When you live like I do

Webseries: Dragon Age: Redemption

Dragon Age: Redemption is a web series made by Felicia Day, based on the game with the same name.

Dragon Age II is a fantasy RPG developed by BioWare's Edmonton studios, and published by Electronic Arts. It is the second major game in BioWare's Dragon Age franchise. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Mac OS X on March 8, 2011 in North America, March 10, 2011 in Australia and March 11, 2011 in Europe.
Set in the same mythical world introduced in Dragon Age: Origins, the player assumes the role of Hawke, a human mage, warrior, or rogue who arrives in the city of Kirkwall as a lowly refugee but becomes its legendary champion over a turbulent decade of political and social conflict.
Source: Wikipedia

Although I have never played this game, I really enjoyed this web series. It kind of reminded me of playing D&D roleplaying games, which I have done for over 10 years. I like the world, the creatures were well made, and the actors were awesome of course. I also really liked to see the character relations, and the character development.

If you want to see this series I recommend you go to Felicia Days YouTube page and see her commentaries between the episodes. You get some background story, some trivia and her thoughts about each episode.
The link to the first commentary is right here: Ep1 Commentary

But I will post the first episode here also, in case you want to see it and judge if you want to see the rest: 

YouTube: Cosmo Jarvis - Gay Pirates

I was shown this video by my extra brother a few nights ago. It's such a cute song!! Totally breaks my heart!

 

YouTube: Ylvis

If you are from Norway, you know who the Ylvis brothers are. If you don't you have been living in a shed in the woods with no TV or radio or internet.

If you are not Norwegian you wouldn't understand what they are saying, since they are speaking Norwegian on their shows. But they have made something in English also. So here are the non Norwegians chance to see and hear how hilarious they are:

YLVIS - WORK IT

YouTube: Doctor Who Cast and Crew

As you probably already know by now I'm watching the Doctor Who series at the moment. I'm only on season two yet, and still trying to get used to the new Doctor.

So I was sitting on my computer playing games and listening to a podcast I'm trying out called Geek Chicks, and they were talking about a funny YouTube video made by the cast and crew of Doctor Who. I saw it, and thought it was funny, so here you are.

Ps. I will try to do the blog daily again starting today. I'm starting to get better, so now I have no excuses.

 

YouTube: ElfQuest - A Fan Imagining

Oh my god oh my god oh my god!!

I am in love with the graphic novels of ElfQuest and have been ever since I was very little. I will write more about this graphic novel later. But I was listening to the podcast Geekshow, which I will also write about later, and they had an interview with Wendy Pini, the creator of ElfQuest. She said they are talking about a movie, but they have been for years, so nothing is set in stone. But there is this YouTube video that is a fanmade trailer made by a group of actresses. When Wendy Pini mentions it it must be good, so I saw it, and loved it!! And it also inspired me to reread the whole series. And I can, online (I only have the first parts yet in paperback). They have posted all of the story online for free here: ElfQuest.com

So while waiting for me to do reread and write about it, watch the fan trailer:

 

Webseries: The Guild

I started watching The Guild a year or two ago, and I got totally hooked. I had never seen a web-series before, and I loved the concept. And I loved the topic also. I have played WoW, although I never was a big guild player, so I knew the basics of what they were all about.
By the way: I love Felicia Day, the main creator and star of the show, and I will dedicate a whole post to her later on, so I won’t go on about that here.

The Guild is a independent sitcom web series about a group of online gamers. The show started in the late summer of 2007, and for the first season was financed solely by Paypal donations from LOYAL FANS. Since season 2, The Guild has been distributed by Xbox Live and Microsoft and sponsored by Sprint.
Episodes vary from 3-8 minutes in length, and follow the Guild members’ lives online and offline.
“The Guild” has won numerous awards, including the SXSW, YouTube and Yahoo Web Series Awards in 2008, and 3 Streamy Awards in 2009: Best Comedy Web Series, Best Ensemble, and Best Actress for Felicia Day.
Source: Watchtheguild.com

The Guild is about a group of very different people gaming together as a guild in a game called The Game. Before the series starts they have never met, and are not especially interested in each other’s private lives. All that matters is the guild. That changes when Codex, the main character, gets one of the guild members on the door telling her he’s going to sleep on her sofa because he just moved out of his mother’s house. This is the start of the funny and weird adventure where the guild members get to know each other in person, and eventually become friends. There are of course many other things that happens in the show too, but that would be spoilers. And I try not to do them too much on this blog.
What I can say is that as the show grows they have a lot of good geeky cameos and guest stars. Some of my favorites is Wil Wheatons recurring role, and the cameos of Neil Gaiman and Stan Lee.

So all that is left to say is that if you haven't seen it, here is the first episode of season 1. See it, enjoy it, get totally hooked.

 

YouTube: Christopher Walken reads "Poker Face"

There is not much to be said...

 

YouTube: Rock And Roll Nerd

He is weird, he is cute, he is funny, he's got unlikely hair, he is Tim Minchin!
This song is one of the cutest I know! It is worth a share for all my sweet geeks/nerds out there. And for those who just likes a funny guy with a piano.

 

YouTube: A Day at the Office

 

There's not that much to say about this video except that I found it hilarious. Another one in the series of my YouTube favorites. It is definitely worth to watch!

YouTube: Hufsa/The Groken

 

When I was little, we all used to be sooo afraid of The Groke/Hufsa from the TV-series The Moomins/Mummitrollet . And even though it's probably like 20 years ago, I still get the creeps when I see her. That's why I had no problem understanding the motivation of the person who made this fake movie trailer about her.