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2011-09-14 05:06:28 PM
It could be worse, he could be a furry.
 
2011-09-14 05:30:04 PM
Which is in line with the stories I've heard about dragon con.
 
2011-09-14 05:46:24 PM
From tfa it sounds like this ain't the first time either, and from my time in Fandom I'd say its all too believable. There were always those guys that just seemed "off" in a way that couldn't be chalked up to just Aspberger's or a complete lack of social skills. In my time at cons it was usually the 30-year old guys hitting on the 14-year old girls (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say) that got ejected; but this doesn't surprise me either
 
2011-09-14 05:52:48 PM
img.photobucket.com
 
2011-09-14 05:58:23 PM
Magorn: From tfa it sounds like this ain't the first time either, and from my time in Fandom I'd say its all too believable. There were always those guys that just seemed "off" in a way that couldn't be chalked up to just Aspberger's or a complete lack of social skills. In my time at cons it was usually the 30-year old guys hitting on the 14-year old girls (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say) that got ejected; but this doesn't surprise me either

You're with WSFA?
 
2011-09-14 06:01:58 PM
Bspears tested, bloodninja approved.
 
2011-09-14 06:25:14 PM
He's a Level 94 Molester.
 
2011-09-14 06:45:55 PM
Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?
 
2011-09-14 07:12:39 PM
Con is held the same weekend as some big college football game. So 40k nerds + a crapload of drunk college football fans = ruining it for everyone else.

Crashing the parties and general debauchery that makes Friday and Saturday night at Con so much fun for those of us too cheap to pony up for a pass was cut short by rigorous security checks at hotel entry points.

Still had fun, though. Glad I didn't have to be carried out this year.
 
2011-09-14 07:33:31 PM
From TFA

"I am more than surprised, I am flabbergasted," Marger said when reached by phone Wednesday afternoon. "As I told the judge today, I don't know if this was a 14-year-old child or a 41-year-old midget, so until I speak to my client, I'm not taking anything for granted."

Awesome lawyer.
 
2011-09-14 07:35:27 PM
GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?


Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.
 
2011-09-14 07:44:43 PM
Bailiff, WHACK his pee pee!
 
2011-09-14 07:47:53 PM
ShawnDoc: It could be worse, he could be a furry.

Did you see his picture?

He's pretty damn furry
 
2011-09-14 07:52:34 PM
 
2011-09-14 07:52:38 PM
I'm picturing Herbert as Obi-Wan from Blue Harvest now. AAAAAAAAGH.
 
2011-09-14 07:59:32 PM
Gilligann: ShawnDoc: It could be worse, he could be a furry.

Did you see his picture?

He's pretty damn furry


www.genesisdeals.com

www.ajc.com


He's hoping he sells enough shirts to cover his bail...
 
2011-09-14 07:59:51 PM
Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.


I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.
 
2011-09-14 08:01:40 PM
As they say in Hollywood, "Don't get caught with a dead girl or a live boy"
 
2011-09-14 08:02:38 PM
liam76: Sci-fi nerds in general are ok, it is the trekkies you need to look out for (new window)

Well that's the most bizarre thing I've read in quite a while.
 
2011-09-14 08:08:10 PM
He was clearly in the wrong, kids are not PvP active.
 
2011-09-14 08:09:17 PM
ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.


Some of the great writers of history were absolute tools. I just read Jack London's bio...yeah, another arsehole for sure.

Being a good person and an excellent author are in no way linked, sadly.

//Every single friend I have who still goes to cons (especially dragoncon) as adults are either "off" or just there to score lots of questionable-age fangirl pussy.
 
2011-09-14 08:12:16 PM
ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.


Yeah, the guy is kind of nutty. It's not even that he's against gay marriage that was the deal breaker for me. It was that he advocated a violent overthrow of the American government if they ever legalize it.

Then again, I guess it's sort of like the Mel Gibson thing. He may be a hateful lunatic, but his stories are still great. I guess you have to divorce the art from the artist on some level.
 
