(4:54:53 PM) shmivejournal: it’s cool that you can juggle obsessions
(4:55:12 PM) shmivejournal: like, you still play wow, but there’s also 4sq
(4:55:21 PM) shmivejournal: lj is on the way out but you’ll never delete your account
(4:55:41 PM) shmivejournal: taco truck is trading 5 points higher since last year
(4:55:54 PM) shmivejournal: kevin smith leveled off a while ago
My rule on this? If you have your Twitter activity automatically posted to your LJ on a daily basis, and you have your LJ updates automatically Twittered for you, and you don’t post for a few days yet the two services keep on notifying back and forth every day and even killing you won’t stop the pointless spam? You’re doing it wrong. Cross-promotion I understand, re-reading your intelligent commentary twice is no skin off my back, but an endless cycle of the two not saying anything new? Bad.
Wedding bands ordered! They’ll be ready in a couple of weeks. They’re bombdropular, and I can’t wait to weld it on my finger for the rest of my life.
It’s getting more and more real every day!
Working on wedding location and priest, invitations, and everything else.
Holy cow, July 10th, 2010! That is not so far off.
jedimentat and I just finished watching Darkon, thanks to a recommendation from petemagyar. We had previously seen Role Models, which contained quite a bit of LARP action as well, even if it was Hollywoodized.
Do any of you still LARP? Particularly fantasy LARPs? If so, is it all PVP these days?
Back when I was involved with administrating a LARP, a vast majority of the events were centered around PVE. Sure, players had conflicts with each other that led them to engage in combat. We had our race of shapeshifting demonic vampires that everyone hunted on sight that were populated by players, we had our players playing as the local militia and the mercenaries looking to apply pressure from a nearby government constantly fighting. But that was a small percentage of the action.
Most combats were between players and volunteers or players on “NPC duty”. We’d come up with major plot events to happen over the course of the weekend, and the players would typically fight skeletons, orcs, bandits, etc. I’d round up a pack of volunteers and attack stragglers leaving the inn with a full belly on their way back to their tent or cabin, having skeletons march on the weak until they finally gathered a force to invade the graveyard. And while we had the one group of mercenaries representing a government who paid them to do so, most of the foreign military pressure was NPC in nature.
Talking with friends who took part in other LARPs during that time frame (1991-1998), this seemed to be the norm. But watching Darkon and Role Models (Hollywood or not), it seems that player vs player seems to be a more dominant theme. Is that something that changed, is it a regional thing, or what?
Sup, those half a dozen of you left on the eljays? Hot damn, haven’t posted since October.
Tomorrow afternoon, I’m having my hair cut. Instead of the usual `trim off the split ends’ I’ve been doing since I had a foot hacked off over a decade ago, I’m mixing things up a bit. Having had the same style for even longer than I’ve worked at drewuniversity as a staff member, maybe it’s time for change?
No, this isn’t something jedimentat‘s making me do. It was my idea. I didn’t want to get a haircut until I had graduated from college and got a career going. Didn’t know it would take me twelve years to graduate from college, but there you go.
I’m taking suggestions for my new style. Here are the ground rules:
miscca reminds me that I’m a horrible LJer, and haven’t posted the good news.
In case you don’t read me on Twitter, aren’t on Facebook or missed it, didn’t see it on Flickr, and don’t read jedimentat‘s journal, yet you still want to know what’s going on in my life? She and I are engaged. jedimentat and I, not miscca and I.
And some other stuff’s happened and been happening since last I posted in mid-May. Like a ren faire, a conference in Utah, and some other stuff. But that’s all minor compared to such a major life event. She’s really awesome, I’m really awesome, and we’re really awesome together. End of story.
Now, to go downstairs for her family reunion, where the ring and I get shown off.
