

BECMI ends with Immortals, so the concept of playing extremely powerful characters has always been around. While I’d imagine the vast majority never played with those rules, the same is true for modern D&D. A vanishingly small number of games actually make it to level 20.
Tankies posted online about opposing US intervention, and that’s basically the same as swearing an eternal oath to Assad and joining the Syrian Arab Army if you’re a twitter-addicted liberal.