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Pyromaniac Cosplay
mani writes "This is truly taking cosplay to the next level. Not only are they dressing and acting out characters from SNK/Playmore's King of Fighters series, but using actual fire to truly simulate the 2d fighting experience. Pictures and video included. Warning: site is most definately not in english."
I've seen the term used in newsgroups now and then but I've never figured out quite what it is. After looking at the linked site, I'm guessing "costume fetish" - is this correct?
...just makes it more fun for those of us not really interested in the subject matter, because then you can imagine that the site says whatever you want it to say. :)
why not use actual fire to make super-ultra-mega-extreme tuxracer?
/. not beyond reporting on video games!?
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You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Please, for the love of god, no one try to be Blanka.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
"Warning: site is most definately not in english."
Warning: post is most definitely not in English
Cosplay (cohs'puhleh) noun. the Japanese word for masquerading, generally done at anime and gaming events (including the unique Comic Market events in Japan)
here it is in English. Oriental languages still sound weird when translated to me; why the hell can't the entire world switch to English(first choice) or Esperanto and save me the trouble of babelfish!?
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
And setting the tires of my DeLorean on fire wasn't good enough?
What about setting children's balloons at the fair on fire and screaming "OH THE HUMANITY!"?
We laugh and ridicule the less intelligent members of society, then we reward them when their antics amuse us. Hell, works for me.
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Am I the only one who looks at topics like this and says, "what the hell are they talking about?" Like the entire geek universe knows what Cosplay is EXCEPT ME?
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It's all in English.
Not like that makes it comprehensible...
Ok, a lot of stuff that comes out of Japan is cool.
But, seriously what are they thinking... "Let's set our arms on fire and fight with eachother to make it look like we are video game characters!!"
I don't even wanna go into the apparent obsession with tentacles and demonic monsters in their sexual fantasies....
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-- George Orwell
I noticed this site is under the 'baka' (Japanese for stupid) directory.
Come on. Throwing burning liquids at each oter is asking for a darwin award.
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
Well, I am not sure about the site, but the post is inglesh, definately
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Persons appearing in pictures definitely not clinically sane.
Translated from the box at the bottom of the page, entitled "Today's Damage"
... In both, every place burned. ... Both are total losses ... In both, every place burned. ... Both are total losses
A burn slight to a face
Some hair burned.
A burn slight in both hands
A burn slight to the bosom
Both hands are burned.
Costume play clothes
Fire-resistant glove
Costume play clothes
Fire-resistant glove
Ack, anyone can throw fire at each other (why you'd want to, I don't know). I want to see them do Mortal Kombat-like fatalities :)
Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
Wait till they see me in my pneumatic hardsuit with the built in atmospheric controls and health monitoring. I'm still trying to perfect my ego-border dissolution skill so I can turn people in to puddles of jello in act 3.
Turning them back isn't so easy. Sigh.
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So am I the only one who thinks this looks like a lot of fun? I could care less about the 'firefighter's nightmare' site, but some of those pictures off of the cosplay site look really cool. I'm one of those people who always look forward to Halloween to dress up, but if conventions like they show on this site were around here (brrrr...wisconsin), I would totally be there! I'm not a total anime nut (I do own a nice stock of them though), but most of those costumes look great! And I'm willing to bet the majority of people who go to those conventions are exactly the type of people I like to hang out with. Any of you been to one of these? What was your experience?
-my other sig is your mom
On the page, there's screenshots from the game, followed by real-life reenactments of the scene.
Here is a particularly interesting one, which is followed by 1, 2, and 3. But naturally, they skipped the most interesting part of the screenshot, the opponent bursting into flames.
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
The pic of the dude running to the ocean is priceless! It's a good thing they selected such a convienient location.
I wonder why they did it next to water... (hmmm)
Where did it all go so wrong......
Darwin isn't just rolling in his grave; hes shot the television, done a kilo of coke, and started a conga line with the girls from the strip club.
I mean come on. Do people really stop and say to each other:
Tatsuo!!
Yeah?
Mind if I throw some napalm/buring materials at your face?
Sure!!!! I've got the gasoline and styrofoam!
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There's also a major hentai cosplay scene out there. Yeah, it's blurred all to hell by Japanese censorship laws, but damn, you CANNOT compare to that.
Just because you can mod me down, doesn't mean you're right. Shoes for industry!
I think I speak for everybody when I say that what we REALLY want to see is cosplay with Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
I'm quite a fan of KOF and fighting games and understand some Japanese, so I have a fair knowledge of what's going on.
In the first photos, you see these guys "Kyochin Yuzawa" and "Iorin Yamagi" facing off like their video game counterparts, Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami, respectively.
Kyo and Iori are fierce rivals, descendants of clans that have fought each other over the power of a god-like entity called Orochi (the Kusanagi to seal it, the Yagami to harness it).
In the game, choosing these two will produce the same taunt that's written below their pics: "Honou ga omae o yonderuze!" ("You called for this fire") says Kyo, "nara, moetsukiro, isagiyokuna!" ("Let's see if it's good enough") answers Iori.
The first animated GIF shows Kyo using his most powerful move (Orochinagi), which requires great reflexes and strategy to pull off and hit the enemy with it in the real game. Kyo executes it while shouting "kuraiyagaree!" (something along the lines as "take this!") and burn Iori.
