I was not old enough to get that period. How bad was the Christian influence? I know about renaming devils and demons but that about it.
I'm kind of curious, my theory is that the same white liberal karens were pushing it, just that back then it was more advantageous for them to be Christian conservatives then liberals. The personality matches way to well to be just a coincidence.
Is strange but I'm kind of sad that I did not get to experience the 80s and early 90s properly.
They did cave to christian influence and removed the pentagram from a couple cards like unholy strength and demonic tutor, but recent sjw led ban waves have been more extreme. Like banning white knight and crusade but black knight is fine lol
There was deadass a Tom Hanks movie in 1982 called Mazes and Monsters about a kid (Hanks) who plays D&D and goes crazy- thinking he's really his character and tries to jump off the World Trade Center.
Christians stood a reasonable chance of getting probably-unConstitutional laws passed restricting the satanic stuff. In the face of that, and the public hysteria, a lot of people self censored. I don't think Congress ultimately did anything. The video games rating system was created, but I thought that was voluntary.
In the 90s, they'd be doing this to appease pearl-clutching Christian conservatives.
Odd how they rejected doing this back then but are now ok with self-censorship to appear whiny crybabies and remove the fantasy from a fantasy game.
I was not old enough to get that period. How bad was the Christian influence? I know about renaming devils and demons but that about it.
I'm kind of curious, my theory is that the same white liberal karens were pushing it, just that back then it was more advantageous for them to be Christian conservatives then liberals. The personality matches way to well to be just a coincidence.
Is strange but I'm kind of sad that I did not get to experience the 80s and early 90s properly.
They did cave to christian influence and removed the pentagram from a couple cards like unholy strength and demonic tutor, but recent sjw led ban waves have been more extreme. Like banning white knight and crusade but black knight is fine lol
They aren't their target audience. They don't even play. This will benefit no one, and possibly hurt them from their fans being irritated.
They are pleasing who they imagine their target audience to be -- probably who they wish it was.
There was deadass a Tom Hanks movie in 1982 called Mazes and Monsters about a kid (Hanks) who plays D&D and goes crazy- thinking he's really his character and tries to jump off the World Trade Center.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/jello-biafra-1990
There's a series of video clips on there that show what it was like.
Oddly, the videos were recently scrubbed from YT by Oprah's company.
Obligatory moral panic parody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbiJZnZQ4es
Christians stood a reasonable chance of getting probably-unConstitutional laws passed restricting the satanic stuff. In the face of that, and the public hysteria, a lot of people self censored. I don't think Congress ultimately did anything. The video games rating system was created, but I thought that was voluntary.
Which is funny since it's a game where you're killing demons.
I was thinking Duke Nukkem was better at doing everything fun.
The difference is that pearl clutchers had boundaries and they stopped caring after a point.