Someone up there wants us to suffer...
I had to shut it off.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Sentow, Maybe fucked around with this message on 08-06-2005 at 01:22 PM.
I don't know...the spirit behind it's alright, but the fakeness they add to it just kills it. If you want to have a real sport and duel with real weapons, that's your suicidal choice. But to hack at each other with nerf swords and claim that it's a 'battle' and all that jazz...that's just nerdy delusion. This is why I like writing...I can have them do pretty much anything I want, without having to add all sorts of safeguards that kill the spirit 
Was that supposed to be a serious movie, or a joke?
It could go either way 
For every 100 people tho see the trailer and laugh, or insult it.. theres going to be one guy who likes the idea, and goes out to play with them. Thats why they are doing it.
Besides.. a bunch of keyboard jockeys, japanophiles, and chasers of other geekyness, need not throw stones.
We're all a bunch of dorks, get used to it.
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Kaiote startled the peaceful upland Gorillas by blurting:
It's for a promotional..For every 100 people tho see the trailer and laugh, or insult it.. theres going to be one guy who likes the idea, and goes out to play with them. Thats why they are doing it.
Besides.. a bunch of keyboard jockeys, japanophiles, and chasers of other geekyness, need not throw stones.
We're all a bunch of dorks, get used to it.
I feel perfectly qualified to throw stones, so neener.
There's such a thing as taking that shit far too seriously.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I feel perfectly qualified to throw stones, so neener.There's such a thing as taking that shit far too seriously.
You're as big a dork as the rest of us. You DO post here.
Well, your throwing stones tend to be better polished and well written. But you're still a dork with the rest of us.
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Kaiote thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
You're as big a dork as the rest of us. You DO post here.Well, your throwing stones tend to be better polished and well written. But you're still a dork with the rest of us.
You do realize there are levels of dorkitude, right? There's like "I play Halo 2 twice a week," or "I play video games every day," then there's "I beat people with foam bats in a field," and then there's "I play MMOs all day in my parents' basement," or "I collect Transformers and post about it on the Internet for people that don't care."
So yes, there are levels far beyond LARPing, but you have to at least recognize the levels, man. THE LEVELS.
So I hardly think I'm in the same league as these dorks, nor that calling them dorky qualifies as the pot labeling the kettle. It's fine that they choose to spend their time that way. . .but they've got to live with the appropriate label.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage had this to say about Pirotess:
Ah, but dorkiness, as you put it, depends upon the amount of time and effort spent being dorky, as well as the seriousness with which one pursues the dorky hobby.So I hardly think I'm in the same league as these dorks, nor that calling them dorky qualifies as the pot labeling the kettle. It's fine that they choose to spend their time that way. . .but they've got to live with the appropriate label.
You dork...
It's always annoyed me when you see one type of dork label another dork asif thier own kind of dorkiness is better.
*goes back to painting WH40k figures*
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Kaiote startled the peaceful upland Gorillas by blurting:
True.. but even within the LARP community, there are levels of dork. And they vary depending on which type of larp dork you are. Some are the hardcore combat dorks, who shun everything else about the game except the combat. (And, in many cases, even shun the rules of combat, because it doesnt fit them, or thier version of the game.) Others are deep Roleplayers, who are mocked by everybody but the other Roleplayers. Then theres the drunks, and the leches.. and the drunken leches.. But somewhere in there, everybody has all the other dorks characterized by what kind of larp dork they are..It's always annoyed me when you see one type of dork label another dork asif thier own kind of dorkiness is better.
You're missing the point, as usual. Everyone on the planet is mildy dorky in some way. . .they just don't go making movies to showcase the depths of their dorkiness. The people in this movie go well beyond the norm of dorkiness, and are therefore valid targets for ridicule.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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From the book of Sakkra, chapter 3, verse 16:
You're all dorks.*goes back to painting WH40k figures*
Gahhh, I have a Space marine Squad, A terminator squad, a fire warrior squad, pathfinders, drones , 3 battlesuits, and 2 Devilfish/hammer heads to paint. On top of fixing damage from move...
BTW, if anything can be said, at least those dorks are getting out and about outside and being social about it, not like some geek sitting in his folks' basement with multiple computers all playing the same game.
I'm a Jedi in SWG, but I don't run around a field in real life shouting "USE THE FORCE!" and hitting people with a red coloured foam bat.
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Mortious spewed forth this undeniable truth:
However you twist it, LARP'ing is far more hilarious than playing MMORPG's.I'm a Jedi in SWG, but I don't run around a field in real life shouting "USE THE FORCE!" and hitting people with a red coloured foam bat.
