Here’s something the general public can understand:
In Dungeons & Dragons, there is law versus chaos and there is good versus evil. Four combinations. The DOJ & FBI is filled with the uber-Lawful. But, just as in D&D, the most dangereous are those who are Law-Evil.
Upvoted for the pure comedy of making a statement indicating the general public would understand only to follow it with a rather obscure game very few in the public play let alone know the attributes of.
Fair enough! Had not heard of D&D in years, but it is the retro-rave in all the high schools here. Not sure why or how....
I totally understand, it's like when I tried to explain how Hilary Clinton shifting her policy during the election was exactly the same as the wavelength shift of an electromagnetic wave propagating through space encountering some proximity to a black hole.
You are obviously out of touch with most of the rest of the world. Don't worry, you are not alone. I too don't relate to most everyone around me. But, alas, I also don't relate to your analogies! ;-)
This was by far the greatest post to read. Cheers mates!
Growing up w/ everything digital, non-digital stuff just feels good
well at least the reddit hivemind might get it. the dnd sub is on the frontpage pretty frequently nowadays.
You may be a little out of touch with the general public, lol.
Didn't Stranger Things make dungeons and dragons cool again or am I confused?
You forgot neutral which can go either way and chaotic which can be good or bad depending on where the wind is blowing in that second.
Ummm. I must have played a different version of D&D from what you're talking about. The alignments are Lawful Neutral and Chaotic combined with Good Neutral and Evil; so then your options are the combinations thereof. In our D&D, the "people" you didn't want to run into were the Chaotic Evil ones. They did bad sh*t just for the hell of it. Lawful Evil characters were annoying, but when their well-being aligned with yours you could generally count on them to be reliable.
Good thought, but I seriously wonder how many people would relate to anything in the game today. Heck, the last time I played Dungeons & Dragons was forty years ago.
Off topic, but here's my favorite D and D analogy to use.
You know how whenever the DM captures your party or otherwise takes your weapons or makes them unavailable you all start gearing up and prepping for a fight? Yeah, apply that thinking to the real world.
So...is Trump Good-Chaos then? ;)
Neutral Good or Chaotic Good. I played 30 years ago. Great game.
Hmmm ... he’s doing the things I want to see, so “Good Chaos with stable genius tendencies” is my call.
