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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5054822" data-attributes="member: 8158">Honestly, the low-hanging-fruit approach seems to be all the rage with gaming media. First we had Knights of the Dinner Table--which was very fresh and clever in its day--then it snowballed into other cartoons like Dork Tower and then films like Gamerz, The Gamers, and the follow-up, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. And let's not even get into the supposedly "hilarious" Gaming Night, where the low-hanging fruit is officially touching the ground.By the way, anyone out there wanting to do some work in this direction, please take note that conflating the word "dark" with "dork" is officially played out.That's not simple, that's simplistic. There are plenty of documentaries about fringe activities that present the participants in an even-handed, well-rounded fashion, and those documentaries are vastly more entertaining than some shallow depiction of buffoonery because they let you make up your own mind about whether these people are to be admired or scoffed at. Check out Murderball and Okie Noodling to see documentaries about fringe sports done right. A lot of folks don't get the appeal of gaming, and it would be a great thing for a documentary to open that world up to them, rather than just expose them to extreme cases of borderline dysfunctional personalities.</blockquote>