Not saying you can't or shouldn't play the villain in a LARP setting, that can be fun if you know what you're getting into, but the fact that the Disney corporation advertised you could side with the fascists and help them imprison Chewbacca with a big smile, I dunno, it makes me feel like maybe the whole franchise was a mistake and it should have remained a singular niche film in 1977 with no follow up.
Very broadly speaking, Star Wars is about a bunch of scrappy underdogs, living in poverty, uniting together and fighting a fascist power whose leaders live in opulence.
Paying multiple thousands of dollars to a corporation to roleplay being a poverty stricken underdog, the very idea feels sickening to my core. Even if the hotel was a quality experience that was worth the price, this irony would just make me feel terrible about it on a fundamental level.
Jenny Nicholson says she sympathizes with the folks who went because most of them look middle class but I don't. Even if you don't give a shit about class warfare, you could spend this money on providing a future for your kids and instead you took them to a really really expensive hotel to larp for 2 days. The quality of the experience really doesn't matter at this point. The poor constantly get judged by everyone for buying a latte on their way to work. Fuck you. I'm judging everyone who went to this thing for being shit at money.
