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[wanderer]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 December 2014 - 08:02 AM, said:

Nothing therapy or lots of alcohol might not help you with.

Actually, the alcohol there is great, too.

It's OK, Bishop. I know the LARPers are scary people for going outside and having fun.

911 Inside Job, on 20 December 2014 - 10:21 AM, said:

University of Wisconsin-Madison had an annual Lord of the Rings LARP going back to the 1970s. The people playing weren't geeks by traditional standards. Probably about 200 people a year playing orcs, hobbits etc. Very fun.

Given, this might scare Bishop a little too. Only a little. Battletech Orcs, on the other hand...



Not nearly as scary.

[Bishop Steiner]

wanderer, on 20 December 2014 - 02:22 PM, said:

Actually, the alcohol there is great, too.

It's OK, Bishop. I know the LARPers are scary people for going outside and having fun.




Given, this might scare Bishop a little too. Only a little. Battletech Orcs, on the other hand...



Not nearly as scary.

http://www.sca.org/

The only type of LARPing that isn't silly....... (well, it still is, but we beat the crap out of each other with large bludgeoning weapons...... and we party better)

[wanderer]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 December 2014 - 02:39 PM, said:

http://www.sca.org/

The only type of LARPing that isn't silly....... (well, it still is, but we beat the crap out of each other with large bludgeoning weapons...... and we party better)

The funny thing is, you call some SCAdians LARPers and it's fightin' words. Buuuuuuuttt...



That's Bicolline up in Canada, a LARP.



And that's Mythodea again...



And there's Pennsic. We -are- all cousins, after all. The big difference is fewer bruises from the latex weapons vs. the rattan ones from the field battles for Biccoline, and the fun "in town" for Mythodea (pit fighting and gang brawls, yay!).

Having party experience on both sides of the argument, I would posit that both party very well and the booze (home-made and otherwise) is excellent regardless, but I had fewer deep bruises to numb on the German side of things. (Heck, a fair chunk of Mythodea's folks are re-enactor types and SCAdians- we DO crossbreed.)

And to keep things robot related, there's stuff like the goblin dreadnought pictured here. We've got giant robots (and golems). Chicks dig giant robots!

[CDLord HHGD]

Bishop Steiner, on 20 December 2014 - 02:39 PM, said:

http://www.sca.org/

The only type of LARPing that isn't silly....... (well, it still is, but we beat the crap out of each other with large bludgeoning weapons...... and we party better)

Damn, I miss that.... That was lots of fun. Nothing like sweating buckets in full armor when it's a hundred degrees out beating the tar out of each other with ratan sticks....

[Metus regem]

cdlord, on 21 December 2014 - 02:09 PM, said:

Damn, I miss that.... That was lots of fun. Nothing like sweating buckets in full armor when it's a hundred degrees out beating the tar out of each other with ratan sticks....

That was last summer for me

But back on topic, with PGI taking steps to make third variants, I would really like to see them make the Coyolt, 40t Clan medium, and the first real omni mech... Also a quick little thing... 7/11 in TT....

[Ovion]

Christmas email I got.

Urbie concept art maybe?

Also comes with a weeks free premium time.

[CDLord HHGD]

Ovion, on 22 December 2014 - 02:19 PM, said:

Christmas email I got.

Urbie concept art maybe?

Also comes with a weeks free premium time.

The code isn't working for me though. Anyone else try?

[Alaskan Nobody]

cdlord, on 22 December 2014 - 02:29 PM, said:

The code isn't working for me though. Anyone else try?

Look a bit closer at how it is phrased.

[Ovion]

Also - all the text on it is:
Hold Still, Santa has a Present for you
Ho Ho Ho
For Bad Boys and Girls
For Good Boys and Girls
Show Time
Ur House is getting DFA'd

Make of it what you will.

[CDLord HHGD]

Shar Wolf, on 22 December 2014 - 02:30 PM, said:

Look a bit closer at how it is phrased.

Ok, I must be over analyzing it.... I stare at SIP traces all day long so I'm probably going a bit cross-eyed by now too....

[Mcgral18]

cdlord, on 22 December 2014 - 02:29 PM, said:

The code isn't working for me though. Anyone else try?

Mine worked properly.

[CDLord HHGD]

I copied and pasted it which errored out. I entered manually and it went. /shrug

[Brody319]

cdlord, on 22 December 2014 - 02:29 PM, said:

The code isn't working for me though. Anyone else try?

Enter the code manually. no copy and paste. I've had this issue with other redeem codes.

[Odanan]

cdlord, on 22 December 2014 - 02:45 PM, said:

I copied and pasted it which errored out. I entered manually and it went. /shrug

holiday2014

For me, it worked.

[Bishop Steiner]

Brody319, on 22 December 2014 - 02:45 PM, said:

Enter the code manually. no copy and paste. I've had this issue with other redeem codes.

sometimes copy and paste copies a space before the code which will invalidate it. So always click before it and hit backspace to be sure.

[Cimarb]

In addition, when it was first sent, the code had not been activated, so us "first responders" could not get it to work even manually inputting it. That has since been fixed, though.

[Odanan]

OK, so it's pretty safe to say the UrbanMech will come in the next few months.
Thank you, PGI. Heavily quirked, this little guy can have a role in the battlefield (specially in CW).

[SgtMagor]

Odanan, on 23 December 2014 - 05:12 AM, said:

OK, so it's pretty safe to say the UrbanMech will come in the next few months.
Thank you, PGI. Heavily quirked, this little guy can have a role in the battlefield (specially in CW).

yes it will, official MWO target for effect drone

Edited by SgtMagor, 23 December 2014 - 05:17 AM.

[Metus regem]

As much as an Urbanmech can be a joke, low speed, little tonnage... Used in a city, they can be devastating in TT, especially the version that mounts an AC20... I have learned to be cautious of Urbanmechs, Annihiltors, SRM Carriers and Infantry in cities...

[ManDaisy]

Urban mech, very nice late game defender for omega.