Get ready to defend your hobby again...

[Cergorach]

Would it be terribly wrong of me to forward this link to a most annoying coworker and apend it with " I play that, now shut the Fnck up!"... *Bhuahahaha*

 

[Mark CMG]

Would it be terribly wrong of me to forward this link to a most annoying coworker and apend it with " I play that, now shut the Fnck up!"... *Bhuahahaha*

Might even be actionable.

 

[Cergorach]

Might even be actionable.

Hell, i could plead insanity ;-)

 

[Sejs]

Would it be terribly wrong of me to forward this link to a most annoying coworker and apend it with " I play that, now shut the Fnck up!"... *Bhuahahaha*

Depends.

How big are you on unemployment?

 

[Cergorach]

Depends.

How big are you on unemployment?

Leaves me with more time to spend on D&D and sharpen that samurai sword i'll need, dread! This is starting to sound better and better...

Next thing you'll know you'll have kids trick or treating, running around dressed like nerds "What are you dressed like young Whippersnapper? A Dungeons and Dragons player, now give me all of your candy! Oh, how horrible, where were your parents when you grew up!"...

;-)

 

[jdrakeh]

I doubt it. I live in Michigan and I never heard anything about this until now. The news isn't even talking about it now. Anyone in Detroit hear anything about this lately on the news?

Note that I live in the city that headquarters the largest anti-RPG evangelical organization in the US (Focus on the Family). I still get copies of Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" jammed under my door every five or six months

 

[Ranger REG]

But that will unfortunately not matter to the press (at least in general). It only matters that there is a (tenuous at best) link between D&D and this sad event.

In my "experience" the tabloid press seem to be incappable of providing details to the general public that don't rate or are not banner worthy (or they beleive that the public can't handle it).

ICv2.com is now a tabloid press?

AFAIC, the article is pretty neutral, simply reporting what the lawyer for the accused plans to use as part of his courtroom strategy. I don't think ICv2.com is trying to advocate any anti-D&D sentiment.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/9540.html

But I agree that the media have a way (or tendancies) of "sensationalizing" the story with their few-words headlines, and then bury the truth in as little context as possible within the article for the sake of readership and/or TV ratings.

 

[KingOfChaos]

As long as D&D remains in the realm of the eccentric nerd, it will always be the target of normal people's suspicions. Nothing we can do about it but say "what the f*** ever" and move on when confronted about our hobby.

Hell, I hear they won't let people in Israel be in their army if they play D&D. I read an article on Yahoo about that, too.

 

[The Thayan Menace]

It has begun ....

I doubt it. I live in Michigan and I never heard anything about this until now.

Dude, what is up with Michigan RPGers?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0805051sword1.html

-Samir

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

These days, people actually have real issues to worry about.

Dungeons & Dragons just doesn't register on most people's radar except as a "nerd's game".