Panel horror stories?

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Anonymous Mon Jul 20 07:04:16 2015 No.8492881 [Reply] [Original]

Panel horror stories?

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 15:00:51 2015 No.8493575

>go to cosplay panel
>led by a meh cosplayer
>con manager walks in and asks if she would like super famous cosplayer to come in and contribute
>"sure"
>Better cosplayer completely takes over the panel
>Original panel organizer starts crying

It was awkward.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 15:02:15 2015 No.8493580 I don't know if he still has them on YouTube, but look up any panel JKid has hosted. That is the most panel horror story there is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:04:43 2015 No.8493883 >>8492881 in b4 every vic maganana panel

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:16:47 2015 No.8493911 >>8492881 >18+ hentai panel >two children with coloring books in the isle >only my sister and I find it strange >people next to us say it would only be weird if they didn't have something to play with

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:25:46 2015 No.8493942

>>8493911

Oh I'm definitely sure there would be someone in that room who would give them something to play with.

But how shitty is the person checking badges + IDs to let them in anyways? What the fuck. You'd be just as much of a moron if you didn't report it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:37:05 2015 No.8493971 >>8493911 Wow. As a mom, I'm appalled that any parent would ever let this happen..?! People are disgusting.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:42:46 2015 No.8493986

Once went to a Homestuck Q&A years ago and the Karkat got so nervous about the amount of people that attended the panel that she threw up on the table and had to be escorted out. Then the Jade had a panic attack because apparently she had emetophobia. All within the first 10 minutes of the panel.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:46:04 2015 No.8493994

This girl in my community used to host a "How to get a con BF/GF" panel at literally every con and all it was was an hour of her humblebragging about all the guys that wanted to date her and how she has huge tits (but don't bring them up~). She also kept mentioning that she was moving to Korea.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:52:27 2015 No.8494008 >>8493986 >Homestuck There's your problem.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:54:31 2015 No.8494014 >>8493986 That sounds like a helk of a show st least.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 17:56:12 2015 No.8494019 >>8493986 kek. where was the con?

Lilitu !!xrorRTcEU5x Mon Jul 20 19:07:44 2015 No.8494174

>>8493911
I'm pretty sure that that is illegal. And the messed up thing is that everyone there could have technically gotten arrested and ended up being considered a sex offender because of garbage parents.

>>8493986
Oh god. That sounds amazing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:08:18 2015 No.8494176 >>8493986 that sounds too good to be true.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:11:18 2015 No.8494182 >>8493986 this sounds like performance art

Joshiki !!/yNOn/b90F3 Mon Jul 20 19:15:49 2015 No.8494191
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>>8492881
during nycc 2011, some guy sperged out at jewel in the firefly pannel. he started talking about her personal life and husband and everyone felt really weird.
generally, most audience questions make me grind my teeth.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:20:51 2015 No.8494204 >>8493575 Did the audience only ask the better one questions or acted the better one like it was theirs?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:22:32 2015 No.8494207 >>8493986 literally tumblr

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:43:37 2015 No.8494257 >Dashcon WTNV cluster fuck of a failed panel

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 19:58:56 2015 No.8494305

>>8494191
>generally, most audience questions make me grind my teeth.
God this. made it through the ridiculous hall H line for friday at SDCC this year, and at least 50% of the questions are tangential or stupid as fuck

>that fucking guy trying to trick JJ Abrams into revealing plot elements of the upcoming star wars movies
Do you think he's a fucking moron or something? Trying to be all cryptic and shit only makes it worse.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:10:51 2015 No.8494326 >>8493575 Who were the cosplayers?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:20:07 2015 No.8494342 >>8494326 I don't wanna name names. Both of them are on /cgl/ a lot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:27:19 2015 No.8494354 >>8493986 we will have to use the new horizon probe to find my sides, holy fuck.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:36:01 2015 No.8494370

>>8494305
>trick into revealing plot elements

I hate that shit too, anon. All these con autists who don't know/care about Non-Disclosure Agreements and try to wheedle secret info from industry guests. It's so fucking cringey.

>be me at Nekocon 2013 in Steve Blum Q&A panel
>Con Noob A-chan approaches the mic
>"wut animuz r u gonna be in next??? owo"
>Blum explains why he can't tell her
>Con Autist B-kun is at the mic a mere two people later
>asks the same goddamn question
>"like I said, B-kun, I legally can't answer that"
>B-kun slightly rewords the question as if that'll do the trick
>audible groans from the non-retards in the room

So tired of that shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:52:44 2015 No.8494409 >>8493883 Doncha mean Dic Mangina?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:56:26 2015 No.8494421 File: 10 KB, 209x201, 1394692897246.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Danger Romper panel >Go because cosplayed Monokuma >Hosted by 17 tumblrtards >Someone bring up Chihiro. >Herewego.jpg >Long ass discussion about muh genders.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 20:56:51 2015 No.8494423

Kitacon Transformers panel where they were showing the first ep or two of Transformers Prime.

Didn't have proper speakers so they put the microphones supplied for them to speak into right up to their laptops speakers so you could barely hear the audio.

Ep starts, they say 'sorry for The Rock being in this' never mind that most people don't give a shit that Dwayne Johnson is in it and actually want to hear his dialogue (Cliffjumper) that they so rudely spoke over.

Dumb cunts in the row behind me won't shut up discussing the episode.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 22:44:58 2015 No.8494664 >>8493986 jesus christ, fuckstucks. they might as well just have a giant skype session at home, maybe they won't fuck that up and can leave the rest of everything alone

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 22:47:30 2015 No.8494669 >>8494342 then what is even the point. fuck off

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 22:59:18 2015 No.8494699 >>8494669 You were supposed to gossip:<

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:01:21 2015 No.8494704 The Philosophy of Bleach at Otakon 2009. It was a clusterduck of randomness and Con Ops had to shut it down.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:04:15 2015 No.8494713 >At a local anime con last year >Trivia >"only 10 groups can participate" limit >host sarcastic af >meme spouting questions >not even anime/manga related >"what is the con organiser's previous job?" >crack answers get points Never again.

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:16:17 2015 No.8494737
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>Cosplay Dating Game
>Host wants boys on one side girls on the other
>crossplaying that day
>move to boys side
>'No no no anon you must go to the girls side'
>'Even if my character is male?'
>'Yes, please move to the girls side'
>three other crossplayers are told to move to the appropriate side of the room
>some don't want to move
>Host says that we're the ones delaying the game
>one says that they aren't even crossplaying
>"Have it your way ladies~"

the game was fun but jesus why

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:18:55 2015 No.8494744 >>8494737 If Tumblrite had gotten a whiff of this, shit would have hit the fan for the panelist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:28:00 2015 No.8494760 >>8494744 that happened in '08 but yeah I can imagine tumblrs frothing rage

Anonymous Mon Jul 20 23:36:00 2015 No.8494776

I remember the Attack on Titan panel at AX 2013 was so packed and there were so many questions that were so easily answered had people paid attention to what was actually going on or were familiar with the source material. I don't even like AoT anymore but jfc some of the fans in that room...

> "Hey I know this is an Attack on Titan panel, but can I ask about Highschool of the Dead"
> Three people ask the same question within 7 minutes of one another
>"WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA TO MAKE THIS? WERE YOU TROUBLED OR SOMETHING?"
> He is the director of the anime
> They even fucking said, before the Q&A began, that the team was given references from the manga-ka for what to keep in mind
> "Why did you change Hanji into a female when they are very androgynous in the manga?"
> "Hey so I have been reading the manga can you tell us spoilers?"
> "HEY SO HOW DID YOU GET THIS IDEA TO MAKE THIS ANIME"
> at one point a cosplayer ran down the aisle from the back of the room and
> planted themself infront of Danny Choo and the director

On a smaller, less horrible one but still kind of annoying

> Skullgirls Panel AX 2015
> Unfortunately panel ran late so they jumped to Q&A
> Stupid questions
> "So I heard the game is doing pretty okay in Japan, but how is it doing in Japan?"
> wha.. didn't you just answer your own question
> One guy speaks really loudly into the mic
> "SO ELIZA IS THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO DOESN'T HAVE SPECIFIC WIN QUOTES AGAINST THE OTHER CHARACTERS WHY IS THAT"
> "Well she does, doesn't she?" panelist looking at each other
> attendee giving them attitude "NO, SHE DOESN'T"

There were other moments during the Q&A but I can't really remember. My experiences with panels just seem to come from people asking really dumb questions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:06:41 2015 No.8494833 >>8494776 this is what happens when you're shit to your staffers and organization that you don't hire any panel moderators. thanks, marc you fat fuck

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:11:52 2015 No.8494842
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>Otakon 2014, me and my brother go to a panel teaching you how to be a good voice actor
>Everything is seems fine. The presenters talk for twenty minutes about their work and what you need to succeed
>QnA Begins
>Some dude dressed in a really bad Inuyasha cosplay asks "How can I become the next Homer Simpson?" and says that all he can do is impersonations
>"I can do a really good Barney voice just watch!" and then does a horrendous sound
>One of the presenters had to ask him to stop and then told him that voice acting isn't about doing silly or impersonation voices

>Later a girl in a animal pajamas suit asks a question
>"If I were a voice actress, will I be able to go to work in my animal pajamas? My parents don't like them but I love wearing them!"
>Presentors don't even know how to respond

>Near the end of the panel the Presentors let people practice their voice acting by reading lines from a part of Dust: An Elysian Tale
>Everyone they picked did awful
>Saw the presenters steahtly cringe through the whole panel

Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Tue Jul 21 00:21:23 2015 No.8494864
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>>8494713
>host sarcastic af
This bothered me so much at a Persona Panel. Hosts were rude and insulted the audience several times. If you got up and left, they outright made fun of you. Also sarcasm to add on to it.

>mfw
>Yeah uh we didn't want to do this panel anyway and we really weren't gonna do it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:23:02 2015 No.8494870 >>8494833 Whoever is playing handler for them should be doing it. I mean, handler has to be there anyway. Handler is basically attached to their butt.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:32:30 2015 No.8494884

>Host an anime discussion panel back in 2010 with someone I wasn't very close with
>Spend ages preparing slideshows with them and getting all excited
>A few days before she tells me I have to cosplay a certain character from the show (despite the fact that I didn't have the time or money to throw anything together)
>Tells me that she'll kick me off the panel if I don't cosplay an extremely skimpy character with her because she was too shy to do it alone
>I had gained a lot of weight from sickness recently and wasn't at all comfortable with my body, but I did it anyway
>She spammed photos afterward all over facebook and I constantly see them maliciously posted here and on other cosplay forums

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:35:06 2015 No.8494886

This was more of a wtf did you think would happen here moment

>at J-rock band Q&A panel
>the band doesn't really know English
>obviously the translator isn't fluent in Japanese and music terms
>guy in audience proceeds to ask the most difficult question about the guitar melody of one of their songs
>translator fails at being to translate what he was asking into Japanese
>lots of confused looks
>awkward moment for everyone involved

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:46:39 2015 No.8494904 > Atlus Panel at AX2008 > Most questions were about "when is Persona 4 coming out?" > Everybody laughed when some guy mentioned the Persona 2 fan translation > In front of Atlus

>>	xsauc !!rCUKADYmg0+ Tue Jul 21 00:49:41 2015 No.8494910 >>8494884 Horrible, they must of loved you quite a bit. >or obsessed

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:49:52 2015 No.8494911

>small local con, not much going on
>early ass morning panel about fighting styles in comic books
>into martial arts, think it could be fun to learn about different characters' styles, why not?
>jk it's just some weird older dude trying to show off his "skills" by teaching us some simple defense moves
>dude keeps trying to get the only two attractive girls in the room to volunteer for a body hold scenario
>"if I could get one of these small females in the room" and staring right at them
>even after they say no
>continues trying until they feel awkward and leave
>just shows us some stupid grips that aren't even that effective irl
>nothing about comics whatsoever
>makes fun of me when I get up to leave

He was apparently at least friendly with staff, because I saw him running and participating in several other bigger events throughout the con, all of which were equally terrible. Never again.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:50:44 2015 No.8494916 >>8494870 has anyone ever done that in 20+ years? lol no

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:55:14 2015 No.8494923

Vic Mignogna was trying to recreate the magic of anime one year at ALA by doing some lines from Full Metal Alchemist, so I shouted some bullshit to interrupt him right as he was about to do his thing.

