My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

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.

Going outside is highly overrated.

I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.

I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.

Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation.

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.