Of all things Geek. I am…
Magic: The Gathering’s first set with some controversy among players about the cards contained or not contained within the set was Revised. It was the definitive base set replacing Unlimited until it was replaced by 4th Edition a year later. The set was very similar to the three base sets that preceded it with the exception of the “Power Nine.”
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The 2014 Winter Olympic Games taking place in Sochi, Russia are rapidly approaching, in case you haven’t seen any of the million ads online, in magazines or on any of the NBC television networks.
In the event that you haven’t seen any of the promotional material, you may be interested to know that the Winter Olympics Games started in Chamonix, France in 1924 and have occurred every four years without interruption since 1948.
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“The Nerding Instinct is about celebrating and unifying all facets of nerd and geek culture.” This is a bold statement for such a young podcast of only 14 episodes, as I write this.
I have listened to all of them and I have to say, I really like their concept. The podcast sounds very much like the conversations I used to hear when hanging out in my gaming store years ago.
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I have two walls in my home devoted to the animation of Ralph Bakshi, designated as my two “Bakshi Walls.” One is in my living room, which consists of three animation pencils from Wizards and the other is in my office, which has two actual animation cels from Wizards, so I guess you could call them my “Wizards” walls.
I’m going to share with you these walls, as they are two of my favorite Geek Spaces.
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Sometimes, in geekdom, I think there remains a great ignorance to what came before. Other times, there is more emphasis on the past to the detriment of the present or future. But sometimes those attitudes can exist in harmony.
For me, it’s the latter, a focus on the past, in regards to Magic: the Gathering, which I refer to as “Old School Magic.”
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