This was seven years ago, and if he's still that full of himself I'd interrupt his shit, every time. Zero fucks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 00:56:02 2015 No.8494926 >>8494864 >This bothered me so much at a Persona Panel. Hosts were rude and insulted the audience several times. If you got up and left, they outright made fun of you. Examples? When Mega64 use to do this but I don't think they're malicious about it.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:02:12 2015 No.8494937

>>8494923
Wow you sound like an obnoxious piece of shit. Who cares that it was 7 years ago? Some kids were probably so hyped to hear him say FMA lines

>>8494910
I don't know if she was trying to be mean to me or thought she looked good in the photos, but I was told they would never make it on the internet

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:04:52 2015 No.8494940 >>8494923 anon you are the horrible panel story

Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Tue Jul 21 01:10:14 2015 No.8494952

>>8494926
There was a trivia game. They asked odd questions, some about Persona 1/2. Which most people did not play. IIRC one of the hosts called the audience something negative when no one could answer. It was either stupid or retarded. One of the audience members actually had some knowledge of all the Persona games and they'd get snarky with him since he was the only one really answering those questions. Also, as the panel went on and there wasn't much going on (no prizes for the trivia after all), people started to leave. I didn't think anything of it since some people probably had another panel to go to or whatever. The hosts went on like "Psh, what a bunch of losers, not sticking around" and whatnot. I found it rude.

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Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:18:46 2015 No.8494962

>Gunpla panel at AX
>Host keeps making dirty jokes and then saying "ups I DO have an 18+ panel tonight so I'll save those for later!" over and over
>Has over 300 slides of good info, but we only get to hear about like 80 of them because he:
>Keeps making "you need a nail file for this, I know you don't know them because you don't have girlfriends, but ask your mom" comments. Nobody laughs. He keeps making them.
>Be girl in giant pink cosplay sitting on the 2nd row.
>Host points at me "You! Would you like to date any of these nerds? Huh? Of course you wouldn't! What are you even doing here, are you lost? The MLP panel is in another room."
>Be stunned and answer nothing.
>Baby's first con, didn't tell anyone about it or complain to the organizers.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:23:01 2015 No.8494967 >>8494342 Do et faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:27:27 2015 No.8494971 >>8494962 Would you like to date any of these nerds?

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:30:00 2015 No.8494975

>>8494191
I was at a Summer Glau panel and this guy who looked like a stereotypical neckbeard was picked to ask a question, and he just kept going on about him being a professional photographer and how he was offering her a free private shoot. She kept saying no thank you as politely as possible but he kept talking about it. Was very embarrassing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:34:10 2015 No.8494981 >>8494926 >When Mega 64 used to do this >used to nah haha they still do it, i was at their momocon panel this year, but you can tell they're not being mean. you expect it since they're a comedy act.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:34:54 2015 No.8494983

>>8494958
Thank the fucking lord. I know he's fishing for compliments, but I'm glad no one showed up.

>Go to info panel around 9pm
>Music playing in the next room, nothing bad
>Panel is going well, learning lots
>10 mins in the music gets LOUD
>Send someone over to ask to turn it down
> Goes down for 3 minutes then gets cranked back up
> Hosts trying not to be distracted, but it's difficult
> Send one of the panel host over.
> Dip in the volume, obviously they turned it down for as long as the host was inquiring
> Involve staff member, same thing as before
> Staff member gets called back and informed it's still loud
> Staff member is disgruntled and asks them to turn it down once more.
> Again, dip in the volume. Staff member walks into our panel room, hears that the music has gone back up and goes back.
> Music is cut, chorus of groans
> the panel ends nicely, I have some good info for my next cosplay. Chatting with the host, thanking them when the staff member comes up to apologize.
> Mfw i have no face when I find out that it was some wannabe *geek* rapper and literally 3 other people in that room

Not too horrory and has a happy ending, but goodness it was annoying

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:56:34 2015 No.8495007 >>8494981 Oh, I guess they stopped doing it at AX due to size.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 01:58:44 2015 No.8495013

>go to a con
>shitty tiny affair called Sukoshicon
>decide to check out the yaoi panel
>no yaoi gets shown
>instead it's this awful parody hentai called Sailor and the Seven Balls
>halfway through the panel, the host's shitty laptop refuses to run video
>end up looking at host's /b/ folder instead
>blue waffle and other abominations where shown
>Sukoshicon
>never again

I'm not sure what I expected from the yaoi panel at a tiny (like less than 300 attendees) con, but yeah.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 02:29:38 2015 No.8495055 >>8494952 Oh god was this the persona panel at amid? Never 4 get

Slutcliff !!oApGYJz0ghp Tue Jul 21 02:41:18 2015 No.8495079
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>>8494923
>A voice actor does something for his fans at a panel he's running.
>You decide to be an asshole

Were you expecting us to praise you? Vic is problematic but he's still an industry professional.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 02:44:08 2015 No.8495084 >>8495013 Oh, Sukoshicon. Went to one and never wanted to go to another. Didn't a good chunk of their cons get cancelled this year?

>>	Claudie !!5M+s+ZHeFhU Tue Jul 21 02:49:58 2015 No.8495092 >>8494409 I thought it was Dickelodeon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 02:59:13 2015 No.8495109 >>8494704 That kind of sounds on point for the philosophy of Bleach.

>>	Claudie !!5M+s+ZHeFhU Tue Jul 21 02:59:48 2015 No.8495110 >>8494737 tbh that's rude as hell of the panelist, imagine how much it might suck if you weren't actually crossplaying but still told to move? Plus, I thought that the point of a cosplay dating game was to be in character?

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 03:04:29 2015 No.8495115

>>8495084
As far as I know, they've canceled them all this year. I think people are finally waking up to the fact that they're a ripoff, and the whole operation is falling apart (I hope so, because quite frankly, they're a cancer on the Southern con scene).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 03:55:30 2015 No.8495217 Bump because I want to read more panel horror stories.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 04:49:46 2015 No.8495295 >>8493986 .... As an emetophobe, this is suddenly my new worst fear.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:04:53 2015 No.8495396 >>8494981 wasn't aware insults are "comedy", sad these "comics" have nothing but insults. how boring

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 07:06:56 2015 No.8495398 >>8494958 Haha oh wow, karma sure is a bitch, isn't it Anthony?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 09:58:30 2015 No.8495570 >>8494704 Was that the one where they handed out paper bags with home pregnancy kits inside them as prizes? Figured it was a troll panel from the vague description of what it was about, turns out I was right.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:37:11 2015 No.8495624

> go to really shitty local comic con because an actress from my favorite show is a guest
> panel starts off well, moves to questions from the audience
> "i was just wondering, could i get a hug and a selfie?"
> actress too nice to say no
> suddenly half the room lines up and the rest of us are forced to watch a hug/selfies/autograph line in lieu of a panel
> wtf. she's selling photo ops and autographs at her table in the dealers room. i get that she doesn't want to be mean but that's clearly when it's the staffer's job to step in and stop it
> staffer just stands there the entire time
> all my rage

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:41:06 2015 No.8495630 >>8494421 >tumblr in charge of seeing things in a non-american cultural view >fucking never really though, nothing I hate more then tumblr throwing every cultural reason for Chihiro out of the window because 'muh fanfic"

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 10:42:35 2015 No.8495631

Reposting an old story I typed up a while ago for a different thread.

>Be me at Otakon 2006. Friends check schedule for any interesting panels. Usual weeby shit that was common back in the day, nothing that interesting until:
>Do It Yourself Bukkake: 18+ Workshop.
>No description.
>Everyone is dying to know what the fuck this is. Is it a sex panel? Is it a larp? WHAT IS IT??
>Every time we run into someone, the conversation inevitably becomes "have you heard about this insane workshop? I'm going. Are you going? I'm totally going."
>The workshop time approaches and we show up an hour early. The line is already stretched across the entire 3rd floor.
>Pile into the room. People on the floor, in the isles, chattering away and dying to know what the fuck this is. Everyone is super pumped.
>A lone girl in furry ears and unrecognizable cosplay meanders up to the stage and begins fiddling with papers. She slides a piece of uncolored Wolf's Rain yaoi fanart onto the projector and takes the mic.
>"Yeah so there was a misprint in the program guide. This is actually "Draw It Yourself Bukkake."
>Immediately 1/3 of the room gets up and leaves.
>Stick it out because we sat in line for an hour, how bad can this be?
>For half an hour this chick slides pic after pic of her Wolfs Rain yaoiz onto the projector and describes what makes it an "interesting" piece of art. Goes into great detail about her OC (who she is dressed as) who makes an appearance in half of them.
>Everyone looks like they want to die until she passes out paper and suggests that we draw our own yaois.
>The next thirty minutes is saved by people drawing terrible joke art (Penises on a Plane, gigantic dick people, etc), which she then tries to evaluate and critique.
>Otakon is slightly more picky about panels nowadays.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 11:24:58 2015 No.8495700

>>8495630
They do this for every character that likes to crossdress even if they still think of themselves in their own gender because "muh transgirl/boy headcannon!!"

And then they bitch and moan about not being able to dress however they want without being labeled as something they are not. Hypocrisy sure goes a long way with them

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 11:31:36 2015 No.8495712

>>8495631

Something similar happened at Kumoricon a few years back. A panel got put in the schedule as "Japanese candlestick making" and it looked like it was supposed to be a two-hour workshop. Turns out it was a two hour lecture on Japanese Candlestick Economics. As in, yanno, stock prices/trading shit.

We looked in the door at about an hour in and the guy was lecturing to two people in the front row of a 200-person panel. Rest of the room was totally empty.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 11:37:58 2015 No.8495719 >>8495570 Yes it was. Here are videos from Youtube. /watch?v=1L8p2B0db2A /watch?v=f1cxPPL5NM4 /watch?v=7FPXmT3FncE

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 11:54:12 2015 No.8495745 >>8495396 >reads 4chan post >makes assumptions >obviously doesn't know who/what Mega64 is Fuck off, summer child.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 12:00:04 2015 No.8495755 >>8495712 >two hour lecture on Japanese Candlestick Economics Why???

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 12:48:57 2015 No.8495808

>>8495712
See, maybe I'm a hopeless sad sack, but that actually sounds like a reasonably interesting panel. I find that people who know a lot about weird shit like that (too niche for normies, but also not interesting to the average con "geek" crowd) often make for good conversation.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 12:54:26 2015 No.8495815 >>8495631 It would be pretty hilarious to make this panel and just have a table full of silly string for people to mess around with.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 13:09:51 2015 No.8495833 >>8495712 Literally sounds like a Jkid panel, only that seems to have some value to listen to if that was your thing to invest in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 13:09:52 2015 No.8495834 >>8495815 It's ok, I make my own

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 13:16:15 2015 No.8495841

I only ever attended two panels

1) League of legends "crazy builds" panel. The builds they were proposing for the game were already legitimate builds in the game. The panelists then revealed they hadn't played the game in the year and had no idea these "crazy builds" were legit and popular for months.

Upside was that they had a pretty fun game set up, and the audience basically took over the panel. One of the panelists was trying really hard to be interactive, the other guy was quiet and would barely speak.

2) Sailor moon panel.

