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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.
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.
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
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.
If there ever was a group of people who reproduced less than monks, this crowd would be it...
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... 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.
Who is this 'us'? I'm an introverted and shy geek.
I'm not into D&D but I believe someone cast a No Humor-spell on you
Read, refresh, repeat.
... 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
Reminds me of the "Summoner Geeks" video that Violition Inc inserted after the credits in Summoner,
http://www.devilducky.com/media/6024/
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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.
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?
On the contrary. Most gamers would be the first to find this funny. And that's true with most groups, I think. Humor like this lets us see, in an exaggerated fashion, the amusing/exasperating/disgusting aspects of our self-defined group identification we wouldn't see otherwise.
Trolls: The high-tech version of those morons that scrawl obscenities in public bathrooms.
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.
There's nothing like fighting stereotypes with stereotypes.
wget -O FearofGirls.flv http://tinyurl.com/dgfey
mplayer FearofGirls.flv
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!
This was produced by D&D geeks for D&D geeks, and as a D&D geek I was amused. Self satire is healthy and fun.
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?
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.
Admit it, you're a 48 year old man.
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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.
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.
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}$/
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.
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.
Even more surprising, 100% of Elves in World of Warcraft are played by Humans!
I wore a cloak to school once. They announced a non-uniform day about a month in advance to raise money for charity. You had to pay a small amount to come in in 'normal' clothes, and this money went to the nominated charity de jour. Over the next few weeks, the headmaster gradually tightened the dress code required for the day (no jeans, no fleeces, etc) until it got to the point that it was almost more restrictive than our normal dress code. To highlight this point, I turned up in full evening dress, complete with bow tie and opera cloak. It got a few laughs from staff and students alike, although I think it went over the headmaster's head.
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Why do you think Xenosaga is so popular even though the second one totally blowed game-wise? Answer: KOS-MOS.
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.
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.
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.
We don't need to be "given" equality. We already have that.
What we deserve and damn well better get, is respect.
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..
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.
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."
Twice.
Above is the reason for Tomb Raiders success.
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 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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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.
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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.
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.
It seems that a lot of guys who play female characters feel, very strongly, they need to tell everybody in the world that they are doing it "to look at the cute female asses" while playing the game.
Look, just say it. It's fun to play with gender roles.
That explanation is a lot less sad than obsessing over the posterior of a CARTOON for hours on end.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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.
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.
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.
A solid point. We see this huge push for equal treatment, but everyone just avoids the few perks that being a woman does have. i.e. not being forced to go get yourself killed when we run low on willing cannon fodder. They actually don't even have the option of signing up, though that's somewhat moot, since if you would choose to, you'd probably just volunteer for the militiary anyways.
this section was still ok I guess:
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!
not sure I'd do it myself, especially having to deal with a pimp, but as a freelancer, there are probably plenty of guys who would be glad to. on the other hand, there are likely a fair number of women who wouldn't mind either, under the right conditions, though perhaps not as many, and perhaps they aren't as open about it in todays society, which whether you're one of those women or not, is a pretty solid example of a rediculous double standard.
I'd also like to note that while I'm not suggesting rape is acceptable, but a fair amount of women's fashion these days probably contributes to that (not blaming it on the victims at all here, but come on), and just the constantly being hit on. if a guy walks down the street without his shirt on, his friends will just laugh at him if some fat girl whistles. if a woman is wearing a skirt that is just barely long enough for her private areas to be hidden, and a shirt that leaves a 4 inch gap between itself and the skirt, she somehow seems to think she still has the right to complain about guys hitting on her. if you don't wear tight clothes/clothes that don't entirely cover your body, and you still get more attention than you would like, ok. as long as you're not being forced into anything though, I think the parent's point that I most recently quoted applies here; if you're getting hit on too much, sorry, but on the other side of the fence, most guys are expected to do absolutely everything themselves. yeah, it's more or less acceptable for a girl to ask out a guy, but very few of them actually do it! if you want us to stop making a move on every woman that interests us, make it reasonable for us to expect to be hit on ourselves once in a while. it's no picnic when it almost never happens either. (and no, I'm not ugly, most of my female friends tell me I'm quite attractive.)
here's where it really went down hill:
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??
uh... no. there would be some guys like you, who would be stupid enough to think that this was fun, go down there, get raped buy several hideous women, and then promptley move back home. the rest of us are smart enough to realize that rape is very differnt from casual sex, and can appriciate not wanting to be jumped, dragged into an alley, and violated.
No single raindrop believes that it is responsible for the storm.