Quote from: Aos;457631Sure, occasionally we get to ride on the back of an elephant and mow down nazis with a machine gun, but that hardly ever happens before lunch.

Wonder how many individuals saw the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies when they were kids or teenagers, which influenced them to go into archaeology later in life.  

As someone THIS CLOSE ton finishing an MA in Applied Archaeology, Aos has a fucking good point.

Interestingly, it wasn't Indiana Jones that got me into archaeology. It was my nutty, spear-chucking undergrad adviser.

Quote from: Aos;457620I see your mathematician

I'm not a mathematician at all.

Quote from: ggroy;457643I'm not a mathematician at all.

I used the possessive intentionally, it was not an error/typo I was referencing the mathematician you referred to in your post.

Quote from: ggroy;457633Wonder how many individuals saw the Raiders of the Lost Ark movies when they were kids or teenagers, which influenced them to go into archaeology later in life.  

My first girlfriend did. I understand she even went to Turkey on a dig.

Now she's a lawyer.

For me it was lost world fiction. Originally, I wanted to be a paleontologist, but I decided to go into something solid and practical instead.

Quote from: Kyle Aaron;457671My first girlfriend did. I understand she even went to Turkey on a dig.

Now she's a lawyer.

At least she got to go on a dig in a foreign country - thats makes her background more interesting than many of the lawyers who are now her colleagues.


- Ed C.

Well, I wouldn't know, I only know about all this second or third-hand.

I suspect she changed careers for the cash, she was a bit materialistic. But then, she was 18-21 when I knew her, most of us were shitheads then, in one way or another.

Quote from: Koltar;457610...and thats the problem.

Too many of these 'gamer movies' make fun or mock people that are basically similiar to our friends or loved ones - but they go too far with the putdown aspect of it all (kind of like the 1st season of "Big Bang Theory" before they decided to LIKE their characters)

I'd love to see a movie that reflected the gamers I actually see week to week - mostly normal people that enjoy RPGs.

Maybe someone could do one that contrasts a 'good/normal' RPG group vs. a group thats not quite 'all there'.


- Ed C.

I think comedies generally poke fun at their main characters. A comedy built around a fully adjusted character with few negative quirks to poke fun at, probably wouldn't be too funny.

With gamer movies this seems to fall into two camps: inside jokes gamers direct at themselves and outside jokes others direct at gamers. This movie strikes me as the former, though it is hard to tell from just watching the preview. Would really have to see the film to know for sure.

I don't mind the negative characters or poking fun at gamer stereotypes so much. For me the overall message of the movie is what matters. With The Gamers (hope I am keeping my titles straight), I enjoyed a lot of the humor because it seemed authentic gamer humor. What I didn't like was the message and theme that gaming was holding the characters back and something they needed to overcome in order to advance in life.