http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9638/wowscrnshot112908180003pc9.jpg – Huge picture, 56K dare not venture in.
So in addition to my project, I’ll be taking screenshots of my daily adventures in the World of Warcraft and explaining them.
What we just did here is kill all the leaders of the Alliance in World Player vs. Player (PvP). There were a few scrubs but we managed to make it through with very few deaths.
Real life is real.
Just kidding.
My project will analyze the social aspects of World of Warcraft and how people interact in the game, using real-game analyses and YouTube videos. Also, my mage hit 80 and I’ll try to fit in a video of myself playing if my fraps (my recording device) and Windows Vista make up and decide not to battle each other when I try to use it.
The sources I will be using are Nick Yee’s Daedalus Project, WoWWiki (a Wiki on the game itself) as well as some books I’ve used in other classes relating to the subject.
Well, hope you enjoyed the comic.
I watch too much YouTube. Recently, I had replaced all my television viewing with YouTube. Sure, I still watch television, but YouTube has been kind enough (pre-Google era) to immortalize everything on television. However, since Google bought out YouTube, they’ve been deleting videos (and the very good ones, might I say) because Viacom whined like a little girl over the fact that YouTube has made television viewing more convenient. Missed that episode of House? Watch it on YouTube! Need video game trailers? Watch it on YouTube!
Ever since Viacom sued Google for $1 billion concerning copyright infringement, the viewership of YouTube (and the site quality) has gone down. However, Rick Roll, Tay Zonday and the Merciless Gladiator Athene all revived it:
The only way that YouTube will get to its original level of awesome again is if they stopped removing the good clips, seriously. I used to have 8,700 favorites on my old page; my new page has an astonishingly low 515. Thank you, Viacom, for your super-hegemonic actions against Internet media (as in your $1 billion lawsuit); now I don’t have any good videos left anymore.
And, my all-time personal favorite (I probably don’t have to warn you that it has strong language and verbal sexual content. THEY’RE ALSO FROM OAKLAND!):
Special guests include Avenged Sevenfold.
Anyone with a YouTube account can post videos; from the complete moron to scholars. (This video ranks between “completely hilarious” and “I should just quit the Internet and watch this video forever”.) This video shows that you don’t have to be a complete genius to prove a point through media; this guy shows the stupidity of certain people on Xbox Live playing Dead or Alive 4.
In conclusion, YouTube (ideally) supports all readings, whether hegemonic, negotiated, or counter-hegemonic. Unfortunately, in recent times, since Viacom watches them like a hawk over copyright infringement, they have been forced to adopt the hegemony Viacom imposes onto them.
I wish I had the old YouTube back.
Galactic Federation of Awesome 
