Asymmetrical Information

Thanks -- twenty years ago my eldest son spent a lot of time with much older kids playing D&D, and I worried. I really did. (Hmm, and now he's working on his PhuD in classics at Columbia -- maybe I was right to worry. But I've sent him the link, and I thank you.) Meanwhile, my own reaction is to type things like

javascript:alert(document.embeds[0].CurrentFrame())

and (rather randomly)

javascript:with(document.embeds[0]){GotoFrame(1000);Play();}

into the address bar with that document showing. Such is the world of the geek.

I love that. The audio is actually many years old. I believe I heard it on Doctor Demento before. I love the animation they attached to it.

Hmm...the root domain (http://starterupsteve.com/) has someone, possibly Steve, giving all passers by a Toby Tall salute. That about captures the attitude, I guess.

More seriously, the Bible actually does have some pretty withering commentary on dabbling in principles of witchcraft irregardless of setting. However most of the Christian community has forgotten this along with other large chunks of the scriptural writings, so it doesn't come up very often these days.

Aside from that, D&D can be much like any other involving and time-intensive hobby: if you get sucked into it to the point where it begins to consume your life, some really unsettling psycological tripping can beging to occur and literally wreck a person. By comparison, some people have gotten so deep into a video game that their eating habits went to pieces and sleep was abandoned for excessive periods...until finally the heart said "that's it, I'm outta here" and just like that: a dead guy. As I recall, this happened (again) at a South Korean Internet cafe just a few weeks ago.

Fantasy worlds are diversions and should be kept explicitly temporary and time-disciplined. The human mind was designed to live in the real one.

I believe I heard it on Doctor Demento before.

Ah-ha! So that's where it came from. I thought I recognized those voices from the "Boot to the Head" martial arts spoof.

Too much info:

The original was made by the Dead Alewives, and was just an audio sketch. Apparently, deadalewives.com no longer exists (or, rather, the domain lapsed and is now an ad page).

The same thing, but with characters from the video game Summoner (this was an "easter egg" included in the game):

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/220487?htv=12

You said "irregardless", hzzzzz n00b!

You know, Gary Gygax is still around too.

Forget D&D, it's Mazes And Monster's we've got to worry about!

Geez, Jane. When I clicked the link, my employer's NetNanny brought up the Screen of Threatened Summary Termination on the grounds that it was a porn site. You gotta give us some warning.

There's nothing risque in that link, unless you get hot for 8-bit video game characters who pretend to be wizards.

The link itself, no. The rest of the domain...definitely.

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