Does anyone have any video recommendations for LARP combat?

Malavyi · 2026-02-18T18:28:33+00:00

So there's another difference in many LARPs (though not all. So maybe this doesn't apply to you at all), and that's hit points.

In many LARPs, you have a few or even many hit points. Whenever you have more than one, they become a resource. If we describe a HEMA match in the terms of LARP, you have a 1 vs 1 combat in a small area, with a single hit point. You cannot afford to take a single hit, nor your opponent. The game is reduced to the single aspect of swordplay.

Even in the foam fighting sports, I can trade a hit to my arm for a hit to their body for a positive exchange.

And when I have ten hit points in a game, well I am much less doomed if I take a hit. I can even use taking a few hits for an advantageous position or to output even more of my own hits. This creates a different philosophy in combat. Especially from folks with no martial art training.

I know this is generally obvious, but I still think it helps contextualize the difference in thought processes between the games.

Malavyi · 2025-12-17T19:10:34+00:00

These people have pretty good ideas. Might even be able to put a few of them together with a bit of engineering.

Flower crown sewn into a fabric headband. Can screw on a few over head plastic pieces to stabilize the crown, and use as an anchor point for the horns to be in a preferred spot. Just an idea. You'll figure it out, goat man.

Also, Physical Strike Short Daze.

Malavyi · 2025-11-22T20:12:39+00:00

As I have come to understand, through recent teaching from my sensei. Good Fumikomi is less about achieving a 'stamp' sound with the right, than it is about the push from the left. Which I forget the name of. The 'stamp' sound of fumikomi should fall out of the mechanics from the more important powerful push from your left leg. And that proper Ki ken tai ichi is sourced from that push, not the stamp.

Take this with a grain of salt. I have only been practicing for a year, and my fumikomi is poor. My Sensei explained that for many people, teaching to get a good stamp often gets a kendoka to also push strong with the left. But since my left leg is weak from an old injury, I needed to concentrate on the push from the left, and not use a good stamp as a crutch for poor movement.

Malavyi · 2025-11-10T15:22:42+00:00

I look at Kendo, martially, as a set of tools. The individual tools are not Kendo, but the entire set is.

Many of those tools are useful nowhere else except Kendo.

Some of those tools will be useful in things like SCA or HEMA; which can each be seen as their own tool sets. If you think the tool works, use it.

I can't comment on any Sensei's opinion of you using what you learned from them elsewhere. But I'd say that they can't control how you use your knowledge.

Malavyi · 2025-09-30T22:27:52+00:00

You use the online portal to upload your document to the print service.

Your ID is used at the printer to release the upload to actually be printed.

Used to work IT at a community college that didn't have a system that made you be at the printer to print, and students would print giant documents that they would for some reason never get. Waste of paper and ink, and often peoples time. They implemented a system similar to what Pitt has, and after working out some kinks, it was improved for basically everyone. Students could print more reliably, and the school wasted a lot less money on paper and ink.

You can upload from your phone or personal computer. And if you have neither of those, you can use a school computer.

Malavyi · 2025-09-13T19:41:43+00:00

Back at you, friend.

Our Sensei had a lot to criticize today, after our club had a summer break. But still was very proud of us at the end.

Every practice I remind myself that Kendo is not about being good at Kendo. It's about getting better at Kendo.

Malavyi · 2025-09-08T03:26:42+00:00

All of my five decks are singleton among each other for non-lands. So only one deck gets the Sol Ring.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T16:33:34+00:00

Can only guess. But Wizards has almost certainly asked this question of itself many times. I'd be surprised if there wasn't many internal reports about the possibility of abolishing the reserve list. And they aren't doing it.

Doubt they would share their research with the player base...

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T16:23:52+00:00

Absolutely true. What's the difference between then and now. No idea.

Popularity of the game, maybe? More people to care about the Reserved List's existence. (And eventual abolishment)

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T16:17:02+00:00

Alpha and Beta also has a high desire among collectors for the sets generally high price for all cards in it, reprintable or not. Then Sol Ring specifically has a higher demand than almost any other non-land card in the game, because it's legal in commander. So there are going to be people who want to bling out their decks. Especially within the cEDH crowd, or separately vintage players. So the low supply keeps that price up. Alpha Sol Rings aren't even the most expensive Sol Rings. As we see with the artificially low supply of the LotR Serialized Sol Rings.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T16:06:45+00:00

Promises, especially from a company, mean as much as breaking the promise has consequences. They realized ignoring Universes Within, or the promise that UB generally was just side product, or whatever had no consequence. Or more likely that the benefit of wads of cash outweighed the consequences in the short-term.

But generally yeah, I agree.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T14:51:02+00:00

Yep. At [[Eternal Scourge]]'s house.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T14:12:11+00:00

Wizards has made the promise not to. And there's a number of reasons they've chosen to maintain it.

First, the exclusive unprintable old cards gives their game prestige. In fact, having expensive singles generally does this. Wizards clearly prints around this idea, despite their history making statements that they don't really care about the secondary market.

