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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf1066" data-source="post: 5241815" data-attributes="member: 88680">I used to be rightfully proud of the fact that I fell into so many categories that fundamentalist scaremongers deemed were "guaranteed to make you into a homicidal maniac" - owning firearms, watching violent movies, playing D&D and other "evil" roleplaying games, riding motorcycles and other similarly "antisocial" things.And I didn't even actively seek out things that the "mundanes" deemed "evil" or "dangerous" - they were all things that I just happened to enjoy - and found out that "public opinion" was against them and "leading experts" deemed them to be antisocial and dangerous.Still haven't murdered anyone, committed suicide, signed any pacts with demons/devils/betentacled-old-ones, or done any of the other antisocial/dangerous/illegal things that the self-styled "experts" (all speaking from outside of the various groups on which they claimed to be experts) said I was going to do.I've actually had people tell me what I do in D&D sessions and any claims that I make to the contrary must be lies because they know what goes on because their Pastor told them and he knows for sure... (emphasis about average for such accusations).Because, yeah, a Pastor who's received a tract put out by the likes of Patricia Pulling or Jack Chick obviously knows more about the game than someone who's been playing it for quite some time.It did not take long for me to respond to their "Us vs Them" attitude by developing an "Us vs Them" attitude of my own and taking considerable pride in not being a "Mundane" - who were mostly (based on the evidence of the crap they spouted) moronic sheep that would believe any sensationalist Flowery language that they read.I would wax lyrical as loudly, and as long, as I could about the moronic "D&D involves signing pacts with the devil", "Violent movies make you go out and shoot people", and similar, crap that filled the media and how anyone who took that crap seriously or repeated it was a moron of the lowest possible standard.Why?  Because if I'm going to be hated and reviled by idiots, I would prefer it to be because I'm an obnoxious, opinionated bastard that points out how unbelievably stupid they are - rather than because they think they know what I'm like because some loonie zealot wrote something in the paper. I'm an old fashioned sort that prefers to be vilified for his real faults, not imaginary ones...</blockquote>

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