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D&D References over Internet History: Exploring your world with graphs

Popularity of D&D puns over Internet History


Comments

  1. He will be missed.

    I take it the steady decline pre-2000 is due to the dilution of the Internet with non-nerds?

  2. I’m just reporting the data. Further funding will be required to work out the impact of the Internet non-nerd:nerd quotient versus the impact of any drop in annual sales of polyhedral dice :-)

    Some more data points for you:

    The time between me hearing of Gary Gygax’s death and thinking “Oh no, this is going to trigger so many puns”: 13.5 seconds.

    The time between my realisation and the first bad joke hitting my inbox: 238.3 seconds.

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