Here is Steve aka a bard named Finn writing longposts about how one dude he was LARPing with allegedly said he would break steve's arm, resulting in Steve fearing for his safety and then threatening legal action against the LARP group, so the LARP group had to send him a registered letter that he was being ridiculous and to stop crying wolf. Steve continues to essaypost in his signature legalistic style of writing to try to make his case but no one in the group is falling for it. The whole thread is hilarious, and full of smug bardfinn clapbacks:
I will thank you to not hold nor espouse strong opinions about things you do not understand. Also, this is not the Smack Talk forum. Would an administrator please take note of Forest's behaviour, and take due action? Thank You.
Actually, ignore that. I should have stopped talking to you a while back. I am not going to go into a battle of classical wit with an obviously unarmed opponent.
Thanks for admitting that you haven't read what I've written. I have quoted the corpora, just not in that last post. I have no need to quote material that is easily locatable, that I have previously quoted. I am not a mere parrot, and I do not talk to nor with mere parrots. I use my brain and expect you to use yours in the discourse.
I described in plain English why our traditional practice, our Corpora, and a reasonable expectation of the duties of a Reeve prohibits restricting those duties to a mere Battlegame. You patently did not read it or you patently do not understand it or are patently using Socratic ignorance maleficly to pointedly harass me.
If you cannot keep up with the argument, but feel the need to engage in it, ask someone to explain it to you - do not join for the mere purpose of saying "I don't understand it and am too lazy to read it - shut up." If you're feigning ignorance to harass me, please accept my invitation to go outside and climb a tall tree.
Again - it is not my responsibility that you are unable to distinguish between a hypothetical situation based on the logical consequences of your hypothesis, and an actual reality. I never said you assaulted me. Never. Ever. You misread it. I never insulted your character. You misread it. I have explained and clarified at length. You continue to ignore what I wrote. I would prefer that you be able to comprehend plain Written English, but I am continually disappointed every time you reply.
You continue to refuse to even consider that you are the one with the reading problem. If you /ever/ respected me, you would not have jumped to your preferred conclusion(s) and twisted the facts to justify it; You would instead have asked for clarification, would have realised when clarification was offered that the mistake is on your part.
I offended you, for whatever reason, while I was advocating my conscience and my informed opinion regarding my legal rights. You chose to bully me about it. I will not concede to your bullying.
That's it.
End of discussion. Ignomine elenchio non excusat.
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You should have mentioned in the OP that Bardfinn was a reeve (LARP janny/referee) and the reason that players began to dislike him was due to his excessive moderation of others' LARP weapons, which caused the LARPer who's weapons he was examining to IRL chudpost at him, and later in the thread he is reminded that Reeves only have authority over enforcing the rules of the game, not the entire event, but he claimed that he actually did have authority that extended beyond just enforcing the rules of LARPing. Apparently another player, Falamar, was given a warning for calling Finn a crybaby, even though Finn was not given a warning for his statement that "you can't read and comprehend plain English, and cannot grasp at your strawmen". Bardfinn's sensitivity is shown further when he had no problem with telling a player to climb a tree, but seethed at being told to play NERO instead (NERO is another LARP ruleset). Apparently there's also a "Calling Out Finn" Thread,
but I can't find it because of the forum's outdated indexing!forumposters here it is: https://www.amtgard-eh.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=520, made by the same Sir Corbin of the thread you linkedBardfinn responds:
Note the similarity between "hitting me with an amtgard-legal weapon while on the road legally constitutes assault" and "this statement legally constitutes assault" (I'm not sure of the exact wording, but he said this in response to "keep yourself safe" on one of the original /r/drama posts about him)
Users strike back, comparing his statement to his previous posts:
Later in the thread, on page 2, someone finally references the corpora (Amtgard rulebook) and proves that Reeves do not have authority over out-of-game matters.
Here's bardfinn's Amtgard Wiki page:
https://wiki.amtgard.com/Finn_McGill
Unfortunately, he is a "rulebook contributor" despite other players disliking his reeving style. He does not seem to have just added that to his page, the wiki's Rulebook Credits page also lists him as a contributor.
