A 16th Minute of Fame: Where are they now?
by Lisa Poisso 
Dec 29th 2011 at 6:00PM
A college choir that specializes in choral arrangements of music from video games. A Hollywood horror actress. A guy known for Moonfiring targets out of the sky. We like to keep track of all the WoW-playing friends we've met through 15 Minutes of Fame. Even the stories of folks who aren't playing WoW anymore are stories many of us can relate to, offering a glimpse behind the curtain among players you and I may very well have grouped with during the past year.
Not everyone has time to respond to a year-end retrospective (we're looking at you and your Game of Thrones shooting schedule, Hodor!), but everyone still has a story to tell. Pull up a chair and our year-end gallery and sit awhile with some friends who play World of Warcraft, too.
Who else would you like to learn more about? Leave your suggestions -- someone you know in game, someone you've heard about on your realm or read about on the web ... maybe even yourself! -- in the comments, or drop me a note at lisa@wowinsider.com or @lisapoisso on Twitter. A new year of 15 Minutes of Fame is right around the corner ... And that's 780 minutes to fill!
"I never thought of playing WoW like that!" -- and neither did we, until we talked with these players, from a player battling Alzheimer's disease to Game of Thrones' Hodor (Kristian Nairn), gaming industry insider Liz Danforth and El of El's Extreme Anglin'. Know someone else we should feature? Email lisa@wowinsider.com.
Filed under: Interviews, 15 Minutes of Fame
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gimmlette Dec 29th 2011 7:36PM
/bangs head on desk
It wasn't the Naxx special event that got you the guitar, it was in Karazhan pre-Wrath. We only had 2 guild members get the 'axe'. It's such a rare item that when Connacher hauls it out for special events, people want to know all about it.
RetPallyJil Dec 29th 2011 10:16PM
You are correct.
(Goes back to polishing her magical guitar axe)
Xabidar Dec 29th 2011 9:07PM
This.
This is why I read WoW Insider.
Yoyo Dec 30th 2011 1:17AM
Looks like almost all of the people in the gallery just stopped playing WoW .
neminem Jan 1st 2012 6:32PM
Hey, I still play! It's just the -rest- of my old guild that stopped playing :p. (Amusingly, IOOM, the guild I joined, pulls new bosses without reading strategies fairly frequently, too. Just, not from any sort of philosophical reason, more cause we're lazy :D.)
ladygamertn Dec 30th 2011 3:31AM
Not all... Spectacular Death is alive and kicking and dying ever more spectacularly under the tender loving guidance of our Dear Leader Gimmlette. (That's her up above banging her head on the desk) After the last article about SD, my hubby and I went to Llane and joined up. SO MUCH FUN!!! And the people are great! Thanks, WowInsider!!