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Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary
FhnuZoag writes "Google Video is hosting the short film 'Fear of Girls', written and directed by Ryan Wood. The film is a hilarious 'documentary' dealing with a pair of self-declared elite table-top roleplayers. The film has already appeared at a variety of fringe events, but here's a chance to see it for free and online from a server that probably can survive a slashdotting." Allright, so it's not that funny, but since I'm off to play D&D this afternoon, it tickled me.
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I think Taco doesn't like it because it hits too close to home. I myself loved it :D
I didn't RTFA but I did WTFV.
And it was good. Very funny, very well done. Where the hell does YNG Turk Films get that kind of cash to make something as high quality as that (come on, the closing credits were stunning). Has it really become that easy to manipulate video on your home computer? Probably, but these guys know how to entertain.
After looking into more of YNG Turk Productions, it seems they're based out of Hopkins, Minnesota (just like MST3K!) but there seems to be little other information about them. What I do know is that they've done quite a few comedic sketches and you can find another one on Google Video called Pitching Mother but they've also done other various (primarily comedy) skits in their times. Will Ryan Wood gain a cult following?
I have to admit, the best thing about being a geek/nerd is that I love to see myself made fun of. I absolutely die laughing and love it. Any other stereotype gets offended whenever you make fun of them. And if you can't be lighthearted about everything, then you're going to have a hell of a time making it through life.
My work here is dung.
Girls: It's a trap!
http://skittlesama.digitalsushi.com/Downloads/Digi talsushi%20-%201337.mp3
Might get slow (just on a cable modem) If it gets too slow I'll probably have to turn it off.
slashdot: where everyone yells sarcastic metaphors to themselves to understand the issue
When calling the link directly, it tells me "Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.", but the coralized link works fine :-)
I haven't WTFV yet, but I'm glad it's supposed to be parody. The women in my group (including my wife) would probably have to say that we're anything but afraid of girls.
Sadly, humor like this is why tabletop RPGs are still a male-dominated hobby. Thankfully it's easy to relate D&D to LotR, and that tends to pique to curiousity of the ladies. Of course, not every ranger looks as good as Legolas.
I don't know if this counts as an accurate anthropological study but has anyone tried entering World Of Warcraft as a female character? If anything, it is 'they' who probably should fear 'us' ...
If a man would roleplay a woman in WoW, he'll end up rich, in a big guild with TONS of friends. A friend of mine tried this stint in EQ, people would use to give him items and gold because they thought he was a real woman.
reminds me of Rick Moranis, of "Ghostbusters" and "Little Shop of Horrors" fame.
He looks a little bit like him, and even sounds like him.
Hi! Wouöd a US-based /.-er be so kind as to set up a mirror? Google Video currently doesn't work outside the US.
It seems google video doesnt like germany.
People from all over the world i spoke to had it working without problems, no matter if they are in australia, japan, uk or poland...
But in germany "blabla isnt supported".
Fuck you google. (and no, i wont bother using a proxy, i dont really want stuff from this dumb "dont be evil" company that much)
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
If a man would roleplay a woman in WoW, he'll end up rich, in a big guild with TONS of friends. A friend of mine tried this stint in EQ, people would use to give him items and gold because they thought he was a real woman.
Just like the real world then eh?. Women might complain about descrimination and all but there's no denying when it comes to finances, they''re far better off because of what they can get from men with little or no effort. Sucks to be a guy in this age.
Please be careful with AD&D, people. I used to play AD&D - it completely consumed me, even to the point of losing my own identity... my world became one of the occult, I was awash in Satanism and witchcraft. I believe that I could cast spells on myself and others that would make me irresistable to women, or great at athletics. Once, I jumped from the roof of my junior high school after having cast "feather fall" on myself... it was at that point that friends and family intervened.
I'm sure that some of you won't believe me, or will think that I'm lying, but it happened to me. My story was actually made into the made-for-tv movie "Mazes and Monsters".
It's a dark, dark path to go down, and one I suggest you avoid.
http://video.google.com.nyud.net:8090/videoplay?do cid=7521044027821122670
I believe the word you are looking for is not Fear: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger, but Disgust: A sickening feeling of revulsion, loathing, or nausea.
KFG
Someone suggested to use the coral cache : Link here. As the coral cache is multi-homed, you can be dns-round-robin-ed to a non-US mirror and thus be showed the Non-US notice. Just flush your DNS cache with : "ipconfig /flushdns"; for linux, restart your dns daemon. Try again a few times and it should work.
Thanks for your interest in Google Video.
Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.
We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.
So, any way for us "little folk" in Germany to watch this video?
See my blog for my free opinions.
I don't know what happend, but the CC now reports the same error, probably Goggle poisoned it somehow. You're not missing much though...
If there ever was a group of people who reproduced less than monks, this crowd would be it...
eTrade SUCKS
Having spent time around people almost identical to those in the video, this hits so close to home I'm almost in tears from laughing.
Best 'article' posted in weeks, I needed that laugh.
I get this:
Thanks for your interest in Google Video.
Currently, the playback feature of Google Video isn't available in your country.
We hope to make this feature available more widely in the future, and we really appreciate your patience.
Is the video available somewhere else?
... my D&D group is half female, and the only one that's really feared is Tammy, who has a tendency to catch party members in blast spells...
There is a funny "spoof" D&D movie called "The Gamers" put out by "Dead Gentleman Productions" if you are into that sort of thing.
It's about 45 minutes long, and totally hilarious if you have been around or been a gamer for a while.
Fear of the girls, fear of the girls
I have a constant fear that a girl's always near
Fear of the girls, fear of the girls
I have a phobia that a girl's allways there
Have you run your fingers down the wall
And have you felt your neck skin crawl
When you're searching for a friend?
Sometimes when you're scared to take a look
At the corner of the room
You've sensed that a girl's watching you
Watching horror films the night before
Debating dungeons and star trek
The unkown troubles on your mind
Maybe your mind is playing tricks
You sense and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing girl's shadows from behind
*Special thanks to Iron Maiden*
These films are the 21st century equivalent of the minstral show. An oppressed class of society is poked fun of by the in crowd. The oppressed are reduced to a simplified accecntuated stereotype. In this case the fried chicken and watermelons is replaced by Doritos and Mountain Dew. Blackface is replaced by a pair of nerd glasses.
