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Matthias777
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I just now thought to post this here:
http://xkcd.com/393/
(It's a tribute; hover your mouse over the image for confirmation.  )
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scott2978
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I sent this eulogy email out to some friends on Tuesday March 4:
Gary Gygax is gone.
I never met the man personally, but I feel like he was a part of my life. Whether it was he who technically created the role-playing game as we know it or not, he is considered by all true gamers to be the father of role playing. Our esteemed forefather. Our beloved leader.
Gary Gygax's name has over the years achieved a near mythical status among gamers. He was held upon a gleaming pedestal of greatness, and rightly so. What's more, we true gamers hold Gary Gygax in such high esteem even though most of us never knew him and never met him. But with his death there is a great disturbance in our lives, as if millions of gamers suddenly cried out...
Gary Gygax didn't achieve world peace, eliminate discrimination, or lift us out of our insufferably tedious workaday lives. But he gave us the vehicle which millions have used as an outlet for creativity, a stage for the imagination and a venue for self expression. He didn't achieve world peace, but he did bring us together to make new friends. He didn't eliminate discrimination, but he did give us alternate lives from whence we might see the plight of others, transcending race, gender, age, religion and even species. He didn't make us rich but he gave us a way to escape from our worldly woes, and imagine ways to overcome our real life challenges.
We don't consider Gary Gygax for what he did for us as much as for what he enabled us to do within ourselves. With Gary Gygax's help we became imaginary heroes, able to defeat our enemies, change the world for the better, and have a great time getting together with friends in the process. Indeed, if the value of a man could be measured in the amount of joy and friendship he created in the hearts of others, Gary Gygax would undoubtedly be counted among the greatest men ever to have lived. And so we true gamers, possibly only subconsciously aware of exactly why, hold the name Gary Gygax in great esteem indeed.
Rest in peace Gary. We will never forget you.
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Orpheus
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| scott2978 wrote: | I sent this eulogy email out to some friends on Tuesday March 4:
Gary Gygax is gone.
I never met the man personally, but I feel like he was a part of my life. Whether it was he who technically created the role-playing game as we know it or not, he is considered by all true gamers to be the father of role playing. Our esteemed forefather. Our beloved leader.
Gary Gygax's name has over the years achieved a near mythical status among gamers. He was held upon a gleaming pedestal of greatness, and rightly so. What's more, we true gamers hold Gary Gygax in such high esteem even though most of us never knew him and never met him. But with his death there is a great disturbance in our lives, as if millions of gamers suddenly cried out...
Gary Gygax didn't achieve world peace, eliminate discrimination, or lift us out of our insufferably tedious workaday lives. But he gave us the vehicle which millions have used as an outlet for creativity, a stage for the imagination and a venue for self expression. He didn't achieve world peace, but he did bring us together to make new friends. He didn't eliminate discrimination, but he did give us alternate lives from whence we might see the plight of others, transcending race, gender, age, religion and even species. He didn't make us rich but he gave us a way to escape from our worldly woes, and imagine ways to overcome our real life challenges.
We don't consider Gary Gygax for what he did for us as much as for what he enabled us to do within ourselves. With Gary Gygax's help we became imaginary heroes, able to defeat our enemies, change the world for the better, and have a great time getting together with friends in the process. Indeed, if the value of a man could be measured in the amount of joy and friendship he created in the hearts of others, Gary Gygax would undoubtedly be counted among the greatest men ever to have lived. And so we true gamers, possibly only subconsciously aware of exactly why, hold the name Gary Gygax in great esteem indeed.
Rest in peace Gary. We will never forget you.
Scott |
Very nice! 
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