No matter our differences, we can all agree that belligerent midwit atheists are the most insufferable of all cunts.
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Ehh, I don't jive well with Reddit-tier Atheist. Some of this attitude comes with age though I'd wager.
I remember living through the late 80's and 90's during the right wing "Satanic Panic" era coupled with that fucking moron Jack Thompson.
Arguably, progressive LGBTQ ladyboys are far far far more annoying than the right wing religious zealots of that time but I'd rather both just go far far away.
It's not arguable, IMO. The rainbow mafia are far, far worse than anything else I've experienced in terms of their ability to warp reality through censorship and force awful changes on everything.
In the 1990s we had blood replaced with sweat and green slime. In the 2020s, every female character is downright ugly and we have configurable feminine penis options on a game and it's not satirical.
Sometimes I think people fail to make a distinction between "compliance under protest" and "enthusiastic compliance"
"Compliance under protest" was when the studios made a change because the choice was either to do that or not get their game shipped to that country. So they did green blood, or the Nazis were robots or whatever. They'd change a texture, or the color of a texture to comply, but it's done as an afterthought.
"Enthusiastic compliance" is when you're a true believer who complies with both the letter and spirit of whatever law you're following. And you're usually going way above and beyond what the regulators would demand of you. The game is designed from the ground up to comply, because they want it to comply but maybe they have to change one thing at the end to make a regulator whose already happy with your game actually be able to check the final box.
In the 90s we had "compliance under protest". Today we have "enthusiastic compliance".
With MK, that was only on the Super Nintendo version and IIRC, only the first game. SEGA's big thing was being edgier compared to Nintendo's "safe for kids" branding. We had alternatives back then. Now the only hope is mods, and even those are subject to de-platforming. It's a 1000 times worse.
This fucking myth just refuses to die.
Myth? I lived through it and around it.
My parents were absolutely convinced that Mortal Kombat was a satanic object meant to defile kids brains into killers and satanist.
Same thing with heavy metal and what is now classic rock. I don't know how it's being used now-a-days as a descriptor but it was almost 1:1 with tranny cancel culture of today.
Nobody got fired for joking about it, or kicked out of anything for being casually satanic. SOME parents prevented SOME kids from doing SOME things that was probably best for them not to be doing anyway was as far as things went.
"Parental Advisory" stickers were a marketing campaign and you are naive if you think it was anything but.
I was taught to play dungeons and dragons by a Catholic priest, and they did actually find dead kids under that preschool.
That wasn't the satanic panic.
The satanic panic was based around an idea that a whole bunch of people panicked over some sort of preschool that they thought was doing satanic rituals. And from my understanding, the "panic" wasn't that big, and the preschool (or whatever) actually was shady.
What limited reading I've done on it makes it sound like it was a proto-Epstein situation and accompanying response from the powers that be, where instead of smearing everyone concerned about it as QAnon, they were just called religious crazies.
Yeah, you're basically spot on.
Tipper Gore and Hillary Clinton's moralism wasn't part of the Satanic Panic, or even right-wing conservativism.
The myth is that it was right-wing. Democrats were commonly Christian as well back then.
It wasn't attached to political views then, it was purely attached to religious views, which at the time covered both right and left.
Yeah I could reasonably accept that for the time.
I think the reason it has the "Right wing stamp" if you will now-a-days is because the progressive left vehemently opposes it and has more Atheist as party members. Thus, a new "Panic" would be inherently evangelical of which is nested under the GOP.
Now an interesting thing though is that around 14% and rising in the GOP are Atheist or Agnostic.
You’re mixing 80s and 90s. They were not the same. Easy to mix up when you’re Gen Z.
Are you implying I'm Gen Z? Lol. I'm on the elder side of Millennial trending more with Gen X.
Yeah, it wasn't right wing. Democrats tended to be Christian as well back then.
It's not a myth. My parents didn't much care about stuff, but my best friend's family went to a non-denominational church that did convince people D&D was satanic. It didn't stop my friend from playing, but he couldn't buy any of the books, and had to keep it secret.
Later his mom because a told SJW leftoid crazy. She went from one end of the crazy spectrum to the other. Actually, not uncommon. Crazies gonna crazy.
Looking at the D&D community, I'm far more sympathetic to that view than I was before.
