memories of the 80s

So I was talking earlier, on Mastodon, about how one of the nastier bits of 45's regime for me is how having this script, "the President's an egregious asshole and the Republicans do whatever the hell they like, and my fellow citizens are cool with this," constantly running in the background, is a really bad callback for someone my age.

A lot of whitewashing and gaslighting was going on in my personal life, and that stacks up really badly with the context of being told things were just great/we live in the best country in the world/the president's restoring the pride we lost when we withdrew from Vietnam/etc etc. So for me, having that background script automatically makes the my personal crap feel a lot more threatening and oppressive than it would otherwise.

Something my younger friends will thankfully not have, because of an internet that just wasn't around in the '80s (net neutrality is important, y'all). Basically everything in your reality came through what the adults wanted you to think and, well, if you weren't lucky...

This means I wanted to talk about a happier memory relating to the same lack of context, and true to form, it's about D&D. Okay, AD&D at the time. ( Here's the part I really wanted to talk about. )