Mirror mirror on the wall who's the nerdiest of us all? [Archive]

erimir

02-11-2008, 08:43 AM

Let's have a nerd competition.

Who's the nerdiest member of the board?

I doubt I will win (the fact that there are other NCSSM alums on here would in itself make it hard to win), but I'll start off by saying that not only did I think that the Lego building in this video (URL="http://tv.boingboing.net/2008/01/28/vlog-50-years-of-leg.html") was entertaining, but I also thought the accompanying music was some hot chip-tune beats (note that I know the correct name for that genre of music).

Chip tunes being of course inspired by video game music... which brings me to OC Remix (http://www.ocremix.org), which I think is the finest video game remix/arrangement site on the internets. There's of course also VGMix (www.vgmix.com) but I prefer OC Remix personally because there's more quality control.

So you can uh, just post really nerdy things you like, or have done recently. And maybe at some point we'll declare a winner.

ETA: :nerdy: :propeller: :nerd: :glasses: :geek: and :nerdball:

ChuckF

02-11-2008, 08:58 AM

(the fact that there are other NCSSM alums on here would in itself make it hard to win)
:eyebrow2:

:giggle:

BrotherMan

02-11-2008, 11:55 AM

I was in a competition like this once. A couple years back a friend and I decided to have a dork-off. I started with a low level item, namely Star Wars. I think I said I'd seen Star Wars X number of times. She said she LARPed. Soundly trounced in round one. I think I'm still a little sore.

biochemgirl

02-11-2008, 12:06 PM

You know it depends on your type of nerd. I'm more of an eclectic nerd.

I'm a science geek, I work in a lab and I love it. But I'm really into baking and cooking and in the summer I have a garden and can and preserve which makes me a sort of domestic nerd. And I'm crafty...like really crafty. Like Martha Stewart crafty. Like I have made sugar cookies before and iced them in DNA patterns. It's great when you can bring your worlds of geekiness together. :nerdy:

Stormlight

02-11-2008, 12:21 PM

Like I have made sugar cookies before and iced them in DNA patterns.

We have a winner already, ladies and gentlemen! :trophy:

beyelzu

02-11-2008, 01:52 PM

i played magic the gathering, competively at tournaments and shit.

i was actually ranked in the top ten percent in limited.

i read alot, lots of science fictions/fantasy and lots of nonfiction.

i love reading comic books, but im such a comic nerd that i read specific comic authors and most of them arent mainstream.

i have about 12 gigs of comics on my computer that is several thousand comics and i have read them all.

i love watching movies as well, my brother and i have a variety of movie games we play like who can name the most movies with a given actor and the connection movie game, like 6 degrees of kevin bacon.

i downloaded the first scene from sin city like almost a year before the movie came out and watched at at least once a week waiting for that fucking movie to finally arrive.

Pinecone

02-11-2008, 02:14 PM

Oh sad.

I'm too nerdie for the cool kids and not nerdie enough for the nerds. :sadno:

Naru

02-11-2008, 02:15 PM

I went to NCSSM. The rest of you (other than erimir and ChuckF) are amateurs.

JamesBannon

02-11-2008, 02:19 PM

I'm so geeky I post on FF and use tons of smilies ... oh wait! :nyahnyah:

The Lone Ranger

02-11-2008, 03:54 PM

I love greatcoats, and I typically wear a drover coat (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41W86J9XPCL._AA280_.jpg) during the winter. Not that that's particularly nerdy or anything -- unless I were trying to emulate someone from "Highlander" or Mal Reynolds, perhaps.

On the left breast, I have a ranger pin (http://www.code7r.org/rangers/images/pin5.gif). Not that any of them has asked, but I'd guess that none of my students has any idea what it is. Kids these days.

Oh, did I mention that I'm a professional scientist/college professor? That's gotta earn me points ...

Cheers,

Michael

JamesBannon

02-11-2008, 03:57 PM

I think Michael is in the lead for being a science teacher.

Dingfod

02-11-2008, 03:59 PM

I'm not even in the running despite working in a room with 8 computers with a total of 20 monitors.

