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A 1974 Review of D&D
CleverNickName writes "Boing Boing pointed me to this 1974 review of the 'new' Dungeons and Dragons game. Some highlights: D&D was subtitled 'Rules for Fantastic Medieval Wargams Campaigns Playable with Paper and Pencil and Miniature Figures.' The reviewer concludes, 'In general, the concept and imagination involved is stunning. However, much more work, refinement, and especially regulation and simplification is necessary before the game is managable.'"
BAWHH??!!
It will be my third today.
If not, I had a good run anyway.
i win!
For the last year, I've been posting inflamatory messages under various handles. I'm not proud of what I've done, but I hope to explain my actions so everyone can at least understand it.
When I first joined AOL, I hadn't had that much experience with the internet. I naturally gravitated to the politics forums, since I watch tv to keep myself informed of current events.
I was shocked by all the Republican rhetoric - war is good, civil liberties are bad, people demonizing poor mothers, racist and anti-semetic attacks, and constant ass kissing of the rich and powerful. I am a conservative, but I would post against these people and register my disapproval.
Of course, writing a well reasoned response to rabid propaganda had the expected effect: just more attacks, and lots of insinuations that I was involved in sexual practices that I most certainly am not.
After one particualarly obscene posting from someone CLAIMING to be a Republican, I shot back a witty comeback in which I claimed to be a Republican too, and I took his idea to a ridiculous point that would offend all normal Americans. Reductio ad absurdem, as the French would say. I expected him to call me names again, but I was shocked that he took me seriously, and told me he forwarded my posts to a few Republican friends. I was amused, somewhat frightened, and a bit curious.
Then everything got out of hand. I started posting the most vile, crazy, semi-illiterate crap, and the Republicans and conservatives keep agreeing. I wrote that the ACLU was hell bent on destroying our country because they defend free speech for bad people like the KKK. I said that Bill Clinton personally trained terrorists in Arkansas. I explained that Fox news is really centrist, but all the other large corporations were so hell bent on destroying capitalism that FOX seemed conservative in comparison. And I wrote that one black welfare queen was responsible for 2% of the 1998 federal budget, and posted a link to a long, complicated chart about accounting or something.
Since then, things have gone pretty well. I've got a blog now, I've been a semi-regular guest on a few talk radio shows, and I'm in discussion with Bantam for a book tentatively titled, Why Do You Hate America So Much?
Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who responded, and especially those of you who took my writing and reposted it around the internet. I think that was what kept me going, even when someone called me on that welfare link (boy, was that embarrasing!)
And I am truly very sorry for trolling.
I'll be signing copies of some of my most classic posts at Borders Books in San Francisco March 3, 7:00 PM. See you there!
forst gump.
(you dillweed)
Hello Wil Wheaton. How are you?
Not surprising. A decent pipe isn't that hard to find. In addition, it's a HELL of a lot easier for the server to serve a straight binary file than some PHP-coded, theme/skin-ridden bloatware.
TODO: Something witty here...
fucking 70's style
Me and CoyBoi based our whole lives on Dungeons And the Dragons.
I'm a flaming homo who loves the ass, and tubby here is my nigger man servant. WHAT!
In response to your sig: No, Feminism is the notion that feminists are -better- people.
The really impressive part is that this is the oldest story that isn't a dupe.
RUN FOREST RUN!!!!
Teenage boys and young men everywhere are suffering from a new epidemic dubbed 'lack-a-nookie'.
It's a troll, morons. Much like the email virus hoaxes that are themselves a form of self-replicating email.
Come on, it's FUN :)
Just my 0.0184536 EUR worth
(exchange rate as of 2003.02.22 05:57:21 GMT)
Homosexuality has never stopped Slashdot before. Why would it stop them now?
I am ordained (in North Carolina, Baptist youth minister).... I use role-playing games as a way to get young people with emotional problems such as unfocused anger or resentment, loneliness, and even abuse (well, once, anyway).
To get young people, huh?
You sure you're not ordained Catholic, Father?
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