Damn I actually went to Colossalcon last year and it was actually a good time. Went to some interesting LGBTQ+ panels. It’s a real shame that it appears to be run by asshats. Would not have guessed that from last year.
UPDATE:
They fired the person who said that and issued a much less stupid apology.
This complex has cost billions of its owner’s personal funds and taken more than a decade to partially open.
It has been aided by millions of dollars in infrastructure development and tax breaks and the owners still need to fund their own transportation for it because the public transit sucks.
It is slowly being reclaimed by the wetlands it was built on, exacerbated by climate crisis storms.
It has resorted to the “road map” release structure present only in the most contentiously broken products.
I thought that was only Paramus specifically? This is East Rutherford, not Paramus. There are plenty of handegg games there on Sunday selling plenty of booze.
Apparently all of Bergen county has blue laws, and then specific municipalities can set stricter ones. Paramus, indeed, is the only one that has a “no merchanting” law for Sunday.
I like to point out absurdities like this when people visit Utah and clutch their proverbial pearls over some of our nonsensical alcohol laws. Yes, we have some that have no rationale based in reality but other places have equally absurd laws - regarding alcohol and otherwise. Hell, NJ isn’t even a deep south fundamentalist religious area so why would they continue to have some antiquated “no selling shit on Sunday” law? Because governments are weird.
Can’t speak for NJ specifically, but a lot of those laws sprung up in colonial states because small towns sometimes didn’t have a church or even town hall, so the mass was held in the pub which also served as the de facto town gathering place.