Hidden in the edit history of "Finn" (which redirects to Finn McGill now) is https://wiki.amtgard.com/index.php?title=Finn&oldid=94737, which appears to be written by him, but was removed by another editor due to "political posturing, which does not belong in the wiki". The old page only has 3 sentences about Finn (the first and last sentences, as well as a statement about why Finn left the Amtgard LARP community), the rest is about Brendon.
Bardfinn was a member of the guild the Drunken Wyvern, and he had a page on the guild's website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080907135717/http://www.drunkenwyvern.com/finn.html
travels to Faerie.
The last 2 sentences are very foreshadowing.
He is also mentioned on the Amtgard guild Crawling Chaos, which he was formerly a member of, but does not have a page dedicated to him.
He also has a character sheet on the official Amtgard website:
https://ork.amtgard.com/orkui/index.php?Route=Player%2Findex%2F4980
He has 6 levels in bard, but is also a master bard and was a guild master, and is no longer reeve qualified, although he has 1 level in the reeve class. Apparently, Falamar (one of the players who criticized him earlier) gave him the Order of the Rose award in 2013, which seems very prestigious.
!bardfinn here's a picture of Bardfinn larping, according to the wiki:
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!commenters !bardfinn I found this in the Amtgard rulebook and remembered this comment (for context, Finn has a level 5 Order of the Rose according to his character sheet, gained his first one in 1980, and his 5th one in 2013, although there is a lot of missing information in the database. The 4th and 5th Order of the Rose awards were given by Falamar, the player who got warned for calling him a crybaby. Also, Monarchs are basically game masters, but the rules of the game have a lot of fourth-wall breaking, such as reeve being both a class which has levels on your character sheet and a referee-like role)
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Oh shit, his name is Bard Finn because he's a fricking LARP bard, or some shit.
Goddarn, the world is really run by the lamest of losers, from top to bottom, isn't it?
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this is 100% established cannon, he larps as a Bard named Finn
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Not sure if this is true but
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I provided sources for every claim I made, although the original subject of the post (whether Bardfinn was unfairly hit with boffer weapons while outside of the game, or not) is unproven, it is stated in the rules themselves that Bardfinn had no jurisdiction over events that took place outside of actual LARP battles, regardless if hitting someone with a LARP weapon "legally constitutes assault", and I never affirmed or denied that Bardfinn may have been surprise-attacked by other LARPers.
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Imagine them, still in their elf costume, crouched behind a tree. Waiting for bardfinn to come through. They beat on him like he was Pyle in Full Metal Jacket with the soap bars.
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LARPers are living our dream.
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newest bardfriend is YakubianPhysics at 16:56 on 07-08-2024
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yea this right here is how i know its real
he hasnt changed lol
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Interesting. I wasn't kidding about having 0 interest/expertise into LARPs. I didn't know they had referees, but that makes it even funnier
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I didn't either since they all have different rules, Amtgard in particular seems to massively overuse 4th-wall breaking, since reeve takes up a class slot and the in-world monarchs of various kingdoms have the ability to vote to change the rules (not in-game laws, but the mechanics of how combat works and what weapons are considered unsafe IRL)
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folks Dramamine wasn't kidding when he said he was ignorant on a topic. He meant it.
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Me IRL when making posts
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God I wish this actually happened and could see it. Imagine him getting beat up by a bunch of nerds.
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Reddit needs a version of this even time a mod speaks
This is 100% a formative experience in his life where he decided he will always be top janny in all situations
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!bardistry
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7 Day trend:
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!metashit how does he keep popping up every fricking time?
@BrandonShill
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lightning bolt! lightning bolt! lightning bolt!
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Wow! There have been 18198 rent free mentions since 2022-09-24
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moid foid foid moid carpe carp
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how did u find this lol
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happy cake day king
i still think you are wasting your potential on this site but you do you
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How so?
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You're trying to hide your pain behind posting obscene images while forcing your played out gimmick. You do have a good memory of (internet events) and you are capable of switching your persona to a knowledgable historian within the same comment chain - using a foreign language too. There's certainly something valuable in that brain of yours, hidden behind ten layers of irony and/or internet brainrot.
I won't elaborate further but deep down you know the truth too. If this sounds straggy as heck please give me coins.
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Counterpoint: Dude Bussy LMAO. Let people enjoy things, fakecel or whatever type of cel you are.