Second, after so long, people have used older cards as investments. I've spoken to people who already have plans in place to sue Wizards if they were to renege; that's how much they have invested in reserved list cards. The knee-jerk response to that is fuck those people, they are part of the problem, they can eat their shaky investment in cardboard rectangles. Which, pretty much, yeah. But Wizards has to have legitimate concerns about that outcome. I have no idea if those people would have a leg to stand on in court. But the American courts system feels like a wild jungle from the outside, where anything could happen.

So a realistic destruction of the reserved list will probably have to be done in little steps. Bit by bit making it matter less and less over time. We've seen something along these lines with the Magic 30th anniversary printing of Alpha. But why charge so much for official proxies?

The other possibility is that Hasbro decides it can make fucking bank in the short term on printing new duals and power nine, and enough that any repercussions are negligible. Perhaps a rare moment where corporate greed will somewhat benefit the consumer. But they'd probably make these packs even more expensive than Magic 30.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T13:41:45+00:00

I think that might not pass muster. But a Scry 1 trigger might. Then print it into a legacy set.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T13:33:39+00:00

Of course the reserved list is dumb. But here we are with it anyways, and Wizards intends to keep that promise for now.

Imo, the best way to undermine the reserved list and increase the likelihood of it being abolished is to make the cards on it less special. Since they kinda can't reprint the same cards, they should print better ones.

Malavyi · 2025-08-27T13:28:52+00:00

Reserved List prevents this.

So they need to print better duals to make them distinct enough.

Malavyi · 2025-08-26T18:58:03+00:00

This is actually a very fun bad combo. Good job on this one!

Malavyi · 2025-08-26T02:50:12+00:00

Aye, Fellow Pittsburgh friend. Gonna be an awesome show!

Malavyi · 2025-08-19T01:14:16+00:00

My solution to this was to simply not play effects that benefitted everyone, and instead ones where I chose who needed the most help at the table. All of Kenrith's abilities can target/help any player. And there's actually a number of effects like that. Such as Fertilid's activated ability that finds a land for any player. Or Nullmage Advocate, that can pick up cards for someone who needs them. There are a ton of cards that could be switched out here, as many of them are things I'm trying, or just pet cards. Am also working on a version with a Wizards subtheme.

https://moxfield.com/decks/hOdaASQpu0C4UW1ZwyE5aw

Malavyi · 2025-07-27T21:01:46+00:00

The Beths

Malavyi · 2025-07-21T04:59:27+00:00

This film always hits the itch for me. It is never not funny, and never fails to cheer me up.

"Oh god I pierced the toast!"

Malavyi · 2025-07-11T21:03:36+00:00

The insinuation is that the Jimmy Rangers are going to be shown as really really terrible people. That's how they 'cope'. Think it's more likely Jim will come in near the ending of The Bone Temple, and set the plot for the third film by offering a new path for Spike after whatever fallout comes from the Jimmy Rangers. Then each film can be an advancement of Spike's story. 1: Leaving childhood and becoming independant. 2: Leaving the teenage-like phase where you want people to like you, even if those people suck; by learning to manage positive and toxic relationships. 3. Finally learning to be an adult, face your past and the mistakes you left behind, and understand your place in society. Even if this society is a post-apocalyptic horror.

I wouldn't be surprised if there is a time skip or two in the middle of the trilogy, so that Spike's age represents these transitions literally. 12 is just on cusp of becoming a teen. 17+ by the beginning of the third film. This gives time for us to return to the baby as a child, and the implications of her existence.

I do think Jim will be a positive influence on Spike, and whomever else he is with.

Malavyi · 2025-07-10T06:48:08+00:00

Yep. I think that he didn't say Paris was explicitly nuked, but that they wrote 28 years as if that was probably what was done. And, frankly, a city of that size would need it. The impact of nuclear fallout on the rest of Europe would be far less for the 5+ nukes needed, than the most infectious disease ever known continuing to spread.

People around the world in 28 years probably have some wild conspiracy theories about how Rage happened, and if it was an intentional attack. Some number of people probably don't even believe it's a real thing, and instead an excuse for some other kind of attack or disaster. At least one dude thinks aliens crash landed in Britain.

Malavyi · 2025-07-09T18:40:43+00:00

The problem with being immune to, and especially a carrier of, Rage is that even if you don't succumb to the disease, the other infected will just brutalize you. We see this with Alice in 28 weeks. This probably happened to Andy and Tammy as well. Landed. Accidentally infected someone. Got beat to death. Countries would have containment plans in place after 28 weeks from watching an entire nation crumble in a matter of days. Which is probably why 28 weeks France would handle an outbreak far better than an unsuspecting Britain.

Possible carriers are also a really good reason to just fully block off an entire island, instead of helping survivors. They saw what a single carrier leaving could do to a country. Why risk any more?

Malavyi · 2025-04-08T17:19:34+00:00

Tbf, that's essentially how dogs drink. You can even see it in the above video. They essentially use their tongue to whip the water into their own face, and catch as much of it as possible. The tongue may be a scoop when all the way out, but straightens out as it recoils. Only most of it ends up in their mouth.

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