Archive for the ‘Geekism’ Category
I used to think it was just fundamentalists who allowed their stupid fantasies to get in the way of the health and well-being of their children. Apparently, I was wrong.
A couple in Korea, Kim Yoo-chul, 41, and his partner Choi Mi-sun, 25, spent their lives in a virtual world, caring for their virtual infant. The [...]
I happened to catch the beginning of an episode of X-Files earlier today and in it, they had a bunch of kids playing a laser combat game. That reminded me of my time playing Photon back in the mid-80s. Way back in the day, there were gaming centers that you could go to and play [...]
I got into a discussion with someone about movies, but we were soon talking about tastes in general and why I find myself disliking so much of the Hollywood output. I realized after the discussion that these can easily be applied to books, games, etc. and still have the same impact so I thought I’d [...]
I’m really loving a lot of the Muppet videos that are going up on YouTube, they’re genius and they show that the gang really understands what the net is all about. This is an especially good one, where Beaker tries to do a song and immediately gets trounced by ridiculous comments. They have YouTube pegged!
We all know the Japanese are a strange bunch sometimes and I’m sure they say the same about us, but sometimes, they just cross the line into unmeasurable oddness. Take this audition for example. While I don’t know the details, it appears to be an audition for Ultraman monsters, but they’re all dancing to Michael [...]
In writing the recent post on furry fandom, I ended up listening to a podcast about furry’s bad reputation (which is entirely well deserved, BTW) and it got me thinking about a couple of things with furry’s history and how there are similarities to atheism as well. As I’ve written before, there was a sizable [...]
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