Why is this getting coral cached?
Are people scared of viewing this video directly through google?
I have to think google can handle the traffic on this.
Who is this 'us'? I'm an introverted and shy geek.
It's because Google is blocking people in Germany from accessing the videos. I haven't seen a good explanation for this practice either.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that do not.
Anyone got a link to this in non-flash format? mpeg would be perfect... even quicktime would do.
What is with all these crappy flash movies?
... Otaku no Video. That is an otaku-parody by GAINIX that shows serveral archetypical otaku along with truely hilarious mock-up interviews.
A must-see for every true otaku!
-t_d
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
Because Google blocks some countries' IP blocks from using video.google.com.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
That guys sounds like the voice of the Flash animation character in the Switch Linux video..
"...I have more friends now....."
"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
Reminds me of the "Summoner Geeks" video that Violition Inc inserted after the credits in Summoner,
http://www.devilducky.com/media/6024/
THE HONOUR OF THE KNIGHTS - CC Licensed Sci-Fi Novel
The "druid grace" scene in this one is hillarious, so is the JV/cloak quote.
I would have worn a cloak to highschool if it weren't for the fear of being pummelled. Damn, I always wanted a cloak.... *sniff*
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Seriously, if they wanted to do an actually funny RPG nerd bit, they should've done more research. Take a video camera to OrcCon, or GenCon, or even find a local RPG store that has the traditional "tables in the back" and go watch those guys. I can think of half a dozen real life RPG nerd incidents that, if simply reenacted, would be three times as funny as some ham actor dork spasmodically lifting his shirt and rubbing his chest in a poorly simulated homoerotic frenzy.
Conclusion: the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Accept it.
Another victim of Googles China censorship? ;)
--I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
Things like this is why you have to love the internet. Where would this type of independant film get such a large audience even just 10 years ago? Public access TV? A small town film festival? Doubtful.
The bees are on the what now?
Yeah, it's awesome being a woman. I just love it when men like you explain things I already know about my computer to me very slowly in laymen's terms while staring at my breasts and assuming that I will use my sexuality to get money from you at some point. It's a good thing you so hand that cash over like a sap; otherwise, I might have to reveal that my breasts are really cleverly concealed machine guns.
It's so easy to make fun of the d-n-d subculture and the people in it. It's just cheap shots. It's like laughing at a blind person because he trips on something. It's not funny.
There's nothing like fighting stereotypes with stereotypes.
wget -O FearofGirls.flv http://tinyurl.com/dgfey
mplayer FearofGirls.flv
The Coral Cache worked for me in Germany just now without problems.
1 9213&from=rss The It Crowd is pretty much typical of many Brit Sitcoms (I'm British) - i.e. Repetitive, overstated and overacted. It'll be lucky to last 6 episodes before it runs out of steam rehashing the same old not to funny jokes. See: Coupling, The Office, The Goodies, etc for other examples.
It appears that Google is not just censoring China, and Nazi items in Germany. Sad really.
I liked the film a lot, knowing a few people who are pretty much just like these guys, I found it really funny. Very well acted and very subtle. Loved the Preacher part in particular.
I think it is also really interesting to contrast the recent article on Channel 4's "The IT Crowd" http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/29/14
Ryan Wood to my mind has much more talent than most UK comedy writers, and some US ones. Channel 4 should make him an offer. They could do worse... they already are...
These guys do a good job of stereotyping gamers across the board. Yeah I am a gamer, but I also work as a civlian contractor for a convoy security company in Iraq currently. I'm a geek/nerd or anything else you want to call it and i know it, and more and more with the progression of the internet age people are becomming geeks and not caring about it. cant be anything but good for the world!
8-bit D&D.
Still hilarious.
Give me a freaking break.
Ginny Keller
I'm embarassed to say that I actually owned that exact red dragon t-shirt in high school, and wore it on a regular basis.
A recent survey showed that over 50% of all female World of Warcraft characters were played by male players. Who exactly is supposed to be fearing whom?
"It tickled me"? Are you a dude or a chick?
That's why it's called a *Role* playing game. You don't have to be yourself. I haven't seen many level 3 C programmers, or level 10 pizza deliverymen.
When I played BG2, I was a level 35 chaotic evil male warrior who could bend the earth to his will and became a god! But that was the last time I played a game as myself.
Could anyone post or point to a good methods for subverting embedded video so that they can be downloaded to the computer? Or how to mine them out of my cache? Sometimes looking at the source is enough to find a SRC tag to wget, but often that redirects, and more sophisticated methods (like these google videos) seem especially tricky to someone as "unleet" as me.
Like many of you, I don't want to distribute the thing, but I would like to watch it once in a while without having to stream the damn thing every time.
Admit it, you're a 48 year old man.
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I don't think you, or anyone who modded you up, "get it".
A friend of mine pointed me to this the other day. I find it hilarious. The sad thing is, I know people who are just like the two characters... sad...
"We weren't the quarterbacks of the hockey team.." ROTFLMMFAO
SYSOP ('sih-sop) n.: the guy laughing at your typing.
This little movie was funny but also touching and thought-provoking. These are two of societies gentle hermits. Many people, not just PRG nerds, live a seperated life, so it's of value to everyone to consider their situation. Habitual withdrawl from others is not good, although I won't try to support that here.
In high school the two men are shown to support each other to the point where all other relationships fell away from simple disuse. This support includes sexuality. Another possibility (not unrelated) is that they both attempted to reach out to others, and were so strongly rebuked that they did not try again. This is hinted at especially with their attempts to "attract" girls.
The really interesting point about this movie is that the only loving relationship seems to be between the two gamers. Everyone else is portrayed as hateful (but especially the women). It's not clear if this is actual mysogony on the part of the filmmakers or an attempt to show the viewer the world through a gamer's eyes. The brother seems to be genuinely concerned, but the exagerated emotion and the religious approbations would seem to be clear that his intentions aren't entirely kind.
