your nerdiest thing...

[i3ishop]

So lets be honest here the majority of us will admit that we are nerds. My question is what is your defining nerd trait? Are you moved during Aregorn's speech in helms deep? Dose the way you talk and act change when you have been RPing? Have you ever shed a tear for the death of a beloved character in a novel? Do you refer to yourself as a pirate or ninja? Well I will be first and say that all of these thing are truly nerdy things that I do/ have done. So what about you?

 

[sorry user name taken.]

i am the nerdiest thannnnggg lol

 

[WolfThomas]

So lets be honest here the majority of us will admit that we are nerds. My question is what is your defining nerd trait? Are you moved during Aregorn's speech in helms deep? Dose the way you talk and act change when you have been RPing? Have you ever shed a tear for the death of a beloved character in a novel? Do you refer to yourself as a pirate or ninja? Well I will be first and say that all of these thing are truly nerdy things that I do/ have done. So what about you?

Prefer the term geek, nerd implies I know something. Don't have a defining trait. I was more moved by the Salarian speech in Mass Effect. Never been Rping. I cried a little when Thick had his whistle stolen at one point in the Tawny Man, something about stealing a kid with down syndrome's last tie to his gypsy mum got to me. That about somes it up...

Edit: I do whenever say walking somewhere and bored, imagine myself as X character in Y world, depends on the game I'm playing at the time.

 

[Mariena]

I'm a true "undercover"-geek. No one actually knows I am one, but I am. I totally don't look like one; I don't even have glasses =P

 

[vid20]

I AM a pirate.

I have cried in/at both games, movies, and novels.

I RP.

I play Warhammer (table top game)

I would play D and D. But the people who where interested in it with me chickened out at the cost (really, its not that much. pussies.)

I have conversations with mates at work about gaming that my co-workers can't understand. One of them even tells me all she can hear me saying is "nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd." in different pitches, tones, and voices.

i think that's about it.

Edit: I would also LARP if I could find a group that was Melbourne based.

 

[Mythbhavd]

Old school trekkie.

 

[Dread_Reaper]

I constantly put real-life events into StarCraft terminology to understand them better.

And I have an embarrassing tendency to pontificate on Sith philosophy at inappropriate times.

-Dread_Reaper

 

[Smiles]

I too am a trekkie. I am the second most nerdiest member of my whole family, the rest are all varying degrees of athletic and successful/hardworking.

 

[MaxFan]

I was annoyed that you spelled Aragorn incorrectly in your OP.

I play Warhammer 40k, Tyrranids.

I've DM'd lots (seriously, D&D costs next to nothing for a player, nothing at all if you have a halfway decent DM, except the time of course. Perhaps the cost of a pencil if your DM confiscates yours for improper use!).

I called someone a nerd as a compliment and was misunderstood because they thought it was a bad thing, haha.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Fat, wear glasses, one of a few Star Wars fans I know and a LOTR fan.

 

[Gitsnik]

Let's see... I don't know about nerdiest thing, but a list of the things that make me at least a bit nerdy.

* Im a UID elitist on slashdot
* I work for a company with the word "geek" in the name
* I can recite the minimum system specs for Windows 3.11 and the original Linux 2.0 Release kernel
* I have a home network
* I run said home network as a backup server (mail and DNS) for said company
* I can program in more languages than I have fingers and toes
* I see gaming things (I could so blow up that barrel with a grenade from here) when I walk around in daily life.
* Most importantly, 9/10's of the contacts in my phone call me ONLY when they have "a computer question".
* And they know I'll be right and give them the best advice. Even other sysadmin's I've worked with.
* I read HP horrors.
* See patterns everywhere. Including being able to tell how good or bad a PRNG is.
* Play nethack over playing Crysis or COD.

It's shameful really - thankfully I'm not the biggest geek/nerd ever.

On the flip side though, I tend to be very popular at parties and I don't have much in the way of shyness (or shame or morals for that matter).

 

[WolfThomas]

Edit: I would also LARP if I could find a group that was Melbourne based.

Hey so would I, and if I had money...

Edit. Realised I just gave the same excuse your potential D&Ders did.

 

[AngelSword]

I would say my most defining nerd trait would be that my biggest expenditure is gaming; pen and paper games, video games, and the like have left me with little cash for those frivolous things in life, like food.

 

[Labyrinth]

I'm a science and English nerd. Biiiiiig time. Few people outside of those circles can use "Hyperbole" and "Rhizome" in the same sentence and still get away with it. I've also been roleplaying for years, and have done the odd LARP. Fun stuff, until people got bloodied.

 

[Vortigar]

- Been/am into:
DnD, Star Trek, Star Wars, Warhammer, Firefly, Farscape, anything by Masamune Shirow, MtG, VtM and there's loads of other stuff I'm probably ommiting right now.
- I've created multiple rpg systems, including a tabletop variant of fallout's special and a warhammer 40K system (predating both Dark Heresy and Inquisitor).
- My most prized posession is my comic book collection.
- I try to convince people of the narrative/artistic merit of comic books (ie. read Maus or something).
- I'm a programmer (and like gitsnik above got more languages in my head than extremities on my body), it's just for work though, I don't do anything but game with my computer back home and only own 1 computer and never put one together from scrap myself.
- If you want to find my self-confidence you'll need an electron microscope.
- I've picked up all the MMO lingo through friends even though I absolutely refuse to play those games.

On the other hand I act and sing and girls tend to notice me when I'm around. But on the other hand again I've been told multiple times that I absolutely missed my chance with this or that girl so socially I'm as blind as a bat.

 

[s0denone]

Currently, being on this forum.

 

[Calax]

I get choked up when certain moments happen in games or hear certain songs that I recognize from when I was a newbie in the world of anime.

For example, Ace Combat five, the intro the the last mission has all the fighters symbolicly singing together.

 

[rossatdi]

- Ex Games Workshop player (Marines & Guard)
- I applied to be a GW games designer (they didn't like my submission that made fun of the Bretonians being made 'darker and edgier'.)
- AD&D player
- I write my own RPG games system (my best one is in the finishing stages) and its background and have DM'd several times for my own systems.

Spoiler: I know why Batman is a superhero:

The legal definition of the term is co-owned by Marvel and DC and is for "fictional characters of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do in the public interest". It doesn't require outright superpowers.

- Prefer to read Sci-Fi or Fantasy or pulp detective novels or graphic novels
- I own Batman: The Animated Series and have downloaded all the Justice League and Batman Beyond episodes.

 

[AnotherFineMess]

I was waiting for the bus. When it arrived I said in the most natural way: "carrier has arrived"

That might be it. I like to quote games a lot, plus me and my friends have the usual "crapy food and games" get together once in a while