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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:54:53 +0100
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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.