The Gun Counter

I bet they don't buzz the teepees any more!

I am part indian and I would be offended but what a waste of a good airplane

Looks like the Sioux won that one.

That's what you get for buzzing Pennsic...

The picture is of an art installation. It's making the rounds on the intarwebs with several different stories attached, the most numerous being that it flew over a remote village in the Amazon. Arrows are reportedly glued on, I would assume hot glue.

Looks fine to me. NDN.

Steamforger wrote:The picture is of an art installation. It's making the rounds on the intarwebs with several different stories attached, the most numerous being that it flew over a remote village in the Amazon. Arrows are reportedly glued on, I would assume hot glue.

Yep.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vernissag ... 31731.html

Cybrludite wrote:That's what you get for buzzing Pennsic...

I once wrote out a conversation about what happens when a Ren Faire is attended by a bunch of might-as-well-be-trolling groups like a Star Trek away team or Steampunk time travelers at the same time. It got weird once you added the time-shifted desperate pirate-ninja alliance, the Prussian Exploitation Film Characters sucked in from an alternate universe and the time-tossed nihilist cowboys.

I could see a faire coordinator just loading up a shotgun at that point and saying "Out. Just get out. Fuck all y'all, get out. I'm not even going to bother with period-correct threats, just go away."

SoupOrMan wrote:I once wrote out a conversation about what happens when a Ren Faire is attended by a bunch of might-as-well-be-trolling groups like a Star Trek away team or Steampunk time travelers at the same time. It got weird once you added the time-shifted desperate pirate-ninja alliance, the Prussian Exploitation Film Characters sucked in from an alternate universe and the time-tossed nihilist cowboys.

I could see a faire coordinator just loading up a shotgun at that point and saying "Out. Just get out. Fuck all y'all, get out. I'm not even going to bother with period-correct threats, just go away."

OMG...I am so getting an away team together to go to Scarborough Fair in Dallas this year!

SoupOrMan wrote:I once wrote out a conversation about what happens when a Ren Faire is attended by a bunch of might-as-well-be-trolling groups like a Star Trek away team or Steampunk time travelers at the same time. It got weird once you added the time-shifted desperate pirate-ninja alliance, the Prussian Exploitation Film Characters sucked in from an alternate universe and the time-tossed nihilist cowboys.

I could see a faire coordinator just loading up a shotgun at that point and saying "Out. Just get out. Fuck all y'all, get out. I'm not even going to bother with period-correct threats, just go away."

You're all far, far, far too late, even for the 317th Man To Shout "I Am Spartacus" Award.

The original granddaddy faire, the SoCal Renaissance Pleasure Faire, was regularly and annually visited by exactly such ST:TNG uber-geeks having an away-team holodeck adventure in merry olde England any year since the late 1990s, and they have had and still do,IIRC, have a booth that caters to Steampunk, including a themed weekend.
The SoCal chapters of the 501st also regularly suits up stormtroopers and Darth himself to visit for charity every year, and despite that much geekery from both electric dipoles, the streams haven't crossed, and the entire universe has not, in fact, had every atom explode at the speed of light.

Their season kicks off next weekend, where it's sure to happen again.

Frankly, it's worse at the other faires, because while most don't let the patrons dress up to visit (in which case, WTF?), they do an overall ass job of even getting period-correct right for the era they're supposed to portray amongst their own participants.
Nothing takes one back to the time of Shakespeare like a hearty, "Howdy, y'all want a mess o' turkey legs?" from a guy with sleeve and facial tats, or a lovely thing in a rayon and spandex bustier with a Bluetooth earpiece installed.

It's easier to treat it all like pre-Little League, and just let everyone play.

Personal favorite was the USCG guy that I used to work with (heartbreakingly, in the pre-YouTube Era) who painstakingly constructed a perfect period-correct costume of nobility, down to the buttons and fabrics, save for two things: it was in lavender, and perfectly replicated Elvis with a cape (and de rigeur blue suede shoes), paired with his spot-on imitation of The King, complete with sideburns, wireless mike, and speaker.
Queen's parade came by, whereupon he made a hearty bow towards the Royal Palanquin as HRH passed by ("God save ya, yer Majesty, you're the Queen, and I'm the King, thank ya very much!") after which management locked on him and began to give him a vigorous chewing out.

Except they were interrupted by several hundred patrons barging into the attempted dressing-down because they wanted to take pictures with The King. (This did not endear his case to TPTB, but it was absolutely funny as hell.) His participant pass was yanked, whereupon he walked out, bought a season pass as a guest, and was back in business within minutes, and mobbed for the entire run.

Now they just roll with it, recognizing there's only so many geek dollars out there, and that anything that brings people in the gate helps pay the bills.

JustinR wrote:

SoupOrMan wrote:I once wrote out a conversation about what happens when a Ren Faire is attended by a bunch of might-as-well-be-trolling groups like a Star Trek away team or Steampunk time travelers at the same time. It got weird once you added the time-shifted desperate pirate-ninja alliance, the Prussian Exploitation Film Characters sucked in from an alternate universe and the time-tossed nihilist cowboys.

I could see a faire coordinator just loading up a shotgun at that point and saying "Out. Just get out. Fuck all y'all, get out. I'm not even going to bother with period-correct threats, just go away."

OMG...I am so getting an away team together to go to Scarborough Fair in Dallas this year!

Go as the alternate-dimension Prussian Exploitation Film Characters. You could be Uberfly or Schaft!