1. Live Action Role Playing
Public Humiliation: 100%
Live action role playing, or LARP, is a nerd’s parent’s worst fears come true: Dungeons and Dragons has finally made their child go crazy. These people dress up like fantasy characters and go on adventures where other nerds play the parts of enemy monsters, which would be fine if the participants were in the second grade. When adults do it, it’s like a renaissance faire and backyard wrestling met, had demonic babies, and gave them weapons.
Damage to Sex Life: 100%
If you and your team of paladins are thinking about leaving your mom’s basement to move your fantasy quests into society, you might as well leave your genitals behind.
Distinguishing Characteristics:
Aside from the barbarian clothes and giant monster heads, it’s impossible to know who might be LARPing. The only way to be sure is when they throw make-believe fireballs at you from their very fingertips, but by then… it’s already too late.
There were kids in my 8th grade that were doing this :ph34r: ... It was sad.
You heard them running around “My Charizard grilled your Pikachu!! YEA HE DID! YEA HE DID!! SHUTUP!! HE DID!!!” (special attention to verbs: grilled, barbequed, fried, etc)
All the while… we are standing in front of them… :xeno: it was scary and sad… mostly scary. You didn’t know if you had crossed dimensions or fell asleep in class again.
