Subject: Sounds fun.
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Posted on: 2015-10-28 04:40:00 UTC

Pure Pwnage: Kind of a weird online video series that flip-flops back and forth between being a mockumentary that criticizes gamer stereotypes and a high-stakes action series that aggrandizes gamers and gives them real world superpowers. Often within individual episodes.

Contains lots of swearing and some verbal references to sex, but no nudity, and most of the violence is special effects beams. Oh, but since this is the PPC, I should also warn that the main character, liek, talks liek this, liek, all th'time, an' stuff, lol.

The web series (click the tab under the big video), which is unfortunately unfinished due to the death of one of the recurring actors. Although, it's supposed to be continued in a movie soonish.

(There's also a TV spin-off on Hulu, but I didn't find it as good, and it didn't feature any of the uber micro fantasy fighting of the web series.)

Marble Hornets: This is an amazingly well done horror series on YouTube that uses the Slender Man stories as background to an interesting psychological mystery. The camera work and editing is superb, and really sells the realism of the series. (It's sort of fourth wall breaking, as the actual YouTube accounts are also the ones supposedly being used by the characters.)

Link to the main series. (That account has just started a sequel series, so make sure to go to the end and start at the beginning.) There's also a side account (again, go back to the beginning) where another character sent messages to the protagonists. Never fear: here is a list of the two acconuts' videos in upload order, so you can watch in proper revelatory order!

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