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Five Reasons Geek Culture Should Go Away – My Two Cents

by Noemi Twigg
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Geek culture. It certainly is not new, but heck, I am still sometimes not sure what it is really supposed to be. I think it’s one of those things that can’t be easily pinned down. So I found this article titled “Five Reasons Geek Culture Should Go Away”, and quite understandably, it immediately caught my attention. Peter Smith, the author outlines his reasons as follows. Geek culture is escapist. It’s simplistic. It’s dogmatic. It’s sexist. All of this stuff was better when it was cheap. After having read the article several times – and going through a roller coaster ride of thoughts ranging from “WTF?” to “Indeed!” to “I couldn’t Read more »

Comics That Should Take a Leap, or a Step Back

by Dina Ely
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Comics That Should Take a Leap, or a Step Back

Don’t forget to get involved in the comic book debates at the ForeverGeek Forum! When comics convert from print to the screen – be it silver screen, little screen, or computer screen – the results are often disastrous. We’ve become so accustomed to this fact that as comic book lovers, we follow the news of every comic adaptation’s progress as if it was life or death. Universally. We obsess over every little detail, but in sheer acceptance of our fate, preordained by movie & TV studios, we rarely ask the big question: should a comic be adapted? Is one comic more worthy than another? Is one comic so strong that Read more »

Now the iPod shuffle talks back, but why?

by andy
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Now the iPod shuffle talks back, but why?

Apple is surely running out of things to put on its iPod, given that its latest “innovative feature” is that the new iPod shuffle will talk to you. In fact, it’s the first music player that’ll talk to you. There’s a reason for that, Steve. No-one else would be silly enough to put that feature on their players – and even if they did, they wouldn’t shout about it. OK, it’s a lot smaller as well, but it’s only a 4GB player so, really, what’s the big (or should I say small) deal there? Read more »