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[Greatwyrm]

When somebody "CAN NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN REALITY AND FANTASY" I would think that many innocuous or benign things could influence such a person in ways with bad results.

I've always had a theory that country music has lead to more suicides than rpgs have. Just can't find research to back it up.

 

[pdkoning]

I've always had a theory that country music has lead to more suicides than rpgs have. Just can't find research to back it up.

When somebody "CAN NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN REALITY AND FANTASY" I would think that many innocuous or benign things could influence such a person in ways with bad results.

I agree on that, people who can not distingiush can be influenced with almost anything even country music

 

[Henry]

Y'know, once someone told me that they couldn't stand Country Music because it was "...all about sadness and pain, and people who had cheating wives & boyfriends, and general pathetic mewling." (actual quote)

My rebuttal was to quote one song:

"I would swallow my pride
I would choke on the rinds'
but the lack thereof
would leave me empty inside
swallow my doubt
turn it inside out
find nothing but faith in nothing
wanna put my tender
heart in a blender
watch it spin around
to a beautiful oblivion
rendez-vous then I'm through with you"

"Country Music is about pain?!?!"

But then, I like 'em both, so I'm freakish that way.

 

[Talmun]

Y'know, once someone told me that they couldn't stand Country Music because it was "...all about sadness and pain, and people who had cheating wives & boyfriends, and general pathetic mewling." (actual quote)

My rebuttal was to quote one song:
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The difference is that nearly all country songs are slow (the sad ones, anyway) and that song is sung fast...it sounds, well, upbeat.


If anyone is curious about the anti-D&D point of view, there are a couple links at the bottom of the page in question (the one with Dark Dungeons), that explain the point of view...it's interesting how much people can mis-understand something.

 

[Henry]

know her? are you sure you should be saying that with your wife posting to this same site?

I wouldn't like to admit "knowing" a girl who changes light bulbs with her teeth... Then again...

 

[Rel]

"Country Music is about pain?!?!"

Not merely pain but momma, trains, trucks, prison and gettin' drunk. To whit:

Well I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
and I went to pick her up in the rain.
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck,
She got runned over by a damned old train..."

And we KNOW that this is what country music is all about because it is from the perfect country and western song.

 

[dead]

Ha ha ha ha

Is this for real or is it a joke? I've never seen this before but it's hilarious!

You know what the ironic thing is? It doesn't matter if it's real or a joke, it still has the same effect.

If it's real: We laugh at Book Burners.

If it's a joke: We laugh at Book Burners.

Thanks, Newbie. Great find!

 

[Ice man]

Dark Dungeons rears its ludicrous head once again.

I almost wish Chick would do a few more on the perceived evils of D&D. He writes some stuff that's pretty out there. I could almost see basing an entire D20 Modern campaign on his tracts.

in my opinion this would be the ultimate form of mockery for the paranoid, deluded ravings he is trying to pass off on the uninformed...seems like it would make for a somewhat dull campaign though.

 

[Impeesa]

I've only ever run into that type once, and it was more of an off-hand comment ("doesn't that game make you go kill people?"). It really does stem from ignorance more than anything else.

And on a slightly less topical note: what do you get when you play country music backwards? You get yer dawg back, you get yer truck back, you get yer wife back...

--Impeesa--

 

[WayneLigon]

Is this for real or is it a joke? I've never seen this before but it's hilarious!

Oh, it's quite real. It's a little look back at the very early Eighties, the height of anti-D&D propaganda. Some of the other more recent links on the Chick site show you that such extreme views still exist today though they usually get buried in outcries against video games. Look there or on Google to uncover others, then go to Stackpole's Pauling Report to see more. Just don't mistake Eternal Grace Congregation Church for the real thing