That’s it! School’s out! For… summer, for… ever! You might have booked that road trip, that holiday, and planned that EPIC night out. Or maybe, you can’t quite afford it yet. Maybe, you are fired up with passion at the very start of your career. Because right now, it is time. Time to enter the real world, …
Coaching for Geeks Levels Up Dating – Welcome Kurtis Kehoe!
Kurtis Kehoe joins the Coaching for Geeks team to add his expertise and experience to our dating coach services. You’re in for a treat with Kurtis Kehoe as our new dating coach! With his quirky sense of humor and unique experience with the matters of the heart, you’ll surely find something that you can relate to and learn from, whether you’re …
Tabletop Warlords – Salute 2018 – Convention Survival Guide
Aaah Salute. The first con of this year, and the first time that I’ve personally gone along to it. What is it? Salute is a tabletop wargaming convention, featuring various companies selling miniatures, paints, and tabletop accessories, and/or giving live demos of the new games that they have coming up, based at Excel London. Now, before going really into …
Con-Virgin with my Inner Weirdo
For a number of years now, the concept of Comic Con has been something I have been aware of but had never invested much time into. My knowledge of it was probably because ‘geek culture’ has become more widely adopted in today’s society and also thanks to The Big Bang Theory (love it or hate it), it’s a big …
Gamification 101 (or How I Turned my Dead Facebook Group Around Using Stickers)
This blog post first appeared in the Coffee With Dan Facebook group Cast your mind back, Wayne’s World style, to July of this year; Spider-Man: Homecoming had just come out and I had written a piece on it that I was fucking proud of. **Crickets** Awesome. My group was on life support and needed a kick up …
PC Gamer Weekender, Part 3 – Panels, Workshops, and MORE GAMES!
PC Gamer came up with a solid show for their first effort at Olympia; while you’d expect the games themselves to be the focus there was a lot of associated activity that was both fun and thought-provoking. Panels covered diverse topics such as careers in games journalism, the influence of the modder community on games developers and a number covering …
Relationships: 30 Life Lessons to My Younger Self
I turned 30 this year, and I reflected on some life lessons about my relationships and the nature of love. It really does feel like a significant number, because I’ve learned so much in this time and yet I know there is SO much more to learn. (And re-learn!) Looking back, I wish I could go back to my …
Top Ten Tips for Volunteering at Conventions – Convention Survival Guide
Comic Con! (and other conventions). They don’t happen by magic and vast teams of volunteers are on hand to make sure they work like… erm… clockwork. Sarah Wilson, CfG Queen of Cons, shares her top ten tips for surviving comic con as a volunteer. All of us conventioneers have seen people running around cons, wearing crew shirts, helping the guests …
Music and Sound Effects – D&D Tips with James Gifford
My players had finally found the flooded Crypt. They inch down into the dank stone entranceway, fear gripping them as they watch out for the ghost of a blind witch Morvane. As they emerge into the main catacomb, all is still… then they see her, manifesting above the alter, her hair splayed out like white tendrils, milky eyes wide …
Queen of Screams? Birmingham Horror Con 2018 Review
I was rather excited about Birmingham Horror Con, I’ve not attended an event like this before, sure, I’ve been to a Walking Dead con. But, nothing dedicated to Horror as a whole! The Horror of Edgebaston The venue was Edgebaston Stadium. A place I never thought could hold a convention. But, turns out it worked well. Rooms consisted of: a …