Geeky moments
 

What's the nerdiest or geekiest thing you've ever done?

Mine would probably be when I decided to start an air guitar band a week ago.

Ever since the begining of the school year, I've been calling paper "scrolls," and any task "a quest!"

Makes life a lot more fun if you ask me.

My sister and parents swear blind I bellowed "The Orcs are attacking!" in my sleep. Way too much Warcraft.

I once yelled WOOT at orgasm.

I'd say my geekiest moment was three days ago, when I caught myself uttering the term "LOL" instead of laughing at another workmates "Exciting Amusement Device".

I've done a ton of extremely nerdy stuff, but the most immediate thing would be watching the 300 trailer in a theater and finishing the character's quotes. Like this:

Guy: This is madness!

Me: Madness? This is Sparda!

King Guy: Madness? This is Sparda!

It happened last night, actually. I couldn't get to sleep because I was suddenly bothered by a short dialogue exchange in the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Message in a Bottle". The exchange is as follows:

Doctor: "There are two ships at stake here, yours and mine! Now, I need to know more about what's happening. Is the Federation at war with the Romulans?"

EMH Mark II: "No. The Romulans haven't gotten involved in our fight with the Dominion."

Doctor: "The who?"

EMH Mark II: "Long story."

For years, I'd never noticed the problem with this scene, as I'd never taken the time to think about it. However, for whatever reason, last night it occured to me that the episode of Deep Space Nine where the Dominion was first introduced aired in July of 1994, whereas Voyager premiered in January of 1995. That's a span of several months after an incident which involved the destruction of a Galaxy-class starship and the deaths of all on board, which would have totaled about a thousand Federation citizens. News of a tragedy of that magnitude, as well as the dispatching of the dangerously experimental USS Defiant to DS9 and the provisional treaty with the Romulans to allow its use of a cloaking device, should have spread like wildfire, and would have been sure to reach the Voyager crew at some point, especially given the vessel's stationing at DS9 while awaiting the arrival of its completed staff.

So, okay, that's big news to anyone who was up and around before Voyager's launch, but that doesn't include the Doctor, as his program apparently hadn't been activated until after Voyager was pulled into the Delta Quadrant. By the time he was brought online, the Federation's looming crisis with the Dominion suddenly became less of a concern to the rest of the crew than the fact that they were stranded on the far end of the galaxy, so no one mentioned it to him. And being an emergency system designed for the sole purpose of bandaging up people and sending them on their way, it's possible that a summary of current events wasn't included in his program.

Two problems emerge from this idea, however: The first is that the EMH Mark II apparently was programmed with a summary of current events, as is suggested by the above dialogue. So it would make sense that Voyager's EMH would be progammed similarly, and yet he'd never heard of the big scary new enemy that had been around for months before his ship even launched. The second is that, in a later episode, word reaches Chakotay and B'Elanna about all their Maquis friends being exterminated by the Dominion, and they appear to have never heard of them, either, Chakotay only referring to them as "a new ally" of the Cardassians.

So, around 6:30am, I concluded that the only reasonable explanation was that word did not, in fact, spread like wildfire. Given the great big unknown that was the Dominion at the time, it's possible that Starfleet decided to keep the incident involving the destruction of the USS Odyssey on the downlow until they had properly ascertained how much of a threat this newly discovered organization was. The Doctor would have no information and most of Voyager's Starfleet crew would have heard very little if anything at all. Maquis members like Chakotay and B'Elanna would have no knowledge whatsoever, as their terrorist activities would have forced them too far underground to get much current events news outside of "there's a Cardassion ship over there, let's go fuck with it". Janeway was probably kept up to date, but who asked her, anyway?

In summation, it was my assessment that Scratchy's ribs were, in fact, some sort of magic xylophone. Thank you.

Wow dude, thats pretty cool if ya ask me.

Geekiest thing I ever did was make a web-comic about samurais and demon penguins, combining really hardcore niche anime and jniche games into a conglomeration of in jokes I fail to get at times.

You fool!
Do you not realise that you are the only catalyst for your own humour?????????
If not, then call me the failing Failure Captain of complete failure....
No shit, a navy PO labelled me as such a person...
OMG, you think I am joking.... sorry, but reality is worse than nighmares >:D

So Im not funny?

I so did not say such things!
It looks like I shall have to clarify my own entries (which sucks)
My only excuse is the unauthorised use of my computer, which shall not happen again, and I do sincerely apologise for this BS
Not my intention, surely! Just some stupid hijackers

So that was somone not you criticizing me.

