Go back to larping you oh so "hilarious" faggot.
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Go back to larping you oh so "hilarious" faggot.
you and vinata are quite a pairOriginally Posted by Alex Clomsaver
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Have thoust slain me with thine plus one burn? I say thee nay, foul (smelling) knight. For I shath stand immortal forever. Hark!
don't make me hit you in the head with a padded 'flail' man~
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Lets be honest here, larpers aren't the bottom rung of the nerd hierarchy (Furrys), but they are on the next one up.
Larping lawyers that get paid to write articles about internet spaceships nerds are laughing all the way to the bank.
Join ARMA, stop hitting people with foam weapons and learn something.
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Please don't compare us in this regard. I think Darkon looks highly entertaining, and would try it out myself if there was anything similar close to me.
It seems there is a movie about it http://www.darkonthemovie.com/
Also, there is a huge event in Germany called drachenfest that draws a few thousand people. A 1000 a side 'battle' is actually pretty cool.
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As someone who sees these people do this stuff on the HUB lawn every week I feel justified saying no thanks. Now Civil War reenacting might be pretty awesome if it didn't cost thousands of dollars, require a car and take place in the middle of a field on scorching hot summer days while requiring that you wear cotton layers.
Ransomlist, you'd love the yearly Gettysburg reenactment, its basically the biggest reenactment in the world.
At risk out outing myself, again, Darkon is really quite fun. Though most of the weekend events are just people wearing armor and getting drunk.
At least it was like that 8 years ago, I'm kind of out of the loop these days.
i have a bunch of friends who pretty much just play 40k, some who only just do darkon, some who only play eve or only play wow. each little nerd hierarchy is desperately eager to show that it is somehow 'normal' and not just another goddamn nerd hobby
i dabble in a lot of nerd shit and switch around between hobbies a lot so vOv
personally i think my spending hours and hours painting toy soldiers and buying thousands of dollars of games workshop widgets over the years is probably the 'worst' of my nerd sins but who knows
anyway re: larps the euros have some amazing battles as does the SCA in the us, among 'larps' with padded weapons there seem to be two general types, the ones where bones get broken and the kind where people roleplay. the bone-breaking kind is more fun imo but hey when i was in college i unironically played vampire: the masquerade so if people want to D&D fantasy roleplay in the woods and scream lightning bolt, more power to them
in the gf.com thread about this someone suggested i try airsoft military reenactments and they sounded really fucking cool so when i move from dc i might do that too, just add another feather in my geek cap
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The Sealed Knot is like that too. Frequently for 48 hours or more during the big musters, due to strange licensing laws concerning tents.
About the best thing is people actually undertaking to make Mead, which is a liquid that could form the basis for some variety of Gargleblaster. Essentially you feed the yeast honey instead of sugar.
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Made a mead last summer, was disappointing so I'm going to have another run at things sometime.
Thats about the only nerd hobby more expensive than having someone make you plate and mail, but if you are a lawyer you may have cash to burn; also buy GW products, learn to cast resin.
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Apparently the trick is to keep feeding it until the yeast totally dies, and the quality of the honey counts.
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Well... to each his own I guess
The reenacters know how to recruit! During my first (and only) event I was responsible for firing a 3" cannon. At one point a team of horses moved our cannon from one point of the field to another. How cool is that?
Then I learned that the guy who owned the cannon bought a battery of 4 for about $60,000 plus the toy hauler and truck to move them around. Too rich for my blood. But the fact remains that I FIRED A FUCKING CANNON.
i pen and paper'ed with a chick who later ended up being a furry.
she was goddamn insane, and not like awesome insane, but fat paranoid chick insane, so yeah larpers > furries.
not that i larp. that'd be pretty gary with a silent 'r'.
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You have a rich inner life.
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firing a cannon sounds awesome as hell
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Funnily enough Civil War reenacting is so popular that not only are there masses of people who do it overseas as well as in America but a lot of the gear is mass produced which makes it just about the cheapest type of reenactments that one can do (though it still costs quite a bit to get kitted out and even more if you want to ride a horse or whatever.)
Which race?
these days, guard mostly. i really enjoy converting tanks and i've gotten p. damn good at it. i use pig iron militia heads to replace the shitty cadian heads, too.
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It really is. The most fun are the handheld cannons used around that time period. They're never shown in movies because they look ridiculous, but they're a lot of fun to fire.
How hard are they to fire in a furry suit?
I love the imperial guard, because they look great and fight terrible.
