Dumb fun.

So today's conversation of note revolved around the central premise that anyone on a gaming site who adopts the name "BigDick" is probably 12 years old, thinks he's pretty impressive, watches Star Trek, still plays Dragonball Z but gave up Pokemon because that's for kids, and are the type who either beg or outright demand that you give them gold in World of Warcraft.

You know the type. They hang around the guild just long enough to root through your vault and take choice armor and weapons then quit the guild without so much as a thank you.

We were discussing this in chat on the game Evony, a free browser-based game that is a lot like Sid Meier's "Civilization" series but with better chat capabilities and "alliances," which are like WoW guilds, where you can chat with your fellow lords and ladies. Without getting into the particulars of gameplay, another player and I started noticing strange system messages. The "System" always announces when one alliance declares war on another and the other day I laughed to see one announcement that said

[System]: Alliance MyFoot declares war against alliance YourAss. Diplomatic Relationship between each other alters to Hostile automatically.

I pointed this out to my alliance and everyone got a good laugh, then today we see BigDick.
First, it is reported that Alliance BigDick declares war against alliance Olympus.

Then,

[System]: Alliance SunTzu declares war against alliance BigDick. Diplomatic Relationship between each other alters to Hostile automatically.

Comments flew: that BigDick must think he's quite something, perhaps someone with "little man syndrome," and we listed the character traits that appear in the first paragraph of today's blog, and had ourselves a good giggle. Then the screen flashes:

[System]: Alliance VD declares war against alliance BigDick. Diplomatic Relationship between each other alters to Hostile automatically.

It was too much. Priceless! We hooted and stomped our feet but there were only two people - me and another player - who were online at the time to witness it. The rest of the alliance would never believe us when we recounted it. Then, the entertainment was quickly over because the system messages of wars being declared against BigDick became increasingly inane (Alliance Horny declares war against alliance BigDick, for example). Fun time over. Small things make my day.

Spring had better come soon. I've been at the computer much too long.