Recent content by Seppo

Zirnitra, you're creating a false dilemma - by your account, whatever is not one of the "recognized" art forms must therefore be infantile and unworthy. But that's not true - art is very seldom an either/or situation, it's a spectrum with a number of different styles and mediums represented...

My response is pretty much the same as before, but it's worth repeating. Pretty much everyone, geek or not, has hobbies that involve "useless skills" or expensive interests that don't "mean" anything in a practical sense. LARP is not instrinsically better or worse than anything else in that...

Hey, don't lump us all together, thanks. I never said I was better than anyone; in fact, as mentioned in an earlier post, I happen to share your dislike of people This is another glass houses/throwing stones argument. Pretty much every geek hobby that involves the word "gaming" also involves...

Yeah, I know what you mean to a degree about the boffer LARP phenomenon. I didn't even try boffer LARP until 2000; up until then I'd only really tried Mind's Eye Theatre. When I tell people that I LARP, they think the same thing and ask me "Oh, isn't that like D&D in real life, or something?"...

I'm sorry if I gave you the impression that I thought you were being elitist - the only thing about your whole post that I reacted to negatively was the comment you made about American LARP being an abomination - not just because I'm American, but because I I think it's a dismissive of the...

Darkon was a pretty good depiction of the fantasy style boffer LARP. (Some of the scenes actually captured the energy that makes good boffer fighting fun, silly-looking or not.) What I liked about it was that the director didn't editorialize - they simply let the players talk, and if that made...

Now, to be fair, do we we REALLY want to start a "looks stupid" fight among a geek-slanted community? :-) I mean, you're right, I'll be the first to admit that LARP looks prety dumb from the outside, but so does playing tabletop games, MMO raiding, slapping down CCG cards, moving miniatures...

Since it seems to be a little confused here, let me offer the simplest explanation of what LARP is and what it isn't. LARP always involves... - Players take on the role of a character and act as they feel that character would. - There is a controlling authority, such as a Gamemaster, or in...

[This response is directed mostly at Silver's original post.] Your post reminds me of a famous (and perhaps apocryphal) conversation between a young Robert DeNiro and an older and wiser Sir Laurence Olivier. The two acting legends met at an awards ceremony, and DeNiro was simply starstruck by...