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im not a nerd i work out and i kickbox and so does my girlfriend and i drive a fucking truck and at the end of the day i just so happen to play a mind-numbingly boring game about spaceships from iceland, what you gotta fukken problem with that nerd-boy huh
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I hardly ever actually play eve, so I suppose I have one on you there,
I imagine it'd be difficult.
i got snowed in for eleven days straight here in dc (snowmageddon, they're calling it) and i began actually playing eve-online and started solo pvping, i'm having fun
well, ganking is fun, with long periods of boredom between ganks but vOv
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That's how it starts.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R, live action airsoft style - http://sdmobile.livejournal.com/19843.html
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Dunno about the cannons but you'd sweat your fucking ass off.
As for STALKER roleplaying, I can't help but wonder how they incorporate the save and reload keys (or, after my remapping, left and right click.)
What about the AI that can see through hills and shoot through rocks?
Re: Plastic Army mens, pig iron are a great company.
D. eldar player myself, back in 2/3 rd edition. Still amused that they still have the same codex.
Guard seems to just be ValkriesValkriesValkries now with each new Codex trying to top the last for ridiculously broken shit that will sell hilariously overpriced lumps of plastic.
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I too kickbox(badly), and probably would buy gamesworkshop crap if i had the disposable income. hi5
edit: Oh and tyranids all the way. Fuck yea, i'm gonna shoot you with acid.
that stalker larp looks fucking amazing
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That's possibly the coolest and simultaneously the nerdiest thing I have seen in my entire live. I'm going to Chernobyl this summer, wonder if they'll take me along.
NBC suits are really fucking horrible to wear for any length of time, running around in the woods in them is going to make you feel like shit. Which is all pretty appropriate to genre i guess.
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mmm hmmm
Eldar here, but mainly in Space Marine, not WH40K, so the nature and quality of the heads was moot at best.
Also I say Eldar as if that was the only army I had but in fact I'm way more geeky than that.
Yeah, for someone who has had to do that for days at a time in the military, I'd never put an NBC suit on of my own volition. Those guys are crazy.
First step is to admit you have a problem.
I am a nerd. Yeah, I have a real job and a mind-numbing relationship, the only thing that keeps me sane is my nerdy hobbies. If I was a simpleton I would just watch TV and/or listen to my gf.
Also, get rid of 40k, it has been dumbed down to a bucket-o-dice game. Play Epic, like the real nerds. Then you can play with armies of tanks, titans and stuff.
I always worry about the nerds living in denial. Embrace your nerdiness. The new-age nerd isn't a pencil neck Pointdexter. Nerds have become more mainstream.
I worry about people who do not understand irony. Life must be so difficult for them.
The Ren Fair in Plantersville (Todd Mission), TX is the worlds largest festival, which is a fun way to spend Octobers. They have some really bad ass mead that I would recommend if you are bored and looking for a new renfair experience. The creator literally bought several hundred acres outside of Houston and has added to it every year since the early 70's. It's like Mardi Gras in NOLA, but with a renaissance motif. They have rickshaw taxis to get around inside the property which makes stumbling around drunk a bit safer.
http://www.texrenfest.com/home.html
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No more character sales when I ragequit, seriously....
Any twat who can fit a graphics card is identifying as a Nerd, because Nerds are the new cool.
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old nerd:
new nerd:
Or alternatively slap a pair of glasses on just about anybody as that seems to be hollywoods vision of a nerd.
Being a nerd isn't cool, unless amongst other nerds. Crippling social dysfunction and obsession with a narrow area of knowledge isn't cool.
The 'new' nerds aren't nerds at all and they are almost as annoying as fucking hipsters.
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This. Although not the bit about narrow obsessions; that's Aspergers.
[B]Client:[/B] “Well we are well known amongst all the Russian billionaires so there is great potential for you to get your name out there by doing this project for free. Also I am a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.”
What?
I'd say one of the defining characteristics of a nerd is a passion for a specific subject, area of knowledge or hobby....
Aspergers is more than just being socially awkward and obsessive, and rather specific in aspects of social interaction. While some people that are seen as nerds may be spergers, you may well be looking at very different social impairment and the basis, permanency and topic of obsession do not necessarily share any common ground or cause.
If you want to just call someone a social leper and they dont have a particular hobby they use to fill the void in thier time with then 'dweeb' 'loser' or 'social leper' are all more apropriate than nerd i think.
Fuck yeah 3/4th derail.
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i spent a bar evening arguing this exact point.
nerds are really good at knowing about something, often (but not necessarily) at expense of social skills.
people who suck at social skills but aren't really good at knowing about something are not nerds, they're just awkward.
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