From: clare@snyder.on.ca   
      
   On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:50:44 -0500, Gerry    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:09:27 -0700, Bob La Londe    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 12/27/2025 11:15 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   >>> Fantasy Role Play.   
   >>>   
   >>> As kids some of us probably played cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians,   
   >>> soldier, and other things like that.  If you were a bully or the odd kid   
   >>> you might have played smear the queer.  Not necessarily willingly.   
   >>>   
   >>> My favorite was to play the part of Captain Kirk from Star Trek, but   
   >>> nobody ever wanted to be the Klingons.  In any game I always wanted to   
   >>> be one of the good guys.   
   >>>   
   >>> My wife, son, and sometimes my daughter used to like to go to   
   >>> renaissance fairs where the line of genre and period is blurred, but   
   >>> ranges from medieval to late colonial, but people get to dress up and   
   >>> play act for a day or a weekend.   
   >>>   
   >>> Some do civil ware reenactments.  Others may get a little more serious   
   >>> with tournaments of nightly arms jousting and sword fighting.   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course there are many other forms of role play.  Some the innocent   
   >>> cosplay of dressing up as your favorite modern hero at Comic Con. Others   
   >>> more serious or bizarre.   
   >>>   
   >>> As an adult I never really got into it.  There is to much real life to   
   >>> live.  Some of it real adventure, like figuring out how to get both   
   >>> thumbs out when caught in a number two double long spring.  But at this   
   >>> moment I am thinking about it instead of grabbing a chainsaw and   
   >>> wandering out front to start breaking down some mesquite branches who   
   >>> threatened the house, but I vanquished before they achieved their   
   >>> nefarious goal of breaking the roof tile.   
   >>>   
   >>> If I was to want to "role play" today I can see myself as either the   
   >>> rogue android in West World or the zombie bounty hunter in Fallout.   
   >>>   
   >>> Okay, that's enough.  I most now dispose of the corpses of those   
   >>> vanquished branches laying in the yard and prepare the best parts for   
   >>> cremation under a brace of ribeyes.   
   >>   
   >>I was thinking, while butchering my enemies int he front yard and had   
   >>two thoughts.   
   >>   
   >>I bet some of ya'all played revenuers and moonshiners.   
   >>   
   >>I wonder how many of the kids who played the robber in cops and robbers   
   >>grew up to live the role in real life.  I recall reading in the 80s that   
   >>bank robbery was one of the most successful forms of crime at the time.   
   >As opposed to phone scammers now-a-day!   
   And all the e-mail scammers - and text message scammers - and now all   
   the AI BS.   
      
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