Just a wild guess here... you got seriously burned by someone?

Nah, I'm just happy to see you *rim shot* I know, I'm just full of cheap jokes tonight.

I used to be, but we're fine now.

How about someone who's still schizophrenic?

Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

He had been suffering from health problems for several years, including an abdominal aneurysm, said his wife, Gail Gygax.

Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys, and eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.

Gygax always enjoyed hearing from the game's legion of devoted fans, many of whom would stop by the family's home in Lake Geneva, about 55 miles southwest of Milwaukee, his wife said. Despite his declining health, he hosted weekly games of Dungeons & Dragons as recently as January, she said.

"It really meant a lot to him to hear from people from over the years about how he helped them become a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman, what he gave them," Gail Gygax said. "He really enjoyed that."

Dungeons & Dragons players create fictional characters and carry out their adventures with the help of complicated rules. The quintessential geek pastime, it spawned a wealth of copycat games and later inspired a whole genre of computer games that's still growing in popularity.

Born Ernest Gary Gygax, he grew up in Chicago and moved to Lake Geneva at the age of 8. Gygax's father, a Swiss immigrant who played violin in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, read fantasy books to his only son and hooked him on the genre, Gail Gygax said.

Gygax dropped out of high school but took anthropology classes at the University of Chicago for a while, she said. He was working as an insurance underwriter in the 1960s, when he began playing war-themed board games.

But Gygax wanted to create a game that involved more fantasy. To free up time to work on that, he left the insurance business and became a shoe repairman, she said.

Gygax also was a prolific writer and wrote dozens of fantasy books, including the Greyhawk series of adventure novels.

Gary Sandelin, 32, a Manhattan attorney, said his weekly Dungeons & Dragons game will be a bit sadder on Wednesday night because of Gygax's passing. The beauty of the game is that it's never quite the same, he said.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Besides his wife, Gygax is survived by six children.
(Taken from MSN news)


Yes, I'm a nerd and I'm proud of it.

Peace, Love and Bloodstains,
~ Me.

Thank you to Winston Churchill for that qoute.

.....

More like an itchy trigger finger... =\

Lovely, a bit sad, but then again, most of the greatest poems are written in distress.

A good qoute to remember (and I've no idea who said it first, but I saw it as graphiti on the wall of a condemned house)
"When the power of love, outweighs the love of power, then the world will know peace."

frelling triple posts!

....damned double posts.

Edward Scissorhands.

It's classic. (But I've definitely got a hard-on for Nightmare Before Christmas)

wow... absolutely profound here. Seriously.... I challenge anyone else to be this deep. </sarcasm>

*cough cough cliche cough cough*

If you dare to read my wonderfully glowing profile, you'd probably be able to guess that I value honesty beyond most everything else. If a girl has expectations, I want to know. If she has an opinion, I want to hear it. If she knows she's going to create drama for the hell of it, I want to know.... so I can leave immediately.

Unfortunately, I think almost anyone else who says "I just want a guy to be honest with me" they're f*cking lying.

Clowns are awesome. End of Discussion.



This is my opinion, **** you.
~ Me.

I think I just heard my neighbors light up...

~ Jack Napier (The Joker): "Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale Moon light?" (Taken from the 1989 movie: Batman starring Michael Keaton)

~ Dwight McCarthy: "Always... and never." (from 2005's hit movie Sin City)

*claps* that was priceless.

*takes a bow* thank you, thank you