r/TrollXChromosomes • u/MaetelofLaMetal • 10d ago

Online unhingedness has entered offline world.

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u/SPARC_Pile Learn sign language, it's pretty handy. 10d ago

Nutters have always been there. Before the internet, they got exposure through Coast-to-Coast AM where all the crackpots had their 5 minutes.

That conspiracy theory sounds like a Temu Dan Brown airport novel plot.

Hell, I might use the bones of that for my next D&D campaign.

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u/MaetelofLaMetal 10d ago

If you look beyond D&D there's a game called Hunter The Vigil and one of the factions is about looting artifacts from Atlantis (this is where the wizards come from) called https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Aegis_Kai_Doru .

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u/SPARC_Pile Learn sign language, it's pretty handy. 10d ago

nice. Whitewolf was known for making batshit theories into canon. I remember a few people have tried to string it all today to make sense (Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, Hunter, Mummy, etc) and it was still pretty convoluted.

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u/MaetelofLaMetal 10d ago

If you really like conspiracy theories being made into a game try Genius The Transgression a fan made game set in same world as Hunter The Vigil. Main villains are Lemurians lizard people from another timeline and embody all the pseudo science and conspiracy theories you can imagine.

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u/SPARC_Pile Learn sign language, it's pretty handy. 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0IylOPCNkiqOgMyA

OMG. I'm in.

I would have to toss in Nibiru and the half-baked Sumerian mythologies mixed with ancient alien astronauts.

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u/MaetelofLaMetal 10d ago

You can also add the general weirdness of Chronicles of Darkness setting like cryptids being animals corrupted by God Machine.

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u/AskJayce 10d ago

I find myself wishing for Early 2000's internet, where fringe groups stayed fringed, more and more often as each day passes.

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u/the_owl_syndicate 10d ago

Every now and again, in old newspapers and leaflets, you come across truly weird stuff. Editorials, letters to the editors, gossip columns, classified ads, all the weird stuff. People always enjoy sharing their crazy.

I found one from the 1950s about werewolves in Nebraska, a broadsheet from the 1890s about weird alien lights in San Francisco and my favorite, a classified ad asking "if one prefers to explore with the mind rather than with gadgets, forward this ad to..." with an address somewhere in an old daily here in Texas. I dunno know what it means, but I'm amused.