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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Because getting dressed up like an animated character is an art form (literally) and stripping just entails taking one's clothes off.
Yes, but it is getting UNDRESSED as an animated character. It's just a cartoon character stripping.
I've never really paid any attention to cosplay, but I've not actually seen people getting naked in public. I've seen different levels of undress occurring as a part of the costume though.
That's why I said semi-public. It's mostly at shows and stuff, not wandering the streets.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Strippers in most places would say the same thing. Not allowed to be completely naked. So it's about "wearing a custume."
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not that there is anything with adults playing dress up, to each their own. Just don't pretend it is something that it is not. If you are going to play dress up for fun, own it.
Exactly - I suppose some will argue that the 501st is LARPing, because in general most people try to stay in character while interacting with the public. I don't consider it LARPing because i'm not running around fake shooting Luke.
I really dislike the term cosplay - just WTF... I guess Costuming was to hard of a word to spell.
Because the term was not costuming in the largest population to do it.
The largest costuming population was Japan. In Japan the term that stuck was コスプレ (kosupure), a portmanteau of costume and play (a translation of costuming).
Portmanteau words are super common in Japanese.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Strippers in most places
Got proof of that? Because most places I have been strippers get naked.
But aside from that, strippers perform the act of stripping (to whatever point). Cosplayers generally don't strip.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I have several friends
Self imposed limited world view.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Strippers in most places
Got proof of that? Because most places I have been strippers get naked.
Maybe you are really going out of your way or in limited places. But outside of Nevada, the majority of the US (Texas, NY, Florida, etc. etc.) don't allow full naked stripping in the majority of places. Non-nude stripping is the vast majority of the market. In the US that is, outside of the US, obviously nude is the norm.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I have several friends
Self imposed limited world view.
Neither self imposed, nor that limited. Fairly broad since I get a view of it from the industry from multiple angles.
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In Texas, for example, clubs that do nudity can't have alcohol and have to be labeled "cabaret". A strip club that isn't a cabaret can't get any more nude than a regular restaurant can (which is pretty skimpy.) Only a cabaret (which are decently rare) can remove more clothing than a bar and grill can in Texas.
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weird. I think here is oregon, "cabaret" implies non nude, just dancing. I dont have any personal experience, but oregon is all nude all the time, as far as I know. One article I just read said that we have the most clubs per capita of any state. As far as I know, the whole west coast is like this.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Strippers in most places
Got proof of that? Because most places I have been strippers get naked.
Maybe you are really going out of your way or in limited places. But outside of Nevada, the majority of the US (Texas, NY, Florida, etc. etc.) don't allow full naked stripping in the majority of places. Non-nude stripping is the vast majority of the market. In the US that is, outside of the US, obviously nude is the norm.
NY allows full nude, but the business needs to be licensed for it. AFAIK since I haven't done nor would I do any research on this believe it's for sanitary purposes.
IE no full nudes behind the bar serving drinks.
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@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
One article I just read said that we have the most clubs per capita of any state.
In 2015 West Virginia owned that metric.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
One article I just read said that we have the most clubs per capita of any state.
In 2015 West Virginia owned that metric.
glad to see that we are moving up in the world then.
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@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
One article I just read said that we have the most clubs per capita of any state.
In 2015 West Virginia owned that metric.
glad to see that we are moving up in the world then.
Moving up or sliding down?
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Illinois and Wisconsin are full nude.
Missouri was full nude until 2010.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
This goes along with Scott's believe that airdrop is completely designed as a no contact porn dropping system.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
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@Dashrender airdrop?
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not that there is anything with adults playing dress up, to each their own. Just don't pretend it is something that it is not. If you are going to play dress up for fun, own it.
Exactly - I suppose some will argue that the 501st is LARPing, because in general most people try to stay in character while interacting with the public. I don't consider it LARPing because i'm not running around fake shooting Luke.
I really dislike the term cosplay - just WTF... I guess Costuming was to hard of a word to spell.
Because the term was not costuming in the largest population to do it.
The largest costuming population was Japan. In Japan the term that stuck was コスプレ (kosupure), a portmanteau of costume and play (a translation of costuming).
Portmanteau words are super common in Japanese.
I suppose that makes sense - since all those scant costumes mostly come from anim - japan... figures the name came from them too.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Strippers in most places
Got proof of that? Because most places I have been strippers get naked.
Maybe you are really going out of your way or in limited places. But outside of Nevada, the majority of the US (Texas, NY, Florida, etc. etc.) don't allow full naked stripping in the majority of places. Non-nude stripping is the vast majority of the market. In the US that is, outside of the US, obviously nude is the norm.
I'd agree with Scott here - while I have seen several full nude strip clubs, most are "topless" meaning they have to wear a g-string. - but damn.. they are practically nude...
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Not that there is anything with adults playing dress up, to each their own. Just don't pretend it is something that it is not. If you are going to play dress up for fun, own it.
Exactly - I suppose some will argue that the 501st is LARPing, because in general most people try to stay in character while interacting with the public. I don't consider it LARPing because i'm not running around fake shooting Luke.
I really dislike the term cosplay - just WTF... I guess Costuming was to hard of a word to spell.
Because the term was not costuming in the largest population to do it.
The largest costuming population was Japan. In Japan the term that stuck was コスプレ (kosupure), a portmanteau of costume and play (a translation of costuming).
Portmanteau words are super common in Japanese.
I suppose that makes sense - since all those scant costumes mostly come from anim - japan... figures the name came from them too.
Technically, it did come from the word costuming. Just as translated and modified by the Japanese.
