http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/ Switched Comments for Nerds Face Lawsuit Over 'Dungeons & Dragons' Handbook http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 2:29PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 7:08PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 8:01PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 8:41PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 20th 2009 10:59PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Thanks for wasting my time.]]>Jun 21st 2009 12:23AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/
I'm going to go out on a limb here. I'm a gamer, old school pen and paper type, D&D among those I've played. You're free to think that my hobby's lame, silly, asinine, or a total waste of time. You're free to write the kind of schlock you wrote, and (though I seriously hope otherwise) get paid for it. That's what living in a free society's all about.

So now I'm going to exercise my right to free speech and say that you've got to be about the world's biggest douchebag. If you were talking about other races, women, or religious groups the way you just slandered us gamers, you'd be getting crucified left and right in the media. What makes you think that it's somehow acceptable to spew this kind of hatred and vitriol at us? Seirously, did the community do something as a whole to offend you, or are you just trying to prove how awesome you are by putting other people down? I'm as utterly baffled as I am offended. What possessed you to think that this was cool, funny, or otherwise something that people would want to read?

I've never met anyone that doesn't have some kind of hobby - they're the things that keep our heads screwed on straight. Just because we generally roll dice instead of being a living index of baseball stats, going fishing, or sipping a latte in a coffee shop somewhere doesn't mean we're some kind of freaks. Or if it does, maybe we're all freaks.]]>Jun 21st 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 21st 2009 8:47AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/
I'm a high school student and I've never played DnD (I don't know...how to play, as a matter of fact), but I'm friends with several members of the DnD club, which includes a lot of really bright kids, and several young, pretty girls. I like them; they're much more polite than Caleb on the whole.]]>Jun 21st 2009 9:06AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 22nd 2009 6:53AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/Jun 22nd 2009 12:12PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/
Funny thing is, some of the "nerds" who play D&D are people like Vin Diesel, Judy Dench, Robin Williams and NBA star Tim Duncan.

I'm hoping this article's tone is satire, because the irony of denouncing D&D on a site geared toward the geek crowd is just too much.]]>Aug 21st 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/http://www.switched.com/2009/06/20/eight-nerds-face-lawsuit-over-dungeons-and-dragons-handbook/]]>Oct 21st 2009 6:38PM