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Rat Cylons!

Christy
Tuesday
10:39 pm

Kind of creepy, but way ..read more

Enter Habitat, the first virtual world

Josh
Tuesday
6:49 pm

1986. It was a simpler time: Most home computers couldn’t connect to anything other than a power outlet, or if you were lucky, a daisy-wheel printer.

If you were really lucky, you had a 300-baud modem that you could connect to your local BBS, trading simple text messages with other protogeeks, or taking 45 minutes of preciously allocated phone time to download a 16-color picture of a girl in a bikini puppies.

But if you were really, really lucky, you were there in 1986, when George Lucas’ design shop and a telecom company called QuantumLink introduced Habitat: a small, but game-changing program for the most popular computer of the decade.

It was a ..read more

6 movies we’re anticipating in 2010

Josh
Monday
6:46 pm

Summer movie season not live up to its expectations? Still feeling burned by Terminator 4 and Transformers 2? Well, let’s reset the clock and get excited for what’s sure to be a whole bunch more anticipation followed by eventual letdown and heartbreak. Here are six movies coming your way soon that we’ve got our eyes on:

We’ve covered this a little on Geek6 previously, but it’s worth including this title. Despite all of the vampire saturation lately, “Daybreakers” looks to show a unique modern-day civilization where most of the population has already been turned. Humans, now in the minority, are either harvested for blood or leading ..read more

Transformers: More than your eyes can handle

Blain
Monday
4:20 pm

My wife and I went and saw T:ROTF Saturday morning, and aside from a couple of great action scenes, I honestly didn’t care what was happening by the end of the movie. ..read more

We Start Them Young

Christy
Monday
3:01 pm

On a recent visit with my family I became the proud owner of my nephew Colin’s first comic book.  Written, drawn, and then sold to a willing Aunt Christy at 4 x the asking price.  He was only going to charge me $0.25.  I gave him $1.00.  Such a bargain.  The comic book itself is quite genius, and so it should be.  Colin’s idea of a bedtime story is to read a chapter from various comic book encyclopedias such as The Marvel Encyclopdia.  And at age 3 I caught him eating his morning cereal while “reading” Wizard Magazine.  His first comic book is about Wario.  Perfect, since he spent ..read more

Nine of the best (non-RPG) geek shirts

Josh
Monday
1:01 pm

A few weeks ago, I tallied up my favorite role-playing-themed T-shirts. In wandering that corner of the Web, I ran across several non-RPG shirts. A few of my favorites are below (click the headline to visit the source).

If I wore this shirt, I’d pretty much leave it deactivated all the time, lest you be exposed to Belly of Blindness.

BET Awards 2009

Jason
Monday
9:55 am

Just a small rant here. Needed to get it off my chest. Bear with me.

Coming up through high school during the 1990s I actually really started to listen to music, to grow my music library and in general pay attention to the radio. Though my first owned music consisted of Journey, the Top Gun soundtrack and The Beatles, I quickly began to pare that down to what I would listen to over the next decade.

My collection quickly became full of west coat rap and high powered R&B. Keith Sweat right along side Snoop Dogg. But as the millennium hit, I quickly let go of the past decade with what I ..read more

Nintendo: Generations (Stupid space ribbon not included)

Joe
Monday
7:40 am

I have a friend who is a serious console packrat. He would rather sell his family into slavery on the moon (without space suits) than give up his Dreamcast or Jaguar. But for what? Their only purpose for the past decade has been to forlornly gaze at whatever new system he brings home like little Calamity Janes from Toy Story 2.

What if that could change?

The economy isn’t right for this sort of endeavor, but humor my flight of fancy. I want to see a multi-part game that spans every major Nintendo system. The storyline would begin on the NES, then go to SNES, N64 ..read more

Giving Ghostbusters II a second chance

Josh
Sunday
8:42 pm

It all started with a pair of tweets from fellow nerd and Twitter compadre @GeekParenting:

“Had a Ghostbusters double feature with the family,” followed by, “I’m a Ghostbusters 2 apologist.”

How could this be? A person whose geek pedigree I’m in agreement with *likes* Ghostbusters 2? Mood slime? The Statue of Liberty controlled by the NES advantage? Is it possible that it was just me, and the movie wasn’t as awful as I remember?

I had to find out for myself. So, cracking open my unplayed DVD of Ghostbusters 2 (part of a collection I previously described), I set out on a sleepy Sunday afternoon to watch a movie I ..read more

Partial ‘Virtuality’ review: In space, no one can hear you be blandly apathetic

Josh
Sunday
2:09 pm

Sorry for the headline — I can’t believe I went there.

I promised myself I wouldn’t go for the easy, “Alien” tagline ripoff. But would you like to know why it sits up there in all it’s orange glory, anyway? Because “Virtuality” stole half an hour of my life, and I refuse to add even more time or electrochemical brain energy attempting to that in attempts to be creative.

I feel guilt over not watching it all the way through: I’m a sci-fi, space-happy nerd, and I should support any attempt to bring sci-fi back to network TV, no matter how lame. But I just couldn’t do it. Blame Twitter, blame society, ..read more