They had a LOT of issues with audio and video. and it seemed like their entire panel was revolving around the audio and visual shit. After like 10 minutes of struggling they gave up and just tried doing a game/discussion.

EXCEPT that they were really really REALLY soft spoken. The panel room wasnt big, but over the murmuring of other people around it was literally impossible to hear them. If they even projected their voices SLIGHTLY it would have been better.

Those were my first two and only two experiences with panels. It seems like any time i ask friends about the panels they go to they never say its any good either.

My con going experience is now basically watching some shows, going to photoshoots and the dealers room. Maybe a gameroom if there's something good.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:09:29 2015 No.8495937
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I attended a hetalia panel and at one point in the panel this guy in an snk jacket walks in and stands near the door for some time.
> panelists are asked to quote mean girls
> they all say they haven't watched it
> Guy chirps up "I HAVE" and start walking towards the panelists, I figured he wanted to take the mic from them and start actually quoting mean girls
> one of the panelists save the others by quoting the movie and the guy then stops on his route towards them and goes back to the wall
> mfw

I'm baffled at some weebs behavior sometimes tbh

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:27:33 2015 No.8495984 >>8495631 >>Be me why do you have to put that, it doesn't make sense, what is the point?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:30:01 2015 No.8495989 >>8495984 be me implies general autism

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:33:26 2015 No.8496000 >>8495745 fuck off, shitty comic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:35:20 2015 No.8496005 >>8495984 >Step into my shoes .... Either way..It's just how it's done

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:36:10 2015 No.8496010 >>8493883 >>8494409 >>8495092 Fish Filet Mignon?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:36:36 2015 No.8496014 >>8495984 >what is the point its to point out the newfags who cant greentext story properly.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:37:22 2015 No.8496016 >>8495937 Please tell me he pointed to the snk guy and said "He doesn't even go here" Would've been perfect.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:37:31 2015 No.8496017 >>8495295 Same. I would probably have just stood up and run out of the room crying tbh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:37:33 2015 No.8496018 >>8495631 I remember that! Too bad Otakon's takeaway from that wasn't "There's a huge demand for bukkake panels".

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:43:40 2015 No.8496028 >>8495013 Ah I remember Sukoshicon. the only one I know of is when they merged with animeland wasabi. It was a terrible execution. was this from the sukoshi/ALW mashup?

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:44:51 2015 No.8496032

>>8495631
>She slides a piece of uncolored Wolf's Rain yaoi fanart onto the projector

oh god, like an overhead projector from elementary school? what gold

anyways how great would a DIY bukkake panel have been though
>>8495815
I feel like that def would be a funny panel...like, have clips from hentai on the screen and people could come and re-enact it with the silly string but I wonder if the con staff would let the panel even go on once they saw what it was?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:47:00 2015 No.8496038 >>8496032 I assume for a DIY Bukkake, it was just the panelist wanting to get it done themselves, so they would invite all the people who showed up for the panel to bukkake them.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:47:08 2015 No.8496041

I have one, I don't think it was really annoying, more like pretty cool.
>Go to first con
>Go to Kill la Kill panel
>People asking generally alright questions.
>The Q and A is Sushio one of the artists/animators for the show
>Go up and ask him his favorite anime that has influenced his work
>He says Akira and proceeds to talk about what he likes about it
>Decide before I'm done talking to him to scream Tetsuo!!
>He responds with Kaneda!
> Proceed to go back and forth like 3 times till he's really getting into it and screaming Kaneda.
>Tell him he wins the scream off say my thanks and leave.

Was pretty fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 14:47:18 2015 No.8496043 >>8494981 The "Dukished saboteur" was the absolute worst.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:08:07 2015 No.8496091 File: 114 KB, 1049x777, vicmigvic.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8494409 >>8496010

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:12:41 2015 No.8496101 >>8496028 Nah, it was at a Sukoshicon in Birmingham, AL back in 2011. I got excited and decided to go because the location that year was only a couple miles from my apartment. I wish I could have those two days back.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:16:12 2015 No.8496113 >>8496041 >share your horror panel stories thread >isn't horror story What are you even doing

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:18:29 2015 No.8496121 >>8496101 Is all (both) of Alabama cons this bad or is it just the people of this state that are crazy? I'm trying to get out as fast I can.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:19:14 2015 No.8496125 >>8496113 I-I thought m-maybe a change of pace would be nice!

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:24:37 2015 No.8496150

>>8496121
The other 'Bama cons I've been to are Kami-Con and Hamacon. I greatly enjoyed them both. They have their shit together for the most part, and I have yet to regret spending my money or time at either of them.

Kami-Con is the bigger one (at 4,500 or so this year) and Hamacon isn't too far behind that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:26:18 2015 No.8496155 >>8496150 wait, con chair getting married on a rickity temporary stage is a con now?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:30:47 2015 No.8496173 >>8496155 I personally was at a panel while that was happening. And you know, that was merely one thing out of an entire three days of stuff going on, so I wouldn't say judge the entire con based on that. But hey, you do you I guess.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 15:35:46 2015 No.8496189

>panel at Ohayocon that was supposed to be about anime tiddies
>panelist is overweight tumblrina
>spends first few slides talking about a Sailor Jupiter cosplay she did
>talks about her own tits as if that's what we came here for
>rest of panel is just mentioning anime she grew up with
>"I always liked x character because she had big boobs too so I felt represented" or some such nonsense
>did not see a SINGLE 2D breast despite the panel being 18+
>the friend that had us switch to this panel's line had actually left before the panel started
>that son of a bitch

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:08:47 2015 No.8496408

>>8495712
>Turns out it was a two hour lecture on Japanese Candlestick Economics. As in, yanno, stock prices/trading shit.

That actually sounds a lot more interesting than Candlestick making.

You'd think there'd be more actual nerds at conventions. I can't be the only one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 17:56:26 2015 No.8496542 >>8495396 What Mega64 does wasn't even actual insults.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:19:57 2015 No.8496601

I was running a panel I've run before at a super small con. Even though I had everything they said I needed, the connection between my laptop and the projector wouldn't work. And I couldn't just email it to myself and put it on another computer or use a USB drive, because the computers there were password protected and none of the staff had the password.
We waited 20 minutes for con staff to come help. It wasn't the worst thing that could have happened, but I'm still embarrassed about trying to stall/run the panel without the very needed visual aids.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:20:29 2015 No.8496606 File: 291 KB, 560x560, 1399154189080.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8495631 >"This is actually "Draw It Yourself Bukkake" >Immediately 1/3 of the room gets up and leaves

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:39:07 2015 No.8496643 I went to the Markiplier panel at PAX East. Worst mistake of my life. Cringe questions, subtle promo-my-youtube assholes, and a marriage proposal. I was in physical pain and it looked like Mark was too.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:39:08 2015 No.8496644

>>8495712
how does that even happen? I don't know about kumoricon's selection process but I assume that it's just like any other convention in which you submit a title and a description...surely the description made it clear that it wasn't about candlemaking??? so whoever wrote down the title had to have done it on purpose or i guess super distracted somehow. same with assigning rooms, wouldn't they have referred to the description to think about what kind of size room they needed?

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:47:46 2015 No.8496662

>>8496189
Reminds me of another panel at Ohayocon that was also supposed to be about anime titties, but just ended up being about the two hosts (who were just awful looking ham planets) making fun of anime anatomy and also jumping about, showing their grandma gozongas off to the crowd.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:52:31 2015 No.8496676

>>8494833
On the other hand you get panel moderators who monopolise the panel with questions of their own. At London Film and Cattle Con this past weekend Richard Dean Anderson had to tell the moderator to let the attendees have a go at asking questions

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:53:55 2015 No.8496681 >>8494842 According to Mark Meer (Commander Male Shepard) voice acting means he can go to work without any pants on

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 18:58:48 2015 No.8496687 File: 42 KB, 275x213, 1406727508486.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8494421 >Long ass discussion about muh genders. Oh my god, that would be true agony to have to sit through and listen to irl.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:04:20 2015 No.8496695

>>8495013
Sailor Moon and the 7 Dragon Balls

They showed some of this at the hentai panel at the first Nom Con as well as an older German animation called Snow White and the Seven Perverts

Oh and the girl running the panel didn't bother to check to see if lolicon was legal in Ireland (it isn't), didn't stop her showing it again the following year despite knowing it was illegal

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:05:56 2015 No.8496701 >>8495398 Is there drama associated with Harley's Joker?

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:07:14 2015 No.8496705

>>8495984
I can't believe I have to explain this to you, but it's a verb lead in to the story setup...? "Be me at Otakon" is the same thing as "Be at Otakon" or "At Otakon."

(Semi related, yeah, posts that devote a line to the two words "be me" are pretty pointless, but who gives a shit)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:08:30 2015 No.8496708 >>8494776 >Three people ask the same question within 7 minutes of one another The story of every Q&A panel.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 19:09:30 2015 No.8496710 Reading all these stories, now next con I go to I almost want to seek out cringey panels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 20:04:01 2015 No.8496808 >>8496710 They can be oddly entertaining. Good for a laugh if you're bored and nothing you care about is happening at the time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 20:06:40 2015 No.8496812 >>8496701 Not that I'm aware of. Though I know he's pretty attention-whorish, that's the most I know.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 20:15:17 2015 No.8496831

I was in an 18+ cards against humanity panel, I went to it the day before too, but this time when I went, It's like every weird, mentally handicapped, drooling fuck was there, and they surounded me and my friend in seats. so when we turned to face the two behind us to play, we were met with the must disgusting snot filled sneeze. It was the grossiest shit and destroyed my friend (she was cosplaying emperor lelouch, so lots of white)'s costume, there was snot and bits of bloode everywhere, sure she could of washed it, but crippled snot is gross

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 21:50:31 2015 No.8497006
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Am I the only one that finds most hentai panels extremely unfunny? All of hentai panels I've been to were just full of meme spouters who would get the whole crowd laughing whenever they would just say something like "lol dicks!!!! xDDDD". Maybe I'm just Mr. No Fun Allowed.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 21:53:34 2015 No.8497015

In my country panelists aren't allowed on the stage past a certain drawn line because on a con weekend, four (Ithink, might've been more) people fainted because of the heat and either fell down or bashed their skulls against the corner. Ambulances where called.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 21:56:30 2015 No.8497024

I went to a lolita panel that was 18+

Let's just say it was weird. One lolita talked about going down on her best friend when they were twinning. Another talked about their mother walking in when she wearing in lolita masturbating to bara. The third one talked about wanting to drink Misako's period blood in order to keep her youthful look.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 22:00:28 2015 No.8497030 >>8497024 Don't be a faggot and tell us which con

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 22:03:11 2015 No.8497034 >>8496016 My guess would be "You can't sit with us."

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 22:07:09 2015 No.8497038 >>8497006 nah it's true. Most of them are boring and unfunny. I enjoyed the hentai voice acting one though, I was super drunk and watching two muscular men try to voice a boku no pico sex scene was pretty hilarious.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 22:20:17 2015 No.8497059

>>8495808
>>8496408

The median age of the attendees at this convention is about 16, and I'm not counting the spiders georg-esque outliers of nerd marriage babies in fleecy Naruto costumes and eighty year old grandfathers sitting around waiting to die while their grandkids run around in Homestuck cosplay. Whole con is babies.

>>8496644

The person in charge of scheduling panels will actually make corrections to your panel name if they think you spelled your own content wrong. I've had to correct them every year on the simplest fucking shit. They don't bother to reference the blurb, and the blurb is like tweet-sized anyway. Plus, these are the people that accidentally made two guys guests of honor for being sports announcers for the Pro-Bending event. We're not dealing with rocket surgeons. They actually went onto one of the announcers' FB profiles to get a picture of the two of them together, but the one they chose was a picture of the two guys sloppy drunk at a party at like 3am.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 22:23:48 2015 No.8497065

>>8496710

Every time there's a super terrible "Ask the Hetalia Nations!" panel at a con myself and a band of friends get together and turn it into a war crimes tribunal. We've occasionally gotten some pretty good and surprising answers tho so it can be a laugh for you and a boon to the overall quality of the panel for them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 23:26:57 2015 No.8497196 >>8494952 Was it hosted by M-Bro? Those guys are douchebags.

