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Mr. K
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posted 12-23-2003 02:45 AM
Can you name something geekier than playing D&D?
(Other than maybe wearing a wizard hat when playing D&D.)
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posted 12-23-2003 02:54 AM
Playing Final Fantasy 1 on an emulator?
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Mr. K
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posted 12-23-2003 02:56 AM
Hmmm.
No.
Anyone else?
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posted 12-23-2003 03:41 AM
I think waiting outside a movie theatre for any period of time greater than 3 days just to be the first to buy tickets and see the show has got to qualify. [Those Star Wars fans waited in line for MONTHS!!!]
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Tenshi no Myu
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posted 12-23-2003 03:42 AM
How about learning elvish and actually knowing all the genealogies and crap from all the way back to the Simarillion?
The new Star Wars films weren't worth waiting month for, either. Sad.
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posted 12-23-2003 03:44 AM
How about learning elvish and actually knowing all the genealogies and crap from all the way back to the Simarillion?
I have a friend who knows elvish ![[PBJ Time!]](graemlins/pbjtime.gif)
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Awful Fantasy III [runs on SNES emu]
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posted 12-23-2003 06:29 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Mr. K:
Can you name something geekier than playing D&D?
(Other than maybe wearing a wizard hat when playing D&D.)
Playing D&D with furry characters.
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posted 12-23-2003 07:14 AM
playing "Magic - The Gathering" while simultaneously being a jew
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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...
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posted 12-23-2003 07:44 AM
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Originally posted by Boodabonzi:
playing "Magic - The Gathering" while simultaneously being a jew
Nope. Playing D&D is geekier. Trust me, I know.
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posted 12-23-2003 07:48 AM
Calculating the D&D stats of characters from movies, such as the Lord of the Rings and Star Wars (although GURPS would be better suited for Star Wars, really..)
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posted 12-23-2003 09:13 AM
Masturbating to animé.
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posted 12-23-2003 09:37 AM
posting on a pokeymonz forum am i rite
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posted 12-23-2003 11:43 AM
I think that fantasy role-playing may be the geekiest possible thing by definition. Essentially you're creating a geeky pocket universe, and then crawling inside it. And there's math involved.
Learning Elvish or Klingon are fair contenders. Tolkien may actually represent the pinnacle of geekdom, since he not only learned Elvish but invented the various forms of it, and all the other languages of Middle-Earth besides. Then wove them into a tapestry of unreal history and geography and religion.
It's marvellous to me that Tolkien existed. That among all human lives, one of them was his: a shy, mumbling English scholar who loved the countryside and couldn't stop daydreaming about languages, and he just totally fucking ran with it.
Like, if you were explaining to aliens what the different people on earth do, you'd be like, "oh this guy fixes the pipes that transport our water supply. And this woman heals us when we're damaged. Um, that guy? The one muttering to himself? Er, well..."
(No, I'm not waxing enthusiastic b/c of recent RotK viewing. I haven't seen it yet.)
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posted 12-23-2003 02:14 PM
Several months ago I decided to engage in a GSC training program using the Viridian Trainer House. I went to a time change password site and wrote down the several time codes for my game ($0, $10k, $20k, etc.), but the author of the page had made a mistake, so they didn't work.
I dug out a printout I got from AGNP in September of 2000 explaining the time change password. However, at home I didn't have a computer or even a hexadecimal-capable calculator. So used nothing but pen and paper to translate my trainer name, ID, and money to binary and then hex, add them together, convert them back to binary and then decimal, and thereby figure out my passwords for the different levels of money.
I also get excited when I see license plates that contain things like WWW or 258. ("Hey, that's Arcanine's max Special!")
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posted 12-23-2003 02:37 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Mr. K:
Can you name something geekier than playing D&D?
Yes. Yes I can. Live Action D&D.
I am king of nerd jeopardy!
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posted 12-23-2003 04:17 PM
The best part is that guy yelling Lightning Bolt over and over again and throwing that stupid bag of beads or seeds or whatever.
I know a few live action role players, and thats what they use for spells, anyway.
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posted 12-23-2003 04:55 PM
I don't think LARPing is as good as actual RPGing... I mean, you can imagine stuff around a table, but to be really acting it out in some park with people throwing seeds around kind of spoils it, wouldn't you think?
I've never played any kind of live action rpg, so maybe I'm wrong *shrug*
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posted 12-23-2003 05:13 PM
What about that dude who camped outside a store for two or so months waiting for the latest Turok to release? What a dumbass.