Overall, this was an entertaining look at what isolation is like and hints about how it can come about.
That means, I guess, in absolute terms there must be quite a lot of females, because there must be an absolute crapload of men playing women.
While your grammatical use of the word fuck is correct, your spelling of moron is not, and the tense of the word regulate is also incorrect. You are obviously not the target audience of the article or the short film.
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Search for "Fear of Girls" on google.com and use the "Cached" link. Worked for me, I'm from Germany.
Wonder how long this will be possible.
How about dread, an emotion experienced in anticipation of some non-specific pain or danger?
Homophobe alert!
(secretly he's in the bathroom, thinking about Doug and fapping away...)
Do download the video, enter the following at your favourite shell:
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wget -O video.avi "http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version
This will probably wrap, so you have to put all the above in one line.
-t_d
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - Carl Sagan
I found a copy at http://media.planetvids.com/pvids/fearofgirls.wmv, which worked great. Just letting y'all kno.
If you just run the url through the google video downloader you can download it from any country. Annoying but it works.
Is there a unchunky non-google version out there somewhere? Torrent anyone?
Yeehaw, my vorpel sword +5 magic princess undresser slayed the Magic Tortoise Scale Dragon of Fagtassia!!
That would be vorpal blade, and it goes snicker snack.
/^([Ss]ame [Bb]at (time, |channel.)){2}$/
Parent posited specific knowledge gained through experience.
KFG
I always play female characters in my games. But I don't roleplay and pretend to act like one.
My reasoning is, if I have to look at some video game character's ass for hours at a time, it's not going to be a man's.
Spell: Fear of Girls
Level: 1
Description: The caster gains +10 protection from all Charm effects and +5 bonus to Charisma checks from female characters. The components required are 5 mod points on Slashdot. The casting time varies depending on how fast the player's computer can boot when he arrives home Friday night. Once the OS is loaded, an invisible social shield will slowly form around the caster which lasts 48 hours. This shield protects the caster from answering the occasional phone call from Chaotic/Evil Warriors and Rogues that may invite him to go out during the weekend with vague ambitions of getting laid tonight. It may break at any time if the computer is left unattended for more than 30 minutes (the caster may be granted cumulative +1hrs grace periods per visit to the mystical porn elf). When protected by the shield, the caster is immune to any afterthoughts from realizing the last time he has spoken to a girl for more than two minutes was five years ago and that it was answering a survey over the phone - and can thus focus on the careful study of his spellbook undisturbed.
The bigger surprise to me is that so few females play male characters. I question the survey -- it just seems too one-sided. If the result is real, then maybe it's because females have no choice in most games and are forced into female characters. So when they do get a choice, they overwhelmingly play as females.
AlpineR
Yes, but its your ass. You get off looking at your own ass?
If I were a girl I would.
I mean, Nobilis is where it's at these days :p
James P. Barrett
Just look at this. We're not afraid of all girls just the real life ones.
Reality is a big nasty dragon. Fortunately I don't believe in dragons.
...I must thank Cmdr Taco for slaying the Magic Tortise Scale Dragon. It was becoming a major PITA in these parts.
How offensive! Do you have any concept of how difficult it is to be born a Fagtassian? Even a mixed-blood Fagtassian realy takes it up...you know where. I met one once, and although I was generally repulsed, I remained polite, didn't threaten him or call him nasty names.
It's people like you, sir, who are ruining it for all those poor Fagtassians.
You're a pretty sad little fucker. Oh, not to mention wrong.
Thats the identical advice I got when creating a character for Matrix Online....... i fid it to be true.
Even more surprising, 100% of Elves in World of Warcraft are played by Humans!
Meh, I've seen plenty of level 78+ slackers out here in the real world.
Most? I used to play Warhammer some years ago, but I didn't see any computer running Linux or *BSD in that room. Those guys are hardly geeks. They looked like total losers to me.
Good, high quality. Still not as good as 8bit D&D
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
In real live women who are socially inept are just shy. A female virgin of 24 is just waiting for the right man. A male virgin of 24 is a loser.
It is just easier to make fun of male geeks because we know what we are.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
My policy on games with a third-person viewpoint is this:
If I'm going to be staring at a character's ass the entire time I'm playing the game, I'm going to make sure it's at least a female ass.
That applies to WOW, Dungeon Lords, Knights of the Old Republic, etc.
It's no kind of weird sick transsexual thing for me and I'm sure most other players. I just don't want to sit there and stare at a guy's ass for hours on end.
Comment of the year
google video is not available in France...
The gaffer's tape is the most expensive single item listed there.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Why do you think Xenosaga is so popular even though the second one totally blowed game-wise? Answer: KOS-MOS.
You know, I'm a gamer, and I loved the first several humorous, self-deprecating pieces about how dorky gamers are, especially because I do know some people who are just that dorky, and there are always things that you recognize from games you've played. But you know what? This whole self-deprecating, let's show how dorky gamers are genre is really getting to be a tired old cliché. Come on, I'm sure there must be something better someone can do about gamers. Make the players get magically sucked into the game (a bit of which happened in The Gamers), or do a drama about how personal relationships can be strained or strengthened through gaming, or do a documentary on the positive points of gaming, or something. It's just not that original to do over-exaggerated gamers and laugh at how socially inept they are.
Or, try Uber Goober for an actual documentary about gamers... and if you liked Otaku No Video, the newer TV series Genshiken.
Is there a proper format of the vid anywhere? Xvid, mpeg or similiar? My mplayer on Linux can't seek this .flv correctly, and the flash version loses audio sync.
lol.. your about the 4th person I've found on /. that admits to playing that game too. Is it some secret MMO shame that no-one ever talks about ?
And sorry for going OT.
You'd probably never leave the house either. :)
Well, after watching over my shoulder for a bit, my fiance tried out WoW the other night with a female character. Within a few minutes, she'd been given 2 free bags by another (flirty) female character. So I can't tell whether it was a guy whose thought my fiance was really female, or another female, or another guy who thought it was another guy.... it's a crazy mixed up world. Hey, free bags though... SCORE.
P.
