Andrew and I love reading other geek blogs as much as we like writing for Therefore I Geek, and we’ve got a lot of blogs we’re personally subscribed to. Today, I would like to share a few of our favorites with you in no particular order, and perhaps add to your list of things to do instead of actually working. Continue reading
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Editorial | Sometimes All It Takes is a Letter
There was a whole lot of internet hubbub just a few months ago regarding DC’s lack of female leads in their cinematic productions. Adults have been blogging, posting on message boards, often ranting about DC’s apparent non-interest in their female audience. However, one consumer apparently did the smart thing and took her complaint straight to the source. Rowan Hansen, age eleven, took it upon herself to write to DC requesting more female action figures and leading roles in movies and TV series.
While the letter’s wording sounds suspiciously like someone a little older may have helped Rowan with some of her rhetoric (the line which reads, “Marvel comics made a movie about a talking tree and a raccoon awesome…” sounds particularly suspect), and some of her facts aren’t quite as factual as one might like (she mentions that DC doesn’t have a Wonder Woman show, but in fact there was a Wonder Woman TV show at one time–although she isn’t old enough to remember it), her decision to write this letter does highlight an important fact about geek culture and capitalism writ large: voting with money is nice, but usually has slower and more indirect results than a direct request to a producer. Continue reading
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Editorial | I Would Rather Answer to Captain Picard than Agent Coulson
A friend of mine and I were recently re-watching season one of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to catch up on the episodes we had missed. A big emphasis in the second half of the first season was Coulson’s realization that what he had been told about his brief death, resuscitation, and recovery after the Battle of New York was not the entire truth. The big reveal of what exactly happened after Coulson was killed occurred in episode eleven, “The Magical Place.” As I watched Clark Gregg’s character writhing in psychological pain, I was reminded of another captain of another group that was also tortured psychologically and physically: Captain Picard, in the famous episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called “Chain of Command, Part II.” As my friend and I concluded, I have to say that Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise is a far better leader of men than Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Editorial | Mobile Game Review: SimCity BuildIt
Nearly everyone who played PC games of any kind in the 1990s and early 2000s has played one of the iterations of SimCity. My first introduction to the game was SimCity 3000, and I spent many happy hours creating multiple cities. I learned pretty quickly that the key to “winning” that game was just to scrape by, barely making ends meet, until the city was old and populated enough to get a multiplex mall. After that, the whole thing was a piece of cake.
A promotional screen shot from EA’s SimCity Buildit website.
Now, EA Games has paired up with Track Twenty to create a mobile version of the game for both IOS and Android devices. The promo picture reminded me a lot of the promos from the Sim games of my childhood (I was addicted to The Sims as well), so I was pretty excited to try this game out. Continue reading
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