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Feedback / Re: My Feedback

« on: May 28, 2014, 20:47:08 »

Hello and thank you for your feedback!

Yes, my security team always tries to help and make sure, everyone's okay. In the last ten years we had to deal with the best and the worst our community has to offer, and that's why they sometimes asked once too often. I hope nobody felt annoyed by that. :3

As for the bar, we gladly take your feedback into account and see what we can do about it.

And yes, the "after-2am-problem" was due to license restrictions. Here's the good news: we heard the feedback on this and of course we already have a solution for this. I can't give you details yet, but we will fix that. :3

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Events / Re: bar meet for first timers!

« on: April 30, 2014, 18:23:08 »

Sorry to hijack the thread, Rwylin, but may I point out that right before the bar meet the panel "Your First Furry Convention" will be taking place? Here you'll get the ultimate "How to furry convention", spiced up with behind the scenes stories. This is highly recommended for all first timers and the bar meet provides a perfect opportunity to talk about what you just heard/learned. :3

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Discussion / Re: Room signs?

« on: April 30, 2014, 06:47:22 »

There is no size limit, as long as you only decorate your door. :3

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Let's make Friends ^_-

« on: April 30, 2014, 06:45:56 »

Greetings from the UK, fellow wolf kind! If this is your first time, I recommend the bar meet for beginners on Day 2 being run by Rwylin. The link to the thread is here;

http://forum.confuzzled.org.uk/index.php/topic,2527.0.html

Oh, thank you. It's my first Confuzzeld, so I think the meet will help me great ^__^

Even more important for first timers is a panel called "Your First Furry Convention". It'll be before the bar meet and is the ultimative beginners guide. :3

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Discussion / Re: Are Nerf weapons allowed?

« on: April 14, 2014, 09:17:25 »

A friend and I want to use Nerf weapons as part of our space suits as a substitute for ray guns. The unit in question is an Elite Firestrike - a simple air propelled unit which fires only one dart at a time and the barrel carries only one dart.

Are there any restrictions on having them in the convention or what kind of ammo they can use?

Since the Firestrike is a NERF weapon like the others it is okay to carry them and the same rules apply, as just explained by SouthPaw. Since I have a few Firestrike myself, I know however that the laser targeting in them can be quite annoying. Therefore I'd kindly ask that you do not shine it at random people you don't know and do NOT use it in stage shows or panels please.

Are modified shaped nerf/clone toys alowed ? And are they ok for use out side the buildings, never know when you need to have a space duel

As a little add on to SouthPaw's explanation: All NERF (or similar) guns have to be registered with ConOps when you arrive in the hotel. They will check for modifications and every and all modified NERF guns can NOT be permitted. For legal reasons this might include paint jobs, IF the paint job makes the weapon too realistic. (Again, I own a few NERF myself and not a single one is in its original state... I know the scene )

However: If a weapon only has a new paint job and is not modified else, it will be permitted, as long as it does not look too realistic. Individual decision lies with the Head of Security.

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Discussion / Re: Room signs?

« on: March 27, 2014, 19:57:30 »

Just as a friendly note: Security will do walks around the hotel occasionally and if a room-sign is offensive or otherwise inappropriate for public, we'll remove it carefully and hand it back to the owner with a friendly word. :3

Generally room signs are a great thing about a convention and at EF, security actually awards a price for the coolest door sign! Just make sure that you don't use suggestive/adult imagery and use only blue-/white-tac please. :3

We're looking forward to your creative door decorations!

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Events / Re: Beer Pong Tournament?

« on: March 13, 2014, 21:23:20 »

Hello!

I'm afraid it's my job to be the party pooper here.

ConFuzzled just moved to a business hotel, that has no experience with us whatsoever. While (of course) you my not bring your own beverages of any kind into the hotels public areas, you could buy the beer from the hotel bars, so that's not much of a problem, if you're willing to spend that much.

But we're not alone in the hotel and this game is known to become very messy. Apart from this, neither would the hotel nor the other hotel guests find this very funny. Last but not least is this game also known to make quite a few people very drunk, very fast. And while drinking and party are undeniable big parts of the convention, but excessive consumption of alcohol to the point of delirium, sickness or worse are neither tolerable nor the idea of a happy get-together. Therefore we escort people to their rooms only once in their lifetime...

So, all jokes aside, I'm afraid this is not a practical idea at a multi-star business hotel, sorry!


Oh and just because it's interesting: http://www.menshealth.com/health/germy-drinking-games

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Discussion / Re: Bubble Guns

« on: February 04, 2014, 11:18:00 »

Since Bubble Blasters look a lot like the old Sci-Fi guns from Star Trek, what would be Confuzzled's view on them. They blow out bubbles provided by a commercially available water and soap mixture (In case anyone is unfamiliar).

Hello!

