So Halloween is just around the corner. What are people doing for Halloween?

[SerithVC]

I'm going to get dressed up and either go out in town or go to a party with my friends.

Not sure what to dress up as yet but my friend and I are considering going as weeping angels and just photo bombing everyone.
If we can, appear in the back of photographs and move closer each time if more are being taken.

We're very sad people.

That my good sir sounds like a ton of fun. i may have to steal that for next year.

 

[SerithVC]

The same thing I do every year pinky, try to avoid all mention of the "holiday".

I find this "holiday" to be one of the most annoying, everything takes on this "scary" facade, I'm looking at a packet of cake bars that instead of normally being called Cadbury cake bars, they are now "spooky" cake bars (I bought them 'cos they are cinder toffee), they are also individually wrapped by mummies. It has this tacky aura to it.

I can understand why kiddies like it, free sweeties and I understand why party goers like it, get drunk wearing clothes you don't usually wear. I just don't why others go nuts for it, I guess it shakes up the monotonous day to day life but I'm tired of fake bats, plastic ghosts and packaging going "scary".

Do love pumpkin art though, some seriously awesome carvers out there!

I love Halloween because i can wear my cape and medieval-esque clothing and not get bombarded by questions about it. I love the fact that most people seem to take actual interest in getting clothes like those and i get to explain to them the usefulness of capes/cloaks. I hate most of the lazy Halloween decorations i see, but when someone goes all out and makes their place look legitimately intimidating i love it. I like the ones who sit in a costume that looks like a decoration and scare people. I love Jack'o'lanterns, the ones made by kids, and the ones made by with incredible care for detail. The Halloween stories and lore are all so amazing. I think i listen to them about 5 or 6 times a year. Even the ones that people are making up themselves are also good.

 

[hazabaza1]

Next Thursday?
Probably playing some Pathfinder or some plain old vidja games.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Halloween isn't a big thing here.

OTOH, probably get into the usual arguments on the net about racist costumes.

 

[soren7550]

Probably do what I did the last two Halloweens: stay at home and hand out some candy, and maybe dress up. Boyfriend tells me that there's some sort of Halloween parade around here with a Headless Horseman (that's really a woman with a beer drinking horse), but I have yet to see it (I know it was canceled last year because of Sandy).

Maybe we'll be playing the mini DLC for Borderlands 2, but I'm guessing that we'd finish it before then.

 

[Jarsh82]

I'm dressing as a cave man and getting drunk at the gym.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Besides classes?

Dressing up as Kyouko Sakura from Puella Magi Madoka Magica. No, I am not shaving my beard for it.

Spoiler

 

[Headsprouter]

I don't really celebrate Halloween, sadly...neither do any of my friends...it's kind of depressing since I love the creativity aspect of this holiday.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

watch hellsing abridged episode 4(by the same people from team four star)
yeah I don't have any actual plans beyond going to class and homework.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

We mostly play Pathfinder but i'm gonna use 2nd Ed AD&D for any campaigns related to being terrifying and such just because of the difference in mortality rate. I was thinking of using the D6 or Call of Cthulhu systems for this but i figured it's be easier for them to use 2nd Ed. Hoping to lead it into an ongoing campaign.

That makes a lot of sense, and is part of the reason we don't use Pathfinder for horror either. Have a stack of AD&D 2nd edition books I bought at a goodwill place nearly 10 years ago, and am about to start actually playing it for the first time ever once the current campaign is finished. I can hardly wait!

None of this has anything to do with your original question. I realise this, and apologize. Will try not to distub the thread further.

 

[Weaver]

Halloween party at my place!
I've spent like $200 on decorations, I'll be DJing that night, it's also my birthday and I'll be in my Jack Skellington kigurumi!

 

[Abomination]

I'm going to be working out a way to fend off all the damn kids in the neighbourhood I recently moved into. My last place was far enough off the beaten track to not have any Halloweeners... this year I know it's going to be different.

Advice on how to make kids not want to visit my home for trick or treating?

I was thinking about just answering the door naked.

 

[Bleidd Whitefalcon]

It's a thursday, so I'll be at work during the day, then I'll come home, go the gym, have dinner, probably watch tv or something for a bit then go to bed.

Yeh, I'm not really into this so-called "holiday" either. Funny, I know people who rate Halloween above Christmas, due to Christmas being all commercial and all about spending money. Because there is no way in which the increased prevalence of Halloween amongst "adults" in recent years has absolutely nothing to do with companies out to make a swift buck by getting people to buy a whole lot of cheap seasonal tat.

As an aside, I guess I was in here quick enough to be the first to make the inevitable "Pinky and the Brain" reference.

You MIGHT want to look a couple posts up. Just saying

OT: Maybe dress up as Morpheus (from the Sandman, not the Matrix) and hand out candy to the few kids who show up. Which means plenty of time for me to mess around on Tales of Vesperia. I'll get you off that boat sooner or later, Zagi! *shakes fist*

 

[BQE]

I'm going to be working out a way to fend off all the damn kids in the neighbourhood I recently moved into. My last place was far enough off the beaten track to not have any Halloweeners... this year I know it's going to be different.

Advice on how to make kids not want to visit my home for trick or treating?

I was thinking about just answering the door naked.

I admire your moxie Abomination I do, but you may just want to put up a sign rather than risk being.....arrested, or shot, or maced.

Or you could do it, just set up a camera outside so BQE can watch the reactions.

As for the topic, I don't have plans as of yet. Other than drinking anyway, I think my roommate wants to hand out candy though.

 

[FalloutJack]

I will have a party to go to. It will be filled with the insane, sugar-rushed madness of fools...otherwise known as my friends.

 

[Remus]

I plan on visiting an 8 acre "haunted" corn maze this weekend. I've already visited the local haunted house that just gets bigger every year as ppl are fully willing to pay high prices to get in. Decorations - bats, snakes, skulls, tombstones, etc are all up and I'm spending my free time carving pumpkins. I usually do shaded stencils, some from patterns, some just from pictures. This year I'm trying my hand at pumpkin sculpting, completely different skillset. It's more freeform so in order to do something exact you have to be really dedicated and really good. I started with a simple skull with a candle coming out of the top like a dia de muertos shrine. Like a zombie jack o lantern, this has the benefit of still looking good as it rots, since dead things tend to do that. What I carve next will be considerably more difficult. I live in a rural area that has few if any trick or treaters, but Halloween is still one of my favorite holidays. I like horror movies, I like fall, and I like candy. On Halloween I get all 3. It's also kinda an odd holiday that everyone celebrates, gets all the media attention, but without the obligations one might find later in the year with Christmas and the like. So people can enjoy it, carve large vined fruits, eat candy, and dress up, or choose to ignore it, like schools do.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

My parents don't believe in holidays, especially not Halloween, so I'll be doing what I always do: Watch cartoons and read manga all day.

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

Absolutely bloody nothing.

I'm far too old for trick-or-treating, and absolutely hate parties, socializing, and other people. So I'll probably watch a TCM horror movie marathon and eat all the candy I should, hypothetically, be giving to the trick-or-treaters.
Hypothetically.

 

[Legion]

Nothing special, I am too old for Trick or Treating, as are my family and nobody in my area does parties for it or anything. We barely even get any kids Trick or Treating around here, it is a pretty small town.

Last year I spent the evening playing Telltale's The Walking Dead. Not the most exciting thing to do, but I enjoyed it.

 

[MrFalconfly]

We already have one "dress up in costumes and give kids candy" holiday.

It's called fastelavn (or easter for english speakers).

Why do we need another one?!?