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[PA Comic] Monday, May 26, 2014 - Budding
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Screw parents like that, we all played like that as kids. It's called being a kid. Let them be kids and enjoy their activites with them.
Kudos to Tycho if this is at all relevant to something that happened in real life. This is the sort of thing that makes lasting fond memories for everybody involved.
Nobody remembers the specific time they sat around and did nothing, but everybody remembers some special games of make-believe with friends as a kid.
Behold, Gabriel proves his innocence: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/29854762/#Comment_29854762
We got done with people being righteously indignant because they took the last comic too seriously in this thread.
Remember Undeadoo?
Same "nope".
The trailer did not.
I have a giant pile of indie games to work through (Humble Bundle syndrome) but it is now at least on my radar.. or chrono-dar or whatever.
"From the burns, it almost looks as if he was struck by a lightning bolt..."
The blood drains from Tycho's face.
What thread were you reading?
They are called spell packets, or spackets. They are pieces of cloth filled with bird seed that you throw as you call out a spell in larps
The first hit is a guy selling "spell packets" at $26 for 50. Want to spend $400? First,
Someone wants to give you $400 for - by all accounts, very nice - bags of bird seed, and you want to make them fill out paperwork?
I remember back in my airsoft days, one of the dudes who created a large-scale zombie airsoft scenario (read: zombie survival LARPing with airsoft guns on a paintball field, because that's what it is) got his head waaaaaaaaaaay up his own ass about his clever 100% original idea do not steal
he thought his game rules for playing zombie LARP with airsoft guns for a large group of people were so unique that when other people wanted to run their own games he talked about licensing the rules to them
licensing rules he had posted on the forums
i just
god damn
Years ago when airsoft zombie games were rare, there was one popular event out in New York that would not share its ruleset with anyone. Thankfully, a team in my state play-tested some rules and now hold a fantastic annual charity-driven airsoft zombie game on an amazing paintball field. Since the leader and the team had LARPing experience, they were able to bring the two worlds together with replica weapons and boffer weapons in a fun way. Including melee weapons from full-contact LARPing also brought in curious hobbyists from that crowd, which always led to some funny situations. Last year my friend and I (dressed as civilian survivors) were moving a large weapons crate across the map trying to avoid the roaming zombie horde. We tried to be stealthy, but that went out the window when two men dressed as medieval knights with chainmail and giant shields came up escorted us to the drop point. Surreal and hilarious. There are lots of videos of the past events on Youtube if you look up Operation Plague, if you're curious. I think the site is also up and the rules can be viewed by anyone.
We did zombie scenarios, hostage rescue scenarios, all kinds of goofy shit where you had to be in-character and so on.
One time, we showed up to a game and it didn't have any specific theme but some dude showed up in his Predator costume to show off his custom built airsoft shoulder cannon and wrist gun (and costume) and promote his website
And it was like, welp I guess we're doing a Predator scenario now, how could we fucking not?
Another time we built a fucking Stargate and did a Stargate themed game.
It's just as dorky as any kind of LARPing, don't kid yourself.
The only difference is instead of "magic missile! Magic missile!" it's a dude dressed like the Terminator with a battery-powered airsoft minigun.