We’ve watched a bit of TV over the weekend between home finishing. There’s nothing on regular TV in the summer, especially over the weekend, so we’ve been watching movie channels. It occurred to me last night that there sure was a lot of Will Smith on TV.
First was, obviously, Independence Day. The Fresh Prince plays a fighter pilot who delivers the improbable computer virus to the alien ship.
Scott Adams gives a humorous but well-received impression on Congress’ flag burning ideas.
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I used to roleplay. You know, Dungeons and Dragons, World of Darkness, that sort of thing. It’s not that I wanted to stop playing, but it seems everyone I used to play the games with has flaked out on me, and not I have thousands of dollars of books that won’t be useful to me until my kids grow up, and even then will probably be outdated enough to replace.
Still, I have a few memorable moments from my roleplaying days that I thought I would share. I’ll start with my early memories, and work my way up.
I first started playing Basic D&D back in 4th grade. Mike Cochard was the only other kid in school who would even talk to me. At recess at school, we’d stay inside and write up characters and invent games to play. I stayed overnight at his house once where his dad actually ran the game for us. And we played Colecovision until Mike passed out from fatigue.
In high school, Derek, Allen and I used to play D&D at Derek’s house. We set up our things on Derek’s diningroom table, and played for hours. We had charaters so advanced that we moved onto epic wargames with miniatures, where our characters would command whole armies. At these nights at Derek’s house is where I learned to eat jalapeno relish, jars of which we’d dump into some Cheez Whiz and call it a snack. We made characters for other games that we never played, simply for the joy of character creation.
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