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No one volunteered their stories of nerd epiphanies, so I guess that means I’m blowing my cool fifty on something I can review here. Feel free to suggest things you’d like to see me review. The new job is blissful. I’ll just leave it at that. But the world is not. And one thing I… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #500 – And We’re Going to Get Real
Yeah, I may have a Kickstarter Habit. The ones I’ve backed recently include the following: 80 Goetia Coins. Coins with all 72 of the demonic sigils from the Ars Goetia. Because I am a big enough dork to desperately want to own a bunch of coins that have demonic sigils on them. These are being… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #495 – Kickstarters and Filthy Consumerism!
Happy People from Labor Unions got the shit kicked out of them or killed so you could have a 40 hour workweek and an extra day off Day! Sorry to be a bummer, history major. Can’t help it. Yeah, so this Friday I took the Geek Husband What Rules to get his bottom wisdom teeth… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #494 – When it Rains it Pours…
I, and a lot of other folks, particularly other female geeks, blog a lot about what’s wrong with geek culture, and the ways it hurts us. But it doesn’t just hurt us. For many of us, finding geek culture, banding with other nerds saved out lives in one form or another, which is why we… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #492 – How Being a Geek Saved my Life
This is not actually what I set out to write last night, but this will do until I can figure out how to separate the two subjects. So, the other day, I’m working on the second book in the series I’m writing, and I stop, do some googling, frown, do some more googling, and finally… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #491 – Weird Knowledge your Hobbies Give You
So, the Geek Husband What Rules and I were talking this weekend about what assholes we were when we were younger, the offensive shit we thought was funny because we thought we were edgy and how not ok (and so not actually edgy) most of it was. This came up because we were talking about… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #490 – Are “Exceptional Girls” a Generational Thing?
*Sorry I didn’t get this up over here last week. Migraines suck.* Last week-ish was GenCon.I have never been. Given the stories I’ve heard come out of it, coupled with the fact that it’s huge, I likely never will. But seriously, Nerds. Chris Spivey the author and designer of Harlem Unbound a supplement for Call… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #489 – Get Your Shit Together, Nerds
Nature 2 Mickey 0 Sorry about missing the second post last week. My work situation has become untenable, and as a result, the Migraine Fairy is spending a lot of time at my house. Whee. I will try to get you guys some extra content this week, maybe an extra video when I’m not high… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #488 – Mickey -vs- Nature
Sorry, guys, it’s been kind of hectic, so you get another “Life hacks with Mickey” posts. In addition to jobs that can be varying levels of fulfilling and satisfying, from very to not at all, there are also the portions of real life outside of work that you need to take care of. Housework, shopping,… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #487 – Balancing IRL and Geekery
So, I mentioned earlier, that I would talk about that Polygon article, Gaming’s Toxic Men Explained. Monday night, I sat down with the Geek Husband What Rules and watched Hannah Gadsby’s comedy special, “Nanette,” on Netflix (trailer at link). Ok, so I’m going to spoil some of the comedy special, but I need to in… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #486 – What do a Female Australian Comic and Toxicity in Gaming have in Common?
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