Monthly Archive:: May 2018
May 20 2018
This Week in Geek (5/21/18–5/27/18)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, May 21st to Sunday, May 27th.
GPS Figure Drawing Salon
What: Arts, Educational
When: Monday, May 21st at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at the Waterbury Building
The Geek Partnership…
May 19 2018
Hush Hush Is a Kickstarter-Funded PC Game about Girls with Secrets
As Western appeal toward visual novels, the traditionally Japanese genre of interactive electronic stories, continues to grow, so too do Western developers’ interests in bringing these kinds of games to their fans. Canada-based Sad Panda Studios, creator of the popular visual novel Crush Crush…
May 18 2018
How Gamifying Everyday Tasks Turns Challenges into Fun
Earlier this spring, a member of the Twin Cities Geeks discussion group on Facebook posted a request: “Could I possibly commission a music geek to make me a personal fanfare/level up jingle to play when I accomplish a trying task? This is a serious request and part of an experiment to see if an auditory…
May 17 2018
Theater Mu’s The Princess’ Nightingale Is a Dazzling Flight of Fancy
Delightful. That’s the word that captures the experience of seeing The Princess’s Nightingale, directed by Randy Reyes of Theater Mu at SteppingStone Theatre in St. Paul. Incorporating singing, dancing, and fighting (plus writing), the show will grab your attention from the moment the curtain…
May 17 2018
AP Bio Succeeds on Its Minor Characters
The cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has really started to take off over the last few years, going from an FXX show with a cult following to pop culture mainstays. Charlie Day has popped up in numerous movies, like Pacific Rim, Horrible Bosses, and The Lego Movie (and each of their…
May 16 2018
Deadpool 2 Isn’t Groundbreaking, but It Brings the Mayhem and the Fun
After Thanos snapped his fingers and turned our collective hearts into dust in Avengers: Infinity War, it’s time for something a bit more lighthearted. This time, Josh Brolin only wants to kill one person, not half the universe. He’s also significantly less purple but still has a bit of a hard-on…
May 15 2018
The Laser Time Podcast Is a Weekly Nostalgia Trip for ’80s and ’90s Kids
Nostalgia is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days. The adults who grew up in the ’80s and ’90s pine for the simpler days—some of my favorite memories are from when I was a kid in the ’90s. We had corded telephones, Windows 95, and the best cartoons. And Laser Time will tell you all about it.
This podcast…
May 13 2018
This Week in Geek (5/14/18–5/20/18)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, May 14th to Sunday, May 20th.
Creative Night
What: Arts, Community
When: Monday, May 14th at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at the Waterbury Building
Let your creativity shine with drawing,…
May 11 2018
Join Twin Cities Geek for Nerd Thursday at the Minneapolis Institute of Art!
On the third Thursday of every month, the Minneapolis Institute of Art stays up late and throws a free party with fun activities, live music, drinks, and free access to its current special exhibition. On May 17, for the second year in a row, Twin Cities Geek is helping make that event as nerdy as possible…
May 10 2018
The Dilemma of Sacrifice and Selfish Heroes
*Avengers: Infinity War spoilers ahead*
The battlefield is set. Spaceships have unloaded thousands of weird alien dogs, the Children of Thanos are itching to recover an Infinity Stone, and hundreds of Wakandan warriors line the meadow—led by our favorite MCU heroes—prepared to fight. But why? To…