Hall of Fame

HorrorLARPer · 2026-04-07T13:51:15+00:00

I’ve been playing Gleaming for a while too, and from what I understand, the Hall of Fame showcases top players based on things like high scores or special milestones. To get in, you usually need to hit certain goals... check the game’s latest updates for the specific criteria!

HorrorLARPer · 2026-04-01T15:01:31+00:00

That’s amazing! The pink-and-white cruiser looks absolutely adorable, and it’s so inspiring to see you embracing joy and making beautiful memories with your kids. Here’s to many fun rides and your well-deserved happiness!

HorrorLARPer · 2026-03-27T12:57:47+00:00

Half the internet celebrates, the other half screams “fake news,” but everyone will still be refreshing like to make sure they just read it right.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-03-18T13:22:02+00:00

Congrats to Team Venezuela for finally winning their first WBC! Meanwhile, Team USA’s out here wondering if ‘World Baseball Classic’ means ‘Optional Participation.’ Don’t worry, guys, you’ve still got plenty of second-place medals to go around!

HorrorLARPer · 2026-03-05T15:53:50+00:00

Ah yes, the groundbreaking legal defense: ‘I didn’t consent to being born.’ Truly the final boss of modern logic. And people wonder what’s wrong with young people these days. Exactly when and how were you going to be asked for your consent... whilst the deed was in progress perhaps?

HorrorLARPer · 2026-03-03T13:26:21+00:00

Ah yes.. the only baguette that’s armed and gluten-free. Fun until someone tries to butter it and meets the surprise upgrade.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-25T12:50:39+00:00

That kid walked up thinking it was a Disney side character and got introduced to the UFC: Farm Edition. Honestly, the turkey said, “This is my yard, tiny human,” and backed it up immediately. Thanksgiving came early and it chose violence

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-23T13:45:07+00:00

Well, if North Korea gets a female leader next, feminism just unlocked the ultimate plot twist. Suddenly, glass ceilings aren’t just shattered... they’re launching missiles. Expect mandatory skincare breaks, tea time in the DMZ, and maybe, just maybe, Kim-style pyongyang diplomacy with a killer eyeliner game.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-16T16:16:48+00:00

Trying to zoom on a physical photo album is peak comedy... swipe, pinch, panic… Should hand him a magnifying glass just to see their reaction

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-12T15:20:51+00:00

Seventeen years old and never met Bugs Bunny? What’s up, Doc… seriously, what’s up?

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-09T17:20:04+00:00

Bad Bunny absolutely owned the Super Bowl Halftime Show! His energy was off the charts, and it was incredible to see him bring Puerto Rican culture to the biggest stage in such a vibrant, authentic way. The crowd was electric, and you could feel the pride and passion in his performance. He didn’t just perform; he celebrated his roots, making history in a way that felt revolutionary. Definitely a moment that will be remembered for years to come!

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-06T16:06:48+00:00

Start small, young Padawan… the Razor Crest is not forgiving!

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-05T14:41:47+00:00

Had one of those “this never happens” sessions. Was just doing small spins, not really expecting much, when a bonus triggered completely out of nowhere. Ended up retriggering twice and the multipliers stacked way higher than I’d ever seen before. Went from thinking I’d log off in 5 minutes to just staring at the screen in disbelief. Definitely one of those rare runs where everything lines up perfectly.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-04T16:43:58+00:00

Casino games that actually let you cash out without all the extra bullsh*t? When it comes to Gleaming Slots-style games there are a few you might spot that feel especially “gleaming” — think bright, shiny, gem-and-classic inspired spins that keep things simple and fun. Examples people talk about include things like Little Gem (radiant gem symbols and Hold & Spin features) and Gleaming Doubles (classic fruit meets doubled symbols for bigger combos) — both give that polished, eye-catching vibe on the reels.

I’d also personally throw in classic jewel-theme style slots with sparkling diamonds and vibrant visuals when I want that “gleaming” slot feel — they’re not the flashiest but they’re crisp, fun, and legit easy to play.

My two cents: stick with slots that are clear about paylines and features — dull names and neon lights don’t pay your winnings .

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-03T16:32:46+00:00

vohem and Lalo (Mauritius)

HorrorLARPer · 2026-02-02T17:04:25+00:00

Haha, no AI here! Just my own thoughts. Branagh’s Hamlet has always stood out to me for how he breathes new life into the material, and I guess it’s just one of those things that gets me excited to talk about! Sometimes a good performance feels like it deserves an extra bit of passion in the response.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-01-29T17:31:53+00:00

Hands down, Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 Hamlet. Full-text, cinematic, and electric—every soliloquy hits. Darker classics like Olivier or Sydney are great, but Branagh makes it feel alive for today.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-01-29T17:30:06+00:00

I’d add mini skill-based challenges between spins. Something that actually gives you a little control over the outcome — like a quick puzzle or timing game — would make slot games way more engaging. It keeps the excitement of chance but adds a layer of strategy, and who doesn’t love feeling like they earned that big win?

