Archive for January, 2010

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I was tipped off to Happy Anniversary by Britty. I hadn’t previously been exposed to her work, so she was relatively unknown to me. This is her fifth machinima, and she started off her notation about the video acknowledging that it’s (yet another) Evanescence-inspired WoW video. I’ll admit, I didn’t have high hopes.

Within a very short time, though, I was completely blown away. Britty’s skill for animation is very clear, and her characters are immediately accessible. She’s definitely got some amazing chops. She mentioned in her excerpt that she didn’t include any voice acting or lip synching for Happy Anniversary because she didn’t feel the story required it. I absolutely agree with her. Between the power of the imagery and her perfect timing with the music, she absolutely conveyed the narrative without any additional voices or character singing.

The video has a fairly harsh ending, which I think is appropriate given the context of the video. It’s actually a little more raw and gritty than what I was expecting to have happen, so it wins a few style points in my book. This was a great video, and I’m totally going to check out Britty’s other work More >

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is WoW.com’s weekly column for warriors. This week, we jump on the bandwagon. Matthew Rossi tends to miss jumping on bandwagons, fall, and hurt himself, followed by a lot of swearing. It’s actually somewhat entertaining to watch.

There is, ultimately, only one thing warriors actually do.

We hit things. We don’t poison them, we don’t electrocute them, we don’t burn them or freeze them or hit them with diseases or the Holy Light. We just hit them.We don’t turn into anything, we don’t stand back and let an animal hit things for us, we just plain hit things. We hit things and get angry, and we get hit and get angry about that, too.

That being said, warriors can specialize in one of two ways to hit things. One is to heft a big two handed weapon (or two of them) and hit things to death. The other is to put on the heaviest armor we can find, strap a car door to our arm, and get things to hit us as hard as they can, and then hit them back.

This week, we look at protection, the “Is that all you got? Is that it? COME ON!” spec.

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This screenshot, snapped by Vineath of <Danish Legends> on Stormrage-EU, shows fan-favorite evil troll Drakuru being slain by the Lich King (spoiler alert for anyone time traveling from December 2008!) Poor Drakuru. I only wish he could return from the dead to get his revenge. Wouldn’t that be a great ending for the final fight of Icecrown Citadel? And then Fonzie can jump over a shark.

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