Everything Geek goes here...
 

Been wanting to do this one for awhile. We need a thread that discusses everything from gadgets to gaming.

I know there are probably some closet comic readers here too.

So if you want to talk about your latest mobile phone or any gear that has you geeked out, post it here.

You got PC questions you want to ask? Go for it....let's make this thread useful!

*Raises hand*

Thank you sir...what are you reading?
I bet you aren't reading Chew.

I'm a bit mainstream I'm afraid. I used to be a hard core Marvel fan until about 3 years ago and the disaster that was Civil War. WHY MARVEL WHY?!? So much potential for a good story line though they ruined it. Stopped reading all together for a while but now I'm starting into Ultimate Marvel again. My only experience prior was The Ultimate V1, but reading Ultimate Spidey now. I will probably keep reading Ultimate until I get to a point were they fuck that up. Probably Ultimatum. Why does Marvel not realize that massive crossovers are a bad idea. They never work the way they are supposed to. Then again singular lines have been fucked up due to over complicated plots. Look how many times they have raped Spidey. *Shudders at clone saga and the Other.* But depending what I hear about Heroic age I might start reading 616 again.


And might as well get the full level of my geekdom out. I also participate in various forms of RPGs, both fanon and original.

Geek Girl Gamer here....

Still playing Fallout 3 and I can't wait for AC: Brotherhood....

I need to catch up on E3, my "wonderful" cable company was acting up last week and I missed most of the coverage on G4...grrrrrr

Microsoft's Kinetic and Nintendo's 3DS made the show...Sony's Move is pretty much making the PS3 into the Wii HD and their peripheral looks like.......an adult toy.......just my opinion

I'm currently still working on Little Big Planet. Live-in is playing Red Dead Redemption though so I haven't even picked up a controller in about 3 weeks.

I appreciate comics although I don't read them. I got tickets to C2E2 for live-in for his birthday, and I had fun. I was intrigued by some of the comics and have it in my mind to pick one up and see if I liked them. Live-in right now is big into the Secret Avengers although he's still trying to figure out who the Red Hulk is as well as getting into Umbrella Academy.

Secret Avengers is good? Was debating finding a shop to pick up a copy of that.

Live-in was excited enough to go to the comic book store on a Wednesday. He hasn't done that since he was a little kid. He also bought one to read and one to keep.

So far...not all that crazy with The Heroic Age Marvel is pushing now but at least a summer can go by without a big crossover event going on.


BTW who is getting an iPhone 4 this week? Stories??

I love comics, but I've never bought them, I feel weird about this.

However I love that libraries get the graphic novels/book releases now.

I haven't played LBP in months. I am looking forward to the sequel though. You may like Modnation Racers. The best way I can describe it is the customization of LBP meets Mario Kart. Its sooo fun.

I've heard good things about RDR.

He plays the types of games that you want to play all the way through as fast as possible. I play the ones that you can set down and walk away from.

Unfortunately, that means I don't get to play much.

I think Live-in said he was excited about the new Mario Galaxy though... that one will be fun.

idk I'm hopeful for Heroic Age. usually what happens is that Marvel fucks thing up for 3-5 years then tries to fix it with something else. Sounds like what they are doing with Heroic Agr.

I preordered the iphone but I won't get it till after July 17th. The game I'm looking forward to this year is INFAMOUS 2!! MArvel Vs Capcom should be good as well.

I used to be big into comics when I was a pre-teen, mostly X-men. The cross-overs tended to be ridiculous then, so I can only guess how they are now. I still enjoy reading the X-men comics from the 70s and 80s but really havent kept up with them since that cross over where Professor X turned into that massive asshole and EVERYONE had to come and fight him.

Ok...I am glad I started this thread now!!!

@Drole....graphic novels are the rage now...it's like buying a season of tv...but in book form....LOL

@ Animate...RDR is the hotness, I wouldn't be surprised if it gets GOTY


@ Vito ....that is the whole point with Heroic Age...to fix some of the eff ups by Marvel for the past 6 - 8 years

@PiKA ...I still need to play the first one, Well comics have gone thru big changes since you stopped....don't worry, I just started back about 2 years ago.

i'm just a lonely anime geek :(

I've tried, really I have but I just cannot seem to get into it. Recommendations?

bleach, naruto, death note for starters. also code geass.

what have u tried so far?

