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.

Doesn't work from germany, but CoralCache does:

[Hakubi_Washu]

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 :-)

Coral Cache:

[Hakubi_Washu]

http://video.google.com.nyud.net:8090/videoplay?do cid=7521044027821122670 [nyud.net]

For Non-US users : workaround

[GrAfFiT]

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.

The Gamers

[jafiwam]

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.

Re:my experiences with AD&D

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course it didn't. Feather fall only works on freefalling objects and ends once you land. Having cast the spell before he jumped means that he wasn't a valid target in the first place, and that even if he was it would have ended before he jumped. (courtesy of the SRD)

Here's how to save/play this with Free Software

[lindi]

wget -O FearofGirls.flv http://tinyurl.com/dgfey [tinyurl.com]
mplayer FearofGirls.flv

Re:offended?

[Jerf]

Naw, I think he's got it covered [slashdot.org].

Look upon his works, ye nerds, and despair. Or hope. Your choice, I guess.

Re:Fear of girls?!

[Minwee]

A recent survey [nickyee.com] showed that over 50% of all female World of Warcraft characters were played by male players. Who exactly is supposed to be fearing whom?

teh funnay

[homerj79]

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

Re:eh, it was just OK

[lexarius]

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.

Get the avi here (works worldwide)

[the_doctor_23]

Do download the video, enter the following at your favourite shell:

wget -O video.avi "http://vp.video.google.com/videodownload?version= 0&secureurl=igAAABNZ5uk-9rYKt1b_IZT0D10ADndDZojisj 9cEfkU-7Um38pBBw7nAeZhhtacS8CGsskUOAM91cW0iC3zJcGG pGMThrxKhERl6smRysAlGLNtzavkjDFdXy7lbYPOEUILqPKN_6 0s4hpPD_PtNtf6LUNDBnFZU-PqOuNyHrCv3bA8vNQ6rZCacJ7d sOWSwjvX6g&sigh=hEEf3jF7RGp9TyCntjf09OcjdfU&begin= 0&len=672971&docid=7521044027821122670&autoPlay=tr ue&playerId=7521044027821122670"

This will probably wrap, so you have to put all the above in one line.

-t_d

For those who google video didn't work for...

[dtzWill]

I found a copy at http://media.planetvids.com/pvids/fearofgirls.wmv [planetvids.com], which worked great. Just letting y'all kno.

Re:Pretty Damn Good Quality

[RipTides9x]

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.

El Mariachi by Robert Rodriguez would be considered a very good example of making do with VHS equipment on a shoestring budget. That movie still holds up today and I find it to be much better than it's higher budget *remake/sequel* Desperato.

Re:For Non-US users : workaround

[Anonymous Coward]

Or try Google translate : http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F %2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D75210440 27821122670&langpair=en%7Cfr&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools [google.com]