Dungeons & Dragons Documentaries?!

While reading a news article over at Slashdot I noticed the nifty article about several documentaries about Dungeons & Dragons as well as other various RPG systems. Documentaries. That in and of itself is something to be interested in reading about, as I am a rather avid D&D fan/player/collector. Although I may not be as big and bad of a collector as my neighbor (which could be for all I know) I still do have almost a complete collection of the Original books (actually, I think I *do* have a complete collection) and I am working on a complete collection of 3rd Edition books (2nd edition wasn't all that impressive to me to be honest) I will probably hold on to these books til I am old and gray and they are of no use to me anymore. That, or I'll take 'em with me into the ground goddammit.

I watched the next installment of Naruto (Naruto #97) and I must say that I *love* Naruto. I do love many other series of anime, but none are as good to me as Naruto is. It holds a lot of things cartoons should hold. Action, Adventure, Pervert Hermits and the like, Ninjas, Honor & Moral Codes and I would recommend it for anyone who is at least honest with themselves and not a complete asshole (like most of you out there) to check it out if you haven't already. There's a lot of real good anime out there if you can get past the fact that:

1.) It's animated. Screw You, it's *better* then Live-Action. (All women are beautiful unless intended to be otherwise. Too bad real women don't look this good, eh??)

2.) It's in Japanese. Also, screw you, don't be so egotistical as to think other cultures should make everything in your native (English) Tongue.

3.) It's expensive. Again, screw you, anything of value is worth paying for. All you fags out there that only pirate and whatnot without ever buying the DVDs can all go *expletive deleted* yourselves. Sure, I may download these unlicensed anime, but the minute they are in the USA up for sale, I am there buying every one of them that I can. (Until my wife steals away my check card...)

And those are the 3 main factors that I can think of for people to not like anime (that, and of course lots of people are just generally eediots and wouldn't realize something was cool without the church saying so, or a big-ass baseball bat of coolness to the face) although I would hope that more and more people are introduced to it so that it can spread across the USA like wild-fire, get rid of the stupid-ass leftover 90's "urban" comedy and move on to something good on television.

My #1 complaint about cable television, the fact that you got to pay for 50 channels of bullshit while you get like 10 channels of goodness (although, my main 3 are Cartoon Network, Sci-Fi & Comedy Central) is that of those 50 channels, there is the BET. Give me a fucking break. Where is the White Entertainment Channel? Isn't it a bit biased to presume that there should be a Black Entertainment Channel without a white one?! *And* of course, if I want basic cable, I have to pay for that trash?! And that's why I don't pay for cable. If anything, I will pay for Satellite, assuming my cable provider ever notices they are giving me free cable here at the townhouse I rent. Oh well. I'll steal 30 minutes of cable a day (maybe 30, if that..) without reporting to them that I am stealing it, because I am not doing it by any fault of my own. They just never disconnected it for the last person that was living here, so... I see absolutely nothing wrong. Of course, all you (1) people out there reading this, don't bother to go to the cable company with this information, I know where you all (1) live.

Oh well, it's weekend. I am going to go hang out for about 30 minutes or so, then pass out next to my lovely wife and wake up around 3-ish so that I can hang out and have a happy Dungeons & Dragons day.

Later

\Koltur