Author: Victor de la Cruz

Most of my childhood (and adult life) was spent doing a lot of geeky stuff: watching TV, playing video games and going to the movies. To some, it may have been a waste of time. Well, to me, it has made me what I am today... a geeky adult. I actually write for a couple of blogs, namely: geekwisdom.wordpress.com 3rdworldgeeks.com gamemoir.com Please check them out!

Quick update regarding the future of Geek Wisdom

Hello everyone!

First and foremost, I would like to thank everyone who’ve been reading my musing on Geek Wisdom. I do appreciate all of the Likes and comments that I have received since I have started writing this personal project of mine. While I’ve never really posted anything here other than those nuggets of knowledge, I have something important to write about regarding the future of this site.

Unreality will be making Geek Wisdom a regular weekly feature on their site! Unfortunately, this also means that I will not be able to actually post the full Geek Wisdom article on this site anymore. As a compromise, I will be posting a quick teaser here and the direct link to the weekly Geek Wisdom post on Unreality.

I hope that all of you visit Unreality as well and read the other articles since they are pretty good overall.

Thanks again to all of the people that have been reading! I really, really, really appreciate it!

Regards,

Victor “Fiefo!” de la Cruz

PS: I guess I’ll take this opportunity as well to ask for some assistance in the future. If you have any particular quotes you would like to contribute and see if it can be made into Geek Wisdom, please write it in the comments.

“I have a bad feeling about this!”

From: Star Wars

Genre: Movies

Who said it?: A lot of the cast!

The story behind the quote: During the Star Wars films, the prequels and the original trilogy, practically all of the heroes (Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker and even C3-P0) will deliver this quote. A lot of the time, it’s used for a humorous effect: there’s obviously something wrong is going to happen so it’s obvious that they feel that something wrong will happen. In fact, it became so popular that a lot of geeks will deliver the quote out of instinct when they know something obviously bad is about to happen.

If you want to see the quote delivered in all of the Star Wars movies, you can watch them in the clip below:

Geek wisdom:  You don’t need a mystical Force to know that something is wrong. You’ve got your gut to do that for you. Other people may think it’s just paranoia but there is going to be that time when your gut will be correct even though conventional logic says otherwise.

It’s that gut feeling that tells you to avoid taking that shortcut through a dark alley or crossing the street even though you don’t see any cars incoming. This same instinct help mankind survive for as long as we have. So, it’s something that has worked (and still does) for all of us.