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Post by DMC on Mar 6, 2015 20:55:14 GMT
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Post by joatmoniac on Mar 6, 2015 21:22:50 GMT
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Post by DMC on Apr 9, 2015 16:52:22 GMT
Those Zombie Orpheus guys are great. I'm friends with a few of them on FB, and Gamers: Dorkness Rising is one of my all-time favorite flicks. PS - Sorry for the late reply. I was out sacrificing goats with my cult and didn't have access to a computer.
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Post by joatmoniac on Apr 9, 2015 17:32:46 GMT
I agree that Gamers: Dorkness Rising makes its way towards the top of my movie list. The ZOE guys are awesome, had some contact with Brain Lewis and he is super cool. All of their content is great, and I'm excited to see them keep getting bigger.
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Post by Samuel Wise on Apr 9, 2015 19:50:31 GMT
Luckily, His Dark Materials took a lot of glaring eyes off D&D. How are the Gamer movies? I have not seen any of them and I am not one hundred percent sure I would enjoy those. Has anyone seen the 1980 show featuring Tom Hanks: Mazes and Monsters? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazes_and_Monsters
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Post by DMC on Apr 10, 2015 15:15:50 GMT
How are the Gamer movies? I have not seen any of them and I am not one hundred percent sure I would enjoy those. You should. I can't tell you how many times I laughed, saying "That happens at my table too!" LOL A new one out is also called "Zero Charisma". tribecafilm.com/tribecafilm/filmguide/zerocharisma
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 17:02:48 GMT
Haven't seen Gamers, but Zero Charisma was great. The ending even opened my mind to DMing for others outside my usual peer group.
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Post by joatmoniac on Apr 10, 2015 20:32:39 GMT
I agree that Zero Charisma was really good. It was a solid take on what could actually happen. I wrote a review on it for a website I used to write for. I also had generated a list of movies based on board games for the series, and will share it with you all now! www.dropbox.com/s/am54x1log1s3lm4/BWH%20Movie%20List.xlsx?dl=0
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Post by DMC on Apr 10, 2015 21:56:10 GMT
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Post by joatmoniac on Apr 10, 2015 22:14:04 GMT
Yeah, pretty much everything Dead Gentleman or Zombie Orpheus has done is broken up into slightly episodic versions on their Youtube channel.
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Post by DMC on Oct 27, 2015 22:11:19 GMT
Article from 1985. To me the last sentence sums it up perfectly. Parents in grief, trying to make sense out of tragedy, want something easy to point to. And while this may sound controversial, they don't want to look at their own involvement in their kids lives, or lack thereof, and find fault in themselves.
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Post by joatmoniac on Oct 27, 2015 22:37:45 GMT
What's really blowing my mind is that their battle mat looks just like the one I bought from Chessex a couple years ago. Love the old school minis in the shots too. Mmmmmm lead. In the last paragraph where it states "to include a warning ..." as I would love to see that in full context. Very interesting read, thanks for the post.
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Post by Tesla Ranger on Nov 11, 2015 1:23:11 GMT
I've assumed that D&D had just had a place in the long line of scapegoats back through history. Long before comic books, violent movies, video games, or loud music it was "racy" poetry, newspapers, etc "ruining" the next generation. It's an insanely old argument that comes round again and again though, to my knowledge, there's never been any evidence to support the idea that any form of media is inherently corruptive.
It may be apocryphal but I recall reading that the FBI conducted 12 separate investigations in the 80s-90s into whether or not satanic cults (supposedly inspired by D&D) were abducting children for use in their rituals. Even with all the kids that go missing in the US they weren't able to discover any incidents that could have been linked to cults (much less D&D). I'm not sure if that's exactly true, but I have no problem accepting that the risk was being greatly exaggerated.
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