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Free stuff! The Guild.
I've recently been reading through Cabinet de Fées' back-catalogue, catching up on the Scheherezade's Bequest issues that I hadn't yet made the opportunity to read in full. I'm planning on bringing you a free fiction post - hopefully next Friday - featuring the highlights of all nine issues of Scheherezade's Bequest, spanning 2005 to the present. There is some great work in those digital pages, and I can't wait to share with you the best.
So, since I've been caught up in that, I don't really have anything to offer in the way of free fiction this week. Instead, I'm bringing free visual content to your attention. In this case, a free web serial!
I am talking about The Guild: Felicia Day's initially crowdfunded YouTube-based webseries (now available in many more places!) starring herself, Jeff Lewis, Sandeep Parikh (to name a few) and following the real-life misadventures of a group of incredibly maladjusted and codependent people as they play a MMORPG and try, in twisted ways, to socialize.
It's satire, it's hilarious, and you'll need to be a gamer to some extent (or rather familiar with gamers) to really appreciate it. I just watched it for the first time this week myself, though I'd been vaguely familiar with its existence for some time. I'm really surprised I waited so long to check it out, given my latent gamerhood.*
If you game (mostly MMORPG) and appreciate pop culture satire and you haven't yet seen it, you should watch now:
The Guild! (Season 1, on YouTube.)
(And, hell... even if you have seen it, you should watch it again! Also: WTB merch stat!)
* Not so latent just now given the recent drop of FFXIII (anyone else here playing?). Still, the only MMORPGs I've really played to any extent were Asheron's Call, City of Heroes, and World of Warcraft. While I enjoyed the camaraderie of playing with my friends and family, I was never invested enough to keep up with them and stick to a regular gaming schedule.
This entry was originally posted at Livejournal. You can comment here or there.
So, since I've been caught up in that, I don't really have anything to offer in the way of free fiction this week. Instead, I'm bringing free visual content to your attention. In this case, a free web serial!
I am talking about The Guild: Felicia Day's initially crowdfunded YouTube-based webseries (now available in many more places!) starring herself, Jeff Lewis, Sandeep Parikh (to name a few) and following the real-life misadventures of a group of incredibly maladjusted and codependent people as they play a MMORPG and try, in twisted ways, to socialize.
It's satire, it's hilarious, and you'll need to be a gamer to some extent (or rather familiar with gamers) to really appreciate it. I just watched it for the first time this week myself, though I'd been vaguely familiar with its existence for some time. I'm really surprised I waited so long to check it out, given my latent gamerhood.*
If you game (mostly MMORPG) and appreciate pop culture satire and you haven't yet seen it, you should watch now:
The Guild! (Season 1, on YouTube.)
(And, hell... even if you have seen it, you should watch it again! Also: WTB merch stat!)
* Not so latent just now given the recent drop of FFXIII (anyone else here playing?). Still, the only MMORPGs I've really played to any extent were Asheron's Call, City of Heroes, and World of Warcraft. While I enjoyed the camaraderie of playing with my friends and family, I was never invested enough to keep up with them and stick to a regular gaming schedule.
This entry was originally posted at Livejournal. You can comment here or there.