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posted 12-23-2003 06:33 PM
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Originally posted by pkthunder:
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Originally posted by Boodabonzi:
playing "Magic - The Gathering" while simultaneously being a jew
Nope. Playing D&D is geekier. Trust me, I know.
only coz ur bf plays it am i rite? No really am I rite?
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OK, I know I'm probably not the nicest Pokemon Trainer when it comes to giving advice, and if I get flamed on this, it is probably well deserved. So here goes...
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pkthunder
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posted 12-23-2003 07:00 PM
Well, my current boyfriend is a Magic-playing Jew, and my ex-boyfriend plays D&D. And they are both really into it. And D&D is geekier.
I've played both as well. And I think D&D is geekier.
I actually know a LOT of Magic-playing Jews. They're not that geeky.
Maybe it's just the verve that cfalcon brings to whatever geeky thing he's doing that makes it that much more geeky.
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posted 12-23-2003 08:42 PM
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Originally posted by 10,000Lb.Snorlax:
quote:
Originally posted by Mr. K:
Can you name something geekier than playing D&D?
Yes. Yes I can. Live Action D&D.
Haha, this is exactly what I thought of when I saw that first post.
Anyways....
How about writing yourself into a Star Trek LotR crossover fanfic. And having 90% of the action involve you having sex with Dr. Beverly Crusher and Eowyn while Picard and Aragorn watch and lament that they aren't as cool as you. Except that Dr. Crusher and Eowyn now have kitty cat ears. And gigantic glassy eyes. And are only 16 years old, despite their enormous breats.
So anyways, after writing this literary masterpiece, you decide to translate it from original English into Klingon and Elvish. Keep in mind that this is over 1000 manuscript pages, because you really love pornographic Star Trek LotR anime furry fanfics.
I imagine that would be geekier than playing D&D.
Whatever. Fuck it. Someone just post the hierarchy of losers pic.
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pkthunder
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posted 12-23-2003 09:00 PM
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Originally posted by gruco:
How about writing yourself into a Star Trek LotR crossover fanfic. And having 90% of the action involve you having sex with Dr. Beverly Crusher and Eowyn while Picard and Aragorn watch and lament that they aren't as cool as you. Except that Dr. Crusher and Eowyn now have kitty cat ears. And gigantic glassy eyes. And are only 16 years old, despite their enormous breats.
So anyways, after writing this literary masterpiece, you decide to translate it from original English into Klongon and Elvish. Keep in mind that this is over 1000 manuscript pages, because you really love pornographic Star Trek LotR anime furry fanfics.
I imagine that would be geekier than playing D&D.
Whatever. Fuck it. Someone just post the hierarchy of losers pic.
That's not geeky, that's just plain disturbed.
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posted 12-24-2003 03:10 AM
Ok, pk's being kinda mean to me here. I think D&D is geekier than Magic, but when you get together to game, it's usually informal and fun: get together to play Magic and all of the stuff is nerdy and formal. I mean, pk would rather play D&D, easily.
But nerdier? Well, D&D is probably nerdier, for equal activities. For instance, Magic tournaments are common, and nerdy. D&D tournaments would be nerdier, but are rare to nonexistant.
There *are* nerdier activities. For instance, getting together as a bunch of nerds and watching all the episodes of X, where X is some anime series / sci-fi series, etc- now you've burned all day, and all you did was watch nerdy TV and probably wallow in inside jokes everytime some nerdy gut does some action.
*Other* kinds of roleplaying can also top D&D, like White Wolf.
Geekier: sit around a table with pizza and dice.
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Dress up as vampires and game like that, interacting in character most of the time. Also, dice.
Master of Orion 2, played with in the "hotseat" mode, is the nerdiest thing I have ever done, I think.
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Mentar the Malady Monkey
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posted 12-24-2003 04:28 AM
Master of Orion 2, played with in the "hotseat" mode, is the nerdiest thing I have ever done, I think.
Hell fucking yes.
*points to username*
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posted 12-24-2003 07:36 AM
I felt pretty geeky when me and my friends played nomic during a bus ride at our school's last field trip.
We sat in our seats, saying stuff like "I want to transmute rule 201.4 from immutable to mutable", and rolled our dies, and calculated our scores. Nomic isn't that geeky though, IMO, but I'm sure the cool people making out in the back of the bus disagree with me.
The geekiest things I can imagine all relate to games, somehow. Sure, learning everything about some obscure anime series is pretty geeky, but games are geekier, becuase they deal with *your* actions, in a *fictional* situation.
