If you need to explain the Gygax/Arneson situation, it's very simple: If it wasn't for Arneson, there would be no D&D. If it wasn't for Gygax, D&D would have been played by maybe 50 people, ever.

I am 71. I started playing 1e in 1975. I still roleplay various ttrpg systems. My dissatisfaction with the AD&D3.5e had me exploring other systems and I mostly stay in the Palladium/Rifts megaverse now though I do have and occasionally play AD&D5e. Rarely because I don't like the direction Habro/Wizards of the Coast took the game. But I still play and haven't gotten possessed by demons or go out and kill anyone in all the time I have been playing.

I was unaware of the Satanic Panic of the 80s, when I asked my stepfather if he knew about D&D. He nodded and went on about how it was a gateway to hell and those who played it practiced satanism and witchcraft. He said that if I got into playing it, that I would belong in a straight jacket. I told him "if you think rolling a couple of dice is going to summon a demon, you're the one who needs a straight jacket. There's common sense and then there's the King James Bible. You tell me which one I stayed away from.

Anyone making a cryptid video that admits to going to a Bigfoot conference and West Virginia definitely deserves the like and subscribe.

That ending was great 😂😂

I saw a Skinwalker five feet away from me when I was 12. It looked like a very, very thin, human-sized monkey with fur covering its entire self. It was a black pelt with a lot of sheen. Its eyes were glowing red! I would never, ever want to see another one. Absolutely creepy! 9:15 - another way to kill a Skinwalker is if you recognize said Skinwalker: you say their full name. They will try to bribe you with jewelry stolen from graves. You are not to take their cursed bribes. When you recognize them and say their name out loud, they will soon die in a car accident or something similar within weeks. Navajos will not speak about Skinwalkers, even the younger Navajos. It's true they are not cryptids and they are human witches, but they do transform into animals, not just wearing a fur. There is always something off about the creatures they transform themselves into, which definitely gives them a creepier vibe. Nice video!

The Slide Rock Bolter from Colorado is my favorite cryptid of all time

Just found your fun and interesting channel! Thanks!

They are legends for a reason, legends aren't losers ❤

The fact that you call them loser cryptids is sad and not true because if you actually ran into them in real life, inches away from the cryptids faces. You'd 💩 your pants.

Wow awesome video!

The dogman is a bigger phenomenon. I don’t think that or any variation of Bigfoot should really be on this list, but the night crawler is pretty goofy

Fresno night crawler looks like a real life meme

If the loveland frog has 1,000,000 fans I am one of them If the loveland frog has 100 fans I am one of them If the loveland frog has 1 fan it’s me If the loveland frog has no fans, I’m dead 🐸

Fresno Night crawler is the best cryptid please delete the video and fix this (rest of the video is better then most 100k channels hope you blow up soon)

Fun story, both my Parents were Christians and in the late 80's got, briefly, involved in a couple of the more fundamentalist aspects of the Church of England. One of their involvements was with a Clergyman who made some fairly lurid claims which I imagine many of our American cousins would recognise. They even bought me a copy of his book which claimed pretty much everything was Satanic, I read it thoroughly and it was gibberish. Fortunately they fell out with the lunatic fringe pretty quickly, Mum was a Teacher, Dad was a Biochemist who later became a Vicar and he quickly reverted to his Communist outlook on life. Both were happy to let me play D&D even when they were under these peoples influence as they understood the importance of using ones imagination.

something unrelated that needs to be included is the long debunked novel Michelle Remembers by disgraced psychologist Lawrence Pazder which set the Christian Church on a new Witch Hunt for a conspiracy of Satanic Cults

I was reading Ben Riggs' excellent book "Slaying the Dragon - The untold story of TSR" and the producers at TSR themselves said the "Satanic Panic" was the best thing that ever happened to them. Sales went through the roof overnight. "We suddenly became "cool" to teenagers, like cigarettes and heavy metal. Tell teenagers they shouldn't do something, and it just makes them want to do it more."

Quick nitpick, it's A-zaz-el.

I think you should look into Billy Speaks! It's a cat that does the same button thing as Bunny, but I'd say there's more potential to actual communication in it. And the owner as far as I've seen doesn't try to market it, at least not the same as Bunny. But obviously I could be wrong, I've never taken much thought to it and I view it in a similar light as animals understanding certain commands and things tied to words. I don't think there'll be a time when we find out that animals and humans can communicate with proper grammar and deep thought, but I do think that 'talking to animals' and 'communicating with animals' could be a possibility. Idk, I view it similarly toward infants. If a baby can gesture to you and show that it wants food, water, etc, and a dog/cat can communicate in a way that shows what they want, while also listening to commands or words taught, I don't see it as much different. Are you going to find a cat that publishes poetry and tells you to save the trees? No. But can you decipher the body language of a cat to tell they're upset, are giving affection, want food, etc? Yes. Sorry to use cats as an example, I have two and know enough cat body language to know that at the very least, there is communication. Though I do really like your more critical view of these experiments we've done in the past. I've first hand seen chimps that know sign language, my university had chimps and a psychological course about them, but I will say, holding a conversation with them as you would a human is definitely not as viable as many think.

Here at 950 subs before you hit it big bro, great vid!!

This is a very entertaining, well written video. I was surprised to see this video wasnt extremely popular and that you only have 200 subs! You’re so underrated keep up the great work 🔥

You stole a picture of Bunny. You soggy CUN+.

absolutely flabbergasted u only have 200 subs.. heres to 200k!