2011-09-14 08:13:04 PM
Makh: He was clearly in the wrong, kids are not PvP active.

PvP flagged. You fail.
 
2011-09-14 08:15:58 PM
FerneJohn: Then again, I guess it's sort of like the Mel Gibson thing. He may be a hateful lunatic, but his stories are still great.

The last good thing that Gibson did was Braveheart the artist divorced himself from reality shortly after it came out.
 
2011-09-14 08:18:58 PM
Lexx: ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.

Some of the great writers of history were absolute tools. I just read Jack London's bio...yeah, another arsehole for sure.

Being a good person and an excellent author are in no way linked, sadly.

//Every single friend I have who still goes to cons (especially dragoncon) as adults are either "off" or just there to score lots of questionable-age fangirl pussy.


That's too bad, I'm 29 and I've never been to a "con" but I've always wanted to attend just to see the crazies. Now I have the feeling that I would automatically be labeled a pedo just by walking in to such a function.
 
2011-09-14 08:27:15 PM
Where are the 14 year old girl pics? I know you geeks have them stashed in a hidden bookmark folder somewhere.
 
2011-09-14 08:30:30 PM
He should've cast level 3 eroticism to turn him into a real beautiful woman.
 
2011-09-14 08:40:07 PM
zunkus: Lexx: ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.

Some of the great writers of history were absolute tools. I just read Jack London's bio...yeah, another arsehole for sure.

Being a good person and an excellent author are in no way linked, sadly.

//Every single friend I have who still goes to cons (especially dragoncon) as adults are either "off" or just there to score lots of questionable-age fangirl pussy.

That's too bad, I'm 29 and I've never been to a "con" but I've always wanted to attend just to see the crazies. Now I have the feeling that I would automatically be labeled a pedo just by walking in to such a function.


Not necessarily. You don't go to scifi cons for the con, you go for the ridiculous partying. I went to one small con about an hour south of Seattle a few years back. I was at the con for 30 minutes before we went to the hotel party. An entire FLOOR. 24/7. Free entrance. Free beer (5 kinds, from a homebrewer with like 20 kegs there). Free mead (3 kinds, same guy). 2 full liquor bars, free of course. And an atomic slushie machine.

Nerdy DJs (seriously I heard the eurobeat mix of Dragonstea din tei, aka the numa numa dance, and the floor erupted in dance as soon as it started), absolutely wasted partygoers, and a wet tshirt contest that was...better than all the times I've been to strip clubs, combined. Me and the DJ did jello shots off the winner's tits later that night, and at one point I took a swig out of a bottle of snake wine some dude snuck in. Seriously. Grain alcohol in a golden bottle with a pissed off dead cobra preserved in the booze.

Best party of my entire goddamned life. The con itself was a huge pile of fail. Though I did chuckle a little bit when I saw a whole farking TROUPE of anonymous running around with the afros and suits.
 
2011-09-14 08:40:40 PM
GAT_00: PvP flagged. You fail.

Active. You fail. In WoW kids don't even register at all. So nyeah.
 
2011-09-14 08:40:57 PM
zunkus: Lexx:

//Every single friend I have who still goes to cons (especially dragoncon) as adults are either "off" or just there to score lots of questionable-age fangirl pussy.

That's too bad, I'm 29 and I've never been to a "con" but I've always wanted to attend just to see the crazies. Now I have the feeling that I would automatically be labeled a pedo just by walking in to such a function.


No, don't get that impression. I went (paid) for the first time this year. There are families all dressed up, groups of guys, groups of girls, kids, old people, everyone. It's big. There's jailbait yeah, but their all dressed up in a costume so its ok to look and aint nothing wrong with looking when there's something to see. There are lots of flirty, legally hittable women present, and the fun starts late at night when the kids are all gone home.
 
2011-09-14 08:42:06 PM
GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?


