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Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

Petty moves from a petty man.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

When we show up, we win.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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  1. 1.

    Mike

    I’ve got tons of that stuff somewhere also.

    Now I play the computer versions. (sigh) I am so pathetic.

  3. 3.

    Gregory Markle

    You want pathetic? Played it last night…with my co-blogger and a friend that we’ve gamed with for about 15 years…and, yes, we played our highly modified 2nd edition rules and not ***spit***the 3 or 3.5 editions***spit***. The upshot is that our friend plans on writing a book(s) based on our sessions so there is a slim chance of some sort of future for this effort.

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    Noah D

    Heck, I still play. 32 years old, been at it for 20 years now.

    “When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

    ‘Highly modified’ is the only way 2nd Ed. works – for sufficiently low values of ‘works’. ;)

  5. 5.

    Justin Ogren

    Never played it, but it was a heavy impact on all gaming genres and the advanced techniques it has brought to today’s RPG’s. We still have yet to see the full implementation in video games of today, of the ever deep gameplay as in Dungeons and Dragons.

  6. 6.

    M. Scott Eiland

    It’s been a while now, but I was playing somewhat regularly as recently as early last year–and would play again if I could find a convenient regular game.

  7. 7.

    Noah D

    I’m not sure if a video game (console or PC) will ever approach the depth of people sitting around the table, talking and rolling dice; but I also don’t know if it should even be trying. Video games are superb complements to face-to-face tabletop gaming: Diablo allowed gamers to revel in the ‘kick in the door’ playing, Neverwinter Nights brought the beauty of CGI design to spell effects. But they’re all limited by the programming; no game will be able to handle what a group of creative players will come up with, but a halfway-competent GM will – and a good one will, with style, making it part of the narrative of the game.

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    Justin Ogren

    You can’t get it that deep on consoles, that’s one unique vision of storytelling no matter how you put it. But as I mentioned, it did breathe unique mathamatecal and yes Noah D ‘creative’ capabilities into much of the advanced storytelling gaming genre.

    What would probably jump the community, would be more similar games to be created, a la different rules, scope of the environment and such. Really I mean kids are all up in this Yu-Gi-Oh cards and yesteryear pokecrap but aren’t ever into the advanced stuff like Dungeons and Dragons, you see companies don’t promote that mindset that Dungeons and Dragons gives you, and then how many people were bread bad fear in the media over Dungeons and Dragons incedints, pretty ridulous. I remember my mother one time in life telling me not to play Dungeons and Dragons, never really told me why, but I soon found out what was up, it was just people’s promotion like something unique and smart was bad.

    Dungeons and Dragons did something amazingly positive and really tests your wits and mind through hardcore gaming techniques. I’m so sick of even hearing with my mind of any Dungeons and Dragons ‘incidents’. If anyone talks about that shit one more time I’ll change my position on gun control and go full Rambo on their ass, because there hasn’t been anything more annoying and thrown with just complete idiotic reporting as has been any ‘gaming incicident’ such as the ‘Manhunt’ killings, oh then people found out the media just pushed that story even after finding out the real facts in the case. Then the media doesn’t even apologize for their blatant bad coverage and shit. But if anyone’s on the real, know what’s going on and don’t eat bullshit all day, they know Dungeons and Dragons is kick ass and the movie should be burned and long forgotten! HAHA

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    physics geek

    I played from 1979-198, took a break for about 6 years, and have been playing off an on since then. Yes, I’m pathetic. 25 years of fantasy wargaming. I used to own the original 3 D&D booklets until someone stole them; I’m a first gen gamer.

    BTW, editions 3 and 3.5 suck in more ways than I can possibly mention.

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