Where are you from? (New improved edition!)

[JagermanXcell]

I'm from Santa Clarita, California. A city sitting on top of a desert that is always growing with more people every second. When it hots its irritating, but when its cold (as of now) its heaven.

Do I make my self stand out as a geek? Yes and no.
The way I stood out amongst the boring crowd was I was very open about my geek way of life but not in my clothes, I dress very casually anyways (but man what I would kill for a P4 jacket) but in my conversation and how I was able to hold people's interest on my nerd and geek hobbies without them being seen as "obsessions" but as actual hobbies. I was the go to "Mahvel Gamer Movie guy" and I held that title for my time in high school.
Now I'm in community college and........ its bland. Everyone has the personality of a rock, I know for a fact there are geeks around my parts but man they really don't want to be open, so I'm back to a "nobody" status and talking to regular old people about... nothing.
All my friends are gone and Avengers 2 is a long way off... nothing or no one to talk to/about.

 

[Feedmeketamine]

Im from Leeds UK and ive got a few like minded hippy friends, but i should probably try and meet some more people

 

[Cowabungaa]

A surprising amount of Dutch people here so far, and another one is reporting in.

But although I hail from the small village of Tuil in the Netherlands, I currently live in the Belgian city of Ghent. Great place I must say.

Do I sport my geekiness? Somewhat. I pretty much only sport relatively stylish, geeky designs that look good even if you don't really get the reference. I try to keep it classy.

I'm from Woerden, a small rural town in The Netherlands. Do I hope to find like minded people there? Hell no.

Heh I actually know where that is.

So I am a very low key geek. And thank God for that, because I just turned 31, and no offense to anyone, but to go around wearing anime/game related clothing at that age is kinda pathetic.

Completely depends on the design of said clothing.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

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Hey another Kiwi! You'll be surprised at how many of us use The Escapist.

I'm a Hamiltonian born and raised, and to answer your second question I don't have a single shirt (apart from some uniforms) that doesn't have some gaming/geeky reference or logo on them.

 

[lacktheknack]

Yeah, people are kind of their avatars in my head too.

Oh. Oh dear.

OT: I'm from the capital of Alberta, Canada. Since I'm at a tech school, I'm constantly surrounded by geeks. It's made me realize just how geeky I am not.

 

[Fractral]

England, Berkshire. If you've ever been to Windsor Castle, or Legoland- yeah, that's in Berkshire. That's the nice bit of Berkshire, mind. The bit I live in is a fair bit less well off than the surrounding areas, and has something of a reputation, at least in this part of the country.
Outside of school I don't seek similar minded people out. There are enough people with the same tastes in games, books and films in my year that I've never had issues finding somebody to play with. Heck, we've had to stop talking about our D&D group in public because so many people wanted to join after they heard. We had something like 10 people playing a 4 person campaign before it got sorted out.

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

I am from a small town in North of Iceland.

I do not try to seek out any other geek in my town because I think I already know most of them. However, I am going to be starting an anime/manga club in my school to try and fish some of the people that are hiding from me. Plus it would probably be fun to get people to know the awesomeness that is manga/anime.

 

[jesse220]

I'm from Queensland, Australia. I get given a lot of 'geek' t-shirts for Christmas, I think it's because most of my family know I like games and comic books but can't be bothered actually figuring out what I have/what's worth buying/etc so they just get me a shirt with Mario or Superman on it. So I wear those out a fair bit. I also tend to hang around the comic book store sometimes just to chit chat with other people. I've also gone to the Mana Bar a few times and it's a great place to talk to like-mindeds.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I'm from The Capital Wasteland...but I kinda kept to myself because reasons...Also I moved out of The Capital Wasteland and now live in north-east Georgia...in the mountains...where there appear to be mountain-dwelling squids...I'm going to continue being reclusive except of course during cons which I think...yeah, next year when I got to Escapist Expo (I FUCKING MEAN IT THIS TIME) I'm closer to Durham now than I was when I lived in the Capital Wasteland.