Don't worry, you are posting on Slashdot, nobody thinks your Fiance is really female.
If you've ever spent any time in a hobby game store you'd find this even more humorous. One hot chick wanders in with her kid looking for games and the whole store locks up.
For some reason I refuse to use either spell check or the spacebar properly.
.. the "real" role-players hang out (basically live) in the town of Hydlaa in the free online game Planeshift (from planeshift.it) Check it out, it runs on Mac, Linux and Windows!
Meh.
But for these guys it is the choice of all the women on the planet that they remain celibate. I bet his hand falls asleep when he tries to masturbate. Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Austin notices that his wife (played by Elizabeth Hurley) is acting strangely, and realizes that she has been replaced with a fembot. The fembot deploys her breast-mounted machine guns.
Austin: I never noticed those before
Fembot: Why don't you try some foreplay
So you have ended up something like this??
http://www.sexylosers.com/216.html
This movie would have been hysterical 15 years ago when Revenge of the Nerds was out but now it just seems dated and sterotyped.
They are nerds. 'nuff said.
Al Gore just called. He wants his sense of humor back.
Seriously. Of course they're just acting like nerds! That's precisely what makes it so funny! This video is a mockumentary, like "Spinal Tap" and "Best in Show." Most people find mockumentaries much more amusing than documentaries. "Trekkies" is a good example of a documentary with real nerds. Some found it amusing, but most people just thought it was plain eerie or weird.
"I figured players picked their character based on appearance or the personality of the role, "
If I am going to play a game where I am looking at someones ass all day, it's going to be a female ass.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
We don't need to be "given" equality. We already have that.
What we deserve and damn well better get, is respect.
Indeed, 1-2, 1-2, and through, and through :-)
I'd like to see the mome that could rath ME! (well, when I've got a vorpal blade, anyway...)
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Guys and girls should all get respect according to their individual worth(/lessness), not as guys or girls.
Some girls treat men as crap, some men are crap. Some men treat girls like crap, some girls are crap.
Can't we all just get along? - Probably not..
My name is SyntheroS and I beta tested for Matrix Online. There, I said it. I feel better now too.
A friend of mine tried this stint in EQ,
I myself attempted this years ago, on a MUD, all text, so there wasn't even a sexy avatar to look at, just a female name. I made a cleric named Freya, and set about playing. A group found me immediately and pressed me to join, and they started loading me up with gold and equipment, and rapidly started getting me xp. All the guys (which IIRC was all of them, period) were emoting smiles and winks and whatnots at me constantly, and one even broached the subject of mud marriage, asking me if I'd heard of it. This character was less than 1 hour old at this point, and already being asked to marry?!? I had barely said two words to any of them, mainly "Thank you" for yet another pile of gold or armor or whatever. I suppose, that since I had already been given a sizeable amount of gold and equipment it was considered we had 'gotten to know each other' already. I decided to just quit out, came back in with my regular male character, and continued on able to enjoy the game once again. I've never ever bothered to try making a female character again, it's just not worth the hassle.
I've known real live female gamers that only play male characters for this very reason.
that sounded strangely familiar. read a lot of pvponline?
comment first, facts later. http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
I do not disagree with you. I was replying to someone else, and your statement really has nothing to do with my point.
I haven't seen many level 3 C programmers, or level 10 pizza deliverymen.
I am a ninth-level Mechanic, and a sixth-level Cabinetmaker! Fear my wrench and router!
-jcr (third-level Plumber, second-level Drywall Hanger, too!)
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I just wanted to rant.
Twice.
Above is the reason for Tomb Raiders success.
It's a dark, dark path to go down, and one I suggest you avoid.
When I was in high school, I played a lot of D&D, and I saw Pat Robertson offering a brochure on the subject, so I called up the 700 Club and requested a copy. It told about three kids who had done themselves in, after playing D&D. It also mentioned that some eight million or so kids were playing on a regular basis..
Of course, if you divide three into eight million, it makes a pretty good case for D&D as a suicide prevention measure.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Fair enough. That's a familiar feeling.
Right on, Brother! That's exactly what I do, except that I've pretty much been able to escape the addiction of MMORPGs. That character is not a representation of me, but rather the thing I have to stare at for hours on end.
I'm a straight male of 19 years of age and I can safely say I have never uncontrollably stared at a woman's breasts, in conversation or any other time - unless they're amusingly large or have smiley faces painted on them, really, your breasts aren't that interesting.
The stereotype that all men do nothing but stare at breasts all day is interesting - am I the only one that doesn't?
Dealing with lawyers would be a lot less tedious if they all looked like Casey Novak.
The actor who plays Doug-Doug is relatively known in the Minneapolis independent film community, and does some commercial work as well. See him as Royce Warwick, pizza lawyer, in this Donatos Pizza campaign.
Strangely enough, in the last 2 games I have run, they have been populated by women, the ratio is been like 6:1 and 7:2. I have hinted that I am about to start up another campain, and its the girls I know who are nagging me to get started.
I have learned the hard way, that if they are in the right enviroment, they put us guys to shame in the bad jokes department.
I once made the mistake of introducing a black skinned paladin called William as an NPC, and the next few weeks were nothing but "big black willy" jokes... I still wake up screaming some nights.
You'll find there are plenty of girl gamers out there, they will just shun public clubs, due to the high percentages of stereo typical, dateless drooling over weight gamers that populate them.
I don't blame them, I have walked into those clubs and run screaming....
Everybody lies...users doubley so
Of course all men don't starre at breasts all day. If you are one of them that doesn't you might want to reexamine the calling yourselft a "straight" male though.
The stereotype that all men do nothing but stare at breasts all day is interesting - am I the only one that doesn't?
Assuming you are straight: yes.
I haven't seen many [...] level 10 pizza deliverymen.
That's because we are a rare breed. It took me nearly sixteen years to reach level ten. Most give up before they reach level three...
I think it's due to the fact that there are fewer gamer-girls/geek-girls, so men try to encourage women to join in on it. It's the online equiv. of free drinks for the ladies in a bar. They're trying to make it easy for a woman to start off/advance in the game so that she'll get hooked on it, and the gender gap will close. *shrug* Most of them back off nicely if you indicate that you're not willing, or that you're already familiar with the rules/etc. of the game.
