{"id":2850,"date":"2002-09-12T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2002-09-12T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2002-09-12T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2002-09-12T19:08:23","slug":"ah_those_were_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/12\/ah_those_were_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Ah, those were the days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doyce (through his gaming page<\/a>) links to a golden oldie, the old Chick’s Tract on the Satanic Evils of Dungeons & Dragons<\/a>. Triffic fun.<\/p>\n

\"She<\/p>\n

Whilst in college, Chris Miller had a tape of a radio program dedicated to the evils of “Dungeons & Masters” (“And when I threw the book into the fire — it screamed!”) Of all the things I’ve lost over the years, that tape is very high on my list of most regretted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doyce (through his gaming page) links to a golden oldie, the old Chick’s Tract on the Satanic Evils of Dungeons & Dragons. Triffic fun. Whilst in college, Chris Miller had…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129645,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/the-war-on-dd-and-how-it-was-won.html","url_meta":{"origin":2850,"position":0},"title":"The War on D&D (and how it was won)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Feb-16 7:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, the article doesn't really go into detail as to how the culture war against Dungeons & Dragons was won or lost, only that today D&D (and its fantasy mindset) have clearly won in culture, and fundamentalists touting the evils of FRPGs don't get segments on 60 Minutes any more.Which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42121,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/21\/what-hath-chick-wrought.html","url_meta":{"origin":2850,"position":1},"title":"What Hath Chick Wrought?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-May-14 6:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone's adapted the classic anti-D&D \"Dark Dungeons\" Chick's tract (http:\/\/www.chick.com\/reading\/tracts\/0046\/0046_01.ASP) to the silver screen. 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But this was not a great movie.","rel":"","context":"In "Gaming"","block_context":{"text":"Gaming","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/gaming"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDHAT-poster-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDHAT-poster-3.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDHAT-poster-3.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDHAT-poster-3.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/DDHAT-poster-3.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":681,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/01\/satanic_games.html","url_meta":{"origin":2850,"position":4},"title":"Satanic Games!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Sep-01 7:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The interesting web bit of the day. 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