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Mikkel Snyder
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Mikkel Snyder is a technical writer by day and pop culture curator and critic all other times.
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Editorials, Features, Video GamesA Tier List for Talking Tutorials
Over my eight years and counting tenure as a technical writer, I’ve gained an appreciation for the teaching tools that…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Editorials, Features, Nerd in ResidenceThe Resume as a Character: Minmaxing Without Numerical Stats
This is an image of one of the many generic resume templates that is currently available on Microsoft Word. It’s…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Current Gen, Editorials, Features, Video GamesPlease Just Point Me in a Direction: An Opine of the Opening of Open Worlds
You can stop me if you have heard this one before, but did you see the game with the trailer…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Carcosa Interviews, Features, PC, Video GamesHighlighting Courtney Lee, Social Media Manager for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
We here at Black Nerd Problems had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Courtney Lee, the social media manager…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Current Gen, Editorials, Features, PC, Video GamesThe Roguelike Enthusiast Describes Their First Soulsbourne Experience
One of the first games I ever reviewed for this site was Subset Game’s Into the Breach, the follow up…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Current Gen, PC, Tech, Video GamesFinally, I Get to Give My First Impressions on the Steam Deck
I, like many other children of the early 90’s, became a gamer thanks to Nintendo’s GameBoy. Mine in particular was…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Editorials, Features, Nerd in Residence, Video GamesA Retrospec-dle: Looking at Variants and Variant Timelines of Wordle
1. Intro So before I talk about Worlde, I actually have to talk about crosswords. You see, near the start…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Current Gen, Editorials, Features, Nerd in Residence, Video GamesDissecting the Design of Destiny 2’s Duality Dungeon
Back in high school English classes, there was this trend amongst my peers and I that after we learned about…
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Mikkel Snyder
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Features, PC, Video GamesFirst Impression of ‘Oaken’: A New Tactical Roguelike
As someone incredibly well versed in the iterative process of slowly getting better, accumulating knowledge and resources in an endless…
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Mikkel Snyder