Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary 452
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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Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:2, Funny)
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.
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The stereotype that all men do nothing but stare at breasts all day is interesting - am I the only one that doesn't?
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
Assuming you are straight: yes.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:3, Insightful)
What we deserve and damn well better get, is respect.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:3, Interesting)
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..
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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http://www.sexylosers.com/216.html [sexylosers.com]
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:3, Interesting)
There is something to be said for being single slack and idle geek (including not
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:3, Funny)
Which means that those who don't believe in evolution are better at it. I wonder if
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Insightful)
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 ?
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:3, Funny)
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
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Girl by appearance or girl by action? (Score:4, Insightful)
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
Re:Girl by appearance or girl by action? (Score:4, Insightful)
Those have got to be the stupidest looking collections of polygons I have seen since E.T on the Atari 2600.
Re:incorrect (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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Even more surprising, 100% of Elves in World of Warcraft are played by Humans!
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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...
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offended? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:offended? (Score:3, Informative)
Look upon his works, ye nerds, and despair. Or hope. Your choice, I guess.
Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:5, Interesting)
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 [yngturkproductions.com], 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 [google.com] 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.
Re:Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:5, Funny)
The part about high school reminded me of a thing I read in Dragon Magazine about making an RPG version of real life, where all the players tried to design themselves as characters and pick stats they saw as reasonable. I imagine there'd be a severe shortage of Charisma in that party.
Re:Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:5, Insightful)
If you can't laugh at the serious stuff; and if you can't take the trivial stuff seriously, you've missed the point and are going to have a hell of a time making it through life.
Insert whatever serious/trivial stuff suits you, such as work/play, religious/secular, etc.
Along the way you may discover the First Corollary; that the only difference between the serious stuff and the trivial stuff is whether or not you take it seriously or laugh at it.
KFG
Re:Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:2)
Re:Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:5, Interesting)
1- where they got their money. I can tell you this this production cost them almost nothing. Maybe a couple hundred bucks expenses in production incidentals.
2- Is it really that easy? yes and it has been for almost a decade now. Anyone with a copy of Adobe Premiere and a way to get video in (DV makes life really easy) has what it takes. I can set you up with everything you need to shoot a short of this quality for less than $1000.00 total. including camera, audio, lighting and editor. (Hint an old P4-1.2ghz machine with 512 meg of ram and a copy of Premiere6 thta can be had for dirt right now, coupled with a el-cheapo Canon DV camcorder, some shop lights, a painters pole and gaffers tape to hold a $59.00 audio technica shotgun microphone out there.)
Anyone with a desire to do this can do it easily. and if you already own a PC that is of decent speed (Even a PIII 1ghz will do it well) you already have most of the gear. (a pinnacle DV500 card with a copy of Premiere 6 and extra tools costs about $150.00 most places on the net right now.)
finally what gear you have means nothing. I know of a group that has 4 Canon XL1-HD cameras as well as a high end AVID editor with all the goodies and tens of thousands worth of gear and they suck horribly. Their video looks good but it's a nice and shiny turd.
I have also seen something shot on a really old VHS camcorder and edited in camera win awards and have people in the audience clamoring to see it again.
Good writing, good direction and most of all Competent crew = good project. Gear and money does not.
Re:Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:4, Insightful)
Reminds me of this clip (Score:2)
Might get slow (just on a cable modem) If it gets too slow I'll probably have to turn it off.
Doesn't work from germany, but CoralCache does: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Doesn't work from germany, but CoralCache does: (Score:2, Funny)
Update: CC now broken, too (Score:2)
Re:Whats up with that shit anyway? (Score:2)
Has anyone worked out a way to download this for offline viewing? I have tried to watch it from here in Malaysia but my DSL just isn't up to the task. Within a minute or two it taps out the buffer and starts skipping like crazy. Or is there a way to configure the Macromedia player to use a much larger buffer?
Holster your weapon there, pardner. Almost ce
Re:Whats up with that shit anyway? (Score:2)
No fear (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Re: No fear (Score:2)
Neither have I, but I've PTFG.
my experiences with AD&D (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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Did it work?
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Well, if you had more Wis you would have known to play a Paladin rather than a mage, so that when the chips were down you could dice Satan up with your +19 Holy Sword of Demon Slicing, and thus not succumbed to evil.
Also, girls greatly prefer us manly Fighter types to you nerdy Wizard types,
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:3, Funny)
This is a common mistake. Please do not forget that feather fall spell only acts on characters which have a very large piece of cloth attached by ropes to their shoulders. This was sadly omitted from the manual.
Also, feather fall only affects your downward movement and if you push off too much you can still crash into the neighboring building.
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This is quite insightful. The same thing happened to my cousin. His mom tried to take away his copy of Grand Theft Auto thinking it was ruining his life but she didn't realize he was really a powerful mob boss who just liked playing the game because it reminded him of his job.
TW
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:3, Insightful)
I've known a diagnosed and medicated schizophrenic as well, and he is the only person I've known that has suddenly thought D&D was real. He once attacked a couch with a lamp at a party because he thought it was an orc coming to kill him. I've known tons of D&D players in my life, none of them had mental conditions (other than depression perhaps), and none of them ever had anything like this happen to them, which is not surprising to me at all. I've been with
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Most slashdotters can really relate to this film (Score:2, Insightful)
For Non-US users : workaround (Score:5, Informative)
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Talk about sexy (Score:5, Funny)
God-damned hilarious! (Score:2)
Best 'article' posted in weeks, I needed that laugh.
The title is misleading... (Score:5, Funny)
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Half-females you say? I can't find a box on my character sheet for that. Is that anything like a half-elf? I'm wondering because the results of my web searches for "half-female" are a little disturbing.
The Gamers (Score:4, Informative)
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 [soundtrack] (Score:2, Interesting)
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
This reminds me of... (Score:2, Interesting)
A must-see for every true otaku!
-t_d
Switch Linux.. (Score:2)
"...I have more friends now....."
Summoner Geeks (Score:2, Funny)
Reminds me of the "Summoner Geeks" video that Violition Inc inserted after the credits in Summoner,
http://www.devilducky.com/media/6024/ [devilducky.com]
druid grace... heh heh... (Score:2)
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*
Re:druid grace... heh heh... (Score:3, Funny)
eh, it was just OK (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:eh, it was just OK (Score:3, Funny)
Worst... film... evar.
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Mockumentary, not documentary (Score:3, Insightful)
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
Internet dissemination (Score:3, Insightful)
Here's how to save/play this with Free Software (Score:5, Informative)
mplayer FearofGirls.flv
teh funnay (Score:3, Informative)
"We weren't the quarterbacks of the hockey team.." ROTFLMMFAO
Get the avi here (works worldwide) (Score:3, Informative)
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
Spell: Fear of Girls (Score:5, Funny)
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.
And Remember.. (Score:3, Funny)
15 years ago (Score:3, Insightful)
Coral Cache: (Score:5, Informative)
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Any clue ?
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Re:Mirror? Torrent? Anybody? (Score:2)
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Re:I hate this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I hate this (Score:2)
It's just silly stereotypes anyway.
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Re: Alternate title was: (Score:2)
Yes, "it" is precisely the kind of trap that makes guys beat a path to their doors.
Re:CmdrTaco == Fucking Dork (Score:3, Funny)
That would be vorpal blade, and it goes snicker snack.