I am so PO'D!!! Some of you don;t know this, but I play D&D (often as a matter of fact.) So when I was "researching for a school report" (I had to pick something about America that I disagree with, and if you know me, then I would pick the most archaic and preposterous thing out there.) So i came acrossed something that I hated with a burning passion, the infamous, "Steam tunnel incident." Now for those of you who don't know what this is, I applaud you. The "Steam Tunnel 'incident'", I will now explain what it is. The steam tunnel incident refers not to a single event, but rather, to a set of mostly mythical events wherein players enacting live action role-playing games perished therein. The stories are, for the most part, apocryphal. The "original" incident concerns a student named James Dallas Egbert alleged to have disappeared into the Michigan State University steam tunnels for reasons related to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. Later versions involve groups of students attempting to enact "dungeon adventures" in the steam tunnels, getting lost and dying of hyperthermia. For the most part, role-playing games are not dangerous. However, there are rare cases of addiction. Usually the reality, in cases of addiction, is less sensational than the "steam tunnel incident". Despite high-profile cases where role-playing gamers have committed suicide allegedly due to the game, there is no evidence that these games actually increase a person's likelihood of committing suicide. Variations on a "steam tunnel incident" include the Dungeons & Dragons (TV series), where a group of small children are transported into another world through a D&D roller coaster and presumed dead, and the made for television movie Mazes and Monsters starring Tom Hanks. I hate that because: I am a D&D player, I don't live in Michigan, (no offense for those of you who live there), I love the made for tv series, I love the animated series, and how is there a connection between D&D and people living their fantasies? But I digress, what happended to that kid was sad. I have to go now, but I will be back and rant some more. In the immortal words of Pink Floyds, "The Wall" "The Show Must Go On."