Re: OT: Is it just me ...

On 16/04/2025 15:40, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:02:50 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 15/04/2025 17:54, Justisaur wrote:

On 4/14/2025 3:10 AM, JAB wrote:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw

 

I'm all for enjoy what you want but LARPing is one I really don't
understand.

 The idea of LARPing I totally jive with, but not that casual kind you
most often see/hear about. Something like the SCA was always a bit
more my cup of tea; it aimed for more accuracy and less running around
screaming. Hell, for many the ultimate video-gamer's dream is a Star
Trek holodeck, and that's just LARP taken to a high-tech extreme. The
problem isn't the LARP, it's that we haven't the ability yet to do it
convincingly. ;-)
 

That's pretty much the problem I find with it. The idea is fine but the implementation seems somewhat flawed as things like combat just don't, IMHO, translate well to live action. An exception I do see is murder mystery style games where I think the idea of investigating something does translate.
SCA I did have to look up as to me it means software communications architecture! I can see the appeal in that even though it's not my cup of tea. I used to go to a week long military vehicles show and one of the groups that would turn up would dig a WWI style trench and live in it for a week.

But those kids seem to be having fun, so who am I to judge?
 

Oh yeh, people can do want they want and who am I to judge how they have fun. It's more I put it into the category of I find it difficult to really understand why they find it fun.