What is... the nerdiest/geekist thing you've ever done?

[Death God]

Me and my friends dressed in full zombie fighting gear and went around the town (it's a small town) screaming, "Die you zombie bastards!", and pretending we were in a Left for Dead game.

 

[Steven Post]

I made my own tabletop RPG from the ground up with the intention of making a game that plays faster and more easily than Dungeons and Dragons without giving up the open nature of the game.

 

[captaincabbage]

Okay, probably the nerdiest thing I've done is go to an expo. I went to the Armageddon Multimedia (so yeah, nerd) Expo.

In my defense, it was at this place that I did the most awesome thing ever.

I highfived a Stormtrooper.

Spoiler

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Something Star Wars related, I'm sure. However, I've done so many things that I've really lost count. Perhaps the most recent thing that got me strange looks was when I quoted Dr. Richtofen from Nazi Zombies.

"What is this, the D G 3? It cannot be! Could it be that the D G 3 is just for me?! Ah HA!" I did it at my work, in the same high-pitched sequel voice that he does. Several of my coworkers thought I was insane, but some of the laughed because they knew what I was doing.

 

[captaincabbage]

I quote Doctor Who on a regular basis. Which, actually, can get pretty bad sometimes. *laughs*

Bah, don't feel bad about that, that's nothing. I quote EVERYTHING.

Seriosuly, I'll quote from the one episode of Star Trek I saw whilst nearly passed out drunk.

 

[Sandytimeman]

I drove 32 hours to the LA convention center for my first Anime Expo. Probably to date the nerdiest and most awesome thing I have ever done. Also most expensive!

 

[Xanthious]

This might qualify partially. I damn near got myself beaten down by three large angry bodyguards in the process of getting Barry Gordy to sign my DVD of Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon. It was one of the last signature I wanted on this DVD and I found out he was speaking at a location a few hours away from my house and I drove there on the off chance I could bump into him with a little effort.

I ended up finding him as he was leaving the building accompanied by the aforementioned bodyguards and rushed up to him and into a wall of giant black men who were quite adamant Mr Gordy wasn't signing ANYTHING. Finally after a couple minutes of begging with bodyguards Mr Gordy asked me what I wanted him to sign and was extremely amused about what it was and ended up signing it. He was also impressed at all the other autographs I have on it (Currently 8 Barry Gordy, Taimak, Julius Carry, Vanity, Ernie Reyes Jr, Faith Prince, Christopher Murney, and Keisha Knight-Pulliam).

 

[v3n0mat3]

Singing the "Harry Potter and Friends" song on the public bus, out loud, with a friend. Good times. Oh, that and downloading the Lightsaber app for the Star Wars RPG session the other day. And using it.

 

[BillCobbett]

nerdiest? Witnessed a guy in my high school class checking out a girl's boobs every day in AP Macroeconomics class. Made up a term for it--buying bonds. Cause you know, he's trying to increase the interest rate but all he's doing is lowering output

 

[uc.asc]

I once installed linux by moving the reader arm on the CD drive by hand.

No, really. The trick is that the reader head moves a fraction of an inch independently, so all you have to do is get the arm in the right area and it will start reading.

It wouldn't be practical to do this for the whole installation, but once it loaded the hardware drivers I was able to move the CD to a USB CD drive which I had hacked together from an old internal CD drive and the power and data interface from a USB HDD, and resume the installation from there.

Do I win anything?

 

[Kizi]

I get offended when my friends diss Star Wars.
Also, I played a text RPG the other day.

 

[Varitel]

Flagrant abuse of a #define.

ex.

#include <stdio.h>

#define stuff printf("Hello\040World");return(0);

int main()
{
stuff
}

sorry for the bad formatting, I can't figure out how to add a tab, or angle-brackets.

 

[MiketheBassMan]

I compiled a custom upstream kernel for my netbook to patch out a problem with the touch screen. Compiling the whole Linux kernel on a netbook is serious business. Or at least a serious time sink.

Oh! oh! I once used dd to create an exact replica (down to the partition table and MBR) of my old HDD onto a new, much larger HDD; I didn't want to reinstall Windows and all my shit.

 

[NDstephan]

Well; 2 years ago I made a proton pack for Halloween, then I grew my hair out for a year so I could made a full Link costume including Hylian Shield and Master Sword, this year I'm making a Sora costume ala Kingdom Hearts 2 including a Kingdom Keyblade.

FYI: I have never before gotten into Halloween

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I drove 80 miles with my friends to a pizza place in another city in order to watch the korean starcraft finals live at 1am. The place had a professional starcraft commentator come in and commentate the game live, and the pizza and beer flowed like wine. Twas a glorious night, though sadly the matches ended all too fast because JaeDong couldn't get his shit together.

that sounds fucking epic, honestly.

i really wish i knew of more tourny's in my area where me and friends could rally to em and have a blast.


OT: well numerous times in class i have opened my big ass mouth stating something super nerdy when the teacher was either wrong or comparing it to something in video games or something i read in an article online, and more often then not i get fuckin goofy ass looks as to what i do with my fucking time.

oh and me and my friends make dragon ball z quotes all the fucking time.

in calc and physics we used limits of over 9000 all the damn time and would draw a super saiyan as the n value

 

[Ooga600]

Sometimes I'll accidentally say thank the maker or by azura when i mean to say thank god or my god.

 

[ace_of_something]

This is a tough question for me however it's easily where my username comes from.
I was once in a punk rock/ska band
ages ago
that was called 'the deck of many things' our songs were mostly about D&D.

It was truly sad.

(PS this was loooong before penny-arcade made a joke about tycho being in a similar band... hell i think it was before penny-arcade existed)

Not trying to be the bad guy, but how is it tough question, as well as easy?

For me, it was probably when I was in class at Uni and the teacher said something incorrect. I promptly stood up and said "Objection!"

tough considering how many things are on the list. But easy when I realize the band thing.
Most of us wore capes.

 

[DJ-Oli]

Daily Routine:

Open my computer case
check that every single fan is running at the proper speed (if not, call and order a new one, or if still under warranty, call them and say i've got a "broken product sent from the factory".

Fan check (Done: V)
Case closed.
Computer booted up properly, µTorrent started,350+ torrents seeding at full speed.

Turn on my 42" LED Full HD TV
Turn on my Sega Mega Drive, and play some Dick Tracy/Sonic 1,2 or Ecco the Dolphin for a few hours.

Then it's time to go on my computer, look at some random tv shows/movies to dl, and spend the evening watching that, or go on a random raid/do dailies on wow.

 

[Ouroboros0977]

In a pub with some friends I was talking to one when we realised that we liked many of the same things so I shouted "social link go!" and we high fived.... Wait does it count if you are drunk?