Today’s Raging Dumbass

Andrew Keen wins today’s Raging Dumbass award. I just watched an interview with him on a rerun of the Colbert Report. This guy is the epitome of the arrogant elitist who thinks the world owes him something. He thinks the internet is a terrible thing because it allows the common folk to create art and that this somehow takes money out of the mouths of professional artists. He couldn’t seem to stop using the word “stealing” when talking about how people use the internet (as if it were even possible to steal things via the internet).

Congratulations, Andrew Keen! For being an enemy of social progress and of human civilization as a whole, you’ve earned today’s Raging Dumbass award!

Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition Announced

The Wizards of the Coast have announced a new, fourth edition of the quīnta essentia roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons. Some of my friends and I play D&D on a weekly basis (more or less), using the 3.5 edition rules.

I find the foundation of the current rules — the concept of the “difficulty check” — to be good for relative speed and ease of use, but there is a lot of room for improvement.  Personally, I’m more of an old school RPer: give me a dungeon full of monsters, traps, puzzles, and treasure and I’m happy.  I’d like to see more tables for randomly generating information and better modifier lists for skill checks.

Anyway, the official site is down, so I’ll have to scrounge around a bit to see if I can find some more information on this new edition to see if any details have been given.