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I never realized that a long-dead dictator had such insight on today’s problems, until I saw his feelings regarding the end of the High-Definition War between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray (NSFW):

But now Der Führer has something to say on the subject of bloody Democratic fisticuffs. I have never seen the kind of insight into Hillary’s mind from anyone before, and it’s so very surprising. Watch and be amazed, but remember…

…both of these videos are oh-so-not-safe-for-work:

The ironies of using Hitler to make this particular commentary are too savory for me to explain, so I shall let you all enjoy its fruits on your own, but I don’t think anything else on the subject of Hillary’s candidacy need be said after this.

Tags: Entertainment, High Definition, Home Theatre, Human Stupidity, Humor, Politics, Technology by Roykirk
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As a long-time subscriber to John Gabriel’s Greater Internet Dickwad Theory…

…I foolishly allowed this blog to get off the ground with barely any limits on viewer comments other than moderating all comments before they’re allowed to go live on the site.

Not long after I started the site and allowed search engines to crawl it, I began to get spambots trying to fill the comments of one particular post with utter gibberish. Interestingly, the only post to get spammed was my article on Astana being denied a Tour de France bid. A few of those spambot comments had usernames with Cyrillic characters. With the mention of Astana and Cyrillic lettering, I would assume Russian spambots are cruising my site.

But, speculation aside, in order not to have to moderate multitudes of spam comments every day, I now require that anyone wishing to comment register on the site. I’m sorry to have to do this, but it will also prevent other abuses of comments, like the aforementioned Dickwads trolling my more inflammatory posts.

So, for those of you beyond my family and friends (should you actually exist) who read my little opinion and newsbites, I apologize for the minor inconvenience, but I don’t tolerate bad behavior on any sites or forums under my care.

Now back to your regularly scheduled rants…

Tags: Human Stupidity, Humor, Internet, Technology by Roykirk
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I know I’m a little late with this and some of you may have heard the news, but an icon of my adolescence that still affects me today passed away on Monday…

Together with Dave Arneson, E. Gary Gygax created Dungeons & Dragons, the game that I have played on and off over the decades, and regularly now, in one of its computer incarnations, Neverwinter Nights.

Dungeons & Dragons was what first started my socialization in high school, with lunchtime games in Mr. Welsh’s biology classroom, and weekend, overnight crawls at the home of one or another of our little cabal of geek gamers. And now, with the advent of the internet and Neverwinter Nights, it’s allowed me to make friends beyond the local, including one who is quite close, even though we live days and miles apart.

Thank you, Gary, for the enrichment your game has given my life, and for helping turn me into the techno-geek I am today. May your legacy live on for centuries.

UPDATE: Wired magazine has a wonderful article on Gary, the development of Dungeons & Dragons, and the impact it’s had on the world and gaming.  It has some nice personal insights from Gary as well, for the interviews were done not long before his passing.

Tags: Comics, Entertainment, Gaming, Hope, Humor, Technology by Roykirk
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