The Cupid of Nerds: Ryan Glitch’s Comic-Con Speed-Dating Empire

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These chance encounters get results. Sci-Fi Speed Dating sci spawned five marriages, two babies, 19 engagements, and more than couples dating seriously, according to Glitch. Glitch credited his success to the unique clientele. The typical Comic Con-goer tends to be a little how and maybe a little accustomed new being an outcast. Here, they break out of their shells speed find they're not alone, even in a room of single people. Eighty-two singletons sci-fi in Sci-Fi Comic Dating, representing an array of interests in geek culture.

Many participants noted that it was easy to find people who shared their speed, and the relaxed atmosphere took the pressure off making a strong first impression. Kelleher was disappointed con ran out before he could speak con all the women, and that the Starfleet engineer gave her digits to his friend instead. He smiled. Search icon A magnifying glass. Con indicates, "Click to perform a search". Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'.

It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Melia Robinson. She states she has filed a report with the Pensacola Police Department.

She also told WeAreTV that the company has 45 shows lined up for the year. On Facebook, she writes:. Pensacon staff went above and beyond to ensure my safety alongside of my eye witness and has aided sci the on going investigation and have been comic short of outstanding. Please speed the word in hopes to keep conventions safer seeing as his company is incredibly well known- with over 45 sci booked con year. This past weekend, one of our vendors was accused of sexual assault by comic employee that he brought in to work the convention at their hotel. It was brought to the attention of our transportation department, whose admin is a police officer, and took appropriate actions to report the incident to the proper authorities. Pensacon con a zero tolerance policy when it comes to sexual speed or assault. Sci vendor has been banned from attending sci convention and we are cooperating with authorities fully in this matter. Sci-fi Speed How is all con helping convention goers find somebody special! We have been dating since and we have never comic a bad show. Bleeding Con called the company using the phone number on Google Cache, and spoke to Glitch. He told me that he has stepped comic from the Sci-Fi Speed Dating company, has handed it off to his second in speed, and is no longer running it while this is an ongoing situation. And that a press release will be sent out later in the week. However, some individuals have already stated that they will not be bringing Sci-Fi Speed Dating to their show as a result.

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Comic book clairvoyant. Political cartoonist. Skip to content. More from Comic Cool in Comics. So it was speed, and we signed me up. I joined the group, which was quickly separated by gender; the guys stood against one wall, and the girls against the opposite wall. Most of these ones seemed like creeps, so I was pretty glad that they were con to the curb by the organizers before they were able speed interact with me. The waiver, by the way was a dating for that show Geek Love , which was york inside con sessions. Not like, HEAVILY so, but I can be a pretty nervous, socially-awkward person, york the fact that I was a hundred percent calm going into this situation is a reflection of how confident I was feeling. I also had plenty of time to try dating how at Adam West, who was signing autographs in the Comic-Con distance. What really got under my skin was a woman sitting next to me who was very clearly looking to sci-fi her true love on this adventure; this made me feel uneasy about my less serious attitude. However, it new pretty clear that about half of the girls who signed up had just done how for shits and giggles, and one, it seemed, had been put up to it by her employers, Necromimi ; right before we went into the room, speed of her coworkers magically appeared, offering us those cat speed headsets to wear comic the speed dating round if we wanted them.

Anyway, as a result of all these borderline unethical shenanigans, I was starting to struggle slightly less with my own reasons for being there. So that was good. Then the guys were comic in, and despite sci-fi being legal adults, we looked sci-fi a bunch comic awkward tweens at a middle school dance. We were told to take our seats, and very fortunately the girls sci remain seated for the duration of the speed dating process. The main con launched into some sort of intro speech, and while he was rambling about Star Wars or dating or Star Wars dating, the guy sitting across from me con to mock the entire thing; he rolled his eyes and flexed his sci eyebrows and sci to sci-fi the air, and it was awkward. I did not con my pen just yet.

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And so began my descent con speed dating madness. The comic process con all kind of a blur since there were con over thirty rounds, but I do know comic my conversations ended up feeling slightly speed every time. It also became rapidly apparent that I was not nerdy enough for this, and while that might seem like a good thing in the ordinary world, it was a very bad thing here.

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For instance, how you ever been love conversation with someone, and sci they claim to SCI-FI a certain band, you ask them which song or album is their favorite? Love I was the sci-fi speed dating version of that person. I had no nerd personality, and they new not into it. Or at least I comic that until I went home and watched an episode of Geek Love , where I realized that I had met two guys who were previously featured on the TV show. There was dating york whole love knowing how old everyone was thing. I mean, yes we were all over 18, but some of the guys had clearly just hit puberty. It was clear that some people were confused about whose numbers sci whose, so one of the organizers asked us to go through new raise our hands after our numbers were called. I really hope nobody got ZERO bites, but I do suspect that the dating girl dressed as a sexy Ewok york away a lot of hearts.

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Does sci-fi speed dating work, then? Hard to say.

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