The Last Bastion
Sep. 14th, 2010 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkingsoupThe time has come, my friends. I am a writer. I play Pokemon and other silly video games. I have participated in online LJ RP games. I have long discussions about various sci-fi shows and watch things like Star Trek, Farscape, Doctor Who and Firefly. I respect William Shatner. I watch anime with a somewhat religious fervor at times. I have conversations about the merits of certain weapons, the various histories and lifestyles of the Middle Ages, and complain about historical or logical inaccuracies in movies concerning the era. I have been to a Renn Faire. I have gone to sci-fi and fantasy cons, as well as anime cons. I read comic books, webcomics and manga. I play WoW. I collect Magic Cards. I'm an amateur astronomer and I listen to shortwave radio. I can readily quote Star Wars.
In short, I am a full blown nerd. And the time has now come to tackle the last bastion of nerddom, to venture into the fearsome, Mountain Dew-soaked, Cheeto-stained basement in the nether regions of the House of Nerd.
Yes, my friends. I speak of Dungeons and Dragons.
I am, as we speak, in the process of building a character and will soon start a campaign involving my similarly nerdy Ithaca friends. I am learning all about Spot Checks, Ability Modifiers, and D20s.
With this, I say my final farewell to the world of coolness, fashion and all semblance of sanity. Farewell, Lady Gaga, Eat, Pray, Love, 24, and True Blood. Goodbye, Justin Bieber and Louis Vuitton. Auf wiedersehn, mainstream media. To make a nerd quote, "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." I go now to the Land of Fun, the Plane of Silliness, and the House of Nerd, and never shall I return to hipness, coolness and popularity. Good night...and good luck.
Just be glad I'm not LARPing.
In short, I am a full blown nerd. And the time has now come to tackle the last bastion of nerddom, to venture into the fearsome, Mountain Dew-soaked, Cheeto-stained basement in the nether regions of the House of Nerd.
Yes, my friends. I speak of Dungeons and Dragons.
I am, as we speak, in the process of building a character and will soon start a campaign involving my similarly nerdy Ithaca friends. I am learning all about Spot Checks, Ability Modifiers, and D20s.
With this, I say my final farewell to the world of coolness, fashion and all semblance of sanity. Farewell, Lady Gaga, Eat, Pray, Love, 24, and True Blood. Goodbye, Justin Bieber and Louis Vuitton. Auf wiedersehn, mainstream media. To make a nerd quote, "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." I go now to the Land of Fun, the Plane of Silliness, and the House of Nerd, and never shall I return to hipness, coolness and popularity. Good night...and good luck.
Just be glad I'm not LARPing.
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Date: 2010-09-14 10:58 pm (UTC)Also: Kudos. I've played D&D-based videogames a lot, so I know all the d's and checks and everything (and feel very mortified to admit it), but I've never ventured into the tabletop realm and don't think I would have the guts even if I had the friends to do it with. By all accounts its more fun than videogaming and if you're going to be a nerd, you should damn well do it right, with other people who are fun, and not by your lonesome at a computer in the dark.
*Sagely nod*
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Date: 2010-09-15 12:36 am (UTC)Hahaha it's true, it's certainly more social in some ways, but who knows how this will go?
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Date: 2010-09-16 04:43 am (UTC)I'm also thinking--vaguely--of maybe trying an LJ game again, maybe even using my D&D character. Boogie is starting one up soon called Babylon Woods. It's a jamjar with journal elements, but it's very prosey and plot-heavy. I might try it out for a bit and see if anything happens...that way I can prove to myself whether or not I've really given up the life.
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Date: 2010-09-16 05:00 am (UTC)There just aren't enough OC-friendly games on LJ anymore, and I'm really not that interested in multifandom.
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