tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post31195940704690770..comments2023-10-14T03:58:59.333-06:00Comments on The Tao of D&D: Can It Be Cool?Alexis Smolenskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539170107563075967noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-13254688637982793722013-04-08T19:02:32.031-06:002013-04-08T19:02:32.031-06:00Sadly, as far as representatives go, the best grou...Sadly, as far as representatives go, the best group I've ever seen for D&D in media is in Mazes & Monsters...as long as you ignore the whole insane Tom Hanks thing.<br /><br />I mean the DM is a clean-cut, well-liked Freddy from Scooby Doo look-alike...there's a friendly, social girl...a social, intelligent (if quirky) guy...and Tom Hanks! None of them are super nerdy (the quirky guy is a bit but it's not too bad) and they are all socially adept college students that have other interests and apparently do well in school.<br /><br />Of course the movie then demonizes the whole thing by having Pardeux go bat-shit insane for no real intelligible reason...but, well, the movie had a message to peddle...YagamiFirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09280013813938686538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-51861579867035420122013-04-08T17:53:39.204-06:002013-04-08T17:53:39.204-06:00I always wonder when the guys on The Big Bang Theo...I always wonder when the guys on The Big Bang Theory write papers or actually do research. I also wonder at the D&D stereotypes, 2 guys in my current group were both thrown off the football team for being too violent and I had to turn down coaches trying to get me to join the basketball or the wrestling teams a few times, we weren't all uncoorinated feeble Murray Buzzinski's ( or Leonard Hoffsteaders). Some of my coworkers know I play D&D but there's a surprising number of nerds in my department ;-)<br />I've only seena handful of fair treatments of rpg over the years in the media and they also had a strong nerd vibe.<br />JDJarvishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07691101939920824546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3871409676946408069.post-3521058079681083932013-04-08T15:30:41.157-06:002013-04-08T15:30:41.157-06:00Hate Big Bang Theory. The geek/nerd-culture equiva...Hate Big Bang Theory. The geek/nerd-culture equivalent of a Minstrel Show. As the series progressed, the veil just became thinner and thinner.<br /><br />The hobby needs to be shown in a positive, healthy light. The gay analogy is not that far off at all.YagamiFirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09280013813938686538noreply@blogger.com