I hate con raves, hot, sweaty, smells of ass, horrible music.

>AFO a few years ago
>Go to watch out for my little brother
>Guys pukes down the side of my leg and on my shoe
>Almost clean his clock, self control takes grip again
>Never again.

Raves are the worst things to happen to cons.

>pepper spray

I've actually had quite a bit of fun with them. downside is the trainwrecking laptop dj's

con raves are awful. Whoever decided it was a good idea needs to kill themselves. No, I do not want to get rubbed up on by creepy weeaboo women.

>>5476073
I like you.

I am apparently one of the few on /cgl/ that enjoys them.

Yeah it's a bunch of hot sweaty smelly nerds awkwardly wiggling around, but I still have a lot of fun dancing when I go. It just depends on the con. I never go to the one at ColossalCon, for example. Last time I did it was maybe 150 people in a large room standing around staring at the stage while he played generic fast high pitched Japanese technopop.

Pretty sure it all depends on the quality of the DJ.

They're the main reason I still buy a badge at cons. Yes, a lot of them suck, but there are some with really good dj's, and I love to dance to a good dj.

If it's bad, I drink till it's good.

>>5476332
Amen. Lately, the dj's at the cons that I've been going to have been less than sub-par...I've been becoming a con-going alcoholic. Yay!

A better question is why I got to chew gum so security don't throw me out for drinking. Fucking sucks man.

there's this guy in the New England area who is a total creeper.
tall sorta muscular with long gross black hair.
goes to raves and tries to get young/cute girls to come back to his hotel room with them.
Had him pop a boner on my friend (we now call him boner man) while dancing with her, she got grossed out and pulled away from him but he grabbed her by the hips and wouldnt let her go until she shoved him into the speaker and ran away. he now follows/stalks her around every con he finds her at. and he isn't subtle about it either. a year later at the same con we saw him pinning some girl who looked at least 15 against the table with the water on it. it was obvious she was scared and did not want to be there and he kept touching her face and leaning all close to her neck and stuff. my friend walked over, grabbed her arm pretending to be someone she knew and pulled her over to our group. He saw who we were and walked away real fast. (since everytime we saw him stalking my friend we would grab her and go the other direction) the girl thanked us and told us how scared she was of him.
within 10 minutes he was making out with some other girl on the dancefloor and the next night he was trying to come on to some girl and a guy friend of her got involved and almost started a fight with him.
but yeah. he is a MAJOR fucking creeper.

I always have a good time, I am actually trying to make a rave version of my cosplays but not sure on the design. Its sad because I actually go to a lot of shows so this shouldn't be a problem for me.

A convention has DJ Amaya playing will always have a good rave

I like raves at cons, just can't stand people who show up who have this holier than thou attitude who stand in corners and sneer at everyone dancing.
Or sweaty, drugged up dancing fags who have to seriously go around acting all pretentious if someone isn't dancing cool enough for them. Shit. Everyone is dressed as cartoon characters, sweaty, and probably stinky--nobody gives a shit other than hooking up and having fun.

They use to be good, now they're terrible. I listen to more than just trance, but since the fucking homestuck hetalia kingdom hearts raver faggots want trance trance trance, I don't go anymore. There's one kid that was on the fast track to being good, but something happened and he hit a wall. From what I understand, he's got a bad case of BOTB. Bitches on the brain.

He was one of the best DJs at ALA, and that's major because it's saying a lot when Kyle Galindo is holding it down. If you read this Kyle, I would sit there and REALLY go over your set. It's boring and bland and cookie cutter. Expand your set. Please. PLEASE.

I remember one particular DJ at one particular con that was laughable. You couldn't fucking hear the music because every 2 minutes he would get on his mic, which would kick down the volume of the music, and yell "let's go!" or "say my name!"
the entire floor was empty by midnight.

>>5475646

Ex Con Dj Here, damn you kids and your requests.. when you come flooding to my table with various song requests I might.. play one or two.. but this is my show not yours, and I confess to playing trance so forgive me, Ive improved my set to have a little bit of everything including trance / house / club / wubstep but dont get out much for Dj'ing at cons.. usually taken over by famous people who dont get me wrong I greatly respect like Shadofax but hellroy really sucks,

>>5475646
I've never been to a con rave before, mostly because it just....never seemed like fun. But I really wanna see JAKAZiD at Katsu since I'm a silly IIDX fangirl...soo we'll see how that goes. Liquor will probably be a necessity.