I hate to speak ill of the dead, but let's just say the Con was held over New Year's Eve weekend and this author showed up to celebrate his birthday and was famed as a dirty old man
 
2011-09-14 08:44:52 PM
ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.



I knew about that stuff when I bought my Enderverse books, but I got them from a used bookstore. Close enough?

And yeah, good art can have a life of it's own. Being brilliant in some way doesn't necessarily mean being nice or not bigoted. Kinda like how:

i668.photobucket.com
 
2011-09-14 08:50:31 PM
Why is he hooked up to a CPAP machine? Does he talk like Darth Vader also?
 
2011-09-14 08:50:54 PM
Magorn: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

I hate to speak ill of the dead, but let's just say the Con was held over New Year's Eve weekend and this author showed up to celebrate his birthday and was famed as a dirty old man


Good old Isaac...????
 
2011-09-14 08:51:34 PM
zunkus: Lexx: ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.

Some of the great writers of history were absolute tools. I just read Jack London's bio...yeah, another arsehole for sure.

Being a good person and an excellent author are in no way linked, sadly.

//Every single friend I have who still goes to cons (especially dragoncon) as adults are either "off" or just there to score lots of questionable-age fangirl pussy.

That's too bad, I'm 29 and I've never been to a "con" but I've always wanted to attend just to see the crazies. Now I have the feeling that I would automatically be labeled a pedo just by walking in to such a function.


Don't listen to him. I've had a marvelous time at every con I've been to (though I rarely do any actual "con" events and The last Dragoncon I went to (1999 admittedly) found me at an "adult" party having a lovely chat with the hottest actress in sci-fi at the time and her girlfriend (sorry no hints on this one, I'm not sure she's officially "out")
 
2011-09-14 08:58:44 PM
Makh: GAT_00: PvP flagged. You fail.

Active. You fail. In WoW kids don't even register at all. So nyeah.


Did the terminology change since I quit shortly after LK? Because for the entire time I played, it was flagged.

Magorn: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

I hate to speak ill of the dead, but let's just say the Con was held over New Year's Eve weekend and this author showed up to celebrate his birthday and was famed as a dirty old man


This doesn't help at all. I'm going to assume by writings that it is a safe bet on Heinlein.
 
2011-09-14 08:58:54 PM
mongbiohazard:

The Batman as LG?

Please, share the recreational hallucinogenics this way. The Bat used to carry twin 1911 .45's and SHOOT bad guys.
 
2011-09-14 09:02:43 PM
Magorn, child_god, Lexx

Well then, you folks may have made me change my mind. Perhaps I shall attend one sometime, seriously the partying sounds right up my alley.
 
2011-09-14 09:03:03 PM
Magorn:

C'mon you can tell me if you were/are a WSFAn.

I doubt if you're Bob Mac as he's too busy being an accountant. You're weren't involved in Twilight of the Dogs as only I still find that amusing, I doubt that you were on any of the Disclave ConComs and it's just too darn intriguing.
 
2011-09-14 09:03:18 PM
Cosplay anyone?!

i51.tinypic.com
 
2011-09-14 09:04:24 PM
Every time I hear about Dragon*Con, it reminds me of a certain squat you can do at the Marriott (new window).

Language is definitely not safe for work, BTW.
 
2011-09-14 09:06:10 PM
zunkus: Magorn, child_god, Lexx

Well then, you folks may have made me change my mind. Perhaps I shall attend one sometime, seriously the partying sounds right up my alley.


At one time... if you couldn't get laid at Disclave you would never get laid.

Pennsic, is of course, a whole different fukton of fish.

Unless you were in Badger House.
 
2011-09-14 09:22:51 PM
ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.


Wow. I am not familiar with the author, but I am with the book. CSB time not that anyone cares. I used to have a roomie in college who was in a band based on that book (not musically, but named after it). He eventually told us a horrible story about being molested as a young boy by a man who ran a pet store, and the man sodomized him with the florescent tubes used in fishing tanks. He was also a pilot. Anyway, the cops came sniffing around his house and a few other houses. The guy died in a plane crash on a Cessna he was flying -- along with everyone he was being investigated for molesting, sans my roomie who was detained by his parents.