TomJoe

02-11-2008, 04:03 PM

I have four college degrees, two of which I didn't really need. However, I liked school enough to figure that the 4 years getting my two M.S. degrees (one in Clinical Laboratory Science, the other in Microbiology and Immunology) would be fun. I'm seriously considering getting an Associates "just because" ... I don't have one.

LadyShea

02-11-2008, 05:23 PM

Since I am not a nerd, can I be the judge?

Legs

02-11-2008, 05:30 PM

I dress like June Cleaver.

erimir

02-11-2008, 06:23 PM

My degree is in linguistics and philosophy (with a minor in women's studies).

Going back to that LEGO video... I actually went to the website of the musician whose song was playing and am listening to some of his other stuff as I type.

And I've been visiting message boards devoted to Smash Bros in anticipation of the approaching release of Super Smash Bros Brawl... which sadly means that I've actually participated in debates on whether Waluigi deserves being playable more than Bowser Jr (ok maybe not that specific one, but similar ones).
i played magic the gathering, competively at tournaments and shit.

i was actually ranked in the top ten percent in limited.I still play Magic the Gathering. Although I don't think I'm as good as you, if you were ranked that high. I usually win or place in second in the local drafts/tourneys tho... My cousin was the Swedish champion at one point, apparently.

And except for my most recently acquired stuff and cards in decks, my entire collection of Magic cards is sorted by rarity and then alphabetically by color, type and name.

Naru

02-11-2008, 06:25 PM

Oh, did I mention that I'm a professional scientist/college professor? That's gotta earn me points ...

I'm sure you've answered this question before many times, but what classes do you teach?

Sock Puppet

02-11-2008, 06:53 PM

Oh sad.

I'm too nerdie for the cool kids and not nerdie enough for the nerds. :sadno:Sistah! Come to my arms! :glomp:

I'm completely lost and annoyed when the cool guys talk football. I always know more about prog-rock than anybody else in the chatroom, even when D. Scarlatti is around. Yet I still don't have a level 70 WoW character, so my nerd quotient is still lacking.

seebs

02-11-2008, 07:06 PM

I made a cake with DNA patterns on it in third grade or so.

I have learned a programming language just so I could cheat at a video game.

I respond to kitty politics by announcing "CAT IS FOR FITE!"

I program recreationally.

I can translate most common ascii in my head, hex or decimal.

I describe tip calculations as a decimal right shift followed by a binary right shift.

Pinecone

02-11-2008, 07:23 PM

Socks and I WIN!! Because being nerds to the nerds is like double or TRIPLE nerdie or somethin.

That and we've already bribed LadyShea.

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 07:32 PM

Crumb

02-11-2008, 07:33 PM

I describe tip calculations as a decimal right shift followed by a binary right shift.
Wouldn't that be a 5% tip? :chin:

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 07:35 PM

I describe tip calculations as a decimal right shift followed by a binary right shift.
Wouldn't that be a 5% tip? :chin:

That would make seebs an asshole, not a nerd. I think we need a judgment on this one.

;)

Pinecone

02-11-2008, 07:45 PM

I had this (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8161124&st=halo+3+legendary+edition&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1161734605793) pre-ordered within seconds of availability. Got it via overnight shipping.

Suck my win, nerds!

TOTALLY NOT! Unless you had this shipped with it.

Microsoft - Halo 3 Limited Edition Wireless Controller for Xbox 360 (Covenant Brute) B4F-00034
Our Price: $59.99

Did you? DID YOU??!! :glare:

