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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by lghh on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:48PM (#19609368)
Compared to the D&D scare, this is less of a moral panic of fear of the unknown and more of a panic of lost productivity. D&D's panic, or at least how I understand it, was more like the panic around Harry Potter. Fortnite is more similar to getting mad at your kids for watching too much television or WoW.
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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by TheGRS on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:54PM (#19609431)
The D&D scare seems to at least have benefited from a lot of common misunderstandings and that most people were unwilling to give it a shot. Harry Potter exploded in popularity for the blowback to ever be taken too seriously. Its pretty easy to open up a book and read it vs gathering some people together to try out a somewhat complex and open-ended game.
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Re:Fortnite and the Good Life by lghh on Monday April 08, 2019 @06:05PM (#19609527)
That's fair. Additionally with D&D, it is what you make of it. The themes and context can very with the group playing, whereas Harry Potter is exactly what it is.
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