I do a lot of geeky things. I used to be big into BESM, 2nd Edition. I still occasionally watch Power Rangers if the series seems decent (like SPD), but not as much as Super Sentai. I've picked up a small understanding of Japanese from watching Dairanger alone. I want to write my own comic, and have some base graphics. I want to write long fiction and have a bunch of base characters and plots. I want to program a video game and have a lot of ideas for cinematics and costumes. I'll never accomplish any of the above three because I can't decide on the details. I learned Latin for gaming purposes. The only constructive things I can say are "where's the fire/water?" and "please God, guard my flight," which is only useful if you're in an airplane. Or about to do something very stupid. In class, I've referenced scientific theory and FF7 in the same period. I've studied Chinese elements/feng shui a bit, and could list their main properties from memory. I'm taking a programming class and am getting more and more confused by it because it uses a GUI instead of pure code. I was formerly a pharmacy student, but I honestly know more about holistic medicine. I've studied psychic power and the paranormal. This is despite my being Catholic, which classes it all as evil except for angels. And I disagree with that interpretation of my faith, because I know a lot of what it originally said and what got corrupted by time or mistranslation. I spent several minutes typing this that I should have spent printing homework.

Nerdiest thing I've done? Sign up for 4 AP classes next year, 2 of which are math, and 2 of which are science.

Geekiest? Hard to say, I have those "geeky" moments all the time with my friends, so I have no idea which one of them is geekier than others.

I think I've applied the d20 system for just about everything in my life for far more than is truly acceptable.

Oh! I own the Legend of Zelda cartoon on DVD.

There's always my Autobot tattoo, and it's hard to be much geekier than that.

Ah, I own two different types of shirts - my nerd shirts, and my hawaiian shirts. Nerd shirts include, but are not limited to, the Church of Prime, "Robots in Disguise", an NES pad with "Back In The Day" on it, the Monty Python Black Knight shirt, etc.

I've got one somewhere that says "I live in my own little world, but it's okay, they know me here." I've also got one with the Thundercats logo. My grandpa has vintage Thundercats, Back to the Future, and possibly Transformer tees. He'd probably make a fortune on Ebay, but I'd call first dibs if he ever was getting rid of them.

Occasionally, when I get a new game, I will steer EVERY conversation towards it.

"Oh, man. I forgot to do my homework last night." "I did my homework. But afterwards I played Mechassault Phantom War. Have you played it? It's awesome."

It's like that article I found once, "How to brag that you're training for an Ironman." Except that it's with new video games.

Speaking of which, Mechassault Phantom War? Awesome. Not as good as the Xbox version, but it's good for a handheld. Discuss. (actually, don't.)

The nerdiest thing I did recently? Have the same thought in my mind as well. I can do one better though: I made up a Star Trek Voyager drinking game that my friends and I play.

XD

I'm assuming that was at least half as a joke, but I know what you mean. I was like that with Oblivion for a while. It really is a good game, but my copy does some funky things, like bringing out enemies I'm not sure it's supposed to at my level. :sweatdrop

I think the geekiest thing I've done to date involved me bombing an interview, then telling my mother, "I think I failed my charisma check." :(

Geekier still, she knew what I was talking about!

(What can I say? My mom's awesome like that.)

I was at Red Robins with a couple friends and we all had a 20 sided die each...we rolled on who got the last french fry...

I've also been implying more DnD things in my life, like mentioning "reflex saves", or "charisma levels," things like that. That, and I've been making up experiance points for my quests.

... I really should write that stuff down, otherwise who'll know when I'll level up next...

At least I wasn't alone. It was just odd to me because I'm usually not so nitpicky about minor fuckups like that.

And now you need to post the rules of this game so we can all play. How many drinks for "Please state the nature of the medical emergency"?

Most of my life is composed of geeky moments, since I'm a geek.

Though the most noteworthy that comes to mind wasn't by me. Back in high school a friend couldn't find his calculator, and among our circle of friends he said "I guess I'll just scry for it..." And trailed off, since he had been absolutely serious until he realized his own words.

Looking back, it was just a well executed joke, but it had everyone fooled. Geeky A+!

Well it's not really a drinking game in that sense. Really what we do is arbitrarily pick a season and episode by either rolling a dice or having a non-Trek person pick a number, then we pick either a word or event. Every time that event or word is said, we drink and get a point. At the end of the ep, the person with the most points wins either the rest of the bottle of alcohol or something.

For example:

Last time we played, there were 4 people playing.

I picked either the word "Engineering" or anytime the characters went into engineering.
Friend 2: "Plasma"
Friend 3: "Warp _" So warp, warp core etc.
Friend 4: The mention of a rank (captain, commander etc)

Guess who won?

