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[TamerVirus]

My very favoritest was the one that said Pikachu was in fact derived from descriptions in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, and therefore was deliberately tantamount to worshiping said deities.

Ah yes, the good ole Satanic Panic of the 90s

[pisskop]

Look, as a survivor of that horrific timeperiod I dont appreciate you making light of the terror we all felt.  We almost lost a generation to it.

[Iduno]

Good Reading.

Also, it's Friday.

[Dunamisdeos]

Like, to Egyptian Satanchu?

[Loud Whispers]

Ah yes, the good ole Satanic Panic of the 90s

"DM I didn't bring my char sheet"
"DM can I multiclass as a priestess and a witch?"
"DM I really wanna multiclass I have a tragic backstory and everything"

[Dunamisdeos]

I SWEAR TO GOD RICK IF YOU SPEND 45M ROLEPLAYING THE SALE OF A HANDAXE FROM THE SHOP AGAIN I WILL SUMMON THE ACTUAL SATAN TO DRAG YOUR ASS TO ACTUAL HELL. I CAN DO IT RICK. I PLAY DND. TRY ME RICK.

[Eric Blank]

All I can summon after playing DND is whiskey hangovers and new dm restrictions

I think the whiskey is the only reason I'm invited, but whatever.

[Loud Whispers]

I cast impending doom. It causes the target to feel like they've forgotten something important

[Dunamisdeos]

Now that's Evil.

Anyway if Rick brought whiskey I might be more inclined to put up with his shit.

[Loud Whispers]

He didn't bring whiskey. He did however bring this BRAND NEW TACTICAL HANDAXE FOR ONLY 5.99 DUCATS

[Dunamisdeos]

He didn't bring whiskey. He did however bring this BRAND NEW TACTICAL HANDAXE FOR ONLY 5.99 DUCATS

Spoiler: He didn't bring whiskey. He did however bring this BRAND NEW TACTICA- (click to show/hide)

[Reelya]

Ah yes, the good ole Satanic Panic of the 90s

That was the 80s. The panic was well and truly dead by the 1990s.

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained

By the 1990s, you could be Marylin Manson and people were just "meh" by that point.

The real history is that some books published around 1980 really kicked off the satanic panic, the media really picked it up, and there were a number of high-profile court cases against "satanic" day care workers.

These court cases mostly imploded because the claims were highly improbably, bordering on fantastical / magical. Like, the teacher flushed you down a toilet into labyrnthine secret tunnels under the daycare center where they have elaborate dark rituals (somehow cleaning you up and having you ready to be picked up at 4pm like normal), and that the teachers could turn into witches and fly. So things like Dark Dungeons where there's a school-teacher-ish woman who uses D&D to get kids into the occult and there's some hidden altar with people in robes - a significant number of people in the 1980s thought this was real fact and not any sort of exaggeration. If you can believe that teachers have magical toilets that can flush kids down into a secret underground satanic tunnel system then you can believe just about anything.

And this level of bullshit gradually eroded the panic, and the media started to become highly skeptical, so the panic ended around the late 1980s. You can't have a panic unless the media plays along.

[King Zultan]

magical toilets that can flush kids down into a secret underground satanic tunnel system

I mean if I was a satanic wizard that's the kind of thing I'd make.

[Loud Whispers]

Harry Potter and the corrupting influence of public education

[scriver]

Ah yes, the good ole Satanic Panic of the 90s

That was the 80s. The panic was well and truly dead by the 1990s.

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/30/13413864/satanic-panic-ritual-abuse-history-explained

By the 1990s, you could be Marylin Manson and people were just "meh" by that point.

The real history is that some books published around 1980 really kicked off the satanic panic, the media really picked it up, and there were a number of high-profile court cases against "satanic" day care workers.

I didn't know the satanic panic originated from something like that. It kind of puts the hysterical fear a bit into perspective, doesn't it.