What?!

Yea. It's real.

That's the one!

😂 haha yup! I remember this movie lol

I've been wanting to see this movie since I first heard of it. But it alludes me. I'm quite curious about these fear mongering pieces. Never seen one before.

What the heck? Well, gotta start somewhere.

roof of the Twin Towers all based on the disproven (3 whole years before this flick came out) theory of a detective who randomly blamed the disappearance of a child prodigy on his RP hobby truth is the kid got depressed and went couch surfing/wandering until calling his parents to come get him

apologies if that description of events came off at all flippant, was trying to be sparing on details because the story of James Egbert is actually very sad and potentially triggering

all the more ironic because recent studies have shown roleplaying games like D&D can actually help people with depression

Bridge? No. Empire State Building? Yes.

World Trade Center

WAS IT 0_0 (been a LONG while since i saw it)

Damn, granted, he WAS on the ESB in A movie... at SOME point.

truly his greatest role.

Yeah my mother saw that movie & satanic panic set in hard! Was not allowed "those weird people" till I was older.

It was also “based on true events” in the loosest, most gossipy of ways.

True story. Tom Hanks makes all his important decisions via a D20.

Yes. And yet it's vastly more boring than you'd think from that description.

Thats the one😆

Worse. He tries to, IIRC, jump off one of the Twin Towers.

World Trade Center

Ironically, despite trying to push the narrative that RPG's cause mental instability, they make it VERY clear that Tom's character had a LOT of issues well before he played the game plus everyone else in the game DIDN'T have a mental breakdown like he did.

Yeah, this movie was nothing like what I was expecting.

The Satanic Panic from DnD contributed to this film

Yup. I was playing DnD at the time and had to convince my mum I wasn't going to kill myself because the game made me crazy. We sat her down to watch a session, and she left shaking her head. "It's just dice and maths!"

glad you were able to show her its just a game of play pretend and that she was reasonable enough to understand that

I remember the one Chick Tract I took from this guy was the Dark Dungeon one where DnD makes a girl join a cult, and her friend kills herself because her character died. It ends with a good old fashioned book burning! This movie always reminds me of it and gives me a laugh!

I saw a Jack Chick tract in a random bathroom recently, surprised to see people are still circulating that slop. They are good for a laugh, though.

Yes. Back in the 80s, when DnD to Boomers was satanic.

Nothing as satanic as slaying dragons and monsters…

and demons and devils you can literally play as holy knights and battle priests who defeat devils in D&D yet ignorant people still demonized the game