The 7 years between posting back then and now is certainly a really long time to have a "LARP" setup. I have watched a lot of Night Mind, a youtuber that talks about ARG's(Alternate Reality Games.) In ARG's, there is a blending of reality and the supernatureal/sciencfiction/creepypasta/alternate history, in which a story is told that the audience can influence the outcome of the story. There's an increase in popularity of ARG'S in recent years. In ARG's it's not unusual for years to go on in-between updates and it's kind of the expected norm nowadays for long gaps to happen after a strong start.
So theoretically, the reddit user could have been an ARG waiting for the right time, however there is some doubt because ARG's need a central hub to gather all the clues and have a central place where people can communicate their findings amongst players of the ARG. And with the deletion of the account, that puts doubt into it being and ARG or a larp.
Since I play dnd, I've heard about larps, but a "Live Action Role Play" seems pretty hard to set up since there is so much prep work needed to make it function. And again, the guy deleted his account how can he direct where people should go if there's no central director/DM for a larp?
I personally would love if this were an ARG or a larp, because the story on how they got it all to work would be really fascinating, because it is just that unbelievable for it to be an ARG.
If the iens turn out to be real then I am all fown, yet slightly scared for the future, but it will be a really interesting future.
But as you said, probably nothing will happen, but it is pretty cool how people come together to speculate on what may happen and what it could mean.
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Tobias 1102~3Y
ARGs typically involve some kind of call to action though, don't they? Some clear puzzles to solve, or hints about where to look to solve them, and what you might find if you do. This was just some guy replying about his abduction experiences in an AskReddit thread - like all the other commenters - and didn't seem to be asking anything of anyone, or even hinting at any prize for solving anything. It's all very odd! I suppose we'll find out tomorrow, at any rate.
Live Action Role Play is what I understood 'larp' as, though it seems due to language evolution it's come to mean just any internet hoax story, it looks like.
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purplerabbits146~3Y
The most common ARG trait is that there is a call to action, but not all of them do. For example, there was a twitter ARG from the user @TheSunVanished where they tweet about the situation about their version of Earth that suddenly had the sun go out. There were no puzzles involved, but the user will like comments that give advice on how to survive or where people ask queations about the location and give clarifying answers. The series technically is still hoing, though seems that it will be getting a video (series) adaptation, so the series may end as a show in the future. People call TheSunVanished and ARG because the setting takes place in an alternate reality, and that there is a way for the audience to interact with the game master.
As you said the reddit poster was a guy talking and replying like a normal redditor without an obvious prize. Which does lead to doubt it is an ARG. But, not all ARG's follow the same formula. Kanye Quest was an rpg maker game that had an ARG element that was so hidden that it took until recently for people to figure out there was some weird cult ARG element in there that is kind of now dead because it took years for people to find it and that the DM seems to have moved on.
Huh, I did not know there were other evolutions of the usage of the word larp. The more you know.
So theoretically, the reddit user could have been an ARG waiting for the right time, however there is some doubt because ARG's need a central hub to gather all the clues and have a central place where people can communicate their findings amongst players of the ARG. And with the deletion of the account, that puts doubt into it being and ARG or a larp.
Since I play dnd, I've heard about larps, but a "Live Action Role Play" seems pretty hard to set up since there is so much prep work needed to make it function. And again, the guy deleted his account how can he direct where people should go if there's no central director/DM for a larp?
I personally would love if this were an ARG or a larp, because the story on how they got it all to work would be really fascinating, because it is just that unbelievable for it to be an ARG.
If the iens turn out to be real then I am all fown, yet slightly scared for the future, but it will be a really interesting future.
But as you said, probably nothing will happen, but it is pretty cool how people come together to speculate on what may happen and what it could mean.
Live Action Role Play is what I understood 'larp' as, though it seems due to language evolution it's come to mean just any internet hoax story, it looks like.
As you said the reddit poster was a guy talking and replying like a normal redditor without an obvious prize. Which does lead to doubt it is an ARG. But, not all ARG's follow the same formula. Kanye Quest was an rpg maker game that had an ARG element that was so hidden that it took until recently for people to figure out there was some weird cult ARG element in there that is kind of now dead because it took years for people to find it and that the DM seems to have moved on.
Huh, I did not know there were other evolutions of the usage of the word larp. The more you know.