| LARPers, PVP beat out PVE? |
[Dec. 27th, 2009|05:33 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jedimentat and I just finished watching Darkon, thanks to a recommendation from petemagyar. We had previously seen Role Models, which contained quite a bit of LARP action as well, even if it was Hollywoodized.
Do any of you still LARP? Particularly fantasy LARPs? If so, is it all PVP these days?
Back when I was involved with administrating a LARP, a vast majority of the events were centered around PVE. Sure, players had conflicts with each other that led them to engage in combat. We had our race of shapeshifting demonic vampires that everyone hunted on sight that were populated by players, we had our players playing as the local militia and the mercenaries looking to apply pressure from a nearby government constantly fighting. But that was a small percentage of the action.
Most combats were between players and volunteers or players on "NPC duty". We'd come up with major plot events to happen over the course of the weekend, and the players would typically fight skeletons, orcs, bandits, etc. I'd round up a pack of volunteers and attack stragglers leaving the inn with a full belly on their way back to their tent or cabin, having skeletons march on the weak until they finally gathered a force to invade the graveyard. And while we had the one group of mercenaries representing a government who paid them to do so, most of the foreign military pressure was NPC in nature.
Talking with friends who took part in other LARPs during that time frame (1991-1998), this seemed to be the norm. But watching Darkon and Role Models (Hollywood or not), it seems that player vs player seems to be a more dominant theme. Is that something that changed, is it a regional thing, or what? |
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| Christmas Eve |
[Dec. 24th, 2009|11:47 am] |
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| [ | music |
| | fave christmas carol= hark the herald | ] |
The ole WPIX Yule-log...(apparently, there's a lot of controversy whether this is the original or not; feel free to find the one that fits your memories...the music-less HDTV one is pretty nice, if you're just looking for a fire...) |
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[Dec. 22nd, 2009|11:11 pm] |
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ok so my dad has a "speak and spell" program on his pc. i try to explain that yes, while the words are all spelled correctly they are not all right. i am one for run on sentences but my dad is in the Olympics for them, 3/4s of a paragraph not a comma or period to be seen. now as a reference the whole page was two paragraphs. |
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| linxi |
[Dec. 22nd, 2009|06:22 am] |
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| | woke up with les mis, but now it's turned into britney's womanizer... | ] |
staying late and grading papers til at least 7 tonight, whee! send sanity.
Take a Grand Tour of the Universe:
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/12/grand_tour_of_the_known_universe.html#extended
Dr. Parnassus is finally here:
http://doctorparnassus.com/
"A Permanent State of Gaga"- interesting "When Rock Stars Fake It" article here: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-poptheatricality12-july122009,0,6062903.story
(stolen from lord whimsy, along with a definition of hipster
http://ekotodi.blogspot.com/2007/12/sub-culture.html: "a consumer of (sub)culture, a person who substitutes taste for creative drive." That sort has probably been around forever, but didn't really become an identifiable genus until maybe the 1980s, when the vastly increased size of the market made it possible to pursue consumerism as a full-time activity. Hunting esoteric cultural kicks turned into connoisseurship; possession of items distinguished chiefly by their obscurity at once inflated the desirability of those items to others and became tantamount to having produced those items oneself." agreed, agreed.)
What I want for Christmas: Iphone. What I need: jogging habit, and more time.
Kingfox is cutting hair today, omg! |
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| Haircut time |
[Dec. 21st, 2009|03:05 pm] |
Sup, those half a dozen of you left on the eljays? Hot damn, haven't posted since October.
Tomorrow afternoon, I'm having my hair cut. Instead of the usual `trim off the split ends' I've been doing since I had a foot hacked off over a decade ago, I'm mixing things up a bit. Having had the same style for even longer than I've worked at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) drewuniversity as a staff member, maybe it's time for change?
No, this isn't something jedimentat's making me do. It was my idea. I didn't want to get a haircut until I had graduated from college and got a career going. Didn't know it would take me twelve years to graduate from college, but there you go.
I'm taking suggestions for my new style. Here are the ground rules: - No shorter than base of the collar/shoulder length. I want room to trim further, if I don't like what I've got.
- I'm keeping my beard, so hairstyles that won't go with a full beard are right out (i.e. no flock of seagulls).
- Keep in mind that my hair is fairly lifelessly straight, and I'm thinning up top a wee bit.
- I prefer low-maintenance hair, but I'm not afraid to go for something a bit rocking, but I'd like to remain employable, but I'm an IT professional.
- Suggestions must be in by 3 PM tomorrow for consideration.
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