NOTSunnyshadow wrote on Apr 1
st, 2014 at 7:56am:
I read the synopsis.
Based on this and the reviews, and the hype arising from this, I now believe that we are living in a virtual world where machines have taken over and have placed all of us in a virtual world to use our real-world bodies as living batteries.
The Demon hystaria was pretty amazing. I had friends parents that were totally freaked out by the whole thought. One I convinced DnD was cool--'its like playing with plastic soldiers but in medieval times' they understand that I guess.
Mazes and Monsters, 60 minutes stories, news stories about kids becoming Satan worshipers, or 'the dangers of imagination' if you can believe that. But yeah the backlash was very real. Then DnD got a Saturday morning cartoon and it all kind of went away.
Add in Heavy Metal- Black Sabbath, Ozzy and bat biting, that terrible Trick or Treat movie...Satan was defiantly taking over the kids of America in the early Eighties.
The reality is D&D made a generation be ok with geek. The first computer games were centered around it, and that geek continued into the new age. We won. Now the dude bro's are the minority, hanging out in our cool house.