I always thought he was full of it until I did some Googling. I wouldn't be surprised if he named the band because the author was a molester.
 
2011-09-14 09:29:50 PM
zunkus: That's too bad, I'm 29 and I've never been to a "con" but I've always wanted to attend just to see the crazies. Now I have the feeling that I would automatically be labeled a pedo just by walking in to such a function.

Cons are fun. The age demographics are much wider than you expect. It's also a fun excuse to take a day or two off and go for a 4-day mini-vacation.

It's one of those deals where the horror stories make for great reads on the 'net but, at least in my experience, the reality is more like "see if there's anything interesting for sale, listen to a few interesting people talk, drink and play Dominion for the next 5 hours with friends I hadn't seen since college."
 
2011-09-14 09:35:13 PM
Arxane: Every time I hear about Dragon*Con, it reminds me of a certain squat you can do at the Marriott (new window).

Language is definitely not safe for work, BTW.


Thanks much Arxane, That's great. Not sure why I love that so much.
 
2011-09-14 10:14:31 PM
FerneJohn: ZoSo_the_Crowe: Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.

I had to wikipedia him to see if this was true (it's not).

Ender's Game is an awesome book. That being said, having read that he's a member of the hate group the National Organization for Marriage, I suggest nobody actually pay money for it.

Yeah, the guy is kind of nutty. It's not even that he's against gay marriage that was the deal breaker for me. It was that he advocated a violent overthrow of the American government if they ever legalize it.

Then again, I guess it's sort of like the Mel Gibson thing. He may be a hateful lunatic, but his stories are still great. I guess you have to divorce the art from the artist on some level.


That's what conservatives have to do if they want to enjoy most forms of media. I doubt it will kill liberals to do the same.

I guarantee you that if you dig into the personal life or beliefs of any person who has done a given work you appreciate (be it art, media, food, or anything, really), you will find something that you find distasteful. The difference is that some people are extremely forward with their distasteful beliefs, while other people manage to keep private beliefs private (or at least they don't trumpet them loudly in the public arena).

You just have to realize that although a person may be competent or even brilliant with a given work, that competence and/or brilliance may not extend to every part of his or her life, and that such person may indeed have the audacity to disagree with you on something you hold dear.
 
2011-09-14 10:28:07 PM
Funny how people who get caught for crimes always have their health problems turn into crippling life destroying condition as opposed to the week before they got caught where it was no big deal.
 
2011-09-14 10:32:37 PM
2wolves: mongbiohazard:

The Batman as LG?

Please, share the recreational hallucinogenics this way. The Bat used to carry twin 1911 .45's and SHOOT bad guys.


and how does that not work? if the perps are evil....
 
2011-09-14 10:35:17 PM
Magorn: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

I hate to speak ill of the dead, but let's just say the Con was held over New Year's Eve weekend and this author showed up to celebrate his birthday and was famed as a dirty old man


I would have thought that was true of many of them. (that they were renown as dirty old men).

GAT_00: This doesn't help at all. I'm going to assume by writings that it is a safe bet on Heinlein.

Not Heinlein, based on the clues, as his birthday was/is 7 July. (he was my first guess)

I'm going with the guy whose already been mentioned (and my second guess) as he didn't actually know his birthday, but celebrated on the second of January.

He also died of AIDS, but that had nothing to do with his sexual behavior.
 
2011-09-14 10:37:04 PM
Craptastic: GAT_00: Magorn: (including one of the most famous Sci-fi authors of all time, sad to say

So, who?

Orson Scott Card raped and murdered a 14 year old boy in 1990.


what's with OSC and the rape? pretty sure he's trying to rape the movie version of Ender's Game by allowing that dildo Gavin Hood direct it.

/rewatched wolverine origins
//even when knowing when teh suck would start, it was unbearable
 
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