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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

like i think it's fun, but ren faires have trekkie days. go on those days.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Y'all need to watch the Lower Decks episode where a planet of Ren Fair people are existing in the Star Trek universe. It absolutely killed me 😂.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

In also saw some SG1 cosplayers once

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

Me and my Jaffa bros at the Renn Faire:

The Renn Faire actors tired of sci-fi nerds' bullshit:

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I had a really good conversation about this sort of thing with someone who has been to Wasteland, the Max Max-style cosplay festival on the US West Coast. They are reportedly very strict about people always being "in costume" or "in character" (ie: dirty, post-apocalyptic-ish) whenever outside private camp spaces.

I find it pretty ironic that the Deathguild folks from Burning Man are out there, running an event that enforces mandatory culture. Subsuclutre implies depth, nuaunce, context, space to fuck with things.

It's all play, which is what all this ridiculous stuff is supposed to be in the first place. If you want a shallow simulacrum, go to Disneyland.

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So there's a group of people that all mutually agreed to play with each other in a certain way, and you'd rather they play by your rules instead?

[–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Reading is hard, isn't it?

[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You might be confused because the person I'm replying to said they want "less rules" while I said "so you want them to play by your rules instead?".

I phrased it this way because expecting your peers to deal with a greater range of behavior from you places no less of a burden on them than following the original rules does. Its not "less rules", its different rules.

Or, to put it another way, if you're a kid playing hide and seek with a bunch of other kids and you say "I should be able to change my hiding spot while the seeker is walking around", you're not 'adding more freedom' to the game, you're making a different game.

To be clear I have no horse in this race, I've never been to this event. But to me someone showing up to something someone else created, that other people are presumably enjoying the way it is, and saying "it should be this way instead and if you don't like it go to Disney Land" just comes across as really entitled and bitchy. I wouldn't have said anything if they had said "I would prefer it this way".

Something that everyone should have learned on the playground is that you can't expect to force other kids to play the way you want them to, but that you also don't have to play with them if you don't like their game.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I want a shallow simulacrum of Mad Max. I want several halfhazardly welded vehicles around and I want somewhere to do burnouts with them or hang off the jutting bits and I want to be suspended with metal cables in front of a speaker array and be given a fire breathing triple necked guitar.

I also want fire and ambulance services standing by of course

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

Reasonable Max

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also want fire and ambulance services standing by of course

Pitch it as a training event, give new EMTs some opportunities to check off a few boxes in the trauma category.

[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 5 points 23 hours ago

Will you run over to the food concession tent and get another bucket of ice for all these fingers? thx

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

So... demolition derby?

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

VIP-Halla welcomes you with open arms. Craft services are in the circus tent.

[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

this is so fuckin cool I want to do that too lol

[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

why are they sorry?should i apologize for finding things funny?

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ThisSeriesIsFalse@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The first two words of the screenshotted post is "I'm sorry". I glanced over it at first because it's just a turn of phrase, and actually had to go back when I saw the comment you're replying to to check lol.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Oh yeah i glanced over it twice evidently, good catch.