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Adam Sah at Google sent me this illustration from a New York Times piece over the weekend. Honestly, I think if I find and read the article it'll spoil the laughs.
12:20 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Paul Boutin
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This is great. Painting pewter figures -> web designer and girls in costumes! not too close! are the best parts.
My fave was "doubting the technical accuracy of this diagram," because I did.
I second Paul Boutin.
The article is by Wired editor and general wiseguy Adam Rogers. That makes me want to read it now: [www.nytimes.com]
this is hilarious! furcon: no no no no no no
The article was, in fact, as good as the illustration. A very unconventional -- and well-deserved -- tribute to E. Gary Gygax. (C'mon, kidz, stop pretending you don't know who that is. ;>)
I remember I got a trial account to Dungeons and Dragons online and a bunch of people I had worked with pushed me to play it with them. One of the dungeons was narrated by Gary Gygax, and the entire thing was hilarious. Who sounded the most like Gygax turned into competitions, and people would routinely just go inside to hear him talk.
He did create something that influenced entire genres in the way Tolkien did, although it's a shame he lost control over most of D&D after his divorce.
I know a couple of people in denial- and hopefully this chart will help them "see the light." Immediately guilty of "the web is not technically the internet" and Renn Fayre (sigh).
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