Roleplaying - it's not just for straights.

[davywavy]

I blame ukporl. Even with his fluctuating gaydar, it was him who pointed out that the roleplayers in the link I posted yesterday are plainly very gay indeed. If you watch it again, you'll see he has a point - the first guy in the room obviously fancies the DM something rotten, and goes into a proper girly sulk when the other boys show up and cock-block him.
This leads me to wonder if Wizards (the publishers of D&D) and the RPGA (Role-Playing Games Association, an international body of gamers) have identified gays as the growth market for their product - after all the two most famous gamers I'm aware of, Vin Diesel and Jaye Davison, have at least had rumours attached to heir names in the past, so who knows?

If you look at the men in the animation, several things strike you. There are five of them. They fit different modern stylistic stereotypes; you have the long-haired 'arty' one, the cool black dude with a shaved head, the grungy skater, the prissy metrosexual drama queen, and so on. I can only assume that if the RPGA had made this short film about the pleasures of gaming with the boys twenty-five years ago, the gamers would have been dressed as an Indian, a traffic cop, a construction worker, a biker and a sailor.
And with that mental image, I suddenly feel a song coming on!

Young man, there's no need to feel down.
I said, young man, pick yourself off the ground.
I said, young man, 'cause you're in a new town
There's no need to be unhappy.

Young man, there's a place you can game.
I said, young man, where they're cool and not lame.
You can play there, and I'm sure you will find
Many ways to have a good time.

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.

They have everything for young men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys.

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.

You don't need to be clean,
You can eat takeaway,
You can play all night and day.

Young man, are you listening to me?
I said, young man, what do you want to be?
I said, young man, you can make real your dreams.
But you've got to know this one thing!

No man does it all by himself.
I said, young man, take your books off the shelf,
And just go there, to the RPGA
I'm sure they can help you today.

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.

They have everything for you men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys.

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.

You don't need to be clean,
You can eat takeaway,
You can play all night and day.

Young man, I was once in your wack.
I said, I was down with nowhere to hack.
I felt no man roleplayed any more.
I felt the whole world was a chore...

That's when someone came up to me,
And said, young man, take a walk up the street.
It's a place there called the RPGA
They can start you back on your way.

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A.

They have everything for young men to enjoy,
You can hang out with all the boys ...

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A
Young man, young man, there's no need to feel down
Young man, young man, pick yourself off the ground

It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A
It's fun to play at the R-P-G-A
Young man, young man, are you listening to me?
Young man, young man, what do you wanna be?

R-P-G-A
You'll find it at the R-P-G-A
No man, young man, does it all by himself
Young man, young man, get your books off the shelf

R-P-G-A
Then just go to the RPGA
R-P-G-A
Young man, young man, I was once in your shoes
R-P-G-A
Young man, young man, I said, I was down and out with the blues.
R-P-G-A


It's worrying how little editing that song needs to make it appropriate. And if you sing this whilst trying to do R-P-G-A actions, as I was last night, you'll find it impossible to do the "G" without looking like a screaming willy-wufter.

Comments

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

I thought they were more like the default group of "cool guys" who you get in every teen horror movie. Any second now the boy who they used to make play the halfling was going to return from the dead and kill them one by one.

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

Nope. Clearly gay. Super gay. Liberache gay even.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

So does that mean that the "cool guys" in horror movies are also gay?

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

In my dreams, yes.

[vulgarcriminal.livejournal.com]

And sadly, the black man will be the first to go.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Unless he's Sam Jackson, in which case he will be eaten by a shark about half way through.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

That movie fascinates me. It's not about sharks... it's about a scientific test of the laws of horror.

e.g. Black man always dies, Man with pet always lives. What happens to a black man with a pet? A: Black man lives, pet dies.

Black man always dies, Star always lives. What happens to a Star Black man? A: Star black man dies, but not immediately

Evil scientist always dies. Cute chick lead always wins. What happen to a cute chick evil scientist? A: Dies at end.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*giggles*
Not busy at work today, then?

[ukporl.livejournal.com]

"I blame ukporl."

Most people do.
Vin Diesel is a gamer? *Droooooool*

I like the term 'cock-block' though. I'm gonna use that.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I always assumed it was a term which was invented by gays; it's the art of deliberately hanging about like a lemon to ruin your mate's chances of pulling.

It's obvious that ......

[lapinenoireuk.livejournal.com]

You have WAY too much time on your hands (grin)

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

the two most famous gamers I'm aware of, Vin Diesel and Jaye Davison

Also Robin Williams, David Bowie and... God my mind's gone blank. The long-haired guy from Queen who isn't Freddie Mercury. That guy. All three of them either play or used to play Warhammer 40,000.

I've seen photos of Williams in his local Games Workshop store, with the staff.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Fun fact: Bowie played Eldar.

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the Queen guy played Space Orks. And apparently is infuriatingly good.

Also, Billy Crystal.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Good heavens, I didn't know that. But you'd expect Bowie to play an elf, wouldn't you?

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

I'm just trying to imagine him hunched over a worktable painting a shuriken cannon. While Iman gets angrier and angrier.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

"David, darling? Are you coming...to bed...?"*licks lips*
"Not now, love, the orcs have just broken through my shield wall."

[old-corbie.livejournal.com]

Actually, she plays too. At my old job you could see through their window from the roof garden

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

You're.

Kidding.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

Brian May

[patchworkkid.livejournal.com]

That's the one.

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

"And if you sing this whilst trying to do R-P-G-A actions, as I was last night, you'll find it impossible to do the "G" without looking like a screaming willy-wufter."

I'm almost certain you're not trying to suggest one can do any of the actions whilst singing this without looking like a screamig willy-wufter. But you may wish to clarify.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

R, P and A are just about do-able in a 'look at me, I'm being silly and camp but in a heterosexual kind of way' kind of way.
G is just walking arse-banditry, no two ways about it.

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

So I decided to see what davywavy and ukporl were on about.
So I watched it.
Two lines...

"Suck it up boys!"
and
"Do ya want a cookie?"

So fucking gay! Jeebus H Cripes the interlude had to be a hot frickin' four way!
So, whose the bitch?