Games and math, and probability calculations, preferably involving functions and graphs, used to determine some very small variable, like when it's best to consume a newly caught fish with regard to various parameters assigned to you, the fish and the world you are in (like, your hp, the overall temperature, energy content of the fish etc), is the most geeky thing I can think of.
For example, if these parameters are set by die rolls, write a graphing calc program which'll simulate 2000 or so different fish, then use statistical analysis to determine which strategy is successful most of the time, etc.
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posted 12-24-2003 08:25 AM
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I also get excited when I see license plates that contain things like WWW or 258. ("Hey, that's Arcanine's max Special!")
<EeveeAtma> yesterday I saw a license plate "Z41 D0S".... looks like a certain legendary pokemon, doesn't it? :Ţ
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I am pure energy... and as ancient as the cosmos.
Forgotten in the river of time...
I've had an eternity to ponder the meaning of things...
And now I have an answer..."
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posted 12-24-2003 08:47 AM
TALKING about how you play D&D.
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posted 12-24-2003 09:57 AM
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I'm sure the cool people making out in the back of the bus disagree with me.
yeah we disagree
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posted 12-24-2003 10:06 AM
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Originally posted by Mr. K:
Can you name something geekier than playing D&D?
(Other than maybe wearing a wizard hat when playing D&D.)
Playing the WarCraft version of D&D.
Failing that, the besm d20 system.
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posted 12-24-2003 10:37 AM
How about making up your own version of D&D because you thought the real version was unfair.
If that doesn't work, what about using Internet terms in real life? Don't say you got a bad test, say the whole thing was "H4C><3D!"
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posted 12-24-2003 01:05 PM
lol i do that
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posted 12-24-2003 01:45 PM
Fuck Z41 D0S.
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posted 12-24-2003 02:19 PM
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lol i do that
Me too.
I also check license plates for Internet acronyms - the system is different here in Sweden, the system is 123 ABC (three numbers, three letters).
I know there's an OMG and a WTF driving around in my neighborhood... Also, there's a BMW with a pretty nice ASS which ocassionally is parked near my house, but that's not an Internet acronym, it's just funny.
Cars with the PKMN status indicators (PSN, FRZ etc.) are fun too, and those which end in top domain endings (NET, COM, ORG).
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posted 12-24-2003 06:02 PM
i wonder if the vanity plate 1337nub0rxz is taken :x
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posted 12-25-2003 10:23 AM
I'm gonna give it a try here. A Magic-playing Jew practicing his Chaos Orb flips, Christmas morning, because he's so frickin' happy about his gift..
To top it off, he then asks my dad if it looks like it's about a foot about the surface he's trying to flip it on to.
Now he's learning Tai Chi from my brother.
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Mr. K
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posted 01-06-2004 06:13 AM
Yeah...after reading thru everything here, the only thing I've seen that's nerdier than playing D&D is doing some less-nerdy thing at the same time as playing D&D or perhaps some nerdier version of D&D.
But in general, I think D&D is absolute zero for nerdliness.
Magic is way geeky, but it's just a card game. Poker is also a card game, and it's not geeky at all.
But there's no RPG that isn't geeky.
cfalcon: For instance, getting together as a bunch of nerds and watching all the episodes of X, where X is some anime series / sci-fi series, etc- now you've burned all day, and all you did was watch nerdy TV and probably wallow in inside jokes everytime some nerdy gut does some action.
Not even close. The interactivity is key to the nerdliness of D&D. Some teevee shows are not nerdy, but all RPG-playing is very, very nerdy.
So, you know playing D&D wearing a wizard hat is nerdier than playing D&D wearing a ball cap, but the difference is almost imperceptible.
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posted 01-06-2004 09:43 AM
I've actually started playing in a Warcraft campaign now.
I'm playing the closest thing to a peon, but he still can't cut down a tree. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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posted 01-06-2004 09:50 AM
Geeky? Hmm, what kind of geekyness.... well, collecting old computer hardware in the basement of the million dollar house you bought after winning on the stock market is one way to say geeky.
I am a music geek, the sort that discuss sound cards and drum machines, and whete to use WMA9 or Ogg Vorbis.
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posted 01-06-2004 10:16 AM
Hmmm. Well, I mean, there are "geeks" in every area...anyone who is too into any one thing has a touch of teh nred, but there's something so completely embarrassing and useless about D&D...
I mean, if you are a guy and you like to tap dance, you're going to take a lot of shit if it's just some thing you like to do. But if you're a super good tap dancer, even though you're into a gay pasttime, people who don't even like tap dancing can at least appeciate what you're doing. I hate tap dancing personally, but watching Gregory Hines go to town, I'd think "Damn, that freak is really good!".
