While waiting out the rain this past week my friend Russ turned me on to another of the myriad ways to kill time on the Internet: Kingdom of Loathing, a web-based adventure game. It cleverly parodies the stale, overworked nonsense that is the hallmark of the role-playing game and fantasy fiction genres. The low-rent illustration is cute and if you’ve ever read a pulp fantasy novel, played through Zork (or Wizardry, or Bards Tale…) or rolled the dice in a game of AD&D (but of course, geek, you have…) you’ll recognize the subreferences and, even if you haven’t, you’ll laugh out loud when they are lampooned.