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October 16, 2004

Why Do NRO Dorks Have to Steal My Schtick?

John J. Miller writes a mash note to E. Gary Gygax, inventor of Dungeons & Dragons.

Well, I guess now I know which of the NRO dorks got my D&D Guide to the Democratic Presidential Candidates linked when I started this dumb-ass dorkblog.


posted by Ace at 04:23 AM
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Ace - this is one of funniest things ever.

Posted by: Mike Krempasky on October 16, 2004 08:11 AM

Miami Vice...80's songs....D&D...time for you to start growing out the ol' mullet there, Ace.

Posted by: sonofnixon on October 16, 2004 10:36 AM

Admit it, Ace, you own a pair of pink and teal legwarmers.

Posted by: Sobek on October 16, 2004 11:18 AM

Wasn't there an article praising Iron Maiden in NRO last month?

Posted by: Moonbat_One on October 16, 2004 11:27 AM

Thanks, Mike.

SoN:

I'd grow a mullet if I could get away with it.

Sobek:

D&D/Miami Vice? How do you get leg-warmers from that? D&D must be the least gay/least feminine thing ever. Well, it's "gay" in the dork sense, but it's not gay in the gay sense.

I don't think more than three gay guys have ever played D&D -- it's an SWD (straight white dork) hobby.


Moonbat,

Heck, probably. But I don't know.

We'll see if they run a Whitesnake article. Then I'll be pissed off.

Posted by: ace on October 16, 2004 12:19 PM

SoN:

Check out the motto running in the sidebar.

You snooze, you lose.

Posted by: ace on October 16, 2004 12:25 PM

We're coming up on re-election day...

Posted by: Joe R. the Unabrewer on October 16, 2004 12:43 PM

OT:

I clicked on your Amish Tech Support link and got my feelings hurt.

I'm just sayin'

Posted by: lauraw on October 16, 2004 12:44 PM

I guess I should change that url.

I don't want one of my three female readers getting her feelings hurt.

Posted by: ace on October 16, 2004 01:32 PM

Why does it feel like someone used a Wish, something like "I wish for a suave, coiffed, sports-loving, independently wealthy, well-educated, military hero, with a plan for every situation as nominee for President."

Just saying as a GM that most everything about this guy seems... warped.

Posted by: Al on October 16, 2004 01:49 PM

"I don't think more than three gay guys have ever played D&D -- it's an SWD (straight white dork) hobby."

Oh, Ace. You poor, deluded man . . .

Posted by: Rob on October 16, 2004 03:31 PM

Oh, Ace. You poor, deluded man . . .

Really? I always thought gay people were far too cool to play D&D. Hell, everybody else is. Even a band nerd like me...

Posted by: Smack on October 16, 2004 04:26 PM

Believe it or not, there are uncool gay people. Anyway, I knew plenty of gays who played at D&D and other tabletop RPGs, but they preferred LRPGs. This gave them the opportunity to dress up in Lord Vampire getup in public.

Posted by: Andrea Harris on October 16, 2004 04:37 PM

The first gay guy I ever knew was a band nerd. I'm a semi-reformed D&D geek. Dragonlance, Ravenloft, Planescape, etc.

Andrea's right though, LRPGs are more common among us pink folk. Vampire: The Masquerade was a dating disaster. I couldn't figure out if they were gay or just scary.

Turns out, most of them were both.

Posted by: Rob on October 16, 2004 04:47 PM

Heh, guess you learn something new every day. But mainly, I was just looking for any opportunity to tweak Ace's nose in the Band-vs-D&D cold war.

Posted by: Smack on October 16, 2004 05:09 PM

Well, band geek wins that contest hands down. There are, you know, females involved.

Because this one time, at band camp . . .

Posted by: Rob on October 16, 2004 05:11 PM

Ravenloft???? Dragonlance I can half-respect, but I suspect the "first gay guy" you knew was somehow involved in your Ravenloft experimentation (joke!).

But seriously, I'll openly admit to D&D. No force on this earth will get me to talk about my band experience. Not that I ever had any, of course...

Posted by: George on October 16, 2004 10:56 PM

Any true D&D game nerd from the Great Lakes states in the 1970s *knows* that E. Gary Gygax did not "invent" D&D. Dave Arneson invented the game. Gygax wrote a set of fantasy rules for Chainmail, a set of medieval miniature rules, but Arneson converted that into the role-playing concept.

Gygax was the publisher of TSR, eased Arneson out after the game proved a monster hit, and then rewrote history so that St. Gary of Gygax gave virgin birth to D&D.

Posted by: Mark L on October 17, 2004 08:14 PM

Shades of Stan Lee, eh?

I was into Runequest, back in the day. And Morrow Project. Ah, lovely Morrow Project: every campaign the same. Come out of coldsleep after the apocalypse, round up some gear...and kill farmers with a heavy machine gun mounted on a Commando V-150 armored car.

"We drive our V-150 into the town."

"Okay. (die roll) A crossbow bolt plinks off the side of the V-150."

"We drive around the block at slow speed, hosing down the buildings with the M2 (heavy machine gun)."

"Oooh-kay. (die roll) Town's on fire now."

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