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Date: 2004-01-20 09:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 09:10 am (UTC)Er, "Dungons."
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 09:12 am (UTC)Which is, honest to god, the first thing that occurred to me, looking at that picture.
On a scale of geekiness, just how I high does that make me rank?
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Date: 2004-01-20 09:26 am (UTC)The DM...hmm. Kid with the glasses, front row, second from left? He just looks like a DM to me.
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Date: 2004-01-20 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 09:28 am (UTC)Either that or the black kid holding the DM's guide.
Pointless aside: All three of the books in that photo (and two of those three exact editions) are not less than five feet from my desk at home.
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 05:26 pm (UTC)My Mom says I'm cool ...
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Date: 2004-01-20 09:42 am (UTC)So...D&D (and C&S) are not...y'know, Candyland. They're pretty hardcore games. These days I wouldn't even attempt to learn a new game as complicated as D&D -- I only kept up with 3rd ed. out of tradition. It's not that I can't learn the rules, it's just that I don't think baroque rulesets mean it's a good game.
But yeah, I'm around 8-9 years old and I'm tinkering with D&D, Avalon Hill Wargames, I even got into Star Fleet Battles -- Really frickin' complex games. I'm amazed that I comprehended it as well as I did. I'm amazed that any of us did.
I guess it's no different than being able to rattle off all 250 Pokemon and distinguishing characteristics are today. But still...
Tom
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Date: 2004-01-20 09:43 am (UTC)Nowadays I can't handle anything with more than 5 stats reliably.
Emphatically not alien. In fact there's me!
Date: 2004-01-20 10:51 am (UTC)The kid with the PHB looks just like an old friend and fellow gamer I knew at that age. Friggin' weird. 'Course all blonde haired blue eyed aryan youth probably looked like that back then. Or maybe he was a boy from Brazil...
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:55 am (UTC)Really? You looked kinda like a young Steve Buscemi.
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:05 am (UTC)I just WISH we had a D&D club in school.
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:33 am (UTC)That's what I thought too.
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:50 am (UTC)Could be. I saw it on RPG.net in a discussion about The Valedictorian's Death, Paul Czege's ingenious game of stories in old high school yearbooks.
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:34 am (UTC)I think I looked most like the teacher/advisor woman though. How scary is that?
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Date: 2004-01-20 10:57 am (UTC)"Marry a geek," said my mother. "You'll have the last laugh. I did!"
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:27 am (UTC)I want your Geek Badge on my desk in the morning.
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:39 am (UTC)Youse can come try to take away my Geek Badge, copper! You'll hafta pull it outta my cold dead hand!
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:33 am (UTC)lol
Date: 2004-01-20 11:43 am (UTC)When my friend Sean's mom ran our games in middle school that's what she used.
Man they started playing DnD just about the time I did.
I feel old.
My friend Sean's Mom
Date: 2004-01-20 11:49 am (UTC)That's a pretty great sentence.
Sean's mom must have been cool.
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Date: 2004-01-20 01:01 pm (UTC)She ran us through Basic, Expert and Advance DnD for about 4 years.
Ok I'm starting to feel older.
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Date: 2004-01-20 11:49 am (UTC)*excluding anything posted by Warren Ellis
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Date: 2004-01-20 01:22 pm (UTC)warren, your bizarre rant about genetically modified food ravishes me! your URL is tattooed on my breasts! i hate hippies! OH!
sincerely,
typical
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Date: 2004-01-20 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-20 03:13 pm (UTC)This does bring back some memories, yes.... Games Club, Science Fiction club (which eventually absorbed Games Club, because Games Club kept loosing people to Play Rehearsals). Though none of them look like me, I recall plenty of other folks in those clubs who looked like them.
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Date: 2004-01-20 05:24 pm (UTC)To quote Ogre, from Revenge of the Nerds, "Neeeeeeeeeerds!"
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Date: 2004-01-21 02:20 am (UTC)what's a dungon? lol!
I don't have any pictures of myself from that age.
Date: 2004-01-21 09:45 am (UTC)::smirks, furrows eyebrows, and wrings hands with evil glee::
Hey! My wife is a high school teacher, and she just started an anime club. Apparently, it's very popular. (Now do I have a cool wife, or what?) She doesn't look like the teacher in the picture, however.