I never thought it would happen, but I can finally relate one of my favorite TV shows, South Park, to a class discussion/assignment. As I was going through my library of TV shows on iTunes, I stumbled upon one of my favorite episodes entitled, Make Love, Not Warcraft. This episode is basically a parody on the popular game The World of Warcraft. It depicts the lives of many addicted MUDers and it shows just how seriously some people can take the game. To describe the plot of the episode in short, a 40ish year old man with, "absolutely no life," has taken over the game by reaching a previously thought unreachable level of strength and is going around the game killing everybody in it. To stop him from taking over the game, the main characters need to train and stop the evil gamer.
I think the episode does a great job exposing one point of view of MUD's and the World of Warcraft. It nearly addresses every issue we talked about for the first two weeks of class. I personally think this episode is one of the best South Park episodes of all time and i think that everybody would get a kick out of watching it. If you have seen this episode, i would be interested in hearing your reactions to it.
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Yeah that was a pretty hilarious episode. Though exaggerated, I think it did a good job showing how rediculous some of the time invested into these video games can be. However it did show of the benefits of the game with Stan becoming closer with his father as his father hands him the "sword of a thousand truths" in the last epic battle.
The episode also shows how machinima like Red vs. Blue is becoming more mainstream.
I love the fat guy who does nothing but eat chips and PK newbs. They play to the stereotypes well when they all begin their quest to level up on deer and live in Cartman's basement for weeks on end. I can only hope that no one actually has their mother bring them a bucket to use as a toliet.
I also think it was a great episode and yeah it was more of an exaggerated situation for sure, but there are people who devote the majority of their time playing these kinds of games. You can actually watch the episode here http://tv-links.co.uk/South%20Park_links.html#South%20Park_10 It's episode 8 of Season 10. I would definetly recommend it since it is funny but also does relate to some of the topics we discussed in class.
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