Some people write a living will, and some people write a living will that’s got moxie. The money quote, for me:
If neither Bush twin is available to determine my fate, I would like
to convene a blue ribbon panel of Dungeons And Dragons players for this
purpose. The 12-person panel shall be selected by the United States
Supreme Court,
and will meet in the rotunda of the US Capitol building. They are to be
the
best such players currently available (as determined by court-appointed
experts). They shall set about determining my
fate based on my assorted attributes and several rolls of 20-sided die.
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That would have been one of the old 2nd Ed. AD&D saves,
right? Right up there with Save vs. Polymorph or Save vs. Wands
(leading one to wonder what one did to save vs. a Wand of Polymorph), I
guess.
Anyway, here’s the deal: a dude in Jersey is accused of having
stabbed to death three acquaintances and the DA has suggested it might
have to do with Dungeons & Dragons because, you know, it has knives in it:
Castor says the motive appears to be jealousy, but they are
also looking into some sort of connection with the fantasy role-playing
game ”Dungeons and Dragons”:
“I mean, you have many, many stab wounds and those ‘Dungeons and
Dragons’ fantasy games involve swords and knives and daggers and things
of that nature. There may be a connection but I can’t say for sure.”
And by “I can’t say for sure,” I think he must mean “I am a complete idiot.”
I have to confess, though, my first thought on associating the murders with D&D was Damn,
dude should have bought some ranks in Hide or Bluff or something.
At the very least he could have bought a potion of Pass Without Trace.
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OK, so I had thought podcasting was basically a cute but unnecessary
fad. I would rather read than listen, most of the time, and I can
read while at work whereas listening… not so much. But The Boyf mentioned seeing a note during Battlestar Galactica that there was a podcast relevant to that episode on SciFi.com.
I’m like, hey, cool, maybe the producer/creator/whatever guy has
something interesting to say. I figured I’d download the little
mp3 and give it a listen and say, hey, that was neat.
No. It’s way, way more incredibly cool than that.
It’s a commentary track for the episode.
You download it, you press play when the opening starts, you pause for commercial breaks. It’s like DVD commentary only right now.
Why wait for DVDs when the glorious, blessed,
holy-light-spilling-from-their-every-orifice interwebs can give us the
same experience right now?
I know this doesn’t sound like much, but it seems to me like this is major.
This has (dare I say it?) the fleeting scent of synergy. You get
your podcast commentary, you watch your show, it’s easy and it happens now. (Actually, it happens precisely one installation of jPodder or iPodderX
from now, but hey.) Combining anything with television to
accelerate an experience already popular (such as commentary tracks for
movies & shows on DVDs) is hot. Hot hot hot. I know that’s what they said about WebTV, I know, but this is different. Call me crazy, but I see a shitload of potential applications that would be awesome. Oh yes, call me crazy, but can you imagine what hot shit podcast commentary tracks would be if Joss Whedon had been doing this with Buffy? Can you imagine what hot shit podcast commentary tracks would become, overnight, if CSI: Fuck If We Know, It All Kinda Looks Like LA Oddly Enough were doing this?
Oh, but they aren’t, are they? Sure, 3 million people watch Battlestar Galactica every week, but assloads more than that watch CSI: Toledo or whatever. And they aren’t going to do it because they don’t have to.
Ah, but you know that friend of yours who’s always been into forensics
stuff? They read all the mystery novels that are based on actual
science and they like to talk about what shitty jobs all the various
Science Cop shows do with the real science?
Why can’t they do their own podcast commentary for each episode of CSI?
And what happens when some friends get together and MST3K up some of their own least favorite dreck on the tube?
Podcast Commentary Tracks + Television = Awesome.
I’m currently downloading the commentary tracks for BSG. I
am such a nerd. I know. But I don’t care. I revel in
it. And now I desperately hope the countless people who will
certainly have already had this idea do something with it so that I can
find someone who’s producing their own MST3Ks of various things and that they’re good. (more…)
