As a former addict to World of Warcraft, I (and to some degree, my wife) could immediately relate with the characters and had us laughing throughout. The script is quality.

Here’s the first episode:

Episode 1

There are currently 3 episodes (with more in the making) and a gag reel. Check them out here:

• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Gag Reel 1

I just found out from the official The Guild Site that episodes 4 and 5 just gained funding so those should be out at some point soon! w00t! I need to go donate :D

The song is by Jonathan Coulton, a rocker that seems to understand the life of a love-struck code monkey. I headed over to his site and found that I like a lot of his stuff. He’s got a great sound and his songs appeal to my taste :) To top it off, he quit his life of being a programmer in 2005 to pursue music and has done a bang-up job in my opinion. A lot of funny and geeky tunes. Of note are:

• Code Monkey
• Re: Your Brains
• Skullcrusher Mountain
• Baby Got Back (His own twist on the song…awesome)
• Mandelbrot Set
• A Laptop Like You

Etc, etc, etc. I like a lot more of his stuff (which he calls ‘well crafted geeky folk-pop). The best thing of all, he offers the songs for purchase from his store DRM-free! I will definitely be buying a number of them to add to my collection. Definitely worth a listen.

UPDATE:
Ok. So I like this dude’s stuff. I’ve forked over the cash and bought all his songs. w00t. Geekly songs abound (and some non-geeky ones). I have also found another very well done video rendition of “Code Monkey” done anime style with footage from “Black Heaven“. I figured I’d share it here too. Here it is:

I, for a time, was spiraling down towards addiction to the game when it was first released…if I had not been married at the time, I’m quite sure my life would have suffered with the addiction. There are a few people I know that are quite thoroughly enthralled by WoW that they spend gobs and gobs of time playing, sometimes forfeiting time with friends and family to opt to raid. It is fun, don’t get me wrong, but there is a balance that needs to be reached and many just don’t have the willpower to draw that line.

I am one of those people. I can’t play a game like that without getting fully involved…I thrive on that type of thing…so steering clear is the best bet. Thanks to Randy I’m a board game geek now and spend time playing Euro Games when I’m not doing stuff with my wife or programming or screwing around with EatPoopUCat.

Not everyone can pull themselves away, though…MMO addiction is sadly a reality. How much longer before we begin having Interventions for addicted gamers?

Wow. Just wow. Here’s the dude’s video:

What is it exactly? Well, its a map of World of Warcraft that you can zoom in and out on Blizzard’s wonderful MMORPG world with the familiar controls of Google’s mapping tool. MapWoW gives a good description on what can be done with the tool:

Overall, a fairly groovy mashup with a lot of functionality for World of Warcraft! Awesome.

UPDATE: It seems the guys at MapWoW have an Outland map as well. w00t!

My new love in minimized data display in a sexy-little-bar format? FuBar. Why? Well…its basically the same mod with a slightly uglier texture behind it…but it has one amazing benefit that sold me on first use. You can have more than one bar!!!!! There’s a bit more than that so I’ll list FuBar’s features below:

• Drag and drop rearragement of plugins.
• Any plugin can exist on left or right.
• Automatically adjust frames (can be turned off)
• Any number of bars (not limited to just 2), you can attach to the top, bottom, or detach any amount you want.
• Can detach a tooltip and pin it to the UI.
• Object-oriented design.
• LoadOnDemand capabilities for plugins.
• Modularity (absolutely no plugins are intimitely connected to the core)
• Minimal resource usage
• Lots of handy features for developers.
• Well documented API.
• Skinning support
• Can change the thickness, font size, transparency, spacing through simple sliders on the right-click menu.
• Can place plugins on the minimap, which will function like standard minimap buttons.

Yet another mod you should adopt.

Amazing descriptions to live by. Thank you. That is all.

Enter Wowhead. (Yes, that’s the correct spelling)

What is Wowhead? Its basically a sexy-looking Thottbot. It provides:

• A clean and usable interface
• Colors that more closely jive with the feel of WoW
• Item/Profession/Class information
• Embeddable Talent Calculator (you can put the calculator on your site)
• Periodic contests

What is really exciting at Wowhead is that they plan to create a set of APIs for Developers. I have some ideas that I’d love to accomplish with WoW data, however, it would seem silly to re-create the wheel and create my own Thottbot/Wowhead. Creating a WoW mashup would be much more desirable. I’ll be watching and waiting with fingers crossed.

Here are the features:

• Health/Mana Bars colour levels.
• All Bars are animated.
• Shows Level, Name, Class and Elite/Boss, Pet, NPC.
• 4 Alpha Settings for: Combat/Target selected/No Target/Player is regging.
• 4 Displaymodes for Health/Mana.
• Many positioning and Scaling Options.
• Hide Blizzard Player/Targetframe.
• Target Menu with Leftclick on Targetname.
• Player Menu with Rightclick on Playername.
• Castingbar with Cast-time.
• Option to hide Petbars.
• Option to hide Targetbars/Text.
• Load-on-Demand configuration display.
• Target’s Target display – click to switch to that target.
• Aggro alert – audible and visual warnings.
• Target PvP status.
• Self PvP status.
• Status icons for Rested, Combat, Raid leader, and Loot Master.
• Target distance display.
• Support for Mobhealth, Mobinfo2, and Mobhealth2.
• FlightMap support.
• myAddons Support.
• FuBar Support.

So what’s the use of MetaHUD? You’ve got your health and the mob’s health at the top left of the screen as per the default World of Warcraft interface. Well, thats the problem. I play with a high resolution and a small UI which places that information at the far top-left of the screen, well away from the center of the screen. In tight situations, the act of pulling my eyes from the center of the screen – however easy that seems – can be the death of your character. You know…that idiot Alliance Rogue that’s creeping around to back-stab you and had your eyes remained in the center of the screen rather than checking your target’s health – you would have seen the little bastard appear for a split second and you could have reacted appropriately, pwned him, and continued on your merry way. But no. You find yourself pissed, dead, and rezzing at a graveyard.

Thats why MetaHUD is useful. Stop crying and download the mod. You can thank me later.