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2 Common Live Streaming Challenges & How to Solve Them
Live-streaming is any geek’s ticket to success that allows them to make a living off doing what they love—an obviously great proposition. However, it is not without its fair share of confusion and technical challenges. As platforms like Twitch, Facebook Live, and...
How to Make a Dice Tray – Nathan Lucking, FURN Gaming
*Clatter Clatter Clatter* Dice. Quite important in a lot of role playing games. Quite noisy on tables - a problem if you're recording a YouTube series or podcast. Or at least a problem for whoever's stuck with editing duties. That's what FURN Gaming does and FURN's...
Oliver’s Brighton – The Opening Party
Wizards of Brighton OK, let's address the Harry Potter shaped elephant in the room. Oliver’s Brighton is not associated, nor endorsed or connected with JK Rowling, Warner Brothers or the Harry Potter franchise. All Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts products...
How to Meet and Talk to Women in Bars – a Geek’s Guide
Episode 32 - Dating - How to Meet and Talk to Women at a Bar Bars. People still meet in them. For real. How do you approach someone? How do you speak to someone? What if they turn you away? WHAT IF THEY ACTUALLY TALK TO YOU? Rami meets with Mark to cover the...
Oliver’s Brighton Launch Party Gallery
We were privileged to be invited to the Oliver's Brighton launch party. Just the gallery here for now, I'm working on the article so here are all the pics and some details. Oliver’s Brighton located at 42 Trafalgar Street, just a stone’s throw from Brighton...
CfG featured on The London Geek
We're famous baby! The London Geek is a brilliant blog by Hannah Cowton, you might recognise the name - I thought her blog was so great I got her on the podcast last week - go and have a listen (on iTunes) to us geek out over all the awesome things you can do in...
How to Write a Book – Part 3 – Heather Ness
How to Write and Publish a Book - Part 3 In case you missed them here are: Part 1 Part 2 Get other people on board. I am not an artist, but every book needs cover art. I asked a relative, a graphic designer who had already made some art for the same characters I was...
The Number ONE way to Increase those Geek Gains
Major Gaines Look, it's really hard to find a decent picture of Major Gaines. Naughty Dog's frankly DREADFUL fighting game, Way of the Warrior, on the 3DO has not been massively covered by the retro gaming press. Look at him though. Fearsome. Also I totally...
Personal Hygiene at Conventions
Pong Let's get straight to the point. Some people at expos and conventions smell. We're here to help you make sure that that is not you - you'll have a better time, the people around you will have a better time, you're more likely to meet new people, and have a better...
Geeky London with Hannah Cowton – The London Geek
Geeky London London! City of fish & chips, Big Ben, The Queen, ESports stadia, immersive experiences, and conventions of all kinds. Hannah Cowton, The London Geek, joins Robin as they share their Top 5 Geeky things to do in That London. Hannah is an up-and-coming...
Coaching for Geeks Founder Robin Bates featured in the GTeX blog
12 Experts Growing Together Exponentially - GTeX - founded by Simone Vincenzi and Ben Shorter, works to develop the knowledge, skills and experience of personal development professionals On their blog they regularly gather experts in the field to share their top tips....
Interview with the Red Dwarf crew – Rimmer, Kryten, Cat, Holly
Let me fly far away from here... Or at least to last weekend at MCM London Comic Con when we met (most of) the crew of the Jupiter Mining Corporation Solar Class Mining Ship, Red Dwarf. Rimmer, Kryten, Cat, Holly Chris Barrie, Robert Llewellyn, Danny...
Top 5 Comic Con Fitness Tips
When it’s Con-time it’s Go-time! For the fitness conscious geek on the go it’s hard to stay on the path of gains and health without getting looped into the after parties, hours of standing in lines, sitting through panels, running into celebrities and the copious...
How to Write a Book – Part 2 – Heather Ness
How to Write a Book – Part 2 Last time we covered: coming up with an idea going for it setting goals starting to write Which is all well and good but if you;re going to get this written you need to: Give yourself deadlines. I wanted to write a book in 2017....
When CfG met Manu Bennett
Manu Bennet Crixus. Allanon. Azog the Defiler. Deathstroke. Some of those are pretty unpleasant characters, turns out the man behind them is a delight to meet. Comic Con Robin went to MCM London Comic Con and met Manu - here's the transcript from the press...
Reasons to Quit Your Gym
I quit! Wait, Coach Austin, before you get going let's tell people to come and join the awesome Facebook group, which they'll never want to quit! - Robin OK Now I quit! What!? Why is Coach Austin talking about quitting gyms and health clubs? Shouldn’t he be pushing...
My Father had a Heart Attack – Handling Anxiety – a guest blog by Jay
My father’s had a heart attack My name is Jay and I’m going to tell you a little bit about the last couple of weeks of my life. Before I do you need to know a little bit about me. I’m 22, a full time school teacher. I play quidditch. I’m a massive geek...
Lies Movies Teach Geeks About Dating – Vol. 3
Episode 3 - Revenge of the ? Sorry, I'm too ill to come up with a good pun. If you think of one let me know - Robin Rami takes on more movie lies in this installment of Lies Movies Teach Geeks About Dating! Previous installments: Volume 1 Volume 2 There's more on the...
How to Write a Book – Part 1 – Heather Ness
Heather Ness She's the author of Broken Heroes: An Unofficial Guide to the Trauma and Psychology of Marvel's Defenders She also did The Psychology of the Legend of Zelda at Atlanta Anime Weekend. Check out what elseHeather's doing on her blog - Super-Psych. How to...
30 Day Challenge – Rules for Victory!
30 Day Challenge – the rules so far…. I will be honest with you. My mentor is very much of the ‘just do it and figure it out as you go - what’s the worst that could happen?’ mentality, so this challenge has developed and taken shape over the last week. Here are the...
Three Overused (and probably nonsense) Fitness Terms to Avoid
Basically B.S. Before we set off, and this is no B.S., come and join the Facebook group for daily geek life, dating and fitness advice. Recently there has been a big boom of fitness interest and participation, again (think back to the 90s and again in the 80s -...