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I LARP as well! Spent some years doing Full Contact stuff in Darkon. Mostly do Dystopia Rising now, but I'm looking for some fantasy stuff because... hey. I have all this viking gear, you know? Might as well use it.

Did you ever see that documentary about Darkon?

 

Yes, I have. I have a lot of friends in it. No, I'm not in it. The documentary was shot before I joined, and I ended up joining a nation that refused to sign the release forms and filed for copyrights on all of their stuff in order to avoid being in the film. All in all, I'd say it was a smart move. I don't think the documentary was bad per se, but much of what happened there was done for the benefit of the cameras. It isn't so much a documentary as an improvised amateur drama with larpers for actors. Danny's (A.K.A. "Cardboard") scenes make me cringe. I feel they exploited him unfairly. He certainly should have known better than to bare himself on camera like that, but the filmmakers recorded several days worth of footage for each subject. It's clear they used footage that fit the way they wanted to portray the "characters". I think Danny and Beckie got it the worst. I think they tried to portray Beckie as an escapist who resented her lot in life, but that really is far from the truth. I saw the documentary before I joined, because to an outsider it really does make the actual game look fun, even if the game is full of kooks. And don't get me wrong, Darkon has its share of kooks, but when I see the documentary now, I don't concentrate on how fun the game looks anymore, I see the attempts to portray a lot of people I've come to know and regard as good friends as a freak show.

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I LARP as well! Spent some years doing Full Contact stuff in Darkon. Mostly do Dystopia Rising now, but I'm looking for some fantasy stuff because... hey. I have all this viking gear, you know? Might as well use it.

Did you ever see that documentary about Darkon?

 

Yes, I have. I have a lot of friends in it. No, I'm not in it. The documentary was shot before I joined, and I ended up joining a nation that refused to sign the release forms and filed for copyrights on all of their stuff in order to avoid being in the film. All in all, I'd say it was a smart move. I don't think the documentary was bad per se, but much of what happened there was done for the benefit of the cameras. It isn't so much a documentary as an improvised amateur drama with larpers for actors. Danny's (A.K.A. "Cardboard") scenes make me cringe. I feel they exploited him unfairly. He certainly should have known better than to bare himself on camera like that, but the filmmakers recorded several days worth of footage for each subject. It's clear they used footage that fit the way they wanted to portray the "characters". I think Danny and Beckie got it the worst. I think they tried to portray Beckie as an escapist who resented her lot in life, but that really is far from the truth. I saw the documentary before I joined, because to an outsider it really does make the actual game look fun, even if the game is full of kooks. And don't get me wrong, Darkon has its share of kooks, but when I see the documentary now, I don't concentrate on how fun the game looks anymore, I see the attempts to portray a lot of people I've come to know and regard as good friends as a freak show.

That is exactly what happened over here. A documentary was made by a show called 20/20 and they made the people with this hobby out to be weirdos.

 

http://tvnz.co.nz/20-20-news/20-having-larp-3047776/video?vid=3056114

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Make Up.

 

I'm a bigger girl, and for me, make up is never the "wrong size" or looks "unflattering". 

 

I love colour, I love applying it, and I love applying it to others. (I work with it a lot).

 

I have a TON and sometimes... Sometimes I just can't help but buy something new even though I seriously don't need it.

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Ke$ha.

 

Essential oils and makeup after that, not in the use of them, but in how much I spend on them. The essential oils I can get around because I use them to make my own body oil/butter things, but I still sometimes feel bad for dat cost.

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I don't feel guilty about any of my pleasures when it comes to hobbies, music, books and so on.

 

I guess bullet hell shooters. None of my friends understand the adrenaline pumping pleasure derived from maneuvering a hitbox through a screen full of glowing deadly balls whilst blasting away at endless waves of enemies.

 

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Or, currently, there's this. Oh, damn, this.

 

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"Talking" to animals (i.e. whistling at bird, meowing at cats, etc.). :blush:

Sometimes I laugh a little to myself when a dog stops barking because of it. I like to think I said something confusing in Dog and he's trying to figure out what I meant. :lol:

 

I, uh, also enjoy Touhou music. And some of the character concepts.

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Those little gummi coke bottle things? I want to be disgusted by them but I can't. HELP.

Are you disgusted by the little gummi hamburgers?

 

I have never had a little gummi hamburger but now I must find some. It will be your fault when I descend into weird gummi candy heck.

 

New guilty pleasure: descending into weird gummi candy heck.

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