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Author Topic: Have you gamed with a first-year gamer this year?  (Read 3269 times)

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« Reply #45 on: December 02, 2009, 02:35:16 PM »
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OFF TOPIC:  that looks awesome!  Do you know if there will be a US release of the DVD?


So far, I don't know of any planned US release. I know that the Icelandic makers were looking for a US distributor, they even had an English alternative title, "Dorks & Damsels".
The US trailer that I linked above was produced way before the German release - in fact, that very trailer got me interested in the movie in the first place, and was my reason for I asking our powers-that-be if that movie would be a fit for our label.

AFAIK, the Icelandic DVD has English subtitles. (Not our release, though.)
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« Reply #46 on: December 02, 2009, 03:08:32 PM »
There was a guy that joined my meetup group.  Nice guy, had always been interested in gamery things but never knew anyone who played.  He started off in the meetup game day, where we played Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Mouse Guard.  He's since joined another group's Savage Worlds superhero games, and will be joining my Exalted game.

He's a great player, really took to it quickly.  Everyone likes his character in SW more than their own - The Corn King, a violent redneck with a shotgun and burlap bag over his head, his only powers are fear and immunity to fear.  And hittin' stuff and not carin' for no book learnin'.  I'm not even in the game and I love the character.  :)
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« Reply #47 on: December 02, 2009, 03:28:54 PM »
We had a brand new guy come to our Earthdawn game... he played one session, then quit his job and left the state... I hope it wasn't something we said...
Meanwhile we are actively looking for new people...

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« Reply #48 on: December 02, 2009, 03:32:50 PM »
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Dude, I've said it before, and I'll say it again -- you apparently don't know shit about having kids.  I am shame-faced for all the times I've declined to share my personal hobbies and interests with my pleading children.


Yeah, but do your kids want to participate in your hobbies because they are capable of choosing it free of conditioning, or because Dad does it and they think its cool for that. When they're teenagers, will they still think its cool, or will they think its lame because everything dad does is lame?

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« Reply #49 on: December 02, 2009, 03:37:00 PM »
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Yes. I can attest. That office game went nowhere despite the fact that we all had fun. But it was very difficult to schedule even one follow-up event. They are casual gamers, and it seems that role playing needs a bit more commitment (ie, regular scheduling, or a willingness to shift other interests around).

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Yes, that is the D&D game group on the flap. The other two images are taken from the (rather short, compared to The Gamers) in-game parts of the story.

It is very different from the usual gamer humour. This movie was the most successful mainstream film in the past 10 years in Iceland, and broke the records of Pirates of the Caribbean, The Simpsons, and Bourne Identity.

It tells the story of Hildur, a Paris-Hilton-like high society (or what counts as high society in Iceland...) girl who suddenly has to earn her own money as her rich boyfriend was arrested for fraud.
She lands a job in Iceland's only RPG shop, Astrópía. Most of the (rather subdued) humour comes from the clash of cultures, and both sides get their share of laughs.
Only when Hildur starts to ask about the games she has to sell in the shop the tone very subtly changes. Hildur becomes a member of the shop owners D&D group, and after the first usual chick-among-nerds gags she starts to get the grip on the hobby.
The in-game scenes are not as self-referential as The Gamers. There is gamer humour but it is not rubbed down the nose of the mainstream target audience. The film is functioning very well as a typical mainstream love comedy, albeit a slightly melancholic one (it is an Icelandic movie).

Think of a mix of The Gamers, High Fidelity, with a sprinkle of Sex and the City, and you are almost there.

The script was written by a former game store clerk, and it was a streak of luck that the DVD label has a former game store owner among its ranks (me) so I could make sure that all the game and comic book references were left intact in the translation process.

Because of the one-time chance to present the hobby to a new audience I offered to write the booklet as an introductory game system.

   (The booklet's cover, titled "adventure fantasy role play")

Also, because of my contacts from the game store time we could put the PDF files of the quickstart rules of Das Schwarze Auge, DSA Myranor, Call of Cthulhu, and Shadowrun as bonus material right on the DVD.


Wow.

Now this, this is awesome.

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« Reply #50 on: December 02, 2009, 03:38:48 PM »
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We had a brand new guy come to our Earthdawn game... he played one session, then quit his job and left the state...


Jesus Christ, I knew ED's rules were complicated, but that's just ridiculous.

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« Reply #51 on: December 02, 2009, 04:20:41 PM »
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Yeah, but do your kids want to participate in your hobbies because they are capable of choosing it free of conditioning, or because Dad does it and they think its cool for that.
See?  Like I stated above, you apparently don't know shit about kids.  Or parenting.  That's all right, but don't go off like you do.

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« Reply #52 on: December 02, 2009, 04:32:46 PM »
Nope, this is my hobby, not a moral crusade.  If there's a conflict between my enjoying my Monday nights and recruiting people, guess which wins.

Why yes, I am a selfish parasite, why do you ask?

Anyway, as a Forgeite I hate roleplaying games, playing with newbies might interfere with my dedication to their destruction.

Or something like that.

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« Reply #53 on: December 02, 2009, 06:06:35 PM »
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Yeah, but do your kids want to participate in your hobbies because they are capable of choosing it free of conditioning, or because Dad does it and they think its cool for that. When they're teenagers, will they still think its cool, or will they think its lame because everything dad does is lame?

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This statement cracks me up.

My now 21 year old daughter got into D&D because she loved the Lord of the Rings movies. Then she decided that she liked dating geeks and one of the better ways to pick them up was to game with them (which consequently allowed me to act as DM and check out who she was dating).

She thinks it is lame that I frown upon her smoking pot, not that I enjoy RPGs.
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« Reply #54 on: December 02, 2009, 06:14:52 PM »
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This statement cracks me up.

My now 21 year old daughter got into D&D because she loved the Lord of the Rings movies. Then she decided that she liked dating geeks and one of the better ways to pick them up was to game with them (which consequently allowed me to act as DM and check out who she was dating).

She thinks it is lame that I frown upon her smoking pot, not that I enjoy RPGs.


Yeah, I have some strange disconnect with Pundit's point of view.  My Dad was an avid hunter, I was always a "more power to ya" kinda guy...but I NEVER went through a "my Dad is lame" phase, either.

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« Reply #55 on: December 02, 2009, 06:45:16 PM »
Like most of your parents, my dad was a drunken fornicator; and let me tell you, like everyone else here, I think drinking and fornicating are lame- especially fornicating- it's just icky. I mean, yeah, before the xbox 360 came out that shit was okay, but these days? Come on!
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« Reply #56 on: December 02, 2009, 06:49:20 PM »
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...but I NEVER went through a "my Dad is lame" phase, either.
As a shit-headed teenager, I thought my dad was lame for a variety of ideas and opinions he held, but never for anything he did.  And thanks to his avid interest in sailing and willingness to buy a boat and pay for moorage, thereby conditioning me to adhere to his tastes in recreation, I became a top-notch sailor as a teen.  Yeah, fuck you, Dad.

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« Reply #57 on: December 02, 2009, 07:00:32 PM »
I knew this gamer who discovered gaming because his parents gamed. He never gamed with his parents because his crew were exchanging porn tapes before rolling dice - they were other playstyle related reasons also. It's funny because the video tapes belonged to his parents too !

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« Reply #58 on: December 02, 2009, 07:58:14 PM »
I probably have but I have no way to know for sure.
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« Reply #59 on: December 02, 2009, 08:18:59 PM »
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