Your total nerd moment as a gamer

[SimuLord]

What's the most "nerdy" thing you've ever done as a gamer, the things that not only confuse non-gamers but even make those who partake of the hobby think "that dude's hardcore...or completely out of his mind"?

I ask because I'm in the middle of a Paradox 900. For those who aren't Pdox gamers, what that means is you start a game of Crusader Kings, use the save-game portability tool to port the save into Europa Universalis 2, use a fan-made converter to convert the save to Victoria: Revolutions, and use Paradox's save game porter to port THAT save to Hearts of Iron II. By playing the same country for all four games, you trace a continuous line for a country in Europe from 1066 all the way forward to 1964 (with only a 15-year gap between the end of EU2 at the end of 1820 and the beginning of Victoria in 1836.) My wife sees what I've done with the Count of Yaroslavl (in CK) who is now, through a series of interesting events, the King of Sweden, and she just rolls her eyes. And she plays EVE Online and WoW, so it's not like she's a non-gamer.

Incidentally, the above 900-year track takes about 150-200 hours, or "a month and change at a full-time job."

EDIT: initial post was missing five words that were needed to make it make sense.

 

[milomalo]

patapon... i was just one patapon left and it was the last level... and i won! i was in the cafeteria of my college and... i just scream in happines... everybody look at me... and somebody ask me wich team was winning? and i just put my headphones and keep playing but i felt like a total nerd but... a happy nerd

and in the hardcore whay in diablo 2 i played 24 hours non stoping in a lan party with some friends

 

[Limos]

I accidentally started humming along to Patapon during class.

Pata Pata Pata Pon, Pon Pon Pata Pon, Pon Pon Chaka Chaka, Pon Pata Pon Pata...

 

[meatloaf231]

As a social experiment, I once played Elite Beat Agents on the bus, without headphones. It was very loud, and a bunch of people gave me strange looks, but nobody said anything.

 

[Finbark]

Probably whenever I go on rants about Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, WoW, who should've been in brawl, etc. around my friends who are a little more casual gamers than me. They usually just reply with a, "Yeah..." or, "Wow..."

 

[Deadarm]

any time in which i was playing WoW after i hit level 70 for the 4th time

 

[N-Sef]

I randomly quote video game characters sometimes, and see if my friends pickup the references. I also hum games music when I'm in the shower, yeah I know.

 

[Andy Anonymous]

I cried at the ending of Final Fantasy IX. Just sobbed like a reunited army wife. Fortunately, I was alone at the time.

 

[Reep]

i recreated a halo battle scene in gmod with a halo addon and a lot of spare time...

 

[Aries_Split]

When I finished Icewind Dale 2...

That and when I installed a new 9800GX2 in my PC, booted up Crysis on max settings, and literally orgasmed.

 

[Smiles]

well, I'm not really a hardcore gamer, or that much of a nerd, but nobody else in my family is into gaming, and whenever they mention real-life moments I compare then to moments I've had in games and laugh out loud, and they just stare at me like I'm a loser... I am the black sheep of the family, and they never let me forget it T.T ...

 

[Jobz]

Nerdiest gaming moment ever was when I went off on a rant about the physics systems in modern games, how many of them break Newton's laws. Citing each law and giving examples of a game that had broken it some way. I was greeted by blank stares from a group of people who had no idea what the fuck I was talking about.

A bit off topic, but aside from gaming, my nerdiest moment EVER, was when I tried to explain how infinite improbability works to a group of my friends, and actually made them understand it. (Those of you who don't know what infinite improbability is, read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

 

[BaronAsh]

When I finished Icewind Dale 2...

That and when I installed a new 9800GX2 in my PC, booted up Crysis on max settings, and literally orgasmed.

BEST POST EVAR

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Probably when I gold-starred "Welcome Home" by Coheed and Cambria on Rock Band. That or 5 starring "One" on Expert on Guitar Hero III.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

My whole life has been a dork moment. I started playing consoles at the age of one and a half, with my older sisters SNES. Since I was able to talk, I've been saying things from games and watching other peoples faces go blank. Now I do it for kicks, and throw in a dorky voice while I'm at it.

 

[Shivari]

Not a big nerd, but one time I jumped up and down after making a pretty cool comeback playing Brawl.

But one time in science my teacher said something to the extent that gravity is a fact that can't be disproven. I then went off about how Newton's gravity can't exist with Einstein's relative theory because objects falling in relativity, fall on a curve and do not need a starting force to set the fall in motion. They fall via inertia.

Most every kid in that class looked at me like I was fucking crazy.

 

[Sword and Shields]

Asking my teacher if I can roll a saving throw in gym class when he almost failed me...

 

[Mnemophage]

Went as Princess Peach to school for Halloween. Mind you I was 12, though I'm not sure if that excused me.

 

[Necrith]

catching Zapdos in pekomon red
Booting my ps2 for the 1st time, and going " oooooee "
Unlocking Supersonic and telling every one.
explaning why i had 180 hours of game play in FF VII to a none gamer