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    Image of Arryma Arryma
    07/22/09

    In reply to In the Early Days of Comic-Con
    I was just thinking about this the other day. I attended back in the day (just once) and it was such a subdued affair. I was there with a friend who was the one actually into comics (I only have collected a few) but I picked up some sweet old issues of Dragon (I have #2 - #50 or so).

    Anyhow, this was in 1986, I think, and it still seemed pretty fringe - not something that I would ever tell a girl that I was interested in about. Now I see coverage and I'm wondering where the guys with their tables of wierd comics went. I mean, are there even any comics there anymore?

    It's strange to see stuff that I was ridiculed for being interested in becoming so mainstream. Next thing you know Tolkein and role-playing games are going to be mainstream.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    07/22/09

    @Arryma: Tolkien's already mainstream after the movies, as are RPG's after WoW. Now, perhaps you meant tabletop RPG's (DnD, etc), which still lurk in the shadowy, far corners of the cultural zeitgeist, awaiting that one thing that will break them out.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/23/09

    @TemporalSword: i thought WoW was tabletop gaming breaking mainstream it being the culmination of decades of progress in attempting to program a tabletop experience on a PC. the only real difference is in D&D the rules are public and in WoW you have to figure them out by playtesting. it's still all just a giant sheet of numbers run through a ruleset to determine outcomes in epic fantasy battles.
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