Guild'ed

I realize I’m going to lose 75% of the people reading this once they read my next sentence, so thank YOU for reading on anyway (yea I have some stats on the number of people who visit the blog and it’s pretty much just you). I am really enjoying an internet distributed micro-TV show about a group of people who play a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG).

Seriously, it’s called “The Guild” and it is funny. The series basically starts when Zaboo (his in game name) shows up on the doorstep of his fellow player’s apartment; she goes by the name Codex. They’ve never met in real life (IRL) but Zaboo appears with flowers, professes his love for Codex, and opens his laptop to join the game again. This prompts Codex to call for a guild (the group of people she regularly games online with) meeting IRL. That is where the real charm of this series shines through; watching the members of the guild deal with the real world and their real selves rather than the online avatars they’ve been hiding behind.

This show is not a major time commitment as most of the episodes run about 5 or 6 minutes. Therefore I think you owe it to yourself to check out the first episode at the very least. The humor on this web series really is on par with that of the best that television has to offer. While the characters in “The Guild” are all obvious caricatures of real people they all fun and endearing in their own special way.

There are a variety of ways you can view this web series. The easiest thing to do is go http://bit.ly/PEIXp where you can find all the episodes in seasons 1 and 2 streaming for free. If you feel that going to “The Guild’s” official website is too much of a commitment and would simply like to dip your toe into this quirky universe you can head over to Youtube. That way if someone notices you watching a video about people who play MMORPG’s you can simply explain that you meant to watch a video of a cat on a skateboard but this popped up instead, and you are too lazy to click off it. The third way to get this show and the only way to get season 3 episodes at this point is to download them via the XBOX 360. XBOX financed season 3 and therefore gets first dibs on distribution but these episodes will eventually find their way to the other outlets as well.

Now's a good time to watch with most comedies still in reruns for the next few weeks!