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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I have too. You know what I don't get, how come he needs a bulletproof car? If the pope is afraid of death, what chance do I have? Insurance reasons.
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redshirt posted:Insurance reasons. ok. I'll bite. who get the insurance money if the pope kicks the bucket
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Valko posted:JRRT was a devout Catholic all his life and pretty vocal about it. IME, the American fundies don't particularly care for the Roman Catholic Church.
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Animal-Mother posted:IME, the American fundies don't particularly care for the Roman Catholic Church. They were very upset when JFK got elected
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:ok. I'll bite. who get the insurance money if the pope kicks the bucket Wall Street
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Born 83 raised in evangelical churches So Cal so felt it petty hard. Mixed right in with stranger danger. My mom is still worried about D&D and still thinks Satan is trying to destroy the country? On Facebook I saw some slightly younger people post links to a "reformed Satanist" who claimed he'd dress up in a red robe and sacrificed babies at Planned Parenthood. Like yea okay Satanic magic is real you gormless twats.
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I was born in time for the "Harry Potter is teaching your kids to reject God" era of satanic panic, but never really had it forced on me. As a kid I actually kinda tricked myself into fearing satan and getting all Jesus'd up and I'd refuse to listen to rap or nu-metal because in my eyes that was the devil's music. also MiracleFlare posted:The closest I ever got to mainstream Satanic panic was when my fifth grade teacher stopped reading Harry Potter to us because some students' parents wouldn't let them listen to it and it wasn't fair that they had to be sent to another classroom during reading time. I kind of wonder if those same parents support JKR now that her bigotry is known I had #3 as a kid, and used to fill it up with water and drink from it.
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redshirt posted:Wall Street should have known Michael Douglas had it in for the Pope
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:should have known Michael Douglas had it in for the Pope "The Seven Deadly Sins are good"
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i didn't think it was a real thing since i'd been dabbling in d&d and fantasy for a few years and the only time i'd seen anything like that was in that tom hanks movie then I met my friends mom, Mrs. Person, and she was all-in on D&D being devil worship and we made sure to never mention her son's involvement (that is a real name, and their family all had adjectives for first names too, so I can't begin to tell you how strange that family was to me)
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redshirt posted:"The Seven Deadly Sins are good" Yeah, I know. You don't have to quote the movie
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May God be upon you.
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We had real things to worry about like crack and AIDS and gangsta rap.
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A pentacostal exorcist came to our sunday school class and told us that John Denver is satanic. I was allowed to listen to Enya, but only the songs in English, because....I guess Celtic is the devil's language, idk???
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Buttchocks posted:A pentacostal exorcist came to our sunday school class and told us that John Denver is satanic. Are you in English Satan follower?
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redshirt posted:Are you in English Satan follower? like Aleister Crowley?
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1986. The bookstore in our local mall was getting ready to get rid of a shitload of hardcover ADnD 2nd edition books at the unbelievable loving price of $8 each. As a smart little fella who saved his pennies, I had enough cash at age 11 to buy SIX of these motherfuckers and you'd best believe I intended to. ORIENTAL ADVENTURES DEITIES AND DEMIGODS OH YES OH HO HO HO gently caress YES THE FIEND FOLIO and any three more I wanted. None of that was "allowance," I got my allowance in room and board, that was all mowing and raking in loving Florida in the summertime. gently caress Florida. My lazy-as-gently caress dad, when we reached the day of the sale, tried to get out of taking me so he could lay on his rear end asleep by claiming that he was worried about potential devil worship. My dad wasn't particularly religious at this point and wouldn't be unless he was having a severe manic episode years later when he would regularly get kicked out of Southern Baptist churches one after the other for being too loving enthusiastic and weird. It was just so he didn't have to go do anything. 37 years later, still playing! Hail Satan, I guess.
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JonathonSpectre posted:1986. you were 11 in 1986, gently caress, you are old
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:like Aleister Crowley? Like Oi! Is it right and proper Satan now
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:you were 11 in 1986, gently caress, you are old Don't listen to his clown. 48 years is probably less time than he has been around. Anyway, I have questions for the venerable greybeard. What do you think of 3E and how did you deal with things like non-human paladins and dwarven wizards?
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We read Fate magazine and were banned from playing Dungeons and Dragons. It's like, "Here's a totally supernatural and crazy poo poo magazine" and "A board game is going to turn you into a Satanist!"
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My grandparents got hoppin' mad in their apartment in Honolulu about Pat Boone's "In A Metal Mood" and I wish those were all made up words
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Satan's Picnic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h38TOaBvy8M
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maybealabia posted:I was allowed to play D&D or whatever because my mom wasn't a gigantic idiot This unlocked a weird memory that was probably better left locked. When I was really young I was camping with my family and some other people from the church. I saw one of the kid's dad I know coming from the toilet and as a dumb single digit aged kid might ask, I said, "Did you have a nice dump"? Or something ridiculous along those lines. He yanked me into his trailer and yelled at me and he smacked my rear end for "talking to him like that"... I'm not sure how to feel about that.
