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Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sun Jan 29, 2006 12:33 PM
from the i-wanna-see-how-drunk-i'm-getting dept.
It's funny. Laugh. Entertainment Games
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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  • Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)

    by conner_bw (120497) on Sunday January 29 2006, @12:34PM (#14593429) Homepage Journal
    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' ...

  • offended? (Score:5, Funny)

    by JeffSh (71237) <jeffslashdot@nOSpAM.m0m0.org> on Sunday January 29 2006, @12:36PM (#14593434)
    I think Taco doesn't like it because it hits too close to home. I myself loved it :D

  • Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:5, Interesting)

    by eldavojohn (898314) * <my/.username@@@gmail.com> on Sunday January 29 2006, @12:37PM (#14593444) Homepage Journal
    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 [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)

      by MutantHamster (816782) on Sunday January 29 2006, @12:54PM (#14593514) Homepage
      Did anybody else notice a strong Christopher Guest influence? The prayer-before-the-dinner scene was the most pronounced part to me. I certainly thought it was funny. I thought about doing a Guest style mockumentary on Policy Debate at my school, but that's another story.

      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)

      by kfg (145172) on Sunday January 29 2006, @12:59PM (#14593540)
      KFG's Revelation:

      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:5, Interesting)

      by Lumpy (12016) on Sunday January 29 2006, @03:06PM (#14594002) Homepage
      As an indie filmmaker I can answer your questions.

      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.
  • 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 [nyud.net] works fine :-)

  • my experiences with AD&D (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2006, @12:51PM (#14593505)
    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.

  • For Non-US users : workaround (Score:5, Informative)

    by GrAfFiT (802657) on Sunday January 29 2006, @01:06PM (#14593564) Homepage
    Someone suggested to use the coral cache : Link here [nyud.net]. 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.

  • Talk about sexy (Score:5, Funny)

    by Jesus IS the Devil (317662) on Sunday January 29 2006, @01:09PM (#14593574)
    If there ever was a group of people who reproduced less than monks, this crowd would be it...

  • The title is misleading... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Entropius (188861) on Sunday January 29 2006, @01:12PM (#14593588)
    ... 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...

    • Re:The title is misleading... (Score:5, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 29 2006, @02:23PM (#14593819)
      ... my D&D group is half female,

      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.

  • Here's how to save/play this with Free Software (Score:5, Informative)

    by lindi (634828) on Sunday January 29 2006, @01:57PM (#14593735)
    wget -O FearofGirls.flv http://tinyurl.com/dgfey [tinyurl.com]
    mplayer FearofGirls.flv

  • Spell: Fear of Girls (Score:5, Funny)

    by Korbeau (913903) on Sunday January 29 2006, @03:10PM (#14594013)
    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.

    • Re:eh, it was just OK (Score:5, Informative)

      by lexarius (560925) on Sunday January 29 2006, @02:38PM (#14593890)
      The DM is a frequent poster (and moderator) at a popular RPG board which shall not be named for fear of Slashdotting. He runs games at cons. The other guy was in fact an actor, not the other way around. He doesn't know anything about gaming, but his acting abilities helped him there.

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