Modern gaming would not be what it is today without the contributions of Jerry Lawson and Mike Pondsmith, whose innovations revolutionized both computer and tabletop gaming. (more…)
Tag: Gaming
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Superhero RPG Round-Up
When it comes to superheroes, gamers are spoiled for choice in the realm of roleplaying games. Dozens of games provide unique variations on the theme.
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Dungeons, Dragons, and Disease
In the COVID-19 world we all have had to make changes to our routines. People have begun working at home, businesses have switched to curbside pick-up, restaurants have switched to a pick-up or delivery model, and in-person meetings have been replaced with virtual meetings. One of my weekly rituals was going down to my local game store to play in-person pen and paper roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. I would meet weekly with a group of friends and huck the dice around while imagining my players in a fantasy world of fighters, wizards, rogues, dwarves, and elves.
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This Week in Geek (5/25-5/31)
Birthdays
25: Ian McKellen (1939); Frank Oz (1944); Bob Gale (1951); Connie Sellecca (1955); Ray Stevenson (1964); Anne Heche (1969); Octavia Spencer (1970); Cillian Murphy (1976); Brec Bassinger (1999)
26: Peter Cushing (1913); Roy Dotrice (1923); Pam Grier (1949); Helena Bonham Carter (1966); Alex Garland (1970); Benji Gregory (1978)
27: Vincent Price (1911); Christopher Lee (1922); Harlan Ellison (1934); Lee Meriweather (1935); Louis Gossett Jr. (1936); Richard Schiff (1955); Eddie McClintock (1967); Joseph Fiennes (1970); Paul Bettany (1971)
28: Shane Rimmer (1932); Glenn Quinn (1970); Laura Bailey (1981); Megalyn Echikunwoke (1983); Jacob Kogan (1995); Cameron Boyce (1999)
29: Sebastian Shaw (1905); Kevin Conway (1942); Danny Elfman (1953); Adrian Paul (1959); Steve Cardenas (1974); Adam Brown (1980); Alessandra Torresani (1987); Pearl Mackie (1987); Erica Lindbeck (1992)
30: Keir Dullea (1936); Michael Piller (1948); Colm Meaney (1953); Cynthia Gouw (1963); Mark Sheppard (1964); Minae Noji (1973); Jared Gilmore (2000)
31: Lea Thompson (1961); Peter Clines (1969); Colin Farrell (1971); Robin Wasserman (1978); Sophia McDougall (1979)Anniversaries
25: It Came From Outer Space (1953); Star Wars (1977); Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983); Back to the Future Part III (1990); Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
26: Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970); Super Force finale: “A Hundred Years a Second” (1992); Johnny Mnemonic (1995); Star Trek: Voyager season 5 finale: “Equinox” (1999)
27: Dominion Tank Police (1988); Doctor Who TV movie (1996)
28: Tremors: The Series premieres (2003); Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
29: Seven Days finale: “Live From Death Row” (2001)
30: Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: “Assimilation²” published (2012)
31: The Last Starfighter (1985); Total Recall (1990); The Arrival (1996); Dark Skies finale: “Bloodlines”Genre Holidays
25: Geek Pride Day
25: Towel Day
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The altered reality of Star Trek
In May 2009, the eleventh Star Trek feature film boldly went where no Trek had gone before: rebooting and reimagining the franchise, under the aegis of producer/director J.J. Abrams. The film paid homage to the previous Star Trek continuity via a time-travel plot that resulted in massive changes to history, and a new timeline, now only loosely connected to the original, was born.
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Slacker!
I’m falling behind on updates for this blog. I need to rededicate myself to this project, as well as to others. Mostly, though, it’s just because I’m so damned busy. Between working 30 hours per week at two jobs and taking a full-time courseload of 12 credits of upper-division history classes, I don’t have a whole lot of extra time left over for, well, anything, and most of what little free time I do have gets eaten up by playing video games. (Star Trek Online is, in fact, a key offender in that area.)
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My First Video Game System
This post has been moved to my new blog, Geek Unified Theory
http://geekunifiedtheory.com/my-first-video-game-system/
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Star Trek Online, all night long…
I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I decided to take on a mission in Star Trek Online… seems I bit off more than I could chew on that one.
Oh, it started off just fine. In fact, I had no problems at all until the end of the mission, when one of the Klingons turned out to be an Undine shapeshifter and it sent me up against an Undine dreadnought and four frigates. Alone. In a light cruiser. Oh, yeah, that ended well… after getting my @$$ thoroughly kicked about a dozen times, I finally dropped the mission; I’ll have to try it again once I’ve got a (much) bigger ship.
But, alas, I couldn’t end the night like that. Despite the fact that it was by this point nearly 2 am, I still couldn’t sleep, and I didn’t want to end the game on a sour note. So I took on a simple patrol mission. Patrolled four systems. Simple stuff. Ended up getting promoted from Lieutenant 4 to Lieutenant 5. Unfortunately, now it’s 3am, I still can’t sleep, and my alarm’s going off in 3 hours so I can be awake by 8, out the door by 8:30, and in class by 9…
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