RIP Gygax, Douchebag Atheists, and I'd Make a Lousy Cripple

Lots to talk about for once!

First of all: D&D co-creator Gary Gygax passed away on March 4th; he is now beyond the scope of healing spells. He produced a wide array of awesome games and helped kick off an incredibly nerdy and fun hobby that I've been involved in and imensely enjoyed for almost twenty years now. He will be missed.

As has been mentioned on other sites, the only fitting tribute to the man would be to lay him to rest in a mausoleum, and then rig it with the most deadly traps imagineable.

Next: I've obviously got a dislike and distrust of organized religion and all manner of supernatural beliefs and superstitious nonsense. It's all bullshit, as far as I can see.

However, this does not mean that I automatically support any and all skeptics and atheists. This is not true. And I have proof: the Rational Response Squad are enormous assholes. These guys are to atheism what 19 year old evangelical born again christians are to religion: Pushy Delusional Douchebags.

I didn't even know about these guys until about a month ago. There was a bit of net drama where the head guy of the site, a paranoid egomaniac named Brian "Sapient" Cutler called the cops on someone for reposting an e-mail that he himself initially sent. That's right, this kid actually called the cops on someone for internet drama. This butthurt loser move is epic in the scope of its fail. But it is pretty damn funny.

All of this was triggered by someone pointing out that these guys were a little hostile and annoying, without any real education or credentials to back up their bluster. Later on, someone posted the dude's real name, his phone number, and some dumb e-mail messages. Most of these were later removed after a request to the board admin, but the kid still called the cops on the person who posted the info, who posted her own contact info to call him out on his bullshit, all because he sent this to her:

A letter from all of us at RRS...

Go fuck yourself. We see you in public, and we'll let everyone in the room know about your baggage. Bitch.

Your fucking scum. So glad none of the atheist groups want you back. Idiot.

I think that's a good sample of how classy these guys are, along with their own whining about being criticized. Feel free to dig into this more, because it's actually incredibly funny due to all the personality disorders, strippers, and general stupidity involved...and they got me inspired to finish up the coloring on the Keyboard Commando pic above. Seemed appropriate for this lot.

Ok, moving on: I would be a terrible cripple. As I whined about earlier, I hurt my back last week, quite badly. Bad enough that I was on Vicodin and muscle relaxers for seven days; and even those barely made a dent in the pain. I couldn't walk for two days.

There's something really really bothersome about being so impaired. Sort of an enlightening and miserable experience. When it hurts so bad that you can't even put socks on or walk to the bathroom, you wind up feeling pretty god damn helpless. It made me realize that I do not have the type of personality to accept and adapt well to such an impairment. I'm pretty sure I'd be a miserable prick if I had that type of condition permanently.

Makes me really respect people who have to put up with such disabilities permanently and still have a relatively happy demeanor. I mean, I'm pretty much perfectly healthy and I'm a grouchy tool just having to get up early in the morning.

Well, in other news I managed to fix some major system errors on this site that had been causing server errors. Very annoying. Took a couple days of google searches to dig up a solution, but for some reason my host does some funky stuff with how they set their PHP. Bastards.

Anyway, it's fixed now (mostly) and I tracked down the module that's been throwing massive javascript errors, so all is right with the world again. :thumbs: