You're not getting anywhere near that satanic, soul-destroying depraved habit of playing cards with your friends.
Now finish filling out your draft card, before you get in trouble.
It was always head scratching to me why church moms got bent out of shape over D&D being satanic when everyone who plays it wants to be the paladin with the holy avenger killing liches, like good guy stuff.
Almost the entire mythology around D&D panics can get traced to the movie Mazes and Monsters. At certain points the characters confuse reality with their roleplaying game. Tom Hanks tries to jump off the world trade center south tower thinking he's a paladin who can fly.
Tom Hanks tries to jump off the world trade center south tower thinking he's a paladin who can fly.
What a noob.
Alright, when are we watching this on cytube? This shit sounds amazing
My cousin told me once he wasn't allowed to play Diablo because it had devils in it "But... you kill the devils?"
Yeah it's like the imagery or references to satanic stuff make games like that a no go, even though you're literally an avenger for god.
everyone who plays it wants to be the paladin with the holy avenger killing liches, like good guy stuff.
Ah, I see you've never been at the murder-hobo table.
I mean, even in the "best" scenario of players reenacting the plot of the 1970s cartoon, you've still got kids pretending to be Gandalf-esque Wizards and tree-hugging hippie Druids and Ki-powered Monks, running about the world battling villainous industrialists while befriending sparkly unicorns and faeries. And that's in the Dad-run games, where the parents are trying to keep it as PG as possible.
There are plenty of games more morally gray than that - the Curse of Stradh puts in you a bunch of nasty binds where you might align with a bog witch or a some villainous Romanians. And plenty more - Tomb of Horrors, for instance - where its an unapologetic gore-fest.
Then when you come home in a box everyone will wax poetically about how much of a hero you were for murdering brown children in the desert in the other side of the planet in the name of freedom.
yea yea yea my mom wasn't even christian and i wasn't allowed to watch LOONEY TUNES through all of elementary school because it was Violent and would Teach Bad Lessons
the only lesson i got was this: if you don' t have any media reference points, and everybody else in your age range does, you get bullied! if you don't know who bugs bunny is you get bullied! fuck you mom
Christian moms:
Blue Eyes White Dragon
White Skin Grand DragonOnce I goty yugioh cards confiscated and accused of witchcraft. This was the school admin too. My cousins were banned from playing Pokemon, but that was because the word "evolve" is used a lot.
What hit me the most was how the nice Syrian family had to move away after 2001. No one used to care, then suddenly everyone hated Muslims. I once had a school cop tell me to be on the lookout for anyone wearing a turban, ane I don't think he was joking.
Thankfully my parents weren't really religious. They were still very racist though. Like they didn't like when I listened to hip-hop or foreign music, not because of devil worship or anything, but they didn't want me becoming black somehow.
My cousins were banned from playing Pokemon, but that was because the word "evolve" is used a lot.
Oh man, I remember that 90s-era shit. Any time people complain about how modern day conservatives are wacko, I can't help but have a throw-back to the local pastor who had permission to stand on the UT Quad and spend hours a week arguing that the entire biology department was made up nonsense.
Oh yeah we had preachers at our college too. They were really aggressive and at one point told my wheelchair bound friend that she'd regain her legs if she stopped being gay. Outright called her a few homophobic slurs.
American freedom
As a kid with a speech impediment, Yu-Gi-Oh's rise to the peak of the zeitgeist was a beautiful time to be alive. There will never be a phrase as cool to stutter as "it's time to duel" again.
It's time to d-d-d-d-etonate the IED and send the Yankees to meet Shaitan.
Humvee drives on a road
Iraqi Insurgent: NICE MOVE, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD: IED. WITH THIS CARD I CAN DESTROY ONE OF YOUR MONSTERS AND SEND IT TO THE GRAVEYARD.
Okay but I still support burning Harry Potter books.
My mom thought Pokemon would make me want to get into illegal animal fighting.
