ReaperCon Cosplay

[pcktlnt]

I'm watching Castle at the moment, there are some references that just go over my head. Unless it's visual, then that is noticeable. But one liners...*whoosh*

[Qwyksilver]

There was the most blatant Halloween episode where he was dressed as a "Space Cowboy" basically wearing Mal's gear.

[Dilvish the Deliverer]

I liked the one where he spoke Chinese.

 

Beckett: "Where did you learn Chinese?"

 

Castle: "From a show I used to love."

[Darsc Zacal]

No offense, but the movie came out September 2005.  I'm not spoiler tagging something 9+ years old.

I did.

[MissMelons]

 

No offense, but the movie came out September 2005. I'm not spoiler tagging something 9+ years old.

I did.

Darsc, the hero Gotham needs.

[Pingo]

 

No offense, but the movie came out September 2005.  I'm not spoiler tagging something 9+ years old.

I did.

 

It's kind of you. 

 

But my husband looked at me and said "That's entirely reasonable" about not spoilering something 9+ years old.

 

And he's right.  And so is Qwyksilver.  It's not like you could keep Citizen Kane's secret quiet for a decade, anyway, and it's not fair to people who already know it.

[Darsc Zacal]

 

 

No offense, but the movie came out September 2005.  I'm not spoiler tagging something 9+ years old.

 

I did.

It's kind of you. 

 

But my husband looked at me and said "That's entirely reasonable" about not spoilering something 9+ years old.

 

And he's right.  And so is Qwyksilver.  It's not like you could keep Citizen Kane's secret quiet for a decade, anyway, and it's not fair to people who already know it.

The reason(s) I'm going to disagree is that while Star Wars and Citizen Kane are well known in pop culture, Serenity/Firefly is still being discovered by a lot of folks. Despite its age and it's almost cult status with its fans, from various forums and my own personal experience with friends, it's a fairly unknown show.

[Reaperbryan]

The Statue of limitations on Spoilers is:

 

20 years after the book comes out.  After 20 years you don't need a Spoiler warning. Case in point: Gandalf dies and comes back with a new wardrobe.

1 year after the movie is on DVD/Netflix.  Case in point: Bruce Willis was dead.

2 years after the TV series is on Netflix *in it's entirety*. No Spoilers if the entire series is not available, but if it's been out for longer than 2 years, sorry.

 

OR

 

If your friend TELLS YOU they haven't seen it yet.  Then you wait. Otherwise, sorry.

[MissMelons]

So I can't blurt the ending to Breaking Bad yet. :(

[ShadowRaven]

if it's not "and they all rot in jail forever and ever" I don't want to know how Breaking Bad ends 

[Sanael]

Breaking Bad is, very nearly, the only series of the last...oh, ten years or so...that did not ruin itself with its final episode.

 

Looking at you, Dexter...

 

...and Enterprise...

 

...and How I Met Your Mother...

 

...and Lost...

 

...and Burn Notice...

 

...and Dollhouse (though that's obviously more the network than the writers)...

 

...and Seinfeld (more than ten years, but yeah)...

[MissMelons]

Dexters ending made me so mad.......

[Darsc Zacal]

Oh Battlestar Galactica... After that ending I've never even bothered completing my DVD collection of all the seasons.

[Dilvish the Deliverer]

Inspirational video of Adam Savage manufacturing a sci-fi rifle from a Barbarella  promo photo: video here

 

Interesting technique.  I don't have the tools he has but I have others I can make so with on a smaller scale.  Color me intrigued.

[Baphomet69]

 

 

This is for Bryan if he comes across this! I figured other people might be interested in this as well. The Reapercon website says specifically:

 

"*Come by the Registration Desk each day you wear a qualifying shirt or costume to receive these ReaperBucks. No repeat gains."

 

So if my husband and I went to the desk each day (four days) of reaper con, Costumed, we would get 100 points each a day per costume? or is it one time only as in the "No Repeat Gains"? Because before that it says Each Day to come to the desk if we're wearing a costume or a shirt.

 

Then what qualifies as a costume? Something that goes with the theme? or just a costume in general? Different costume each day? (Not that I'd wear the same clothing every day, I have two varieties of my costume as does my husband)

 

As is I'm unsure if we'd wreck in 200 points together or 800 points for wearing a costume every day.

That's a per day award, per person. So yes, if you decked out in costume each day, you'd each earn 400 Reaperbucks over the course of the con (800 total for the two of you). I'm reasonably certain that the "Themed Costume" part is capitalized for a Reason, as in the Costume must match the Theme of this year's con. Coming as a pirate won't score you any Reaperbucks; coming as a saloon girl would.

 

At the very least, the "no repeat gains" means you can't hit the registration desk multiple times in a single day. I think they probably don't care too much if you wear the same costume on two different days (though we'd all appreciate people not smelling like it). After all, some of us have multiple RCon shirts from a single year (I have two '09's for some reason)...

 

Obviously, the whole point of this is to get people in the spirit of the theme, as well as feeling like part of the Reaper club (hey, look! we all have the same shirts!). The more people that participate in this manner the more times, the better the event is (and the pictures that turn up online afterwards).

 

~v

In a nutshell, yes, you could get the Costume bonus 4 days in a row, and so could Mr. Melons. What you could not do is:

A) Get the Costume gain twice in one day, for changing costumes.

B) Get the Costume Gain, go change, and get the T-shirt Gain.

C) Some other combination of collecting Bucks for clothing that we have not thought of that amounts to collecting the "reward for one of the 3 supported clothing types" twice in the same day.

Is it only RCon shirts or a regular Reaper shirt?