In article <1158380152.327263.79480@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Jax" <IlGreven@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> julian814 sez:
> <<
> > 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.
>
> So, basically, this is Reefer Madness, except replace pot with D&D...
That is being too generous. Reefer Madness at least had some basis on fact
though exagerated to the point that no one with a thinking brain in their
head would take the film seriously. Mazes and Monsters has no basic on
fact.
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