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(Salon)   Hey guys, grab your D&D Monster Manuals and let's play some Black Sabbath records backwards at 33 rpm. The 80's Satanic Panic is back   (salon.com) divider line
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LordBeavis [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 4:24:51 AM  
If you look at the hateful, pig-ignorance of most Xtians, don't question what kind of benevolent, loving god would welcome them into His Kingdom, and at least consider worshipping Lord Natas, you aren't paying attention.

I wasn't fan of Pfizer or Sam Smith before, but I'll be popping blue boner pills and listen to navel-gazing, English prog rock this weekend in support.
 
Gordon Bennett [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 5:48:48 AM  
I learned how to respond to their outrage by watching them.


What's wrong, are you TRIGGERED?
Suck it up, snowflake.
Conservatives are weak crybabies.
fark your feelings.
Welcome to the real world, buttercup.
 
Jumbled
2023-02-07 6:00:18 AM  
The xtians took over for satan a long time ago.
 
vrax
2023-02-07 6:03:22 AM  
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monsatano [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:04:04 AM  
Kids still play D&D?
 
Conthan
2023-02-07 6:04:07 AM  
First off, Satan is the good guy in their book.

I got a good laugh last year when Trump said Biden's speech had red lights, like the Devil! I guess I'm just a godless heathen who associated red lights with something else.
 
Glitchwerks
2023-02-07 6:04:11 AM  
I lived through the Satanic Panic.  It was as unbelievably stupid as you can imagine.
 
vrax
2023-02-07 6:05:34 AM  

monsatano: Kids still play D&D?


Where have you been?
 
Sorelian's Ghost [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:06:04 AM  
Wearing my Stranger Things hellfire club shirt, while drawing pentagrams made from pigs blood...so getting a real kick out of this...
 
Alphax
2023-02-07 6:08:03 AM  

monsatano: Kids still play D&D?


My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.
 
harleyquinnical
2023-02-07 6:10:27 AM  
Dear Christian conservatives,

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Signed,
So many non-Christians
 
The Reverend Sam Hill [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:11:18 AM  
The Devil does not wear horns and a tail. The Devil appears to us as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14), one who's going to save us all from vaguely-defined all-powerful enemies that are everywhere and unidentifiable.

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harleyquinnical
2023-02-07 6:11:49 AM  

Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.


Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:12:58 AM  
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Alphax
2023-02-07 6:14:10 AM  

harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.


I played Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortals rules.  One of my friends had AD&D 2.0 books, but playing with him, we'd take an hour to make 1 character, and almost a full minute to kill it.
 
qorkfiend
2023-02-07 6:14:31 AM  

harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.


Calling 4.0 hot garbage is a deadly insult to hot garbage
 
Eunice's Social Calendar [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:16:47 AM  
its funny because when you learn how lyrics written by, oh say black sabbath back in the day, tended to bemoan the mental breakdowns folks have sometimes, even some dudes in the band...yeah, the mind can take you to some very dark places.  sometimes one might think it hellish and even write about some pretty scary experiences in the best way they have to communicate - and to process - and to farking get relief...if POSSIBLE.  yeah, satan is moving bro...be very afraid...a$$holes.
 
Nimbull
2023-02-07 6:17:31 AM  
'"If as a Christian, you think we are reaching when we talk about the dominance and normalization of Satan worship in pop music, you need discernment," wrote Christian life coach Solomon Buchi.'

This coming from the religious group that was bowing down to a golden statue of Donald Trump at presidential political rallies.
 
Arumat
2023-02-07 6:17:32 AM  
It's darkly ironic to me that the people who believe most strongly in demons and devils and witchcraft are also absolutely terrified of it.  That they invoke rituals and otherworldly beings to save them from thinking about why  bad things happen or for assistance in such banal things as to help their sportsball team or deliver them a winning lottery ticket or to keep that cop from noticing they're doing 20 over in an active school zone is just additional highly magnetic icing on the cake.
 
monsatano [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:17:32 AM  

Alphax: harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.

