TS: Larpers vs. Trekkies

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This was an argument between my housemate and I in the checkout line at the grocery store. Which kind of nerd is more worthy of pity/derision: Trekkies or Larpers?

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I say Trekkies, because at least Larpers are being somewhat creative.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

And let's not even mention Furries...

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

What is a Larper?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

LARPers without a doubt.

jel:
A LARPer is someone who engages in LiveActionRolePlaying. Vampires are sometimes involved.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither of these "types" is remotely worthy of pity or derision. I'd lay odds that of them see plenty of action.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Trekkies are mostly harmless and fun, but larpers can be quite inbred and elitist. I choose Trekkies.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What are Furries?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

People who wear furry costumes/dress up as animals. It's a sex thing, I think, may have seen a Channel 5 documentary, can't be sure.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I remember asking this question before, and someone posting a pic of one, and me being a bit shocked.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Furries = the guy in a bear suit getting a blowjob in the Shining.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I submit this as evidence:

http://raditts.com/phyles/ogre-battle.large.mpeg

― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean "pitiful" LARPers like Teeny and Tep?

― Gravel Panicsworth, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I submit this as evidence:
http://raditts.com/phyles/ogre-battle.large.mpeg

-- mikef

aahahaha i was just about to link that. LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Nobody on ILX really has any place to call anybody else on ILX a bigger or more pitiful nerd. Lightning bolt notwithstanding.

That doesn't stop me from telling everybody off on a regular basis, but I try not to be boring about it.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

tep and I aren't larpers or trekkies, get your nerd phyla straight! ;)

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Waitwait what's true dungeon then? Clearly I am a noob nerd :(

― GP, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, true dungeon. I guess you maybe could count that as LARPing but I think that's a stretch. It's kind of its own thing, but I haven't done it or LARPed so I don't really know!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck LARPers. They ruined many nights of sleep when I used to work game conventions, running around the halls and pulling fire alarms and shit.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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