Nerdiest thing you have ever said or discussed...
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I was in a Chinese restaurant and I got a call form a friend who wanted help with a boss. I spent about twenty minutes telling him how then after I hung up I looked around to see a most everyone in the resturant just looking at me....
Maybe they thought up a LOTR 40K versionSizableSac said:lol your right Star Wars is gonna be like FIRIN MAH LAZOR *pew pew pew*sokka14 said:
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Saying LOL to people to have never even heard it, explaining linux to people who don't have computers. I was once really drunk and was running around town asking people if they know the Legend of Zelda theme, they didn't and I called them n00bs, I would have feared for my life if i wasn't drunk.
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Startrek having 81 episodes instead of 80, depending on how you count the two-part episode menagerie.
Kirk vs Picard.
Why lightsabers would never, ever, feasibly work (unless it's designed like the beam katana in No More Heroes).
Over 9000 WoW discussions, in public (I DIDN'T BRING IT UP, SOMEONE ELSE DID, OKAY?)
Talking about this March Mayhem contest IRL.
I dunno.
Startrek having 81 episodes instead of 80, depending on how you count the two-part episode menagerie.
Kirk vs Picard.
Why lightsabers would never, ever, feasibly work (unless it's designed like the beam katana in No More Heroes).
Over 9000 WoW discussions, in public (I DIDN'T BRING IT UP, SOMEONE ELSE DID, OKAY?)
Talking about this March Mayhem contest IRL.
I dunno.
I once had to explain to someone in an online game why he was lagging, what ping meant and every concievable way he could make the game run better. They then told me they were getting a macbook and asked if that would be better for running the game. I almost cried.
Also having in depth discussions with a friend over what we would like to be if we were ever in the Imperial Guard. I maintain Commisar as I think it's a hilarious idea to shoot people to improve morale.
Also having in depth discussions with a friend over what we would like to be if we were ever in the Imperial Guard. I maintain Commisar as I think it's a hilarious idea to shoot people to improve morale.
No, You ARE Sensitive, And face it the society we live in hates higher intelligence, get used to it.Kukul said:
"Nerdy" has nothing to do with science (or any intellectual study) per se. It is a deep personal interest, nay, fascination with the specifics of a particularly arcane and obscure subject, with the caveat that this only applies to subjects where it is actually possible to become an authority. Art Criticism, for instance, is so rife with non-objective blither that no one could possibly take an Art Critic seriously if they called themselves a nerd. (Unless it was on the basis of actual knowledge in some OTHER area.) Fields where people just make shit up and are deemed knowledgeable simply by the quantity of their verbal output do not qualify for nerd status.Kukul said:
However, in any field with vast quantities of specific or arcane info it is possible to be a nerd. You can be a computer nerd, a crypto nerd, an anime nerd, a sci-fi nerd, etc. I am an Objectivist/gamer/fantasy nerd, with some sallies into the areas of Computers and Science Fiction.
Heavy Cav. gets raped by mounted archers 9 times out of 10. This [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hattin] come to mind.Loiosh91 said:
Whenever my friends and I start discussing Alternate History Theory, Religion, Myth, Philosopy and Roleplaying Games, all at the same time. It can be a little dizzying.
Oh and Lews, I have one word for you in regards to heavy cavalry, Cataphracts, They stopped the Mongol Horde dead in its tracks.
Oh and Lews, I have one word for you in regards to heavy cavalry, Cataphracts, They stopped the Mongol Horde dead in its tracks.
I have been discussing the Zelda series timeline as I read through this thread. That's pretty nerdy.
okay...
I'm in the middle of a rather large discussion between several people concerning the qualities of real life vs fantasy in relationship to Disneyland and video games. I tend to believe that any creation is real life (hence New Orleans Square in Disneyland is just as real and valid as New Orleans). As far as video games (and in reality it includes all electronic or "virtual" aspects of life)go, the artificial reality of it all becomes real when real living people take part in the execution of it.
