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MAINTENANCE UPDATE

Featured Trisha Lynn

15 March 2024: After many, many years, two apartment/house moves, and the
duration of a Master’s degree, I am slowly bringing this blog out of
hibernation, and have turned this website into my personal blog. In addition to
the necessary back-end updates and upgrades, I have already done the following:

 * Completely redesigned the site using a new WordPress theme
 * Selected certain posts to be “guest contributor” posts and compensated the
   authors
 * Removed all original content that doesn’t belong to me and reverted ownership
   of the content they provided back to the authors/contributors

Over the next few months, I’ll be making even more changes and making the odd
post here and there; older posts may not be available to view immediately. If
you are a former contributor and/or you have questions, please use the Contact
form to reach out to me.



Posted in News from the PublisherTagged site maintenance


THINGS I WANT TO NORMALIZE IN 2023

2023-01-23 Trisha Lynn

Things I want to normalize in 2023 © 2023 by Trisha Lynn is licensed under CC
BY-NC-SA 4.0

I don’t know if this is going to be an ongoing series, but I’m definitely
prepared if it gets to that point.

Posted in Quips and Quotes


MOMENTS IN MAGIC: HOW I FINALLY LEARNED HOW TO PLAY MOMIR BASIC

2018-09-26 Trisha Lynn

Since this past August, I’ve been playing Magic: the Gathering Arena in their
closed beta both on my own and streaming on my Twitch channel
at geekingoutabout. I’m not that great of a player, so when I finally won my
first game of Momir Basic, I thought it was good enough to create a video about
it.




Learning how to play Momir Basic on MTG Arena lead to many nice moments.

If you’re interested in learning more about this newest iteration of Magic, you
can read this article I wrote for Twin Cities Geek and download the game for
yourself at the Arena website.

Posted in ReviewsTagged casual players, livestream, Magic: the Gathering, MTG
Arena, open beta


TRISHA’S TAKE: UNAVOWED

2018-08-08 Trisha Lynn

 



Are you strong enough, smart enough, or powerful enough to join the Unavowed? ©
Wadjet Eye Games



Unavowed

Created, Designed, and Published by Wadjet Eye Games
Written by Dave Gilbert
Starring (from left to right): Logan Cunningham, Sandra Espinoza, Frank Todaro,
Arielle Siegel, SungWon Cho (not pictured), and more
Art by Ben Chandler and Ivan Ulyanov
Music by Thomas Regin
Rating: Mature adolescents and above (adult language, gun violence, supernatural
elements)

Official Blurb: For one year, crime-torn New York City has been at the mercy of
someone hell-bent on destruction and chaos. Waking up on a stormy rooftop, you
learn that this someone was you. At least, the heinous acts were carried out by
your body, possessed by an angry demon that’s now loose in the city that never
sleeps. The only force that can stop it is the Unavowed, a centuries old
supernatural crime-fighting troupe that takes down evil in the shadows—and you
are their newest member.

Pros: Voice acting is top-notch and all of the diverse characters have depth and
are more than just stereotypes.

Cons: Some of the puzzles require a pixel hunt, and that can really take you out
of the story.

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Continue reading “Trisha’s Take: Unavowed“ →

Posted in Reviews, Video Games


GEEKLY SPEAKING ABOUT… DAVE GILBERT AND UNAVOWED

2018-08-08 Trisha Lynn



Dave Gilbert talks about just one of the many supernatural characters you’ll
meet in Unavowed from Wadjet Eye Games © Geeking Out About



About four years ago, I worked as an administrative assistant for an indie video
game publisher named Games Omniverse. Part of my job was to not only update all
of the game design documents on the company’s internal wiki, but to write some
articles for the company blog about games, specifically adventure games.

Writing those articles rekindled my love for adventure gaming, so when I was
offered a review copy of Unavowed, the latest from Wadjet Eye Games, I jumped at
the chance to not only review it, but to get an interview with its creator Dave
Gilbert. All the show notes are under the jump.





Continue reading “Geekly Speaking About… Dave Gilbert and Unavowed“ →

Posted in Interviews, Podcasts


TOO EARLY FOR STREAMING – “DOMINATED BY DOMINARIA”

2018-05-06 Trisha Lynn

Better later than never, I say, and so shall you when you watch the this episode
in our vidcast wherein I recap my Magic: the Gathering Dominaria prerelease
experience and ask the question: When is a troll actually a troll?

 



And here are the show notes!

 

Continue reading “Too Early for Streaming – “Dominated by Dominaria”” →

Posted in Games: Card-Based, Opinion/Editorial, VidCastsTagged Dominaria, Magic:
the Gathering, VidCasts, World of Warcraft


GEEKLY SPEAKING ABOUT… GILBERT AND SULLIVAN PRODUCTIONS IN THE TWIN CITIES

2018-05-03 Trisha Lynn

In the effort to both be able to play video games while churning out columns,
I’ve combined my Sunday Twitch streams and some of my old columns into something
entirely new. I can’t call this a pilot because I have at least 15 audio-only
Geekly Speaking About… episodes which I hope I’ll have the time to convert to a
new embedding format, but I hope you enjoy this new column which was supposed to
go up last Thursday but I ran out of time. (Thank goodness for the ability to
change publishing and posting dates.)

