{"id":1671,"date":"2010-11-21T10:44:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T16:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2010-11-21T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T17:29:13","slug":"synergon-business-larp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2010\/11\/synergon-business-larp\/","title":{"rendered":"Synergon, the BLARP From Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Synergon: <strong><em>&#8220;Where dreams come to die&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synergon.png\" alt=\"Synergon\" title=\"Synergon\" width=\"600\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synergon.png 600w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synergon-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSynergon was conceived as a satire of office culture and corporate-speak, but expressed in the language of a D&#038;D-style role playing game. What originally started as a joke among employees quickly expanded to include basic rules and longer lists of abilities and skills. Pretty soon it became apparent that it could be made into a fully playable table-top RPG.<\/p>\n<p>Synergon is supposed to simulate BLARPing. LARPers (or Live Action Role Players) are a group of people who get together to act out roles, usually in a vaguely medieval or fantasy setting. You may know them as those-guys-that-hit-each-other-with-foam-swords. BLARPers, on the other hand, are Business Live Action Role Players, and they play make believe every day in the office.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison between LARPers and business people quickly becomes apparent when considering how many people in the business world are just making things up as they go along. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/synergonrpg.com\/\">synergonrpg.com<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/11\/03\/synergon-a-business.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I believe it&#8217;s time for the obligatory Dilbert reference.  Let&#8217;s see &#8230; yes, this will do nicely:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dilbert2003034064829_a.gif\" alt=\"Dilbert: You Stupid Coffee Cup!\" title=\"Dilbert: You Stupid Coffee Cup!\" width=\"598\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dilbert2003034064829_a.gif 598w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/dilbert2003034064829_a-300x96.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synergon: &#8220;Where dreams come to die&#8221; Synergon was conceived as a satire of office culture and corporate-speak, but expressed in the language of a D&#038;D-style role playing game. What originally started as a joke among employees quickly expanded to include basic rules and longer lists of abilities and skills. Pretty soon it became apparent that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,129,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-humor","category-larp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}