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Jotun Hiem
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.02.08 04:06:00 -
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Mortal Maximus wrote:Well bella do u believe any of this RP thing? cuz i don't see why anyone should dive into that sort of madness
There are corps that do that?
Damn. Wish I'd gotten in on that before I'd gotten attached to my own.
Aw well. Good luck to 'em anyway. |
Jotun Hiem
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.02.08 04:28:00 -
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IRuby Heart wrote:The new found knowledge that there are Corps out there that take the game so seriously to the point of role playing scares the bejeezus outta me.
It's just for fun, man.
I used to do this back in World of Warcraft all the time. Most of my fondest memories from that game are from Role-Playing with buddies and guildmates.
I actually got one of my characters In-Character banned from the guild because he assaulted two (three?) officers for what he believed were corrupt and immoral practices. Funnest hour of my WoW career. |
Jotun Hiem
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2013.02.08 05:36:00 -
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IRuby Heart wrote:You ever watched "The Online Gamer" series on youtube? If you have then you'd understand why I find this very unsettling. I used to think these type of things were just really overly exaggerated stereotypes of MMO players, but now that I know it really exists and people out there really do take it to that point, my god, i don't even....
Uh... yeah, people have fun.
Real serious people go the whole nine yards. Replica platemail and everything. The high quality weapons are weighted and can hurt like hell if you hit someone with them. And no one dresses up in the brightly colored wizard hats and talks in a 'ye olde' accent unless they're trolling for laughs. Real serious LARP is more like paintball if everyone was a viking. (Of course, some people don't have access to the better stuff, so sometimes I guess you do get the guys with plastic swords messing around)
If your gamer buddy had walked into a group of real serious LARPers with that act, he'd have gotten beat down.
If you want a more concrete description, watch these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwXGWBhSck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZ32Lcu614
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgZ32Lcu614
This is a series of 4-5 minute long videos where a guy tells his buddy about his first try and a real serious LARP. Pretty funny, in my opinion.
Also, you don't actually take that 'Online Gamer' thing seriously, right? There's an episode where he beats up a charity collector for saying 'God bless you' for goodness sake. |
Jotun Hiem
Sanmatar Kelkoons
Minmatar Republic
412
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Posted - 2013.02.08 06:31:00 -
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IRuby Heart wrote:Watched the first video, it was really funny stuff, however it just made feel even more creeped out that these things actually happen lol, for anyone 13 and under it seems like a fun game or whatever but grown men making some armor and magic imaginary magic potions from kool aid and hoping into a forest to level up while slaying each other sounds way too nerd like for me.
All I know is, if anybody I know ever caught me doing something like this, I don't even wanna think about it.....
At least watch the third one. It actually describes what the fight it like.
The whole thing basically breaks down into an excuse to have a friendly brawl.
And I still don't really see what separates this so much from a match of paintball. The only difference is you have a heavier outfit and are actually swatting people with weighted weapons, not painting the enemy neon colors. |
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