Methinks the blogger doth protest too much
(Site Note: With this post, we say good bye to Steve Benen as a contributor to C&L. Steve has accepted a position with The Washington Monthly. While we'll miss his posts here greatly, we wish him great luck in his new position~ Nicole)
When the McCain campaign unveiled its now-infamous Spears/Hilton ad, the NYT’s editorial board, like every other sensible political observer, criticized it. Michael Goldfarb, McCain’s official in-house blogger, responded by comparing the Times’ editors to “the average Daily Kos diarist sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons.”
This week, after questions arose about the veracity of a McCain anecdote from his days as a prisoner of war, Goldfarb went back to the well, blasting "the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd."
After the first insulting comment, Goldfarb backed away, while sticking to the vernacular: “If my comments caused any harm or hurt to the hard working Americans who play Dungeons & Dragons, I apologize. This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American.”
This led my friend Adam Serwer to raise an excellent point.
That’s the kind of deep, personal animosity that you associate with experience, which clearly Goldfarb has. It’s not hard to imagine that some basement somewhere holds the abandoned d20s, dusty rulebooks, and broken heart of a young Michael Goldfarb who never got to be Dungeon Master because he wouldn’t stop yelling. In fact, it’s hard not to wonder if, when Michael Goldfarb is berating the D&D players of the world, he’s really just berating Michael Goldfarb.
Ta-Nehisi Coates added, “[W]e often are what we hate. Goldfarb remark smacks of a geek trying to get down by slamming other geeks.”
The good news is, the “Pro-Obama Dungeons and Dragons crowd” is apparently getting organized. I can’t help but wonder if the McCain campaign has inadvertently woken an angry nerd army....
daaaaaaaaaamn...plus 5 battle mace to the face!
Off topic, but I just haveto mention Ralph Reed was on C-Span this morning attacking Obama and defending his own criminal misconduct.
After five minutes, I had to shut it off.
I didn't even start to watch it. I'm thinking of sending C-Span a note letting them know the programming has slipped immensley.
OOPS did that one wrong. 1st time responder.
Best of Luck to Steve but man, I'm gonna miss him
Michael Goldfarb. Israeli propogandista, American NeoCon, Washington ChickenHawk...
http://draftgoldfarb.blogspot.com/2008/04/draft-michael-goldfarb.html
Gee, is the mainstream media possibly getting a conscience?
Naah.
Methinks the angry wingnuts and their outrageous, ludicous, angry, hate-filled, lying, half-truthing, mistatiing, xenophobic comments have awaken many a middle-aged, baby-boomer social activists and they will be sorry. Dungeons and dragons are irrelevant to us. We are in love with history, politics, cultural diversity, world views, equal opportunity, the Constitution and in general more educated in relevant subjects. We recognize the wannabes like Michael Savage who tried and failed at social activism.
Its time we kicked the nuts and their mindless minions into the mud like the servile pigs they are probably meant to be in the evolutionary progression toward true humaness. They represent what we, as human potentiates see as the characteristics that will lead to our demise if we don't discard them.
chicano2nd @ 7:
Not so sure about that.
Lot's of talk, little ACTION.
An angry nerd army....
.... of the undead!! Bwahahahahaha!
chicano2nd @ 7:
That is excellent!
They are indeed the throwbacks...the troglodyte philistines who refuse to evolve at their own peril.
It's time to cast them off like a snake sheds its skin and grow.
Now what did I do with that "Bag of Devouring"?
"This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American"
Charity begins at home. If these maroons had any inkling of the internets they would have used the image of a latte drinking elitist sitting at Starbuck's in lieu of the geeks. But that too would be one more misleading aspect of McCain's mudpie campaign.
Night of the Living Nerds
uh oh...I hear the sound of millions of slurpee bottles, pizza crusts and stray doritos being rhythmically crushed under the marching feet of the army of zombie-nerds all awakening and emerging from their mother's basements....
...be very afraid.....!
lol will the D&D demographic decide the president?!?
Boomers are worse materialists then their parents.
"we're going to be better off then our parents and the world is going to be a better place when we get done" and all that rock and jazz.
Yah . . . We're seeing the results now.
I suppose there is a "bright side". We had made it through another week without blowing the world up in a nuclear confrontation over events in Georgia.
Good Luck Steve, I have enjoyed reading your posts......uh, postes......post's......posts'?? ;-)
Anyway, continue the cause, honesty in journalism will be the standard once again........someday.......