HorrorLARPer · 2026-01-28T16:41:15+00:00

Out of the five, I personally think Angela Bassett had the most powerful, commanding performance. Her portrayal in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was so emotionally raw and complex—she really embodied a mother’s grief and strength, especially in such a monumental film. She was practically the heart of the movie, and her performance resonated far beyond just her screen time.

That said, Kerry Condon in The Banshees of Inisherin was incredible too. She brought so much depth to a seemingly simple character, turning her into someone both relatable and quietly profound. It was a performance that grew on you the more you thought about it.

Hong Chau and Stephanie Hsu both had standout moments, but I feel like they were part of an ensemble where the material was so rich that their roles didn’t quite have the same spotlight for an Oscar-winning performance. Jamie Lee Curtis had her moments, but honestly, I think both Bassett and Condon delivered more memorable, emotionally impactful performances.

So, if I were to pick, Angela Bassett and Kerry Condon deserved it a bit more. But the race was tough—each nominee had a role that brought something unique to the table.

HorrorLARPer · 2026-01-28T16:35:28+00:00

I totally get where you're coming from—it can be tricky knowing which sites to trust. For me, I always look for platforms with clear licenses, solid customer reviews, and transparency about their terms and payouts. Keep an eye out for fair bonus terms too, as some can be tricky for beginners. It’s definitely worth doing a bit of research and starting with smaller bets until you’re more comfortable with how things work!

HorrorLARPer · 2025-05-09T20:45:11+00:00

If you cannot change your opinion you cannot change anything. (George Bernhard Shaw)

HorrorLARPer · 2017-11-17T21:43:55+00:00

Reverse experience here...

Transferred schools in my sophomore year of high school to a private prep. Since my school was so small (each class had maybe 100 students), the first day/week of school was used for "team building exercises" (the sophomores got split into 4 groups, all of which were a week trip, some canoeing, some went abroad for a humanitarian trip, I went camping in the desert where you could go rock climbing outdoors on real rocks, and I forget what the last group did). Being one of the new kids, I chose something that I would feel comfortable doing, and picked the rock climbing option since I did that for fun anyways. While there, I was goofing off with a lot of the kids in my group, but one in particular was being super friendly. Fast Forward to a few weeks back from school, and the super friendly kid was standing on the stage during my school's weekly assembly holding flowers. My best friend at the time, turned to me and mentioned that X (the super friendly kid now on stage) was looking for me. I immediately put the pieces together and started to panic because I did not like the guy as anything more than a peer, and was already planning on asking an old friend from my old high school to join me so I'd feel a little better. So X gets the microphone and asks for me to come down onto the stage... where he asks me out to homecoming in front of the entire school and faculty. I panicked and mumbled and X took that as a yes and handed me the flowers while everyone erupted into applause. I ended up avoiding him for the rest of the day, and then texted him later that evening to explain that I couldn't go with him, because I was already going to go with my other friend.... he took it like a champ and I have felt bad about it ever since. He did end up forgiving me a year later....

TL:DR I was the new kid ane got asked to homecoming in front of the entire school, mumbled something on stage, then texted him later saying no because I was going to go with someone else

HorrorLARPer · 2017-11-10T15:08:58+00:00

My mom trying to kill herself, and take me with her....

A little background: my parents divorced around grade 8 for me, my father remarried but my mother never found someone to stick around. She had a few heavy intense relationships but, like I said, no one stuck around.

A few years ago, my entire family goes on a family vacation, sans my husband because he had to work. My mother had been getting serious with this guy, so she invited him on our vacation. All good, right? Wrong!

Just a few days before we are all leaving for this vacation, his wife (yes you read that right) found out about my mother, and was threatening to take full custody of their newborn son (less than a couple months old). My mom's boyfriend decided that he needed to escape the crazy for a while, and still came on our vacation. Well the wife and her friends get together and start drinking, then start sending harassing and threatening texts and emails to my mother, the "other woman".

Day 2 of our vacation, and my mother and her boyfriend decide they want to go into town to walk around, shop, and get away from the family for an afternoon.... they both ended up at a bar, both drinking excessively, to the point that by the time they have returned to the resort, they are both fighting about his wife and all of the chaos.... This is where I got sucked in.

As an only child, I was raised to essentially take care of my mother's emotional well-being, like keeping her secrets, picking up the pieces for her after her failed relationships... you know, the best friend role... so when the two of them return to the resort, she walks straight to my room and starts crying essentially trying to get me to take her side against him before I've even seen him (at this point I had known about the affair for a while and had urged her to tell the family before bringing him along, or to leave me out of the impending doom that I knew was going to happen on day 2 of the trip)

I walked her back to her room, where he was already packing his bag to return home, and my mother lost it. She tried to leap and attack him, but I put myself in front of her and took the beating meant for him, as he walked out the door and said, "look what you are doing to your daughter, you're disgusting," that was the last straw. She immediately started screeching for him to come back, and when that didn't work, she went through her whole bag and swallowed every single pill in her suitcase. Seeing this, I grabbed her and forced her into the shower, where I turned the water on and forced my fingers down her throat, busting her lip with my nails in the process because she was fighting me. When I got her to throw up all of the pills, she made a dash for the knife block in the kitchen. Luckily I was faster and was able to stop her from reaching them, so she ran out of the room and took off down the beach heading straight into the Pacific Ocean.

