/AFK The Release

Well last night /afk came out. For those who haven't seen it, I will include it at the end of this post after I talk about my thoughts on the movie.

The movie is about a quest by the character named Piet to solo Onyxia before he quits the game. The movie itself has dramatic moments but it is very much a comedy. I enjoyed it. It plays to the gamer in if you play WoW or not. Sure the director and writer(Benjamin Dressler) uses some of the stereotypical gamer references, but he does it in a way that it is not insulting to gamers alike. He does it for the comedic factor and to get you to understand the position our friend Piet is in.

I often found myself cheering him on and laughing at him for some of those trademark gamer moments. All the actors involved did a great job at filling their role and telling the story. This is the first movie that I have seen that has linked Machinima and actual movie footage with this quality of work. Although I am sure I will get a bunch of information back telling me that I am full of crap.

So watch the movie tell me what you think and be sure to give Benjamin Dressler the credit he deserves for creating a great film on the minimal resources he had. Well done sir, well done.

/afk

So there is a movie coming out and I really don't know how to think about it. Let me link you the teaser and the official trailer and then go from there.

The Teaser



The Trailer



It is a film and is described by the creator as

"/afk is a short film to be released on November 19th. It is real, it is fictional and it's virtual. And it is about World of Warcraft."

I am actually very interested to watch it, but I honestly have no idea why. I am not sure if it is supposed to be funny or serious or both. Maybe that is why I want to see it because I want to find out what it is all about. Maybe it is because I am just too interested in anything to do with Warcraft no matter what it may be. Or maybe I just want a Gauss movie. Now that would be something! Ok maybe I am exaggerating. As always I will check this out and let you all know what I think. Now go save Azeroth from those elementals!

You Fail At Pretending To Be AFK If...

It's Tuesday so it's time for you fail! I know you are all excited and to all those people who say I cannot keep coming up with topics, are you kidding me? So much fail going around I could do this everyday. Let's get down to it because I know everyone is excited.

You Fail At Pretending To Be AFK If...

• You have your afk tag on and the person you are trying to fool can see you jumping around
• You think you are talking in binds, but you're not
• You are online with an afk tag for over 15 minutes
• Everyone can see you have done 2 different instances
• You send a misstell to the person you were trying to ignore
• You're talking in trade
• Your excuse is less believable than Bigfoot
• You try to put on the tag in a BG and didn't know you would be ported out
• You complain because you died unaware healers cannot see your health while afk
• You are switching back and forth between toons with the tag on...
• You say in your afk message "i am not afk"
• You are unaware that bio breaks don't take 2+ hours. Well unless you're special.
• You left your mic open and we can hear you watching porn and saying how you're not really afk.
• You lost a duel and used being afk as a reason.

and finally

• You're a ret pally saying you have to say goodnight to your girlfriend.

Free Loot Tuesday and new bosses. Bring on the Lich King!

For The AFK

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