WoW Moviewatch: A.D.I.D.A.W.
by Michael Gray 
Mar 23rd 2009 at 12:00PM
Some days, it's a little slow in the world of WoW machinima. Other days, I log in to my email and find out we're starting the week with a Baron Soosdon machinima. Which is, frankly, awesome. The good Baron got a tip about this song from his YouTube activity. He was drawn, motivated, and compelled to create a signature machinima for it. Thus was A.D.I.D.A.W. born. After hearing the music, how could you not empathize with the frenzied, holy compulsion to put gnome-to-screen for this song?
The song in A.D.I.D.A.W. is a take-off from Korn's A.D.I.D.A.S.. This musical re-creation is the brainchild of the band Electric Sex Pants. And, man, they really do hit the sweet spot for lyrics. All day I do, in fact, dream about WoW. I admit I've not been into scream metal for a while, but these guys just "did it" for me.
The video story itself is pretty awesome. I don't want to give it away, because the action is totally worth the watch. I'll summarize as best I can. Some horde are mistreating gnomes, in a wide variety of ways. But at the end, the song ends, and the abuse stops. Then, a little revenge comes their way. (No pun intended.) The graphics and animation are all clean and sharp. The action is easy to follow, and instilled with enough "whoah, cool" to make you want to reroll a Gnome.
As always, I'm thankful to the Baron for continuing the people's revolution, making gnomes cooler and cooler every day.
You can find multiple options for a video stream at the good Baron's blog.
If you have any suggestions for WoW Moviewatch, you can mail them to us at machinima AT wowinsider DOT com.
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Filed under: WoW Moviewatch, Analysis / Opinion
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Tinkerbull Mar 23rd 2009 12:12PM
Hahahahahaaa! Oh lord, my eardrums! Please, stop ''singing''.
The video is fine, but the voice is just awful. I killed three kittens while listening to it.
Siorra Mar 23rd 2009 12:20PM
Why would you do such a thing? :(
But yeah, it was a bit terrible. Some bits almost sounded like Jonathan Davis though.
Mike Mar 23rd 2009 12:34PM
You and I have a different opinion on what killing kittens means,
Ansky Mar 23rd 2009 12:27PM
I love the video, the only thing though, all day I dream about questing? D= Owning, playing, raiding even, but not questing. That's like saying "all day I dream about dailies".
Tradyk Mar 23rd 2009 12:48PM
Hey now, don't be judging. Maybe it's nightmares about questing?
I know I've had dreams about tetris before. All those blocks... that never ending stream of blocks...
Sqtsquish Mar 23rd 2009 12:31PM
Don't @^$@ with the gnomes :P
Wimpkin Mar 23rd 2009 12:34PM
That was fucking amazing everything about it....the music, video, vocals everything it trully blew me away....That Video is going to be DL'ed onto my Ipod !
Thank You WOWinsider for bringing this into my life!
Much Love From TreeStalker x
Corvus Mar 23rd 2009 1:13PM
Baron, you sir, are a god among machinima... :)
Raingod Mar 23rd 2009 12:47PM
Gnomes will never, ever, ever be cool.
Andrew R. Mar 23rd 2009 12:48PM
That movie was pure awesome for the sheer fact it had gnomes in it. Gnomes will take over the world one day.
Yogi Mar 23rd 2009 1:01PM
Couldn't finish watching this video. It was rather painful. Sorry, Baron, but this one is pretty rubish.
stevens.ce Mar 23rd 2009 1:30PM
I love nearly everything the Baron does - this was not one of them.
Ditto those above who commented on the lyrics and the singing - it would have been fine as an instrumental, but the lyrics send it off the rails, IMO. And the introduction of non-WoW elements is fine, I suppose, in limited quantities, but the sniper rifle? Why not do something more keeping with the other excellent ORIGINAL production qualities of the video - everything else is about really cool gear and then we see the sniper rifle. That was too much.
TJ Mar 23rd 2009 4:40PM
Yeah I love a lot of BS's work but he seems to have this weird thing with using guns from RL in his machinima which bothers me as well.
Arturis Mar 23rd 2009 1:41PM
The only thing that bothers me about this video is how the gnome insists on aiming with her patch-covered eye.
BaronSoosdon Mar 23rd 2009 1:50PM
There's a reasonable explanation for that.
Gnomes have this thing called vibroglycerin in their blood. It allows them to vibrate on 11 different settings, explode when punted and aim through eye patches.
xavierlives Mar 23rd 2009 2:30PM
Coincidentally, this same chemical, vibroglycerin, creates an imbalance in their doiterium gland. As we all know, the secretion from that glade is needed to be a paladin. Gnomes can shoot through patched eyes all day long, but will never follow the ways of the light.
Ametrine Mar 23rd 2009 2:48PM
She's just that leet.
Well, that, and she's not really blind in that eye - there's a pinhole in the patch she looks out of, to block out excess lighting when aiming.
Kajira Mar 23rd 2009 6:19PM
It's not a patch. It's a mono-goggle. You can see her reach up to adjust the focus in it when she shoots through the tree.
JollyBJolly Mar 23rd 2009 4:20PM
Awesome, he used "Choas Fantasy" by Paragonx during the credits.
xavierlives Mar 23rd 2009 2:11PM
and "you got rick rolled" still makes me laugh.