As you probably know, I’m a huge gamer and geek. I also live in Seattle. Which means over the next three days, I will be in absolute glee at the Penny Arcade Expo. I’m going to try my luck in the Mario Kart: Double Dash tournament and have a blast checking out all the new …
Category Archive: video games
Jun 16 2012
What video games are you looking forward to?
I’m absolutely itching to play the new Civilization 5 expansion, Gods and Kings. I’m such a fan that I’ll buy almost anything Civ craps out, but I’m legitimately excited about this expansion…because it brings back religion. I know, I know. It’s a little ironic for me to be excited about religion. But I love winning …
Feb 20 2012
RIP Borimor
Borimor the Apprentice 1/15/2012 – 2/14/2012 The video game gods are cruel when they take away our characters before our time. My boyfriend and I hoped dear old Borimor would pass away peacefully from old age (aka when we lost interest in Dungeon Defenders), but no. He was snatched away from us just shy of …
Jan 11 2012
The matriarchy is coming for your video games
Video games are no longer safe from our lady-clutches! Why, they’re starting to have female characters in them that aren’t totally worthless or in need of saving! And this has a lot of MRAs worried: I call bullshit on this subject. Video games are the last place for guys to hang out and now women …
Oct 06 2011
Kitten assimilation has begun
We’ve named her Pixel. It seems appropriate – she’s already thinking with Portals: And helping me blog: And appreciating my nerdy coffee table books: And helping out my roommate as he plays video games: She even managed to mark all of my Google Reader items as read as she pawed at my laptop. I think …
Aug 26 2011
My life is weird
As I was mulling around some indie games at PAX, a very familiar face approached me. Very familiar, because I was certain it was Jerry Holkins, the writer of Penny Arcade (“Tycho”) and half of the duo putting on the very awesome convention I was currently enjoying. “Don’t I know you?” he asked. “Uhhhhh.” I …
Aug 25 2011
The church for gamer geeks
Oh goodie. I was already super excited for PAX – my cosplay outfit is done and my Pokemon team is all ready – but now I have a new thing to look forward to. What could possibly top three days of the largest video game conference in the US? Church! GameChurch.com has a booth at …
Jul 24 2011
LAN bans women to protect them from misogynists
A LAN party for Battlefield 3 in Texas had this lovely bit of logic in its rules: Nothing ruins a good LAN party like uncomfortable guests or lots of tension, both of which can result from mixing immature, misogynistic male-gamers with female counterparts. Though we’ve done our best to avoid these situations in years past, …
Sep 20 2010
I’m ready to take over the world with Rationalism
Who else is going to waste their entire Tuesday playing Civilization 5? I’m purposefully making this post now because tomorrow I’m going to be too busy conquering the world. I’m a huge Civ fan, though I got into the series a bit late. A friend introduced me to Civ3 in high school, so I played …
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