Liberal AND Proud @ 6:
Can't have people wandering around shattering the illusions so carefully crafted to keep the public dumbed-down and docile.
Radically Moderate @ 17:
By 2050 if we truly luck out
I guess that's why there are so many gay-haters in the GOP. Whatever happened to Sen. Larry Craig?
American Ingenuity
The portable outhouse — propelled by a 750-pound Boeing jet turbine — is one of this year’s new acts. Former IndyCar and NASCAR mechanic Paul Stender is bringing it along with a jet-powered school bus.
Mugsy @ 2:
I watched the whole episode. I like to punish myself ever once in a while, I guess.
Did you see the DNC convention hall. Seventy percent of the materials used are recycled. Let's see the repubs match that.
L.A. Confidential @ 8:
I am living my opportunity every day in my line of work and career attainment. I fought for it. I created the position in a court of law and right wrongs daily. You, on the other hand, are one of those individuals who represent in Plato's view the lowest level of intelligence, i.e., thinks he knows but doesn't. I'll carry a bush-like smirik on my face when you have mud on yours.
pissed off patricia @ 22:
They don't have to. We Americans consume and toss out and throw away so much crap just about everything is made of recycled stuff.
We're the most wasteful nation on the planet.
chicano2nd @ 7:
Sounds almost frightful, chicano. As a human potentiate, what have you been doing so far?
dennis @ 25:
Fact is the rest of the world could care less what we do anymore. Thats how bad it is.
McCain/Mitt?
Oh boy what a combo.
Senile madman with a religious billionaire second in line.
Steve,
I'm just a sometime commenter, but I've always appreciated your essays. Thanks, and safe travels.
"Michael Goldfarb, McCain’s official in-house blogger"
note to michael goldfarb...dude YOU are a BLOGGER.
willie @ 29:
Does he get paid or does he just do it because it's "neat".
Wow, I'm a blogger aren't I great?
Frankly, I find McCain's public performances and behavior of late to be extremely worrisome. Read more. http://www.tagg-lines.com/2008/08/mccain-out-of-touch-or-out-of-it.html
dennis @ 25:
dennis, did you have to look up the word in a dictionary? do you know how to use one?
L.A. Confidential @ 30
“Does he get paid or does he just do it because it’s “neat”."
i have no doubt he does it because his mom wanted him out of her basement. so sending him to one of McCains basement seemd like a good idea. and there are all those old mcCain folks that think the internets are a facinating thingie and he is so smart cause he can work one.
Oh WOW!! I am SO sending this link to my geeky D&D master son (currently in a degree program for writing game video software) ~ he's also currently working for the DNC -- I think he's not gonna like Goldfarb's inane comments!
I suppose there's even a good chance he already knows about them . . . .
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You have to ask yourself, just why is Goldfarb making fun of people who play Dungeons & Dragons? Because they're smart.
Goldfarb seems to think we're living 30 years ago, back in the Animal House days, when it was fun for the big jock on campus to bully the members of the Chess Club. After all, what's he really saying? People at the NY Times are smart? Oh, how horrible. We can't have smart journalists anywhere, they might be able to identify bullsh*t when they smell it.
I used to play D&D back in highschool then I got bored with it.
I'm a Shadowrun player and we're the ones they should be worried about.
But any way you slice it, the fact that I'm a Shadowrun player and a former D&D player has absolutely nothing to do with why I won't vote for McSame.
What has to do with it is that the man is a liar, a con artist, a flip-flipper, a misogynist, and a torture enabler.
He claims to be a 'maverick' who bucks his party yet 95% of the time he votes right along with it and his god-President.
He claims to be a moral man yet cheated on the wife who raised his children while he was being tortured - because (as he himself admitted ) he was selfish and immature.
He can't find fucking Iraq on a map, yet he wants our troops there for a hundred years and doesn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia or Iran and Al Quaeda without his puppet Lieberman standing next to him.
He thinks that drilling off our coasts and in ANWR will only have a 'Psychological' effect on this 'Psychological' recession, yet he's going to press for it anyway. Even though it won't have ANY effect at all.
He condemns people as 'agents of intolerance' one minute and then hangs out with them, gives speeches for them and lauds them when he realizes he desperately needs their votes.
He promises to run a clean campaign and then two feet out of the box starts calling his opponent the anti-christ.
