The Smartest of us call it “Gameception.” It is when you are playing a video game only to stumble on another and different video game INSIDE that other video game. Often times, you can play it, too. Yes, you can play the video game that is inside the video game you are playing. That is […]
When people think geeks and gaming, they often associate the name with video games. But what a great many onlookers don’t realize is that many board games also have factored into our utter geek fandom. In other words, when not controlling pixels or polygons, these games are the next place you were likely to find […]
The funny thing about high fantasy and medieval novels is, when we read them, we still think we wish we lived in that world based on their tropes (and swords). Truth is, we don’t. If you stop to take a moment to think about it, your life span would probably be freakishly short in such […]
Breakups suck. That is something most people can universally agree upon. In our current world of social media it is even worse because, often, we wear our relationships on our sleeves through the photos and statuses we share. One man named Matthew Swarts had a bad breakup recently and found moving on difficult, so he […]
Nerds on TV have always been sort of hit-or-miss. You either see a show where a nerd is properly represented, or you see a character like Urkel, who epitomizes everything pop culture has wrong about nerds. Thankfully, over the last decade (with the meek inheriting the Earth and all), the way nerds have been represented […]
Being Rogue from the X-Men seems more like a curse than a blessing. Yes, she can get people’s powers and do some really cool stuff with them, but outside of that, she can never touch anyone. While the best of us geeks can relate to that somewhat, we know it to be a daunting life […]
Even nerds can be curmudgeons. David Wahl yearns for the good old days as he writes about how networking has changed science fiction fandom. Blame the convention, which allowed fans to get together and see just how many fans there were. Sure, we were all excited to find we weren’t alone in our devotion to […]