Which you got from a cursory glance Wikipedia :dubious: . Myybe you should shut your goddamn mouth about the things you know nothing about? Add it to the list. SCA - it’ll go somewhere after furries, but right before scriptwriting, you dolt.
No, you tedious troll. As a rule, I only watch Sandler films that have Drew Barrymore in them, and I don’t watch Nicholson in anything if I can help it.
Acting is done to entertain others, not for personal, fantasist escapism. Also, actors get paid.
I don’t think the Ren Faire types and medieval renactors are hopeless, pathetic misfits like the fursuiters, just mildly silly.
Because it is as good a guess as any. It is another Bayes’ Rule problem. Given observable defense of X, what is the probability of membership within X? In my experience, stronger positive preferences over X correlate highly with membership in X.
When I observe enough people defend the SCA who are not actually members, I will update my beliefs accordingly.
Though to be fair to the SCA, very different people get different kinds of gratification out of it. As was mentioned earlier, there are outstanding crafters in the SCA. And I have known several excellent SCAdian traditional archers. I went to an SCA conference one where a woman demonstrated how to make traditional ink before proceeding to illuminate a manuscript. I was flabbergasted by her skill at both calligraphy and drawing.
And then there is the crowd that goes to Pennsic. Because Pennsic is for people who can’t get laid anywhere else. I have little doubt that the loser stereotype proceeds from this sort, and not from the quet woman who has spent her life mastering calligraphy.
Really? People become actors solely because they want to entertain people, and never because they enjoy the experience of acting itself? You sure about that?
What sort of paycheck does a local community theater cut its actors? How much do all those free “Shakespeare in the Park” shows bring in for the performers? A lot of people involved in Ren Faires actually make money there. Are they less silly than the folks who are there just for fun? And how do you, as an observer, tell the difference between the two without access to their bank statements?
Alright. For your tally, let it be noted that not only am I not a member of the SCA, but also I imagine I’d be bored to tears attending any of their things.
The events leading to and within this thread have also shown a large number of people defending furrydom who are not, themselves, furries (again, for example, I am not a furry, but see nothing wrong with it).
But you are not exactly a defender, either. My sense is you just were not comfortable with the illogic of ascribing a state of the world to an observed behavior.
Upon seeing your edit: this may very well be true, but that could just mean non-members have weaker preferences over furrydom than non-members have over the SCA.
As a 20+ year member of the SCA and as one who’s shepherded quite a few newbies through their first few events, I’d be more than confident to make the wager with you that you’d have a whole lot of fun, especially after the wenches got hold of you…
Shoot, we had an event down in California where the WWII reenactors in the next campground got bored because everyone went to bed early so they came over to party with us. It was a bit surreal seeing fully kitted out SS officers and Luftwaffe dudes drinking with Vikings, Elizabethans and the Horde but it all worked out–eventually everybody got drunk enough that the WWII guys brought their armored car over and the pirates piled all over it for a turn around the eric. The reigning king woke up, looked out of his tent and exclaimed “Holy fuck! The pirates have a TANK!!” Good times. You really think that would be boring you to tears? 
Holy crap, that sounds awesome.
I don’t know, but I’m already a furry, a child molester and a Scientologist (I’m sure I’m forgetting some) according to these folks, and there’s just not enough time in the day for all that. I figure some people are just that stupid and it’s best not to argue with them lest you catch something from them.
Your ignorance is astounding. First off, if you don’t think SCA people are entertaining each other, well, jeez, I don’t have anything witty for that, I just have no idea what you think they do. Prance around alone in their grandmothers’ basements with chain mail on every night?
Secondly, a lot of people make a living off of Ren Faire- and SCA-related activities. There was a thread about this not too long ago. But I don’t know why I bother–you’ll just defend your ignorance to the hilt and then find something else you know jack shit about to caricaturize.
I’m sure I’m gonna be lumped in with the SCA crowd now, even though I find that shit childish and tedious. But for the record, a big part of the reason why I defend it is that I know a lot of SCA people and they’re probably the most fun-loving and universally interesting bunch I’ve ever known–except for the outliers who can’t talk about anything except SCA stuff, but IME they don’t get invited to the parties. Speaking of which, the best parties I’ve ever seen were thrown (and mostly attended) by SCA members. When it’s not “hobby time”, I find they’re exceptionally considerate of how boring/obnoxious/etc. the SCA is to others, and they all seem to have lots of other stuff to talk about–basically, IME, these are people who have a lot of smarts, a lot of interests and just a lot going for them all around. But what do I know? Dio looked at a picture. He’s the real authority here.
(As far as getting laid goes, my experience is that there are a lot of attractive people of both sexes in the SCA and they don’t seem to have any more trouble than your average attractive person does. Ugly people will have trouble getting laid no matter what they’re into.)
Needless to say, I have had a completely different experience on all counts. Then again, it is possible that I know some interesting people who are actually SCAdians and just never mentioned it to me. Of the ones that I do know, “attractive”, “non-tedious”, and “socially adept” are not the words that best describe them. The world can accommodate all sorts of people, so I am glad they are out there because I like variety in all things. But save the outliers and closet SCAdians, they are not on my guest list for my next Hobbit Feast.
Well, hey, at least you won’t have any geeks at your…Hobbit Feast.
I was told a story by a friend about a SCA unofficial sword/spear fighting clinic that was being held up here in PA near a military museum where there was a Civil War re-enactment going on. What started with some impolitic remarks made by a morbidly obese union general in a golf cart apparently almost ended with fixing bayonets against a mob of unruly burly guys in platemail, so I hear.
I really hope my post didn’t need a smiley to be interpreted correctly. I have never had nor plan to have a Hobbit Feast. After all, I don’t care for Hobbit. They are too greasy and you must pre-boil them to get all the hair off.
books! books! Curse you, coffeecake crumb under the k key on my work eyboard!
That’s just hilarious.
And what do you say to me?
Nope. But I know several. All of them professionals; engineers, managers, programmers, et al. Not one of them is what I’d call a loser and I’d hang out with any of them over Dio any day of the week. You too, if you think like he does.
Wanna bet?
Not always. Or do you consider amateur theater to be a bunch of losers, too?
I am very willing to admit that given what little we know about your personality here, your criteria for “losers” might just be less rigorous than mine.
Diogenes the Cynic considers everyone a loser who doesn’t conform to his tight-assed view of All That Is Right and Normal. Haven’t you people figured that out by now? He makes snap judgments based on things he sees online, or hears someone say, or pulls out of his ass. Anyone who has an ounce of imagination or finds some way to cope with a boring job, or perhaps a personal problem, that isn’t on his Approved List of Acceptable Activities is developmentally stunted and should seek therapy to bring them into line with That Which Has Been Deemed Proper.
It seems to me that he’s the loser. What a pitiful existence he must lead, that he has to resort to condemning others to justify it.