The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Aurora]

Morning Aurora.

Good morning...I guess. LOL I wish I was still asleep. I wish sleep would quit evading me.

 

[The_Warlock]

Good morning...I guess. LOL I wish I was still asleep. I wish sleep would quit evading me.

Get rubber mallet. Whack self in head with rubber mallet. Tell sleep, "HAH! Gotcha!"

 

[The_Warlock]

I went to a LARP once. Once.

Personally, I thought it was dumb.

Here's the thing - it's like almost any other gaming experience - it depends on the gamemaster, the story and the people.

And the one problem with the people is that with a lot of LARPs the number of people means the percentage chance of idiots increases what seems exponentially (even if there aren't really enough for that).

I've played in 5. Three WW Mind's Eye theatre LARPs, and two boff LARPs. Of them, one white wolf vampire LARP and one boff LARP were fun. So much so, that I was willing to throw in a hand and help run them.

The rest? Full of twits who didn't know how to roleplay, or understand the concepts and world presented, or just wanted another venue for powergaming, or brought their OOC jealousies and petty rivalries to their in game characters - whether it made sense or not.

So, I can definitely see how you could've experienced the Dumb Side of the LARP.

EDIT: P.S.: Which is why I'll probably never play in or run one again, despite having had good experiences - they are too much effort, and usually include too few people you actually enjoy playing with.

 

[Aeson]

Good morning...I guess. LOL I wish I was still asleep. I wish sleep would quit evading me.

Most mornings are never good for me. I would like to be asleep still as well. I hate mornings. I think they should be banned.

 

[Aeson]

Get rubber mallet. Whack self in head with rubber mallet. Tell sleep, "HAH! Gotcha!"

I tried it. It didn't work. I do have a huge knot on my head now. :\

 

[The_Warlock]

I tried it. It didn't work. I do have a huge knot on my head now. :\

Alas, the rubber mallet was not rated for your forehead...but maybe if you smack it a few more times you'll have enough knots for some abstract celtic designs.

Or you'll be comatose...

 

[hafrogman]

What IS pokemon btw ... I have seen mention of it everywhere but still don't know what it actually IS. :\

*blink, blink*

What the?

This is Mycanid we're talking about. He honestly doesn't know.

You are SO better off not knowing.

Ignorance=Bliss

Hmmm, how true. And yet. . . I've always been one with the belief that misery loves company. And so I shall tell him.

[sblock=Pokemon, a history]Pokemon was originally a Japanese videogame for the Nintendo portable game system, the Gameboy. It's name was a corruption of the words "Pocket Monsters". The central concept of the game being these small monsters that inhabited the world of the game and could be captured and trained to fight each other.

One would capture the monsters in small spheres that somehow contained and shrunk said creature. Pokeballs.

The video game gained massive popularity, especially among the young. Featuring cute, loveable monsters with no sex or language, and no human violence (the video game equivalent of cockfighting apparently being harmless).

It's popularity catapulted it into international fame, spawning one of the most annoying television shows ever, featuring a young pokemon trainer named Ash (of all things) Catchem, who went around with his favorite pokemon, an electrically charged rodent named Pikachu (leading me to the joke: what do you get when you cross Mrs. Robinson with a pokemon? Kookookachu.) It also spawned inumerable sequal video games, reissues, ports to America, a CCG, a video game based on the CCG and so on.

The liscence for the CCG is owned by Wizards of the Coast (who also own the liscence for a well known RPG) and a substanital portion of their website is devoted to it.

And now you know.[/sblock]

 

[hafrogman]

Honestly, the thought of you not knowing the song never actually crossed my mind. Thought EVERYONE knew what song that was.

This is Mycanid we're talking about. He honestly doesn't know.

 

[The_Warlock]

Stop corrupting the shroom...we like him untainted...

 

[hafrogman]

Stop corrupting the shroom...we like him untainted...

Dude. He's a fungus. He's tainted by his very nature.