geek-upmanship. Bringing out the big guns

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OK, we're out of the comics closet now. Admit your own geek failings...

NOW!

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New-geek-answers of shame.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my chief failing as a geek at the moment is being unable to use unix in any way shape or form. I'm very good at generating random error messages but cannot get ansys to load.

― Ed, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ah. just to clarify. using unix at all is what I meant by a geek failing.

Perhaps I should lead by bad example: Dr Who. Sapphire and Steel. Sinclair computers. I own a vectrex for god's sake. I have insalled linux on my (triple-boot) Mac.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

UNIX! Emacs! coding all HTML by hand! keeping my records in plastic sleeves!

― m jemmeson, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want to run Linux.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vectrex = ++geek

Knowing six or seven programming languages (C, C++, VB, Fortran, Perl, Haskell and Java) and actually preferring the pure and lazy Haskell must make me some sort of weird specialised geek.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

computers = Nerd. Geek = chic. Hehe! J/K.

― james, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Other geeky stuff I am guilty of: running Linux (RH 6.2), using LaTeX to prepare documents at home, understanding unix jokes AND sometimes finding them funny, using ++ as an intensifier, saying boxen instead of boxes, using FSVO in conversation, being sniffy about VB and downright rude about Javascript etc etc.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've got a lapel pin depicting The Lizard from Spiderman

― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I get obsessive about old casio keyboards. And Transformers. Oh and buying merchandise like Pikachu calcultors, Squirtle badges, toy robots, Lego Star Wars etc. Putting my comics in little plastic bags.

― james, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I win by having a Pikachu calculator. *bows*

― james, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nope. Vectrex > any mere calculator.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I want the Pokémon edition Gameboy Colour with Pichu on it! So cute! I love the Pichu brothers and I love Pokémon and I I I am going to buy some Pokémon DVDs which is pointless as I don't have a DVD player well FUCK IT I shall buy one or shall I buy a VCR??? Arrhhhhh.

I bet I've got more Pokémon toys than ANYONE here. I only know one person with more than me - but he has significantly more, curses.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I loved the first pokemon movie. Me and girlfriend (at the time) cracking up at the final showdown:

Large evil blue cat-thing MewTwo: Fools! Nothing can stop me now, mwahhhahahahahha. Your puny powers are no match for (etc)

Small cute pink cat-thing Mew: Mew!

Now THAT's a comeback

p.s. I throw away the bags on my comics - so ha!

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Surely time to open up the role-playing games front in this geek conflict. I went to Chislehurst Caves and waved a rubber sword around.

― Tom, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am the anti-geek since, as pointed out on other thread, computers break when i am around. though i did use to be a fan of babylon 5. does that count?

― katie, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tom wins! (although i'm sure some of you can one up him. roleplaying = one road i never went down.)

― jess, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i also remembered, i once saw a huge book on Java in a friend's room at college and wondered why on earth anyone would want to know that much about coffee...

― katie, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i cannot tell if I haf latent but largely repressed geek tendencies (read many comiXoR, but have forgotten most; own many records but file them ill if at all and do not fuss over their upkeep), or R rather a faux geek poseur? i fink my unhinged girly tendencies trump my geek flirtation

― mark s, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I CRIED at the final showdown in the first Pokémon movie!! It was so sad! But Pikachus love for Ash bought him back and they all stopped fighting!!

STILL not seen the second movie CHIZ. VCR or DVD play0R?

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have temporary control of a £50,000 laser vibrometer.

― Ed, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know the model numbers for pretty much everything electronic I own (not deliberately) (and I own a lot), and have a collection of Sony catalogues, with matching Specification guides.

I don't do any obsessive organisation of things, unless throwing everyithing into one pile on the floor counts (currently including a half assembled set of shelves in failed last-ditch attempt to stop treading on stuff).

I also have a collection of Pretzel Flipz wrappers and dead batteries.

― Graham, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CHislehurst Caves is only geeky if you do it more than once. First time it sounds like a 14 year only boys dream, you have a bit of lead piping with a tiny bit of foam on the outside and get to hit people with it in some cool caves. When you get there and its like the dullest version of the adventure game with piss boring puzzles and you get killed after ten seconds and have to wait around in a damp cave was a goblin waiting to get hit by said piece of thinly disguised Cluedo murder weapon. DUD!

― Pete, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have many bizarre and geeky interests, here are a few:
1) Disease - RickyT will testify as to how sad I am for getting excited about that programme about the plague on Channel4 tonight. I might be out, but it will be videoed, and I shall pick it to pieces for historical accuracy.
2) Aerial warfare - not only have I seen 'Battle Of Britain' more times than any other film, most of my PC games are combat flight sims. The North Weald and Southend airshows are almost a pilgramage to me, but also for the non-geeky reason that they = summer.
3) Spectrums - my old +2A and hundreds of games are all boxed up safely in my room, I won't let them be put in the loft cos they'll suffer for it. Surely 'Chaos' is, like, the best game EVAH?