Anonymous Tue Jul 21 23:35:31 2015 No.8497223

Pokemon panel a couple years ago.
>host went through the anime series, manga series and the video and card games in 10 minutes.
>spent the rest of her 30 minute time slot talking about Twitch Plays Pokemon
>She went into detail of every event , meme , joke and artwork of TPP.

>>	Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Tue Jul 21 23:56:15 2015 No.8497283 >>8495055 Yeah it was. Those guys were jerks. Asked them what other panels they did out of curiosity, they told me they didn't go to any of them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 21 23:56:39 2015 No.8497284 >>8495115 About time people wised up. Those cons were a big ripoff. The founder's a douche anyway. Scheduling cons on the same weekend is not closer in the same city as other cons to try to edge them out.

Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Wed Jul 22 00:16:39 2015 No.8497354
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>>8497196
I don't know. Sorry. I don't have any pictures either. But they were douchebags.

>>8497024
>The third one talked about wanting to drink Misako's period blood in order to keep her youthful look.
Jesus what.

>>	Claudie !!5M+s+ZHeFhU Wed Jul 22 00:17:55 2015 No.8497357 >>8496041 This is the cutest damn thing, I'm so jealous

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 00:25:34 2015 No.8497385 >>8497065 This is great anon. If you have more stories about this, please share. How does it usually go?

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 01:22:51 2015 No.8497543

>>8495007
Nah they did it at ax, but some of it can fly over their fans' heads.

>Horsemask guy walks up to ask a question
>Rocco: "Oh look its one of those horse masks that we've never seen before"

>Another guy says his second question will be short
>Gets to second question
>all of 64: "This is the SHORT question. Lets hear the SHORT question."
>wasnt short.

They do point out how cringey their fans can be, but hey I guess some of those others ITT are the kind that would get outed by Rocco.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 02:14:20 2015 No.8497642

>>8495013
I went to a small Sukoshicon in my hometown just to check it out.
>Literally one hallway maybe 100 people including the vendors.
>Go around noon, walk around for about 1hr - 1 1/2hr. Nothing to do tiniest con I've ever been to.
>Watch the cosplay contest most of the contestants were baby's first cosplay or store bought. Only 1-2 actually have good costumes.
>Decide to leave and go get dinner and come back for the rave (my brother loves con raves).
>Get back to con about an hour before rave, go to AMV panel its one guy laughing his ass off by himself in the dark to a youtube playlist.
>People are walking in and getting creeped out by insane dude and walking out.
>Me and my brother keep leaving and coming back because it is the only panel going on at the time everything else is shut down.
>We end up staying in AMV panel for a while and other people begin to stay as well (I guess because we hadn't been killed yet).
>About 20min before rave start decking ourselves out in glow sticks in the hallway. Handing out extra glowsticks to passers by (we bought the 50 pack and probably could have given one to everybody at the rave).
>See down at the end of the hall a 12yo Misty with glowsticks in her hair and her mom in Vocaloid we're all looking at each other surely misty isn't going to the rave.
>Yeah Misty and mom were both at the rave.
>Creeped out the whole time because of Misty who had obviously been to several raves.
>Water table runs out of cups about 1/2 way through the rave. Con staff just ignore the situation. Luckily the rave only lasted about 2 hours

So the lesson we learned Sukoshicon's are crap.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 02:38:32 2015 No.8497677
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The panel schedule for Saboten 2015 is out and it has so much potential for future horror story/cringe panel threads.

>20 Ask/in character Q&A panels
>5 BJD panels
>2 panels about how to run a panel
>"Flower crowns 101"
>"Homestuck Hot Seat"

I realize not everything is awful but I think I might only go one day instead of the full weekend this year.

http://www.sabotencon.com/programming/schedule.html

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 02:56:22 2015 No.8497701

>tree city comic con
>it's in Idaho so I was already expecting some autismal fucks but it was a family thing
>masquerade
>sit down while it's still realatively empty in the building it was in
>joker sits next to me
>another joker sits in front of me
>another joker behind
>jokers fucking everywhere
>one of them starts screaming whenever a contestant goes on
>another joins in
>eventually the jokers who surrounded me are all screaming intermittently when contestants come on
>start having a panic attack because PTSD trigger is loud noises
>can't really get up to leave
>finally push my way down the aisle to the exit
>one leans forward to scream in my face as I walk past, I obviously do not look okay
>hide in the artist's alley building for the next few hours

Fuck Idaho and fuck Joker cosplay. At least the slut!Quinns are quieter.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 02:58:55 2015 No.8497709

>>8497385

99% of the time the kids hosting the panel don't even know what we're talking about. Responses run the gamut from breaking character to tell us we're being rude, to actually attempting to answer our questions based solely on shit they've probably learned from tumblr.

My favorite thing to do when there's a Japan and a Germany on the panel is ask whether or not they consider a comparison of Unit 731 and its victimization of mass numbers of Chinese and Russian detainees to the medical torture performed on Jews and various minoities by the Nazi party during the Holocaust to be valid or not. Most of the time the Japan hasn't even heard of Unit 731, while the Germany does a lot of apologizing for the Holocaust. It's fun to watch them squirm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 03:17:48 2015 No.8497776 >>8497543 I was referring to their running gag of calling people out for leaving. >Hey! Where are you going? Something more fun in that bag?!

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 03:28:33 2015 No.8497812

>small local con, no room clears just back to back stuff
>waiting for friend's panel to start, other panel in the room runs 20 min late
>we sneak in and sit in the remaining chairs, talking quietly sometimes but sorta zoning out
> wondering why this panel is running 20 min late
> host is doing some audience interaction BS
> notices us in the back not participating and calls us out
> "APPARENTLY this is the sit and don't pay attention room" points at us and gets verbally abusive
> sit in shock for like 10 minutes, did he really? we're just waiting for our friend
> panel now 30 min overtime, host is playing madlibs with the audience for no damn reason, it quickly becomes 18+
> our friend the next panelist is waiting in the back politely
> organizers tell him to cut it, he asks everyone in the room to get up and go outside so he can continue the panel
> friend gets on stage to empty room, just us in the back left in the room
> people filter back in after about 15 minutes outside and enjoy the panel, apparently the guy blocked the door essentially making it so nobody could go back in, staff did nothing
> she has to cut her panel 30 min short due to the asshole before her and spent 15 min of it with just us in the room
> did all that really just happen?

Claudie !!5M+s+ZHeFhU Wed Jul 22 03:33:17 2015 No.8497827

>>8497776
Can panelists please stop calling people out for leaving in the middle of a panel? There are a million reasons why someone would need to excuse themselves, and it's really shitty and unprofessional for a panel leader to call them out. All it does is make that person look like an ass and the person leaving have a distaste for them afterwards. Also, y'know, maybe that person IS leaving because their panel genuinely sucks, in which case, the panelist has no ground making fun of anyone but themselves.

>>8497709
Damn anon go off

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 03:44:41 2015 No.8497865 >>8496701 >>8496812 assholeish. trying to trademark this 'look' he copied from the creators, girlfriend abuse, cheating on her, insulting her in public but she's still going along with it, hostile with other jokers take your pick

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 04:10:43 2015 No.8497950 [DELETED]

>>8497827
>Run an Ace Attorney panel
>babby's first panel, really excited
>plan was an objection contest, a trivia game and a pseudo-scripted trial
>couldn't get together to coordinate with my "attorneys" before hand but gave them the scenario through e-mails
>they show up 30 mins late without giving me any kind of notice
>give them the evidence that clearly have descriptions written on the back
>they just look at the picture like "lol what is this???"
>friend who is playing the judge didn't read the info I had given him weeks ago
>didn't get the microphones I had requested with my panel submission so no one could hear anything
>people gradually filtering out
>really nice Franziska and Phoenix cosplayers in audience do what they can to help save it by doing courtroom reaction buzz at appropriate time, spurring everyone else to do the same
>friend playing the murderer has to blurt out her confession when they were vaguely on the right track because our time is almost up
>panel ends, everyone goes to do an AA photoshoot
>near tears because I felt bad for wasting people's time

The Franziska and Phoenix were really kind to me about it afterwards because they learned it was my first panel and I learned a lot about running panels but I was so fucking mortified about the whole thing that could barely show my face the rest of the con.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 04:11:59 2015 No.8497952

>Run an Ace Attorney panel
>babby's first panel, really excited
>plan was an objection contest, a trivia game and a pseudo-scripted trial
>couldn't get together to coordinate with my "attorneys" before hand but gave them the scenario through e-mails
>they show up 30 mins late without giving me any kind of notice
>give them the evidence that clearly have descriptions written on the back
>they just look at the picture like "lol what is this???"
>friend who is playing the judge didn't read the info I had given him weeks ago
>didn't get the microphones I had requested with my panel submission so no one could hear anything
>people gradually filtering out
>really nice Franziska and Phoenix cosplayers in audience do what they can to help save it by doing courtroom reaction buzz at appropriate time, spurring everyone else to do the same
>friend playing the murderer has to blurt out her confession when they were vaguely on the right track because our time is almost up
>panel ends, everyone goes to do an AA photoshoot
>near tears because I felt bad for wasting people's time

The Franziska and Phoenix were really kind to me about it afterwards because they learned it was my first panel and I learned a lot about running panels but I was so fucking mortified about the whole thing that could barely show my face the rest of the con.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 04:26:08 2015 No.8497971 >>8495396 holy shit shut up

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 04:40:59 2015 No.8497989

>>8497006
I went to one which everyone joked gave them PTSD because it was all /d/ level shit. There was a lot of non-con in it, so I'll bet there were a few people not joking.
I'm not sure where to draw the line there, hentai is mostly non-con so surely people who know they can't cope should just stay away from those panels, but even I felt really uncomfortable and ill watching the clips in that panel.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 05:30:38 2015 No.8498050

>>8497827
there is a certain level and an understanding too: if you went in to a Mega 64 panel, you know what your getting into, but they have somesort of understanding as to what their limits are too.

something most people don't have and instead of making it funny, it's annoying as fuck and obnoxious. Smart comedians work within the parameters given and make it work. Joe Blow running a panel has 0 clue as to how comedy works and instead of working around a perimeter, they break it and tread on their personal space thinking its the funniest shit ever.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 05:40:41 2015 No.8498060
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>>8494923
Masa, is that you?

I've been pretty damn lucky it seems. Or just picky. The panels I go to are usually well ran and interesting or just boring. I will leave a panel quitely if I get too bored.
To balance out the horror, here's a (bad) picture of Mori from a Guilty Gear/Blazblue panel giving my friend and I in the front a smirk. He eventually made a cute hand heart at us, but the picture came out shaky due to how cute he was being.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 06:26:47 2015 No.8498104

Once we went to a prop building panel with my friends. We were really hopeful about it bcs hey come on, props. The panel turned out to be a humblebragging and namedropping session where the panelist was like "oh look you in the back. You are my friend" and asked them to come on the stage to hold all the props one at the time while the panelist was all "mm-hm. I made that." We left in the middle of the panel and the panelist said something like "haha yeah they couldn't handle my skills" and the panelists friends laughed. I have a bad temper so I just answered without thinking something along the lines of "well If I needed to come and see your friends holding your props I could have checked your facebook feed." The panelist seemed a bit shameful and we got out. Never again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 06:57:18 2015 No.8498143 >>8497812 Did anyone curse him out when seen later?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 07:49:46 2015 No.8498184 >>8497701 >PTSD trigger is loud noises You were in the military?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 10:56:26 2015 No.8498390 >>8497827 If it happened to me, I'd be tempted to act like I just found out my mom's the in hospital or something. Make them feel bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:16:18 2015 No.8498404 >>8497038 Were you I'm ALA anon? Because that amazing shit happened in the hentai voice acting panel too.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 11:19:20 2015 No.8498410

>>8494962
That guy has a lot of technical skill, but sucks donkey dick at telling jokes.

