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re: Darkon (2006 Documentary on LARPers)
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:13 am to UnluckyTiger
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:13 am to UnluckyTiger
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Cocomo buys movies. Its in his DNA. I think he has a hundred movies he hasn't watched yet.
yeah i do that, too, but mainly i just rape and pillage movie stores going out of business now, or buy movies i can't get on netflix
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Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:14 am to SlowFlowPro
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Darkon (2006 Documentary on LARPers)
Better or worse than King of Kong?
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:14 am to SlowFlowPro
And wasn't it like Christmas eve? 
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:25 am to Pilot Tiger
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thought it was on netflix?
I'm sure it is. I don't use Netflix though. I buy shite. Got it for $1.89 on Amazon.
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Cocomo buys movies. Its in his DNA. I think he has a hundred movies he hasn't watched yet.
It's not that many, but it's close.
This post was edited on 6/4/12 at 8:27 am
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:27 am to Jamede4
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Better or worse than King of Kong?
that's a tough one
it's hard for me to go back and give an honest reaction to KoK b/c i found out later the conflict was bullshite
i also think that in KoK they tried really hard to edit the movie to make good guys and bad guys, which took away some of the realness from it. in Darkon even the "bad" guy isn't really bad, and the "good" guys come off as throwing a temper tantrum
KoK had more iconic scenes though.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:30 am to SlowFlowPro
I own that t-shirt.
I do think the conflict in KoK was real, just that it was overblown in that the true record was held by someone else. But I do think the whole jealousy/feud/whatever between the Twin Galaxies figs/Billy Mitchell minions and Steve Weibe was real.
I do think the conflict in KoK was real, just that it was overblown in that the true record was held by someone else. But I do think the whole jealousy/feud/whatever between the Twin Galaxies figs/Billy Mitchell minions and Steve Weibe was real.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:34 am to SlowFlowPro
I used to know someone that LARP'd. I never watched or participated in LARPs, but it seems like if you can cast aside the social stigma it could be fun. It just seems so damn weird.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:35 am to CocomoLSU
i think they made billy mitchell come off a lot worse than he really is
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:39 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:
that's a tough one
Good enough answer, I'll watch Darkon tonight. KoK was way too funny.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:46 am to Hulkklogan
I have some friends that are pretty nerdy. Like they play RPG's like all weekend and eat fast food everyday.
And they think LARPers are huge geeks
I can't wait to see this
And they think LARPers are huge geeks
I can't wait to see this
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:50 am to Jamede4
I loved King of Kong. I'd rank it above this one, but its still pretty entertaining. But alot of these guys are depressing. Almost all of them hate their jobs and tell you that their real life job is the true role playing and that the larping is who they truly are.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:57 am to Pilot Tiger
i won't lie i probably would have turned into something similar to a LARPer had i not purposefully redirected my social being about age 11 or 12. me and my bff at the time were even starting to do RPG board games 
Posted on 6/4/12 at 8:59 am to UnluckyTiger
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Almost all of them hate their jobs and tell you that their real life job is the true role playing and that the larping is who they truly are.
well one did make a good point: we do all pretend to be certain roles or social niceties for most of our lives
one time i was pissed off at a wedding and i went on like a 5 minute tirade on "everyone being in their fricking costumes" and the jokes have kind of stuck with me for every wedding since then
it is true, though
Posted on 6/4/12 at 9:19 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:I will admit that I played 1 or 2 RPG's back in the day...but my love for sports and women truly prevented me from going down that path
i won't lie i probably would have turned into something similar to a LARPer
Posted on 6/4/12 at 9:24 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Yeah, little known secret, nerds segregate themselves into castes also.
social structures developing within the game are complained about,
Posted on 6/4/12 at 9:28 am to Pilot Tiger
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but my love for sports and women truly prevented me from going down that path
i was bored with sports at that time
thank god my parents divorced and i started playing football and then basketball
Posted on 6/4/12 at 9:29 am to SlowFlowPro
Checking this out this evening. Looks really interesting.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 9:29 am to alajones
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Yeah, little known secret, nerds segregate themselves into castes also.
i think this part of Darkon makes me prefer it to KoK, now that i think about it
KoK had your classic american "good, normal every man goes up against the insular bad guy group who will cheat to win" narrative, and this one just rang out more for me.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 9:40 am to SlowFlowPro
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i think they made billy mitchell come off a lot worse than he really is
Probably so. But I'd bet money that he's definitely a douche...just maybe not quite as much of one as he was portrayed. But that falls into the whole "there has to be a villain and protagonist" editing that you mentioned earlier.
Posted on 6/4/12 at 5:03 pm to SlowFlowPro
SFP, you live for this kind of shite. It's like a further self-perpetuating self-fulfilling prophecy.
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