…wasn’t just Woodstock, or a really, really bad Bryan Adams song.

Alas alack, it took my friend Jape to point this out to me:

“In all the celebratory hyperbole over Woodstock’s 40th Anniversary, people are missing the other seminal event that happen 4 decades ago this week: Gen Con II, when Gary Gygax first met Dave Arneson, thereby setting the stage for all things D&D. ”

Indeed it did!

- John

I’ve got voice confirmation from a friend of Dave Arneson’s, who spoke with Dave’s daughter today. Dave Arneson IS in hospice care. F**cking internet and its “unconfirmed, but we’ll assume it’s true” paradigm.

I’m looking at YOU, Escapist magazine.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/90765-R-I-P-Dave-Arneson

“Not confirmed” means you do not put it in a bloody headline. “Assuming the reports are true” is NOT a basis for a news article.

And the comments at the end of the article?

Classy. Classy bunch.

F**cking internet.