Corona688

02-11-2008, 07:46 PM

Let's see. I have... Blown up a logic chip by accident. It literally exploded. I must have hooked it up backwards. Just turned the circuit on and kuh-BLAM! Tiny hole in top of plastic. I wish I'd kept that chip, but it looked something like this (http://members.aol.com/astrophotos/blown-chip.jpg).
Made tri-nitro-phenol out of asprin.
Hacked a game with a hex editor to make it say dirty words when I was really little.
Witnessed at least one computer explode. yes, a seperate incident from the chip explosion.
called Windows a 'flash in the pan' back in the day.
Hacked a game to get it to load its own levels in the level editor when I was really little. (ZZT's brilliant file protection scheme means just zeroing out the word 'SECRET' lets you edit a level).
Used text-based dialup internet in DOS. None of that WWW shit. We're talking Gopher.
Duct-taped multiple CPU fans together into one mega-super CPU fan that could be heard rooms away and made my computer three degrees cooler.
built a functioning robot hand and wrist from scratch.
Heated a cold remote server with a while(1) loop.
watched Dr. Who at least a decade before the "new" series.
used an ion-type laser(helium-neon).
Low-level-formatted a hard drive.
programmed a game, and lots of other stuff, in C/C++.
used the original Adlib sound card series which started a PC gaming revolution.
Written some tunes in FastTracker and Adlib Tracker(music composition for geeks; if you don't understand hex you'll never understand the interface)
Built a functioning(and illegal) audio shortwave radio transmitter from only two active components.
Sorted my spices alphabetically.
Witnessed the 'stoned' virus in operation.
Built my own laser pointer. Not out of a module or kit, designed myself and built from raw components. Unfortunately I lose out on most game-based geekery since I was never really into them that much, and have no degrees...

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 07:55 PM

Sorted my spices alphabetically.

I think that just makes you gay, but I'll have to look that up in my 2008 Gay Agenda day-planner first.

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 07:57 PM

I had this (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8161124&st=halo+3+legendary+edition&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1161734605793) pre-ordered within seconds of availability. Got it via overnight shipping.

Suck my win, nerds!

TOTALLY NOT! Unless you had this shipped with it.

Microsoft - Halo 3 Limited Edition Wireless Controller for Xbox 360 (Covenant Brute) B4F-00034
Our Price: $59.99

Did you? DID YOU??!! :glare:

No, but I still have this (http://www.amazon.com/Pool-Radiance-Ruins-Drannor-Collectors/dp/B00005KANS/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1202759787&sr=8-11)!

:war:

freemonkey

02-11-2008, 09:16 PM

I don't think I'm a nerd. I sort of secretly want one of those photographer's field vests, but have resisted actually buying one for years.... would that count, or is it just an anomaly?

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 09:23 PM

You're too weak and afraid to be a nerd!

Get thee hence!
:objection:

TomJoe

02-11-2008, 09:28 PM

I still use telnet to play MUDs.

freemonkey

02-11-2008, 09:35 PM

You're too weak and afraid to be a nerd!

Get thee hence!
:objection:

:bag:

The Lone Ranger

02-11-2008, 09:42 PM

Oh, did I mention that I'm a professional scientist/college professor? That's gotta earn me points ...

I'm sure you've answered this question before many times, but what classes do you teach?

I'm a biologist. Classes I'm teaching at the moment or have taught in the past include:

General Biology, General Zoology, General Botany, Animal Behavior, Human Anatomy & Physiology, Mammalian Physiology, Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, Ecology, Evolution, and Natural History (a general "Introduction to the Natural Sciences" course).

Cheers,

Michael

Adam

02-11-2008, 10:03 PM

No, but I still have this (http://www.amazon.com/Pool-Radiance-Ruins-Drannor-Collectors/dp/B00005KANS/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1202759787&sr=8-11)!

:war:

WANT!

And I call foul on the Halo nerdery...too mainstream for the nerds!

So far, I think Corona wins. I've done a lot of really nerdy stuff, but I think I've become too lazy to be a nerd as I've gotten older. For example, I'm too lazy to type up all my nerd accomplishments for this thread...

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 10:06 PM

You really don't, unless it's just for nerd cred. Because the game itself is total rubbish.

JamesBannon

02-11-2008, 10:09 PM

I still think Michael is in the lead. A professional scientist who also teaches and calls himself The Lone Ranger? I mean, come on. It doesn't get nerdier than that.

Brimshack

02-11-2008, 10:10 PM

Erimir, you cannot have my degree. It's mine and you can't have it, even if you are going to write in a different Minor.