He claims to have an energy plan that will stop our dependence on foreign oil but the plan is essentially - give more money and tax breaks to the oil companies.
He claims to have an economic plan to save our shattered economy but has himself admitted that he knows nothing about economics and his top advisor ( and he himself ) called our shattered economy a psychological condition.
He claims to against lobbyists, yet between 2003 and 2008 he's raked in over $1.4 million in money from oil lobbyists, $1.7 from commercial bankers and best of all $7.1 million from Lawyers and Law firms.
He claims to be against pork barrel spending but the biggest examples of it in recent times ( The Gravina Island Bridge to Nowhere, the Bear study, the Woodstock museum ) he was missing in action for votes on the bills containing the earmarks or modifying them.
He tells us that it is 'safe for Americans' to walk in the marketplace in Bagdadh ( Thought we forgot about that one, did ya? ) and then when people call him on his bullshit goes to prove it - along with a hundred armed troops, attack helicopters, sniper support and bullet proof vests and helmet.
I could keep going of course, probably for most of the day but it's not worth my time. I'm not changing any hearts and minds here. If you're going to vote for this idiot, you're still going to vote for this idiot. If you're going to vote for the other idiot, you'll still vote for him. I don't like Obama. I sure as hell don't like his stance on FISA ( which essentially is - 'Trust me that I won't abuse this power George Bush stole for me' ). But in my case, I'll definitely be voting for the lesser of two evils. With Obama we have a chance of putting this nation back together, with McSame we don't. With McSame in office we'll have a Bush regime pardon on day 1, four more years of war, skyrocketing oil prices, fake offshore drilling that does nothing, and more pork barrel spending than ever before.
I'm sorry McSamites, I'm not one of your sleepy retard conservative Bible-banger Republican goose-stepping low information voters who don't pay attention to what's going on. If your candidate wanted my vote, then he should try being a better candidate and you should try being a better party instead of harping on stupid bullshit ( flag pins, Obama's middle Name, Birth certificates ) and outright lies ( Obama won't visit the troops). Kicking out and arresting all the perverts and pedophiles in your party would be a good start. So would be arresting the criminals in your midst.
Have fun at the unemployment line.
Goldfart will have to pry my Monster Manual from my cold dead hands.
Once again, the "Homers" are proud of their stupidity.
DnD like any cerebral game is an easy cheap shot. Nerdy chess players, etc... But Goldfarb is out of touch like the campaign he "guns" for. Reaching back to the nightmare of his childhood, where the cool kids made him play a third level orc/asshole he finally gets to get back at his tormentors. But he's so many generations of games from current, that he is perfect for Krusty.
Didn't Hannity complain that the Obama bloggers were living in their parents basements? Something about popcorn stains on their unshaven faces? I think this D&D talking point of theirs is to point out that Obama supporters are too immature and young, while McCain has age and experience on his side.
It's too prevalent in their discussions to be "silly talk". Don't "our parents" see the D&D craze as a fad, like Cosmic Wimpout. I think they are trying to say that Obama supporters are "those" drugged out nerds not worth paying attention too. Mock them, laugh at them and get back in the fold!
Angry nerds unite!
Join the POD&DC!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/group/Pro-ObamaDungeonsandDragonsCrowd
WE ARE ANGRY... AND WE'RE IN MOM'S BASEMENT GETTING REGISTERED TO VOTE....McLame better watch out... YOU KNOW WHO WE HAVE ON OUR SIDE.... Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
Every time I see that pic of the Angry McCain, I can't help but think "Get that man some Metamucil and some prune juice!" All that backed-up scheisse must be painful, and partly why he has such a nasty temper...
This joke about "living in mom's basement" or playing "D&D" is as consistently stale and unfunny as the usual rightwing attempts at humor.
I've never played Dungeons and Dragons and haven't lived in my parents house since I was 18. I am gainfully employed and work very hard, except for my daily diversions to this site and a couple others. Most days, I open and close a business I don't own, afterwards I try to spend quality time with my family. Yeah, I enjoy the occasional science fiction movie, but have no time for video games, fantasy role playing games or whatever their idea of slackesque geekery is. Although I am kind of geeky about wanting a return to the rule of law and constitutionality in this country. Nothing I'll apologize for though, so hey Michael Goldfarb, how about shutting the fuck up and finding yourself a soul?