Wasn't it great when you finally got the +4 Bag of Heating, though? My tips went through the roof.
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In my experience as a nerdling, I found that most guys were veritable dumb jocks, most girls were either airheads or perfect students that only knew the garbage they teach you in shool, nothing of real value, interest, or signifigance. The top grades always belonged to a chick, but the very brightest and most interesting people, the ones who read books for fun, watched the Discovery and History Channel, who knew history, who knew more about science, the ones clearly ahead of teachers, were always guys. Usually there were about three or four of us in my grade. Maybe the girls who were like us were shy or something, but all the smartasses I knew were guys. I wasn't afraid, it was just that my best friends were always like me intellectually, and there were no girls I knew about like us at all. Anyone else have a different experience (you lucky bastard)?
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. - William Gibson
Does anyone else think this video was a bad thing for gamers? It perpetuates this ultra nerdy, socially inept stereotype that I feel is not realistic based on the people I've met through gaming. Personally I think movies like this and the DnD movies make it harder for PnP rpgs to get new players. Thanx alot ass
Some of us guys eventually get tired of staring at a guy's ass. So, we switch to female toons, so we can look at a chick's ass.
Unless you are actually "roleplaying", and not out to kill and have fun, who gives a flying as to which character sex someone else selected?
And yes, it is true that in the early days of EQ, female toons got stuff just handed to them. But, that time is not nearly so prevelant nowadays. It won't work nearly as easily in WoW as it did back in those early EQ days.
Okay. I think I finally have an idea for my sig here...
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I actually know the actor with the glasses. He's not just a professional actor, but has been a D&D judge (GM) at Gencon for many, many years. Heck, he's even judged me.
In real life, he's quite a normal guy-off-the-treet, very quick witted and funny. Maybe this will be his big breakout film! :-)
(Btw, the organization that he and I both belong to is called NASCRAG, and we run a great goofy tournament every year at Gencon. No experience required, other than a good sense of humor.)
Sorry, no. I'm capable of non-staring as well.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
I played a female character in EQ, and it creeped me out...people treated me as a girl, and I felt odd receiving the affection. So I canned the character and never played another female in any MMORPG till City of Heroes, which is a lot more campy. Nobody on COH seems to assume that if the toon is a female, the player is a female. And some classes and character concepts just seem to demand females. My female characters in WoW were undead, so no pulchritude there.
:) Mind you, I usually go for the look that suits the character best, so only one of my female toons wears a skintight outfit. The rest wear armor or skirts. As for the "lingerie" look, I created one character to show some friends how the character design works, and they picked metallic lingerie. The look is getting old really fast.
It's also a lot nicer looking at a female character running in a tight suit in COH.
Yeah, okay, I play too many RPG's. Hey, I work in game industry. Arguably, it's work related...
It's a bottle-baby phenomenon. Those who didn't get to see them in the early years spend the rest of their lives trying to, poor saps.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Dude, if you don't quit making alts, your main will never get anywhere! No wonder you're still just level 9.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
There is something to be said for being single slack and idle geek (including not being divorce poor).
Hey, when it comes to bragging about sex, shouldn't they be bragging about how many times they actually succeeded at it's function rather than how many times they fire blanks (just like a jock to not understand the point of what they are doing). Based upon reality, the most successful males are redneck hillbillies and members of fringe religious groups. The rich and greedy are starting to look pretty amateurish nowadays.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Oh c'mon, parent and grandparent are funny. Show 'em some love, mods.
The worst part is, if you don't "come out" and explicitly state that you're a guy playing a female character, you'll end up getting chewed up and spit out of your guild when someone "finds out" that you're a guy in "real life", and they've spent all this time being nice to you (sending you equipment upgrades, running you through BRD and LBRS where noone else wants to go anymore).
People get so attached to those purple-skinned breasts and somehow assume that they're going to get lucky if they be nice to the character ingame. Then they hear you on Team Speak or see your picture on the guild website and get all angsty because they might be "turning gay".
And saying, "no" doesn't help either - "you don't have to run me through BRD for the fifteenth time tonight, go get some sleep" translates to, "I love you and care about you, and I want you to know that soon I want to make sweet love to you." Then when they say, "but I love you" and you say, "um... I'm a guy", that translates to, "I'm a raving homosexual and I am going to abuse you in so many horrible ways, and while I'm at it I'll rip apart the very fabric of your reality and leave you standing naked in the street, both metaphorically and literally."
Go figure.
I think it's fair to say that a lot of us have PTFG. What was your point?
Sorry, what was that? I was imigining your brests while I read your post...
Well sure you're capable... but they're just so interesting!
Heh... silly me. Here I was, thinking that there was a meaning to things beyond their simple biological explanation. Ima call up my old professor, still childless after decades of marriage, and fill him in on what a failure he is compared to the man who raped and impregnated his niece. Good to see things in their proper perspective.
Note to the slow: yes, that was a made-up example. Just wanted to be snarky.
Procrastination Man strikes again!
acting seems grossly nerdy. Is that an accurate portrayal of nerds, or is it like i think, more stereotypical than true?
I didn't RTFA nor did I WTFV, but based on the discussion and the main title of this Slashdot entry, it doesn't sound like it's a documentary. Documentary involves taping actual D&D sessions, making an effort to stay as unbiased as possible, taping them in diverse places and times.
It sounds more like a parody.
Painfully unfunny. Blechhh!
I thought Slashdot had a trillion story submissions each day.... and I just had to watch that crap?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Expeditious Retreat Press
www.exp.citymax.com
josephbrowning@exp.citymax.com
Expeditious Retreat Press seals exclusive adventure publishing deal with Elite Game Master Doug Douglason for 1 on 1 Adventures #6.66--The Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore.
Austin, TX -- January 29, 2006 - Elite Game Master Doug Douglason has just agreed to bring his masterwork adventure The Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore to print in the 1 on 1 Adventure's line published by Expeditious Retreat Press [NYSE:XRP]. The 1 on 1 Adventure line is designed for 1 GM and 1 player.
