I Played Squid Game In 1985

Back then we called it Paranoia the Role Playing Game.

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I was a misfit in high school, something of a loner until I found a clique of other misfits who didn’t seem to fit in the other tribal groups that made up the student body. We played the card game euchre over many a lunch period, and after school and on weekends we played a lot of Dungeons & Dragons. At the time, this was…