It's like he's reading jokes off a script but doesn't believe in the punchline...or uses the 18+ thing as a cover just to get away with saying stupid shit that's more insulting than funny.

I was at that panel. They guy isn't so bad one on one, but yeah, he should have someone up there with him.

>>	Enver !!52WOxLC+CKW Wed Jul 22 11:36:34 2015 No.8498430 >>8493986 It's like pottery

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:30:48 2015 No.8498569

>Run a panel at a local con with former friend.
>She isn't great at research but she's good at public speaking.
>Spend about a week making the powerpoint, getting feedback, revising certain points.
>Give friend 3 slides to memorise and her job is to arrange lighting, background music, projector etc.
>Arrive half an hour before panel is due to begin, con technician isn't there.
>Try to set up projector ourselves but its on the fritz.
>Tech guy turns up 10 minutes after the panel was due to start, turns out co-panelist didn't ask him to arrive early.
>She hasn't learned her lines at all, keeps going off script and giving the audience wrong info that I have to correct.
>Later find out she was given a goody bag by the organisers for the panel.
>Message organisers asking wtf, they promise me a free t shirt that never came.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 12:50:07 2015 No.8498638

>Planning a fandom murder mystery panel at local con, submit with notes that we'll need to turn lights on/off to "kill" characters secretly, panel gets accepted
>Have all game mechanics worked out, everything is carefully contrived and deliberately done
>Have cue music for when someone is going to die
>Have a volunteer willing to turn lights on/off when they hear the music start up
>Get to con on Friday, find staff and ask about lights
>Told we have to get permission to turn them on/off for that panel, but they'll get permission for us to have control for that one hour
>Check up on things Saturday and we're good to go for lights, we're told
>Sunday, panel time
>Go to con staff an hour before panel to double double check about how lights work
>Told the rooms don't have individual light control and we can't turn them off
>Explain we have a murder mystery panel that hinges on lights being off so we can "kill" characters
>Get told "too bad, make it work"
>Embarrassingly have to explain the situation to the audience and tell them, "when you hear the music" turn around
>Halfway through that's just not working
>We're doing Death Note style heart attacks at this point

Turned out okay, audience seemed to be fine with it (no big exodus) and loved the panel, but still, it was just such a defeat to have it all planned out, told the con way in advance and checked up every day, and then told at the last minute, "Oh, btw, we lied when we said you could control the lights."

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:06:18 2015 No.8498672

>>8498638

Had the same thing happen for the Fashion show at AX last year. We couldn't turn the lights all the way off because it would kill power in the lounge next door too. I fucking hate working in big convention halls where they create smaller event spaces with flywalls. You can never get anything done expediently.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:09:12 2015 No.8498678

>>8498638
You checked in multiple times to make sure you had the lights and at the last minute they said "oh no we can't lol deal with it"? That's terrible.

kek at the death note style heart attacks
It's gotta be hard to improvise something an hour before your panel when the one thing you need most isn't gonna work

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:21:35 2015 No.8498696 >>8494958 This was in part because the con had registration problems (I know, I was stuck in line for hours), though probably also because who in Oklahoma fucking cares about this dude?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:24:19 2015 No.8498698 >>8497865 >trademark Wait this sounds familiar. I took a /cgl/ break for a while but came back a month ago. Refresh my memory if its not to much trouble?

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:35:25 2015 No.8498729

>be at momocon
>watching super best friends panel
>halfway through, couple of con staff girls come in
>tell everyone no more cussing
>say it to the SBF crew
>go down the line for questions and tell every person no cussing
>SBF are mocking main girl behind her back
>cussing continues with a "whoops" after every time

It made the panel so much less fun and was really rude how they just interrupted some of their biggest guests.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:37:08 2015 No.8498731
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>>8498672
This happened to me only I didn't know the lights switches controlled the dealer's room as well and I intermittently put the entire place into blackout every few minutes.

>tfw no one said anything about it until after the con

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:39:04 2015 No.8498735 >>8498729 what the fuck does momocon have some weird "no swearing" policy or what

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:40:36 2015 No.8498741 >>8498735 Idfk they were filming it or something but it was such bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 13:42:47 2015 No.8498744 >>8497776 Never seen 64 do that, but I cant confirm they never have. But yea, other panelists ive definitely seen do this. Its shitty.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 14:04:22 2015 No.8498788 >>8497865 That sounds just like what the "real" Joker would do, all the way down to trademarking his smile.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 14:21:48 2015 No.8498816

>>8498678

Yeah. It really did turn out, thanks to our audience being good sports, but it's difficult when you've already given out specific info to your actors (who we were trying to keep in the dark about the killer so it would be a real experience) who suddenly find out they need to fake a heart attack.

My co-panelist is doing the panel again this year and at least from the start, she knows to do a workaround for the lights issue. It was definitely a weird situation. This is also the con that, 2 years in a row, has ignored my request for a second table. We run a game show and need the table for our contestants.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 14:22:57 2015 No.8498819 >>8498731 And they didn't immediately try to stop it?! I'd be worried about all the theft!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 16:17:35 2015 No.8499151 >>8498819 It happened during a major main event so the dealer's room was mostly empty or else they probably would have done.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 16:33:10 2015 No.8499210

>>8498678

Yeah, we were guaranteed a dark room and then when we showed up they told us we couldn't turn the lights off. Then one of the NHK guys (who didn't speak English and didn't know we couldn't turn them off) went over and shut them off anyway (I guess to be all "I don't see the problem here guys the light switch is right there") even though we were all making Xs with our arms and yelling NO STOP in Japanese across the room. Then the people from the lounge came over and started trying to beef with us because we cut their lights.

I love working at AX but at the same time I don't, you feel.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 17:20:26 2015 No.8499367

>>8498729
you tell that story but not talk about that fucking creepy guy in the rilakkuma costume that interrupted the let's watch panel? that shit was far worse tbh because he tried to interrupt them TWICE and con staff did nothing about him. what a dick.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 17:22:01 2015 No.8499374 >>8494962 I would've said "Maybe them, but definitely not you" at the dating thing

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 17:55:37 2015 No.8499477 >>8496091 I'm crying

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:04:23 2015 No.8499619 >>8498143 No idea. We left the con early because it was just not a good con.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:06:29 2015 No.8499623 Once I hosted a panel and no one showed up. Sad Joker is sad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 19:45:38 2015 No.8499690 >>8499367 I wasn't at that panel - didn't know. But damn.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 20:35:30 2015 No.8499843

>go to an mlp panel to laugh at it(mind you this was when S1/S2 was just coming out)
>Think I can laugh at all the stupid shit
>two hamplanets sit on each side of me
>both smell like shit and keep farting nearly gagging myself
>go back to the hotel and rethink my life choices

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:22:56 2015 No.8499967 >>8498184 Yeah. I had just gotten out of inpatient treatment for it a month or two prior.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:30:56 2015 No.8499984

>>8495631
I remember this. I remember chanting that stupid "I want bukkake" song while in line with a bunch of friends and other people.

We never got in because the room was packed by the time our line got halfway to the door. Actually slightly sad I missed this, sounds like a shitfest, but glad to finally know what the hell it was about.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:49:11 2015 No.8500013 >>8497024 This - >>8497030 I need to know...for a friend

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 21:53:39 2015 No.8500023
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no con in particular but
>go to a panel that has a lot of interesting guests and willing to talk about insight into the topic
>everyone that can get called on asks questions that are fandom/fanfic headcanon that are not even closely related to the panel, or questions that can be easily answered by google

Hate that so much

>>	G3A3 Wed Jul 22 22:03:07 2015 No.8500038 >>8496091 >Vic McShamalamadingdong

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:03:14 2015 No.8500039 File: 31 KB, 292x257, 1417655700607.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8498731 holy fuck I can't stop laughing can you just imagine being in the dealers room and wondering wtf was even happening. love it anon

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:03:21 2015 No.8500040 >>8497827 Marina Sirtis is notorious for this though I heard someone yelled 'I'm going to shit myself' at her when she called them out once

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:06:28 2015 No.8500046 >>8497865 Trademarking his look? Seriously?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:06:50 2015 No.8500047 >>8500023 Number one reason I leave pretty much all panels during the Q&A section, all the questions are basically the same

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:11:57 2015 No.8500062 >>8499623 Harley's Joker is that you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:12:11 2015 No.8500063 File: 126 KB, 304x398, 804.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8500023 >"Ummm I don't have a question buuuuut can I have a kiss/hug?"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:17:13 2015 No.8500079 >>8497865 >girlfriend abuse, cheating on her, insulting her in public but she's still going along with it Well, that's what Harley does.

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:17:37 2015 No.8500080
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>>8500063
>VA panel
>"Uhhh this is for all the panelists, how did you all get into voice acting"
>Takes up half the time for Q&A
>question is a 30 second google per panelist to find their wiki or blog

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:21:28 2015 No.8500086

Most of my panels have worked out pretty well, but...

>last year did a live riff of a movie, all by my lonesome because my friends are lame
>I forget the dvd, staff was nice enough to torrent it the night before, though it cut off like the first 10 mins.
>tech issues getting all the audio and video right
>when I do start like 30 mins. late, thankfully most people hadn't left because I had a decent crowd the year before
>we're running so late I don't give the disclaimer to shut their damn mouths because I am reading a script in the dark with jokes every 10-20 seconds timed to not overlap the audio. The speakers were aimed out at the audience so I could barely hear my cues regardless
>Dumb fuckers in the audience keep spouting shitty memes as jokes when I take a breath, no one on staff handy to get them to shut up, just deal for 90 mins while holding back the desire to curse them out

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:22:08 2015 No.8500088

>>8500080
>>8500063
>>8500023

If I were to do a panel with a Q&A as a VA I would make anyone who has a question stand up. Then from there I would proceed to run through the list of clichéd asks, and have them sit down until I get someone with a unique question.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:25:22 2015 No.8500096 >>8500088 I would attend that panel, I am so sick of going to cons waiting 30+ minutes in line only to have half the session be questions about shit that is easily found on the internet with the slightest bit of effor

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:34:03 2015 No.8500113 >>8500096 Yeah, stuff like giving the guests gifts or asking for hugs and autographs can easily be done at the end of the panel or even when they're just chilling on the con floor.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:40:30 2015 No.8500133 >>8492881 >mlp panel, a given but here's a video of it I cringe everytime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cWBG1GKn8A

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:44:12 2015 No.8500146 File: 715 KB, 500x323, tumblr_inline_nim7paQ0Aj1s75an9.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8500023 >can I get a shoutout for my youtube/website, and say these specific things right now during the panel

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 22:48:05 2015 No.8500152
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>>8500146
what's better is
>UM I asked on my tumblr you can find it at <tumblr/blahblahwhatever> and posted on my vblog at youtube/someshit in regards to a line you said in "someshit anime that happened forever ago" can you please define the subtext please?

Anonymous Wed Jul 22 23:49:51 2015 No.8500271
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>>8495013
>end up looking at host's /b/ folder instead
Why. If your AV storp working, your first resort should be to call your tech support friend that you should have brought or use a backup laptop that you should have brought.