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No only is Losercel a gf having fakecel, but he's trying to get our users to migrate to YouTube. !truecels discuss
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Maybe he's just having fun. It's fun to be an r-slur.
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Only thing worse than an entrenched poweruser is a cute twink who thinks he isn't entrenched.
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Pretty sure the LARP group posts have been known for a while, I've seen them before. Not sure where though.
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That should be the reply to every post bard makes. So fricking succinct.
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I spent HOURS finding the bon mot to craft this 10,007 word reply!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!
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This one simple trick kills the Bard.
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Record is 1 days 13 hours 09 minutes and 59 seconds by TheDunceonFlorist
rdrama is currently running at 399.691 µBardyhertz
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!r-slurs you will never be a true r-slur. This is what true R-SLURism looks like.
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I AM GOD
Can't tell if this is a good illustration of all programmers, or just Bardo.
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#notallprogrammers
Programmers are definitely over-represented in the neurodivergent fart-huffer demographic, but many of us are only trying to be good enough at our jobs for it to be an easy life.
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This just might be Bardfinn's magnum opus
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its so good I put it on my profile to remember it
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apparently "boffer weapon" means a foam toy sword
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foam_weapon
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Bard saves that for the wife and kids
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That his writing style never changed over all those years....
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holy shit is he trash talking him in latin?? fricking champ
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Vos numquam femina erit
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Quod fuimus, estis; quod sumus, vos eritis
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Memento mori
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i dont speak latin
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Ok pleb
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Steve had to really push the limits of Altavista Babelfish for that one
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in not good enough at english either to understand this
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SNAPPY??
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Holy shit, even 18 years ago people were dunking on bardfinn for being insufferable
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Makes me wonder how bad it was in hogh school, imagine finding his old classmates and getting stories out of them
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longest streak broken in the last 7 days was BardWatch which was 0 days 09 hours 53 minutes and 08 seconds
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Deep Bard lore I'm soyfacing right now

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Our queen didn't beat his wife and child
He beat his wife and someone else's child
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Granny panties and a dress. Granny panties and a dress.
6 foot 4 and a mugshot. 6 foot 4 and a mugshot.
Child abuse and no job. Child abuse and no job.
Living in mama's sunroom. Living in mama's sunroom.
Giant pale hands and lipstick. Giant pale hands and lipstick.
Snapshots:
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I'm a 32 year old atheist. I was diagnosed in 2002 with Asperger's Syndrome, and have grown up adjusted to it. I spend a lot of time listening to music on an mp3 player, or making music with my drum, or playing Guitar Hero in order to improve my left hand co-ordination, speed, and strength in preparation for trying to learn to fiddle. I haven't actively practiced Irish Trad music for over a year because of the circumstances of my life - I have found a wonderful snuggly woman who has me all to herself. She has a three-year-old son.:
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We need trans hedgehogs! Trans hedgehogs belong here! We love trans hedgehogs!
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Wow this is gold. I will spend too much time reading and laughing at this. So many new snappy quotes are coming.
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He's so neurodivergent that people who play with foam swords won't hang out with him.
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Holy shit this is amazing. I can't believe it but he was a more pompous self righteous peepee in his youth. I'm up to the part where he's quoting latin phrases and telling everyone they are stupid. I'm hooked
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It hurts my soul to read.
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I think that is the allure. We all see a bit of our neurodivergent dramatic self's in bardtrussy, but we are burdened by what could have been
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he was 30yrs old in 2006. He is 48 now
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!oldstrags
I had to check to see if the Martello they mentioned was a guy I posted on SA with, but it was not. Check his vintage nerd pics tho
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BASED PONYBLAZE
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GOOD post
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Man, Bardfinn has managed to get me to feel sympathy for LARPers of all people. It's a good reminder to keep and open heart and an open mind about people
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We've got Bardy fever! today we have mentioned our favorite mod 40 more times than usual!
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Even in 2006 he didn't have a car
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All this while he was leading scientists at his elite programming job?
uh oh this is the moment Bardy decided to become a fascist killer.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.

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true historian
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Neurodivergent. Games for exercise. Likes terrible music. Moderates on Reddit unironically.
Transitioning was the best move of his life.
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