Which is more pathetic?

the fact that I understand these jokes, or the fact that I'm laughing at them? http://www.onion.com/onion3121/billgates.html __________________ Oh, man, I get it too... How sad... __________________ Dude! The Onion rules! Oh wait, I just looked at the page, and your talking about how you get the D&D stuff huh. Sorry, yup, your pathetic... __________________ Whew!!! That was close!! I almost, but didn't get it. __________________ It's OK if you get it, but if you still play D&D, well, that is pretty friggin' sorry..... __________________ Quote: Originally posted by fakesurfers It's OK if you get it, but if you still play D&D, well, that is pretty friggin' sorry..... Does Baldur's Gate 2 count? __________________ No way Leon, BG2 is waaaaayyyyyyy cool. __________________ > l You are standing in a crowded retail store. Thousands of computer enthusiasts are swarming around table in the middle of the store to the North. > n You are standing next to a sweaty overweight man who is a grasping a book with a bright yellow cover. The only discernible words on the cover are "..or Dummies." The crowd appears to get thicker to the North. > n You are now standing next to the table in the middle of the store. Behind the table, a small geeky man with glasses is signing the bright yellow books. He looks pretty mean. > l man You see Bill Gates. > peek bill gates You see $5,600,000,000.00 in gold coins in his pocket. He is wielding a small handheld Windows CE PC in his left hand and his autobiography in his right. > con bill gates You consider Bill Gates. Death would thank you for your gift. > i You are carrying: 1 wicked looking Broad Sword 1 copy of Linux Documentation Project. 1 barrel of Beer 1 shield with xfree86 engraved on the front > wield sword You wield a wicked looking Broad Sword. > wear shield You wear a shield with xfree86 engraved on the front. > quaff beer You quaff a barrel of beer. Your cheeks are rosy. > read LDP You sit down and begin reading the LDP. It's a big project, but when you begin, you notice your intelligence increasing. You begin reading faster and faster and faster until you've finally reached the back cover. Good read. Your sword is glowing! Your shield is glowing! Your muscles feel stronger! > con bill gates You consider Bill Gates. He cowers in fear! > bash bill gates Your bash sends him flying! Bill Gates hits you with a beam from his handheld. Your slash EVISCERATES Bill Gates! Bill Gates shoots a beam at you from his handheld, but missed! Your slash EVISCERATES Bill Gates! Bill Gates casts a Blue Screen Spell on you! That really HURT! > bash bill gates Your bash sends him flying! You have killed Bill Gates! __________________ i get the reference, but it's not funny. i gues you had to be there. what was the big deal about d&d anyway? __________________ oh, it was kind of funny - the onion is more about "getting it" than actual "haha" funny, if that makes any sense. their motto is "you are dumb," which is so much more direct than "all the news that's fit to print." i SOOO get it. i last played AD&D just a few years ago as an undergrad... AND I'M PROUD OF IT!!!! d&d the movie starts this weekend and h-llyeah i'm gonna go see it. __________________ Damn, Ironchef, I want to go mudding now. __________________ glad someone knows what the hell i was talkin' about! been so long since i was on a mud. i kinda miss it sometimes.. then i go play counter strike __________________ I used to play D&D in eigth grade, but I was too new with computers to be able to find, understand and play muds until it vanished from popularity. oh yeah, and the new movie looks retarded. I can't stand whichever Wayans Brother is actually in it... maybe I'll go see it with a couple of beers in me __________________ My old college roomate was a mudd FREAK. He used to go flying around the country to meets and stuff. He became such a high level player that he was promoted to wizard, which basically was a coder who could create his own subrealms of the mudd world. He could also just build any character he wanted, give him any items, and just tool around the place spreading beneficance or woe as he saw fit. Pretty cool, I guess, if your willing to forego sunlight for a couple years to get to achieve that goal, and desire a position of power over other people with similar aspirations. As for me, I played D+D solidly, probably at least 10 to 20 hours a week, and sometimes 40-60 during the summers from 4th Grade through high school. It was a lot of fun and helped foster creativity and an interest in reading, which I'm grateful for today. I also never got laid. I tried to play some when I started college (I actually got into a very cool game of Call of Cthulhu, a very different sort of realm), cause there was a gaming club that offered a lot of new games to try out, but I lost interest pretty quickly, what with being in college in New Orleans and all Mavi forum