Groundhog Day
So it’s Lockdown II and The Election That Never Ends. Good times.
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Former Democrat Governor of Illinois and Obama associate Rod Blagojevich describes his experience of electoral fraud and what he thinks is happening in this Election.
via Battle Beagle
One Michigan county clerk caught a glitch in tabulation software . . . .
Obligatory xkcd.
Bury it in the desert. Wear gloves.
Second thread this week to include an unfathomable reference to the National Presbyterian Church. Or does NPC mean something else? Should I know what it means? Why should I know what it means? At this late date I still don’t know what LARP means. I have more or less settled on “role playing” for the RP part, but the rest of it could be practically anything. I don’t look these up in a search engine because I don’t want to make them “trend” still more. I’d much rather they disappeared. The good old way of doing things was to use the whole name or phrase first, then abbreviate on second reference. Can’t we go back to that style? It’s less hurried, and so more convivial — a truly conservative beneficence, not costly, and would be much appreciated.
LARP: Live Action Role Playing. Running around in public playing a role.
NPC: Non-Player Character. In role-playing games, players direct their own characters but all other “people” encountered in the game are NPCs, who have limited, pre-determined behavior and, frequently, scripted responses that they blurt out even when not appropriate.
Second thread this week to include an unfathomable reference to the National Presbyterian Church.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Neo Pagan Collective.
Or, any time you’ve got someone so unable to think coherently, who consistently notes being tactically and ethically and intellectually outmaneuvered, then in that case, Non Player Character. The sort that will demand the use of guillotine or helicopter, or, back in the day, Tokarev . . .
LARP comes out of Live Action . . . .
. . . because I don’t want to make them “trend” still more. I’d much rather they disappeared.
Oh, Bloody Hell Yes, that . . . albeit the practitioners, that is.
Acronyms, though, will always be like NPCs, as in There will always be the NPC among you . . . on an other hand, noting the normal NPC condition, one can type out the entire Situation “Normal”: All Fouled Up, or one can just point out that the idea of helicopters is a snafu . . . .
IS THE POPE CATHOLIC? That’s Rod Blagojevich’s response to whether he thinks Democrat votes are being ‘stolen’ in Philadelphia
WTF kind of answer is that? Curious if he been following who the current pope is. Hell, I’m not even sure if bears shit in the woods anymore. Though they’re probably more Catholic than the pope.
This is the person overseeing Arizona’s election results:
via Scott Greer
LARP: Live Action Role Playing. Running around in public playing a role.
With a bit more subtext: tabletop role playing games, best exemplified by Dungeons & Dragons, have a well-deserved reputation for attracting deeply insecure and/or damaged people working out their issues by pretending to a kind of Tolkien/Conan-esque adolescent power fantasy.
For some people this isn’t enough escapism, and they construct elaborate character costumes and run about in the forest speaking in character for days on end, in a kind of Stanislavsky Method gone mental. Since real swords are dangerous and none of these people have yet figured out how to cast actual magic spells, bystanders are treated to the spectacle of people grimly whacking each other with large foam rubber props and flinging coloured bean bags at each other while shouting “abracadabara”. They’re very serious about it all. Stop laughing.
In a hobby full of poorly socialized losers, LARPers are the people everyone else points to and says “those weirdos are poorly socialized losers”.
So when we refer to people as LARPing (usually as some form of revolutionary), we’re calling them poorly socialized losers running about in public dressed as a kind of adolescent power fantasy and expecting to be taken seriously as the thing they’re dressed as, no matter how ludicrous.