With Tuesday’s downpour reminding us of the impending autumn, a trip to the park to take advantage of the waning hours of summer seems all the more appropriate. Today, in the Morning News, Matthew Baldwin [defectiveyeti] chronicles a brief history in Seattle parks designed by east coasters. This, from a vignette about Ravenna park seems the most quintessentially northwest gamer nerd:

Occasionally we would round a bend in the trail and find a full-scale melee in progress around the running path. Upon seeing us, one of the combatants would shout “Reality!” and everyone would lower their weapons and step aside, allowing us to pass. (The idea of shouting “Reality!” during one of our staff meetings at work has occurred to me more than once.) [tmn]

Along the way, he also manages to use the word analemmatic, a feat in and of itself.

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