As to being the nerdiest. Let's put it this way guys; I've have spent over 25 grand on D&D miniatures within the last 3 years. And I finally get to the break even point on my personal finances. What do I do? You guessed it. I buy 1k more D&D miniatures on credit. That's right. I just bought a thousand dollars of D&D miniatures.

Case closed. I win.

Adam

02-11-2008, 10:14 PM

You really don't, unless it's just for nerd cred. Because the game itself is total rubbish.

:sadcheer:

But the original Pools of Radiance was teh best D&D video game evah!

ChuckF

02-11-2008, 10:17 PM

Wow. I can't compete in this race, even with the NCSSM handicap.

TomJoe

02-11-2008, 10:25 PM

A professional scientist who also teaches ...No love for the professional scientists who do full-time research? Bah.

Uthgar the Brazen

02-11-2008, 10:29 PM

You really don't, unless it's just for nerd cred. Because the game itself is total rubbish.

:sadcheer:

But the original Pools of Radiance was teh best D&D video game evah!

Which is what made RoMD such a bitter, bitter experience.

Naru

02-11-2008, 10:30 PM

Ensign Steve

02-12-2008, 12:14 AM

I still use telnet to play MUDs.

Me too, but I don't actually play, I idle.

But I'm totally not a nerd!

I am a totally cool and socially adept person who happens to like Star Trek. And computer programming. And the renaissance faire.

beyelzu

02-12-2008, 12:40 AM

i played magic the gathering, competively at tournaments and shit.

i was actually ranked in the top ten percent in limited.I still play Magic the Gathering. Although I don't think I'm as good as you, if you were ranked that high. I usually win or place in second in the local drafts/tourneys tho... My cousin was the Swedish champion at one point, apparently.

And except for my most recently acquired stuff and cards in decks, my entire collection of Magic cards is sorted by rarity and then alphabetically by color, type and name.

that is some seriously nerdy sorting.

i would probably still play magic if i could find a good local game and time to play.

i liked limited cuz constructed is just so fucking expensive. absolutely love sealed deck. you are probably as good as me , i just played in lots of ranked events in atlanta when i lived there. for a couple of years i hit all the prereleases.

also on the nerd front i play lots of online games. i played city of heroes for about 6 months. i play madden every day. i spend hours talking to my friend ian about how to read different defenses and what packages work against various defensive looks.

beyelzu

02-12-2008, 12:41 AM

I am a totally cool and socially adept person

these words, i do not think they mean what you think they mean.

did i mention for my nerd cred that i can quote most of the princess bride?

ChuckF

02-12-2008, 01:28 AM

did i mention for my nerd cred that i can quote most of the princess bride?
Sorry, this is a nerdiness thread, not a "show us your lady parts" thread.

erimir

02-12-2008, 03:24 AM

I had this (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8161124&st=halo+3+legendary+edition&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1161734605793) pre-ordered within seconds of availability. Got it via overnight shipping.Psh, Halo 3 is too mainstream. Fratboys play that.

I have preordered Smash Bros Brawl. Now, that's reasonably popular outside of the nerds, but it's definitely a nerdier game.

I had (before my hard drive died) a bunch of NES and SNES ROMs on my computer. Mega Man was the jam. I used to be able to hum the level music for all the robot masters in Mega Man 1 through 3, and recognize the music for the levels in 4 and 5. I was quite sad when I found out that Mega Man was not in the new Smash Bros game. I was very excited when I found out Sonic was in tho.

I've played MUDs before, altho my brother was much more into it than I was. In fact, I played a MUD based on Magic the Gathering for a little while once...

I also programmed for fun while I was taking computer programming in 8th and 9th grades (I took it at the high school while I was in 8th grade). During those classes I also witnesses some computers crash and start smoking (probably carcinogenic smoke too). Not sure if that counts as "exploding" tho.

Since I mentioned that I'm a linguistics major, I might as well mention some of the nerdy ling things I do. Although I must admit, there are some big time linguistics nerds at my college who outdo me. Mostly the ones in the UnderLing group (undergrad linguistics). I've spent a lot of free time on Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com) and Wikipedia looking up random languages, and listening to different accents and the (audio) IPA chart and such (such as on this site: PaulMeier.com (www.paulmeier.com))

Goliath

02-12-2008, 05:43 AM

i played magic the gathering, competively at tournaments and shit.

i was actually ranked in the top ten percent in limited.

