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Oh My God They've Recreated Battlestar Galactica In Real Life (http://kotaku.com/oh-my-god-theyve-recreated-battlestar-galactica-in-rea-511141201) Typically "larp"—which stands for "live action role playing" game—is one of those words that can outright kill the mood. (No offense, larpers!) But this? This sounds a-ma-zing.
The Verge reports (http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/3/4391736/real-life-battlestar-galactica-larp-could-be-coming-to-america) that some larpers took a retired naval destroyer and used it as the setting for a real life Battlestar Galactica role-playing game. It's an offshoot thing, but one that doesn't stray too far: the game takes place aboard a Celestia, which is a ship that the show mentions but that we never get to see. Everyone aboard has a role to play out, and that's where things get interesting. If you've watched the show, you know this means a ton of tension as the humans try to survive and figure out who the cylons are.
"One of the game's three weekend-long runs ended in a surrender to Cylon agents, another became mired in a bitter ethnic cleansing, and a third — while it had the lowest death count of any run — resulted in the fictional ship itself exploding," The Verge writes. Like I said, it sounds amazing.
Now they're looking to bring the game to American shores, although they're still trying to work out the logistics of it all.
<blockquote> QuoteThe project will tentatively "launch" in some form in 2014, but the team still hasn't decided where to hold the game or how to fund it. Besides a small grant-funded stipend for Dolk, the original Monitor Celestra was paid for by participants; this time, the team has also considered attempting to get help from the show's owners themselves. The game hasn't been officially licensed, but Ericsson doesn't think this will be a problem — especially because Moore and others are clearly already aware of it. "Anyone can cosplay as Starbuck, there's no copyright issue there," he says. "We're really doing the same thing on a large scale."
</blockquote> Hopefully they manage to figure out a way. I'd pay money to participate in this sort of thing.
I want you to pull out your weapon and shoot Admiral Cain in the head.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 04, 2013, 09:04:40 AM
I want you to pull out your weapon and shoot Admiral Cain in the head.
CAL: MAH WEAPON IS IN THE CAN
Uber Nerds
BSG was fully of sexy people.
Quote from: viper37 on June 04, 2013, 08:31:35 AM
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Viper, you have an annoying tendency of posting links without quoting the article in question.
Be polite, quote what you want us to read, and let me decide if I want to click or not on that link for more information.
Stop stealing our time and our freedom to decide.
Testify brother!