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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knottyprof" data-source="post: 6130704" data-attributes="member: 6715607">Missed this episode (maybe catch in onDemand later).  Honestly, any main stream media acknowledgement of the game or even RPG genre is a good thing, even if it is done in a mocking way.  After all it is just a game.  Is there a culture or sub-culture connected to it?  Sure, just like MMO gamers or other social groups where people get together to share their interests.  But it is still just a game, a means for people to share an experience of make believe where they can pretend to be something more, a means to escape from the duldroms of normal life.  But anymore it is big business where even companies like Hasbro can cash in.  So if a mainstream comedy comprised of archetypical nerds and geeks wants to use a game I have grown up with and spent a lot of time playing and thinking about as a plot line, all I have to say is Thank You for acknowledging my interest.Honestly, would you rather see a bunch of 20 somethings sitting around playing the game and making fun of it or Tom Hanks wandering a sewer system thinking he is really in some sort of fantasy dungeon.  Just goes to show how a societies views can change over time from a game that was perceived as satanic and players were thinly veiled devil worshippers to one where the game can elicit jokes and stereotyped as the domain of geeks and nerds.</blockquote>