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[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 56 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Tumblr's got a few verification badges huh

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 68 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, they did that to mock Twitter. There's no limit to how many you can buy, and each one gets a different color so it makes a rainbow.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 41 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

My local one has a time traveler weekend (I presume others do, too). Trek has time travel, Star Wars does not, but there's always Storm Troopers etc. Dr Who shows up a bunch, too, which also makes sense.

Now that I think about it, I really want to see a herd of those inflatable T-Rex costumes for it...

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want to be super pedantic (and I do), time travel may not be necessary for the stormtroopers to work.

Star Wars is a long time ago (as of 1977), in a galaxy far away. A ship full of stormtroopers could have come through a wormhole to medieval Earth. Or depending on how long ago Star Wars is, could even have been cryogenically frozen, drifting towards Earth for ages.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

could even have been cryogenically frozen, drifting towards Earth for ages

Time travelled forward, so to speak 😄

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 7 points 4 weeks ago

Anyone from the SGC?

[–] teft@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ahsoka time traveled in Rebels.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 33 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This has become frowned upon at the ones I’ve been to. The joke wore out it’s welcome after the 100th time and now the people in Star Trek costumes just look like attention seeking assholes breaking everyone else’s immersion

[–] HonorableScythe@lemm.ee 32 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I know of one that has a specific theme weekend for sci-fi for this exact reason. It gets all the Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr Who, and other time traveling costumers to come then, gives them their fun of interacting with other sci-fi fandoms, and keeps the other weekends more or less free of them.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 15 points 4 weeks ago

my renn faire has a tardis that moves locations every week

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, our local fair literally calls it time travellers' weekend, which turns it into a kind of 'anything goes' weekend functionally. Honestly, one of the best weekends of the year because there are a ton of people having a blast.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 28 points 4 weeks ago

i wore plaid shorts and everybody said my kilt got sewn up the middle

except the village idiot he called me picnic pants

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

I feel like getting gatorade out of a fursuit would be awful

Also, tumblr post of a twitter screenshot of a facebook screenshot?

[–] match@pawb.social 4 points 4 weeks ago

Get ones that are machine washable!!

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

Like, those suits cost thousands of dollars. I wouldn't want to wreck one just for a joke myself.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Five websites taking screenshots of each other.

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Y'know, like the engineer, Giory La Forge

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 weeks ago
[–] anus@lemmy.world -5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

One of the cringest things in the whole wide supercluster

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 0 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I just kept thinking that this renfair thing isn't for me