{"id":33942,"date":"2012-09-06T22:38:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T02:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33942"},"modified":"2020-07-02T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T02:39:00","slug":"dragon-con-stories-height-%e2%89%a0-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=33942","title":{"rendered":"Dragon-Con Stories: Height \u2260 Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Throughout the weekends of several years of Dragon-Cons, I\u2019ve often noticed people dressing up as characters that are supposed to be big, hulking characters.\u00a0 Banes, Hulks, etc; characters that are always perceived to be seven-footers, and just plain big as shit.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to target the fact that in a lot of these cases, the muscle suits don\u2019t always look that great, but I\u2019m just really going to target those costumers who utilize stilts to achieve the height that they don\u2019t naturally have.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I hate to single anyone in particular out, but the chances of this person actually reading this, I wouldn\u2019t bet on, but there\u2019s a guy I\u2019ve seen for the past three years now who always shows up as\u00a0The Executioner<\/a>, from\u00a0Resident Evil 5<\/em>.\u00a0 Forget the muscle suit, forget the fact that I can\u2019t remember if I\u2019ve ever once seen him with an actual axe prop and forget the fact that he\u2019s done it many years in a row, but it\u2019s the fact that he trudges around on stilts that kind of puzzles me.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Executioner is no doubt a very large man, but the guy doing this costume just looks way out of proportion to me, because of the stilts.\u00a0 He ends up being like 7\u20193 or something, and he can\u2019t walk straight, and everyone has to get the fuck out of his way when he comes clomping through the atrium, because it\u2019s obvious he can\u2019t stop and turn on command as people on their regular feet can.<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, accuracy is also in presentation and overall realism. I\u2019m not saying a guy has to get up in my grill and stare at me with dead, cloaked eyes and try to intimidate me, but a little bit of plausibility doesn\u2019t hurt.\u00a0 So with that in mind, I don\u2019t find this Executioner the least bit plausible, because he\u2019s on big clumsy stilts.\u00a0 When I play RE5 Mercenaries mode, the parts of the game I hate the most is when one or two Executioners are spawned, because they\u2019re horses that can take a buttload of damage and won\u2019t die.\u00a0 They\u2019re also nimble, can jump over gaps, and if they close the distance on you, they grab you on the head and slam you into the ground,\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0are capable of insta-killing you.\u00a0 If Mercenaries mode were real, and hunting and murder were legal, I\u2019m fairly confident that this Executioner would be the biggest pushover ever, as if\u00a0he were the Demon and I were Sting<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really mean to pick on one guy so much, but he\u2019s the first that comes to mind.\u00a0 There were several other costumers I saw also in the same boat, and towards the end of the weekend, all I could think about was that episode of\u00a0Pinky & The Brain,\u00a0<\/em>where the Brian becomes Billy Bo Bob Brain, the Country Singer, and tries to use subliminal message and hypnosis to try and take over the world.\u00a0 But one of the criteria for being a country singer was being six-feet tall, so he builds leg stilts that are 5\u201911 and 7\/8ths and then bam, he\u2019s six-feet tall.\u00a0 Height doesn\u2019t always equal accuracy, and frankly, if I were in that position, I think I might have just chosen a different character to be if I couldn\u2019t pull off the proportionate accuracy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout the weekends of several years of Dragon-Cons, I\u2019ve often noticed people dressing up as characters that are supposed to be big, hulking characters.\u00a0 Banes, Hulks, etc; characters that are always perceived to be seven-footers, and just plain big as shit. I\u2019m not going to target the fact that in a lot of these cases, … Continue reading Dragon-Con Stories: Height \u2260 Accuracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,107,45,83,15],"class_list":["post-33942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cosplay","tag-dragoncon","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33944,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33942\/revisions\/33944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}