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Flanker: Sep 10, 2002; OPERATORS GONNA OPERATE
After a good night's sleep

I made it 3 seconds into that video before I just felt sad and stopped.

# ? Jun 23, 2010 14:08

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# ? May 25, 2013 03:04

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006

I watched it without audio and chuckled a lot; then I see you guys saying he's autistic and I felt like a bully.

some rough chuckles

# ? Jun 23, 2010 14:10

Sixgun Strumpet: Feb 16, 2009; I suspect I am still
terribly pleased.

Flanker posted:

I made it 3 seconds into that video before I just felt sad and stopped.

You need to watch it again, just for the hair...just watch it as far as the hair.

# ? Jun 23, 2010 14:52

Mad Dragon: Feb 29, 2004

ChlorineTrifluoride posted:

You need to watch it again, just for the hair...just watch it as far as the hair.

It's like he cuts his own hair and can't see that part, so it just keeps growing.

# ? Jun 23, 2010 16:40

Frankie: Feb 22, 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw

That autistic guy is cooler than everyone in this video.

# ? Jun 23, 2010 18:40

Kommienzuspadt: Apr 28, 2004; This bear is tops blooby

Flanker posted:

I made it 3 seconds into that video before I just felt sad and stopped.

yeah i read his sister's comments and just felt awful.

# ? Jun 23, 2010 18:46

Sixgun Strumpet: Feb 16, 2009; I suspect I am still
terribly pleased.

Kommienzuspadt posted:

yeah i read his sister's comments and just felt awful.

I can't feel awful about that video. His hair is just too drat awesome.

It probably also helps that I didn't actually laugh at the video. I have known too many people that put this guy to shame for self embarrassment. This kid legitimately thinks he is awesome, and in his own way, he kind of is.

# ? Jun 23, 2010 18:55

bunnielab: May 19, 2005; Ask me about Herbs

Uncle Caveman posted:

I watched it without audio and chuckled a lot; then I see you guys saying he's autistic and I felt like a bully.

some rough chuckles

Whatever, that dude will be knee-deep in pussy once he comes to work for me.

Mostly because women hate me so he is going to have to kill a ton of them with that sword.

ChlorineTrifluoride posted:

This kid legitimately thinks he is awesome, and in his own way, he kind of is.

This is pretty much how fashion happens, someone does something because they are 100% certain that it is cool as hell and if they can fool enough people, it becomes awesome. Atleast that is what I tell myself while carefully grooming my retarded muttonchops. "someday babies, someday"

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# ? Jun 24, 2010 00:34

Aces High: Mar 26, 2010; and then we'll have pancakes to celebrate and I'll be like EURGNOMEHREUGN.

Frankie posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ekugPKqFw

That autistic guy is cooler than everyone in this video.

I can see most if not all of my friends doing stuff exactly like that

I need new friends, new gun loving friends, new gun loving, cynical friends

# ? Jun 24, 2010 08:31

moosepoop: Mar 9, 2007

bunnielab posted:

This is pretty much how fashion happens, someone does something because they are 100% certain that it is cool as hell and if they can fool enough people, it becomes awesome. Atleast that is what I tell myself while carefully grooming my retarded muttonchops. "someday babies, someday"

It is already working. I now own a pair of awesome muttonchops!

# ? Jun 26, 2010 10:11

Oliver Madly: Aug 17, 2008

I've gotta give him credit for standing out in public and doing something he enjoys. And at least he has a supportive sister. I know a couple people who don't get that kind of encouragement and support.

Also, at least three times in the past two years, almost everyone in my dorm has built their own cardboard armor and and we go out on the quad to beat each other with large cardboard weapons that weigh upwards of ten pounds. And this isn't that kind of tapping a side or back SCA-bullshit or LARP-ing, we've had people go to the hospital for concussions. Last time we had a guy get it so hard he couldn't remember what day of the week it was.

# ? Jun 26, 2010 12:07

infrared35: Jan 12, 2005

Oliver Madly posted:

And this isn't that kind of tapping a side or back SCA-bullshit or LARP-ing, we've had people go to the hospital for concussions. Last time we had a guy get it so hard he couldn't remember what day of the week it was.

Have you ever been to a "real" SCA event?

# ? Jun 26, 2010 12:15

Faerunner: Dec 31, 2007

infrared35 posted:

Have you ever been to a "real" SCA event?

I've been within easy daytrip distance of Pennsic for six years now (Okay, my whole life, but even closer since I left for college) and have never made it.

# ? Jun 26, 2010 13:08

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Faerunner posted:

I've been within easy daytrip distance of Pennsic for six years now (Okay, my whole life, but even closer since I left for college) and have never made it.

And you are a much better person for it...

# ? Jun 26, 2010 14:38

DrakeriderCa: Feb 3, 2005; But I'm a real cowboy!

infrared35 posted:

Have you ever been to a "real" SCA event?

Why, do people actually get their poo poo kicked at SCA?

When I was like 10, my buddy and I would dress up in hockey gear and beat each other with sawn off hockey sticks in my backyard.

# ? Jun 26, 2010 20:10

mikerock: Oct 29, 2005; I know what you want. I know what you need.

DrakeriderCa posted:

Why, do people actually get their poo poo kicked at SCA?

When I was like 10, my buddy and I would dress up in hockey gear and beat each other with sawn off hockey sticks in my backyard.

Hahahaaha you loving canuck

# ? Jun 26, 2010 20:48

Uncle Caveman: Jun 16, 2006

Is that like the Canadian equivalent of how American kids hit a rock with a stick to simulate playing baseball or how third-world children push a barrel hoop with a tree branch to simulate living in an industrialized nation?

# ? Jun 26, 2010 20:56

infrared35: Jan 12, 2005

DrakeriderCa posted:

Why, do people actually get their poo poo kicked at SCA?

