I. Hate. Slugboy.

This past weekend, loveable sometimes-poster originalslugboy sent me a link. Now, to be "fair" he did make the subject of the e-mail "Wasted afternoon", and made a point of mentioning in the e-mail that he sunk a good deal of a day into clicking around the TV Tropes wiki.

Despite the so-called "warnings" (which I think were only there so that he could claim plausible deniability later), I succeeded in sinking multiple hours into wandering through that wiki, examining links. This wiki is in some ways more addictive than Wikipedia - which taunts me constantly with its boundless knowledge. I spent hours wandering through the links on Time Travel and related tropes (especially Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act), through entries on Doctor Who and Adventure Towns. Finally I just had to shut down the whole computer, lest my excursions into Lovecraft Country and the Big Applesauce destroy what's left of my mind.

So, in conclusion: Hate. Slugboy.

On the other hand, I have a great idea for a Time Travel RPG setting that involves a city designed specifically to be an Anachronism Stew full of dinosaurs, Roman Centurions and talking apes, and where PCs travel to other times and places as Adventure Towns trying to stop the depradations of evil fey time travellers and Lovecraftian horrors who seek to bring about The End of the World As We Know It. So it's not all bad.