Tom Hanks' character basically develops schizophrenia and starts to identify as his character, though it's not a slasher or anything - the only person he hurts is in self defense. It's a surprisingly empathetic film, with a detective character admonishing the rest of the cast for playing role playing games, but then they all go on to be well adjusted adults except for the one player who tragically has a mental illness, and the climax of the film is them talking him down from committing suicide.
So I read up on it. Apparently the film is loosely based on a true story. There was a kid who was a big DND nerd in college who went missing and the PI his parents hired to find him thought he was trying to organize a LARP for his friends in a cave and got lost.
Turned out really the kid was just unhappy with his life and decided to try and start a new working on some oil field in Wyoming or something. The PI eventually found him but the kid really didn’t want to have contact with his family anymore and the PI decided to respect that and told his family he didn’t know where he was. The kid ended up committing suicide later thought.
No the Chick comic is more extreme. This movie presents it more as a fun game that some people who are kinda mentally unstable to begin with can get way to deep in. Which I suppose is a thing with every somewhat addictive hobby.
Yeah, I doubt anyone has actually ever lost their ability to tell reality from fiction due to DnD. There's definitely people who get deep into the game to the point it starts affecting their real lives, but again that can happen with almost any hobby.
Is this like the D&D moral panic Chick tract?
Oh my god this is real. They have tons of the things, too. Here is one about evolution.
America is a wild place.
Tom Hanks' character basically develops schizophrenia and starts to identify as his character, though it's not a slasher or anything - the only person he hurts is in self defense. It's a surprisingly empathetic film, with a detective character admonishing the rest of the cast for playing role playing games, but then they all go on to be well adjusted adults except for the one player who tragically has a mental illness, and the climax of the film is them talking him down from committing suicide.
So I read up on it. Apparently the film is loosely based on a true story. There was a kid who was a big DND nerd in college who went missing and the PI his parents hired to find him thought he was trying to organize a LARP for his friends in a cave and got lost.
Turned out really the kid was just unhappy with his life and decided to try and start a new working on some oil field in Wyoming or something. The PI eventually found him but the kid really didn’t want to have contact with his family anymore and the PI decided to respect that and told his family he didn’t know where he was. The kid ended up committing suicide later thought.
Sad story.
No the Chick comic is more extreme. This movie presents it more as a fun game that some people who are kinda mentally unstable to begin with can get way to deep in. Which I suppose is a thing with every somewhat addictive hobby.
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Yeah, I doubt anyone has actually ever lost their ability to tell reality from fiction due to DnD. There's definitely people who get deep into the game to the point it starts affecting their real lives, but again that can happen with almost any hobby.