I knew a guy who got into d&d in middle school and it drastically improved his grades.
The fact is that gaming is reading, writing, math, make believe, structured socializing, and sometimes history and sometimes art. It's exactly like school, except fun.
I learned a lot of English by playing Runescape.
My son taught himself English by setting Minecraft to English. Once he mastered that, he set it to Pirate.
Except you learned british English, not freedom English
He who is not free needs to be British to become free 🦅
So, he learned what most English speakers learn.
I like your grandma. She cared for you; she took a risk by exposing herself to potential danger, fact-checked, and knew math when she saw it.
And the most important part: she admitted she was wrong and that it's fine
This is the part where Republicans and have the biggest problems with, as in the face pf evidence they usually just double down and that's it.
I hope not people are like that. I have a coworker insists Harry Potter is "Satan". She has never read it watch a single book or movie.
I bet she'd like it if you told her it was racist and anti-trans...
Might not be Satan, but it's J.K.Rowling, which is way worse...
I always laugh at these people. I’m paraphrasing, but in the 7th book Harry essentially tells Voldemort, “I died for them, you can’t touch them.”
This is of course mirroring the fact that his own parents had died to protect him from Voldemort in the first place, but it’s also very much symbolic of the central Christian concept of Christ dying to save sinners. Harry is very much a Christ-figure in the end, forgiving those who had been his enemies and even pitying Voldemort himself. It’s not quite as blatant as C.S. Lewis and his, “If people don’t realize the lion is Jesus I’m going to have an aneurysm,” but it’s still obvious.
People who say stuff like this is satanic live in such a pitifully small world. I feel sorry for them.
Me too. She is the type who gets all her info from foxs news and Trump's tweets.
Most people that think things are Satanic are woefully ill informed about the subject.
I would go so far as to say all of them. The whole idea of Satan is ridiculous, it's "The Boogeyman" for adults.
Well some adults are also just plain stupid.
Oh I agree, but I leave a little room for people's religions even if I think it's all bullshit.
This is my first time seeing another person using monospace font for social media in the wild. I've changed my phone's system font to Fira Code to make almost everything monospace.
Why. Legibility?
Honestly, just because I could, and once I had done it, I just liked the way it looked, so I've kept it. That, and I remember it being a pain to change in One UI. I don't remember how I did it, and the process is probably different by now anyways, so I'd have to look it up, and I'm not about to do all that again.
It is for me.
sorry but it's either that she didn't "buy fully into 'IT'S SATANISM'" or this entire post is made up.
people who buy fully into it don't allow a test run. if it did g happen she was more likely concerned it might be some cultist shit but was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt and she doesn't deserve to be described as "bought fully into it".
My husband's parents apparently believed the satanic panic bullshit
My parents use to play dnd in high school. Mother was a custom classed healer/oracle. Dad was a very bad thief.
But math is satanism
No you're thinking paleobiology.
So was it better or worse than satanism?
Having experienced math, I’d choose satanism for sure.
People actually think D&D is Satanism? I thought it was a meme
It was totally a thing during the satanic panic. There's an infamous Chick Tract about d&d that I was genuinely given by cult missionaries when I was a kid.
Don't forget Tom Hanks first leading role in the movie Mazes and Monsters, originally titled Dungeons & Dragons, but forced to change it when TSR sued them.
In addition to what others have said, sadly the myth persists among some people. I have a good friend who I used to play Magic: The Gathering with. I had been playing for years before I met him (since 3rd edition) and had a pretty decent collection, and he invested a lot of money in cards in the next few years.
At one point I was moving away to a place where I didn't know anyone and needed to travel light, so instead of selling my collection I gave them to him.
I ended up coming back to my home state and we became roommates. Then he became 'born again' and instead of giving me those cards back, he burnt them all.
I'm not really mad at the guy for it, he was doing what he thought was right, but I do regret giving him the cards in the first place.
Don't even get started on back tracking of albums in the seventies...
It was a real moral panic in the 80s or 90s. To be fair, it's one of the less deadly moral panics of the 90s. It got a lot of steam when a private detective was hired to find or investigate a troubled teen and found he had committed suicide, and he wrote a book about it and instead said he had become delusional after playing D&D, thought he was the fictional character of RPd and tried to do things his character could do, but killed him. Eventually enough people pointed out the absurdity of the story and people who knew the kid had grown up and made it very clear he committed suicide intentionally and was never delusional, the author then acknowledged he made up the story, but even more perplexing, claimed the teen met him before the suicide, he made it sounds like mere moments before, confessed to drug abuse, and said he didn't want his parents to find out, so asked him kindly to make up a cover story for his actual actions and motives to protect his family from, or maybe just his mom. Anyway. A lot of people took this seriously, but if you're even slightly aware of what tabletop rpgs are like is like claiming a high schooler who played too much soccer became delusional and thought he was a soccer ball, and kept trying to inflate himself until he died. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying if that did happen, playing too much soccer wasn't related to the delusional mental health disorder.
I ran my school's D&D club in Highschool. At one point my Grandma came along to watch me and my Siblings while my parents were out of the house for a month and when i told her that i'd need picked up later on certain days for D&D club, she went off on this long rant about how 'D&D is satanic' and then something about how 'Obama eats babies'. To this day i'm literally shocked she believes that junk.
Pearl-clutching "christians" used to be deathly afraid of anything with even slightly negative undertones. "Dungeons? Dragons? That's the devil! Away Satan! Our children are making pacts with the devil!" Satan was historically represented by a dragon in Christian mythology.
Christianity as a religion encourages fear and paranoia. None of this is accidental.
Don't forget the woman whose son committed suicide so she created an anti-D&D group called Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons. Her group described D&D as "a fantasy role-playing game which uses demonology, witchcraft, voodoo, murder, rape, blasphemy, suicide, assassination, insanity, sex perversion, homosexuality, prostitution, satanic type rituals, gambling, barbarism, cannibalism, sadism, desecration, demon summoning, necromantics, divination and other teachings."
That is what I did after years of playing.
She may buy into hype but still thinks for herself
Good point, actually. Seems like these days, a lot of people wouldn't change their opinion after seeing what this grandma saw.
D&D players aren't satanists. They're much worse. They're math addicts.
A friend calls it "narrative gambling", because eventually we're all throwing dice and hoping it doesn't "ruin" us.
You don't even need the dice! I was definitely gambling last session when I attuned to a prosthetic eye filled with the trapped souls of everyone that's ever used it. It gives me 60 feet of Truesight though!
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