Dave is “sick to death of nerd culture” and if there’s one thing he wants you to take away from what he has to say, it is, “You can be into a thing without having to be into being into a thing.” Nerds and fellow travelers respond in […]
Capt. Robert M. Chamberlain uses Leeroy Jenkins, World of Warcraft icon and internet meme, to analyze the “American way of advising” in Iraq: “The video, which has been viewed more than 10 million times, is analogous to the disparity between the deliberation with which American forces approach counterinsurgency […]
Laura Hudson analyzes Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams recent embrace of sockpuppetry as a tool: “[H]e lied to us on the internet in order to hide his obvious personal agenda and conflict of interest. But it’s OK, because all he was trying to do was hide his obvious personal […]
The New Yorker writes about George R. R. Martin, his fans, his angry fans, his fantasy epic, A Song of Fire and Ice, the upcoming HBO series based on it, and his next book, A Dance of Dragons, six years in the writing: “I’m living the dream here. […]
A straight male gamer accuses Bioware of ignoring straight male gamers by having queer romance options in Dragon Age II. Bioware responds by talking about having options for everyone and straight male privilege. Seriously.
“Wanting to be a cooler, beer-drinking, girl-bedding kind of guy, I stopped playing D&D when I went to college. There was shame in them thar imaginary hills. So I shelved that yearning for fantasy heroics, which looked so weak and antisocial. I told myself, You don’t need D&D […]
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