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Geekmas Day 11: Eleven Supernatural Repossessions

21 Monday Dec 2015

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engagement, fandom, fans, geekmas, hashtags, ratings, superfans, supernatural, tv, tv show

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

As a fan of Charmed and a passing fan of Angel and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, one would assume that Supernatural is right up my alley.  However, this one has dodged my notice for a long while.  Matter of fact, the thing still running arrived as a surprise to me.

….right until I noticed the fanbase.  And then it all came clear.

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Geekmas Day 10: Ten Sailor Scouts

21 Monday Dec 2015

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anime, fandom, femininity, geekmas, magical girl, sailor moon, sailor stars, scouts, senshi

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Sailor Moon is, quite literally, everything that is stereotypical of anime.  It’s the grandmammy of the “magical girl” sub-genre, and has titling that continues to be lampooned by people as being patently ridiculous.

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“Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Sailor Stars” + those body proportions = the definition of low-hanging fruit.

Regardless, for all that is goofball about the series itself, it’s the sense of camaraderie and some of the show’s thematics that I tend to be drawn in to most by this series.

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Geekmas Day 9: Nine Pokeballs

17 Thursday Dec 2015

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fandom, fun, game boy, geekmas, pokemon, rpg, social, tournament

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

This blog is going to be a little different from the usual ones because I don’t have a great connection to Pokemon.  However, I know a person who does!

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Hello!

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Geekmas Day 7: Seven Magical Books

13 Sunday Dec 2015

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books, fantasy, geekmas, harry potter, novels, reading, reading books is cool you guys

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

It is so simple to scoff at a highly popular fantasy franchise.  Especially one that has the marketing machine that Harry Potter does.  In fact, I’m one of those folks.

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If you make a magic wand remote control, it’s easy to write you off, if we’re honest.

Regardless of the silliness level of the merch, however, Harry Potter has created an indelible mark on pop culture.  And one of the coolest things its done is ignite a passion for reading in younger people.

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Geekmas Day 6: Six Dire Wolves

12 Saturday Dec 2015

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fiction, game of thrones, geekmas, GoT, pretty pretty stabby stabs, replica, swords, weapons

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

I despise George R.R. Martin.  I find his brand of fiction to be one-note, needlessly shocking and distasteful to the point of near-satire, and couldn’t bring myself to read past the second half of the second book.  The fact that he’s shrugged at the idea of the show being run by its writing staff speaks to his penchant for merely cashing in, in my view, and I find the show abhorrent and gross.

So, why am I getting that off of my chest in a blog series that’s supposed to accentuate the positive?  Because even with feelings like that, I can find something to love in Game of Thrones.  And that something is the fiction’s weaponry.

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Geekmas Day 5: Five Lightsabers

11 Friday Dec 2015

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expansion, fandom, free to play, geekmas, MMO, sci-fi, star wars, swtor, the old republic, tor

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Talk about a softball topic.  For this day of Geekmas I have to somehow find nice things to say about Star Wars.  This definitely is not going to be hard for me, despite how perceptibly angry fans of the IP can get.

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I may have just roused a few of them with this picture alone..

So…lots of wonderful things to say about Star Wars.  I should just maybe bang home a few paragraphs and call it a day.  This being a (mostly) MMO blog, however, I’m going to limit myself specifically to Star Wars: The Old Republic…because there are some sticking points for me with that game, but like with almost every MMO I encounter, I can still find wonderful things to say about it.

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Geekmas Day 4: Four Crystal Gems

09 Wednesday Dec 2015

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cartoon, crystal gems, geekmas, gender roles, show, steven universe, superheroes, tv

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

So in today’s post, I’m entering one of the more challenging parts of the Geekmas initiative–writing about something I have absolutely no connection to or information about.  Specifically, this post is about the show Steven Universe.

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Geekmas Day 3: Three Charmed Sisters

06 Sunday Dec 2015

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action, charmed, charmed ones, drama, fandom, geekmas, magic, tv show

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

Gonna tell you guys a secret.  I have watched the shit out of this show.  Like, literally, from season one to the very last episode.  There aren’t many programs on TV that I considered appointment television, but Charmed was one of them.

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Even if none of them ever could apparently look back at me without tilting their heads.

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Geekmas Day 2: Two Jumping Plumbers

05 Saturday Dec 2015

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classic, gaming, geekmas, luigi, mario, nintendo, nostalgia, old school, platforming

This post is part of the 12 Days of Geekmas.  Check out the concept here, and let NerdyAlerty’s blog feed your eyeballs as well!

….oh man, what can be said about this subject that hasn’t been said already?

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“We’ve heard it all-a before!”

This is literally childhood.  I cut my teeth on gaming with the Atari 2600 and titles like Night Driver and Missile Command (complete with introductory cassette tape…thing!)  …but this?  This is were gaming really just exploded for me.

There was nothing like it in games to that point.  The Atari stuff was just an exercise in futility, making you play until the eventuality of the computer moving faster than you happened.  Here, we had a finite space.  A beginning and an end.  Levels that were wholly different from each other.  A broad swath of enemies to face and adjust around.  There was literally nothing like it.

There was no context, but then, there didn’t need to be any.  The game just made you start off with the running and the squishing. And it all felt absolutely drum-tight.  Mario had a finesse of control that just wasn’t there in other games before then.

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I’m looking at you, you slippery triangle bastard.

Each game just kept getting better and better and better.  It literally feels like the series is incapable of making an awful game.  Hell, even a completely terrible entry in the series is somehow charming in a weird way.  Mario, as a classic formula–as the grandpappy of platform gaming–is without equal.

Sure, Sonic was a strong contender for a bit, offering a wholly unique spin on the style of game…but it just began to crumble when it moved on to newer tech.  Mario didn’t just embrace new consoles, it displayed what consoles could do.  It was a tech demo that played more tightly and more completely than anything on a freeware website.  There’s a reason a Mario game on a new system is a given, because he paves the way.

I can even forgive the annoying bits of Super Mario Sunshine because, man, even though F.L.O.O.D. was a sometimes aggravating mechanic addition, it completely changed the way Mario levels in a 3D space operated.

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And Mario is the only one capable of looking pretty while being mediocre.

And now we have Super Mario Maker–another absolutely mind-blowing shift in the paradigm.  Managing to tie together people’s nostalgia for the series while simultaneously letting each other torture strangers and friends alike with utterly bonkers or completely unique levels.  It’s a formula for gaming magic that can only be ruined by the ineptitude of other people.

There really isn’t a lot more that can be said about the series.  It is everlasting.  Endearing.  Engaging.  It’s classic Nintendo.  Classic gaming.  And one of the few things that can still make me feel like a child.

Geekmas Day 1: One Ring to Rule Them All

01 Tuesday Dec 2015

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fandom, geekmas, lord of the rings, lotr, lotro, middle-earth

“On the first day of Geekmas, my fandoms gave to me…One Ring to rule them all…”

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So I was turned on to this 12 Days of Geekmas thing by the significantly more intelligent and prettier than me Hannah-Jaedia.  In it, the author proposes twelve posts espousing the virtues of geeky fandoms.  And, since I wrote a post about how much I love people loving things, it only makes sense that I would hop on.

Also, it’s easy-to-create regular content.  So it’s a bit of lazy AND a bit of fun.  Which, really, is precisely gaming, isn’t it?  So, let’s get started with Day 1: The Lord of the Rings!

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