Lara Crigger Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

Love FAQ

Your (Fat) Princess is In Another Castle

LoveFAQ is a weekly advice column for geeks, by geeks about love, life and maxing out your romance meter. Got questions for LoveFAQs? ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJuly 15, 2011

Love FAQ

Don?t Stick It in The Crazy

LoveFAQ is a weekly advice column for geeks, by geeks about love, life and maxing out your romance meter. Got questions for LoveFAQs? ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJuly 8, 2011

Love FAQ

The Unbearable Lightness of Licking Lampposts

LoveFAQ is a weekly advice column for geeks, by geeks about love, life and maxing out your romance meter. Got questions for LoveFAQs? ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJuly 1, 2011

Love FAQ

Honesty is the Best Poly-cy (Except When It Isn?t)

LoveFAQ is a new weekly advice column for geeks, by geeks about love, life and maxing out your romance meter. Got questions for ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJune 24, 2011

Editor's Choice

My Big Fat Geek Marriage

In pop culture, happy, healthy marriages don’t exist. Apart from the “chick lit/flick” arena, most movies, TV shows, novels, videogames, you name it, ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJune 16, 2009

Editor's Choice

My Big Fat Geek Wedding

Let’s Play Wedding Planning GameMonths ago, a friend of mine warned me that, like the Money Making Game from The Legend of Zelda, ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorJune 24, 2008

Weird Science

This Is Your Brain on Smart Drugs

Americans are no strangers to the idea of better living through chemistry. We’ll try anything to boost our brainpower, from eating more salmon, ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorMarch 18, 2008

Edu-gaming 2

West Virginia’s Health Revolution

It’s hard not to immediately like Ryan Walker. The cheerful, talkative sixth grader from Martinsburg, West Virginia crackles with prepubescent confidence and easy ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorMay 29, 2007

Still Street Fighting After All These Years

Resident Evil’s Second Sex

I have a complicated relationship with Ada Wong. My first impressions of her were embarrassingly Pavlovian. Ada, the undercover spy first introduced in ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorMay 8, 2007

Extra Life

Textual Pleasure: Parsing the Annual IF Competition

It’s 3:00 on a particularly bright, sun-dappled afternoon. Outside, a few birds chatter amongst themselves, and at my feet, my dog snoozes lightly. ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorMay 1, 2007

Greater than Ourselves

A Lack of Faith

“What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? And that thou shouldest visit him ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorApril 3, 2007

The Rainmakers

Searching for Gunpei Yokoi

Ten years after his death, Gunpei Yokoi has been reduced to legend: condensed, marginalized and re-packaged as a Nintendo creation myth instead of ...

By Lara Crigger Legacy AuthorMarch 6, 2007

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