I want that.


I have a working replica of the Ocarina of Time (it actually teleports me places!)

For awhile I was obsessively braiding my hair like a certain anime character I know of.

I regularly listen to Disney music.

I have helped make a cake from scratch in the likeness of Kakashi (I mostly did the decorating with my best friend, her mom made the cake). And it was the best cake I've ever had. Yum!

I went through a kleptomanic phase where I stole all of my friends' kneeded erasers and molded them into FMA characters.

For new years I made myself a top hat out of construction paper, and a little white mask and ran around with my friends (who made otehr costumes) proclaiming myself Tuxedo Mask.

Several times I have referred to real life in video games/anime/Dungeons and Dragons terms.

Yeah, I'm a weirdo.

In my social class, we were discussing cinematography. This lead to a discussion about Spiderman 3, and why Topher Grace is the perfect or worst choice for Eddie Brock. During this discussion I said that Topher Grace is the perfect choice because he's just like Peter Parker, and thus the perfect counter-point. Someone retorted that in the comics, Eddie Brock was a muscle bound brute.

With all serious, I said "Are we talking about the 80s version, the Ultimate Universe, Amazing Spiderman, Incredible SpiderMan, or Friendly-Neighbourhood Spiderman?"


...my teacher made a nerd noise. I sounded like "Nein."

Geeky Moments??
 

You know, I've embraced my geek. Er... I have accepted my whole geeky self. I mean, I'm so far gone, I can't remember when I wasn't geeky.

Example, today, while driving to the store, me and my roommate where discussing recent events, about his father needing him to help with something. I remarked that that was rather intelligent, his Father realizing my roommate could be useful for that specific situation. My roommate then remarked how that was more a 'Wisdom' trait, that his Father's Intelligance had taken a bit of a hit over time, along with his Strength and Dexterity.

That immediatly got me to thinking of my Dad, and what stats had been dropping on him with age. After a short amount of discussion, we figured his Intelligence and Wisdom had stayed up, following aging rules, but that his Strength and Constitution had not lowered much. Perhaps his Dexterity had taken a big enough hit to compensate.

Then I though/said 'Thats kinda weird, following standard point-buy, my father started out higher then me, he's been breaking the rule'.

This followed with us trying to figure out his starting class, as my roommate made a comment about him being a "True Vermonter" and my reponding that he was not born here. But he was a farm-boy. My roommate then said his Intelligence is entirely too high to be a farm-boy, it doesn't make sense. I was mearly comment that his work-ethic could have originated from that, would also explain the high physical scores.

This was followed by me being silent for a few moments, not sad about me being that geeky, but the fact that life is so unfair. I should so at least get a few points of Charisma to compensate. Guess it's a side-effect to taking the "Nerd" class instead of "Cool Football Player" or "Incredibly Awsome Anti-Establishment Guy", two quite interesting class choices.

I'm sure I'll come up with more. Perhaps very soon, as we may be gaming tonight.

Nerdiest thing ever that I will do: Camp out for Onimusha 5, the day it is announced till the day it comes out, even if it is 3 years inbetween.

I"m gonna have to go with LARPing. Specifically, my signature move, in which I shout "DO A BARREL ROLL!", spin, and slash with two swords. Yeah. Also, whipping out my GBC in the middle of a discussion on games, saying "Old school ftw" and proceeding to play Pokemon Red.

You are a terrible person. You give us DND players a bad name.

In all fairness, I play D&D, too. And our version of LARPing is more like, "Hit each other with foam swords" than actual roleplaying. Basically, it's sparring with structure.

Braiding my hair like Legolas a few years back is pretty high on the list.

The discussion about how Spyro the Dragon, with his six appendages, fits into modern concepts of evoloution is up there too.

Dressing up to go to renaissance faires, yeah, that's there too.

Setting up action figures on my desk to create a scene from an awesome Jack Sparrow/ Legolas/ Samurai Champloo Jin/ Plastic ninja/ plastic monkey in a fez battle and occasionally changing them around every month or so to create new conflicts. I only feel some shame in the respect that I have a Legolas action figure. I REGRET NOTHING ELSE!!

So far, Shrek's Dragon and Kingdom Hearts Donald have yet to be involved in said battle. They're safe on top of my TV.

I only just now realized that I have more bizarre action figures than I thought. Is that weird? Nah.

Don't know what episode you were watching, so I couldn't really say for sure, but I'd guess either you or Friend 3. Sounds like a fun game, though, but I'd hate to have to put money into the ridiculously priced DVD box sets for any Trek series.

