Here’s today’s entry in the sports fan column. Yeesh.
What if you’re both?
Live Action Role Players.
Like D&D, only they actually act everything out.
Sports fans are lamer. Deep down, LARPers know it’s all just a game.
Yeah, but doesn’t the fact that sports fans make up about 25% or more of the population kind of put them into the ‘not lame’ category simply by default? I mean, I doubt there’s another hobby that has a universal level of participation larger than sports fans.
This is a dilution of the term “fan,” as typified by Mr. and Mrs. Seahawk. They’re actual, honest-to-goodness fanatics, and easily as lame as LARPers. English lacks the proper distinction between the sort of “fan” who follows the progress of their team with the usual amount of enthusiasm* and “fans” like Mr. and Mrs. Seahawk or the Packalope and his unholy bride.
These sorts of sports fans are to the aforementioned 25% of the population as LARPers are to folks who rented the Lord of the Rings trilogy and rather liked it.
They are rare creatures who, in an orderly world, would be shunned and sterilized. Like LARPers.
(*Another diluted term, ironically. A proper “enthusiast” is similarly unhinged.)
Damn it, The Packalope and his unholy bride.
Well, I’ve never heard of LARPers setting cars on fire because they took down a Terrasque, or something.
Here’s something on a gamer news site:
Never mind.
LARPers are cool. They give desktop gamers and Guild Wars-Junkies like me someone to mock and ridicule…
Here’s a short LARPer video: http://www.devilducky.com/media/9271
I rest my case…
In the end, there might be a certain similarity.
I guess LARPers get more exercise.
The OP proves that sports fans can get chicks. Point to the sports fans.
Lightning bolt! Death! I look down upon LARPers from two social stations up.
LARPers get somewhat better looking chicks who can make fetish gear out of anything.
Three points for LARPers.
Also, LARP girls go in for casting spells of erotic glamour and whatnot, and the sexiest thing you can expect to hear from a female sports nerd when she’s really into it is “Go Longhorns!”
LARPers are obviously more lame, because I am not a LARPer, I am a sports fan and I am not lame…am I?
Lamer? Sports fans.
At least the LARPers aren’t living vicariously. They’re living in a fantasy world, sure - but at least their self-esteem isn’t tied to a team of random strangers and how fast those strangers can run, et cetera.
Of course, I’m biased - in Morgantown, we have some very badly behaved, obsessed sports fans.
Well, that depends. Who’s scale of lame are we using?
Because according to my lame scale, everyone in the world is lame except me. I like my scale the best.