orichalcum

So, the official McCain blog just decided to gratuitously mock Obama supporters as D&D players, despite the context having nothing whatsoever to do with gaming:

"It may be typical of the pro-Obama Dungeons & Dragons crowd to disparage a fellow countryman's memory of war from the comfort of mom's basement, but most Americans have the humility and gratitude to respect and learn from the memories of men who suffered on behalf of others."

So, yeah, personally, I'm an Obama supporter, 2nd-place international D&D champion, and prrroud, but dude! I've got plenty of gamer friends who support your candidate, Mr. Goldfarb, and frankly, claiming that they lack humility and gratitude towards the military is rude and insulting. It might be hard to believe, but both Obama supporters and D&D players can be mature adults who don't live in their parents' basements and have happy, functioning social lives and political opinions of all stripes.

Plus, um, from what I hear, RPGs and MMORPGS? Pretty big among those who are "suffering on behalf of others" in Iraq and Afghanistan _right now._

Meanwhile, we aren't the ones throwing throwing around insults like "Barack Obama sleeps with a teddy bear," so, really, I'd step back from the "who's more mature and adult here" game.