But even if you were the best D&D player in the world, everyone still think you're a worthless dork.
Anyone in their right mind should be embarrassed if caught playing D&D. There is just no reason for that shit.
(And, yes, cfalcon did talk me into playing D&D and, yes, I did have fun. By all rights, I should now split my own head open with an axe, because I am one nerdy motherfucker who is just askin' for it.)
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posted 01-06-2004 12:39 PM
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posted 01-06-2004 10:43 PM
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Originally posted by Mr. K:
Yeah...after reading thru everything here, the only thing I've seen that's nerdier than playing D&D is doing some less-nerdy thing at the same time as playing D&D or perhaps some nerdier version of D&D.
Are you including writing egocentric LotR Star Trek porno fanfics?
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posted 01-06-2004 10:55 PM
Inventing a mathematic equation on how to write an essay. Or following someone’s mathematical equation on how to write an essay.
Or if you still post your pokemon adventure in the adventure forum.
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posted 01-07-2004 01:07 AM
I'm gonna have to say that this nomic game invented way before my day sounsd as geeky as you can get. See, you can play any other game, and include this as it, by means of making it a neverending game and the way you would normally win you instead make the would-be winner get one rule change, with a provision that a player cannot win within two turns of changing a rule. With a rule-change, the player may alter the text of any rule, create a new rule, or delete a rule, provided that this does not break any of the current rules, which are applied before the rule change can take effect.
Then, of course, you would need one more rule that would make this current one and the one about not winning within two turns of changing a rule not changeable without unanimous consent.
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posted 01-07-2004 01:43 AM
http://www.cybermoonstudios.com/8bitDandD.html
Playing pokemon when you are old enough to drive probably outdoes DnD in geekiness. I'm positave going to pokemon tournaments outdoes any DnD geekiness. At least stuff actually dies in DnD.
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posted 01-07-2004 11:52 AM
gruco: Are you including writing egocentric LotR Star Trek porno fanfics?
Well, anything fetish-related at least has to do with sex, which is less geeky than D&D. Plus, you'd actually be creating something some other perv on the net would be interested in reading, whereas no one cares about what happened in someone else's game of D&D.
It's not like a strong desire to bang Dr. Crusher isn't totally fucking nerdy, it's just that D&D is off the friggin' charts.
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posted 01-08-2004 03:09 PM
K, what about the time we were on IRC and I built a custom spreadsheet for the official Nintendo Mew, and then you started training your Mew and periodically sent me its stats, and I put those into my spreadsheet and told you what your Mew's current stat experience was?
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posted 01-08-2004 04:04 PM
Hmmm. I don't remember that very clearly, but that is pretty goddam nerdy. But I wasn't pretending to be a Mew or sitting around with a bunch of dorks that demanded that I stay "in-character".
Also that rule-changing game is just Calvinball and Calvin isn't a nerd.
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posted 01-08-2004 06:17 PM
Look, if you don't do a little bit in character, you aren't really gaming, you're just rolling dice. Usually it's hard for new or returning players to do it- you can see that they are nervous, because the idea of saying something as someone else triggers some kind of primal this-is-nerdy-I-should-be-embarrased thing, even though they are among friends. The most common unconscious defense mechanism is like:
Me: The weaponsmith walks up to the counter. "What do you come seeking?"
Player: I tell him I want a magic longsword.
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Player: Do they have any magic weapons?
He doesn't have to talk in a funny voice to fix this: all he has to say is something like "I want a magic longsword." In character is smoother and first person, instead of awkward and third person.
My usual solution (and I start stuff off with it usually) is to encourage the players to talk in characters- because with another human in front of them, they aren't going to sit there talking in passive voice BS with "I mention that I heard of Orcs in the south", they'll just turn to their friend and say it. This method makes the awkward thing to do to be *out* of character, and in my experience, the game doesn't actually "work" until the majority of the players have done it a couple times.
I didn't hound you, I just mentioned it once or twice when you were making in game plans out of character- I mean, that's what makes sense to be in character for.
Some groups are psycho, and basically disallow out of character discussion. I can technically see their point, because if a group goes in character for 20 seconds and then somebody farts, the game slows way down. But since the primary goal is to hang out, I don't agree with that crazy policy. I just want the game to run smooth, and for everyone to have fun- and in my experience, that requires a little in character discussion.
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posted 01-08-2004 07:17 PM
Didn't post this 'cause I thought I might have got it from this thread... looking through I guess I didn't.
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