If anyone has any newer statistics please post them.BADD estimated 4 million gamers worldwide (this number has increased since then), and with the average suicide rate, this means 500 gamers would commit suicide each year. As of 1987, BADD had documented an average of seven suicides of gamers a year, meaning D&D actually lowers the suicide rate (5).
Positive Side-Effects of Gaming.
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“Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.”
“Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.”
I would like to point out that at least one item is apparently in error on that site. The section on "recent attacks" claims (or at least implys) that the episode of Adventures in Odyssey was first broadcast in 1997. The originial air date was 1990.
Just in case anyone particularly cares....
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Just in case anyone particularly cares....
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hmmmm.... oh yeah.... it helps to remember to include the url when posting links....Moocow: Where is this site?
http://www.religioustolerance.org/d_a_d.htm
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Here's another that looks like it has some good links.... I think one of them actually goes to the previously posted site.
http://www.philm.demon.co.uk/RPGs/Caution.htm
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http://www.philm.demon.co.uk/RPGs/Caution.htm
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Or you can always ask Jack Chick what he thinks.
If you want something a little less biased, there's a nice little inquiry into Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons by Michael A. Stackpole right here.
Edit: Actually, it's an exhaustively long inquiry, but it's all good.
If you want something a little less biased, there's a nice little inquiry into Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons by Michael A. Stackpole right here.
Edit: Actually, it's an exhaustively long inquiry, but it's all good.
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Well, there's a difference. Everyone has a bias. Some people tend to state those biases loud and often. (BTW, those are the people I like. ) The ones you have to watch out for (like most religious views) are the ones who conceal their bias, but if their bias is discovered, they attempt to make you believe that their bias is not only justified, but is the One True Bias, and all others are heretics and blasphemers.
_"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why God? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
--Stephen King
--Stephen King