This Week in Geekdom

Hey guys. It's going to be a very brief post today because apparently Santa felt I needed to be sick post-Christmas. Blech. Anyhow, I'm gonna get down to some tea and soup while you guys get down to the Week in Geekdom! Science/Technology A team of researchers out of UCLA have some very interesting, potentially radical findings about where exactly our memories are stored. If their research proves accurate, it may allow for lost memories to be restored. It's a discovery that's...

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Happy Holidays!

Wishing you, your family, your co-op partner, those who surround your game night table or who gather around your GM screen a warm, wonderful, fun-filled holiday season! We'll be back on Sunday with a new This Week in Geekdom. Until then... Happy Holidays! Kel, the GIR, and Elder Gi...

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This Week in Geekdom

Happy Solstice everyone! For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, we'll start getting a bit more daylight after today. That might seem kind of trivial, but right now we're only getting about 9 hours of daylight at the home base of the Care and Feeding of Nerds and that's, quite frankly, just too much darkness. Fortunately, there's a wealth of colorful holiday decorations about to distract us for the rest of this week at least. Speaking of distractions, let's get down to the Week in...

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Cosplay: Put a Bow (and Laces) on it!

Hey guys, hope your holiday season is warm and filled with awesome thus far. Amidst the deluge of games, books, and goodies, there’s also been a bunch going on behind the scenes here at the Care and Feeding of Nerds. Some of these stealthy machinations have to remain secret for now, but other activities can definitely be shared. One of said activities is the measured, but ongoing progress towards the making of Steampunk Hawkgirl. In just about any other year a costume for Gen Con...

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Gias Games: Necro-review of F.E.A.R.

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I just finished playing F.E.A.R. for the first time. I chose the game since I am both a horror aficionado and a fan of FPSs. I heard many great things about this game specifically and the series in general. Wanting to play the later games, I decided to start with the first volume to get...

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This Week in Geekdom

Happy weekend everyone! Can you believe we have just <this> much left in 2014? Even as this year winds down, Elder Gias, the GIR, and I are already gearing up to bring you guys new and (hopefully) fun content for 2015. But ok, enough about the forthcoming year; let's get down to the Week in Geekdom! TV/Movies The Batman vs Superman movie hasn't even started filming yet and we're already learning that major characters are being killed off. Sony and Marvel were, at one point,...

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GiR by GIR: Dead State

While some folks may claim pop culture has reached Peak Zombie, I feel it’s difficult to find a better genre to hang an isometric, story-focused survival game on. Dead State is brought to you by the fine folks at DoubleBear Productions. As an early adopter of Dead State through its Kickstarter (which posted some pretty nice numbers: 10,096 backers, $332,635 pledged of a $150,000 goal), I’ve been able to follow along with the game's steady development to the moment of its somewhat surprising...

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This Week in Geekdom

Happy weekend everyone! It's been quite a productive couple of days. On the costume front, the corset and the 'bones' for the wings of Steampunk Hawkgirl both got finished and the details about how those came together will be posted soon. All of yesterday, literally the whole day, was given over to the making of holiday cookies, so if I seem a little out of it that's undoubtedly due to a combination of exhaustion and a monster sugar crash. But ok, less reminiscing and more about the Week...

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Nomnoms! Curry Butternut Squash Soup

Why hello December. You made extra sure we’re aware of just how not-summer it is right now. While all this darkness and cold may stir up the desire to hibernate, there’s an excellent culinary defense against these doldrums: warm, yummy, comforting soup. Now I’ll fully admit that I’m in no way unbiased towards soup; if left to my own devices I’d probably eat it for the majority of my meals. This is especially true once the temperature starts to drop. The nice thing about the soup featured...

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