Performance Enhancing Legends. by Seth Oakley

Note: I don't know who this is. He probably doesn't take drugs. -Ed

I told Mike that he needed an eSports writer for his blog, someone to cover analog and digital gaming. He sticks his hand out for me to shake it. We were sitting in a bar, and I’d had a couple, so I shook it. He says, “Welcome aboard!” and it hits me.

Balls.

Too late.

Now he’s bugging me to write an article about Performance Enhancing Drugs in eSports, (This was your idea, buddy. - Ed) so here goes.

Episode 94: TV's Cody Stark!

Cody Stark, host of Good Day Sacramento and Awesome Shoe Aficionado, invited The Ace of Geeks onto his show. So we thought it was only fair to invite him onto ours - right before he had to go and introduce Stan Lee. We'll discuss the wonders of working in television, and how much we all love turning off our sense of disbelief at the movies. Pacific Rim is so much better that way!

Episode 94!

My Answer to Life, the Geekiverse, and Everything: an Ode to Nerding out- Jarys

     

     We have been kicking around the idea of adding some fiction to our blog, when our intelligent and attractive writers have some fiction to share. I hope to have some to share with you soon, but, for now, I hope this poem will hold you over. A few hundred years ago, English writers would preface works of fiction with poems, often Anthems or Odes. Below is my attempt to create such a thing. You don't have to be polite, tear it apart in the comments. Or share it with your friends and get them to send me hate mail. I NEED CRITIQUE TO IMPROVE KTHX.

     More seriously, I tried to write a love letter to the feeling of what the Dwarves of Discworld call "Craic" or "the sheer pleasure about what you are doing and where you are doing it." Let's call that last detail context, and context is certainly important. If you read further, you will find that I tried to identify what contexts were good for Craic and what contexts were bad for Craic. Of course, all references to death or loss of life are purely metaphorical. Please enjoy and I hope we have more for you soon!

But They Deserve to Be Done a Second Time. By Chris Brecheen

Editor's Note: This article is the second part of a two part series on the subject of Hollywood Remakes. Check out Part One, by Jon Cain, here.

Anyone know how many plays Shakespeare wrote without looking it up on Google? The answer is 38 or 40, depending on if you count the two we know have been lost. However, here is a more interesting question: do you know how many of those plays were original stories of Shakespeare’s own design?

The answer is one.

They Were Done Right The First Time. by Jon Cain

   

Editor's Note: This is Part One of a two part discussion on Remakes in Hollywood. Check out Part Two, by Chris Brecheen, here.

          Allow me to set the scene, my friends. A quiet theater, on the 16^th of June 1960,  erupts with shrieks of horror, at the sight of Janet Leigh stabbed to death in a shower - a scene that is one of the most recognizable in film history.  The infamous shower scene was a master stroke, by a master film maker. It scared the ever loving shit out of a great many people, and the ones who weren't scared were shocked that Janet Leigh met her end as quickly as she did.  Arguably, Alfred Hitchcock did more with a bottle of chocolate syrup then anyone else in history. The movie Psycho was a cinematic achievement that was many decades ahead of its time, and an instant classic. It's in my top five favorite movies of all time. So as you can imagine, I was madder then hell about the 1998, sub par, shot for shot remake. The film was such a piece of excrement that I am getting nausea writing this. There are just certain things in life you don't touch,  because they were done right the first time.

Bioshock Infinite: Your Argument is Invalid. (Part 5) by Chris Brecheen

 This is Part Five of Chris's epic deconstruction of Bioshock Infinite, and how it proves video games can be art. Witness the other parts here:



Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four

Three reminders:

One - I’m jumping right in from the previous articles with no recap

Two - this article necessitates spoilers

Three - this article is not concerned with decoding the plot itself.

I have some bad news.

I’ve spent about four parts of this article lulling a growing audience of geeks into a false sense of security—making them think that I would do nothing but heap praise on one of last year’s most popular (mainstream) titles—and now I am going to turn on them by pointing out where Bioshock Infinite fell on its face.

Episode 93: How Can we Stop Bullying At Conventions?

The Ace of Geeks presents their first ever comic-con panel from Wizard World Sacramento. We're joined by cosplayers Lauren Harrington, Mary Anne Butler and Ashlen Rose, plus a fascinating audience, to discuss bullying within geek culture, and what can be done to fix it. But before that, Ashlen, Lauren, Stephanie and Mae Linh join us in our hotel room to discuss the first ever Wizard World Sacramento!

Episode 93!