Never tangle with Reddit or 4chan. Their apologists are oblivious and indefatigable. (All comments below are paraphrases of actual email and twitter comments received today.)
My impressions have been confirmed. Someone has made a video showing the cat’s true nature: ASSASSINS.
We atheists are a heartless people. Dr Rubidium is trying to raise money for GeekGirlCon science, and to trick a certain sect of the musically elect to donate, she promised to listen to a whole Pink Floyd album. The moment has come. She is committed. She has bravely walked up to the mark and is now asking us which Pink Floyd album she has to listen to…with an internet poll. Uh-oh. She is asking for it.
But on the positive side, I laughed at every line, and the closing act is killer.
Ancient nerds. Look at this: an icosahedral die from somewhere between 30 and 300 BCE. Egyptians were throwing d20s back before Jesus worshippers founded the cult that would eventually call D&D satanic.
“You’ll have to roll a θ to hit that lemure, dude.”
There’s a third Atlas Shrugged movie out? But I didn’t even get around to watching the first two parts!
Maybe I’m old and not so active in gaming any more, but it just sunk in — I was a heavy gamer back in the 1970s, before most of you were born. I outrank most of the gibbering basement-dwelling FPS fanatics! I was playing multi-player combat games, pulling all-nighters to hammer the enemy, back when it was all about big sheets of paper and cardboard counters and throwing dice. What brought it back is that I remember Greg Costikyan — I played Costikyan’s games back in the ’80s.
What good are minions, lackeys, and lickspittles if you fail to bring me this ring?
This Sevan Biçakçi ring is made in 24-karat gold and sterling silver with more than 3,000 hand-set multicolored diamonds, 164 hand-set seed pearls, and one South Sea baroque pearl.
Seriously, Horde, if you cannot deliver this entirely appropriate treasure to my hand within the next 24 hours, you will have to consider yourselves total failures in your role as stooges and sycophants.
Maybe they don’t mean to be malicious — the worst of them are just really, really stupid. And the subset of gamers who make youtube comments are a distillation of idiocy.