Most "normal" people will bow out if they get mildly hurt. But the core members aren't happy until they're soaked in sweat and bleeding profusely from the head. One buddy of mine broke his hand in a melee but kept going. After the battle, you could tell his hand was hosed up - he couldn't use it at all. He said, "gently caress it," taped it up good, and jumped right into the next battle, fighting one-handed.

Of course, there was a fair amount of alcohol involved.

# ? Jun 26, 2010 21:19

Young Freud: Nov 25, 2006; My old avatar sucked anyway.

DrakeriderCa posted:

Why, do people actually get their poo poo kicked at SCA?

When I was like 10, my buddy and I would dress up in hockey gear and beat each other with sawn off hockey sticks in my backyard.

At SCA events, you're running around in real steel armor and swinging blunted swords at each other.

For a firearms hobby analogy, if Amtgard is milsim airsoft, SCA would be a hobby involving running around in ballistic body armor and shooting at each other with Simunitions.

# ? Jun 26, 2010 21:29

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Young Freud posted:

if Amtgard is milsim airsoft, SCA would be a hobby involving running around in ballistic body armor and shooting at each other with Simunitions.

The way you phrase this suggests that there's a significant difference.

# ? Jun 26, 2010 21:35

oddspelling: May 31, 2009; Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

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# ? Jun 26, 2010 21:47

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Uncle Caveman posted:

Is that like the Canadian equivalent of how American kids hit a rock with a stick to simulate playing baseball or how third-world children push a barrel hoop with a tree branch to simulate living in an industrialized nation?

I love your posts so much

# ? Jun 26, 2010 21:59

chairface: Oct 28, 2007; No matter what you believe, I don't believe in you.

Young Freud posted:

At SCA events, you're running around in real steel armor and swinging blunted swords at each other.

For a firearms hobby analogy, if Amtgard is milsim airsoft, SCA would be a hobby involving running around in ballistic body armor and shooting at each other with Simunitions.

Amtgard's also a helluva lot more popular in the regions of the US where wearing appropriate armor outdoors lands you in the hospital from heatstroke in about 20 minutes. Although we did have one Amtgard event where some SCA doofus showed up in actual boiled leather armor, in Valdosta, Georgia, in August. It's 90+ degrees in direct sunlight with 90+% humidity. Sure enough, in under a half hour, he collapsed and the meatwagons had to come take him to the ER for rehydration. It's not as if no one warned him, either.

That's the other reason to favor padded weapons + no/purely cosmetic armor over blunt/wooden weapons + real armor. Beyond the SCA reality of "getting hit in the head hard with a stick can still hurt you despite a helmet."

# ? Jun 27, 2010 00:24

I like turtles: Aug 6, 2009; "Wouldn't want to see an angry turtle with a gun, would ya? "

W ell...

Young Freud posted:

running around in ballistic body armor and shooting at each other with Simunitions.

If I could get like five Glocks to dedicate to simunitions and a deal on a crate of ammo for them, I would have a poo poo load of fun running around in the desert with like minded folks.

# ? Jun 27, 2010 01:09

Young Freud: Nov 25, 2006; My old avatar sucked anyway.

I like turtles posted:

If I could get like five Glocks to dedicate to simunitions and a deal on a crate of ammo for them, I would have a poo poo load of fun running around in the desert with like minded folks.

You're thinking too small. You know Simunitions makes a FX marker conversion kit for the Minimi, right?

# ? Jun 27, 2010 02:08

Airbone Operation: Dec 22, 2007; Tosser

Young Freud posted:

You're thinking too small. You know Simunitions makes a FX marker conversion kit for the Minimi, right?

You mean SAW you fruity bastard...

# ? Jun 27, 2010 02:56

Sgt. Shaved Balls: Sep 6, 2006; The Year Is 2053. Basketball Is Dead.

Airbone Operation posted:

You mean SAW you fruity bastard...

Oh you mean that BELGIAN gun that America uses.

# ? Jun 27, 2010 05:04

Thump!: Nov 25, 2007; "Watch your six Devil Dog!"

Sgt. Shaved Balls posted:

Oh you mean that BELGIAN gun that America uses.

Pfft, yeah sure, what's next, it's a FN MAG and not a 240? Pshaw, everyone knows 'MERICANS use 'MERICAN guns

# ? Jun 27, 2010 06:38

Aces High: Mar 26, 2010; and then we'll have pancakes to celebrate and I'll be like EURGNOMEHREUGN.

SO ANGRY posted:

Pfft, yeah sure, what's next, it's a FN MAG and not a 240? Pshaw, everyone knows 'MERICANS use 'MERICAN guns .

Yeah, only commonwealth countries use the Minimi these days (last time I checked Canada and Britain were still using it, or a variation)

# ? Jun 27, 2010 08:30

Oliver Madly: Aug 17, 2008

infrared35 posted:

Have you ever been to a "real" SCA event?

I haven't. My only experience with the SCA was a small demonstration I had to cover for my school's newspaper. It was pretty gay. Also, there's a guy in my dorm who does SCA and he's a huge bitch. If the people who go to the big events actually get into it enough to break bones, then that's pretty loving awesome. Like I said, my experience is limited.

# ? Jun 27, 2010 08:31

infrared35: Jan 12, 2005

Oliver Madly posted:

I haven't. My only experience with the SCA was a small demonstration I had to cover for my school's newspaper. It was pretty gay. Also, there's a guy in my dorm who does SCA and he's a huge bitch. If the people who go to the big events actually get into it enough to break bones, then that's pretty loving awesome. Like I said, my experience is limited.

Ah, yeah. The public demos are designed not to scare people. "Real" battles are pretty much a free-for-all.

# ? Jun 27, 2010 12:12