[eyelidlessness]

That’s understandable, but as I read it I thought “if these were contemporary terms he’d probably have embraced them”.

[JasserInicide]

"larping" is different from being in an active military unit performing military maneuvers

[physicles]

Did you read the article? It's a stretch to call it an active military unit. As Twain himself wrote, the only maneuver they performed was to retreat, which they barely even knew how to do.