Since our change in programming, Tracy and I have been debating what to do in the event of a fifth Friday in the month. In the end we decided to review various geek products and services. It gives us a chance to enhance our geeky lives, and lets you find out if things are worthwhile, without having to drop that oh-so-precious cash only to be disappointed. This month we’ll be talking about Loot Crate.
Category Archives: Geek Life
Therefore I Geek Reviews…Loot Crate
Filed under Andrew Hales, Geek Life, Product Review, Service Review
NYCC’s Lackluster Response to Ticket Problem
Anyone who has been following the blog for more than a few weeks has probably realized that New York Comicon is one of my favorite events of the year. NYCC is responsible in no small part for my current level of geekiness and the existence of this blog. Every year I look forward to the panels, exhibitors, sense of geek community and most of all, a weekend of unadulterated geeking out with my friends. This year however, it looks like I will be venturing to NYCC alone.
Now to be completely fair, I won’t be there entirely alone. There will be nearly 130,000 other geeks attending the convention alongside me, making NYCC one of the largest geek events in the country. By comparison, San Diego Comic-Con clocked in around 133,000 people last year, making it only slightly larger than NYCC 2013. It’s also likely that one or two of my friends will manage to acquire a ticket through various means—though that is by no means assured. The root of this issue is not that my friends are slackers or were caught unaware, but that there have been some pretty serious ticketing issues surrounding NYCC this year. This year, when three day and single day passes went on sale the NYCC website crashed. As a result of this crash, many people who were in the process of buy tickets were locked out and therefore unable to purchase the tickets that were already in their cart. Certainly hundreds and likely thousands of people were denied the ability to buy tickets. Continue reading
Filed under Andrew Hales, Events, Geek Life
Editorial | Victims of Cosplay
It’s been one full week since San Diego Comic-con, the mother of all comic book conventions, and in the middle of all the wonderful stories of sneak peeks, exclusive merchandise, and chance encounters with geeky celebrities was a very sad story about a young cosplayer who was found with severe injuries immediately after the con. While it turned out that her injuries were actually the result of a fall, and not the assault that was considered a possibility when the news first broke, the one thing that stood out for me in all of the uproar was a phrase by a comic-con message board user, “I saw her early in the day and she looked really happy and upbeat, but I then saw her around 3 or 4 pm around the convention center and she was covering herself up and looked stressed.” Continue reading
Filed under Editorial, Geek Life, Tracy Gronewold
Guest Blog | In Defense of Games in the Modern Age
I have had the fortune of growing up alongside the gaming industry. I have seen games advance from board games, to Pong, to Warhammer 40k and The Last of Us. What I never overlooked was that the games I played were compelling and full of possibility. During this relatively short history, games have been relegated to the domain of children, which is understandable. However, I champion the idea that games can be a valid tool for expanding a person’s worldview by exposing him to foreign ideas and culture. Books have long been lauded as the escape and education medium of choice, and rightly so. The nuance of word choice and the tone and meter of the author combine with the reader’s imagination to create compelling worlds to which he can escape and characters to which he can escape. However, video games can offer a similar experience, while allowing the player to feel in control of the story, at least to a degree. More than that, video games can expand players’ understanding of the world, cultures, and even themselves. Human history is told in stories. What more is a video game than an interactive story? Continue reading
Filed under Gaming, Geek Life, Guest Blog, Kurt Klein
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