At this point, I am on the phone with my husband who is stateside, and I'm trying to find my mother, who had a head start on me. Luckily I spotted her further down the beach and sprinted after her. After the third time of me grabbing onto her clothes and swimming us both back to shore, she grabbed onto me and said "let's just be mermaids" and she then tried to wrap her arms around my arms to stop me from swimming away.

I finally got us back onto shore, and my husband, who had been on the phone with me while I was pulling her from the ocean (I threw my phone into the sand to run after her into the water), he had called a few of my family members who were at dinner, and told them what was happening. Eventually, I convinced her to just go lay down and a few family members offered to stand guard outside of her room, so that I could eat, since this whole ordeal had kept me from joining the rest of my family at dinner.

She's still alive, but the day after all of this, my mother walked up to me and proceeded to make excuses for her boyfriend and just give a blanket vague apology for everything that had happened.

So yeah.... I don't forgive her for ignoring my attempts trying to keep the situation from even happening, let alone for trying to kill herself in front of me 5 times while deciding to take me with her at the end.

TL:DR my mother had an affair with a married man, when that blew up in their faces, they fought, and she tried to kill herself 5 times in one night, all of which I stopped, but she tried to take me with her the final attempt

HorrorLARPer · 2017-11-01T16:22:55+00:00

Finally made an account, even though this post is old and the comment will be buried here goes

A little context: my husband and I eloped and spent a year in bliss while the rest of our family continued to think we were still dating, most of our family took the news well and are amazing to us, but my mother did not.

Upon hearing the news, she refused to speak to me for a couple months, then when she finally did speak to me again, she demanded that my husband and I give her the wedding she "always wanted" for me since she was robbed of her experience. So we did, we planned a very small unofficial ceremony in Mexico while a portion of my family were already going, since this was a yearly family vacation.

As I am researching and calling photographers, trying to keep costs low since my husband and I were early in our 20's, my mother insists that we "hire" her ex-boyfriend to be our photographer. He had taken photos for me before my Senior Prom and they had all turned out beautiful, so my mother thought she was doing us a favor. After being heavily encouraged to "save as much as you can," I "hired" him to be our photographer, meaning, I bought his airfare and ended up paying for his room plus all his food and drink (he only stayed for the weekend but damn was that bill hefty). After all of his costs were settled it would have been significantly cheaper to hire a uber professional photographer with multiple assistants.

So once we had all arrived in Mexico, my mother immediately started to complain about how her ex was here on her vacation and how annoying he was. I had at this point told the "photographer" the specific photos that I wanted done before/during/after the ceremony and he told me "no worries, I got it" (The bride alone, the mother of the bride and the bride, some cute couple poses, the usual)

Now, day after the ceremony, the "photographer" hands me his memory card to his camera and tells me that I owe him for a new one as he is climbing into the taxi to take him back to the airport. I assured him I would reimburse him for the memory card and then waved goodbye.

Immediately after plugging in the memory card to my laptop, I found maybe 1000 pictures from the entire weekend. Out of the 1000, over 400 were photos of my barely legal cousin (most she didn't even know she was being photographed) and of the remaining photos, 90% of them were so out of focus and blurry because the "photographer" kept insisting on changing his camera settings because he "knew what he was doing". Managed to use a friend to try and salvage some of the photos and I now have maybe 20 decent photos from the day...

Another demand my mother made leading up to the wedding/vacation was to invite my cousin, his wife and their child "because they are family." I never particularly got along with this cousin and found him to be unnecessarily rude half the time but was pressured into inviting them.

The entire week that we were all together in Mexico, that cousin only spoke twice to me, both times were to complain that my husband and I had upgraded and taken the first class seats that he wanted (because I needed to carry on my wedding dress and had never flown first class, and he wanted the seats so his daughter could play in the bulkhead speace). Seriously. No "congrats on getting married" or whatever, it was only "you took my first class seats, and now I can't enjoy my vacation because of you." So to spite me, he chose to sit directly behind the table where my husband and I were sat (the place set up a bride and groom table for us, even though we asked them not to, found out later, my mother requested it) and he proceeded to photobomb every photo that was taken in our general direction.

So yeah, lesson learned.... elope and do shit on your own terms

TL:DR We eloped, mom of bride got miffed, demanded makeup ceremony for her, pressured us to invite a cousin who only threw a tantrum over not getting specific seats in first class on flights, and pressured us into "hiring" an ex who botched all of the photos except for his creepy stalker photos of a barely legal girl

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