/johnny
IT HAS TO CAUSE AT 40 ALL HOPE OF EVER LEAVING YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT IS GONE
Spot on.
In junior high school we had to change the name of the game because it got banned by people who had no idea what it was about looking for a scapegoat / enjoying a power trip.
Those people are on the Harry Potter thread right now.
“In before people that don’t know anything about it denounce it as evil.... maybe.”
You bet it is evil, just ask anyone in the mental health profession during those years. :o) It was crazy that rational adults went nuts if teenagers were playing that game.
I had a counselor at a state agency which I won’t name, send me a young man who she thought was deranged - he played that bad Dungeons & Dragons game and sometimes he dressed in Renaissance clothes (you know, kings, queens, knights, etc.). I was supposed to psychologically test this young man and find out why he was “mentally ill” and then counsel him to make him well.
He was the most fun patient I ever had because nothing was wrong with him. Yes, he played that game, so what? Texas has a “Texas Renaissance Festival” (kings, queens, knights, etc.). This young man was one of those who helped run this festival. He wasn’t crazy, he was promoting that festival when he wore those clothes. I wrote the report and sent it to the counselor so he was now officially sane.
The festival time was upon us and he invited me and my husband to go and he would show us around. We went and had a good time.
The festival is huge now. Here is their website and directions how to get there. You come to my town first and go from there to the festival if you live anywhere near Houston and south of there or north up 45, come to my town. Directions are on their website.
Rest easy, you are not nuts to go to the festival dressed as a knight or queen and you’re not nuts if you play the “evil” game Dungeons and Dragons.
Pretty fun way to learn probabilities.
Evil? no. The butt of a million jokes however.... ;’)