 

[Anja Bech]

Århus, Denmark, the second largest city in the country. I moved here almost three years ago from a small town (Rønne) on a tiny island (Bornholm). It is fantastic! I've never met so many nerdy people in my life and there are so many different nerdy communities here. I know this thread is mainly aimed at how we attract our fellow nerdy humans, but I just wanted to say that after I moved I managed to, at the age of 23, finally get a gay 'support system' (not really sure of the right word for this) when I joined the LGBT youth group. When I lived in Rønne I had plenty of geeky friends - I attract them with my adorable weirdness, I'm sure - so that has never really been an issue for me, but I never thought I was gonna met for instance a ftm transgendered person, and now I'm friends with several. I know this seem of very little relevancy, but given my own gender dysphonia it was just amazing to be able to meet someone I could actually talk to about that.

I don't dress up particularly nerdy to get people to recognize my nerdy potential, but I think I'm the kind of person who just naturally comes across as such. Maybe I'm just a bit too odd to be taken for one of the 'normal' people. I do tend to dyke up my look though, because I want people to see that I'm not the straight little girl they tend to assume me to be and to attract like-minded people. Mainly women. And I throw in very 'subtle' hint of my attraction towards women when I speak with men in the hopes that they'll treat me more like one of the guys than a potential shag. Might just be me though.

 

[staika]

I live in Erie, Pennsylvania in the glorious US of A. I'm not overly geeky on the outside, I usually wear a lot of sport team shirts or something relating to alcohol in some way. I do have a few geeky shirts but I don't wear them that often. My friends also range from geeky to not geeky at all.

 

[Bruenin]

Ireland, Dublin specifically.

I very rarely wear t-shirts except for exercise but most of them are cartoon or comic related. Occasionally I'll make references but they usually go over people's heads so not very often.

For some reason I imagined you being shirtless all day long until you needed to get exercise, then you finally put one on .

OT:

I live in America, east coast and I um... don't do much. I joined our schools RPG club but mainly I don't go out to meet new people and I stay quiet. Aside from the RPG club the only other thing I did was come onto the escapist and start chatting in a forum game and i'm pretty sure that's the only two times I ever tried to meet people >.> OH no, I also went on the Bioware forums but that was a bust so : P

 

[Bruenin]

With a pretty typical Irish man skin tone and physique not to mention chest hair I apologise and truly hope you can stop imagining that soon. Or just pretend I look like my avatar and that might make things easier.

I'm not good at stereotypes, what's the typical Irish physique? Either way i'm sure you look fine, no need to be hard on yourself : P

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I live in Chandler, Arizona and I really don't seek out anything geek oriented here.

Mainly because I wouldn't know where to start and it's probably far from me to make the drive over not really worth it. I have some geeky shirts, but I normally wear them when I have a day off from work.

My friends don't share the interests that I have in things like games, and Magic, but we all have other interests that we share so it's not an issue to where we have nothing to talk about.

 

[Bruenin]

With a pretty typical Irish man skin tone and physique not to mention chest hair I apologise and truly hope you can stop imagining that soon. Or just pretend I look like my avatar and that might make things easier.

I'm not good at stereotypes, what's the typical Irish physique? Either way i'm sure you look fine, no need to be hard on yourself : P

It's that weird combination of thin yet somehow flabby.

Ahhh,and here I was thinking it might be a beer belly or something, because of alcohol and blah.

 

[Tiger King]

With a pretty typical Irish man skin tone and physique not to mention chest hair I apologise and truly hope you can stop imagining that soon. Or just pretend I look like my avatar and that might make things easier.

I'm not good at stereotypes, what's the typical Irish physique? Either way i'm sure you look fine, no need to be hard on yourself : P

It's that weird combination of thin yet somehow flabby.

Ahhh,and here I was thinking it might be a beer belly or something, because of alcohol and blah.

I'm not Irish but inherited a lot from my Irish dad, that includes: thick dark hair, pale skin, immune to early baldness
Ginger face hair.