Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Not rolling over. fuck you, make me.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

Let me file that under fuck it.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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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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