Recently featured in the rampantly popular short film "Fear of Girls" by YNG Turk Films, Mr. Douglason was pleased to see his works getting their just desserts. According to Douglason, "Mr. Browning contacted me through YNG Turk Film's owner, Ryan Wood. After his excellent expose of the inner life of an Elite Game Master brought my talent to the screen for thousands, nay, millions, of gamers, it was inevitable that the offers start flowing in. Unfortunately for Pixar, Mr. Browning from Expeditious Retreat Press approached me with the offer I had been waiting for: complete creative control."
"A chance like this comes around once a century," Mr. Browning smilingly said. "A talent such as Mr. Douglason possesses needs complete creative freedom. Within the first few minutes of "Fear of Girls" we knew we needed to add Mr. Douglason's work to our popular 1 on 1 Adventures series. The Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore will be the pinnacle of the crème de la crème of the already fairly creamy line."
Mr. Douglason expects to deliver the manuscript soon and gamers world-wide can look for 1 on 1 Adventures #6.66 The Pleasure Prison of the Bthuvian Demon Whore within the next few months. "We're expecting great things from this adventure," Mr. Browning said. "Given Mr. Douglason's talent, we can guarantee it's going to be more than the simple 'hobbyist gamer' can deal with."
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[If this joke press release breaks any Slashdot rules, please accept my apology and delete it. Just thought people would be interested to know there's going to be an adventure out soon-- Joseph Browning]
Cause they are all a bunch of pussies! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Horde Rules!
...play AD&D ontable, not online.
It's no kind of weird sick transsexual thing for me and I'm sure most other players. I just don't want to sit there and stare at a guy's ass for hours on end.
Right. You are walking around for hours at a time in a virtual world, presenting yourself as a woman before everybody you meet in that world, and dressing your little cartoon proxy in feminine clothes while you are at it, because to not do so would mean you're gay. Gotcha.
Keep telling yourself that if you must.
P.S. Transexuals and gays are not "sick" (although maybe a little "weird"). Denial, on the other hand, is a tad unhealthy.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Did anyone else misread this as....has anyone tried entering a World Of Warcraft female character? :-)
Libertas in infinitum
If you are looking for a "box on your character" try below the waste; you might find a 'box' there ;-)
Libertas in infinitum
Which means that those who don't believe in evolution are better at it. I wonder if this is an instance of cosmic irony...
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
And if you are roleplaying, well... I'm not really a great wizard capable of snuffing dragons with a mean glare and a snap of fingers, so since I'm already roleplaying something I'm not, why would gender be the hanging point ? Most people don't seem to have any trouble switching species and playing elfs and half-orcs and halflings, so why would female be such a taboo character ?
Or is it simply the fear of being thought as a homosexual or somehow "lesser" man that makes this a special case ?
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
I don't care if some moderator nails me. It's time men started being honest instead of being PC.
When a woman has to sign up for SELECTIVE SERVICE then she can come talk to me about how bad she has it in life. Oh well, women usually outlive men so they have plenty of time to gripe about how their evil oppressors held them down long after their oppressors are dead. I didn't hear women complaining about being given preferential treatment on the Titanic's lifeboats, did anyone else? Yeah, discrimination is evil only when it goes against you, not for you. That's why I'm a humanist, and not a feminist.
As for women whining about being hit on all the time and being stared at? Give me a break and a half. Us men would give our right nut to be treated that way by women. Get paid to have sex? Bring it on! Now, I'm not condoning rape at all, but sheesh, let's look at the cold hard reality here for what it is: if there was a city on Earth where women sneaked into windows and jumped on guys' wangs at night, and where a random walk by an alley was likely to end in a guy being snatched by a gang of sex starved women? Ya damned SKIPPY almost the entire world's male hetero population would immigrate there! That's the stone cold truth. Can I get a witness out there??
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
But only 87,5 percent of the gnomes.
i lolled
http://gamers.deadgentlemen.com/
Gay people suck. It's one of those "by definition" things.
WoW is as much about playing with morons as it is about playing a game.
Holy shit, the most prolific poster on Slashdot is a woman!
i played a female human warlock in wow, but didn't get much more attention than i got with my male human paladin. maybe i made too obvious, that i wasn't a real woman.
:P another possibilty could be, that they just started to accept here as an equal after some time.
my girlfriend even played a night-elf, f, hunter. It was only during the early stages of the game, when many of my guildmates didn't know her (and her relationship to me), and tried to help her more than they would have helped any of our male newcommers. the interest pretty much faded very quickly, when they realized, that she wasn't very interested in them or their help. maybe it was because auf her attitude of rather questing alone or with me, than to flirt around with our guildmates. who knows, if she would have played her cards better, maybe she'd be rich and famous / wanted now? but then i would have made her quit playing, i guess.
I'm a straight male of 19 years of age and I can safely say I have never uncontrollably stared at a woman's breasts, in conversation or any other time - unless they're amusingly large or have smiley faces painted on them, really, your breasts aren't that interesting.
Heh heh heh!
You said "breasts"!
Bloody stupid AFCs! The online world mimics real life in strange ways. No wonder there's so many gold diggers...
err no, I was bottle fed and I'd say I find breasts fairly interesting =p though yeah I dont sit and drool while staring or anything =_=
which is totally what she said
doh, obviously meant breast fed =p
which is totally what she said
its cause there's no wang to play with when doing a late night "grind session"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/01/23
disclaimer: I've been known to store numbers in my ass for which to dig out when quantities are required.
And, I'm not sure why, but I didn't really find the humor in this. Maybe part of it is because it's taking the stereotypes and then moving them down the slider past funny to stupid. IMHO. I mean, yes, I know plenty of gamers who claim to be Wiccans or whatever, and some of them are creepy and weird... but nothing to even suggest that behavior.
Basically, they took a grab bag of gamer stereotypes (unrelated gamer stereotypes, in some cases) and tried to be funny and to me it just fell flat on it's face. Even the name doesn't seem to have much to do with the content.
The believably suffered in other areas. 3.x D&D tactical mat with a 2nd edition GM screen. People who played Vampire in high school and then "moved on" to D&D. Playing fantasy LARP with two people.
