So, I know that Facebook games are supposed to be for women, the hated and maligned “Casual Gamers.” As if fucking around on Facebook games is going to somehow take away your penis or something, I don’t even know. But the fact remains, there are games on Facebook, I am a gamer, I like games,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #204 – I Review a Facebook Game
Jen has emerged from her long post-grad school hiatus, to give us a column! Everybody wave and say “Hi!” When the first Neverwinter Nights game came out in 2002, I played the hell out of it. Shadowlords, Dreamcatcher, and Penultima—I devoured the custom content, and I even had a stint as a beta tester for… Read More Bad Game Writing – A rare Jen-spotting
This month we have a really great interview with Tamora Pierce! She was an amazingly gracious interview, and a whole lot of fun to talk to. We talked about the paucity of active female heroines in YA literature particularly at the time she started writing, and why she writes the strong female characters she does… Read More Geek Girls Rule! Podcast #24 – Interview with Tamora Pierce
GO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!!!!! Ahem. Allow me to collect myself. Ok, Seanan McGuire is one of the very few authors that I will go out of my way to buy the first week their books come out. I can often be heard to lament that she doesn’t constantly have more books coming out… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #203 – Review: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
This post is going to be primarily a picture post, and if you can help me track down the people who should receive credit for any comics that might be misattributed, that would be awesome. So, from the early days of GGR, I’ve been bitching about the sexist treatment of female heroes, particularly about the… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #202 – The Backlash Against Female Superhero Costumes
So, the Geek Husband What Rules got Batman: Arkham City for his birthday. The gameplay is excellent, even for someone like me who has trouble controlling the camera. It’s a huge sandbox of a world, well imagined. It’s beautiful. There are tons of missions to undertake, major and side missions. As with Arkham Asylum there’… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #201 – Arkham City
I love horror movies, and I don’t watch them often enough. Really, I don’t. Part of that has to do with the fact that the Geek Husband What Rules really doesn’t like them, and I’m kind of fussy about my horror. I’ve got no use for ‘people being shitty to other people’ horror films, as… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #200 – Horror Movies, Hooray!
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