Disney is contemplating opening a luxury Star Wars themed resort next to the Hollywood Studios park at Disney World, which could feature multi-day live-action role-playing games that run overnight, with guests staying all night in the park to interact with costumed characters and automated elements (droids, etc) to game out scenarios.
The game would be run by Swagbucks, which is weird, because they’re a customer-loyalty program provider, not a LARP-running company.
Disney World guests can use RFID-equipped bracelets throughout the parks as entry-passes, hotel-keys and wallets; the company previously announced that these would allow all the Star Wars rides and experiences to create a persistent identity for visitors, so your decision to throw your lot in with the Empire in one ride would redound on your conversations with droids and the experience of other rides. It’s easy to see how this could be very useful for a LARP.
The game thus far exists only as an audience survey, with some sophisticated concept art, but not much else. This may not make it off the drawing board, but if it does one of my fondest boyhood dreams would be coming true.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) dir. Gareth Edwards
- music by Michael Giacchino (with Giacchino’s alternate track titles)
I love that Michael Giacchino had these ready for us the very day the OST was released. Like, I don’t even think people had to ask. His blog was all “Here’s the OST! You may have noticed something different about the track titles. Here are mine!” and it was glorious.
The battle between Fingolfin, High King of the Noldor in Beleriand, and Morgoth, the Dark Foe of the World, from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.
“For the rocks rang with the shrill music of Fingolfin’s horn, and his voice came keen and clear down into the depths of Angband; and Fingolfin named Morgoth craven, and lord of slaves. Therefore Morgoth came, climbing slowly from his subterranean throne, and the rumour of his feet was like thunder underground. And he issued forth clad in black armour; and he stood before the King like a tower, iron-crowned, and his vast shield, sable unblazoned, cast a shadow over him like a stormcloud. But Fingolfin gleamed beneath it as a star; for his mail was overlaid with silver, and his blue shield was set with crytals; and he drew his sword Ringil, that glittered ice.” - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
how free are we really, as human beings, to make our own decisions?
where should the line be drawn between heroism and cruelty?
ought the quest for individual honor to be prioritized over the lives of others?
questions i have:
what accounts for the bro code dissonance of agamemnon stealing achilles’s girl when he’s literally leading an army in a war that was started because paris stole his brother’s girl?
is diomedes single?
to the nearest thousand, how many heart emojis would achilles text to patroclus in an average day if the technology were available?
Don't give up. Unless you have to for a little while. Then don't panic. CONTAINS: Star Trek, Dungeons and Dragons, Critical Role, History, Current Affairs, Space, Cats, and Etc. Adult.