Even if you didn't think ahead, ask someone for their laptop. Run a game or roundtable instead. Postpone the panel. SHowing everyone your /b/ folder is not on the list of options.
How does one even come to that?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:17:15 2015 No.8500569 >>8500271 >how does one even come to that Welcome to the spectular shittiness of Sukoshicon (also, the panel host seemed like a lazy cunt).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:18:45 2015 No.8500571 >>8497971 NO FUCK YOU

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:22:17 2015 No.8500575 >>8498060 >Masa, is that you? Pretty much, dumb shit is all he does

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 03:24:58 2015 No.8500577 >>8498184 >You were in the military? "autismal fucks" should've been the giveaway

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 05:41:26 2015 No.8500827

I wish one of my panels would show up in these threads. Been doing them for years and people always only say positive shit, even the trolls who admit they wanted to fuck with my panel.

>>8492881
>go to see a panel on some weird jap card game
>host is a 12 year old girl
>only other person in the room is an Asian man passed out in his underwear on the floor
>big black girls keep coming in, fucking with the 12 year olds stuff, then leave shouting the time of their panel
>girl is so shy she doesn't say anything as she gets bullied and doesn't mention the Asian guy twitching on the floor
>I tell her she can leave early since she seems to be having a bad time
>she thanks me and packs up
>con staff comes in and yells the fuck out of her for ending early.

Well maybe it was more horrible than horror.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 06:44:23 2015 No.8500904

>>8500023
What do you suggest to prevent it? You or anyone. This is really boring for almost everyone but we've yet to come up with a quick and easy way to solve it. Maybe have the VA do a FAQ with the top 10 most asked questions and post it on the con website and refer people to it if they ask one of the questions? They could reference it at the beginning of the Q&A?

Or have people write their questions and drop them in a hat and let the VA choose the ones they want to answer? Or have a write-in in the con forum/have a FB thread on the con page in the month leading up to the con and let the VA choose from those to answer?

Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Thu Jul 23 08:44:38 2015 No.8500995

>>8500904
>write their questions and drop them in a hat and let the VA choose the ones they want to answer?
I like this, but as someone with doctor tier handwriting, I'd feel bad if they couldn't read my writing. Also, kinda takes out he fun of being recognized by your senpai.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:19:57 2015 No.8501092 File: 70 KB, 500x281, Squid-Girl-Episode-1-English-Dubbed.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8494958 11/10

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 10:26:06 2015 No.8501100 >>8500995 Fix your writing. :^) You could also sign them so senpai can even ~say your name~

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:37:16 2015 No.8501178 >>8494884 Holy Shit! I feel so sorry for you anon. hugs

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 11:42:48 2015 No.8501184 >>8497701 Did you attend Anime Oasis in Boise? I heard it was shit.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 13:41:06 2015 No.8501371

>>8501184
I skipped this year, though I may or may not go to Tomo and fandomonium. Depending on if it's better this year, I may go to tree city again provided they change location. Their venue last year had three or four buildings and it was hard to find anything. They actually had semi decent guests though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 15:58:11 2015 No.8501598 >>8501184 >>8501371 I just moved to Boise. Now I'm afraid to check out the con scene here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 17:59:00 2015 No.8501848 >>8496643 Deets?? Oh please, I love to read horror stories about LPfags!

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 18:16:54 2015 No.8501893

>>8496687
Worse of all, you can't just leave when the heat is up, one move and you're dead.
>omg look at that transphobic douche go
>its so rude to get up when we're discussing about unrepresented minorities!!
>[insert meme tumblr insult here]
Back on 2012 it happened to me at a homestuck meet... Yeah I deserve it, but I wasn't aware of any of that bullshit back then and they made me feel like trash.

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:23:50 2015 No.8502222
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>host a panel on eroge at a small local con
>find out literally last minute that HDMI cable can't be used with cohost's laptop
>start freaking out a little bit
>call staff member in, staff member just gets angry and keeps snapping at everyone in the room
>really nice people from panel before lets us use their laptop (powerpoint was on a flashdrive)
>really thankful, give them some candy from my panel, offer to buy them lunch, joke about giving them a strip tease
>staff member looks offended. "what about me?"
>wasn't doing shit but stressing me out more
>mfw

Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:30:00 2015 No.8502233

>>8494191
>at Anime Matsuri a few months ago
>in line to ask Studio Trigger a question
>weeb girl at the front wastes all the time in the world prattling on asking about wanting to get into the anime industry
>catch the girl in front of me texting her friend complaining about said weeb
>never get to answer a question

Someone should have told that girl just how little people working on anime actually get paid and that her Deviantart bullshit isn't going to impress them

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:57:35 2015 No.8502288 >>8502222 what an asshole

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 23 20:59:51 2015 No.8502293 >>8500571 stop being such a dickbag, dickbag

>>	Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Fri Jul 24 02:34:00 2015 No.8503014 >>8501893 I'm really tempted to turn around mid step and ask them if it would be alright to pee on the floor or something along a bathroom variant provided this ever happened to me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 02:48:11 2015 No.8503048 >>8493986 best ever

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 03:05:19 2015 No.8503074 > Run my first panel > Not sure if it was going to be a popular topic but it got approved anyway > Only two people show up > Decide to run through it anyway > One tries to take over the panel the entire time > Awkward as fuck

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:22:12 2015 No.8503236

>>8494776
oh god i remember the AoT panel and this one question

>"I'm not caught up on the anime and I barely read the manga, but is there a head boss titan that the colossal titan and the rest of the titans work for?"
>gets boo'd so hard that panelists move to next question

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:27:28 2015 No.8503246 >>8497543 I ran into the horsehead guy. turns out i went to highschool with him... all levels of cringe

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:29:42 2015 No.8503250 >>8497865 Sounds like he's in character all the time. I love it. He'd be a great contestant for HOC. Think of the drama and gossip, even better if eventually authorizes got involved. Normalfags eat that shit up.

Anonymous Fri Jul 24 05:55:22 2015 No.8503275

>>8500023

Everytime in a QnA and there's that one guy who goes "I have a three-part question" but they're completely irrelevant to each other.

especially during the against the clock quick answers
>"i got 2 questions!"
>"only one, we gotta make this quick!"
>"its a really short 2 questions!"
>"just one please"
>"fine, blah blah blah blah AND yada yada yada yada"

these guys are usually the most cringe and ask the dumbest questions.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 00:41:31 2015 No.8505506

>>8493883
>>8493883
>>8494409
Went to anime midwest this year for the first time. It was so horribly run. Panels late as fuck. Anyways, there was a panel that was on sunday that had 12+ guests in one panel room. It was just a ton of really random questions. I forget the question but one of the lady guests that they had said something about " 5 dicks on good days and i have 3 dicks on average days". fast forward to an attendee asking what each voice actor would name their band if they had one. Chuck huber: Threedicks Mignogna.
Whole panel turned into Vic mangina bashing.
>>8496091
I think this was the list i posted. Glad someone screencapped this. I had copied and pasted names from previous vic bashing threads.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 00:50:30 2015 No.8505530

>>8494370
Steve blum is my husbando. Seriously though. Bless these guests for tolerating it w/o losing their shit.
>>8494421
>muh genders
I'm in a chair position at a con and for the final Q&A panel we do with chair/con directors, we had this girl who got offended when we called her a "She'. I have no clue what gender she was as she never corrected us. She just dressed like a tomboy. She sat and actually CRIED in the panel in front of all of us. Said how we misgendered her and how big of a deal misgendering is. We kept asking her what pronouns she wanted us to use. Never answered us. She wanted us to put pronouns on the badges. I know i've posted this story before.

Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Sat Jul 25 01:06:29 2015 No.8505578
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>>8505530
>She sat and actually CRIED in the panel in front of all of us. Said how we misgendered her and how big of a deal misgendering is.
>doesn't specify
>whines like the entire world is tumblr
>there are parents that encourage this

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 01:57:02 2015 No.8505687

>>8505578
It was downright ridiculous. I wouldn't mind it so much if people were respectful about it. "Hey, sorry but i actually prefer (insert pronoun), thanks." This same girl also wanted us to color code the attendee badges for people who didn't like hugging/touching. Let that process a moment. She wanted Red badges to signal "No, don't hug/touch me", Yellow to signal "I'm ok with some physical interaction", and Green to symbolize "I'm ok with hugs/touch". I get where she was going with this but to have EVERY badge like this we're looking at many people going back in reg lines just to change out colors. You might start out as red, then decide "Hey i'm fine with people hugging me." then you have to go back in line to get another badge. Wish people realized the financial end of it. That's alot of money to blow just on badges..

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:02:36 2015 No.8505695 >>8505687 How much would it cost?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:15:21 2015 No.8505715 File: 26 KB, 400x209, dogribbon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8505687 People who care enough about that should just start wearing those yellow ribbons like they did for un-social/aggressive dogs, kek.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:25:25 2015 No.8505730 >>8505687 how about everyone pretends they aren't autistic and just doesn't hug strangers. or at least be normal and ask first.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:37:16 2015 No.8505744 >>8505730 Well they did this hug/no hug system at a brony con one time I think. The difference is they're all autistic sooooooo....

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 02:49:40 2015 No.8505764 File: 929 KB, 264x320, screams.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8494370 I feel like those people should get kicked out of the panel. Seriously. That's obnoxious. I get that shit at work and I fucking hate it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 03:09:02 2015 No.8505784 >>8498729 it was even more cringy when they started pimping their momcon app or whatever

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 03:46:46 2015 No.8505831
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>>8505687
>color coded badges

This is literally an autism thing, for autistic people, at autism conventions. My sides are in orbit.

http://autisticadvocacy.org/2014/02/color-communication-badges/

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 03:55:31 2015 No.8505842
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>have older (50ish by now?) guy in cosplay community who creeps on preteen girls
>also never cosplays except for a very shitty one piece costume almost 10 years ago but is a """"expert photographer"""" and hangs around awkwardly taking pictures
>loves to answer every question in local community fb group despite having no idea what he's talking about

>last year
>local con has room exclusively for cosplay panels for the first time
>Senior members of cosplay community have all got panels
>this guy interrupts cosplay judge's panel to tell people where to buy fibreglass and resin after she's done an entire segment on it
>interrupts several other cosplay panels to offer his opinions on what they've just said
>interrupts one about cosplay photography to tell people where to buy flashes and how much they cost, once again just after the person had finished talking about exactly that
>is called out after the con very publicly and is made to apologize
>fast forward to last week
>have famous international cosplay guests
>they have panels
>he interrupts and tries to take over their panels too

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 04:34:20 2015 No.8505879 >>8505831 >Bronycon >Adopting autism signalling stuff Well I mean, sure. Yeah, I guess I can't argue with that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 04:35:54 2015 No.8505882 >>8505879 back in the day hitler forced people to wear badges to identify themselves. now people just do that shit of their own accord. amazing

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:19:17 2015 No.8506161 >>8494737 Realistically what is the age range of anime dating game?