Yeah, and did you see how mimsy those borogroves were?
By the way, I think you meant to say, "I'd like to see the mome rath that could outgrabe ME" since, according to my analysis (and that of many of the advanced minds of English 11H) "mome raths" constitute the noun and "outgrabe" is the verb. Granted, it's poetry, so I'm not sure grammar matters (blaspheme!! a grammar nazi just said that?), but anyways, you've inspired me to re-analyze the poem. At work.
I'm firing blanks you insensitive clod!
Really- I am....but, I was wondering if you wanted to say that they were firing blanks...or if you wanted to say
-They can't get it up
-Premature ejaculation
Or something like that. Hey, firing blanks sometimes just happens- it doesn't mean that the guy has a bad sex life or anything, just that there is a problem with the plumbing.
That's the first part of your post that caught my eye...
Then I noticed that you are basically saying that the only sex you should brag about is the sex that successfully makes children.
Well, maybe you are into a form or religion that preaches this, but I think that most guys would argue with you. The best sex is the fun stuff, the saturday afternoon 'lets just lay around the house and screw' sex.
When women WANT to get pregnant, sex turns into something totally different (admit it guys...at this point it just isn't fun). They'll say when and how, and how often they want it. And you better be ready, or they'll be pissed. I wasn't always shooting blanks...I remember these days.
Yes, the better sex is the 'no purpose except that it feels good' kind.
No reason to lie.
Playing first person shooters (Perfect Dark Zero, No One Lives Forever, Psi-Ops) I always like it when the main character is a woman.
That way on the cut scenes I get to 'check out a hot chick.'
I have no sense of the idea that I am actually this person while playing...it is just that I would rather watch a woman, than a man.
(No, I am not trying to hide some sort of latent homosexuality by making this post...I really do like to watch women...but there is nothing sweeter than caressing a man's hairy ass-cheeks...now THAT my friends is HOT)
No reason to lie.
Right.. the free drinks are to empower them..
Whoops...
For those who actually played Psi-Ops, you know that the main character was a guy.
But after you finish the game, you have the option to play as the woman...which I did...
No reason to lie.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Don't complain to us, complain to your many sisters who do *exactly* that.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
You get to have conversations with women?!
That's what he said. Breastfed boys had plenty already, so they're less likely to stare. Supposedly.
God, *they* are a pathetic lot, aren't they? I had a new one of them come up to me at work just a few weeks back and ask me (swear to God) how much food cost at the grocery store. Christ, what a pathetic creature!
Better to stay single than to become THAT. After all, I can hire a whore. All the money in the world (or what little he has left of it, anyway) can't buy his dignity back.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Fortunately, most games have settings so that you don't have to stare at your character's ass at all while you play. In fact, I (personally) haven't played a single game in over 10 years that didn't allow me to change camera options. So, this "ass looking" argument really holds no water.
You're new here, right?
What MUD did you play and what was the medium age of the population? ;)
Over the years on a mud called Arctic I played multiple female characters and none of that shit really occured. Then again I always soloed and had a tendancy to kill other people so maybe that was the source of the...distance....interesting
Yeah, but I really need those plumbing skills...
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Like many of the replies, I had a similar case of being mistaken for a female in a game... The odd thing it was Diablo 2, where certain classes were just certain genders. If you wanted to play an Amazon or a Sorceress, you had to be a Female (and those were two of the more popular classes as well).
So I named a Fire-based Sorceress "BlowsHotKisses", and it's going fine until I get a tell asking what else I blow. Oh kay.
Off main topic but just wanted to fill out the parent post,
The toronto story is STILL playing out here - They've identified the game as Need for speed and it has the public in the usual discussion about the cause and effect of the street-racing turned casuality incident.
Both cars were also Mercedes Benz, and not BMW's which also has the public thinking these kids were spoiled etc.. etc..
You know how I know your gay? You dick tastes like shit.
Compared to you.
Ah, you are putting extra words into my mouth that I didn't speak. I never said "if you are roleplaying and picking the opposite sex, you are a freak." Yet you seem to think I implied it.
I could really care less if some guy wanted to roleplay a girl, or vice versa. If you are a guy and you ARE going to roleplay a girl, more power to you. It *is* roleplaying, after all. However, there is roleplaying, and then there is roleplaying.
Some people think "hey, I logged into this game called WoW, and I am playing an elf druid that can change into a bear, cat, sealion, or jaguar! I'm roleplaying!" And yet, they don't roleplay a thing. They don't go OOC to talk about the new car they bought, college, etc. They are playing a game, but they aren't really playing a role.
Then there are those that really immerse themselves into a game. For the time in the game, they are that character. If they have to go OOC, they will say "OOC, bio break" or the like. They truly enjoy that, and love playing with like-minded folks. And especially for guys, if you are roleplaying the opposite sex, you usually trip yourself up sooner or later. That can, for some people, ruin the immersion that they are enjoying. (Not that a thousand other things won't do the same, but some hardcore roleplayers are almost obsessive about this kind of "mistake".) Sure, it's childish, but then again, I've watched all too many hardcore roleplayers throw a tantrum because someone broke character.
I have friends that are gay. I get along with them just fine. I'm also married, and expecting my first child in May. I have no issues with my own heterosexuality, nor do I have any issues with anyone else's choice of consentual and legal sexual partners. (And before you try to read something into that, I mean "no pedophiles", not something about sodomy being illegal in many states.)
Stop trying to read so much into statements. You'll live longer!
I think my mistakes were speaking in complete words and sentences, saying please and thank you, and expressing sympathy.
Assuming you are straight: yes.
What? No broadband? How sad.
Make love, not reality television.
I always play a female avatar. I try to make my characters look like me and usually, I just like the way the female models look much better than the male ones. I have never, ever had some stranger come up to me and give me a gift because I was a girl or because my avatar was one. I'm sure it happens but not as often as you would think.
