Dungeons & Dragons & Adorable Love Songs
Want a better nerdy song than that Pok?mon song sung by that totally unknown, unheard of singer, who is still definitely only one individual person, that I posted earlier? You could do more worse than “Dungeons & Dragons” by The Doubleclicks. The video by Brad Jonas is cute, too. Here’s a fun game to play: If you listen to the song and get to the part where the dwarf saves with girl with a levitation spell, and then you get slightly indignant, because dwarves can’t cast magic (at least as of 2nd Edition, right?), but then you like the song so much that you start trying to justify it, like maybe the dwarf had a magic item or maybe a scroll or something, which would totally explain everything… well, let me know, because I’d hate to think I’m the only one. (Via Nerd Bastards)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.