No....NO! Say it ain't so, Steven. For me, your contributions have consistently shone among them all here as some of the most 'balanced' (almost hesitate to employ that one) and level-headed around. Not to mention your on-the-mark observations and assessments which are rendered only more acute through the even handed treatment you offer. I certainly have profited from yours, and wish you great luck in your new journalistic adventures. Clichéd and banal as it sounds.... I say: Keep on keepin' on!!
WE ALL LOVE A LITTLE BUSH @ 40:
AWESOME!!!HAHAHAHAHA!!!
McCain = lich.
pissed off patricia @ 5:
Best of luck to Steve!
__________
POP--how did you fare during Fay?
What is a basement??
Thanks for the great writting Steve. I'd say your at least a lv15 political warrior.
btw wiki says "the current subscriber base for all MMOGs has been estimated at approximately 16 million."
I guess thats world players but still lots of DNDish votes from the USA I'm sure.
He's lucky he didn't fire up the WOW croud.
Gonna miss you, Steve.
Congratulations Steve! Best of Luck.
What's funny to me about this is that when I played D&D in the 70s (up to the moment Fafnir threw a lightning spell in a tunnel, destroying the entire group, after which my interest began to wane), the majority of the players I knew were of a libertarian bent that was more conservative than liberal. Many were born-agains, and several were ex-military. I would have expected them to be supporting McCain, if they'd continued on a linear trajectory.
Any chance this broad-brush comment would make some of my old dice-tossing pals reconsider? It's hard to say. I know that I've had to swallow hard to overlook some of the things my side says about me, as a liberal. I expect that the rest of the old D&D gang will do the same, since the alternative is just too awful to contemplate. I can hope, though.
ps: I propose a new game -- open your fortune cookie and read the fortune, adding the phrase, "...for five and a half years in a North Vietnamese hell hole!" (Optional clause: "...while you America-hating liberals were getting high in your dorm," or some such.)
“If my comments caused any harm or hurt to the hard working Americans who play Dungeons & Dragons, I apologize. This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American.”
That's a guy who knows a little TOO much about the topic he is making fun of.
I played that game for about a month as a kid. There is a lot of creativity in the process. It's time to get out, however, when you start saying; "that girl looks like a halfling with Kobold blood."
Every one of us Liberals, who are outraged and have a few ideas, are supposed to be living in the basement of our moms house. I just wonder why this is supposed to be the worst thing ever, and why they keep going back to it. "Oh, you are for minimum wage increases -- you must be unemployed and wanting an allowance." No, I'm 44, have two kids and two good jobs -- one as a consultant.
The illusion of hippies and unicorns, in the minds of these people, of what we must be like, to think the way we do. I'm against unnecessary wars for resources -- so I have to be a wimp. I'm for helping the little guy -- so I have to be a little guy. In the minds of bullies, who worry that they are a loser, the "bad ass" is someone who sneers at these weaknesses -- the way Conan the Barbarian would. In this world, real men don't look out for the weak, and they don't need universal or single payer health care, because it is too complicated a concept, and because they are never going to get sick.
So this Goldfarb, played D&D and is now ashamed about it, because he plays with the big boys now. And they are tough, cool guys, because Goldfarb hasn't met a real man, just a bunch of bullies who pretend to be. These frightened people, must always seek out people who abuse power -- because that is the only strength they recognize.
Strength, is having your two, 40 and 70 lb boys, jumping on you stomach and testicles, and calmly saying; "OK, this is fun, but we need to let daddy live, OK?"
Don't these old out of touch idiots realize that nobody plays Dungeons & Dragons anymore?
They play World Of Warcraft.
Native Texan @ 49:
Oh but he did - what do you think the overlap is between the group that includes D&D 'nerds' and WoW crowd. All my WoW friends are former D&D players from back in the day - now they are computer literate home owners, have children, jobs, lives, economic and social concerns and generally represent 'normal' America. Goldfarb was pandering to McCain's retarded bully fratboy base with his cheap shot against a 'game nerd' stereotype. That was a pretty dumb thing to do since gamers are everywhere John McCain would like to get support - especially in the Military. If Goldfarb had ever gotten out of HIS mothers basement and down to the local gaming convention he would have noticed that a large number of gamers are active duty and ex-military - mocking them for their choice of hobby (it is inexpensive and portable) is sure to give them another reason to vote for McCain, right?
