D&D player at arstechnica?

[Plane Sailing]

I was reading a review of the ipod touch at the arstechnica.com website (technical news and reviews) and the following paragraph caught my eye (my emphasis)

If you're new to the iPod touch/iPhone keyboarding experience, it's really not difficult to master. If your dexterity score is in the single digits, using the keyboard may be a bit on the difficult side, but with a little care and persistence, you should be able to master it. The spiffy text-correction feature from the iPhone is missing on the iPod touch, however.

You can see why I immediately thought "I wonder if he is an RPG/ ex-RPG player?" eh?

Cheers

 

[Ferret]

Perhaps they just mean only using one finger at a time? Still cool though!

 

[GlassJaw]

I read Ars Technica daily and have caught little gaming snippets on occasion. That aside, it's one of the best sites for tech news on the web.

 

[SteelDraco]

I think I'd be more surprised if they DIDN'T have a few gamers on staff. The name of the site itself is Ars Technica, after all. What do you think the odds are that the person who came up with that name had never read Ars Magica?

 

[DarkKestral]

I think I'd be more surprised if they DIDN'T have a few gamers on staff. The name of the site itself is Ars Technica, after all. What do you think the odds are that the person who came up with that name had never read Ars Magica?

Higher than you might guess. First off, the founder's nickname is Caesar. So it's not entirely surprising that he went with a Roman theme. And since Ars is the Latin word for art/science/skill/technlogy, the phrase "art of technology", which is the theme the site was built around, is ars technica. Which leads us back to the possibility that he never read Ars Magica.