If it WAS nein, that's German. So either your teach heard it somewhere, and he/she thought it was cool.

OR the teach IS German! O=

Also, about the Star Trek...
Could it, perhaps, be that the Deep Space Nine series and Voyager series ran either simultaniously, concerning timeline, or Voyager is supposed to be earlier in that same timeline?

Just another theory... I don't know, I didn't watch DS9, and thus I couldn't compare (star) dates, even IF I payed attention to that.

Played RaiRO regularly for several months.

I mean shit I live in California now, it's actually nice outside. There's just no excuse at all.

I hadn't thought of that, though that does offer a good point of reference as the stardates are actually based on the season in which the episode aired (a trend started right off the bat in TNG, with the first season's stardates beginning with the numbers 41, season two stardates beginning with 42, and so on).

Incidentally, the stardate for the episode in which the Dominion was formally introduced, "The Jem'Hadar", was not given, but the previous episode places those events shortly after stardate 47944. Both these episodes aired in July 1994, but the stardate places them concurrent to the final two episodes of TNG, which aired two months earlier. This does present a precedent for discrepancy between the events in the diverent shows and their real time airing.

This theory is again bolstered by the fact that Voyager's series premier, which aired in January 1995, gives the stardate as 48315, which places it shortly after the sixth episode of DS9's third season, which aired in October 1994. The span of time between the destruction of the Odyssey and the launch of Voyager is much shorter than it appeared to the viewer. Since there was not much to know about the Dominion, there was no point in making a note of it in the Doctor's program. Chakotay and B'Elanna would have been quite blissfully unaware of the Dominion's existence due to their removal from much of the Federation news grapevine, and most Starfleet officers outside of Sisko's senior staff wouldn't have known anything more about the whole thing other than some aliens blew up a Galaxy-class starship out in the Gamma Quadrant.

It is interesting to note that, chronologically, the DS9 episode that took place immediately prior to Voyager's premier was "The Abandoned", which centered around a Jem'Hadar child being discovered by Quark and its rapid growth as it ran around the station freaking people out and causing all sorts of headaches for everyone on board. The stardate for this episode, 48301, places these events either just before or during Voyager's time docked at the station, in which case Janeway would have been most likely made fully aware of the potential security risk involved. If she hadn't already been informed as a Starfleet captain of the Dominion, she would have learned about them while on DS9. Incidentally, her senior staff would have also been briefed regarding the situation, every single member of whom was killed when Voyager was pulled into the Delta Quadrant a few days later. Given the situation her ship was in at that point, it's more than likely Janeway would have had no reason to mention the Dominion to her new senior staff, which included Chakotay, B'Elanna, and the Doctor.

Man, that Star Trek wiki has all sorts of info!

Or... y'know... there's just gonna be some plot holes, no matter what they do. =P

I mean, I'm sure a universe as closely monitored by it's creator as Star Wars is gonna be RIDDLED with plotholes.

So, yeah. Don't think too much into it, is my advice.

Yeah, but the point is that it's actually rather fun to do, to look into it and work it out. Hell, a great deal of development to the Trek universe came as a result of seeing plot holes and figuring out how they could fit in, and the stories that could be conceived around those events.

Honestly, digging through all that information earlier tonight as I was writing that post was a blast!

I think that this would make an excellent forum game. The ultimate goal would be to reach a certain level or something like that. Someone could make up a set of real quests each week or a list of things to do that boost experience. The game would be mostly based on trust though.

I actually own a top hat that I like to go out in.

I learned to Read from Final Fantasy.

I learned Roman numerals from Final Fantasy.

I learned my Roman numerals from either the Britcom Red Dwarf or that Simpsons episode where Bart has to escape from a tiger or some crap.

Oh, and at any point at which I feel the need to swear, there's as good a chance as any that I'll either use words like "smeg", "goit", "twonk" or "gimboid" (all from Red Dwarf) or "zarking", "foonting", "Zarquon", "photons", "turlingdromes" and the occasional "Belgium!" (from h2g2).

When I'm pissed off, I say "Slag" sometimes.

It's a combination of trying to stop swearing so often and being a Beast Wars/TF geek. But still.

ditto :sweatdrop

I'm in the habit of adding "Inquery, Response, Theory, etc" before everything i say and i'm constantly calling people "Meatbag".

I LARPed my comic's plot by myself, and used the D20 systems as I did it.

