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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 7999011" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Oh, c'mon, advocate!</p><p></p><p>Those people will never have what had.</p><p>I’m old! And I’m grumpy! And I don’t like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress — phooey! In my day, we didn’t have this Amazon Internet Thingy that would send you a D&D book when you needed it. No!</p><p></p><p>There was only one game store in each state — and that store was open only one hour a year. And you’d get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people– fornicators and thieves, mutant children, circus freaks and grizzled wargamers that hadn't showered since the 50s — and you waited for years and by the time you got to the front to buy your copy of the Monster Manual, you were already senile and arthritic and you couldn’t remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died before you even got to roll a single d20! </p><p></p><p></p><p>Life was simpler then. There wasn’t all this concern about hygiene and communicable diseases and playing "remotely" and on "Roll20". When I started playing D&D, we didn’t even have Kleenex. When the eldest male child in the family turned seventeen, he was given the family handkerchief. It had never been washed and was filled with diseases and swarming with flies. If you tried to blow your nose or even looked at that Kleenex wrong-like, you’d get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and small children would turn and scream and run in fear just at the sight of you! We didn't need no ZOOM to scare those children. </p><p></p><p>Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn’t need to get together a "group" to "play" "D&D." No, in my day, there was only one show in town - it was called, "Play the BECMI module by yourself, over and over again, and watch Aleena die." And you thought, “Oh,no! Maybe I should have tried something else this time! But it was too late! You were responsible for Aleena dying again.</p><p></p><p>Kids today don't even know. And one day, they will be complaining about those youngsters zipping by on their hoverboards and playing holo-D&D, and how wizards get d100 hit points, and have "always on" 9th level spells now. HA! You just wait.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 7999011, member: 7023840"] Oh, c'mon, advocate! Those people will never have what had. I’m old! And I’m grumpy! And I don’t like things now compared to the way they used to be. All this progress — phooey! In my day, we didn’t have this Amazon Internet Thingy that would send you a D&D book when you needed it. No! There was only one game store in each state — and that store was open only one hour a year. And you’d get in line, seventeen miles long, and the line became an angry mob of people– fornicators and thieves, mutant children, circus freaks and grizzled wargamers that hadn't showered since the 50s — and you waited for years and by the time you got to the front to buy your copy of the Monster Manual, you were already senile and arthritic and you couldn’t remember your own name. You were born, got in line, and ya died before you even got to roll a single d20! Life was simpler then. There wasn’t all this concern about hygiene and communicable diseases and playing "remotely" and on "Roll20". When I started playing D&D, we didn’t even have Kleenex. When the eldest male child in the family turned seventeen, he was given the family handkerchief. It had never been washed and was filled with diseases and swarming with flies. If you tried to blow your nose or even looked at that Kleenex wrong-like, you’d get an infection and your head would swell up and turn green and small children would turn and scream and run in fear just at the sight of you! We didn't need no ZOOM to scare those children. Life was a carnival! We entertained ourselves! We didn’t need to get together a "group" to "play" "D&D." No, in my day, there was only one show in town - it was called, "Play the BECMI module by yourself, over and over again, and watch Aleena die." And you thought, “Oh,no! Maybe I should have tried something else this time! But it was too late! You were responsible for Aleena dying again. Kids today don't even know. And one day, they will be complaining about those youngsters zipping by on their hoverboards and playing holo-D&D, and how wizards get d100 hit points, and have "always on" 9th level spells now. HA! You just wait. [/QUOTE]
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