Everyone is familiar with Jack Chick's famous hatred of D&D:

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.ASP

But recently, THIS happened. It's almost verbatim (but there's a couple easter eggs, like the Mordenkainen reference in the start).

http://vimeo.com/17338896


This is my new favorite Dark Dungeons related thing. However, note:
http://foo.ca/wp/chick-tract-satire/darque-dungeon/

Remains excellent.

I can't bring myself to watch that. I honestly thought those things were only still on the internet as a joke... I didn't know anyone took that shit seriously anymore.

Well, Jack Chick takes them seriously.

The animation, done with his permission, is pretty obviously done by gamers. I think he likes the publicity- I'm sure he knows it's mocked constantly, it's been that way for two decades straight.

Ok, I watched it.

On one hand, it's terrible. It took over a year to do that? A quarter of the damn video time is credits. That's a very nice kitchen with nothing in it.

On the other hand, I also checked out the Boolean Union's website. It looks like they decided to mock it by just replaying it as written. That's fairly amusing.

The entirely wild presentation of the preacher at the end was great. "...don't throw them away. Burn them! We'll do that here tonight." The scene where the group stands around a bonfire of books praising Jesus was both true to the comic and ludicrous.

Agreed. I wasn't sure they were mocking it until that point when it became obvious they were treating it like another cult.

For me it was obvious at the start, with the Mordenkainen's watchdog line into ogres (it's a reference to the summoner geeks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zng5kRle4FA , of which this is a silly animation thing).

But like... it stands alone. The intentions of the creator doesn't change the end product, and ultimately just makes enjoying it ironically more delicious in this case. All historical art of note was made by people you'd think were mad today, right? Jack Chick's tracts- all of them- say a hell of a lot about Jack Chick, and are generally very amusing. Yes, it's obvious that he has serious problems with anything that he perceives as an issue for his extraordinarily conservative worldview, which is insanely everything, but I don't think it needs a satire tag to be amusing- even if it were done entirely on the square it would be hilarious. The book burning scene is in the original comic- adding it wouldn't have been fair, by the rules they were playing with. But by simply portraying it flatly...


Jack Chick, on the other hand, likely feels that anyone seeing it at all is helping his cause slightly. Jack Chick's cause isn't to glorify Jack Chick, or to persuade everyone- he's operating on a save-a-soul idealism. That's his end goal, so if ten thousand people mock him before he reaches one credulous person who converts or even changes his belief system from one Jack Chick believes would have "damned" him into one that Jack Chick believes would "save" him (ex, from one brand of Christianity to another, such as Mormonism or Catholicism to anything Protestant), he would count that as a win, right?


I think you see these things and are just saddened by how disturbed Jack Chick is, which is legit- I just think the whole thing is hilarious.


Anyway, you've already seen #1, but here's a list of some other choice picks;
http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/09/the ... llfire.php