Yeah, don’t do math, kids. It’s not good for you!
What’s the square root of vicious mockery?
And then the moment she was gone the spreadsheets went away and the goat skulls came out.
Im onto you
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.
I’ll take the devil over fucking math
This is the reason all my D&D sessions include Mountain Dew and Funyuns
As soon as she leaves:
“Ugh! FINALLY!!! I thought she would never leave…Ok, pass me the blood of the innocent.”
Finally, you can play your records in reverse to hear the sermon of the devil
“Congratulations, you have discovered the secret message, please send your answer to ol’ Pink, care of, the funny farm.”
“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.”
Satan: ”Ok, so you mispronounced beelzebub which would normally give you -2 on the summoning check. However, your virgin blood counts as a superior sacrifice material so it all cancels out. Now, lemme get my dice…”
I saw a comic recently where the evil cultist tried to sacrifice his virgin friend to gain power/favor from a demon. Only, whoops! The friend had lied about being a virgin, and the cultist was one. Cultist learned just what the hard way is on that one.
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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.
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I mean it is just nerd talking with math rocks
Don’t forget us failed theater kids!
Yeah, they said nerd talking
Aren’t theater-geeks geeks and math-nerds nerds?
You can totally be a theatre nerd or a math geek
Have you seen math? It’s the Devil’s play tool!
with it you can calculate your way out of a cult, which is obviously devilish
It’s mildly interesting that this claim originated during a time (~ late 70s and 80s) when such claims also originated about rock and metal music. Both D&D and those were somewhat 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.
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.
But polyphonic music really does summon the devil!
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.
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).
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. FUD.
I have no idea, second time I’ve seen of today, the other was in a Plex comment section
It was very much disinformation. The whole satanic panic bullshit was based on far right propaganda.
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.
The right wing of america and the various christian cultural movements/monoliths have been allies since roughly the reagan campaign. The power of that alliance is a large part of the republican’s base/power. The politicians on the right have a great deal of push on them to parrot christian talking points, like the satanic panic of various flavors that was pushed about music and activities like D&D.
So while the d&d being evil may not have started as right wing propaganda, it quickly became so due to the way the cultural onus of christianity pushed politicians into acting. You can see the same thing with ‘christian’ values around political fighting with abortion, teenage pregnancy / sex education, israel (though that one is obviously much more complicated than just ‘church leaders fetishes -> politicians’ stances), ‘morality’ based laws around prostitution and gambling, etc.
That doesn’t sound like a disinformation campaign though.
In addition to what the other poster responded, the “satanic panic” was fanned to divert attention away from very real pedophile rings. Just like pizzagate was started to deal with leaks of the epstein/trump ring.
Source?
I mean, there is no cnn story linking operation paperclip psychologists and other scientists, and the newly founded CIA, to attempts at creating a master race/gaining kompromat/having a good excuse for pedo parties, but you can find evidence scattered about if you feel like diving into it.
There were early hits in the Laurel Canyon area in the 60s and 70s, then stuff scattered around the country, Nebraska, Nevada, Florida, New York, etc. In the early 80s there were a couple of sherifs, each in different states, who simultaneously started raising huge alarm bells because they discovered a genuinely well funded and organized network dedicated to smuggling children. A few years later the “panic” started, key figures from court cases “committed suicide” or had planes and cars crash horrifically, and then it was over.
I was personally there for the beginning of “pizzagate”, begrudgingly spending time going through distilled and raw feeds because it was originally high quality information on financial trails created by one of these deeply embedded groups. Within less than two weeks it was completely destroyed by limited hangouts and utterly insane disinformation. Two weeks later that hit the regular news feeds.
I don’t have a bunch of charlie-and-his-red-string links for you or a web of names and ties to things. They are useless anyway, as people either latch on to the wrong things and go schizo, or ignore years of methodical and sourced research. And anyway, that kind of research gets you attention I just don’t want.
But the shape of these things is there. The above is plenty to get looking, yourself. You’ll see it if you are dedicated to raw information feeds and niche researchers who source their osint and don’t fall into their own navel. So be on the lookout.
If you’re not dedicated to information in this way, don’t worry about it, just let the monsters in the dark do their thing. Nothing really to be done about them anyway.
Well thank you for your frankness but it sounds like there’s not sufficient evidence to convince me, or the ordinary person.
You misunderstand, there is plenty of evidence to convince you and the ordinary person. What there is not, is an expose by the captured media, as one would expect.
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.
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).
I immediately lose all confidence in people willing to use FUD in 2026 years since Jesus died for our cringe.
Be gay, do… Math?
