Anonymous ID: dc29cf May 29, 2022, 10:04 a.m. No.16362798   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2948 >>3149 >>3258 >>3349 >>3387

May 30, 2022 edition of The New Yorker

 

LARPing Goes to Disney World

 

In February, when it was cold and wet in New York, I rode a jitney under blue skies from the Orlando airport into Disney World. Before reaching the Magic Kingdom, the bus passed a range of gray crags perched on scaffolding—a sliver of Black Spire Outpost, which, in the “Star Wars” universe, is a settlement on a planet called Batuu. Nearby, the Millennium Falcon rested below a control tower built into the rock; Stormtrooper helmets were for sale at a sun-bleached military-surplus garage. Black Spire is also the destination of the Galactic Starcruiser, a spaceship that carries hundreds of interstellar tourists to and from the outpost, on what Disney calls an “immersive adventure.” The Starcruiser begins its journey floating in space, light-years from Batuu and Black Spire. In reality, the spacecraft is a massive brutalist building that sits beside a highway.

 

In 2012, Disney spent four billion dollars to buy Lucasfilm, which produces the “Star Wars” films and TV shows, and acquired not just the imaginations at Lucasfilm but those of its fans. The creation of the Galactic Starcruiser suggests a wager: many “Star Wars” enthusiasts, not content with repeat viewings of “The Mandalorian” or dressing up as a Stormtrooper at a convention, will pay to experience this fantasy universe through live-action role-play, or larp. In a Larp, players, often in costume, improvise stories and borrow from such genres as medieval fantasy, science fiction, and vampire movies. In the indie LARP Dystopia Rising, people spend the weekend staggering around as zombies—or hiding from them. In Sahara Expedition, the Italian larp collective Chaos League, inspired by the fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, leads archeological expeditions that dig for artifacts in the African desert.

 

For more than a decade, Imagineers—Disney designers and researchers—have been looking into larps and interactive theatre, and running “playtests” in the parks. In 2019, Disney opened Black Spire Outpost, which put some of its experiments into practice. Disney calls nearly all its employees “cast members,” and at Black Spire Outpost most cast members are Batuuan. As guests walk between gift shops and rides, the cast members invite them to role-play. A local in earth-toned robes might draw a visitor into his confidence, to sell her a lightsabre, while a hero from another planet leads a kid behind trash cans to hide from soldiers in white armor. At Black Spire Outpost, these interactions last for a few minutes; on the Galactic Starcruiser, they go on for two nights.

 

“Do you know about the term ‘magic circle’?” Lizzie Stark, an American larp designer, asked me, a few days before I went to experience the Starcruiser myself. “It separates your reality from the reality of the experience that’s being created for you.” In the nineteen-fifties, when Walt Disney sought real estate for his first theme park, in Southern California, he feared that the grandeur of the Pacific would overshadow his creations, so he settled away from the ocean and encircled the park with a railway. Every part of Disney World builds boundaries. Guests board the boats of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride only after walking through a warren lit by lanterns and piled up with cannonballs and wooden barrels. By the time they get to their vessel, they can almost smell the sea.

 

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/30/larping-goes-to-disney-world

Anonymous ID: dc29cf May 29, 2022, 10:16 a.m. No.16362827   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>16362800

one day. everyone will be 'hooked up' to Starlink

 

rumor is, Starlink provided data to execute attack on the Moskva

the Moskva sank on the same day Elon announced his 9% stake in Twatter and starting posturing his 'takeover' of the company (LARP)

Anonymous ID: dc29cf May 29, 2022, 10:36 a.m. No.16362908   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2927

>>16362881

>It has nothing to do with a chip, that's just a distraction.

it's the mark of the beast, anon

but never mind that distraction, right?

 

and fuck Catholicism

Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life

Jesus abhors Catholicism

and your Reddit spacing

Anonymous ID: dc29cf May 29, 2022, 10:43 a.m. No.16362928   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2938

>>16362914

>>16362880

the enemy signalling is abundant and ubiquitous

the elite and their minions are using the same language to announce their departure, which is a descent into DUMBs and private five-star bunkers

 

what happens next will make this fact obvious, not veiled with deceit or LARP

Anonymous ID: dc29cf May 29, 2022, 12:20 p.m. No.16363289   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3297 >>3299 >>3330

>>16363245

>>16363245

fuck off, self-righteous fool

you have no idea what is in the food you eat

you have no idea what dumbfuck municipal employees are dumping into the city water supply

you have no idea what your children are being taught all day, every day while you suck corporate dick for a paycheck

you have no idea what poisons are in the air you breathe

fuck the fuck off, you ignorant, hubristic, elongaping fuck

Anonymous ID: dc29cf May 29, 2022, 12:37 p.m. No.16363388   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>16363341

>there's nothing else we can do

the precipice does not care if you drank compost tea with fungus toast, anon

no one can save themselves

because nothing can stop what is coming

so virtue-signal all day

you will be calling upon God in the end

best to start practicing now