I doubt many of those women would be 300 pound heffers, come on dude. And rapeville? I doubt Travoltus meant in any way that anyone who doesn't want sex, should have it FORCED on them. I'd like to hear his response if he's around. When was the last time you saw a singl man (or, hell, many MARRIED men) turn down sex with an anonymous woman stranger coming at him out of the blue? Maybe the guy thinks something it WRONG with that offer because it never HAPPENS, perhaps.
When did tihs become about RAPE? And if you think being hit on constnantly is some attempt at subordination, you've really lost the plot. BTW it's against the law to pay women less money for the same work. I just thought I'd remind you of that.
blah, blah, blah. When I say "ass" I'm being facetious, as most people are able to figure out.
Point is, I'd rather look at a female than a male, from any angle, video game or not.
"You're a nice guy, BUT..."
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls ... the Kinks
It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
I didn't mean to imply any such thing. I was simply thinking about this subject, since I almost always end up playing female characters in CRPGs (I'm a man, in case you didn't guess ;). I've never played a Pen and Paper version, so I wouldn't know what I'd do there... One of the advantages of a CRPG is that you never have to wonder if something you do in the game make the other players look at you afterwards.
There's just something very alluring in casting my "real" role aside for a moment, including even gender and species, and being someone else. Hmm... All my characters tend to gravitate towards sainthood as far as alignment goes, so, based on the above, does that mean that I'm a monster in real life ?-(
Also, I propably should have made clear that I've never played WoW, and was thinking about RPGs in general, both computer and tabletop ones.
Pot, meet kettle +6.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Learn to read, anonymous dipshit
My soon to be ex-husband did/does the same thing. Plays female characters to get loot. He's done this in several online RPGs.
Personally, I try to treat everyone with the respect I expect to receive. What's your problem with that?
I don't know, I was breastfed but I love staring at breasts.
Oddly enough, I'm just back from a 4 day games convention (Arcanacon in Melbourne, Australia) and I was commenting on the increase in female gamers this year. The overall ratio was probably 60% male 40% female. I remember when I started attending conventions over 10 years ago, the ration was closer to 90% male, 10% female.
I also remember scaring the heck out of a group of tenage boys when I ended up in a scratch team of Macho Women with Guns, I think it was the first time they had gamed with a girl from the way they were reacting.
Sara
Designer, Gamer, Macgrrl in an XP World
I think it might have been Adversary, before it went away and the IP address went to Medievia. Or it could have even been Temple, which was Adversary before the name change. Whichever it was, I know the IP was 129.32.32.98, but that had a couple different owners in its day. Average age was college-level as far as I could tell.
Sex workers for proper netiquette:
http://goodluv.diaryland.com/bottompost.html
Learn to read, anonymous dipshit
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Personally, I try to treat everyone with the respect I expect to receive.
To paraphrase Dave Chapelle: "Oh, this irony is killing me inside."
http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20040127no
The test is do you ever uncontrollably stare at hooters.
Fag boy upthread says he never does.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
For the most part, the world has moved on since 1973 or whenever this was, and female characters aren't so rare anymore. Although female characters do receive preferential treatment some still today, it's more rare and primarily from naive noobs.
Women do earn less then men on average.
Women own a majority of the wealth (mostly cause they outlive men).
Adjusted for experiance they earn very slightly less.
I've never seen women paid less for the same job. I have seen a greater percentage of women who just refused to put in crazy hours. I respect that and generally try to be in the minority of men. But I accept I earn less money because I'm willing to stare down a PHB throwing a tantrum.
Women make different life choices, I'll assume their made as rationally as all human life choices (not very).
This is /. we all know there are tons of women in the tech fields right? Please don't start with teachers should earn as much as engineers, there's this concept called a 'market'...anyhow.
How many men stay home as house husbands for a period of years (I know one. We used to give him lots of shit. Now we feel sorry for him, hardly call him Peg anymore.)
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
They also screw up your driving reflexes as well as give you a false sense of driving skill (I an emergency console jockeys go binary on the control, also driving models generally suck).
But it's the moron kids fault. They should understand how unskilled they are and the statistics for their age group.
Paint their bumpers bright yellow for the first year, just like race rookies. Have the cops watch for yellow bumpers and write tickets. Don't let the bumper paint come off untill they complete a year no tickets or accidents. Some people will never get rid of their yellow bumpers.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
Never met another.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
So what's the deal with guys who are all into asses? Were they butt-fed?
our written thoughts are gifts to our future selves
A recent survey showed that over 50% of all female World of Warcraft characters were played by male players Even more surprising, 100% of Elves in World of Warcraft are played by Humans!
:D
ending cinematic of WC3 hints about it ;)
Secret inteligence says that Protos and Zergs are actualy playing WoW aswell
I said I wasn't confoning rape, and now I see tons of responses by people with poor reading comprehension who think I was. You're right, I'm talking about the fact that MOST HETERO SINGLE men would love to wake up to a world where women were OFFERING them sex instead of men always having to throw tons of game and embark on a long adventure just to prove themselves worthy of a woman's attention.
It's frighteningly pathetic to see that so many people think that if women are offering you sex, they MUST be 300lb monsters. You can't even hope to reason with minds like that.
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
If I had said to him what he said to me, I would not be surprised if he called me that. My comment that he was replying to did not deserve the reaction it got from him.
Want to play "Prisoner's Dilemma"? That's where I'm coming from.
I'm going to have to say, that he's not the only one. I'll check out the fine form of a woman on tv or in a mag. But I like getting laid, and it's just not going to happen staring at a girls breasts when talking to her. But hey, u guys can go ahead and drive them all to me, I don't mind. ;)
Yeah, your point isn't new by decades (in releation to video games) but my point was that you have the option of not looking at the character at all (no character on the screen) so there is no "angle" at which to see the toon on the screen be it male or female. I play in first person mode all the time (wow, eq, etc.) for example. I have a number of reasons of doing that but none are in relation to what sex of the toon is that I'm playing, though (honestly, I rarely care about the bunch of pixels on the screen that are supposed to be my in-game representation).
Yup, gamers aren't geeks anymore. Now any Jo Schmoe of the unwashed masses can get in on the computer game action too.
What is the world coming to, when a sports jock on a sports scholarship plays online games for more hours a week than the guys in the computer club?
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