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Pics that make you laugh |OT5| Origins
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Misterinenja
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Red Liquorice
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Its weird also, she is okay with not breathing, having sore ribs, but putting a metal cap over a pinky? Too hard. I dont want to be that guy, but I would guess that she never played the game and saw posters and trailers. The finger was only really shown in the game.
Spoilers: She probably didn't actually play the game. The "in" thing to do in cosplaying right now is start cosplaying from something that looks like it's going to be popular months before the game is released. Drives me up the wall.
I remember when people were cosplaying as Lightning after the first FF13 reveal trailer. Most of the people I know who did still haven't and have no intention of ever playing that game. But 300 bucks to look like a character you don't care about right? Right guys? Right?
That's not photoshop.
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GunslingerVit
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Dat internet fame.
Meh, not playing the game is not really important. The point of cosplay is to disguise yourself as something that look cool. You dont need to play Skeleton to disguise yourself as a skeleton.
But yeah, playing the game give you more cred.\
ElbowRocket
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Sorry for bad qual :/
Sorry for bad qual :/
You should Download a picture editor like Gimp or Paint.net. Cropping is really as easy as Ctrl Shift X.
GunslingerVit
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Well, that picture made me laugh.
No it fucking isn't. The point of cosplaying is to show love for the characters that you connected with via your own personal experience with the medium they were in. It's supposed to be a tribute to those that you found awesome. What you're describing is the idea of a fashion trend.
This is not a cosplay, this is a girl dressed up in raver gear, which is a fashion style.
But cosplay is a fashion trend.How many wife were talked into wearing a Star Trek Uniform for a convention when she do not like star trek but wanted to come?
Cosplay is there to celebrate cool character design as well as to show your love of a character.
For example, I dont like Final Fantasy, but I do love the design of some character. Would you go against me because I cosplay as Cid when I dont like the games?
CornBurrito
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Or perhaps cosplay has different points for different people, because individuals get different things out of it. You strike me as the kind of guy who goes on female cosplayers' pages and says "YOU AREN'T A REAL NERD!!!!"
:lol
I would question why would you bother cosplaying Cid, a character you don't really like, if you only like his coat. I would question why Final Fantasy is on the table at all for you if you don't like. I don't like Star Trek Voyager, so I'm sure as hell not going to cosplay it, even though I think Ethan Phillips is a pretty cool guy (he is).
And there's a big difference between being cajoled into dressed up as something you're not intrinsically familiar with (hell, I've been talked into cosplaying something that I hadn't seen all the way through before) and purposely going out of your own way and dipping DEEP into your own funds to become a picture perfect replica (or as close as you can to it) of something you don't actually care about. And there's something even worse with the current trend of having people essentially kick start costumes for you.
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First time I went on the Chunnel I was a little kid and I thought we'd be on like a steam train going through a glass tube in the sea and I'd be able to see fish and stuff swimming by.
The reality was disappointing to say the least.
I would question why would you bother cosplaying Cid, a character you don't really like, if you only like his coat. I would question why Final Fantasy is on the table at all for you if you don't like. I don't like Star Trek Voyager, so I'm sure as hell not going to cosplay it, even though I think Ethan Phillips is a pretty cool guy (he is).
And there's a big difference between being cajoled into dressed up as something you're not intrinsically familiar with (hell, I've been talked into cosplaying something that I hadn't seen all the way through before) and purposely going out of your own way and dipping DEEP into your own funds to become a picture perfect replica (or as close as you can to it) of something you don't actually care about. And there's something even worse with the current trend of having people essentially kick start costumes for you.
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If they have the funds to pay for a cool Elizabeth or what ever costume why not? And if people are willing to pay money to put a Elizabeth costume on a girl, hey that's capitalism and its fine.
Character design is more important than character love for me. I can see what the artist had in mind even if the Developer did a bad job with the game itself.
I'm more annoyed with crossplaying Harry Potter who went on the Entreprise than people paying for stuff they like.
I'm too close to it. I hang out with a lot of cosplayers and get to talk to a lot of people who dress up for events. The people who are always the must fun to hang around with are the people who, regardless if I like the thing they're dressed up from, have that knowledge behind the outfit and are super thrilled to have people recognize the costume, the time it took to construct it and love the person inside it has for the original work.
Meanwhile, when I see people who dressed up as stuff they've never touched, nor will touch, but do because it looks cute, it brings me back to my college days. I would occationally help out with theater majors trying their best to find the prettiest girls to model seam to seam recreations of broadway costumes, and the girls modeling them off DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK, and it showed. It was "let's go to the photoshoot, let's expand this portfolio, and as soon as we're done, I don't ever want to see this fucking thing ever again". That sucks.
Meanwhile, the sailor Jupiter not wearing a wig that has exposed seams and is starting to frey and doesn't have great make up, but is super fucking happy to be at the con in a costume that she made because she fucking loves Sailor Moon may not be the best looking thing on the floor, but she is one of the must fun to hang out with because she will have that pure nerdgasm over the thing she loves. That's what cosplay is supposed to be man, that's what it was when I started. You go up to a group of dudes in Bleach cosplay, and you can have a conversation that, even if people don't agree, everyone's having fun just geeking out.
::Sigh:: I just talked about this the other day with some people as we were getting ready to go to our respective cons. They said I sound like an old man. I suppose I'm getting there.
Indeed. Sorry, I get riled up about cosplay pretty easily.
Here a video of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkVBg_-OviI
Impressing.
CornBurrito
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You do sound like an old man because you are getting bitter as fuck over something incredibly insignificant. "OH NO PEOPLE ARE ENJOYING SOMETHING I ENJOY BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY!"
And this is the loop in the discussion, where people go "GEEZE MAN! WHY DO YOU EVEN CARE! IT'S NOT LIKE IT, YOU KNOW, EFFECTS YOU OR ANYTHING!"
I guess I should just be quiet and continue ogling the pictures of the girls with their tits out. Pack it up boys, as long as we have the titty pictures, we're okay. There's no discussion in cosplay worth having, because in the end, the only thing anyone cares about anymore are pictures of girls with their tits out.
CornBurrito
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I'm gay so the pictures hardly arouse me, but thank you for assuming that that's the reason I'm defending people having fun in a different way than you.
Word.
PandaPedinte
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PandaPedinte
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PandaPedinte
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Dude, you are doing that "fake gamergurl!" Embarrassing crap that people here are so prone of, stop.
You knew I would try, didn't you ?
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