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Now I'm trying to remember how much of 90s futurism as expressed in popular entertainment tended towards the dystopian. I'm thinking about 90%...

Are we sure about the attribution date? Everything in that picture and the attitude from Mom screams 1986 not 1996. By 1996 IT was a booming career choice...Then the bubble burst but that's another story...

Well, I'm taking a break and the group will be alternating between Tails of Equestria and B/X D&D until late August or September. Both games will be run by a lovely young lady who'll be graduating college next year. It should all be fun for everyone. The new guy apparently had an interesting...

This week I'm reading E.E. Smith's Lensman series for the first time in 25 years.

Well, we're three years away, how close are those predictions looking?

About 4MB...Impressive for the time.

Good ol' 1950s computer tech.

I knew someone about twenty years ago who did something like that when rolling with a d10 numbered in tens and a normal d10 and he always wanted to read 00-0 as 10. Since he also insisted that 10-0 was 100 it sort of worked. He handled rolling two differently colored d10s just fine and read that...

Threads on the Pub never really die. They might go dormant for a few years but if you can find it you can give it a good poke to wake it up.

I just had a strange and unexpected conversation with someone asking to join my gaming group. Apparently, the others decided to send the guy to me and now I kind of want to talk to them and find out what they want me to do. I don't think this guy is going to be a good fit for the group after...

Yeah, indeed a contributor. Michelle Remembers was absolute BS too.

A street name for a drug well-known in the 1970s. A quick google search should find specifics easily.

I'm not sure about as the "original source." While it played into the zeitgeist you also had all the other factors like "Michelle Remembers", the rising popularity of occultism, the growing politicization of the evangelical movement, and so on. D&D was never the whole of the satanic panic. I...

True enough though it doesn't get into some of the more absurd bits like "keeps candles in bedroom" or "acts moody and withdrawn" as warning signs.

I kind of wish I could find some of those lists of warning signs that "your kid is into satan!" that were going around in the late 80s and early 90s. I recall meditation, wearing black, RPGs, and reading science fiction being high on them. I have vague recollections of one that included computer...

Legend-tripping is what folklorists call it. The people who did it in their youth largely didn't really have a name for it.

By a difference of two years...

So, VTT even though everyone is physically in the same room? Interesting and I shudder to think how badly that'd go with my current group.

Yeah, I remember a bunch of things like that in the early 90s. Lots of people in the media and law enforcement always seemed to be looking for a satanic connection to anything that sounded vaguely strange or surreal. Every small town near me seemed to have intrepid detectives uncovering satanic...

What I find scary is that there are still groups trying to stir up a new satanic panic every decade. Like those groups who purport to train LEOs in how to deal with satanism-related crimes.