Then there is the whole Muppet attractions at Disneyland thing. You see, when Disney builds an animatronic of anything, it is at least once removed from the actuality of the object. For example, an animatronic of a Jack Sparrow is a robotic representative of a movie character played by an actor who bases his performance off of various influences. Hence it's not a real pirate. It IS, however, a real animatronic which has intrinsic value to itself. With the Muppets, however, it's different. As a Muppet is a representative of whatever creature is being created (it is generally agreed that Muppets are their own thing with real differences between, say a Muppet Frog named Kermit and an actual frog, they exist separately and one doesn't represent another [this does not include the Jim Henson Creature Workshop which does create puppet representations of real things]). If you have an animatronic of, say, Bean Bunny like in the "Muppet Vision 3D" attraction, it is in reality, Bean Bunny and not a representation of such.
Now, how this goes back to video games. If a creature is inherently data then the creature is not a representative of any thing that exists in the "real world" but an actual entity unto its self, but it doesn't work perfectly there... and hence the long term discussion.
Also to be considered (though, in my opinion, not seriously)is the influence of popular opinion or convenience in the labeling of how real or unreal something is.
Oh... I also study critical theory and hence have had many conversations (in class) and wrote many long papers on analyzing various thing through various avenues of critical theory.
Subjects of a few of my papers:
-Freudian analysis of "Born in the U.S.A."
-Neon Genesis Evangelion from a Post-colonial view.
-Queer theory and Cowboy Beebop
-How Beck music videos incorporate Laconic ideology.
-Standard deconstruction of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland (with a few words about the Disney World version).
it starts to be a game after a while.
I'm in the middle of a rather large discussion between several people concerning the qualities of real life vs fantasy in relationship to Disneyland and video games. I tend to believe that any creation is real life (hence New Orleans Square in Disneyland is just as real and valid as New Orleans). As far as video games (and in reality it includes all electronic or "virtual" aspects of life)go, the artificial reality of it all becomes real when real living people take part in the execution of it.
Then there is the whole Muppet attractions at Disneyland thing. You see, when Disney builds an animatronic of anything, it is at least once removed from the actuality of the object. For example, an animatronic of a Jack Sparrow is a robotic representative of a movie character played by an actor who bases his performance off of various influences. Hence it's not a real pirate. It IS, however, a real animatronic which has intrinsic value to itself. With the Muppets, however, it's different. As a Muppet is a representative of whatever creature is being created (it is generally agreed that Muppets are their own thing with real differences between, say a Muppet Frog named Kermit and an actual frog, they exist separately and one doesn't represent another [this does not include the Jim Henson Creature Workshop which does create puppet representations of real things]). If you have an animatronic of, say, Bean Bunny like in the "Muppet Vision 3D" attraction, it is in reality, Bean Bunny and not a representation of such.
Now, how this goes back to video games. If a creature is inherently data then the creature is not a representative of any thing that exists in the "real world" but an actual entity unto its self, but it doesn't work perfectly there... and hence the long term discussion.
Also to be considered (though, in my opinion, not seriously)is the influence of popular opinion or convenience in the labeling of how real or unreal something is.
Oh... I also study critical theory and hence have had many conversations (in class) and wrote many long papers on analyzing various thing through various avenues of critical theory.
Subjects of a few of my papers:
-Freudian analysis of "Born in the U.S.A."
-Neon Genesis Evangelion from a Post-colonial view.
-Queer theory and Cowboy Beebop
-How Beck music videos incorporate Laconic ideology.
-Standard deconstruction of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland (with a few words about the Disney World version).
it starts to be a game after a while.
i had a five hour and forty-three minute long debate on how marvel was a better universe than DC was with a buddy of mine a couple of years back when we were still in highschool. Neither of us have given our sides yet, but i think i'm wearing him down.
I've had a few conversations such as those documented above. My wife and I discuss WoW on a daily basis.
But the one that springs to mind is when this pedestrian crossed against the light, causing me to have to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid running his stupid ass over, and then he had the balls to give me the finger!
My instinctive response (immediately implemented, of course) was to roll down my window and scream "GG NUB!" at him.
After which, I decided that perhaps it was time for me to take a break from WoW for a week or so.
But the one that springs to mind is when this pedestrian crossed against the light, causing me to have to slam on the brakes and swerve to avoid running his stupid ass over, and then he had the balls to give me the finger!
My instinctive response (immediately implemented, of course) was to roll down my window and scream "GG NUB!" at him.
After which, I decided that perhaps it was time for me to take a break from WoW for a week or so.