Another way to kill time on the Internet
May 30, 2005While 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](http://www.kingdomofloathing.com), 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.