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Herald logic: People who play role-playing games grow up to be mass murderers

By adamg on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 12:45pm

Adam Reilly surveys reaction to the Herald's shocking revelation that Amy Bishop played Dungeons and Dragons as a teen, just like Mucko McDermott and, um, Curt Schilling. He awaits the Herald's discovery of a third murderous D&D player, because as any ink-stained wretch knows, it's not officially a trend without three examples.

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By cursedtofirst on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:03pm.

Having been against the Iraq war is also apparently a risk factor for this type of behavior!

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By anon on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 9:01am.

Honestly, most PHD students I've known were pretty insane, so should we ban PHD programs? Grand Theft Thesis!!

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By karenz on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 11:15pm.

Please wait until AFTER I finish my dissertation!!

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By sco on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:45pm.

I don't want to be Elfstar! I want to be Debbie!!

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By FlyingToaster on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 1:51pm.

... and at the original Herald article, all but 3 comments (as of 1:30pm) were criticisms of the author &/or the Herald.

As the GOS and Atrios always say, it's time for another blogger ethics panel... or maybe the Herald likes hemorrhaging readers and subscribers.

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By Ron Newman on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 2:32pm.

Over 60 of them. Something I almost never see in the online Herald (or Globe, for that matter)

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By angry milkman on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 2:34pm.

Toaster - good observation. I like The Herald but they really are in almost every instance so clueless about things like this (see the Herald's reporting on: City employee uses Twitter -- SHOCKING! and Grand Theft Auto = World's Greatest Evil). They need a consultant to sit them all down and show them a calendar and try to explain that the world has moved on since 1978.

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By WhoDat? on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 3:16pm.

If you've ever seen the newsroom, you'd know they're not as far removed from 1978 as you'd hope. Editors still tapping out stories on ATEX terminals older than some reporters, old pica poles and measurement wheels piled up in abandoned offices, a high-school-style cafeteria and a night shift that still does some of its best work at J.J. Foley's. How can you progress culturally when your workplace has been frozen in time for three decades? If not for the imprints of old desks in vast, empty portions of the newsroom, you wouldn't know anything had changed at all.

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