 



And now for the show notes!

Continue reading “Geekly Speaking About… Gilbert and Sullivan Productions in the
Twin Cities” →

Posted in Reviews, VidCastsTagged Gilbert & Sullivan, Princess Ida, The Pirates
of Penzance, Twin Cities, Two Xes Enter


TOO EARLY FOR STREAMING: PILOT – “SO THAT A WOMAN CAN STAND UP”

2018-04-19 Trisha Lynn

We’re pleased and proud to announce the debut of our new
podcast/vidcast/streaming show/video magazine. Depending on how many spoons I
have during the weekend, you should expect either this show or a vidcast version
of “Geekly Speaking About” to show up here on the blog every Thursday morning,
following a live stream on our Twitch channel called geekingoutabout. You can
watch it here and then click the link to read the show notes.



Continue reading “Too Early For Streaming: Pilot – “So That a Woman can Stand
Up”” →



Posted in Opinions/Editorials, Reviews, Vidcast


IT CAME FROM THE BARGAIN BIN: TADPOLE

2018-04-17 Trisha Lynn

Before I dig into this retro (!) review, let me first explain something. See,
back when I was in my early 20s in New York City, I had a day job where I
entered DVD and VHS release information into a database that then got sold to
companies who needed databases of information like this, like Tower Records. You
remember record stores… right?

Anyway, naturally, this meant that the company I was working for had a pretty
close relationship with both the major and the minor video distributors and
studios. This also means that from time to time, they would send us screener
copies of movies that are about to come out on DVD and/or VHS. These copies got
passed around the office and housed somewhere until the day someone got sick of
seeing them in their cubicle and put them in the breakroom for anyone to take.
That’s how I got a hold of a review copy of Tadpole and that’s when I decided to
write a DVD review. I’ve cleaned it up since then, but for the most part, I have
not looked at this since I first wrote it in 2004. Continue reading “It Came
from the Bargain Bin: Tadpole“ →

Posted in Movies, ReviewsTagged Aaron Stanford, Bebe Neuwirth, indie films, John
Ritter, Sigourney Weaver, Tadpole, teen comedy


TRISHA’S TAKE: THE LOADING READY RUN PRE-PRE-RELEASES

2018-01-11 Trisha Lynn



Loading Ready Run co-founder Graham Stark sets sail for the shores of Ixalan. © 
Bionic Trousers Media/Wizards of the Coast



I’ve been watching the Rivals of Ixalan Pre-Pre-Release replay first on Twitch
and later on YouTube over and over and I think that this is the best kind of
marketing event for Magic: the Gathering that Wizards of the Coast ever fell
backwards into. Why?

1. The people at Loading Ready Run who are hosting and producing these events
have at least a decade of experience in being funny and entertaining while being
professional. (Special kudos to James Turner, whose idea this all was, I think.)

2. Their online chat mods do not tolerate trolls. At all.

3. Their online chat community also does not tolerate trolls. At all.

4. The focus on the event is having fun and learning what the cards do, as all
non-moneyed competitive events should do. (Note: Winning packs as prizes doesn’t
count as money. No matter how much you try, you cannot buy groceries with packs
of Magic cards.)

5. The guests they invite can be a diverse bunch of folks who are also
entertaining, engaging, and friendly. Two of my favorites have been former Magic
pro and current Wizards employee Melissa DeTora and Jimmy Wong from the Command
Zone podcast. (Special hat-tip to Reuben Bresler of the Magic Mics podcast,
whose Facebook post recap inspired this post.)

It’s these last two parts that are perhaps the most important key to drawing new
players into the game or convincing lapsed players that they should head back
into their Local Gaming Store to attend the set’s actual pre-release and perhaps
start playing Magic again. I know that’s how I felt back when LRR debuted this
show starting with the Shadows of Innistrad Pre-Pre-Release. I went to my LGS
the following Saturday and went 0-4 in back-to-back events. By watching the
show, I could not only see some of the cards that were released in the visual
spoiler, but I could get a sense of how to actually play with them in a live
situation.



You have no idea how hard it was for me not to quip about “throwing away my
shot” during my matches. © Geeking Out About



Perhaps the biggest barrier for someone who’s on the fence on whether or not
they’ll want to spend their money on a new game they haven’t seen is wanting to
actually see what it’s like; the PPRs are perfect for that kind of
demonstration, more so than Wizards‘ own Magic tournament streams. Because it’s
partially produced by the company, there’s some sort of quality control.
However, because LRR was first and foremost a sketch comedy troupe, it’s going
to be entertaining. Best of all, because they actually play the game themselves,
the way they speak and interact with the game is completely natural and not
something that you’d get from any mainstream video content producer or marketing
company.

It’s a bit too late for me now to attend the Rivals prerelease because it’s
happening this weekend. However, with the return to the game’s initial starting
plane Dominaria this April, I may decide to dust off my card sleeves and see if
I can actually win a round this time.

After all, practice does make perfect.

Posted in Events, Games: Card-Based, ReviewsTagged event, Jimmy Wong, Loading
Ready Run, Magic: the Gathering, Melissa DeTora, Review


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