I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.

The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.

You’re evil, you know that?” I said. She grinned and shook her head. “Chaotic Neutral, sugar.

I was one of the boys who made passes at girls who wore glasses. Any girl who was smarter than me - that was a huge turn-on.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

I've retroactively made all that wasted time rotting my brain into research. It makes me a hypocrite when I try to tell my own daughter, "I don't know, I think we've played a little too much Mario."

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.