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Tag: Great Geek Debates

Great Geek Debates: Disney Princesses vs. Hayao Miyazaki

January 20, 2014Erik Wecks17

Miyazaki’s female leads offer a far more complex picture of what it means to be a person. They often have agency outside of their relationships to men.

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Great Geek Debates: The Philadelphia Experiment vs. The Final Countdown

April 17, 2012Ken Denmead

Back in the eighties, we loved sci-fi thrillers set in the “real” world with just one technological twist to build an exciting story around. High-schoolers building nuclear bombs, runaway killer robots, and recording full-sensory input were just a few of …

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Great Geek Debates: Disney Princesses vs. Hayao Miyazaki

January 17, 2012Erik Wecks

Parents are always concerned about the media their kids consume and the messages it codes on their developing minds. So when it comes to the grand animated stories, who does a better job at delivering the messages you think are …

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Great Geek Debate? — Zombies vs. Unicorns

October 28, 2010January 7, 2018Jonathan H. Liu

Ah, the age-old question: which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? Wait, age-old? Until I ran across this poster at Comic-Con this summer I confess I hadn’t ever given it a thought—but I immediately knew I needed this book. …

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Great Geek Debates: Dragon*Con vs. PAX

September 23, 2010December 13, 2017Michael Harrison

For the past three years, convention-going geeks have had to choose: Dragon*Con or PAX. Two conventions on opposite ends of the United States, each with its own unique programming, occurring during the same Labor Day weekend. What’s a geek to …

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Great Geek Debates: Comic-Con vs. PAX

September 16, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

San Diego Comic-Con International (SDCC): Started in 1970, grown so large that LA is trying to convince it to move venues. It began as a comic book convention and now encompasses video games, movies, TV shows, non-comic books, toys, and …

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Great Geek Debates: Books vs. Movies

August 16, 2010Jonathan H. Liu

It seems that the big book-related debate these days is paper vs. digital. Everyone wants to be the next Kindle, and there’s no shortage of opinions on whether the iPad is a better book reader than an e-ink version. Even …

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Great Geek Debates: The Lord of the Rings vs. Harry Potter

September 4, 2009December 14, 2017Matt Blum

Some questions have such clear answers that you know your answer the moment you hear or read it. These are of the “Who was the better James Bond: Connery or Dalton?” sort. You might even blink a few times to …

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Great Geek Debates: Stormtrooper vs. Redshirt

August 28, 2009Matt Blum

You’ve heard of the old debate about what happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object? Well, since that question is unanswerable, starting as it does from a logically impossible premise, I won’t be tackling it. I will, however, …

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Great Geek Debates: iPhone vs. Blackberry

August 11, 2009Admin

In the current world of smart phone technology the two major players are the Blackberry by Research in Motion and the iPhone 3G by Apple. Which makes for a great geek debate. Iphone vs. Blackberry.

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Great Geek Debates: Star Trek vs. Star Wars

August 5, 2009Matt Blum

To the casual observer, Star Trek and Star Wars look a lot alike, beyond the obvious similarity between their names. Each has a lot of spaceships, strange worlds, ray guns, and aliens, many of whom look startlingly like humans with …

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Great Geek Debates: “Geek” vs. “Nerd”

July 23, 2009Matt Blum

The English language has a wonderful capacity for nuance. Doctoral dissertations could be, and I’m sure have been, written about the semantic differences that evolve between words that started out meaning much the same thing. Specifically, of course, I want …

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Great Geek Debates: Kirk vs. Picard

June 30, 2009Matt Blum

If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’ve surely considered the differences between the captains in the various series, even if you don’t have a favorite. And, while Sisko, Janeway, and even Archer have their fans, the quintessential Star Trek debate …

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