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The Guild goes MTV

Zuke — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:47:15 +0000

How do I explain this to someone who wouldn’t immediately know what I’m talking about? Let’s see . . .

Um, so you know Firefly? The guy who made that, Joss Whedon, also made Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog. One of the actors in Dr Horrible was Felicia Day, who also has her own web-series called “The Guild”. The show is available online, on iTunes, and Xbox Live and is a humorous look at the real life misadventures of a bunch of guild-mates who all play an unnamed MMO. And somehow, this all connects to Kevin Bacon (obscure joke there).

Well, Joss has also just finished directing Ms. Day again in her new music video called “Would You Like To Date My Avatar”. If you have any inkling as to what that means, you’ll find it hilarious. If you don’t, it’s still a humorous video!

Enjoy!

The Onion vs CNN

Zuke — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:34:35 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with The Onion News Network, it’s a spoof news agency. That’s the very short version. They started out as a weekly, subscription based newspaper that could be delivered to your mailbox for a small fee. Once the internet came into its own, you could log into their site for the articles. Now, you get full videos and an actual news desk.

Typically, their articles are very witty and sharp. If you don’t know what’s really going on in the world today, you aren’t likely to get the jokes in their mocking stories.

Of course, sometimes their articles can be more believable than the real news! Looking over at CNN’s Technology section, you’d think you had gone to The Onion’s site instead:

Lab makes renewable deisel fuel from E Coli poop: huh?
Bush could weaken the endangered species act: took you eight years to figure that one out huh? He could also destabilize the world. Guess we shouldn’t elect him.
Car exhaust could be used to add horsepower: yeah, I think it’s called a turbo charger (invented in 1905). Admittedly, this is just a bad headline.
Shuttle replacement will not fly until 2014: an no facts will be given about it till two years later, evidently.
Scientists say they are closer to finding an invisibility material: however have no proof, sources, or ideas of how to prove this to the public (“See? It’s right there! In front of you!”)
Men prefer hot women, study says: No joke? Wish I had government funding to figure that one out.

I’m a level 70, and I’m proud of it.

Dr Squishy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:52:00 +0000

Last night I achieved a great moment in my young geek life. In the game World of Warcraft I achieved level 70. I’m sure that all, if not most, of you know that 70 is the current highest level in the game. While there is still much to do, I have hit the level cap.

This brings me to an interesting situation. In the normal world no one cares. If I had completed an album, or finished a painting, I could expect some type of public bragging rights if I were to share this with most of the people in my life. However as video games are still viewed by the general population as “child’s thing” it is not the same.

The other side of the geek dilema is that there are those inside of our little world who chose create a hierarchy of game greatness. A few weeks ago a coworker who I am sure has never seen a breast not in jpeg form tried to mock me for playing WoW on a non pvp (player vs player) server. One of my close friends loves to point out that his MMO is a more “grown up”, big boy game.

World of Warcraft is not the most refined of games. It has a good learning curve that allows pretty much anyone to pick up and play. With my limited time that I can really give to games these days I find it a nice break.

If I want to take up a hobby that will brutally punish me throughout hours and hours of play, I’ll play Eve: Online. However for now I’ll take my level 70 Gnome Fire Mage, and burn up Azeroth.

Just rembere my fellow geeks. It’s not what you play that counts, it just matters that you play.