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Grey Cat posted:This unlocked a weird memory that was probably better left locked. When I was really young I was camping with my family and some other people from the church. I saw one of the kid's dad I know coming from the toilet and as a dumb single digit aged kid might ask, I said, "Did you have a nice dump"? Or something ridiculous along those lines. I wouldn't have been hit, but I would definitely have been in trouble for saying dump in that context Which of course just taught me to code switch between family acceptable vocabulary at home and filthiest language imaginable with friends
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Valko posted:Don't listen to his clown. 48 years is probably less time than he has been around. I am 48. If that's old then I'm old. I don't care. I certainly feel old. That "HOT DOG YUM CRUNCHY CORN YUM" poo poo from the other day shook me to my core. It must have been how my grandma felt when she first heard rap music. I mean, we never understand the world, but when you see something like that you realize that no matter what you thought you were way off this entire loving time. Honestly after 2e I kinda quit playing actual DnD until 5e, I spread out and played a lot of Call of Cthulhu, Battletech, Shadowrun, Runequest, and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Holy poo poo can you imagine how bonkers the '80s panic would have been if White Wolf poo poo had been widespread then? An entire game centered around playing a no-poo poo actual demon, supplements with character perks like 'savage genitalia,' nerds in black trenchcoats skulking around the comic store Thursday night talking about blood dolls and something called "diablerie." I never really cared about race/class restrictions (or attribute requirements) because I think that's loving dumb and against the idea of fantasy roleplaying. I mean, over here we got a guy who can call a meteor shower from the loving sky and another dude who turns into a bear and a third guy who can touch a sucking chest wound and make it close up good as new but a dwarven wizard... now that's a bridge too far! Whatever. The other dwarves think he's loving weird and don't particularly like hanging out with him but he could care less because they spend all their time staring doe-eyed at rock formations and muttering about "the stone" and he's learning how to teleport and fling lightning bolts. Oh, poo poo, I just realized today is twenty years on SA. Thanks for all the fun, goons, and I say this in all seriousness: You (well, some of you) helped make me a better man.
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maybealabia posted:I wouldn't have been hit, but I would definitely have been in trouble for saying dump in that context Well, sure, a talking to, "we don't ask random people if they pooped," but hitting someone else's kid? Nobody else was around when it happened, I was wandering.
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BiggerBoat posted:^^^Who recorded an album called "Satanic Majesty's Request" and had a hit called "Sympathy for the Devil". learn, grow, digivolve
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emSparkly posted:I had #3 as a kid, and used to fill it up with water and drink from it. I forgot which ones I had as a kid but yeah I probably would've done the same thing eventually, most of the toys I got from happy meals would inevitably get chewed up and/or dipped in a cup of soda. Clearly it was demons possessing me when I mauled my Barbies
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JonathonSpectre posted:I am 48. If that's old then I'm old. I don't care. I certainly feel old. That "HOT DOG YUM CRUNCHY CORN YUM" poo poo from the other day shook me to my core. It must have been how my grandma felt when she first heard rap music. I mean, we never understand the world, but when you see something like that you realize that no matter what you thought you were way off this entire loving time. ha ha. I'm the dork that called you old. Only got 8 years on me so i guess we're both old. Happy SA birthday you old motherfucker
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I was trying to find some 80s/90s Satanic Panic documentary stuff that was produced in that time and didn't have any immediate luck. I've only gotten like 2 minutes into this and I'm at a loss of words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emZWAMA6hkA (  )
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JonathonSpectre posted:I never really cared about race/class restrictions (or attribute requirements) because I think that's loving dumb and against the idea of fantasy roleplaying. I mean, over here we got a guy who can call a meteor shower from the loving sky and another dude who turns into a bear and a third guy who can touch a sucking chest wound and make it close up good as new but a dwarven wizard... now that's a bridge too far! Were you ever a DM? It sounds like you'd make a pretty good one. Never actually rolled dice myself but Eye of the Beholder II* was the first pc game I ever bought with my own money and I've had a passing interest ever since. *I wasn't even in my teens. The only place that sold games in my town was a hardware shop. They were ripoff merchants. I had an old 286 olivetti machine with VGA graphics and no disc drive. They would copy shareware games from a CD to a floppy (fitting at most 3) and charge £5 a time. I was too young and stupid to realize I was getting ripped off.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I was trying to find some 80s/90s Satanic Panic documentary stuff that was produced in that time and didn't have any immediate luck. He calls Julia Roberts a whore 
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I know that. I'm trying to be a pain in rear end here this wasn't directed at you. I was just posting to join the conversation.
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Trick or Treat (1986) was a cool movie * starring Skippy from family ties
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it features evilution
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