The Guild is a webisode series about a group of very different people, all of whom participate heavily, humorously so, on an interactive online game. In class, we watched a series of short episodes, all of which joked about the individual gamer's dependency on the game, as well as each characters' dependence on this virtual group that they seem to be a part of.
Felicia Day, both the creator and main character of the web series, has done a terrific job of showing people outside the gaming circle what these kind of relationships are like. For me, someone who does not even accept Facebook requests from people I do not know, let alone talk to strangers online, I was really interested not only in the humor of the series, but they way it touched on the way the group communicated with one another -- how their personalities were conveyed through their avatar, the experienced each of them felt when they met in person.
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