The second GIF shows Iori performing his second most powerful move (Yaotome), Iori perfoms it while shouting "Raku ni shinenzo!", (something like "just die!") but they make fun when the flame comes short of reaching Kyo.
Then it begins to get weird. Kyo uses his second most powerful move (Mu Shiki), which has Kyo performing a series of flaming punches in the game. But this time, Iori actually blocks the punch (!) and counters it with his most powerful move (Saku Tsumagushi) in his greatest form, which ends with Iori pounding the opponent on the floor amidst purple flames.
But the funny thing is, Kyochin's hands were actually burning beyond the fireproof gloves, so he tries to put the fire off on the sea water, while he shouts "I'm gonna dieee!".
- Otaku no naka no otaku, otaking da!!!
Darwin potential.
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.
it owed the minor burn...
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Keep your packets off my GNU/Girlfriend!
Now that is definitely a bad idea .. now TuxRacer... I'd throw on a Penguin costume and slide down the hill towards some well placed herrings ... Sounds like my average weekend really. (well ok .. the Herring could bugger off..)
Jon - TheSpork
Are you sure that one's female?
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Where can I find this new fake fire stuff?
Just to add: Those stats are for d&d/masquerade type stuff, not necessarily related to the actual game (but more than likely based from it).
Ah, nothing like spending Saturday night at home posting (or reading) about hot cosplay chicks.
(But damn, the blonde is hot!)
I've never seen Downs Syndrome porn so I have no grounds for comparison. Midget porn, sure, but not Downs Syndrome porn.
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
i'm waiting for people to play out Mortal Kombat "Fatality" moves on each other
they also have tried choping apple thats been taped to guy's forehead using samurai sword among other crazy stunts.
what people would do for their 15 minutes of fame...
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Pool Compatibility (Breathing Apparatus):
Poopy Suit: Yes
Hardsuit: No (amniotic fluid)
Protection against environmental hazards (jello):
Poopy Suit: Yes
Hardsuit: Yes
Protection against environmental activists:
Poopy Suit: Yes
Hardsuit: No
(oh well)
Smell:
Hardsuit: Smells like latex, saran wrap, and WD-40
Poopy Suit: Smells like poop.
Style:
Poopy Suit: Makes me look bloated. Also, so late 80s.
Hardsuit: White looks good on me. Also, shows off my boobs.
Verdict: Hardsuit, 10 to 8.
Available now at Walmart, or your local mecha ops surplus store
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
Anime and Magna collection: $2,400
Sewing supplies: $59
2 reams of polyester: $22
A gallon of kerosene: $8
The look on your buddy's face when all that cheap highly flammable polyester melts to your burning skin: priceless.
You can tell programmers never want people to cosplay. The faces never match. The people just wear cheap tupperware and magic marker'd clothing in attempt to look cool when they do QUITE the opposite. That fire should go burn his entire body.
We need another poll. Who would you NOT rather have as a roommate, a furry or a cosplayer?
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Oh.. wait.. I probably should have installed the Japanese language pack for Mozilla, huh?
This looks like something that cosplayers have been doing for years now, and that's adding effects, backgrounds and touchups using computer graphical tools.(CGing, thier term, not mine)
This is nothing new. This looks like someone took normal photos and went nuts with the Fire filter in photoshop. Had these cosplayers actually been on fire, THEN that'd be something to post on slashdot...
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
You consider KOF a 'pretty weak 2d fighter'? Are you from the Universe Of Really Great 2D Fighters That Are Even Better Than KOF?
If you're hoping to be rewarded, you'll need to come up with some significantly more amusing antics.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
Would you like to play Pyroball?
Grand Flaming Marshmallow Balrog Contest
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Thank God it wasn't Cho Aniki - Bakuretsu Rantou Hen.
why the hell can't the entire world switch to English(first choice) or Esperanto
Because even Esperanto is more complicated than Toki Pona, which manages to say almost everything with only 120 words.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I've never discovered the reason why Esperanto is supposed to be so good. I have a suspicion it's based soley on Mexico's proximity to the US. For countries with few spanish speakers, it doesn't make much sense at all...
You're confusing Esperanto with Español, the language of Mexico and Latin America (excluding Brazil). Esperanto is based on a mixture of several Western and Eastern European languages. Think Italian mixed with Polish mixed with the agglutinative structure of languages such as Finnish, Japanese, or Turkish.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Chief editor: Because, so it is to say, mountain wooden you.
"In Soviet Russia, mountain wooden YOU!"
OK, who slipped a Yakov Smirnoff easter egg into Altavista's Babel Fish?
Otherwise, it hasn't been properly translated.
You compare translation to paying for McDonald's food in another currency. But because most individuals can't afford to have proper translations produced, comparing proper translations to Babel Fish is more like comparing a dinner at a high-class restaurant to a McDonald's Extra Value Meal.
Will I retire or break 10K?
And that cosplay.com! Wow, who wudda thought female geeks are just as bizarre as male geeks?
The meme police, They live inside of my head
Japanese food does kicks ass compared to anything else I've ever eaten.
Does anyone really believe that being able to say "Tu est sourd-muet." makes me smarter? If not for my foreign language requirements I could be learning something more valuable during fourth period(; highly unlikely considering how much my school sucks.)
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.