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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Calico_Jack73" data-source="post: 1466260" data-attributes="member: 14403">WizaDru... you are being WAY too literal.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> What I mean is that when the 70's kids were growing up and playing D&D very few in the "Adult" social strata had heard of it or even understood it except for the VERY rare adult who gave it a try and even then most of those enlightened adults that I know treated it like they would a Poker game... it was strictly a pick-up game and they never played it as long running hobby.All of the 70's kids have now assumed the Adult role in society and almost EVERYONE either knows or has known someone who has played a Role-Playing game.  Back in the 70's you could run into people that had never heard of it.  That was what I meant when I said we run the country now.  I wasn't stating that you or I were president or that any of the people in the current administration play or played RPGs.  The generation that grew up with and understood roleplaying are now the people who decide what is socially normal.  As far as what is considered normal we SOCIALLY run the country. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Edit: I went back and changed some stuff in regards to "Everybody" and "Nobody".  I know how sensitive some people are to those words and how they shut out the rest of the message when they take those two words out of context.Everybody = Everybody in my experienceNobody = Nobody in my experienceThe Politically Correct people are responsible for more Electron Waste in the universe than any other social group.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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