There's nothing inherently wrong with roleplaying games per se. But look how how many queers there are in this hobby, more than most anything else. Look at how many choose tiefling as their go-to. Why are they drawn to it? Why are these groups so dysfunctional while others are far less so. Even by the standards of the modern era, rpg hobby circles are a fucking trainwreck.
I do think that roleplaying as an evil diety worshiper needs a proper prep and mindset if it is to be done at all. There needs to be actors for evil roles. But these people are diving into it enthusiastically, no prep.
Also, the hells in dnd are just the pop culture hell (inferno style with many circles) and devils named after actual demons. Rather than it being subtle allegory or its own invention. It's just hell.
And so I've come to worry about a game where you can roleplay worshiping devils, where the hell isn't creative, and where the community has fallen to being queer. More than any other nerd community. There's something to be wary of here. I at least wouldn't just let my kids go play it. We're having a chat first at the very least. That community is deeply spiritually ill.
I really don't disagree with you at all.
In the 90s, my memories of D&D were pretty much just that the same nerdy kids who played video games and were in to science fiction and fantasy ALSO played D&D. My group was 100% male (briefly had one girl, and her presence almost made the whole thing fall apart due to thirst), 100% straight, etc. We were just nerds.
We often had a kind of persecution mentality. The cool kid and girls and others at school made of nerds, so we accepted anyone else who didn't quite fit in.
And yeah, that's basically the story of how D&D turned into a hobby for social misfits rather than people who were into the roleplaying and fantasy elements. Gatekeeping would have been nice, but D&D was kind of set up, at least in my experience, to be anti-gatekeeping. We were desperate for more people!
Aka a lefty church. It wasn't rightwing.
The only people who ever told me that MtG and videogames were satanic were the same people who raised two faggots and had pay per view porn channels.
Don't think so. Could never do anything on a Sunday. Called Catholics non-Christian satanists. Thought D&D and MtG were Satan inspired. Weekly Bible study and Greek study, Biblical inerrancy and literalism, etc.
They were far out there and crazy, but I can't think of anything lefty about what they believed. Both the kids hate Christians today.
I don't think it's at all anti-Christian to acknowledge that there are some groups and sects that ARE a problem. Search for an Ex-Jehovah's Witness group for instance. Jehovah's Witnesses are, in my opinion, doing damge to Christianity as a whole.
Well, they raised one "bi" female who was craaaaaazy (and crazy smart) until she settled down in her mid-30s and married a dull normie. So there's that.
Unitarians aren't Christian.
Simple as.
No she didn't.
She started as a puritanical authoritarian trying to force others to submit to her cult and she remains the same.
Ironically, most transsexuals I've seen seem to hate the trans movement.
Has anyone else noticed that?
I refuse even to speak to those creatures so I certainly wouldn't know.
Yep, every gay person I know hates the flag, the parades, the whole production. They just want to be treated like regular people.
I don't understand why, if you were trans, you'd want people to know. Wouldn't that make "passing" impossible?
Most people I see supporting the Pride movement are boring, overweight, white women who think it will make them more interesting if they dye their hair.
Because these people don't have personalities, so they have to make their ideological fetish their entire personality.
These are the people that say "people are more than their biology" but then reduce themselves to being defined, or redefined, by nothing more than factors associated with it.
There is no logic in this ideology.
They're all deeply dissatisfied autists that never learned how to define themselves, so they latch onto any bandwagon they can so they can feel like they fit in, whether its collecting mental illnesses like pokemon cards, furries, or the trans movement.
This coming from an autist, btw. I've been through that whole song and dance. I just didn't latch onto bullshit to try to define myself.
If you want a good laugh. To your point.
On reddit there is a subreddit called /r/truscum. Don't know if they got banned yet but they are the "real" trannies. Ones who believe you can only be trans via medical diagnosis and that "Gender ideology" is retarded.
Were you to take the trans naming out of it, you'd swear it was a Conservative subreddit.
No. That doesn't alter my position at all.
Just because one side is nuts, does not mean you can point to the other side and somehow make your favorite viewpoint less crazy by proxy.
I'll retain that there was a large amount of Christian Zealots in the 80's-90's and there may have been an equal amount of stupidity on the other end. Both can be true.