I mean, your sort of right, kinda… The ‘moral panic(s)’ you’re referencing were probably the most effective of the ways anti-drug measures were packaged up and ‘sold’ (so-to-speak) to Americans under the auspices that ‘[term for people of color that I’d prefer to not use] were smoking marihuana (sic) and raping white women’. It was well known even then, however, that the use of such extremely inflammatory ⅓I’m pretty sure I get where you (both, I think lol) are coming from there, particularly as I’m very decidedly on the spectrum to put it mildly and have like weapons grade ADHD… So, for the longest time I bounced off of every soulslike I tried starting with Demon’s Souls (if memory serves, as that was way back in the PS3 days lol) and usually ending with me hitting a boss/area that was new, dying repeatedly and (ultimately) quitting in frustration - largely at my inability to “git gud”.1
I mean, your sort of right, kinda… The ‘moral panic(s)’ you’re referencing were probably the most effective of the ways anti-drug measures were packaged up and ‘sold’ (so-to-speak) to Americans under the auspices that ‘[term for people of color that I’d prefer to not use] were smoking marihuana (sic) and raping white women’. It was well known even then, however, that the use of such extremely inflammatory ⅓I’m pretty sure I get where you (both, I think lol) are coming from there, particularly as I’m very decidedly on the spectrum to put it mildly and have like weapons grade ADHD… So, for the longest time I bounced off of every soulslike I tried starting with Demon’s Souls (if memory serves, as that was way back in the PS3 days lol) and usually ending with me hitting a boss/area that was new, dying repeatedly and (ultimately) quitting in frustration - largely at my inability to “git gud”.1