Dumbing of Age

Check the comments section, there's a lot of discussion about that very point.

They went to Ruth because she was supposed to have a first-aid kit. Other than that, I dunno.

Yeah. If Ruth’s job description might or does include “holds a first aid kit”, as previously suggested, this is simple good sense.

Really, I’d say that a responsible college should require her to attend a first aid course. But that’s evidently too much to hope.

edited 30th Nov '17 8:29:36 AM by Spindriver

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I don't think I ever had a college with an infirmary everything was always if it's an emergency go to the hospital. Though I guess if you are American it's a bit more complex than just driving to emergency. (Also phone an ambulance though those occasionally cost money, but you shouldn't avoid them on the grounds someone else might need them more, according to my First Aid trainers that were ambulance drivers anyways).

R As having a First Aid kit makes sense, apparently she doesn't but it was a thought.

edited 30th Nov '17 1:38:40 PM by phantom1

She probably does have a kit, but genuinely doesn't know what to do with it in a case like this. Setting broken bones, especially small ones like these is probably a bit beyond the scope of a two-week training period.

Oh yeah definitely I have no clue how to set broken bones, I'm pretty sure First Aid training is just how to see if it's broken, call 911, oh and add ice and elevate in the meanwhile (or is that just ankles?) for broken bones. They've done the right thing on the don't move it front, though she was in a non dangerous place so arguably they should've just called 911 from the exercise room in case she somehow injured her head, neck or back as well.

edited 30th Nov '17 4:42:09 PM by phantom1

re: the alt text: He made the right call.

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Do Christians actually disapprove of Dungeons and Dragons? I thought it was just Jack Chick?

It varies. I know that my mother was opposed to it until she actually read the books and realized that it was very clear on it all being fantasy.

Define "Christians". Because from what I've seen, Joyce is a nondenominational Christian, i.e. a member of what we'd call "Freikirchen" (free churches) over here in Germany.

Free churches tend to be local at best, i.e. every community is its own church, without any larger connecting structure or hierarchy.

Hence why they often tend to be very different when it comes to rituals, beliefs etc. It's a bit of a mixed bag - some nondenominational churches can be outright cultish in beliefs and behaviour.

My point being: Whatever nondenominational form of Christianiy Joyce follows might as well have banned Dungeons and Dragon. There's a large enough spectrum within what's called nondenominational to make this entirely possible.

Comparatively, most mainstream Christian branches - Catholicism and the larger Protestant churches - don't seem to give a shit about Dungeons and Dragons (or Harry Potter, for that matter) at all.

edited 1st Dec '17 4:48:14 AM by DrunkenNordmann

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Joyce did have some Chick tracks on hand at some point, so...

It was strange to me that she wasn't talking about her denomination, she was talking about her religion.

Maybe it's an assumption on her part.

Frankly, she seems to be from the sort of denomination that thinks of itself as the Correct Religion, and everyone else as deluded and not a proper religion at all. You don’t seem to hear that type ever talking about denominations; that’s not how they think about the subject.

And anecdotes within the RPG hobby suggest that quite a few American Protestant churches had a severe down on D&D back in the ’80s. While they may have moved on to newer things to disapprove of, that doesn’t mean they’d admit to ever having been wrong.

edited 1st Dec '17 6:40:29 AM by Spindriver

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My mother stopped us celebrating Halloween in the 90s, though Christian alternatives popped up and it was the same thing.

I never had an opportunity to play D&D until college, but even though I was with a church group doing it, I was a little uneasy.

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The irony being that Gygax himself was a devout Christian.

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So are J. K. Rowling and Stephen King, and yet apparently they aren't the "right kind".

(I have blown someone's mind before that The Shawshank Redemption is a Stephen King novel... watching them reconfigure their opinion of him in order to continue loving their favourite movie was interesting to watch.)

edited 1st Dec '17 12:48:37 PM by Noaqiyeum

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FWIW, it's not just religious organizations. The Israeli army forbids roleplaying games because they feel it's indicative of a delusional mind. Many prisons forbid RPGs for a combination of that it's a potential way to hide prisoner plans ("Alright, so the party is trapped within the dungeons of H'iyee S'Kurit'ye. Your goal is to escape...") and because it promotes thoughts of freedom.

Well really, with the amount of schisms in the religions, there's always a lot of "the wrong kind"s.

That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen.

USA prisons in general are a lawsuit-to-happen, but since the victims are generally disenfranchised convicts, nothing ever happens.

The entire US prison system is like a Saturday morning cartoon villain's ridiculously evil plan, except somehow they actually got away with it.

Huh, that's strange to think. (I never got to play roleplaying games because I didn't have enough friends growing up, that is always sad to think about, the Catholic Church doesn't care, also doesn't care about Harry Potter. And than I grew up and became educated on LGBTQIA stuff and came into conflict with the Church that way).

Yeah prisons have issues, that way. That and the whole prison labour stuff.

edited 1st Dec '17 2:11:58 PM by phantom1

Actually, that's how I learned many prisons outlaw it. He lost the suit, sadly.

Oh, well that would do it. Wow that seems like it could be used to justify like banning socialization all together almost.

edited 1st Dec '17 3:18:20 PM by phantom1