If the toy doesn't look like a real weapon, that's fine. Just take care not to hit bystanders and please don't use it indoors. :3

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Announcements / Re: ConFuzzled needs you!

« on: October 29, 2013, 11:22:26 »

Yeah, we're still looking. We always appreciate if people want to help out.

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Discussion / Re: Possible themes for Next Year

« on: June 11, 2013, 23:04:10 »

I've never seen an "Haunted"-Theme at an Furry con

Eurofurence 14 - "From Dusk Till Dawn - The Horrorconvention"

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Feedback / Re: Headless Fursuiters...

« on: June 11, 2013, 14:40:08 »

are just sharing their opinions which wont have any impact on policy at all.
and I seem to recall there have been pretty much identical threads in the past and those didn't have any impact either.
I can't help but wonder why people think fursuiters owe them something... Why should fursuiters sacrifice any aspect of their enjoyment in an event they payed to attend and got no special treatment just to spare someone elses seeing what is behind the mask?

Because: If you want to be a respected member of a community, you should follow the code of conduct of that community, shouldn't you? If you annoy 200 attendees, just because you chose to ignore something that is seen as common courtesy you can't complain if people will tell you their opinion about it.

And fursuiters owing others something? That is a dangerous discussion and I agree, that of course no fursuiter owes the other attendees anything. But did you ever think of the thousands of euro/pound/whatever that are paid by ALL attendees to offer fursuiters the rent for their lounge, their special treatment, highly expensive custom driers, the power to run them, free drinks and snacks and all the events, just for fursuiters?

If you start counting pennies over an issue that is solvable by common courtesy in our community, then others could argue that way as well. :3



NOTE: This is my PERSONAL opinion. It is NOT any opinion of ConFuzzled ltd. or anything official.

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Feedback / Re: Headless Fursuiters...

« on: June 10, 2013, 11:02:02 »

Well, if I haven't seen someone in years, I wouldn't just exchange a few words but want to talk for quite a while. And I wouldn't do that while suiting. So how about politely and friendly suggesting to the suiter to de-suit and then meet up in the bar or the suiters room? :3

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Feedback / Re: Headless Fursuiters...

« on: June 07, 2013, 22:50:29 »

From all the thousands I've seen so far. The issue of people without heads ruining photos doesn't seem very apparent.

Unfortunately even our official camera-man have problems cutting their material. Unfortunately you seem to wrong here :/

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Feedback / Re: Headless Fursuiters...

« on: June 05, 2013, 01:28:55 »

@Tenderpaws: If you'd be willing to do such a panel, please, by all means, contact delph :3

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Feedback / Re: Headless Fursuiters...

« on: June 04, 2013, 23:38:17 »

Due to the obligations of my role on this convention, I am forced to splitt my reply to this into two seperate parts.

First, I'll answer officially for the security of ConFuzzled:

There can not and will not be a written rule, that a fursuiter may not take off his head in public. However, since a large number of attendees (suiters and non-suiters) felt geniuely disturbed by the unusually high amount of fursuiters that ran around headless without a valid reason, we will focus more on this point during beginner-panels and most likely there will be a guideline for fursuiters hanging out in the headless-lounges. Thank you for keeping this discussion polite!

Now I'd like to state my personal opinion. The following does NOT represent the opinion of ConFuzzled ltd. or any convention department!

Back in the days, there was this unwritten rule, that fursuiters never take their head off in public. That's why the headless-lounge is called headless-lounge. This is why there are rules, that allow fursuiters to run around without a badge. That's why we protect their anonymity. I'm a bit offended by people that play the "medical issue card" on this problem, since nobody would ever even get to the idea to deny someone with a medical problem (overheating, dehydration, etc.) taking his head off in public.

All the complaints were about people taking their head off without any reason at all. If you have a medical problem, you don't sit down at the bar and get drunk. Also you don't walk into the restaurant and eat a full meal in a half pulled-down fursuit. Or smoke in fursuit. That's just not what the majority of our community accepts. At many conventions, this would be softly enforced to be honest. I don't see a reason for a written rule about this, but I also don't understand those few suiters that seem to think of this to be perfectly fine. If many of those I spend a convention with tell me, they don't want to see that in public, isn't it a bit arrogant to say "I don't give a f***"? Sure as hell it should make you think.

One of the suggestions regarding the reason for such a unusual large number was, that we had a lot of first timers, and since we live in a time in which every beginner can afford at least a simple fursuit, many walked around without any experience or background knowledge.

I think that might be part of the reason. All I can say is, that in all my years at conventions I've never seen so many headless suiters in public. (Without medical reason :p) And yes, that ruined a lot of photos and videos, because you may not care how you look without your head on, but most suiters do and their photos will be ruined if there are headless suiters in the background.

Last but not least: of course it's your choice what you do with your fursuit, but the furry community is based on the "we", and not on the ego of a few.