Some 60+ year old guy in a wizard costume ran up to our group and licked my sister in law's cheek as we were leaving a few years ago.
Wholesome fun for the family
Wholesome fun for the family
TarponChaser said:94chem said:That's basically what I was saying.P.H. Dexippus said:94chem said:
I never really liked it, it was expensive, too hot or too muddy, had too many too old women wearing too little, and usually kept me from seeing a decent football game...but the thing that really turned me off was when somebody in a grim reaper costume offered my little girls candy.
I thought it was mostly wholesome fun as a kid in the mid to late 80s. I went back sometime around 2008 and it had turned into a gross cross between people of Walmart and game of thrones. Pass.
I just got the sense that a lot of people there were hiding behind the costumes because RenFest gave them a way to normalize their pedo urges or whatever else needed to stay in the darkness.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't think it goes that dark but I do think that if you're a grown-ass person who is so invested in playing dress-up then there's something wrong in between your ears. This goes for Ren Fest, cosplay/comicon-types, obviously furries, and even the more usually harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types. I can understand the appeal of escapism but to be so immersed in it is just sad and likely an indication of something lacking elsewhere in your life.
TarponChaser said:94chem said:That's basically what I was saying.P.H. Dexippus said:94chem said:
I never really liked it, it was expensive, too hot or too muddy, had too many too old women wearing too little, and usually kept me from seeing a decent football game...but the thing that really turned me off was when somebody in a grim reaper costume offered my little girls candy.
I thought it was mostly wholesome fun as a kid in the mid to late 80s. I went back sometime around 2008 and it had turned into a gross cross between people of Walmart and game of thrones. Pass.
I just got the sense that a lot of people there were hiding behind the costumes because RenFest gave them a way to normalize their pedo urges or whatever else needed to stay in the darkness.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't think it goes that dark but I do think that if you're a grown-ass person who is so invested in playing dress-up then there's something wrong in between your ears. This goes for Ren Fest, cosplay/comicon-types, obviously furries, and even the more usually harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types. I can understand the appeal of escapism but to be so immersed in it is just sad and likely an indication of something lacking elsewhere in your life.
Oh, they're definitely in there for sure. I'd generally put them in the more harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types though. Those are definitely closer to normal.Milwaukees Best Light said:TarponChaser said:94chem said:That's basically what I was saying.P.H. Dexippus said:94chem said:
I never really liked it, it was expensive, too hot or too muddy, had too many too old women wearing too little, and usually kept me from seeing a decent football game...but the thing that really turned me off was when somebody in a grim reaper costume offered my little girls candy.
I thought it was mostly wholesome fun as a kid in the mid to late 80s. I went back sometime around 2008 and it had turned into a gross cross between people of Walmart and game of thrones. Pass.
I just got the sense that a lot of people there were hiding behind the costumes because RenFest gave them a way to normalize their pedo urges or whatever else needed to stay in the darkness.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't think it goes that dark but I do think that if you're a grown-ass person who is so invested in playing dress-up then there's something wrong in between your ears. This goes for Ren Fest, cosplay/comicon-types, obviously furries, and even the more usually harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types. I can understand the appeal of escapism but to be so immersed in it is just sad and likely an indication of something lacking elsewhere in your life.
Where do Disneyworld people with no kids fit into this lexicon?
Yep, that was when it was pretty fun to go once a year and drink and eat a bunch. I took my oldest back then and the shows, axe throwing, cool shops and jousting were fun for him. There was definitely a goth section that you could avoid and only a few chainmail exhibitionists among the regular festival folks. Can't imagine what it is now when the goths and chain mail people would be considered prudes. Shame.OnlyForNow said:
It was nerd/freakshow watching in the early 2000 while I was in HS in Montgomery.
Now it's a legit find the normies, challenge if you go, chicks with buttplug tails is the 100% norm.
Anything taken too far to the point of "obsessive" is an indication of something lacking elsewhere in your life.TarponChaser said:94chem said:That's basically what I was saying.P.H. Dexippus said:94chem said:
I never really liked it, it was expensive, too hot or too muddy, had too many too old women wearing too little, and usually kept me from seeing a decent football game...but the thing that really turned me off was when somebody in a grim reaper costume offered my little girls candy.
I thought it was mostly wholesome fun as a kid in the mid to late 80s. I went back sometime around 2008 and it had turned into a gross cross between people of Walmart and game of thrones. Pass.
I just got the sense that a lot of people there were hiding behind the costumes because RenFest gave them a way to normalize their pedo urges or whatever else needed to stay in the darkness.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't think it goes that dark but I do think that if you're a grown-ass person who is so invested in playing dress-up then there's something wrong in between your ears. This goes for Ren Fest, cosplay/comicon-types, obviously furries, and even the more usually harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types. I can understand the appeal of escapism but to be so immersed in it is just sad and likely an indication of something lacking elsewhere in your life.
TarponChaser said:Oh, they're definitely in there for sure. I'd generally put them in the more harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types though. Those are definitely closer to normal.Milwaukees Best Light said:TarponChaser said:94chem said:That's basically what I was saying.P.H. Dexippus said:94chem said:
I never really liked it, it was expensive, too hot or too muddy, had too many too old women wearing too little, and usually kept me from seeing a decent football game...but the thing that really turned me off was when somebody in a grim reaper costume offered my little girls candy.
I thought it was mostly wholesome fun as a kid in the mid to late 80s. I went back sometime around 2008 and it had turned into a gross cross between people of Walmart and game of thrones. Pass.
I just got the sense that a lot of people there were hiding behind the costumes because RenFest gave them a way to normalize their pedo urges or whatever else needed to stay in the darkness.
Maybe I'm naive but I don't think it goes that dark but I do think that if you're a grown-ass person who is so invested in playing dress-up then there's something wrong in between your ears. This goes for Ren Fest, cosplay/comicon-types, obviously furries, and even the more usually harmless Harry Potter/Star Wars/Trekkie types. I can understand the appeal of escapism but to be so immersed in it is just sad and likely an indication of something lacking elsewhere in your life.
Where do Disneyworld people with no kids fit into this lexicon?
In ranking them in levels of mental problems I'd go:
1) furries
2) Ren Fest obsessives
3) cosplay/comicon/LARPers
4) Harry Potter freaks (largely because of how they've gone completely off the rails over JK Rowling's criticism of the trans impact on women)
5) Star Wars/Trekkies- I think this was closer to mainstream due to the very real cultural phenomenon when Star Trek debuted in the 1960s amidst the race to the moon with the commies then Star Wars in the 1970s.
6) Disney World with no kids- these folks generally seem harmless but are in a state of perpetual adolescence (something I can relate to but in a different manner) who use Disney to harken back to the innocence of childhood.
TarponChaser said:
How the fck are you aware of this lunatic?
I never even made it out of season 1. Just too slow a burn despite Linda Cardellini.ccolley68 said:
Damn, I was looking forward to it once I finally finish Bloodline