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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@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.
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@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.
Portland supposedly is the strip club capital these days.
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@Dashrender 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.
This goes along with Scott's believe that airdrop is completely designed as a no contact porn dropping system.
That didn't come from me. I just repeated something that is both obvious and presented on as common knowledge.
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@Dashrender 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.
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%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.
Interesting - so you can go full topless in a bar and Grill in Texas?
When I used to work in San Antonio there were several strip clubs that were string bikinis bottoms only. Totally nude on the top.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender 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.
This goes along with Scott's believe that airdrop is completely designed as a no contact porn dropping system.
That didn't come from me. I just repeated something that is both obvious and presented on as common knowledge.
Not common knowledge, and not obvious. Airdrop is used by normal people all the time for hte purpose it was designed. Which was not porn.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.
Interesting - so you can go full topless in a bar and Grill in Texas?
Heck yeah. You have to at least have paint, but that's it. You don't need pasties. Very few places actually let their waitresses do this. But some encourage it. MTV made a television show about it. I've got loads of friends who worked as those waitresses (a few went on to work in cosplay.)
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@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.
Yeah, the use of the term cabaret in my experience also has meant - not nude, hell, likely not even topless. String bikini top and bottom, sure, but not nude.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@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...
Well yeah, but lots of things in life get to "nearly nude." Public city beaches in Barcelona, for example.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender 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.
This goes along with Scott's believe that airdrop is completely designed as a no contact porn dropping system.
That didn't come from me. I just repeated something that is both obvious and presented on as common knowledge.
Not common knowledge, and not obvious. Airdrop is used by normal people all the time for hte purpose it was designed. Which was not porn.
Right, I am aware of what Airdrop is and while I haven't seen it used for sending this kind of media, there is nothing in it that would stop it either.
@scottalanmiller why do you think Airdrop is meant as a peer-to-peer porn system? If I direct messaged you the same content, is that medium not the same exact this?
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Donahue said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.
Yeah, the use of the term cabaret in my experience also has meant - not nude, hell, likely not even topless. String bikini top and bottom, sure, but not nude.
Each state makes those terms mean something different. But almost all states have full nude as very difficult to do and that makes it quite rare.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender airdrop?
Isn't that the apple wireless tech that lets you connect to another apple phone and send stuff?
Woman were whining about getting random dick picks on the subway because they had left airdrop open to anyone to send them stuff.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender 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.
This goes along with Scott's believe that airdrop is completely designed as a no contact porn dropping system.
That didn't come from me. I just repeated something that is both obvious and presented on as common knowledge.
Not common knowledge, and not obvious. Airdrop is used by normal people all the time for hte purpose it was designed. Which was not porn.
Right, I am aware of what Airdrop is and while I haven't seen it used for sending this kind of media, there is nothing in it that would stop it either.
@scottalanmiller why do you think Airdrop is meant as a peer-to-peer porn system? If I direct messaged you the same content, is that medium not the same exact this?
He thinks so because there was a news article about some people doing it on the train somewhere.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender 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.
This goes along with Scott's believe that airdrop is completely designed as a no contact porn dropping system.
That didn't come from me. I just repeated something that is both obvious and presented on as common knowledge.
Not common knowledge, and not obvious. Airdrop is used by normal people all the time for hte purpose it was designed. Which was not porn.
Right, I am aware of what Airdrop is and while I haven't seen it used for sending this kind of media, there is nothing in it that would stop it either.
@scottalanmiller why do you think Airdrop is meant as a peer-to-peer porn system? If I direct messaged you the same content, is that medium not the same exact this?
No, that's different, that's not peer to peer. Peer to peer is to avoid oversight and detection.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender airdrop?
Isn't that the apple wireless tech that lets you connect to another apple phone and send stuff?
Woman were whining about getting random dick picks on the subway because they had left airdrop open to anyone to send them stuff.
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