Geek Love
Sorry I missed this the other week, but this graphic is absolutely priceless.
It is by Sam Potts and was published by The New York Times Company on March 9th in response to the death of D&D creator Gary Gygax. I realize that exposing myself as a longtime D&D fanatic might get me the “did you play with real swords”-type-questions, but hey, it was great fun.
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At the risk of fully exposing myself as a geek (no–I am not into nerdcore, though), I have to confess: I worked at the Georgia Renaissance Festival (and have been a fully costumed patron on many occasions), own pewter figurines, am a web designer, taught myself FoxPro (not Pascal), I do wonder about the technical accuracy of the diagram, I am blogging about it, and the analogy between D&D and Google is pretty darn good!
By the way, the secret to mixing girls and D&D is to find the girls who play too. If you can’t find them… then convert them (sorry Katie, Kathy, and all the other girls exposed to Orcs, Green Dragons, and a group of geeky guys eating Taco Bell and drinking Mountain Dew till 4 in the morning)!
Ok, I promise: no more D&D postings on the blog…
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March 23rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
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