Sure the cellar dwelling D&D misfit stereotype may have had, and probably still has, some living examples walking around (OK - lurking in a subterranean circumstance) - but these people are far outnumbered by the generation (or 2) of people who have grown up and through the heyday of D&D in the early 80s and at some point switched to MMORPGs in the last 10 years (if they still game at all). Some of these people wont feel targeted by Goldfarb's swipe - but I imagine a great many have been more offended by Goldfarb's jape than were filled with approval and camaraderie towards McCain's campaign because he hates NERDS - just like they do.
'Revenge of the Nerds' was a popular enough franchise to spawn 4 sequels - IMO the audience for these movies are precisely the kind of person Goldfarb is targeting with this mean spirited rhetoric, people who identified with the nerd characters rather than the repellent villains. These are also people intelligent and engaged enough to search the internet for multiple information sources insofar as they have time to do so - people unlikely to be easily brainwashed by MSM echo chamber ideological mantras. To be sure - the righties of the MSM and Fox News have hammered away at the blogger community with every smear they can think of and will continue to do so - it vital to their strategy that 'low-information' voters believe anyone who 'blogs' or spends time looking at more than one source of information on the internet is a crazy whackjob cellar dwelling dungeons and dragons nut (if calling them klansmen or nazis or commies or traitors or liberals who deserve to be killed hasn't already convinced their audience to avoid listening to anyone but official news sources - like the MSM).
NEEEERDS!!
Uh. . revenge of the nerds was about nerds who used their brains to make the jocks look like stupid buffoons.
A fitting theme in the YouTube age.
“If my comments caused any harm or hurt to the hard working Americans who play Dungeons & Dragons, I apologize. This campaign is committed to increasing the strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores of every American.”
LOL!
Aw c'mon, that was pretty good! Give some credit where it's due.
Robert
Robert Murphy @ 57:
Yea bu it's a jok
Plisko @ 58:
Ok my computer just went crazy. Site monitor. . feel free to delete.
Robert Murphy @ 57:
Yes Robert but it is a joke that only a D&D player would know enough about the game to come up with. He listed every stat! That's like making fun of Boy Scouts by using "Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. "
Anyone else remember that one? Only Boy Scouts would.
That Google video was fantastic. Thanks for that.
chicano2nd @ 7:
You said it!!! Thanks!
Goldfarb, you've completely exposed yourself and totally misunderstood who you were dealing with. Thanks Adam Serwer for pointing out the truth in what Goldfarb was up to... projecting!
and 55 WMK, I like what you say... thanks for sticking it to that asshat Goldfarb.
Steve, all the best in this new challenge you've accepted. You'll be great, just like you were here. I'll miss your insights and those moments when it's crystal clear that we think the same. Thanks and thanks again!!
With trolls like Goldfarb, you gotta use acid or fire. Otherwise they'll regenerate.
Whatever you do, DON'T cut them into little pieces -- tempting as that option may seem.
1. We are not all nerds
2. We are the real "masters of the universe" creating the new realities that people in the "reality based community" end up studying.
3. We all had a Goldfarb in the party at the beginning of the campaign, but after the first couple adventures even the guy that invited him was on board with changing the place & time of the meetings without telling him.
R.I.P. Gary Gygax
chicano2nd @ 24:
How much Plato have you read & how well do you know ancient Greek?
You do know Plato was an avowed enemy of democracy & presented in the Republic a model of Spartan based Fascism.
Sorry to get back to the original thread and sound like Bob Somerby at the amazing Daily Howler(who can write a lot more clearly about media literacy in this kind of media narrative then I). D& D, while still popular, is pretty much an older crowd who would be 30-50 or so now, compared to kids in their 20’s-30’s who play the major games such as Grand Theft Auto, etc. It shows how out of touch the author is with today’s culture. All these kinds of stereotypes are only useful to belittle, degrade, and demean a class of people with as wide a brush as possible so they may be dismissed and not considered individuals with full human rights. This is a historically successful speciality of right wing narrative and is based on their ego. The demeaning of others = I am better than they are.
This is why teaching media literacy to all ages is so important. Moreover, it is tragic that media literacy has been kept out public schools and colleges in the US. Teachers don't have time to teach kids to think for themselves anymore, we just teach them to pass tests for NCLB and get jobs in cubicles.
