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Naruto Shippuden #251 — The Man Known as Kisame

Naruto Shippuden #251 — The Man Known as Kisame

Naruto Shippuden episode #251 picks up after a hardcore cliffhanger which saw Guy Sensei unleash his ‘Youth’ in a super punch causing an extreme compression of air.  Unbeknownst to Kisame, he is swept up in its ferocity and is left floating in the water defeated as Guy hovers over him in a blue halo.  Gotta [...]

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Gamer Taxonomy 310 – Homo Ludus Oculus

Gamer Taxonomy 310 – Homo Ludus Oculus

Welcome to class students. I’m your professor, Dr. Fashion Foodfart. For those of you who haven’t figured out yet this is SCI 310 Gamer Taxonomy not L/S 104 The Internetz. That class is meeting next door in the computer lab. So by all means please excuse yourself if you somehow managed to find yourself in [...]

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Extra Life: Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (PS2)

Extra Life: Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (PS2)

Arc The Lad: Twilight of the Spirits Released: June 25, 2003 Cattle Call Pretty rad box art, right? That’s what I was thinking when I bought this game at a pawn shop for some 6 or 7 years ago. In truth, I seriously had no idea what the game was about, let alone that it [...]

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A Geekcentric Guide to Nerdcore

A Geekcentric Guide to Nerdcore

There is a pretty sizable amount of music that geeks enjoy; from chiptunes to video game OSTs, today’s musically inclined geek has a pretty diverse range of songs to keep him or her satisfied. However, until recently, there hasn’t really been any music made specifically for us. This changed at the turn of the millennium [...]

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A new way to look at nerds

A Different Sort of Game

  My friends and I were having dinner the other night when the topic of sports fans came up.  The argument made was that generally people that are fans of sports are not the most intelligent.  While a good point was made on the unintelligence of mob-mentality taking over, all fans are not one in [...]

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Review: Star Wars Omnibus – “A Long Time Ago… Volume 5

Source: darkhorse.com “The classic-era Star Wars adventures conclude in this fifth and final volume of Star Wars Omnibus: A Long Time Ago. . . .All your favorite characters are here-Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewie, the droids, and more! With nearly six hundred pages of material, this massive omnibus collects Marvel Comics’ Star Wars #86-#107, their final US-published issues!” Dark [...]

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Extra Life: Future Tactics: The Uprising (PS2, Xbox, GC)

Extra Life: Future Tactics: The Uprising (PS2, Xbox, GC)

Future Tactics: The Uprising Released: May 10, 2004 Zed Two   Now here’s one I can almost guarantee that you’ve never played. As a former employee at a large nationwide video game retailer, I literally could not give this game away, even at the more than reasonable price of 99 cents.  Future Tactics: The Uprising [...]

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Board Game Review: Quarriors!

Board Game Review: Quarriors!

It’s a board game, a deck building game, and a dice game. It’s the Swiss army knife of games. And it is awesome. Quarriors is a 2-4 player dice pool building game published by WizKids, that is pretty quick to play at around 30 minutes or so. For the full break down you can check [...]

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Japan — A Geek’s Paradise!

Japan — A Geek’s Paradise!

  Anime, manga, robots, electronics, billboards, temples, shrines, glitz, glamour, lights, action, bushido, samurai, ninja, zen!  All these words describe a particular land, a particular people, a particular culture.  It’s a place which many like-minded individuals often dream of visiting.  To many, it is a paradise of sorts.  It harbors all that we, as geeks, [...]

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Carrion Crown – Haunting of Harrowstone Review: Pathfinder Adventure Path #43

Carrion Crown – Haunting of Harrowstone Review: Pathfinder Adventure Path #43

I’ve always been a bit skeptical of modules. The only exclusion to this being the Tomb of Horrors, because let’s be honest, IT’S THE MOTHERLOVIN’ TOMB OF HORRORS PEOPLE!   But I digress. I’m not a pre-made DM\GM sort. Part of what I’ve always found appealing is the creative design process of developing a fantastic [...]

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