>>5477470
>rave version of costumes

Oh god, this. I don't care how weeb it is, I love doing it. I always try to make something out of my leftovers. Fuck the haters.

I love the raves! Usually because I'm always drunk at them. Only complain?
I feel like I can smell EVERYONES genitalia.
I'm a bit tired of the video game remixes...I get it's a convention but a lot of the mare just...terribad.

Why is this not on 0? This could be hilarious.

Otakon's rave is pretty fucking legit, but otherwise I usually just pass.

ACen has a great rave, in my opinion.

I usually like Ohayocon, but there was too much dubstep this year. It's hard to dance to dubstep. You just stand there and move a little, wait for the drop, and then bang your head to the wubs. Bleh.

Here's what a real woman looks like.
Jamie Eason.
She trains hard and lifts heavy.
She could cosplay as any weaboo anime character.
Why aren't you lifting things up and putting them down?

I used to go to convention raves until they stopped playing anime related music.

>>5479977
That was when I started going.

There are no raves in my country.

I've met with some people to try and organize an after-party for cons, but apparently nobody in the community is very used to going to parties, so they all want to do irrealistic and strange things. Also, they want the "cheapest place possible", which is usually impossible to go to by public transportation. Considering that most people don't have a car, it turns everything impossible.

I'll check out con raves when there are no panels that interest me going on, but I find I can't stay there long. The combination of young girls wearing little clothing, mediocre music, awkward dance circles, idiots swinging their cosplay props around & the oh so cool "real ravers doing drugs, just put me off con raves

>>5477665
>JAKAZiD
WHOA. WHOA.

Back the fuck up.

Now i'm definitely going to katsu.

Some con raves are pretty good. AnimeNEXT is always a crap shoot between decent dj's or someone being a dick like spiking the water. Some of the really small local cons were surprisingly decent. They don't do "real rave" music, but they play really catchy remixes or songs that get everyone up and dancing.

Otakon's smells really bad and there's always some huge dude sweating buckets, but music is meh usually.

>>5480228

It doesn't help that most cons will try to double up on their investments by having guests DJ. AB has one of the two Ayers brothers DJ almost every year instead of hiring a proper DJ for the night, which has led to a lot of disinterest in the rave for anyone actually interested in music opposed to watching weeaboos be awkward.

i personally love raves.
but they would be awkward as fuck if you arent rolling or high...

i hate shitty djs though,
as someone who does it reasonably well, when people think that if they get a laptop and a set of turntables they are automatically king shit...
it grinds my gears

>>5480287
THIS! So many dj's think their hot shit because they have a laptop and cool headphones, but their music is repetitive, volume levels are all over the place, and they don't have a good sense of what makes people want to dance.

>>5480293
ive seen entire sets where the DJ didnt look at the audience once...
how the fuck are you supposed to know if they are enjoying them music if you dont look at them?!
also,
dont scratch unless you are really good at it, because otherwise its embarrassing for everyone,
and please, transition between songs gracefully,
its the only part of the entire operation that takes any skill.

>>5480287

you people. I love getting high and shit too but I dont need to be high to go to a rave. I am there for the music.Reminds me of when I went to my 4th deadmau5 show after he got really popular. I wanted to punch almost everyone there. I talked to so many people who told me they just went there to party they dont even like deadmau5 and repeatedly told me how much balls they were rolling. Fucking annoying. I like that electronica has become popular as a whole but I do hate the faggots that come with it.

>>5480293
>volume levels

Fuck yeah you're right.

Here's a sign that was posted at my local venue.

pic related

>>5480467
i know where you are coming from,
but im extremely socially awkward...
i love the music and dancing,
but there is no way i could enjoy them if i wasnt out of my mind on something

>>5480287
how about that kiki kanniball, eh

>>5480487

I used to be weird about it too but I realized that no one else there gives a shit about what your doing. Everyone is so focused on their moment and friends to even notice. Plus if you really look around 90 percent of the people cant actually dance they are just doing a 2 step. As long as your not the guy that takes up 5-10 ft going back and forth, wailing around your good.

>>5477470
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>>5480522
These ponies are fascinating and strangely cute. This pleased Hans-Uhlrich Rudel (Pronounced roo-dell, if you would kindly.)