IRL WoW...kind of..

[Pesmerga]

if (geek_hater) do.not->give::a(damn);
return ****you();

 

[f|uke]

Seriously, why is it so funny?

It was funny. They were totally goofy. Nothin wrong with that tho. Looked fun. Probably not how I'd choose to spend a day, but more power to them.

 

[OCybrManO]

Then accept you are the hypocrite.

I would say it's hypocritical to advocate LARP because it's fun and it doesn't harm anyone... while condemning someone who enjoys watching videos of people doing things that make them look like retards. The act of laughing at something like the "Star Wars Kid" videos does not make you a bad person. They're just ****ing funny. If I want to giggle at a video of someone saying "Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!" or haphazardly flailing about with a foam sword in the general direction of someone dressed as an elf I have as much of a right to do so as the LARP participants have to enjoy those actions. I would never insult them for doing what they think is fun or wish harm to befall them because of it, but I'll damn well laugh if I think they look funny. If you don't like that... well, you'll just have to get over it. There are entire television shows devoted to video clips of people doing things that make them look like nut jobs and/or retards. Why do people laugh at someone that gets hit in the testicles with a football or a cat that runs into a wall at full speed? Why do people like the Three Stooges even to this day? More importantly... who cares?

If you can't laugh at yourself you probably shouldn't be doing something that makes you look so funny... much less allow someone to document it with a video camera. Everyone has something about them that is weird to someone else. If I couldn't laugh at myself I wouldn't have just gone to Celebration Station with 6 other people around my own age (I'll be 21 this year) and messed around on the Go-Karts for a few hours before getting kicked off (minutes before the place closed) for wreckless driving. We kept spinning each other into the walls, fishtailing around turns, and trying (unsuccessfully) to pull off a 360. One of us drove in the wrong direction half-way around the track before another one got in an almost head-on collision with him and spun him back in the right direction. When they told everyone to stop at the end of the final race of the night I got the thing rolling backward down the hill (even though there's no reverse)... after they chased me down on foot (not hard at the speed those things go) and stopped the vehicle they made me walk back because they didn't trust me with it. We had everyone waiting in the line laughing at us. IMO, it was easily worth the $5.