The D&D guy in his 20’s in his basement who does not work and lives with his parents is also another excuse to dismiss the terrible economic climate of the 90s and 21st century; forget about the fact that there are few good jobs and you need 2 incomes to live in a house and the only jobs are at WalMart and temp companies. The D& D guy is simply a more modern, internet version of the standard “dirty crazy hippies." The dirty hippy slur has traditionally been used to degrade anyone who is interested in human rights, justice, fairness, the environment, civil rights, feminism, animal rights, gay rights, or any of the right-wing’s standard emblems of hate. You see this slur not only widely used today among students at Harvard and other money grubbing institutions, but among so-called progressive blogs such as HuffPost and Daily Kos as well, usually in a rejection of these 60's ideas.
And let us be clear about it. When you hear words such as “dirty hippy” or you hear teens and young people in your home or on the street say “faggot” or “you're so gay” it is all about stereotypes, it is all about hate and degrading others. It is all about controlling the narrative so the ultra right wing wins and everyone else loses, which is why it must be actively opposed.
What a compliment to C&L that TWM is snapping up some of its talent!
Congrats to both C&L and to Steve B.
Good news all the way around.
I think if the way Obama tries to pull policies out of a hat like a magician does with white rabbits, Swords and Sorcery is a good metaphor for his campaign. He's not a politician for sure, no matter how hard he tries.
pissed off patricia @ 23:
Well, their campaign and platform is 100% recycled, that's worth something. Mostly reclaimed toxic waste, admittedly, but still more ecological than shoveling virgin lies at the public.
Also, I play Dungeons and Dragons, and I always find it a little ironic that the people who use it as a stock insult either are in the proverbial role playing closet themselves or learned everything they know about RPGs from that Tom Hanks movie back in the 80s, and the public discussion of video game players is about the same.
In reality, all the role players I know are educated, intelligent, and most definitely do not live in their mother's basement. Most are in theater, actually, and have active social lives to put it mildly. Same goes double for "gamers", and there are more of them--hell, even my wife counts as a casual video game player.
Only sad part is that these groups are so used to being mocked that it's hard to get them worked up about it enough to do something.
Oh, poor Goldfarb. Just couldn't find a way to keep those first level dwarf clerics from getting killed in a nest of goblins. BWAAAAAH!
Sorry, the tail-end quote tag on Patricia's comment I was quoting above apparently got deleted accidentally--it's supposed to just be the first three sentences.
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Marc @ 74:
The last group I played with gamed at our favorite bar on Monday nights. That was about twenty years ago. I just figured I'd never have as much fun with another group, so I shelved the manuals, dice and figurines.
My 18 year old son has been gaming for about 5 years now, and every now and then I crack open his manuals...And it looks like it might be fun to play again! Takes too much time though. Goddammit!
In building an earth-type model for my game world, this game system had me looking up information on cartography, geology, zoology, botany, ecological systems, weather, history, mythology. That became the game for me.
D&D nerds are more upset about how they nerfed 4th edition, am I right fellas? .... Guys?
Seriously though I find it interesting that absolutely ANYTHING that requires intelligence, creativity or any for of intellectual effort whatsoever, be it role-playing games or learning foreign languages is spit on by these people.
This made me LOL! I played D & D at art school and my ex-husband and his pals ( all well off professionals in their 40s now) STILL get together and toss the dice sometimes- they've all played off and on since they were in high school.
but you know, the real point is that the freaks and geeks do tend to stick up for each other. Whether you're a video gamer, an otaku or living your life in the Buffyverse- you don't like to see other people with similar interests getting picked on. The comment above about the frat guys thinking it's cool to beat up on the chess club is right on the mark.
Adios Steve. Your posts here, the Carpetbagger Report and Salon were ones that I always looked forward to. Best wishes on you next gig.
Goldfarb gives himself away, or he did his homework. Not just anybody can rattle off "strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence, wisdom, and charisma scores".
Maybe John McCain can hire a necromancer to summon soldiers and civilians killed in iraq to fight for us.
Somebody also forgot to mention that nerds are nerds because we're smart....
God, these people are like so yesterday. D&D? pshaw.... every hard-core mommy's basement computer geek knows that today's hot on-line nerd game is World of Warcraft. I, personally, am a level 22 Druid Night-Elf, I'll have you know...
One can easily imagine Mikey walking around in a pointy hat and fake white beard, screaming "I am Goldfarb the White, Grand Wizard of the Fearful Right, slayer of Libroolz!!"
LOL, freakin Goldfarb. Worst... D&D name... EVER...
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