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:44:06 2015 No.8506187

>>8505695
I don't have exact numbers on hand but you're looking at thousands of dollars. You'd have to purchase enough of each color for every attendee just in case. That's just such a waste of money in my opinion because we might not even go through all of those badges. Then we're stuck getting rid of them at the end of the year. That money can be alloted into something else. We're not a large con so we don't necessarily have a large amount of cash to just throw at anything. Money is only half of the problem. As i mentioned before, waiting in line is already a hated thing, why make the attendee wait in line again.
>>8505744
>>8505831
>pony con

Yea that makes sense. Don't get me wrong, I entirely understand extreme circumstances but having every single attendee do this would be more of a hassle than it's worth. That's the other thing that irks me. Attendees just assume that we have the ability to bring whatever they want to them. Yes, i'm aware we're there for them but there are definitely limits. Story highly related below

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:48:23 2015 No.8506193 >>8505530 >>8505687 ...do you chair Kumoricon because the exact same fucking thing happened in Rant&Rave last year.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:51:37 2015 No.8506202

>>8506187
I'll call girl C in this story.
>C wants markiplier to come to our con
>constantly nagging all staff members
>actually has the gall to post her life story on one of markipliers videos
>then tells us she's making a petition to get him to come
>fast forward a week or two later
>she posts on our fan page about how she's going to indypopcon
>C says she 'just wants to brag a lil'
>Honestly i was happy for her
>a few days roll by
>find out she's been adding Indypopcon staff on her personal facebook page
>C posts alot of Markiplier fanfiction she writes
>alot of yaoi smut shit involving mark and other youtubers
>she posts this on her personal page, just small parts of the story
>She contacts indy pop con staff and asks about meeting markiplier
>they tell her "It's fine to be excited, but don't get too excited"
>pretty sure most of them have seen her fb page which is covered in everything markiplier
>she posts on our cons fan page
>asks what we think this indypopcon staffer meant by "not getting too excited"

Oh and she also asked our con staffers if she should say anything to markiplier personally, to get him to come to our con. She just went overboard with everything.
I now hate markiplier.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 10:52:47 2015 No.8506204 >>8506193 No i don't. Sorry!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:08:39 2015 No.8506230 >>8506187 you could do stickers and that way if someone changes their mind they can take the sticker off or cover it with a new one. Mind you, it's still an expense, and still cringe.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:12:31 2015 No.8506236 >>8506230 Yea I know. We discussed that too. Either way you're dropping cash.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:19:36 2015 No.8506241

>>8503014
>>8501893
"Bitch, I will shit/piss/puke on your desk and on this floor! Don't try me! Not like I wanted to stay at your Damn panel anyway."

If said heckling continues, you either leave with the middle finger, or you do said business, given you don't give a fuck at that point. If they complain or call security, explain that it was them keeping you back from leaving in the first place. If you're a qt girl, probably a few tears here and there will help the case.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 11:21:15 2015 No.8506242 File: 445 KB, 320x222, cartman-s-shit-o.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8506241 Forgot gif

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 12:21:42 2015 No.8506292

>Urobucher is a guest
>Q&A event
>"I didn't understand Madoka's ending"
>"Can you tell us something about [something he didn't write]?"
>"Is this one thing related to Angry Birds?"

At least the organizers learned their lesson after that, and on the next con, they only accepted questions that were sent beforehand.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 13:59:25 2015 No.8506438 >>8506292 Honestly, the Finnish Q&A events pale in comparison when reading about all the shit in this thread. We've got it pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 14:27:58 2015 No.8506496 >>8505687 Retards... Why not put a transparent colored film over the front of the badge

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 15:34:41 2015 No.8506613 >>8494981 Mega 64 are kind of jerks at their sales booth. Only one guy was even nice. Most of their new stuff is really lame.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 16:59:00 2015 No.8506764

Not a horror story, but I wanted to share anyway because I thought it was pretty funny

>Doug Walker (aka nostalgia critic) Q&A
>congoer A mentions the bat credit card from batman and robin (nostalgiacritic inside joke pretty much)
>doug gets up and starts chasing congoer A while congoer A runs away like mad
>people start cheering
>doug borrows a sword from congoer B
>catches up to congoer A and pretends to kill her with the sword
>makes a victory pose
>people go completely apeshit cheering and laughing

It was pretty entertaining since the rest of the panel was a bit dull and full of people asking long ass questions or telling their life stories in broken english. Doug was a cool dude though. He even politely shut up the ones who started to really ramble on about irrelevant stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:07:47 2015 No.8506782 Went to a Ron Perlman panel at NYCC and a guy during the Q&A said he was an aspiring actor and asked if Ron Perlman could get him a job. It was super awkward. Film major friend sitting next to me was thoroughly horrified.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 17:14:22 2015 No.8506796
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>Telford MCM Feb 2014
>Vic Mignogna Panel thing
>HInts about his role in attack on titan
>People in crowd get buzzed from hearing about this dub. This may have been the first public mention of a dub but not sure.
>Vic also getting hype with crowd
>Shouts "ALL RIGHT!" at the top of his voice into the mic.
>see pic related
>

tenleid !R6n4uEROGE Sat Jul 25 17:24:02 2015 No.8506812
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>first time doing a panel
>one girl on panel spends the entire time talking about herself and all the characters shes cosplayed from the series
>2 other panelists and myself try to get it back on track, she literally talks over people to start talking about that one time she cosplayed x character
>people offer discussion based questions, she doesnt answer them and instead talks about the character mentioned in the question and the awesome fanart she saw of them
>stop
>please
>never doing a panel again

>>	Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Sat Jul 25 18:23:34 2015 No.8506903 >>8506764 >panel horror stories Tell me where the horror is anon. >>8506812 >Excuse me but the panel is about X not your cosplay, we're going to move on Try that next time.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 20:22:17 2015 No.8507133 >walk into COSPLAY IS NOT CONSENT panel >some dude in a fedora fighting the panelist over the acceptance of loli porn for ten minutes >security gets called

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 21:33:32 2015 No.8507233 >>8505831 This is literally "don't speak unless spoken to."

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 21:40:23 2015 No.8507243

>>8505831
I get it if you're special needs. I get it if you don't want people coming up and touching you/your costume.

But why go to a convention if you don't want people to talk to you? Most of the point to going to these events is to meet other people, isn't it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 22:07:04 2015 No.8507316 >>8507243 >Most of the point to going to these events is to meet other people, isn't it? Depends the type of person you are. I personally prefer people watching if I'm not at a panel or in the AA more than socializing.

Anonymous Sat Jul 25 22:21:37 2015 No.8507346

>Zipcon 2015
>Running Minute to Win It panel
>Baby's first panel
>Super nervous
>Have all off my games, prizes, and videos ready to go.
>Panel before us runs late
>Friend on staff kicks them out after twenty minutes
>People pilling in before they are supposed to
>Seperate everyone into two teams
>Get first game and video ready to go
>Missing audio and video cables
>They were supposed to be in the room
>Panel before us took them
>Staff spends 30 minutes trying to find them
>Try to preoccupy guests by playing other games
>Four assholes making sarcastic jabs at us
>Finally get what we need
> Ten minutes left of panel
>Still tried to make it fun for people and give them prizes
>Trying not to cry because I'm in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared notebook makeup
>Not planning on hosting another panel anytime soon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 25 22:21:50 2015 No.8507349 >>8497677 >http://www.sabotencon.com/programming/schedule.html Ugh, fuck.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 02:34:12 2015 No.8507851 >>8495937 Pretty much every Hetalia panel tho amirite

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:19:51 2015 No.8508066 >>8494958 damn, I'm in washington all summer otherwise I would have showed up just to be the only person there and then leave.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 04:35:37 2015 No.8508079 File: 70 KB, 240x337, 1388372285241.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8505831

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:00:29 2015 No.8508109

>get dragged to some zombie panel by friend
>not really paying attention
>oh no phones dying
>plug phone into wall socket next to me quietly
>guy in front of me turns around
>points a my little pony painted pro gun in my face
>"ITS REALLY RUDE OF YOU TO BE HERE IF YOURE NOT LISTENING"
>explain that my friend has social anxieties and i had to come
>host asks him to calm down
>guy does
>same guy is continuously interrupting the host and asking stupid questions
>"BUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, IF YOU STOOD REALLY STILL?"
>"Uh, a zombie would probably still attack you?"

the guy apparently did this to EVERY panel he went to

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 05:13:01 2015 No.8508123

>karaoke panel at like 10 pm
>people are leaving for the nights dance
>friend is a pretty good singer and signs up
>we wait for her turn and then we plan to go to the dance
>few people in front of us, no rush
>two girls in closet cosplays up next
>absolute terrible but whatever its only for a bit
>turns out they both put their names down and put a ton of songs for each of them to duet
>they both get upest with the host when he tells them no
>"But we have the /real/ talent here"
>girl ones dad gets up starts arguing with the host
>host is horrified
>host asks someone to get security
>friends and i volunteer
>get back with security ten minutes later
>bigger girl crying the other absolutely screaming at the host
>promptly leave and never go to another karaoke panel

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 06:33:02 2015 No.8508184 >>8506292 Wait, what? "Is this one thing related to Angry Birds"? I'm going to need more info on that question.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 07:49:01 2015 No.8508249

>Kill la Kill presentation
>Before the presentation starts, the guy holding the presentation switches the title
>Proceeds to speak with his focus on Gurren Lagann instead of Kill la Kill
>Glorifies Gurren Laganns music over Kill la Kills
>Generically goes through the plot and characters, practically spoiling Gurren Lagann to the entire audience
>Ends up jamming in front of a full audience for like a minute straight to an 8-bit tune of Gurren Laganns opening

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 09:44:36 2015 No.8508391 >VenusAngelic Panel in con's largest hall. >20 people. Hundreds and hundreds of empty seats.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 10:59:56 2015 No.8508494 >>8500827 Jesus christ.. Poor kid

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 11:07:27 2015 No.8508500 >>8505842 I would have had a con staff member remove him or ask him to stop being a faggot or he can leave or will be removed.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 11:10:44 2015 No.8508507 >>8506202 That sucks.. I like Markiplier him and Robbaz are my favorites. But she just went overboard.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 11:30:22 2015 No.8508533

>>8505831
I'd be more uncomfortable having to pick a badge than not... Whether I want to talk to someone depends entirely on my mood at the time, how busy I am at the moment, and who that person is. And I can see creepy people using someone wearing a green badge as an excuse to creep on them, then getting mad when the other person does not want to talk to them, since they were wearing green. But not wearing green will just make people avoid you... Either way I can see awkward situations arising from this.

I guess it might be good for some socially awkward people, but the main reason I wouldn't want this is because I'm slightly socially awkward and this whole thing just seems really embarrassing.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 12:58:17 2015 No.8508656 >>8495295 >>8496017 I would've ran out and the next hours of con would've been ruined for me, if not the whole con. >I thought I'm the only emetophobe around >mfw it's fuck to tell others (why not something easy and common as arachnobhopia. why.)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 15:09:26 2015 No.8508860 >>8505882 The best of all is that tumblrinas don't seem to notice that uncanny resemblance... Hitler also said it was for a good cause.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 15:26:32 2015 No.8508894 >>8508391 And all those 20 people were from PULL and Lolcow, right?

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 15:38:44 2015 No.8508912

>>8508860
In the case of mandatory pronoun cards, they're not even good for trans people. They could potentially out a trans person who is early in transition and doesn't pass as their preferred gender yet, calling attention to them. This could lead to them being judged, harassed, and in extreme cases, could even lead to violence against them. So some trans people would either be forced to lie, or risk their own safety.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 15:45:09 2015 No.8508923

>>8508912
Everybody knows these kids don't care about real trans people, they just want to flaunt their star/stars/starself pronouns to be the center of attention (it may be good or bad) and feel special using "I'm TRANS!" As a honor badge to do whatever they want. Fuck, I hate tumblrinas.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 15:48:32 2015 No.8508928 >>8508923 Yeah, most real LGBT people hate them too. Our issues are co-opted for the sake of their self-righteousness.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 15:58:53 2015 No.8508949

>Rhode Island Comic-Con
>Supernatural panel with actors not on the show anymore, most interesting one being guy who played Bobby Singer
>large hall packed with flowercrowns, closet cosplays, and fandom-unaware dads marvelling at how many young kids are there
>Q&A portion is a long-ass line of kids asking pointless questions that have little to do with the actors on stage
>many boil down to "Tell us more about Jensen and Ackles!"
>actors overly patient about it
>Bobby's actor leaves halfway through the panel to deal with something
>line for questions is HUGE, the people up front take forever to even get to their meandering questions
>never going to get through even a fourth of the line at this rate
>suddenly, Singer's actor reappears with Mark Fucking Shephard
>Mark takes over the goddamn panel
>stands with whoever is first in line, often with his arm around them or otherwise uncomfortably close, holding the mic for them to talk into
>cuts them off when they blather
>"We're not here for your life story love, get to the question"
>"Where's the question?"
>"No, you don't get two questions, look at all the people behind you!"
>line moves much more quickly
>staff reminds everyone of the panel's ending time
>Mark nopes and keeps going
>and going
>staff getting antsy
>Mark hustling the line along and hamming it up, blowing off off-topic fans and warnings from staff
>crowd loves it because they are finally getting what they came for
>finally forced by staff to end panel
>crowd bumrushes the stage where Mark and Bobby's actor linger after the less-interesting people leave
>staff hollering for people to exit, the panel is over, time to move on
>handlers trying to get the two middle-aged actors away from the horde of teenagers
>staff yelling LOUDLY that the panel is over, everyone must go

mix of delight and horror. Mark Shephard is a genius at crowd management and turned a tedious, wtf experience into an entertaining one. but the poor staff members were at their wits' end.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 26 16:02:44 2015 No.8508962 >>8508949 >Jensen and Ackles *Jensen and Jared, fuck

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 16:49:00 2015 No.8509061

1/2
My best friend and I were invited to a character Q&A panel for an upcoming con because we cosplayed side characters to a shoot. We figured sure why not and I exchanged info with the girl in charge. When she made the fb page, she'd put another girl in my friend's spot; I asked her about it and she changed the name, saying she spoke with the girl.