Ghost in the MAchine, Akira, Barefoot Gen??? IDK, I think of anime and Final Fantasy and porn come to mind.

did u mean ghost in the shell? i'm going to watch it again soon.

When I have a min, I will make some ol' school anime suggestions for you Drolefille

Ok...some ol' school anime that is almost required watching

Akira
Ninja Scroll
Vampire Hunter D parts I and II
Ghost in the Shell
Guyver (if you can still find it)
Robotech

Some other really good ones are

Rurouni Kenshin
everything Gundum, though Wing was my favorite followed by 8th MS Team
Yu Yu Hakusho
Noir
Big O


Sure I can think of more later.

Let me start with, I hated Akira. Didn't get into it, didn't finish it, don't intend to try.

I've watched individual episodes of a lot of the stuff on Hulu. But you guys have given me some ideas. I'll see what I can do about trying them out.

Ninja scroll is the greatest thing EVER!

^^ amen

So I TRIED to be more of a geek and get the hd2....but this phone has been giving me problems. It freezes constantly and now the battery is draining more than usual. My friend has the same phone and his doesnt give him any problems :(

I just want my phone so my friend can "hack" it and i can get all the cool things he has on there! lol

Take that sucka back and get it replaced or fixed!!!!

Anywho rather than double post...here is some geek news:


Droid X to be released in July

Virgin to release prepaid mifi...good solution to iPad wifi only owners

Speaking of iPad owners...DC Comics app is released

GITS is fucking awesome. i added it to my collection of anime that I actually keep instead of watching online.

so far the only gundams i've watched are 00, seed, and seed destiny. all were good. my bf said others were even better than that.

oh and Drole, whether or not you are into vampires or not (i'm neutral), Blood+ is great too.

Problem with seed is that it is very similar to MS Gundam, at least to me. Then again I have only seen a handful of episodes.

oh another great one though horrible dub?

Outlaw Star

I've GITS, but I think it was SAC, but only one movie....

I need to watch Cowboy Bebop....as I have the soundtrack for the entire thing....love Yoko Kanno!

I have seen Azumanga Daioh and LOVE IT, but that is all the anime

I think I need to expand my games...I love AC, Oblivion and Fallout....

any recs?

Good vampires, yes.

Sparklepires no. :p

THANK YOU!

What kind of games do you prefer? System? I live over on kotaku.com to stay current.

I performed an amusing rant on Twilight to one of my friends. I read the first 3 books because I wanted to know what everyone was going on about and it was mostly because they were such fast reads that I got that far. I made it to the blackout sex in book four before I quit and looked up the rest online.

Oh man I hate those books for so much that sometimes I forget about the absolute desecration of vampire lore within.

Sigh....I will say it again...Anne Rice would clean up right now.

I love vampires....I know that everyone is on about Laurel K. Hamilton as well...but hey I enjoy the series and this is my 2nd reading of the books, since I picked it up in April...I've had the first 5 of the books for about 3 years now, but finally decided to read the series...

Also...I am one of those people who *never* put down books, I just plow through them, even if I have them.....

I *HATED* Interview with the Vampire and had about 50 pages or less to go and I put it down and have no desire to ever pick it up again...this was about 15 years ago....

Oh...

I used to be a pure Nintendo person at heart...Guitar Hero changed that and bought a PS2 for $130, plus GH...

Then I got obsesses with the Xbox, I think because of netflix....so that is my current system...

It kills me that I've not gone back to Nintendo....but I have said that if they come out with a new DK series...yea, I will buy a Wii, 'cause I was going to get it before Netflix came to Xbox...

I really like RPGs and racing games....NO FPS, it is every difficult for me to play Fallout because of that component...but I got over it fast :D

What about dollhouses, prehistoric life, or astronomy? Does that count? :(