― DG, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Making lists of things I own (i.e. records), getting good exam results (at my school doing any work and enjoying it made you a geek), spending all my time on the bloody internet. Used to worship Red Dwarf, used to do that Games Workshop thang.
Can there be some sort of ILE role-playing game?

― Bill, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh dear, recently moved house and I came across all my old role- playing stuff. you should see all the fantasy world maps I drew. :-( sad case. i keep it hidden. let's say no more about this.

Tom's revelation of live-role play really takes us from the finely balanced state of acceptable geekability (constant star wars references, jokes about world domination, etc) in to the world of "slightly worrying" though don't you think? :-)

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't want to talk about Fantasy World Maps. Garrrrrr.

― Sarah, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

shouldn't this thread be called one-upgeekship?

― katie, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

...and so Katie reveals her language geekery to the masses of ILE.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

aye!

― katie, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I often dream of being in school, in the classroom, and am sad when I am woken up.

― Samantha, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My roommate is still harboring deep, dark, disturbing dreams on starting a Dungeon & Dragons campaign of some sort. He used to be a Dungeon Master; he wants to play a warrior. I have terrible memories of playing D&D as a post-pube nerd, my obvious intellect and strategic acumen questioned for, you know, thinking outside the dungeon and trying to "play my character". God forbid I should do that while everyone else stuffs their Bag(s) of Holding with booty from beating the crap out of Golems with their Bastard Swords (+3 to Hoarding).

― David Raposa, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geek failings? Sorry, D&D and all were merely a part of life I embraced. Nowadays I'm just the Dungeon Master controlling all of your fates.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Apparently someone I went to school with now does this live-action roleplaying stuff. They all dress up and act it out. I take it Chislehurst caves is somewhat like this? Why, god, why?
One thing I forgot to add to my geekiness: I am anally tid. Really, one thing out of place and I have a minor nervous breakdown.

― Bill, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Can't we do ILE live-roleplaying??? We can all be pirates, and plunder the pubs of, er, London. Arrrrr!

If you roll a 12 on 1d12 you have to saw off your leg with a cutless or something.

I'm actually not as geeky as I worried I was. Though back at school I was an uber-geek. To the point that I randomly met an old school friend when she completely unexpectedly came to Strange Fruit on Saturday, and she was shocked how different I was.

― Paul Strange, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I know the runic equivalents for the English alphabet.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I often play boardgames and roleplaying games. They're great. Call of Cthulhu is a particular favourite, and to combine lots of cool stuff in one go I hope one day to run a campaign of the Star Wars role playing game.

― DV, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Geeky pasttimes: I collect the new line of Doctor Who fiction. At last count, I had approximately 150 books and am still going strong. (BTW, does anyone in the US know if _The Slow Empire_ by Dave Stone has been released here?) Programming/scripting languages I know: Java, C, C++, Pascal, BASIC, Visual Basic, VBScript/Javascript, tcl/tk, LISP(CLOS, CLIM), SQL, Awk (but I've forgotten most of it), DOS scripting language, C Shell scripting language, a tiny tiny amount of RISC, and Powerscript. Comic books I've collected include: (New) X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Force, X-Factor, Mutant X, X-Men 2099, Generation X, Excalibur, Deadpool, Transmetropolitan, Slingers, Xer0, Blood Syndicate, Icon, Stormwatch, The Authority, Planetary, Titans, Elektra, Top Ten, 100 Bullets, Supergirl, and some others that I'd have to dig through boxes in order to remember their titles. I really like Farscape.

There's more, I'm sure.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is it with people named Dan and an odd devotion to the Marvel universe??? Seriously.

― Nicole, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

you should see dan rather's jubilee tattoo.

― ethan, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In my case you can blame the X-Men. They got me into the whole comic book thing and it will take... well.. the crap they put out two years ago to make me give them up. The only X-Books I'm still into are Morrison's New X-Men and Milligan's X-Force. Oh, and Millar's Ultimate X-Men, but just because that one's a candy-coated ball of mindless cynicism.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So when do we start the Star Trek discussion?

― Ally C, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Dad has the "how to speak Klingon" tapes. Myself, I am guilty of D&D, and I still like playing RPG games on my computer. In fact I ordered one last week. This is what I do instead of going on dates. Ha ha *sob*

― bnw, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six years pass...

http://www.brunching.com/images/geekchartbig.gif

― warmsherry, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:27 (seventeen years ago)

<3 brunching; they brought my first regular source internet lols.

― Abbott, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

uuh piXXur not readable

doodie

― warmsherry, Monday, 7 April 2008 04:46 (seventeen years ago)

I've got a lapel pin depicting The Lizard from Spiderman

-- dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (6 years ago)

Thread should have been closed, this is surely untoppable.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 7 April 2008 18:31 (seventeen years ago)

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