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Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary
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on Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:33 AM
from the i-wanna-see-how-drunk-i'm-getting dept.
from the i-wanna-see-how-drunk-i'm-getting dept.
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)
(http://www.nightlifemagazine.ca/ | Last Journal: Thursday March 24 2005, @12:46PM)
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:4, Funny)
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @01:01AM)
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
Assuming you are straight: yes.
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.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://coherentnetworksolutions.com/)
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
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: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:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Tuesday November 02 2004, @06:32PM)
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:4, Informative)
(http://www.neverwhen.net/)
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Sunday October 07, @01:01AM)
Girl by appearance or girl by action? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://soayacs.blogspot.com/)
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: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.
Re:Girl by appearance or girl by action? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.neverwhen.net/)
Those have got to be the stupidest looking collections of polygons I have seen since E.T on the Atari 2600.
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.tzs.net/)
Even more surprising, 100% of Elves in World of Warcraft are played by Humans!
Re:Fear of girls?! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://oceanclub.blogspot.com/)
P.
offended? (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty Damn Good Quality (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://slashdot.org/~eldavojohn/ | Last Journal: Tuesday October 16, @03:26PM)
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)
(http://www.myspace.com/mygreatestheist)
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:5, Interesting)
(http://timgray.blogspot.com/)
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)
(Last Journal: Friday August 19 2005, @05:44PM)
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)
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.
The guy on the left (Score:1)
He looks a little bit like him, and even sounds like him.
Mirror? Torrent? Anybody? (Score:1)
Coral Cache: (Score:5, Informative)
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.
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:5, Funny)
Did it work?
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.benjcurry.com/)
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.jhurliman.org/)
Re:my experiences with AD&D (Score:5, Funny)
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:4, Funny)
(http://www.neverwhen.net/)
Most slashdotters can really relate to this film (Score:2, Insightful)
For Non-US users : workaround (Score:5, Informative)
Talk about sexy (Score:5, Funny)
God-damned hilarious! (Score:2)
(http://www.fuckjackthompson.com/)
Best 'article' posted in weeks, I needed that laugh.
The title is misleading... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The title is misleading... (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Wednesday January 08 2003, @02:55PM)
Re:The title is misleading... (Score:5, Funny)
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)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday August 12 2004, @10:57AM)
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 tricks
You sense and suddenly eyes fix
On dancing girl's shadows from behind
*Special thanks to Iron Maiden*
This reminds me of... (Score:2, Interesting)
A must-see for every true otaku!
-t_d
Switch Linux.. (Score:2)
(http://o2kewl.net/)
"...I have more friends now....."
Summoner Geeks (Score:2, Funny)
(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/)
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)
(http://slashdot.org/)
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*
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:5, Informative)
Internet dissemination (Score:3, Insightful)
Here's how to save/play this with Free Software (Score:5, Informative)
mplayer FearofGirls.flv
Simply awesome. (Score:2, Insightful)
Not as good as this documentary! (Score:2, Insightful)
Still hilarious.
Umm. (Score:1, Funny)
teh funnay (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.livejournal.com/users/homerj79/)
"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
google video downloader (Score:1)
Other version (Score:1)
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.
Of course ... (Score:1)
(http://www.bazzalisk.purplecloud.net/)
I mean, Nobilis is where it's at these days :p
This article is inaccurate... (Score:1)
8 Bit D&D (Score:1, Redundant)
And Remember.. (Score:3, Funny)
(http://haltingpoint.blogspot.com/)
Tired Clichés (Score:1)
(http://slashdot.org/)
Proper format anywhere? (Score:1)
(http://www.iki.fi/jpaalija/index.html | Last Journal: Sunday April 24 2005, @01:49PM)
Pretty damn funny and not too far off (Score:1)
(http://www.jerryodom.com/ | Last Journal: Thursday September 29 2005, @01:31PM)
15 years ago (Score:3, Insightful)
"Doug-Doug" (Score:1)
(http://www.losifer.net)
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 [warwick-seltz.com] Donatos Pizza campaign.
The women are WAY worse than us (Score:1)
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....
I never experienced this fear of girls (Score:1)
(http://themountainsofmadness.150m.com/)
Maybe I'm taking it too seriuosly but... (Score:1)
New Sig (Score:1)
Oh dear... (Score:1)
(http://www.red-bean.com/sussman)
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 [nascrag.org], and we run a great goofy tournament every year at Gencon. No experience required, other than a good sense of humor.)
It's probably not a documentary (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Friday January 13 2006, @01:30AM)
It sounds more like a parody.
Live the legend! (Score:1)
Contact:
Joseph Browning
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."
Contact Expeditious Retreat Press: josephbrowning@exp.citymax.com
Contact: YNG Turk Films: yngturkfilm@gmail.com
[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]
I'm a gamer... a female gamer even... (Score:2)
(http://www.dragonfiresigns.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday October 27 2004, @12:39PM)
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.
D&D and other RPGs and girls (Score:2)
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.
Way I Play (Score:1)
(http://www.makemewatchtv.com/ | Last Journal: Wednesday February 01 2006, @10:27AM)
Re:I hate this (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I hate this (Score:2)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Wednesday April 26 2006, @05:27PM)
It's just silly stereotypes anyway.
Re:I hate this (Score:3, Insightful)
Re: Alternate title was: (Score:2)
Yes, "it" is precisely the kind of trap that makes guys beat a path to their doors.
Re:Um, not funny (Score:1)
(http://worsel.blogspot.com/)
Re:I hate this (Score:2)
2. Gaming is a voluntary choice.
Re:I hate this (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What is this doing here (Score:1)
Re:Google oppresses me (Score:1)
(http://www.davidsouther.com/)
My tracert shows me going through:
bluwin.ch
bb.ip-plus.net
net.google.com
Don't know if this'll help, but the vid is shure as hell hilarious!
For those who google video didn't work for... (Score:2, Informative)
(http://www.dtztech.com/)
Re:CmdrTaco == Fucking Dork (Score:3, Funny)
(Last Journal: Thursday February 03 2005, @09:52PM)
That would be vorpal blade, and it goes snicker snack.
As a longtime inhabitant of Fagtassia... (Score:1)
(http://slackerrevolution.com/)
Re:CmdrTaco == Fucking Dork (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:google video.... (Score:1)
(http://www.kredal.com/ | Last Journal: Sunday August 11 2002, @01:57AM)
heh, I guess in South Korea, only old people watch Google Videos.
Re:google video.... (Score:1)
how boring.
Re:Google oppresses me (Score:1)
(http://www.thericebox.org/)