I was cruising around the net for something to cheer me up after hours of hammering out a paper when I stumbled on this machinima clip. I've seen some of these before, but this one really cracked me up and reminded me of our brief discussion of machinima earlier this semester. I did a couple searches and realized that the machinima world, like so much else we've looked at this semester, is much bigger than I had ever imagined. Complete with film festivals, contests, and even machinima stars such as Leeroy Jenkins--a character described as the "one icon of the WoW player, one movie from the game that most people have seen" at a conference at the University of Bergen.