Best mental image ever.
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Bloodsage stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
You're missing the point, as usual. Everyone on the planet is mildy dorky in some way. . .they just don't go making movies to showcase the depths of their dorkiness. The people in this movie go well beyond the norm of dorkiness, and are therefore valid targets for ridicule.
No, I cant agree. They were simply trying to make a promotional video to attract more likeminded dorks to thier dorkfests. They are simply trying to share thier enjoyment of thier dorkiness with others. Just because you find it funny, does not make it right.
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Caid '5 Fists' Berrit had this to say about Robocop:
! WARNING: ABOVE POST VIOLATES THE ANTI-KAIT ACT AND SHOULD BE DISREGARDED FROM THE CONVERSATION. !
Buh? o.o
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Mortious impressed everyone with:
However you twist it, LARP'ing is far more hilarious than playing MMORPG's.I'm a Jedi in SWG, but I don't run around a field in real life shouting "USE THE FORCE!" and hitting people with a red coloured foam bat.
Haah...I saw people do that at one of the conventions I went to >.< Dorks...
The cardboard box tetris battle was pretty damn hilarious, though. Kait fucked around with this message on 08-08-2005 at 03:08 PM.
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Kait said:
Haah...I saw people do that at one of the conventions I went to >.< Dorks...
If I went to a Star Wars convention I'd wear normal clothes.
People who dress up at conventions.. scare me.
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Mortious attempted to be funny by writing:
If I went to a Star Wars convention I'd wear normal clothes.People who dress up at conventions.. scare me.
You should come to The states, goto a SCA event or one of these LARP things duded up in your plate, start Kicking ass and takeing names.
--DO you even do that re-enactment stuff that much anymore?
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Mortious was naked while typing this:
If I went to a Star Wars convention I'd wear normal clothes.People who dress up at conventions.. scare me.
Yeah, and the funny thing is, it was an ANIME convention, but there were tons of people dressed up from Star Wars and Harry Potter x.x I wanted to stab them...but then I realized that would make me a fangirl, so I held back. My dagger was at the ready, though. 
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Verily, Kait doth proclaim:
Haah...I saw people do that at one of the conventions I went to >.< Dorks...
So you didn't cosplay at the Anime convention ya went to? Thought you did for some reason.
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Nobody really understood why Falaanla Marr wrote:
So you didn't cosplay at the Anime convention ya went to? Thought you did for some reason.
I know she was looking for information about cosplay. As Link too, if I remember correctly.
If you cosplay Star Wars, you're obviously a dork. . .but if you cosplay anime, you're way cool.
Or something.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage had this to say about Duck Tales:
No, no, no!If you cosplay Star Wars, you're obviously a dork. . .but if you cosplay anime, you're way cool.
Or something.
Hay. if you look at it, either way you will most likely only have a 50% chance of reproduceing afterwars, Doing the genepool a favor.
--Everyone goes Nutty over something, Shit the Amount of Money my old man sinks into fishing...$80 fucking dolllor lures 
...well I guess that chump change compared to the 27' twin diesel Blackwatch.
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Peter had this to say about Tron:
Hay. if you look at it, either way you will most likely only have a 50% chance of reproduceing afterwars, Doing the genepool a favor.
--Everyone goes Nutty over something, Shit the Amount of Money my old man sinks into fishing...$80 fucking dolllor lures...well I guess that chump change compared to the 27' twin diesel Blackwatch.
Yeah, I'm always amused by how my father can question a monthly fee for a game that costs less than the fee for one of his golf games (of which he plays 4+ a month), or the expense of maintaining and upgrading a computer with the amount of time and money he puts into clubs and accessories.
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Peter said:
You should come to The states, goto a SCA event or one of these LARP things duded up in your plate, start Kicking ass and takeing names.--DO you even do that re-enactment stuff that much anymore?
Not very often anymore. It's hideously expensive and I don't like denting my £3000 worth of historically accurate plate.
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Verily, Father McKenzie doth proclaim:
Yeah, I'm always amused by how my father can question a monthly fee for a game that costs less than the fee for one of his golf games (of which he plays 4+ a month), or the expense of maintaining and upgrading a computer with the amount of time and money he puts into clubs and accessories.
The only question you can really about that is how it is proportinate to your income. I try to keep 'puters, models and crap under 10% of my income
Jackman fucked around with this message on 08-25-2005 at 07:13 PM.
Some people are like Slinkys... Not really good for anything, But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.
It's not something people hear about.
