Sharing Day, Young Nerd Advice Edition

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"Kiss her BACK, you idiot!"

For some reason I've been thinking lately about some of the stupid stuff I did when I was much younger. So my question for you on this Sharing Day is:

If you could go back in time and give the Young Nerd You one piece of advice, what would it be?

You can go all Time Traveller if you want and say "Bet on the Saints to win the Super Bowl next year!", or you can dig a little deeper. As for me, I'd probably say something like "Don't be ashamed of who you are. You're a geek -- force your way into that D&D game and revel in it!"

If you like, in return for answering my question to you, you may ask a question of me on any topic and I'll do my best to answer honestly and completely. Just leave your reply (and question, if any) as a comment. The goal is to learn a little more about our community!

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There are FANCY beards?

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(From "Target Comics" number 11, 1940.)

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SODWA Honorable Mentions 4

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Judge Woody from "Super Omega Deathbattle Warzone Apocalypse" announced his final round of Honorable Mentions today on the game's Facebook page. For your convenience I am re-posting them here as well, but for the most up-to-date results you should really follow them on Facebook. Tomorrow is the big day when he reveals the nine final winning selections.

Ladies and gentlemen, your final batch of Honorable Mentions, along with Woody's comments. Congratulations to these folks on jobs well done!

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SODWA Honorable Mentions 3

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Judge Woody from "Super Omega Deathbattle Warzone Apocalypse" announced his third round of Honorable Mentions yesterday on the game's Facebook page. For your convenience I am re-posting them here as well, but for the most up-to-date results you should really follow them on Facebook. Today he'll be posting the last of the Honorable Mentions, then tomorrow we get the nine overall winners.

Ladies and gentlemen, your second batch of Honorable Mentions, along with Woody's comments. Congratulations to these folks on jobs well done!

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Zombocalypse Down

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Surrounded by a ravening horde of zombies, supply of ammo dwindling, we had a choice to make for our little stuffed bunny buddy -- go out in a blaze of glory or save a bullet for ourselves. Being muy macho, we opted for the former:

D'oh! "Never trust a guy named Vinny", I think that's the lesson we can take away from this little misstep. Or possibly "Never start a land war in Asia", but perhaps I'm getting my intellectual properties confused.

So our adventure ends here, surrounded by the sprawled bodies of our fallen foes, doomed to spend eternity wandering around as a drooling, brain-eating stuffed bunny zombie. There are worse fates, I suppose, like maybe being married to a Kardashian. Although, I wonder what happens to zombies once they eat all the humans? Can they turn cannibal and eat other zombies for whatever brain dregs are left?

Hopefully we'll never know.

I'd like to thank "Zombocalypse Now" author Matt Youngmark for writing such a fun, engaging adventure, and all of you for playing along. If you haven't yet purchased your own copy, I highly encourage you to do so. You can take the forks we did not, and see if maybe you can arrive at a different conclusion. Having read through quite a few of them, I promise you'll enjoy the journey.

Next week we start a new Matt Youngmark adventure, so be sure to tune in on Thursday!

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Bombs go "plop"?

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(From "Target Comics" number 11, 1940.)

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"Avengers" review

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Comments Off on "Avengers" review


I got to see "Marvel's The Avengers" at the theater on Saturday, and have been very slow in getting up my review. Which is a shame, because everything I would have said has already been said multiple times, but I wanted a good excuse to talk to my fellow geeks about it. So here goes!

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SODWA Honorable Mentions, Round Two

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Judge Woody from "Super Omega Deathbattle Warzone Apocalypse" announced his second round of Honorable Mentions yesterday on the game's Facebook page. For your convenience I am re-posting them here as well, but for the most up-to-date results you should really follow them on Facebook.

Ladies and gentlemen, your second batch of Honorable Mentions, along with Woody's comments. Congratulations to these folks on jobs well done!

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Hawkeye

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Frequent contributor Dan suggested that we take a look over the next few weeks at some of the worst moments in Avengers fashion history in honor of the blockbuster movie release. I thought it was a great idea, and where better to begin than the Purple Poltroon, leader of the Worst Dressed Team In Forever (aka the West Coast Avengers), Clint Barton, the one and only Hawkeye!

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Bob missed "Landing Gear Day" in flight school

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(From "Target Comics" number 11, 1940.)

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