The software side of Gen Con 2009 is lacking this year. It’s depressing to see so few videogames lining the West side of the convention floor. With crushed spirits early in the morning, I turned my attention to the costumed peoples roaming the Indianapolis Convention Center for a temporary but cheerful lift. The gallery below is an excellent representation of what I’m seeing at the event. There are a few costumed and scantily clad booth babes, more than a few pirate wenches, an angry Twi’lek, togas, Solid Snake, and much more.
There’s a reason the girl in Twi’lek garb and paint (in the gallery) isn’t the happiest camper. She arrived roughly an hour before the show floor officially opened to attendees. As I debated walking to the other entrace, she rushed into my vision and frantically started trying to open the doors. The people around me instantly whipped out their cameras and asked for pictures. She obliged, of course, but obviously had somewhere to go fast. After about two minutes -- more and more people started snapping images -- her face twisted from complacency to anger.
Eventually, she clicked off the lightsaber and hurried the other way. I hope she got to where she needed to go without being hassled too much. As she bolted, a guy on my periphery exclaimed, “Run Twi’lek, run!” Poor girl.
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9:09 AM on 08.14.2009
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No sympathy for the Twi'lek, either. You do up an outfit like that, with that level of proficiency, and know you're going into a den of sweaty nerds (or screaming fangirls, for the boytypes), you should anticipate delays.
...I'm such a nerd.
hmmmm.
While I agree that dressing in costume leads to delays, and we were prepared for delays in reaching our destinations, it also is a matter of manners for the photographers. We understand that there are some people there that haven't left their mother's basements since last GenCon, but there needs to be some restraint on their part. For me, there was one part in the morning I didn't move from a 5ft radius for over 10 minutes due to the overwhelming amount of people wanting pictures. Sure, it's not their fault, but they need to get that when we're trying to go somewhere, your "wait wait, one more please!" turns into someone else's one more, and then another person's, so five minutes later someone is still getting one more in.
And that's my costumer's rant. On another note, I hope that was a positive comment about me jumping into a bear pit, bluemeep. I feel like my costume went over very well this year, compared to last year when I was an incredibly obscure, only-geeks-will-like-me Platt O'Keefe.