Doesn’t Something Warcraft-y Happen Today?
Oh, I kid. The big new World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, comes out today, and it’s worth mentioning — not for WoW fans, since they’ve already taken off work and are playing the fucking game — but for the rest of us nerds who might be wondering where some of our nerdy friends have disappeared to or, alternately, why they’re dry-humping their computer monitors. It also gives me a chance to post this fan-made music video:
From PC Gamer:
The video
uploader Mr Zoddiak […] said “It took about a week of planning,
around 40 runs by myself to imagine the setup and route, an hour to
setup the raid of 26 people, around 2 hours of practice runs and
slight tweeks to placements, and a few real tries. What you see was
our? final go of the night. Over all, we had alot of fun.” Another
video is planned for the new year.
Honestly, I can’t think of a more entertaining use for World of Warcraft. And I definitely can’t think of a better use of Billy Joel music. (Via Gamma Squad)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.