Parapsycho

We had a war last year, NCNO(Northern California Nerf Off). It turned into "The winning team is the one with the gun that shoots 20 darts in 2 seconds", whichever gun that was. Also, about half of my arsenal was broken or missing. Not a very positive experience.

But anyways, you're right about the age issue. I was the oldest person at NCNO last year (22), I think the next oldest was like 15. Would be nice to get more 20-somethings interested.

I'll be in the east bay until August.

If you can find mature people who wont break things, I'm all for it.

Sorry about the late pics. Life's been busy, ya know?

The Arsenal


Blue Team


Vs.

Red Team



Watch out!


Me with firefly



Blue Wins!!!!



More Pics:




Pwned.....




All in all it was a fun day. It was fun playing with the dart tag vests. At a few times it seemed to boil down to who had the best guns, but it was still fun.

Update: The date for the war has been moved up to Saturday, August 19th. All the other details are the same.

Thanks,
Para

Just joined.

I was pleasantly suprised that it doesnt affect my computer's performance at all.

Also have it running on my mom's laptop, since she never uses it.

Depending on whether I bring my old linux box to my new home, I'll get a third box running.

Good stuff so far.

The only criticism I have is that it sounds like you are reading from a script, word for word. I'm not sure if this is actually the case, or if it is just your speaking style. If you listen to the radio or other podcasts, most of the time they do not have scripts written out word for word. They usually come up with a topic, then talk freely about it. So, perhaps instead of a script, you could come up with notes of things you want to go over. This doesnt mean you have to improvise everything. You can have very detailed notes, but instead of reading them verbatim, you can add your own voice and style to them. It makes the listener identify with you alot more, and is easier to listen too.

One way to make the above suggestion easier is to have more than one host. With multiple hosts, you can have dialogue going back and forth, which makes things a bit more interesting. Everyone involved can also bring something unique "to the table", and it can bring out information that would not be readily available otherwise. A limitation to this is that the Nerf community is a little spread out and you might not have nerfers near you. If this is the case, you might want to look into voice conferencing programs like Skype. You can record the conversation, edit it for content and length, then post it up. I havent used skype very much, so I'm not sure of the dynamics (like if only one person can talk at a time, and everyone else is muted). If you are interested in that, you might want to post announcements on the NIC to see if anyone is interested in co-hosting.

A really good podcast that I've been listening to is 'Gamer: The Podcasting'. It's about gaming, obviously, but focuses on RPGs and LARPs. You can really get a sense of each of the host's personalities, and it's fun to listen to.

Looking foward to hearing more from you.