Ace of Geeks vs Found in the Alley - Movie Draft Super War! Update 1

For those of you who haven't been following our ugly-stepsister podcast Found in the Alley lately, you may have missed out on one of the big things that the Ace of Geeks is doing this summer. First, make sure you head to their site and check out the podcast that started all of this. The gauntlet was thrown, and three weeks ago the battle of the Summer Movie Draft began. The rules were simple: Each of the four hosts had 100 points. We could use those points to draft as many summer movies as we could, and by the end of the summer, the team who's films did the best on opening weekend (that's important) would walk away the undisputed champions. We'll be doing updates on this every Friday, so stay tuned. Here's where we stand so far:

Waking up for Paris, by Seth Oakley

This past week saw the 2014 League of Legends All Star Tournament. The top teams from the regions of North America, Europe, Korea, China, and Southeast Asia all converged on Paris, France, for a 4 day tournament and All Star Event. There were 2 rounds of group stages, a day of semi finals, and a day of finals. Each team played each other team once in the group stage, then the top 4 teams faced off in single elimination in the semis, followed by the remaining two facing off in a best of 3 for the finals. The teams for the regions were as follows: Cloud 9 (C9), representing North America, invited after their last minute pull into first at the end of the Spring Split; Fnatic (FNC), representing the Western European servers, and the leaders of the EU Spring Split after a really tough early Season 4; SK Telecom T1 K (SKT), from Korea and the Season 3 world champions; OMG (OMG), the top performing team from China; and the Azubu Taipei Assassins, the premier team from the GPL Southeast Asia league.

THE ACE OF GEEKS PODCAST AT BIG WOW COMICFEST 2014 - Press Release

THE ACE OF GEEKS PODCAST AT BIG WOW COMICFEST 2014 - Press Release

The Five Stages of Geek Obsession, by Mike Fatum

Comic by comediva.com

“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”-Simon Pegg


I've always been jealous of those of you out there who can be part of just one fandom. The folks in the geek community who hang their hats on just Star Trek, or just Game of Thrones. Your lives must be so simple. You wake up in the morning, and you love one thing. You go to a convention, and you're only searching for merchandise from that one thing. And that burning, needy feeling that comes only with being truly in love with a thing never goes away. I'm jealous of those of you out there who only have the one fandom, because I love that feeling so much.

Six Thoughts to Move You Towards Creative Success. by Justin Rhodes

            I have always fancied myself as a bit of a creator, as I'm certain that many of us in the wide variety of geek fandoms do. It is lovely to be enthusiastic about the things that we love. It is even more satisfying to be the source of that enthusiasm. We all have things that we hope to accomplish with our lives, but sometimes we don't quite know what to do, or what the next step is. So how do we begin with our endeavors and move towards the success we wish to achieve? Some of us are better at this than others. For those of you who are aspiring novelists, game designers, musicians, actors, etc. (and you crazy people like me who want to do all of those things and then some,) here is some simple, succinct  advice to help you move forward:

Five Reasons You Should be Wild about Wildstar, by Alexis George

When I asked the development team to describe Wildstar in one sentence, Stephan Frost of Carbine Studios stated, “Wildstar is large MMO with a lot of personality, crazy story, a great housing system and little gerbils that are also death machines.” After three weeks of beta, I’d say it’s closer to what would happen if Firefly, a PG13 version Disney’s Treasure Planet, and Borderlands 2 had a threeway lovechild. With goats. (Sorry, I mean Rowsdowers. I still don’t quite understand the goat thing, but I like the absurdity. Plus, those little things are everywhere. EVERYWHERE.) With a slated launch date of June 3rd, 2014, Wildstar has finally opened beta for the general public, and there is something here worth being excited about, gamers. I’ve compiled a list of features and observations leading up to release in hopes of roping a few others into the madness. So saddle up and load your phaser pistols, ladies and gentlemen.  

Episode 100: A. Lee Martinez

For our (oh my god) 100th episode, the Ace of Geeks welcome A. Lee Martinez, author of The Divine Misfortune, Emperor Mollusk vs the Sinister Brain, and Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest. We'll discuss how he became an author, what the publishing world is like today, his thoughts on NanoWriMo and the new world of Kindle Publishing, roleplaying games, and the craziest comic book team up we've ever heard of.

Read our review of Helen and Troy's Epic Road Quest here:
http://aceofgeeks.blogspot.com/2013/10/helen-and-troys-epic-road-quest-its.html

Episode 100!