This was posted under the punch clock at work. I assume it's some kind of occult symbol but that's just a guess. Anyone know what it is or what it means?
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imagine having the mindset that an image has that much power over you. I still remember the Dungeon Masters manual from d&d making adults absolutely furious!
Iron Maiden cover art was pure evil energy
but you heard them actually learn what is behind those images and it's just fuckin make believe nonsense turned up to max
Growing up in Christian Fundie Hell during the height of the Satanic Panic was certainly an experience.
My partner at the time loved Zelda: Wind Waker. They had the poster for it and all, but had blacked out with a sharpie a screenshot on it of one of the dungeons because it was called Temple of the Gods or something.
The 2000s were the height? You're at least a decade off: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/mcmartin-preschool and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-care_sex-abuse_hysteria and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic
I personally remember my brother being forced to destroy his gold cartridge Ocarina of Time when my mother heard/thought it was pagan witchcraft. She watched him do it and claimed she saw green fire/smoke blaze up from it and claimed that it was the devil that had been inside. So that was the later 90s, I guess.
You forget that the Midwest is always a few years behind, and that goes double for the heavily rural Midwest 😉
What's more, the height of the moment was more of a plateau than a peak.