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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 247577" data-attributes="member: 5202">I agree taht plenty of folks would get into the game to thumb their nose at their parents, but I'm not entirely sure I always agree with the negative publicity=better than none.  I work for MCI (division of Worldcom...$3.8 billion oops) and I joked about that too, but I think I coulda done fine with less attention for the company and their ailing stock price <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That being said, BoVD will be much more tame than has been claimed I'm sure, after all, that's what Monte has said.  Just like the Epic Rules thread, wait till you see the final product before ya start whining about it.  I grew up in KY and OH playing D&D and one of my best friends was the minister's son.  Our whole D&D group went to the same youth group, were all on the academic team etc.  Obviously nerds, but also obviously doing other things.  We had our original group at the middle school shut down by another minister who's son played w/us and he thought it was Satanic.  We're all well balanced individuals and never went insane and drank blood and <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />, it was just the standard scared Midwest/Southern devout BS.I'm not Christian these days and I don't bother too much when people make dumb claims about gaming.  I give my quick explanation of how it actually works and if they don't belieev me oh well.  I really don't care.  I'm almost 26 now, I can take whatever they say <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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