Was that after unlimited and revised? It's been years since I last played Magic.

Anyways... I do mathematics for a living (or, rather, I would do a lot more mathematics if it wasn't for this whole crushing depression and anxiety combo that I have right now). I primarily teach courses at or above calculus (Calculus I-III, Introduction to Abstract Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra I and II), although I've taught an occasional trig or college algebra course.

For leisure, I've been playing computer games of some stripe since...well, not too long after I was able to read.

I used to play RPGs regularly, but I haven't had the time since starting my professor gig.

When I was young, I spent six and a half years in the martial arts. Although our school was technically a Tae Kwon Do school, we were very ecclectic and did a lot of things, including trapping, throws, takedowns, grappling, and weapons. The part that I miss the most, however, was breaking. In my prime, I broke seven spaced 8"x16"x2" concrete patio blocks with a downward palm strike. :cool: In fact, I still have a photo taken by a friend of mine taken mid-break while breaking four spaced patio blocks.

Uhhh...that's about all that I can think of right now. Then again, that could be because the ambien is kicking in. :tired:

ETA: When parking in a large parking lot, I often remember where my car is by using polar coordinates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Coordinates).

TomJoe

02-12-2008, 01:05 PM

I have a confocal microscope (http://www.microscopyu.com/articles/confocal/confocalintrobasics.html) in my lab.

Sock Puppet

02-12-2008, 01:20 PM

I had (before my hard drive died) a bunch of NES and SNES ROMs on my computer. Mega Man was the jam. I used to be able to hum the level music for all the robot masters in Mega Man 1 through 3, and recognize the music for the levels in 4 and 5. I was quite sad when I found out that Mega Man was not in the new Smash Bros game. I was very excited when I found out Sonic was in tho.Well, I can beat this part, at least. Not only did I obsessively grind through MM 1-7, MMX and Rockman & Treble, I actually wrote lyrics for the Charge Man theme from MM5. It was just too catchy.

beyelzu

02-12-2008, 02:31 PM

i played magic the gathering, competively at tournaments and shit.

i was actually ranked in the top ten percent in limited.

Was that after unlimited and revised? It's been years since I last played Magic.

limited is format like type 1 or type 2.

limited just means booster draft or sealed deck. i really started playing competively during mirvlight. thats mirage visions and weatherlight for those nonnerds at home.

i also played during saga and more recently i have been playing online some with current sets

beyelzu

02-12-2008, 02:32 PM

did i mention for my nerd cred that i can quote most of the princess bride?
Sorry, this is a nerdiness thread, not a "show us your lady parts" thread.

th princess bride is not girly if you were nerdy you would understand.

seebs

02-12-2008, 03:51 PM

Whoops. I used to do decimal right, plus the results of a binary-right on that (15%), but now I mostly do decimal right, binary left.

LadyShea

02-12-2008, 04:17 PM

Whoops. I used to do decimal right, plus the results of a binary-right on that (15%), but now I mostly do decimal right, binary left.

That's really nerdy. I just double the first number under 100 and the first two numbers over 100, which gives you between 15% and 20% . If it's excellent service I round it up.

erimir

02-12-2008, 04:45 PM

Not only did I obsessively grind through MM 1-7, MMX and Rockman & TreblePsh, I've beaten those plus Mega Man 8, Mega Man X2-4, Mega Man X8, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Powered Up, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Mega Man ZX and Mega Man 1-5 on the Game Boy. And I played a significant portion of Mega Man Battle Network, but I didn't finish it.

Ok, now that I write all that out, it sounds really lame.
I actually wrote lyrics for the Charge Man theme from MM5. It was just too catchy.But damn, that's pretty fuckin' nerdy.

