Very well! he said. You shall prove your worth by facing me in a joust! I'd never heard of an undead lich king challenging someone to a joust. Especially not in a subterranean burial chamber. All right, I said uncertainly. But won't we be needing horses for that? Not horses, he replied, stepping away from his throne. Birds.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand.

I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the other kids play.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

As far as my house, I have a ton of video games and three or four old consoles.

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

I have a thing for evil bald bad guys. The Kurgan is too sexy.