Planning goes pretty strangely, everyone decided to do a giveaway but nobody wanted to contribute more than maybe $15 apiece; I offered $30, but because I was also working a booth in the dealer's room I said someone would need to get the money from me to buy the items. No one volunteered online, and no one came to the booth. Their loss.

Went to the panel with my friend and got "where are your items?" from the host, even though I told them I couldn't get them. Then we noticed that the original girl casted in my friend's spot was there, in cosplay, in a panel seat. (What?) Asked the host, reply was "Well just deal with it, I don't know what to do".

And then question number two was "Why are there two of them?" We had to make up some bullshit cloning/spawnchild story, but overall the rest of the panel went smoothly. Then the giveaway came, and here's where all the shit just got full on stupid.

Anonymous Sun Jul 26 16:57:27 2015 No.8509083

>>8509061
2/2
So they had all of 2 items related to the fandom sitting on the table, along with a few random things, many of which were pre-owned (someone's old plush, 5 volumes of a shoujo manga, a charm from something else). Then they raffled off the 5 volume set per-volume, and then told everyone that the large plush was actually one of the panelists' and not up for raffle. A ton of people were mad so the other panelists said "come find us during the con and we'll buy you something else." From a con of 20k people. Not even possible. So I came up with an idea, the rest of the panelists agreed - people could come by and trade their items at my booth, but the other panelists would have to bring their items early. They said they would.

Next morning rolls by as I headed to get my own items and I get a call saying people are already asking for me at the booth. I told them to tell everyone to come back in 2 hours, and I asked online if the panelists were bringing their items/when. Nobody replies. So to be safe, I went ahead and bought $75 worth of little figurines and charms for people to swap.

Two hours later, people come back and none of the panelists show up. So I end up trading most of the figurines and the other items, (I maybe had $15 left of the items that didn't get swapped out.) So after the con, I asked if people could give me maybe $5 or so to make up for the extra (we had 6-7 other people on the panel) and one girl just says "You didn't have to spend that much", and I explained that almost everyone traded their items. No more replies.

The host says she'll give me $30 (fair enough, I decide to just accept it) and asked if I could wait a little. I thought she just needed another paycheck.

EIGHT MONTHS LATER, after doing another panel with her at a new con two trips out of the country, and her going to at least 3 other cons, she finally pays me back. Then asks if I still had the items people traded. And that was just the first panel with her.

>>	(' v ') Sun Jul 26 17:26:24 2015 No.8509134 >>8506764 >>8506292 Finns are waking up from slumber.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:13:47 2015 No.8510385

>apply to participate in a fire emblem panel
>I fucking love fire emblem and have played all of the english releases as well as the fantranslations
>don't know the other 4 panelists, but apparently they're all friends
>attempt to communicate by constant emails about ideas
>they collectively ignore me but I'm so excited that I keep trying
>panel day arrives, I arrive half an hour late because none of my fellow panelists told me it was moved up
>I sit at the table and tell them who I am and they have no idea, I point to their sheets where my name is
>panel continues
>some asshole in the audience keeps interrupting us with random awakening facts and strategies when its not even time to speak about it
>I talk about the older games and no one has any idea what I'm talking about. I get embarrassed.
>I guess everyone here has only played awakening so I talk about breeding strategies and even show them a chart I made on my tablet
>everyone looks at me like I'm crazy
>most of the panel is talking about otp's
>we go on to talking about the new game. I did extensive research so I explain what I know
>room interrupts into tumblr sjw bullshit
>at the end of the panel, the panel leader pulls me aside and tells me that I sidetracked the panel and alienated all of the people in the room
>am close to tears with embarrassment
>they all begin leaving
>interrupting asshole has the nerve to pass by me and say "I should probably be a panelist next time, you guys didn't say anything important"
>run out of the room and cry in the bathroom
>boyfriend who was in the audience runs after means almost gets in trouble for running into the girls washroom
>all the cosplayers in there console me and my boyfriend takes me to an amusement park close by to cheer me up

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:21:13 2015 No.8510390 >>8510385 I'm sorry you had to go through that, anon. They sound like standard-issue tumblr douchebags, but I'm glad your boyfriend cheered you up. He sounds like a sweet person.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:25:17 2015 No.8510394 >>8509083 gonna be honest, fire emblem fandom has gone in the shitter since awakening not that i was that involved before, but what I see of it now is pretty terrible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:27:26 2015 No.8510398 >>8510385 gonna be honest, fire emblem fandom has gone in the shitter since awakening not that i was that involved before, but what I see of it now is pretty terrible.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 05:08:27 2015 No.8510525

>>8510385
I started with Awakening, and let me tell you I would have been pretty vocal if they shut you down considering you have the most knowledge. I WANT to know more about the difficult to find copies before I can get my hands on my own...

>running first panel by myself
>already fuck up having a too large cast even though I warned the con itself and they were fine with it
>dudes prepare dresses ahead of time for a costume change partway through
>they give me the largest panel room though
>Fuckin score, tons of people show up
>half the cast is forced to stand in the dark because our room mod won't let them sit in the front row
>going pretty smooth other than that, no large derailments or cringefests
>get to costume change, girls take over panel and men go to get into crossplay
>only half of them take their badges, the con won't let them back into the panel room without them
>stalling for time while one of us awkwardly runs around gathering badges and I try not to freak out about the main draw being a bust
>minor heart attack, but the audience didn't seem to notice much
>get back on track just fine and only have to rush it a tiny amount to fit it in before panel ends

Basically I learned my lesson the hard way, but they had absolutely no reason to NOT let the same group of guys back into our room after watching them leave. They didn't magically have their badges taken away in ten minutes time. So stressful. I'll stick with letting friends run panels from now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 07:12:27 2015 No.8510642 >>8510385 Is...is this what Fire Emblem has become?

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 07:20:36 2015 No.8510652

>go to figure photography panel
>only 5 attendees, myself included
>panelist asks questions, establishes we're all longtime figure collectors who want to know how to take better pictures
>"Oh, keep an eye out for cute little things that might make good props"
>"The most important thing in taking good pictures is to NOT BUY BOOTLEGS THEY WILL ALWAYS LOOK LIKE SHIT"
>10 minutes of "how to identify bootlegs"
>most of the rant she is a screaming, spitting demon about how evil bootlegs are
>5 minutes of "reputable figure websites"
>picture of her photography kit
>"Oh this is a DSLR, you need one to take good pictures any other camera is garbage"
>doesn't name camera model, lenses, or anything in her kit
>her fat friend dressed as Mello: "I use my iPhone camera"
>"Ohmygawd iPhone cameras are uh-mazing, any other phone camera is trash"
>Mello shows us pictures of her cat to show off the uh-mazing camera
>"So, to recap..." is another 15 minute rant about bootlegs

ffs If I didn't know what bootlegs were I'd be at the figure collecting 101 panel

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 07:46:56 2015 No.8510681 >>8508391 I kinda feel sorry for her...maybe

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 09:42:29 2015 No.8510855 >>8510385 >played every Fire Emblem Sir/Maam I must congratulate you. Those Tumblr folk be scary.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 21:31:50 2015 No.8512492 >>8510385 >boyfriend who was in the audience runs after means almost gets in trouble for running into the girls washroom >all the cosplayers in there console me and my boyfriend takes me to an amusement park close by to cheer me up awww

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 06:29:44 2015 No.8513368

>>8510390
He is sweet. He loves fire emblem too and I had to hold him back from beating everyone up once I finished crying. Everyone in the bathroom lost their shit (hopefully not literally)

>>8510398
I run a Marth RP blog and lemme tell you. I've had to firmly insist on not pairing with any Roys or Ikes who only know things from Smash

>>8510525
I wanna collect the rest of the games too. I only have physical copies of the eglish releases. Thanks for you for the sentiment.

>>8510642
I can only hope it was an alienated incident. If I can I wanna be the panel leader next time.

>>8510855
Thanks and yes they are. I feel like they're TRYING to be mad for attention

>>8512492
Same

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 13:19:49 2015 No.8513961 >>8507243 Some people just go for shopping than interaction. Art supplies are typically cheaper at cons.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 13:29:38 2015 No.8513985 >>8509083 You shouldn't of participated after people were unresponsive from the beginning. That alone is a warning sign.

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 15:09:54 2015 No.8514204

>>8492881
Anime Midwest, 2013, so many cancelled panels that weren't announced. I'm no show person, but even then I was the only person willing to stand up and talk about something.

Fortunately for one of them Chuck Huber showed up.

I was only there to help out a friend- but now that I know about Ryan Kopf I'm never setting foot there again

>>	Anon's Sister !uCdS.UkXqM Tue Jul 28 16:06:18 2015 No.8514342 >>8514204 >but now that I know about Ryan Kopf I'm never setting foot there again This. He's so sleazy. Only saw him at the rave but still grossed me out. Planning for Anime Expo instead.

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 16:42:09 2015 No.8514425

Bit of background: I've worked local cons since 2006, and last year at $largeVegasCon1 was the first time I'd actually gone as an attendee since 2007, and even in 2007, I'd only attended 2.
For two of the cons I work, I spend the convention almost exclusively in the dealers/vendors room, and one of them, I run. Of the two, the anime con is completely gung ho regarding bootlegs, and seeks to stop them from showing up in our room (there's a couple of small stories on those).
As a result, I and another member of the dealers room staff decided to put on a bootleg identification panel in order to educate our attendees. So far it's been run twice, and both attracted a fairly decent crowd. I was gifted a box of confiscated items to demo, and the collection has grown over time as people hand me their bootleg items, and the PowerPoint file has even made it to conventions I've never attended (Share and share alike :) ).
On the heels of success from the first year, I decided to revamp the presentation and make it all pretty, and also decided to lighten my load of things to bring and carry by running it off of a Raspberry Pi, as demos of the white background version had gone fairly well.
During submission, you are given the option to specify output requirements, such as HDMI. This was ignored, and the component video cable in the room did not work immediately. That was problem one, and was eventually sorted out by a member of the A/V staff2 offering me their laptop.
By this time, we're halfway through the allotted time, and have been winging it, because thankfully we both knew the material well.
However, even with the use of the beefier hardware of the laptop (compared to the Pi), the presentation was lagging hard, which I have attributed to the proprietary PowerPoint format, since it was created on a Windows PC in PowerPoint, and being run in the LibreOffice equivalent on Linux.

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