The day we've all been waiting for has finally arrived. Shepiwot has made a large number of movies in his How to Paladin series, but XXX officially marks his 30th. In what is possibly my favorite one yet, he hops around, dances, and kills things to epic music, but with a special flair.
While having no plot, no style, and no substance, we wouldn't have it any other way. Shepiwot's brand of machinima is so uniquely bad that it has spawned insults, death threats, and declarations of love at the same time. It reminds me of my very first machinima, where I jumped about without a care in the world ...
(We're hijacking this little spot here to let you know that Never Stay Tuned 3 is out. Olibith informed us the other day that it's a little too naughty for this blog.)
Shepiwot is so close to Episode 30 of his How to Paladin series! Episode 29, or XXIX, finds him in Quel'danas and killing Kael'thas. At what point do you think that he'll get a lifetime achievement award? With 71 machinimas under his belt, of which none of them have been sabotaged by me, and one WCM recommendation, we definitely think that he qualifies!
(The sinister Baron Soosdon felt that Vimeo was the best quality stream, so he made me change it from the Veoh stream. Now it has a funky looking aspect ratio! However, he does not blame me for destroying his non-existant PR campaign, so it's okay.)
The year is 1985. Gnomeregan merges with Aperture Science, which causes a chain reaction, altering history forever. In 1987, they decide to install GLaDOS on a mechanistrider, which leads to a killing spree in 1989. In the distant future, only MechaMurlocs exist, except for one determined little gnome.
If you can believe it, Baron Soosdon completed this movie in one day! He was apparently inspired by an infectious tune that was mentioned in #machinima on Quakenet IRC. For more information about This Device Has Been Modified, check out his blog, but be sure to download the high quality version.
For a guy that has enough hate mail to make it into a feature length movie "best of," you wouldn't know it. Stoker just keeps on making How to Paladins. Can you believe that he's almost at HtP30?
In How to Paladin XXVIII, Shepiwot journeys to the tournament realm ... and then runs around like a madman. I have to hand it to him. When he finds a format, he sticks to it. You guys know the drill. It's the same wackiness, but a different setting. Yet we all come back to it, don't we?
I could try to explain this movie, but I'm not sure if that's possible. The first time I viewed the latest video in the How to Paladin series, my jaw was on the floor the entire time. If you have some kind of insight into what goes on in Shepiwot's head, please let me know.
Htp Insanity remix is almost six minutes of head scratching, seizure inducing machinima. He really has a gift for finding epic music and getting the timing down, but how does he come up with this stuff? Be on the lookout for his next video, How to paladin: Driven to Insanity remix. I'm kidding ... I think.
There has been such a positive response to the How to Paladin posts! I thought I'd take you back to where it all began. Shepiwot posted his first video in March 2007, shocking the community with what he described as "senseless uselessness."
On this Super Bowl Sunday, make it a Shepiwot day. I can't promise that you won't have seizures, but at least you'll have a smile on your face!
It's taken Shepiwot only 10 months to create 26 How to Paladin videos, as well as several spinoffs. He's received countless death threats and plenty of discouragement, but he keeps on going. Love or hate them, they're like an accident that you can't look away from. If I had to categorize his movies, I'd place them in the "WTF" genre.
In Episode 26, Shepiwot goes to Naxxramas. He's included everything that you've come to expect from a Shepiwotoriginal. There's epic music, epic hopping, epic cliff jumping, epic camera spinning, and epic ... epic. That's all I've got. Any guesses on when he'll reach 100?
For one glorious hour yesterday, I had the chance to chat with the great Shepiwot, of the How to paladinseries. He mentioned that he would soon start editing the 26th episode. In the meantime, he had a special treat for us while we waited.
How to paladin Crusader Strike focuses on what happens when Shepiwot finds a giant sword and decides to test out the buff to Crusader Strike. What follows is the epic account of the event. Fans will notice that this is a slight departure from the rest of the Htp series, but still quite enjoyable.
In an effort to become closer to the great paladin master, Shepiwot, Baron Soosdon has released his tutorial on "How to Boobadin" for your "Epixs Mount." It is 1 minute and 14 seconds of pure joy, set to the sweet sounds of the Guitar Hero soundtrack. Baron fans may notice that this is second time he has emulated his idol, with the first being "LOL, Lightwell."
If you're not familiar with the "How to Paladin" series, by Shepiwot, it is about a seriously ADD paladin that finds himself in a variety of PvE situations. Throw in some death threats, out of control camera action, and text presets, and you've got a recipe for a seizure, or 25 ... Whose tutorials do you prefer?
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