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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 7851602" data-attributes="member: 3285">Dungeons & Dragons is now so dominant in popular culture that <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/critical-role-amazon-orders-2-seasons-of-the-legend-of-vox-machina.668369/" target="_blank">actual play streams have become full-fledged cartoons</a>, <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/when-brands-play-games.668070/" target="_blank">gamers have become the target of fast food chains with serious marketing muscle</a>, and <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/new-d-d-movie-to-go-ahead-produced-by-lego-movies-roy-lee.663247/" target="_blank">major studios squabbled over movie rights</a>. But thanks to the lingering effects of the Satanic Panic in the 80s, D&D was treated warily at best and openly hostile at worst by the media just a decade ago. Three data points from 2010 show just how far we've come.[ATTACH=full]115657[/ATTACH]<a href="https://pixabay.com/vectors/sign-road-road-sign-traffic-3026750/" target="_blank">Picture courtesy of Pixabay</a>.That Time CareerBuilder Said D&D Was Bad for Your ResumeCareerBuilder posted "outrageous and common mistakes" candidates make in job interviews according to a new survey. <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/employers-reveal-the-outrageous-and-common-mistakes-candidates-made-in-job-interviews-according-to-new-careerbuilder-survey-85186982.html" target="_blank">Among the unusual blunders hiring managers encountered, they reported that</a>:This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Interactive© on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 2,720 hiring managers (employed full-time; not self-employed; non-government) ages 18 and over between November 5 and November 23, 2009. Of course, it's never appropriate to bring up an irrelevant example in an interview. However, the manager specifically citing D&D as a "blunder" because it's used as an example of teamwork. There's no disputing that there's an appropriate time and place to discuss D&D. But managers could do a lot worse than hire a role-player.That Time Playing D&D Meant You Were "Undateable"With the release of Undateable: 311 Things Men Do That Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex, the authors compiled dating deal-breakers from hundreds of women, as a sort of "Don't" list for men who were interested in dating women. <a href="https://www.chron.com/life/article/Don-t-become-an-undateable-man-1714177.php" target="_blank">Chief among them was playing Dungeons & Dragons</a>, listed as a "storm cloud" (one step above a red flag, and a step below "not getting any"):If the authors didn't make it clear that gamers weren't worth dating, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110911232927/http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Movies-TV-Music-Books/We-re-Just-Not-That-Into-You-Undateable" target="_blank">there was this exchange</a>, from an interview with Elle magazine:The press tour for the book included ABC's Good Morning America, The New York Post, and Oprah.com.That Time the Boston Herald Blamed D&D for MurderAmy Bishop, a professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, opened fire at a faculty meeting, killing three of her colleagues.  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100218154351/http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100216suspect_in_slays_fan_of_dungeons/" target="_blank">Boston Herald reporter Laurel J. Sweet described the attacks this way</a>:According to Sweet, Bishop and her husband James Anderson met in a D&D club while biology students at Northeastern University in the early 1980s and were "heavily into the fantasy role-playing board game," according to the Boston Herald's anonymous source. “They even acted this crap out." Sweet tried to connect Bishop's motivation for murder to Dungeons & Dragons by using the McDermott case as a precedent.The McDermott case had little connection to Dungeons & Dragons. Yes,  McDermott did have D&D books in his possession. He also had computer equipment, a will, gun cases and ammunition, a passport, blasting caps, bomb-making literature and three gallons of liquid nitric acid. McDermott never blamed D&D for the killings.Looking back, it's clear 2010 was the nadir of D&D's presence in popular culture. In fact, it seems more likely that the existing media establishment wasn't reacting well to the rising popularity of geeks who thought including game experience on a resume or as part of their dating profile was entirely normal. It would take a few years before the narrative would change, and for that we can only be grateful.</blockquote>

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