I played Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortals rules.  One of my friends had AD&D 2.0 books, but playing with him, we'd take an hour to make 1 character, and almost a full minute to kill it.


I'm not talking shiat, I just figured the gaming culture for kids had moved on. Mea culpa
 
darth sunshine
2023-02-07 6:18:24 AM  
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August11 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 6:19:22 AM  

Conthan: First off, Satan is the good guy in their book.

I got a good laugh last year when Trump said Biden's speech had red lights, like the Devil! I guess I'm just a godless heathen who associated red lights with something else.


I agree that's a silly association. But backlighting Marines with red light was a superbly stupid idea.
 
Snapper Carr
2023-02-07 6:23:16 AM  
I feel bad for people who grew up with hyper-religious parents.

My dad turned me on to Black Sabbath et al. and even if he wasn't fond of the stuff I would listen to later, he recognized where it came from.

And D&D meant I was socializing with a peer group that didn't involve drugs (at first) so I might not turn out like my older brother.
 
Vacation Bible School
2023-02-07 6:23:55 AM  

Jumbled: The xtians took over for satan a long time ago.


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HansoSparxx
2023-02-07 6:24:08 AM  
It's weird to me that we allow religious people walk free among us.  They have severe mental problems and delusions.  They need to be institutionalized.
 
TFerWannaBe [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:24:20 AM  

harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.


4.0 was a move away from an RPG game with strategy elements toward a strategy game with RPG elements, borrowing heavily from MMOs to define party roles. D&D originally evolved from a tabletop wargame called Chainmail so 4.0 went back toward its roots.

It flopped because players didn't want a tabletop MMO; they wanted a fantasy RPG. D&D 5 is closer to what you remember.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:25:33 AM  
I read a book review in The Economist once about a book whose central thesis was that the trappings and traditions of the Catholic Church are so crazy because back in the day the church was the only vocation available to schizophrenics who saw demons and talked to God.  This idea has never left me.
 
Clash City Farker
2023-02-07 6:32:25 AM  
WTF did I just watch?
 
snowshovel
2023-02-07 6:33:16 AM  

TFerWannaBe: harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.

4.0 was a move away from an RPG game with strategy elements toward a strategy game with RPG elements, borrowing heavily from MMOs to define party roles. D&D originally evolved from a tabletop wargame called Chainmail so 4.0 went back toward its roots.

It flopped because players didn't want a tabletop MMO; they wanted a fantasy RPG. D&D 5 is closer to what you remember.


4.0 was originally developed for online play (I knew someone who was working on the online component before it got cancelled), which is why the ruleset was more tabletop wargamey.
 
Marcos P
2023-02-07 6:33:45 AM  
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Mindlock
2023-02-07 6:34:27 AM  
I really farking hope that people got fired in Proctor & Gamble's advertising office this morning.  Blowing a chance to advertise to your core customers like that is inexcusable.

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Ragin' Asian [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:35:29 AM  
Wit until they hear about Orff's Carmina Burana, Mozart's Don Giovanni, or Berlioz's Damnation of Faust.
 
harleyquinnical
2023-02-07 6:37:48 AM  

monsatano: Alphax: harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.

I played Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortals rules.  One of my friends had AD&D 2.0 books, but playing with him, we'd take an hour to make 1 character, and almost a full minute to kill it.

I'm not talking shiat, I just figured the gaming culture for kids had moved on. Mea culpa


You're cool.  I could have been really snarky and said they also play Star Wars, Shadowrun, GURPS, Rifts, and various Storyteller TTRPGs.
 
harleyquinnical
2023-02-07 6:39:06 AM  

Vacation Bible School: Jumbled: The xtians took over for satan a long time ago.

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indylaw [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 6:40:07 AM  

Vacation Bible School: Jumbled: The xtians took over for satan a long time ago.

