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General discussion (archive)A look back at D&D hysteria(33 posts)(33 posts)
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Posted April 11, 2014
I guess I was lucky with this sort of thing.
My uncle played D&D and taught me when I was little about the game. A few friends growing up also played and my mother and father thought anything - absolutly anything - that got me interacting with others was a good thing. So I was actually encouraged to play D&D, Warhammer and other games as they at least interested me.


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rong44: Ah yes the whole D&D and heavy metal stupidity back then. Good thing people are so much smarter now ;)
Yes, such an enlightened age we now live in.
Posted April 11, 2014
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Trajhenkhetlive: Actually D&D hysteria could be the poster child for how we should take a long look at the way we interpret studies. Correlation does not equal causation. I'm sure a lot of people with a lot of mental issues played D&D, but I have no doubts their mental issues existed long before they started playing the game and no one seemed to look at the multitude of gamers who didn't do anything wrong before and after D&D (in fact writers of your favorite tv shows were probably "dungeon masters" before they got big)
Actually, most of the studies that have actually looked at the issue have found either no correlation between DnD and suicide, or a negative correlation (i.e. DnD reduces likelihood of attempting suicide). Which shouldn't be surprising, given that it's a social activity for people who otherwise tend not to be very good with social activities (or at least, such was the case in the 80s).
Posted April 12, 2014
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Azilut: I just found out the other week that it's getting the movie treatment.
Oh, I so want to see this now. Looks like pure campy badness, and intentionally so. Basically, it looks completely in the spirit of the source material.
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