Nice, but Clarke actually contributed useful, interesting things, that are still in use today. Gygax contributed useless, boring things, that are still in use today only by people who haven't advanced past 1980.
Gygax spent 25 years actively standing *in the way* of progress, and his only contribution was to inspire other people to throw out his work and redo it, from the ground up, better than he ever did.
And on top of that, your opinion is the only correct one, and it is nothing but great to mock the dead and their mourners the moment they shuffle off this mortal coil.
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Date: 2008-03-19 01:49 am (UTC)*takes off hat*
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Date: 2008-03-19 02:12 am (UTC)He's been one of my favourite authors for years, and I always thought it was kinda cool that we shared a birthday, even 60 years apart.
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Date: 2008-03-19 02:42 am (UTC)-- Steve'll have to check his shelves for some ACC tonight.
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Date: 2008-03-19 02:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-19 03:01 am (UTC)Gygax spent 25 years actively standing *in the way* of progress, and his only contribution was to inspire other people to throw out his work and redo it, from the ground up, better than he ever did.
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Date: 2008-03-19 03:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-03-19 11:40 am (UTC)*gently sharpens axe*
Date: 2008-03-19 01:59 pm (UTC)Any sufficiently grudge-based criticism is indistinguishable from trolling, what?
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Date: 2008-03-19 03:37 am (UTC)A.
They say it happens in 3's
Date: 2008-03-19 12:45 pm (UTC)