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Yeah, if these "Christians" took the energy that they spend on persecuting "sinners", laughing at people who are different or wishing death on their enemies and spent a fraction on doing what Jesus told them to do (like helping the poor, acting and speaking with kindness, living humbly, and loving their enemies), I might view them as something other than unironic satanists.
 
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2023-02-07 6:46:54 AM  
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qorkfiend
2023-02-07 6:48:35 AM  

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Flawless victory
 
payattention
2023-02-07 6:48:57 AM  
Fortunately, I did not fall for the money grab that was AD&D 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th edition. I have first edition and I have modified it to correct any issues that came up. The game is about using your imagination and so far, each successive version has removed more and more of that. I personally love the conversation that I once had with someone who was trying to convince me that the new version was better. He went on and on about schools of magic where one could get spells with  certain theme, or school. I asked him why didn't he just learn the spells that applied to the theme that he wanted so that he had his 'fire wizard' or whatever it was. Just pick the fire based spells. I got this blank look in return.

/imagination has all but died in this country
//except for rule 34
///humans will never lose their 'creativity' when it comes to pron...
 
RoyFokker'sGhost
2023-02-07 6:50:51 AM  

Alphax: harleyquinnical: Alphax: monsatano: Kids still play D&D?

My 15 year old niece plays, with other people even.  I'm guessing the rulesets have changed a ton from when I played it.

Hell, I started playing in 3.0, and in 4.0, the game was revamped as to be unrecognizable.

I played Basic, Expert, Companion, Master, and Immortals rules.  One of my friends had AD&D 2.0 books, but playing with him, we'd take an hour to make 1 character, and almost a full minute to kill it.


I'm starting up a 5e campaign beginning with the 5e reprints of classic D&D modules. Into the Unknown. The Keep On The Borderlands. Isle of Dread.
 
Smoking GNU
2023-02-07 6:52:24 AM  

monsatano: Kids still play D&D?


You think  there would have been such an incredibly massive uproar when Hasbro/WotC tried to pulla fast-one yoink if there wasn't a significant # of player-base on hand, including the young generation?
 
oyster_popsicles
2023-02-07 6:53:50 AM  

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Alphax
2023-02-07 6:54:52 AM  

RoyFokker'sGhost: I'm starting up a 5e campaign beginning with the 5e reprints of classic D&D modules. Into the Unknown. The Keep On The Borderlands. Isle of Dread.


At a recent family birthday dinner, my younger brother was talking about how much he hated playing The Keep on the Borderlands with me... and I was trying to remember if I'd even played it with him.  (he's 7.5 years younger than me)
 
ohioman
2023-02-07 6:55:56 AM  
wait, doesnt anyone play Gamma World, Gangbusters, or Boothill?
 
UncleDirtNap
2023-02-07 7:00:05 AM  
"We only support OUR free speech." - GOP
 
RasIanI
2023-02-07 7:01:52 AM  
That was a great performance. Conservatives can eat s*** because that was art.
 
odinsposse
2023-02-07 7:03:20 AM  
For a minute conservatives had a good thing going by pretending they were laid back free-thinkers who just wanted cancel culture weirdos to stop hassling everybody. But as soon as that movement took off they revealed they want to ban The Little Prince because the Prince is disrespectful to authority, want mandatory genital inspections of schoolchildren, and think all pop music is Satanic.
 
CarnySaur [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 7:03:21 AM  
Listen, the number of letters in Ronald Wilson Reagan is 6 6 6.  That's not opinion, it's a fact.
 
lordjupiter
2023-02-07 7:03:24 AM  
Satanic Panic returned with Qanon
 
Smoking GNU
2023-02-07 7:03:31 AM  

harleyquinnical: Dear Christian conservatives,

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Signed,
So many non-Christians


They can tell that their stranglehold is slipping, so they're trying to ramp up the fear and panic.
 
lordjupiter
2023-02-07 7:06:44 AM  

CarnySaur: Listen, the number of letters in Ronald Wilson Reagan is 6 6 6.  That's not opinion, it's a fact.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/660_Fifth_Avenue

Formerly 666 Fifth Ave
 
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