I'm not gay. It just so happens that rainbows like me.

D&D 4 Ed. is 2.0

I'm having some kind of identity crisis right now. I'll be playing Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition soon, and as I was looking for info about the new iteration of my old(est) hobby, I ran into this. Did you know that they had a whole community website (with paid subscription, mind you) and Youtube promotional videos up there?

Somehow, I find it strange that this 30 year-old game that's all about pen, paper and nerdy friends is now embracing web 2.0. I'm excited and disappointed at the same time. In my days, you couldn't turn on your computer to watch a well articulated game designer presenting the game - all your computer was good for was BASIC programming anyway.

You had to read through these badly printed, randomly translated books and figure out by yourself what the hell that game was about. You had to invite your nerdy friends over on a Wednesday afternoon and try to explain the rules and principles you barely grasped over all these late nights of preparation. And then you improvised some kind of dungeon adventure and mayhem ensued because you had no idea how to steer a bunch of sugar-filled 11 year-olds who just wanted to kill things.

Ah, good times.

I don't know if the new generation is gaining or losing something from the webiquitous paradigm. I certainly look forward to the 2.0 evolutions of grandadDy&D and its ilk.

Be a hot-blooded writer, hotter than the sun

"To be a hero, I must exercise every day." There should be a version of these lyrics for writers.

Are you webiquitous*?

Nowadays, in the western society, offline people - meaning, people who never use the Internet - are almost extinct. So I'd say the rest of us are divided in two categories: the normal, web surfing, email writing majority, and the webiquitous tribe.

I'm big into webiquity. People like me spend hours on social networks, write unconsequential nonsense on their blogs and roam forums to engage in life or death word battles. We search Wikipedia at dinner parties to settle arguments between friends. And when we're not sitting at a computer, we're never completely offline (hey, I'm writing this on a bus, for mod's sake!)

We try out every new so-called revolutionary service and we brag about these new forms of communication and the way the world is changing without the plebe even noticing.

But what I'm wondering is, how many of us are there? And how fast is the minority becoming a majority, if ever? Thoughts, anyone?

* In case it wasn't obvious, I only wrote this post to show off my cool new word.

Nathan Fillion is having fun on Castle

And I think I need to see this series now. For those of you who didn't see Firefly and Serenity, this 'Halloween costume' is the one Fillion wore as captain Mal Reynolds (via Tully).

Sneaking in a little bit of Paris eye candy between two meetings

iDon't

This new Droid handheld looks very yummy... (via @punkstatic)

Lord Cthulhu will eat their heathen souls!

Between the iniquitous plush toys and the blaspheming Hello Cthulhu, I thought I had seen everything. But no. The unbelievers have no limits.

I declare a holy war against the producers of this video! Let the wrath of the Old Ones fall upon them. Soon they will cower in fear, hiding in rooms with no angles. Muhu hahaha!

The Vikings are back in Dublin

Battle reenactment with some historical commentary 

The Bible in Lego

I can't believe I had never heard of this before. Since 2001, the Brick Testament illustrates the Bible with Lego. It's a funny and interesting read, and it does a great job showing all the gruesome stories the defining religion of our culture is based upon.

(Thanks Magnus for sharing this.)