutral" bathroom. it's a gamble at MAGFest

>>10463055
its enraging to make 99% of people bend the knee to those freaks.

>>10463036
awful

I'm going to put the over/under date for cancellation at October 23rd. That's 90 days before the announced date of the convention, and most of these force majure contracts kick in around there.

MAGfest is shit now compared to what it used to be before it got super popular. Good fucking riddance.

>>10463825
Cons get bigger, thats just a fact of life. The real issue is the generification of the convention as a whole. The same dumb anime panels will come up at mag, ax, furrycons, sci fi cons even. While some ancillary panels that skirt just by as "not gaming related, but the target audience is the same" are OK, (the donkey kong and sonic cartoon panels come to mind.) what happens is that you get panels nowhere near the theme of the con. Did you see that list of panels from the last thread? Pro Wrestling for Minorities and two different Steven Universe panels? Might as well be some milquetoast bullshit "aLL FaNdOmS" con like Megacon down in Orlando.

>>10464294
A few of the original founders have been talking about pulling a Katsu/Nekocon split, and starting all over if/when in-person conventions become a thing again. I'm personally all for it, but it's gonna be really hard to recapture the magic of earlier magfests.

>>10464697
playing that xmen cab at least once per magfest is my little prayer at the shrine.

>>10464697
>>10464712
Closeup of the Charles Margolis memorial. The accidental father of the Colossus Roar

>>10464697
thats very reassuring to hear that other people want something like that as well.

>>10464697
How they going to do that with no money, and no gear? MAGfest either owns all that stuff/contracts it. If it's the "founders", they had years of issues with taxes, going in the red.

>>10465642
Hi Nick.

>>10465642
MAGFest completely changed ownership and staff after the first year. Besides, what non-commercial (a.k.a.. fan-run) convention in its first years isn't in the red?
MAG didn't have all of the stuff it's got now when it started out, either. Bringing at least one console, and one TV was a requirement of the full volunteer staff in the early years. Arcade cabs didn't really show up, until personal collector attendees offered loaned out their cabs in exchange for free truck transport MAG paid for, and a few free badges. (i.e. Buffet)

>>10465912
Hey Joe, did you ever get your labs spinoff running?

Script is being written for the next "informal" MAGFest Fireside Chat stream, Sept. 9th.

https://wtop.com/coronavirus/2020/09/maryland-coronavirus-update-september-1/
Will this help?

>>10468003

Budgets were due last month, Gaylord is still under renovation, the board hasn't said anything in months, its dead Jim.

>>10468033
Is the Gaylord National Hotel Center dead at this point?

>>10469077
They took reservations for katsucon back in June, and they sold out immediately

>>10469099
Do you think the Gaylord will reopen in 2021 time for Magfest and Katsucon 2021 at full capacity.

>>10469124
We don't know but Maryland needs to open up fully again because they are losing money every day with this shitty pandemic.

>>10469124
Currently all businesses are allowed to open but only at 50% capacity. Infection rates here are pretty low now so I could see it potentially hitting 0 by katsucon. Magfest might cancel anyways

>>10469619
They should opened up full time.

>>10461547
I was saving a shit ton of money for it too.

>>10463055
>you idiots don't know about the private bathrooms

>>10469619
Nope now its cancelled.

>>10469891
Guess it’s up to katsucon to save the day

>>10469891
[citation needed]

>>10469901
https://super.magfest.org/

>>10462423
>>10469901
https://super.magfest.org/blog/magfest-is-cancelled
Someone definitely called it back in August

>>10469914
Think before you donate to their "telethon". It has now come to light that MAG was spending $650,000 per year, for a 5 person office for the past 5 years since 2012. They don't deserve the funds, they deserve to fail, especially when they are obviously holding their fundraiser two weeks before their virtual MAGWest event, to pay for it and the office staff.

>>10462423
Called it.

>>10469932
Sauce? That’s quite a shocking claim.

>Magfest is dead
Let it fucking die.

>>10469898
If Katsucon gets cancelled they will dead in the fucking water.

>>10469979
Former hotel/logistics liaison that MAG threw under the bus, for not aligning with their politics.

>>10470002
gonna assume you're not drinking lefty koolaid for breakfast lunch and dinner.

>>10469979
Its in their financials, they're a 501c3, that stuff is public record. You just search for MAG's 990.

>>10470009
Fuck no, and they weren't either. MAG needs to get back to MUSIC AND GAMES, and stop worrying about pronoun ribbons, "PoC in..." panels, and all of the "mission-adjacent" groups leeching off of MAG's popularity.

Currently, MAG is co-sponsoring liquor licenses for a queer event headed up by "NAM"/Jaimes Mayhew, along with loaning their arcade cabs, even broken ones to whatever even NAM is doing. It's all just Baltimore Artscape incestuous crap.

>>10470020
BUT I NEED SIX DIFFERENT PANELS WHERE FIVE BLACK WOMEN TELL ME ABOUT DIVERSITY AND HOW STEVEN UNIVERSE IS THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN'S TELEVISION FOR DECADES TO COME

>>10470042
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

what's more funny is the blacks who attended didn't like it.

>>10470042
>>10470046
Most of those panels are hosted by self hating "whitewashed" suburban black women anyways. That's why those panels were hated.

>>10470017
is this crazy colossus? I read the 990 and didn't see any reference to this $650k office

>>10470088
>Most of those panels are hosted by self hating "whitewashed" suburban black women anyways.
How much did these jigaboos ratchets had to paid for that shit to scream white hate all over the panel seriously?

>>10470254
Cheap around $400-500 bucks.

>>10470254
i think if you do two panels you get your badge for free

>>10472519
Nice.