Since I actually posted today’s article yesterday morning, here’s a very short something about my non-RPG interests.
Like a lot of tabletop RPG aficionados, I like geeky stuff. My favorites are about technology, vintage video games, movies, cool TV series and doing stuff with kids.
So far my blog list for those is rather limited. I haven’t seriously checked BoingBoing or Lifehacker, the top movers and shakers of the geek blog food-chain yet… and I just gave each one a rank boost on Technorati. Sigh.
I currently get my geeky news from 3 blogs:
- Critical Hits from my web buddies Dave, Bartoneous and friend. A great source of gaming (RPG and video), geeky youtube and just general cool stuff. They feature a weekly poll that is always interesting.
- Geeknews.net: Andy and Patrick give us the skinny on DIY projects, Vintage video game clothing, and all things enviro/techno/cool. A word of warning, Andy has a strange pirate fetish
- Geekdad: Another collective blog (geeks seem to aggregate) I’ve discovered only last week when I stumbled on a series on some old D&D modules they found in the basement and other RPG goodness. Has a very strong ‘do cool stuff with your kids’ theme to which I subscribe 100%. I found that particular post about letting your kids do dangerous things very interesting. Maybe I should apply to become a contributor to talk about non-RPG things.
Speaking of playing with kids, here’s another group of children friendly webgames:
Miniclip’s E-rated category of flash game. I like Raft Wars a lot.
Oh and on the topic of playing with kids, the Wii’s most excellent Super Mario Galaxy might be too hard for 4-6 year olds, but the cooperative mode where your child catches starpieces with the Wii mote while an adult plays the game makes for a very nice interactive activity.
Have a nice week.
ChattyDM says
Speaking of Technorati, I’ve recovered my original authority level from before my move, thanks for all the linkys!
Weee!
Andy says
The pirate thing is just for this month. 🙂
Theres not a whole lot of real *news* involving pirates nowadays so I work with what I have available.
For movie sites, there’s probably none better than http://mrcranky.com/.