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One Geek To Another - Being a Good Loser

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Published on 07-25-2010 03:25 PM Number of Views: 4019

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Voting for the ENnie Awards closes today. One Geek To Another has been nominated for Best Blog, but--as in any competition--there can be only one ultimate winner. While I'd appreciate your vote, it seemed an appropriate time to tackle a difficult topic: being a good loser ...

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[One Geek To Another] No Room At The Con

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Published on 07-16-2010 02:00 AM Number of Views: 2214

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I’d like to take a moment to thank Pen and Paper Games for hosting One Geek To Another on their awesome site for almost a year now! We were just nominated for Best Blog in the ENnie Awards and are very grateful to Pen&Paper for giving us a forum to help share One Geek with their readership! Thanks, guys! (Oh, and congratulations on your own nomination for BEST WEBSITE! Well deserved!)
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[One Geek To Another] Geek Solidarity

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Published on 05-17-2010 04:30 PM

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Last week, I received an email from TJ, someone who listens to the podcast I co-host (Pulp Gamer - Out of Character). TJ enjoyed the show, but specifically liked the fact that I was one of the first podcasters he'd met who "admitted" to being a LARPer (Live Action Role Player, as opposed to solely tabletop or online gaming). TJ went on to say that Pulp Gamer was the first gaming podcast he'd listened to that didn't "immediately mock the very idea of" LARP. ...

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[One Geek To Another] Dr. Gamer And Ms. Hyde

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Published on 04-21-2010 03:10 AM Number of Views: 1579

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Dear One Geek,

I've tried to write a pretty letter you could publish and answer, but GAH I'm too frustrated to string words together all good an' stuff.

Here's the situation I need help with: I've joined a gaming group with some old friends. I know everyone there except one person, a new roleplayer who's a friend of the gamemaster. She's obnoxious and pushes my buttons. This unfortunately brings out the worst in me, and I'M going to end up being the one who's a jerk ...

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[One Geek To Another] How to "Fail" Gracefully

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Published on 04-05-2010 03:31 PM Number of Views: 1385

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Some of you may have noticed that the weekly formatting of One Geek To Another has been a bit... non-weekly of late. In fact, for the past few months, it's been utterly absent. There have been a plethora of reasons: I was revising my novel, working on a series of short stories for a game company (The Adventures of Little Yoshida), traveling to New York to act as a guest at a convention (I-Con 29), and juggling the impromptu beginnings of a new fiction experiment (The Shattered Glass Project) ...

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[One Geek to Another] Gamestopping Braggarts

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Published on 01-20-2010 11:00 AM

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Dear One Geek,

Whether tabletop or LARP, certain folks I game with seem to have more fun bragging about how cool their characters are than actually gaming. They'll drop out of character for extended lengths of time to go on and on about how awesome their stats are, what a great loophole they've found in the rules or what a stud their other characters are/were. It's hard to get them back on track about the game we are playing at that time, and worse yet, they tend to pull others out of character as well.

What is a polite way to get people to stop playing MyTraits: the Droning and go back to playing whatever it is we'd gathered there to play? ...

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[One Geek to Another] Plugging In

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Published on 01-11-2010 11:00 AM

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This week's topic comes through a rather circuitous route, so bear with me...

It starts a month ago, when I spent the first two weeks of December on a writing retreat. The idea was simple. Seclude myself away in an area I find environmentally stimulating (for me, this is means winter storms, grey skies, trees and water, so the North Oregon coast was perfect) for an extended period (long enough for the "just here for a weekend" need to sleep/enjoy the area/get over jet lag to go away) with a specific purpose (revising my novel per some professional advice I'd received on it.) ...

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