We're just tiny little specks, about the size of Mickey Rooney

..."Xena"?

So, Adam and I recently dusted off the old Magic the Gathering cards to teach Amanda how to play. As if that weren't geeky enough already, I then went on to check out some of the articles on the WotC site. It's pretty cool; there are several columns on color theory, spelling out, for instance, the ideological underpinnings of each of the magic colors. For example, it's easy to think of white vs. black as just a matter of good and evil, but that's kind of an oversimplification. After all, white lends itself to zealotry, fascism, etc, and black...could probably be good, I guess. (Speaking of which, it took her six books, but thank god Rowling finally saw fit to introduce a slytherin who wasn't a total jerk. I just seem to have a general fascination with morally ambiguous fantasy roles, I guess. Back on topic:) The better distinction is that white is communitarian, whereas black is individualistic (and therefore also somewhat anarchic, but for instrumental reasons, unlike red, which values freedom for its own sake). And this helps make sense of how blue can be friends with both of these colors; even though it likes white's thoughtfulness and discipline, it also finds a certain intellectual honesty in black's unflinching nihilism.
...And so on. Long story short, I like that their game designers think about these things.