{"id":3333,"date":"2010-05-05T06:45:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T10:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3333"},"modified":"2010-05-04T00:08:25","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T04:08:25","slug":"the-guild-gamers-are-funny-people-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/05\/the-guild-gamers-are-funny-people-too\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guild &#8211; Gamers are Funny People Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Felicia Day and The Guild\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/the-guild.jpg\" alt=\"Felicia Day and The Guild\" width=\"398\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m the last geek to the party on this one, but I finally got around to watching some of <em>The Guild<\/em>.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re not familiar with it, <em>The Guild<\/em> is an independent sitcom web series about a group of online gamers.\u00a0 It stars Felicia Day, who also created the series and writes it.\u00a0 Day is best known for her role on <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer<\/em> as &#8220;Vi&#8221; and <em>Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-Along Blog<\/em> as &#8220;Penny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve watched most of the first season and I find this show to be hilarious!\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not even a gamer!\u00a0 Below is the first episode, running time about 4 minutes.\u00a0 You can find the first three seasons on YouTube.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t view the embedded video below, <a title=\"The Guild episode 1 on YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=grCTXGW3sxQ\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.\u00a0 For more information on <em>The Guild<\/em>, <a title=\"The Guild\" href=\"http:\/\/www.watchtheguild.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"520\" height=\"417\"><param 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