Internet/Social Media - Forces of Geek

Columns/Features

Tips for Professional Gamers to Reduce Time Spent in Games

Professional gamers, like any other athletes, require time to hone their skills and stay at the top of their game. But spending too much...

FOG! CommandMay 7, 2023

Columns/Features

How Pop Culture Is Shaping Our Digital Lives

The most widespread behaviors, things, and ideas in a society are the building blocks of what is known as popular culture. The effect of...

FOG! CommandMarch 23, 2023

Columns/Features

Popular Culture Degree Options to Consider

Pop culture is an emerging academic field that is becoming more and more popular. This is an amazing educational opportunity that you will be...

FOG! CommandSeptember 4, 2020

Columns/Features

From Friend to Foe: The Sinister World of Social Media

From Facebook and Twitter to Instagram and TikTok, social media has taken over the lives of 3.8 billion citizens on this planet, creating some...

FOG! CommandJuly 13, 2020

Columns/Features

Choosing A VPN Based On Your Nerd Needs

We all know that the internet is a mix of all sorts of strange and interesting characters. It’s a playground for the informative, for...

FOG! CommandJanuary 24, 2020

Columns/Features

The Hidden Dangers of Online Quizzes: All the Truth Revealed

Online quizzes are fun, and they’re designed to be tempting. That’s why they’re so popular, but precisely because of that they also attract plenty...

FOG! CommandMarch 1, 2019

Movies

Tribeca Film Festival: ‘The American Meme’ (review)

Produced by Bert Marcus & Cassandra Hamar Written & Directed by Bert Marcus Featuring Paris Hilton, Kirill Bichutsky, Brittany Furlan, Josh Ostrovsky, DJ Khaled,...

Dana AbercrombieJune 6, 2018

Gadgets/Tech

3 Key Social Media Video Trends in 2018

Every year there are certain trends that gain a footing on social media, and often transform it completely or at very least alter it...

FOG! CommandJanuary 25, 2018

Columns/Features

Precursor to Dystopia #5: The Police State

Happy New Year! It’s been a nice increment up in the calendar, right? Deadly blizzards, a volcano suddenly becoming active (and another showing scary...

Joe PeacockJanuary 17, 2018

Columns/Features

The Three Best Mobile Web Browsers

Our mobile phones can do so many things and be so many things that they have become an integral part of our lives. Not...

FOG! CommandDecember 24, 2017

Columns/Features

Precursor to Dystopia #4: Facebook

Welcome to the fourth Precursor to Dystopia column. Usually I start these with some weird-but-intriguing analogous relationship between something innocuous, and the inevitable dystopian...

Joe PeacockDecember 13, 2017

General

Minecraft 101: Tips to Staying Safe on the Servers

Photograph by Tim Pierce On December 21, 2015, a somewhat popular “Let’s Play” YouTuber named LionMaker tweeted unacceptable images of an underage admirer, whom...

Stefan BlitzFebruary 5, 2016

General

The Genesis and Evolution of MMORPGs

Back before the internet was a thing, people used to play games offline, sitting at a table with friends. Obviously this is still common...

Stefan BlitzJanuary 27, 2016

General

INFOGRAPHIC – NYCC DAILY ROUND-UP DAY 4 BUZZ METER

NYCC 2014 certainly went out with a bang, as Day 4 brought more surprises and gossip-filled panels for all the fans in attendance on...

Stefan BlitzOctober 13, 2014

General

INFOGRAPHIC – NYCC DAILY ROUND-UP DAY 3 BUZZ METER

Day 3 at NYCC was dominated by television and unsurprisingly the biggest buzz of the day went to The Walking Dead. Season 5 of...

Stefan BlitzOctober 13, 2014

General

INFOGRAPHIC – NYCC DAILY ROUND-UP DAY 2 BUZZ METER

Friday was Marvel Day at NYCC, with the studio dropping several surprises on fans during the course of the day! The biggest news of...

Stefan BlitzOctober 12, 2014

General

INFOGRAPHIC – NYCC DAILY ROUND-UP DAY 1 BUZZ METER

Day 1 of New York Comic Con started with a bang, as Walt Disney Studios brought the biggest surprise of the day in the...

Stefan BlitzOctober 11, 2014

General

Professor Badass, Look-Alikes and Me

I recently met up with a friend of mine to see Snowpiercer, the fancifully dystopian mindjob of a movie about the last of humanity...

Marvin C. PittmanJuly 24, 2014

General

The Toy Photographers of Instagram

Anyone who knows me knows that I love me some action figures…Actually anyone that knows me has to endure how much I love action...

Stefan BlitzJune 17, 2014

General

This Man Is About To Die, But What His Shares With His Estranged Son Is Amazing

The New Yorker has an interesting article about what makes certain things go viral online. Apparently, it’s a combination of several things including emotional...

Stefan BlitzJanuary 22, 2014