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you. I think you failed to take into consideration many who have successfully talked to animals. What about Dr. Dolittle, Aqua Man, Tarzan, and that guy who hung out with Mr. Ed. Next time, make sure your research is a little more thorough (: But seriously, great video, looking forward to your next one.

I'm so surprised you didn't talk about the grey parrots Alex and Apollo

on the topic of dog communication, a lot of their "language" isn't vocal or attached to words anyways. it's *mostly* body language. ears and tails are a big one, but it even comes down to where their fur is raised or where they're directing their eyes or how stiffly they're standing. i think of it like a multi-media art piece, where vocalizing is just the drawing portion and body language is the painting for example. when you try to force human communication on dogs, you're just bottlenecking their painting skills into doing nothing but drawing, and expecting the same result as the painted piece. still, what can you do to better communicate with your dogs? understand *their* language. their are plenty of things you can imitate without being able to use tails or ears, like how dogs have a play bow and you can match that energy by crouching really suddenly. imo human/animal communication won't ever happen the way we want it to, but the best way to get it to work is by humans studying animal language instead of the other way around it's also helpful to keep in mind that humans are the most intelligent thing on the planet and you'll never have a fulfilling conversation with a dolphin lol

Very interesting subject and well executed video

Damn, your video is very well made, and you speak as if you were doing KZbin for years! If I did not look at your sub count, I would have guessed you were easily well over 100k. Keep it up, you gonna go far!! Definitely deserve it!

this was such an enjoyable and well produced videos, i can’t believe it doesn’t have more views

been here since 200 subs before he got famous

why doesn't this have more views

Who taught you how to communicate with humans?

I've really enjoyed your videos lately! Keep up the good work o7

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Great video! I remember hearing about Koko being able to use sign language, but I never actually saw her "talk". Definitely seems like she was just signing things to get a positive reaction, not actually understanding language.

Put the cape and hat back on 🫵👁 ...you looked handsome

I never played DnD in the 80s, but I do remember the general satanic panic in Florida. The adults got us so worked up and afraid that anything out of the normal was possibly satanic. I didn't start DnD until the 90s. By then it was just the evangelicals that were still rambling on about DnD and satanism. Edit: you forgot to talk about Jack Chick and The Darkest Dungeon, quite possibly the dumbest bit of anti DnD propaganda ever printed.

My aunt still won’t let my cousin play because it‘s “about demons.” Even after explaining it to clarify, including the ability to REMOVE ANYTHING DEMONIC, she still doesn’t get it. Some people are just stupid and opposed to things they don’t understand.

I am 54 started in August 1983, so 40 years ago.Satanic Panic was bad, in my area and time.

1:55 I got excited seeing Malifaux in there :p good overview of the history.

With my eyes going blurry for a bit, you looked like a gnome in costume. This was neither an insult nor a compliment, just a blurry observation. You forgot about 700 Club and Jack Chick and their ignorant crusade. Other than that, well-done kid.

666 people voted thumbs up? Really?

Great video!

I played the first edition ad&d at the university during the end of the craziness. I was told right away by the gm to not talk about it and we were playing behind locked doors at late hours so less people could realize that something was happening.

In Australia so we never got the SP as bad as the USA, but it was still present at least in part. D&D was more fringe and never got the same public focus. We never got the culture wars like the USA has either. But in conservative church circles there was a real concern about it - my parents were against it. Lots of references to it in books out of the USA. Now…. Well still playing D&D. And Warhammer. And an ordained Anglican minister. Go figure. D&D is now used by a social approach here for kids with autism and gets funding by our federal government through the National Disability Insurance Scheme.

I was in an evangelical church at the end of 80s and burned all my rpgs in order to please god (tgis is my only life regret). Was back in church mid 2000s and was again told dnd was satanic. Then i burned nothing and now am happy atheist.

I lived through the D&D satantic panic. The woke takeover is MUUUUCH worse.

Thank you for covering this and being respectful to Dallas. I actually met him briefly at a science fiction convention in the early 1980s in Michigan. I played dungeons and dragons in the 1970s in the first edition, but didn’t have the time or the energy with career, etc. until recently to return to the game. I’m amazed how far it’s advanced, and how a dungeon master can even make over six figures now, as in the case of Matt Mercer and the entire show critical role, and its affect on the media. One thing though: technically, it’s not a board game, there’s no particular board that used for it, the proper term would really be “top role-play game “ One thing that you could have touched on though, which I’m not sure if you found in your research is that the satanic panic in the 80s also led to a mental health scare, that people with dissociative identity disorder (back then called multiple personality disorder.) We’re all induced by satanic ritual abuse. A physician, a psychiatrist in Chicago, actually lost the largest lawsuit of the time due to his mismanagement of patients and his wacky beliefs that even let him to get a concealed carry license because he thought the Satanists were going to get him. it was really found out that such patients were highly susceptible to media, and none of them reported any satanic connection until a book had been published, called “Michelle remembers “by a psychiatrist who wrote up a case that became an example for people to copy. To show how poorly that turned out: he broke all rules of his profession, and actually married his patient! Since I was a mental health, professional, former role-play gamer, and an occultist in Chicago, I got to see some of this right upfront! There’s actually a very good sociological study called “the satanic panic “in book form all about that mental health connection.

There was so much ‘crap’ they went on during this time… I’m 53, and absolutely love the game