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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 9408805" data-attributes="member: 7808">A guy named Stephen Clements, who calls his YouTube channel the "Langhorne Creative Group" has done a couple of interviews with Ernie Gygax about his memories of life growing up in Chicago and Lake Geneva.  Yesterday he posted the second video in the series.  It's got some interesting stories about Ernie, his family, and some info about what life was like with his dad.  Stephen has a bit of a historian's bent on these interviews, claiming their purpose is "To ensure the family history of this most important family to the role playing game industry and the wider culture it influences is not lost".A lot of this is the kind of reminiscing you would expect.  There are some happy stories, and some that might be a little embarrassing for his siblings.  Ernie name-drops Justin Lanasa around the 13 minute mark, but NuTSR and the DHSM aren't mentioned by name (although I suspect that may be due to editing).  But later things get weird.Spoiler block here as a trigger warning for suicide, violence, and ableist language.[SPOILER="Hiding in-line video, suicide, violence"]Around the ~20:00 minute mark, Ernie talks about how his mother used to babysit "troublesome and Down Syndrome kids".  Ernie goes on to say that when he was in 4th grade, one of these kids (who would have been around 14 or so) hanged themselves in the bathroom of the gas station across the street from the Gygax home.Whoa.The next story Ernie tells is that when he was in kindergarten, there was another child that was about four years older than Ernie, but also still in kindergarten due to developmental disabilites.  That child broke Ernie's favorite toy.  So, in his words, Ernie "picked up a brick and threw it, hit him in the head, knocked him out. He was puking. And so we called the doctor, the doctor comes, resuscitates him, you know all this kind of stuff, cleans him up. And says 'Well, it's lucky it was Craig cuz anybody else we would have to be doing other things but he's already deranged in the head' Which is something you'd never hear anymore. But yeah, it just went over. My little 4-year-old or 5-year-old action was excused as, like, well, 'Those are those kids. And when you have a moron in the building that's what you're going to get'."Whoa.And that's essentially the end of this chapter of the interview(s).Here's the video:[MEDIA=youtube]DUv9hMTKkqI[/MEDIA][/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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