Other Geekdom Pursuits

Posted on 04/20/2014 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

So, my 40 days of avoiding gaming of all stripes is nearly over. But I’m too much of a geek to go totally without any form of geekdom. I’m just not wired that way. So how does a gamer keep keep his head above water with geeky pursuits while avoiding gaming?

Books

Finished the audiobook for Star Wars Annihilation
Finished the audiobook for Star Wars Revan
Finished the audiobook for Star Wars Honor Among Thieves
Finished the audiobook for the novelization for Star Wars Episode III–Revenge of the Sith
Finished the audiobook for Furies of Calderon
Started reading ebook of Star Wars Choices of One (not finished)
Started reading ebook of Death’s Angels (not finished)
Started reading ebook of The Weight of Blood (not finished)
Started reading actual book of Fortress Draconis (not finished)
Continued reading actual book Horus Heresy False Gods (not finished)

Note: Not finishing a book has nothing to do with the quality of the book or my enjoyment of said book. If you gave me 20 new books, by the end of the week I would likely have started all 20 of them, until I finally get fed up with myself and force myself to focus on one instead of going round robin on all of them.

Comic Books

Read the series Star Wars Agent of the Empire–Hard Targets
Reread Rat Queens up to the current issue
Read Age of Ultron, found out that if I went back in time to keep myself from reading it I could cause Image comics characters to shift into this reality, decided against it
Read all issues of All New X-Men currently on Marvel Unlimited
Read all issues of the current Avengers series on Marvel Unlimited

Movies

Captain America–The Winter Soldier. If I watched anything else, it didn’t stay with me.

Television

Caught up with Agents of SHIELD online
Watched season six of the Clone Wars on Netflix
Watched all five seasons of Fringe on Amazon Prime
Watched season one of Defiance on Amazon Prime
Watched Wrestlemania (I’ve got a whole blog post percolating about storytelling lessons learned from sports entertainment)

So, that was the geekier side of my last 40+ days. I haven’t cracked an RPG book or started up a video game for quite a while. But I know where all of my books are, and my controller is within easy reach.