"On the other hand, we are not loathe to answer your questions, but why have us do any more of your imagining for you?" -- Gary Gygax, from the afterward in the original Dungeons & Dragons box set (1973 ( Read more... )

I've found that there are four kinds of people in service jobs, directly dealing with customers ( Read more... )

There's this thing people do where when confronted with a spelling, grammar, or word useage mistake they make, they will defend their right to make that mistake. I remember John Byrne griping about people spelling "Spider-Man" as "Spiderman" and continuing to do so, even after having been corrected. I have had this problem with people using dice as ( Read more... )

I look at people and see just a sea of bad decisions and self-destruction leading to 100% avoidable repercussions that stick with you forever. And it's no wonder... What hope is there for the future? What are we living for? We grow up to enter a lifetime of debt, abuse from others, and general hopelessness. The only way to prosper, it seems, is to ( Read more... )

I think that the attitude of everyone being a winner (giving all teams trophies in Little League, etc.) and taking all challenge and effort out of life have created a widespread attitude that anyone better than you is to be despised. Maybe this is why even superheroes are all unlikeable douchebags nowadays... You know, the attitude that Superman ( Read more... )

There's some reality show about a guy who goes around finding old toys, then buys them and sells them at a profit. It kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but it took me a bit to articulate why. First, while the stuff about old toys is sort of interesting (they had a Bumblejumper on there), I don't care how much his "take" on buying and selling ( Read more... )

I was just talking about this, and lo, a prime example appears in the most recent episode of Clone Wars ( Read more... )

Something that started to bug me around the time I turned 20 was the fact that romantic rivals were always swept under the rug in movies. If someone had loved and lost and wanted to get back together with his former love, it was a struggle, but the rival was always someone we didn't care about -- either that, or the rival would die and the ( Read more... )

Do the political extremists in America make foreigners as nervous as they make me ( Read more... )

A few months back, to show how often I put my thoughts on here anymore, I was thinking that Mario and Mickey Mouse are the same character. They are both happy, go-lucky guys who are helpful and potentially heroic. Aside from that, there isn't much to say about them. This is understandable in the case of Mario, where you project yourself onto the ( Read more... )