Ubiquitous wrote:
> HWayne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>>julian814 wrote:
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>>>Anim8rFSK wrote:
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>>>>Anybody want to fill me in on how it varied form the true story?
>>>
>>>The main story was about a gifted teenager who went to college, then
>>>disappeared for a long while. According to the movie and the media hype
>>>at the time, the kid went crazy after playing an RPG. The real story,
>>>which wasn't revealed until much later, was that the kid who
>>>disappeared was a closet homo***ual (at a time when homo***uality
>>>wasn't as well accepted as today), schizophrenic and cooked his own
>>>drugs. He didn't like himself for what he was and what he was doing, so
>>>he went into the steam tunnels underneath the campus to kill himself
>>>with sleeping pills. When that didn't work, he ran away. His problems
>>>had nothing to do with role playing games. The reason the truth didn't
>>>come out sooner is because the family of the kid didn't want such dirty
>>>laundry aired in public. When the kid in question finally committed
>>>suicide, the real story came out. Anyway, most people refer to Mazes
>>>and Monsters as the definitive proof that role playing games are evil,
>>>even though in the movie you'll notice it was the kid's guilt of
>>>helping his brother run away that caused him to go over the edge, not
>>>the game.
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>>I never quite understood this. Who in their right minds would get their
>>views on life from a *movie*?
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>
> Ask those who watched "Fahrenheit 9-11"...
>
Or "Red Dawn."
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