Lonely Lion

I was pretty bummed when the Humanized guys left Chicago for Mozilla in California…now though…maybe it was all worth it.

Geekdad sums up what’s wrong with D&D nowadays. I admit, I never really played D&D as a kid. We’d just make characters and have them bash each other up in an “arena.” We clearly lacked imagination. We needed a Dungeon Master…they’re hard to find in suburban Ohio.

Camri and I just recently finished watching Freaks and Geeks start to finish. That show blew my mind. I’ve been hearing about it for years, I even did Improv in college with one of the cast members sisters, but for whatever reason it just never really hit with me. I didn’t watch much TV between 1998 and 2003. Anyway, the show is great. Really great. The final episode features a sequence of scenes played out during a D&D campaign. It floored me.

I contend, based on that TV show, and backed up by the above Geekdad article, that its just sort of sad that D&D doesn’t really work anymore. However, on the flipside, I volunteered very_very_very briefly with a local geek club for high school kids. Half of the kids in the club had World of Warcraft characters. Am I a cranky old man now? That doesn’t think that the new fangled stuff is as good as the old stuff? The WoW culture is as secretive and nerdy as D&D was in its heyday. When I asked one of the kids what server his character was on, and told him that I (at the time) had a Tauren Hunter of my own, he looked at me incredulously, like “old man, what’s your chocolate doing in my peanut butter?” So, really, things just change. In case you didn’t know that. It’s true. Stuff changes.