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One Geek To Another Audio #1 - Be Cool, Don't Drool |
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Written by Jess Hartley
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Monday, 02 August 2010 13:54 |
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 I've decided to try a little experiment using a new (to me, at least) site called AudioBoo. It allows you to post up to 5 minute audio files in a real-time display that others can follow, kind of like an audio Twitter.
The first One Geek To Another AudioBoo Episode is "Be Cool, Don't Drool", and you can listen to it here. It's just under four minutes long, and was inspired by my recent visit to Anime Land Tucon.
We're also working on activating comments for One Geek episodes here on the website, so be on the look out for that additional feature in the near future! In the meantime, feel free to drop me a note at OneGeek@jesshartley.com if you have any comments or feedback on One Geek in either the print or audio format!
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One Geek To Another - Being a Good Loser |
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Written by Jess Hartley
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 09:39 |
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Voting for the ENnie Awards closes today. One Geek To Another has been nominated for Best Blog, but--as in any competition--there can be only one ultimate winner. While I'd appreciate your vote, it seemed an appropriate time to tackle a difficult topic: being a good loser.
The adage says, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. Winning by cheating, or while making the game miserable for the rest of the players may still be winning, but in the long run, it's often a hollow victory.
I also believe that, again in the long run, how you win or lose is as important as how you play the game.
We've all played games with folks who are poor losers. Sometimes it's a maturity-level thing--children get very wrapped up in their recreational activities and sometimes don't have the emotional tools to deal appropriately with losing a game. Thankfully, as they age, most folks learn good sportsmanship both during and after a game, even when the results are important to them, making temper tantrums, table-overturning and emotional outbursts rarer as the age and maturity-level of the players increases.
Other times, however, the poor sportsmanship is more subtle (but no more fun to deal with).
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Written by Jess Hartley
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Monday, 19 July 2010 20:48 |
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A year ago, there was no such thing as One Geek To Another. Created just after Gen Con 2009, One Geek was started as a way to address etiquette and ethics topics for the geek community, including--but not limited to--the gaming community. Over the past 11 months, we've answered dozens of letters, publicly and privately, and touched on some hard topics, all in the name of smoothing some of the social rough-edges that we geeks are infamous for.
In honor of One Geek To Another being nominated for an ENnie Award in the category of Best Blog (please consider voting, if you haven't already) I thought I'd bring out our first year's worth of topics (27 in all!) in one easy-to-scan summary. Each topic contains a hyperlink to that particular episode, and the full list can be accessed through the One Geek To Another entry in the left hand menu.
Feel free to browse our past episodes, and as always, if you have a question for One Geek, or a topic you'd like to see covered, feel free to write OneGeek@jesshartley.com. I'd love to hear from you!
Introduction and Introductions - The Premiere Episode of One Geek To Another addresses proper introduction etiquette and why it's important even in casual settings (like conventions or the gaming table.)
How Do We Split Up The Party? - A reader writes in for advice on how to ask a problematic player to leave their gaming group.
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