I was clicking through and found this wonderful column of “add-to” tags on someone’s blog.
You have got to be kidding me.
Enough is enough — social media fatigue
Day: March 5, 2008
Nerd Grief — Gary Gygax has passed away
You have to be a paste-eater to understand, but the inventor of Dungeons and Dragons — Gary Gygax — passed away yesterday.
Constantine von Hoffman and Tim Abbott are blogging.
Con writes:
“Also at some other time I will tell you the story of how Mrs. Collateral Damage got me to come out of the geek closet. The punch line, though, “How many Friday nights do the you have to spend playing D&D with the guys from Worcester Poly before you admit you’re a nerd?â€
In the words of one of my favorite t-shirts: I am not a nerd. I am a 12th level paladin.”
Tim:
“I grew up with Dungeons & Dragons. Back in the analog 1970’s, all that virtual reality required were some odd-shaped dice, pencils, graph paper, and above all a passion for all things swords and sorcery and someone to share it with. While the power of persistent digital worlds has supplanted the bibliocentric medium that Gygax created, it owes a tremendous debt to D&D (as D&D, it must be said, owes another to Tolkien).”
I never played the game — knew some people who did and they were definitely wedgie-bait (not to say either Con nor Tim are deserving of a wedgie). I suppose World of Warcraft has basically ended D&D.