The Garden of Earthly Delights

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All the World's a LARP

In defense of LARPing as the inescapable modern condition.

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Alex Kaschuta
Mar 21, 2021
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LARPing has become a common term of dismissal, abuse, or jovial teasing across online discourse. In case you haven't come across it before, it stands for Live Action Role Playing. In its original use, it invokes people enacting fantasy scenarios in costumes with plastic swords, tin foil armor, and complicated (but not problematic) headdresses. In its mo…

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