Episode 6: Why FemSheps Rule

Hiya! Last time, I talked about the male characters of Mass Effect and how boring I found them. But I wasn’t able to explain why the female Shepard is more interesting vs. the male version, which is what I’m going to do now. The male and female Shepard will actually have the same general backstory…

Episode 4: There’s A Little Girl in All of Us?

Hiya! So last week I wrote down my experiences of playing Street Fighter and my disappointment of having to use Vega instead of a female character. But this feeling doesn’t seem to apply to male gamers. In fact, I know a lot of guys who actually intentionally create girl characters in their games! I always…

Episode 3: Here Comes A New Challenger!

Hiya! My last post tackled my history with The Sims. I also mentioned that it’s one of the games that I can play. The other one, and I know it’s going to be odd, is Street Fighter 4. I noted last week that I don’t really play games because I panic a lot. And I…

Episode 2: An Ode to The Sims

Hiya! Last time, I wrote a (possibly very incoherent) entry regarding why I think everyone has potential to have some geeky knowledge in them. I also mentioned that I usually watch my brother playing video games. I need to make a brief amendment to that. I do play video games. I don’t play them well…

Episode 1: What is a geek anyway?

Hiya! My name’s Robin, a 17-year old girl (going on 18) in the Philippines and I’ll be the one writing up a weekly entry regarding a girly point-of-view regarding geeky stuff. I honestly don’t consider myself that big of a geek. “So, what qualifies you to write about geeky things?” you may ask. Well, although…