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My brother alerted me to this first, but “The Storm Warriors” (風雲II), the upcoming sequel to a semi-popular Hong Kong movie, is using the first 22 or so seconds of the Guild Wars theme song on their official website. For a movie with a HK$100 million budget, you’d expect them to compose their own music (unless, of course, they bought the copyright to the song / had permission otherwise)!

Here is a sample of the Guild Wars (Guild Wars Prophecies) opening theme song: DirectSong > Guild Wars > 01 – Opening Theme.

Here is the movie’s official site: Traditional Chinese version, Simplified Chinese version or English version.

This is my expression after I heard the song on the movie’s official site:

Fresh off the screen and out of the /Screens folder! The two lady gamer friends I made from a forum for lesbian gamers. Hotness!

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Because nobody asked, here’s yet another mega Guild Wars screenshot-heavy post! Non-gamers or non-GW-gamers may completely ignore this. Edit: Also, I can’t stop editing and adding new pics to this post as I find them.

As of April 11th, 2008, accounts from the Taiwan / Hong Kong / Macau region have been moved to the US servers and are no longer isolated from the rest of the world. Now we have more travelling options than ever!

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Now, this is what I call a tasteful April Fools’ joke. Qwantz.com is xkcd, xkcd.com is Questionable Content, questionablecontent.net is Dinosaur Comics (qwantz.com).

Compared to some horrible, tasteless joke…

Shutting down Taiwanese Guild Wars servers? Give me a break.

Wait. It… it’s really just a joke, right? It has to be? Please?

There’s such a thing called the Project Triangle in project management. Fast, good, cheap — pick any two.

In my computer and Internet life, there’s such a thing as Vickie’s Doomed Computer and Internet Life Triangle. Computer, Internet, time — lucky if you get any. Strongest theory of all, never failed even once. (read more…)