Mostly Geek

Mostly Geek has a new home

Due to issues with hosting I’ve decided to go cheap and just use the freely hosted version of WordPress over at wordpress.com.

Therefore this blog now lives at: http://mostlygeeknz.wordpress.com/

Please update your links.

Thursday Link Day

It’s Thursday link day!!!

• The Onion AV Club have done another ‘Gateway to Geekery’, this time focusing on H.P. Lovecraft.
• Critical Hits have written a pretty good piece on how to get most (and longest) bang for your buck with Game Workshop minis games.
• Apparently dreaming about games makes you better at them. Does that mean that if you dream about sex you get better at that too? (via Felicia Day‘s twitter.)
• Joss Whedon is bidding for the Terminator rights. Sort of. Background is here. (Via the A.V. Club)
• EuroGamer has a big, informative and pretty balanced article on the campaigns in Germany to ban violent video games.

Tags: Felicia Day, Games Workshop, H. P. Lovecraft, Joss Whedon, miniatures, Terminator, video game

Brisbane geek shopping

I’m in Brisbane for a day for work and thought I’d take a break this afternoon and check out a couple of geek-related shops: Ace Comics & Games and Pulp Fiction. This is the first of my travel related shop reviews – I’ll do them as I go to visit places but please note that they’re just impressions from (usually) a single visit. › Continue reading

Tags: books, comics, D&D, review, RPGs, shopping