I got into D&D in the late ‘80s. My super-christian grandma even tried to play. My dad’s church thought I was going straight to hell, though.
Hail math!
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farmgineer@nord.pub 2 days ago
StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I mean it is just nerd talking with math rocks
Drusas@fedia.io 1 day ago
For years, my friends would get a ride from my one friend's grandpa over to my place to play various tabletop games--four to six teenage boys and me, a teenage girl. We learned once we were in college that he thought all that time that they were all coming over to rail me. For years. And he just happily drove them all over.
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
It’s mildly interesting that this claim originated during a time (~80s) when such claims also originated about rock and metal music. Both of which happened to be new (or at least newly popular) during that time. In a way it was the analog equivalent of modern FUD and misinformation spreading on social media. Maybe even disinformation, but probably just misinformation and FUD.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It was very much disinformation. The whole satanic panic bullshit was based on far right propaganda.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 days ago
I can’t find any corroboration of that, can you say more? The D&D thing specifically was started by someone whose son committed suicide and she attributed his death to D&D.
Zephorah@discuss.online 2 days ago
To be fair, this was likely a reverse problem of today: not enough social media or freely flowing info via the internet.
People who did not know assumed much from manual covers.
OpenStars@piefed.social 2 days ago
We thought the Internet would be our salvation… wow were we wrong.
Funny side story: we also though that technology, particularly AI, would save us - again, swing and a miss (tbf, LLMs != AI, so we still don’t truly know, though we’ve lost hope for it anyway since even if they did exist they would be controlled by the elites not applied to the good of of all humanity).
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 days ago
I have no clue what FUD stands for. But as I’m too lazy to look it up, I have to assume it’s something satanic.
kyub@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Stands for “fear, uncertainty and doubt”. It’s actually a very relevant term. In a lot of contexts. It’s when people influence you to either fear, have uncertainty about, or doubt something. Sometimes this happens without any intent, for example if you’re unsure about some new situation or thing, you tend to first view it more negatively because you have some fear or doubts about it (which might not be warranted). But sometimes, it can have malicious intent (e.g. right-wing extremists spreading FUD about human subgroups they don’t like. Usually the first step before more aggressive behavior happens).
airman@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. FUD.
BrickEater@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have no idea, second time I’ve seen of today, the other was in a Plex comment section
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I immediately lose all confidence in people willing to use FUD in 2026 years since Jesus died for our cringe.
Malgas@beehaw.org 1 day ago
There have been similar moral panics about whatever the kids were doing throughout history, including comic books, jazz, prose literature, the waltz, polyphonic music, and even writing stuff down instead of just remembering it.
yelling_at_cloud@programming.dev 1 day ago
But polyphonic music really does summon the devil!
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
And then the moment she was gone the spreadsheets went away and the goat skulls came out.
Im onto you
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 days ago
My husband’s parents bought into the satanic panic fully, apparently. He pretended to be making model airplanes instead of playing with the guys.
My parents played ad&d together in college so. There was a difference lol.
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Ad&d has reelly shitty fone service.
vga@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
And then you started doing the actual satanism, right
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Be gay, do… Math?
banazir@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Have you seen math? It’s the Devil’s play tool!
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
with it you can calculate your way out of a cult, which is obviously devilish
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
The Venn diagram of people that think this, and also buy books about compete BS Bible numerology are a circle.
sirico@feddit.uk 1 day ago
What’s the square root of vicious mockery?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is the reason all my D&D sessions include Mountain Dew and Funyuns
RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I’ll take the devil over fucking math
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, don’t do math, kids. It’s not good for you!
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Technically, the occult is math, too. The word “occult” just means “hidden,” and that’s how we do things in the occident, where we have engineered our culture to control those people who cannot think for themselves whilst simultaneously guiding those waking up into the truth of the topological matrix we are not IN but rather ARE.
But that’s not Satanism, though Satanism COULD be one of the portals out of the police state default culture; I’m just not familiar with that particular portal. I learned from Jebus and the Boobha, whomever those guys are, but one’s words are shaved down for the above purpose and can be understood with an eighth grade reading level, while the other has these things called sutras which manifested from many enlightened beings sharing their wisdom, sometimes in ten thousand pages, sometimes in poems. Y’know, what I and other occult leaders do in our own mysticism schools.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
As soon as she leaves:
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Let me do a check to see if I give you the right blood… Nope, not with a 5. Here’s your blood orange juice.”
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Satan: ”Ok, so you mispronounced beelzebub which would normally give you -2 on the summoning check. Howecer, you virgin blood counts as a superior sacrifice material so it all cancels out. Now, lemme get my dice…”
Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I can work with this. I summoned a dank pneumonia one time I was doing a ritual with gasoline in the snow. I’ll just boof the blood orange juice and I guarantee whatever monster or dragon or giant cube of slime I’m fighting will be running for the hills after that!
ApertureUA@lemmy.today 2 days ago
username checks out
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Finally, you can play your records in reverse to hear the sermon of the devil
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 day ago
“Congratulations, you have found the secret message, please send your answer to ol’ Pink, care of, the funny farm.”