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Geeking out in (your place here)
So how about we talk about all the cool places to geek out in you town or city.
D.C. had much geekery close or downsized in the last few years. One of my favorites places are Big Planet Comics in Georgetown. They have the best indie selection I have ever encountered and have only quality manga. You won't really find an endless shelf of mediocre shojo and shonen. Politics and Prose is great with the indie titles and Vertical stuff, but I mostly shop there for books. Lastly there's Fantom which is good on titles and always have sales. I usually find customers and shopkeepers ALWAYS going on about some underwear pervert.
DC Anime club is around and they have events, but it's of questionable quality. I haven't been a member in years.
Everything else I can think of that's fun is either not so geeky or in NoVa and MD that metro accessible. Like Katsucon, Anime USA or Magfest. Or cool groups like the NoVa Lolitas. (Fashion of course! :P)
D.C. had much geekery close or downsized in the last few years. One of my favorites places are Big Planet Comics in Georgetown. They have the best indie selection I have ever encountered and have only quality manga. You won't really find an endless shelf of mediocre shojo and shonen. Politics and Prose is great with the indie titles and Vertical stuff, but I mostly shop there for books. Lastly there's Fantom which is good on titles and always have sales. I usually find customers and shopkeepers ALWAYS going on about some underwear pervert.
DC Anime club is around and they have events, but it's of questionable quality. I haven't been a member in years.
Everything else I can think of that's fun is either not so geeky or in NoVa and MD that metro accessible. Like Katsucon, Anime USA or Magfest. Or cool groups like the NoVa Lolitas. (Fashion of course! :P)
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My japanese class is geeking out this thursday night by going to karaoke after the final.
Viga, I see this thread as one for you to just gloat. You're evil! The closest thing one could Geek out at is if you are a geek of ships etc. We have one such museum. Other than that, nothing. Book store still has 3 manga, Shaman King, WITCH and a third shitty one. Remembering too much crap is hazardous for my health you know.
The Troy Public Library use to do an anime/game night before the girl who ran it got fired. -_-
Their is a cosplay group the meets up in Albany. Not my gig but the people who do it are alright. The idea of cosplay bowling is pretty cool.
I've considered trying to advise either the SUNY Albany or RPI anime club.
Anyway, as for my town and its geekiness: I live in the vicinity of Los Angeles, which has great comic shops and a Kinokuniya, but far enough away that it's not reasonable to go often. In my local area, we have one comic shop, and it's a total Android's Dungeon.
As for home, I like to consider myself my grade's social nerd. I was the one to set up our town-wide Brawl tournament and should be DMing a Dungeons and Dragons game for some new role players this summer. We've also got a pretty nice comic book shop one town over and a very friendly group of Magic players who frequent the library.
Overall, Clark, NJ is actually a really happening geeky town. We even had a Pokemon renaissance my sophomore year of high school.
There are numerous comic/anime shops, and a bunch of cool cultural stuff (Japan Town, Little Koreatown, etc). There are meetups of various geeky groups, and the general level of geekiness is so high that you have NORMAL, un-"geeky" people playing Carcasonne and Settlers of Catan in the coffee shops.
As for the Cleveland area, at Strongsville/Southpark mall there is a tabletop gaming store called Recess. There are various comic shops and classic gaming shops around (one just got shut down, though). There's also an arcade in Macedonia called Fun n Stuff which is home to gaming nerds from around the area. It's a cool geeky hangout.