Age 11, buying T1: The Village of Hommlet right when it hit the shelves, and then waiting for the Temple of Elemental Evil to come out "soon." I squinted down that road to Nulb for a decade! I accidentally cut loose with a fairly loud "MFer!" in a game and comic shop in Austin when I saw it on...
I have no idea on the C&D theory, but I have no trouble picturing these doofuses freaking out and burning their own houses down because a WotC-linked account downvoted one of their Reddit posts. I could see this recent series of pratfalls being generated on receipt of a 5E spell card in the...
You can still buy all of those things, and if you want further material the OSR scene has produced it in spades. These three clowns were never going to do that, and you don't need them to.
When I was maybe 16-17 (87-88), I had a friend tell me basically that they might've been trans, though they didn't have the words for it. They came to me because they thought I was "wise" (within the punk scene we were both in at the time, anyway, which was slim pickings), to ask me if I thought...
I had to explain "all things being equal" and argue this in a forensic science class while standing in the middle of a mock crime scene with evidence of "staging" (someone attempting to make the crime look like a different type of crime). Not fun! It did make me pedantic about it as well, though:)