I can't hold a candle to half that stuff, but I did do one geeky thing even by geek standards. There's this guy who ran the BESM sessions I played, and he's a really big cosplayer. Usually no less than 5 unique costumes per 8 hour convention. Anyway, he wanted to make a big entrance to the local scool-run con, so I proceeded in a procession behind him holding a boom box playing his personal theme. And it was just me and my brother, since he was late for full effect and everyone else was already in the main room. :sweatdrop

I was talking about Beyond Good and Evil with Meister and I was going on and on about how I got this awesome picture of the blue-haired girl sitting on a cliff with the sun setting behind her. I think I frightened Meister.

Why, I think you're onto something there :D
No offense...

Something went wrong on the college computers once so I called out "Abort, Retry, Fail?"

No one got it.

I then spent half an hour explaining it to them.

I don't get it.

No, not at all. Seriously.


Oh, I've got one! This morining I was writing a date in my shitty handwriting. My friend walks by and says, "Does that say nineteen fifty-pi?" I told him it did, then proceeded to calculate the exact date and time that would equal(February 20, 1953, at 4:21 p.m. and about 6 seconds, if you were wondering). Later during the same class period, I whipped out some pseudo-Javascript to give him the punchline to a comic we were drawing. I was in rare form today.

Old DOS based error message. Naturally. You young'uns wouldn't get it.

I just got inspired; Someone remind me to photoshop the poster from that movie Rockstar and give him a Guitar Hero controller instead.

I've done something similar to this. Yeah I sucked at the emo phase.

Oh and I do this.

My friends and I speak using symbols and LOL-ish phrases all the time. One of my buddies, specifically, is always trying to duke it out with me, and we always argue who is "greater sign" the other. I often glance at his papers when he gets them back, and if his score is even one point less than mine, I'll say something like, "Roflcopter, my paper greater sign you. You phail." Or visa versa, if he did better than me.

Also, ever since I figured out that in Role Play "Scribe" is a DEX skill, I've started looking at my own handwriting and feeling like a loser because my dexterity is crap.

I must have really low DEX then, have you seen my drawings? I guess that I have a high... um... what does being a sarcastic asshole fall under? CHA?

Discussing with my boss why the Imperial Fleet could destroy the Federation. And discussing episodes of Star Trek with said boss all the while exclaiming i do not liek the show, yet he wonders how come I know so much.. Also debating the merits why Star Wars is superior.

Currently it is obsessing over FF VI.

I'll do you one better. I give you the immortal Johnny Cash:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...saga/jcash.jpg

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The geekiest thing I ever said came after playing D&D for 18 straight Hours with no sleep. We had stopped playing several hours ago and were going out for food before we went to bed.

Someone made a comment about how a local politician was reputed to be "... a total crook, and had a very bad character."

I made the offhand comment, "Well, if you wanna know about his character look at his character sheet."

Sadly, I was 100% serious at that time.

Today, some chick walked into my Comp Apps class, and was bitching about getting knocked over and having her ankle broken. I said "Guess you faild your saving throw." She asked if I was making a joke and I said yeah, so she swore and ran out crying.

She also failed a Diplomacy check for my sympathy :D

That, that right there is priceless.

As for me, I saw little yellow text proclaiming 14/45 cards done and so on when I was doing a history project. I've started to refer to collections of reference art as spell books and I constantly refer to making saving throws in real life(although I do that with my friends who do the same thing anyways)

I constantly treat real life as dnd.

To be fair, everyone applies the D20 system to every facet of their existence at least once.

Once I tried to bowl between my legs, ended up getting a fail for the ball and made a major fall. I told my friends it was a Perform (Ass Of Myself) check, and I succeeded with flying colors.

When I hackie-sack'd a half-empty soda bottle on my foot twice before kicking it into a nearby high school student, my friend called it a natural 20.

I mean really,
 

I think a Prerequisite for the Geek class is: Apply D20 system to real life event.
That or Perform (Other Geeky Things): 8 Ranks

I can't remember all the Dex checks I've failed...

Of course, my Diplomacy skill isn't bad! (Especially with my low charisma score... wait, what score did I max if my Charisma is low? Where are the rest of my points for this? Damn you, Standard Point Buy! Damn you!)

Still waiting for D20 4.0, they better institute a Luck ability score, then it would be reality.

Mine happens alot... I usually spend way to much time talking about fire emblem and the tales of seires.

(Goes to play more Tales of the Abyss)

I casn vouch for that, he frikin talks about it only every wakeing and non wakeing moment, even the ones in between.

Oh.. I have these daily... but one of my best had to be being able to prove that Power Rangers Universe runs on the 3.0 ruleset of D&D...
And it all came out of a discussion of who was better, Green Ranger vs. White Ranger...