You should post them! Or better yet, sing them to the theme and post the video or audio for us.
i really started playing competively during mirvlight. thats mirage visions and weatherlight for those nonnerds at home.

i also played during saga and more recently i have been playing online some with current setsWhen did you start? I started a little before Alliances came out and played through Prophecy, after which I stopped for a while (so Mercadian Masques sucked right? then I stop playing and they release Invasion which was supposed to be tons of fun). Then I played occasionally from Judgment through Kamigawa and really started again in Ravnica.

Adam

02-12-2008, 05:03 PM

Huh, bey started playing right around the time I stopped. I started right before Fallen Empires (which, to this day, I always call Forgotten Realms until I catch myself), and stopped around Weatherlight.

Sock Puppet

02-12-2008, 05:14 PM

Psh, I've beaten those plus Mega Man 8, Mega Man X2-4, Mega Man X8, Mega Man Legends, Mega Man Powered Up, Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, Mega Man ZX and Mega Man 1-5 on the Game Boy. And I played a significant portion of Mega Man Battle Network, but I didn't finish it.

Ok, now that I write all that out, it sounds really lame.:yup: But not nerdy enough to realize that I got the name of Rockman & Forte wrong. He was called Treble in the Americanized versions of MM7 et al. But yeah, your MM playing cred is better than mine. In my defense, I couldn't get some of those ROMs to play on my emulator, or I would have played those to the end as well.

My favorite is still MM7 (the first SNES game). It had the funniest characters, IMO. (Which screws up my nerdcred even more; MegaMan is s'posed to be SERIOUS business.)
I actually wrote lyrics for the Charge Man theme from MM5. It was just too catchy.But damn, that's pretty fuckin' nerdy.

You should post them! Or better yet, sing them to the theme and post the video or audio for us.Sorry, it was embarassing enough to admit that I did it. That's as far as I'm willing to go.

Crumb

02-12-2008, 05:35 PM

I started right before Fallen Empires (which, to this day, I always call Forgotten Realms until I catch myself)
:chuckle: I used to do the same thing! haha. I have enough of those lame ass FE cards to heat a home.

Goliath

02-12-2008, 08:05 PM

Damned kids...I started playing magic during the long wait between Unlimited and Revised (IIRC, the first four Magic releases were (in order) Alpha, Beta, Unlimited, and Revised). I also fondly remember the Legends series (with the multicolored--and mostly whoop-ass--legendary creatures). There wasn't a whole lot of official tournament play where I grew up; mostly, it was my friends and I playing for fun (and occasionally trading).

Sometime around 1997, I traded all my Magic cards for a Tek-22 Scorpion (a semi-automatic .22 caliber pistol that kinda looks like an uzi). Unfortunately, I only got about six months of use out of the damn thing before some some internal (plastic) parts inside it broke, and no one had made parts for the gun in years. So, buried somewhere in my parents' place is a very dangerous looking paperweight. :D

Corona688

02-13-2008, 12:08 AM

As to being the nerdiest. Let's put it this way guys; I've have spent over 25 grand on D&D miniatures within the last 3 years. Whoa. Do you actually use them? Or just keep them in display cases?

beyelzu

02-13-2008, 12:19 AM

When did you start? I started a little before Alliances came out and played through Prophecy, after which I stopped for a while (so Mercadian Masques sucked right? then I stop playing and they release Invasion which was supposed to be tons of fun). Then I played occasionally from Judgment through Kamigawa and really started again in Ravnica.

i started playing probably when alliances hit, but i wasnt going to shops a buddy taught me how to play, he used to build these monster decks, like hundreds of cards, he thought library of leng was a great card cuz he would have to discard some of the awesome cards in his hand that he couldnt play. we played for ante using his cards, i bought my first deck from him for like ten bucks. i built smaller decks, the tourney minimum was 60 so all my decks were between 60-62 cuz i understood that i wanted the good stuff to come up more awesome.

his cards were almost all revised. i won so many cards in ante, he was so pissed. after a while he wanted to quit playing me for ante.

:tmgrin:

i recently gave my magic cards to a budy of mine. i have some cards worth some money or rather i had.

probably a little more than a complete set of dual lands for instance.

and for the nerdy game, i used to play magic so much that i could play in sealed decks using chinese cards, i recognized the art from all the cards.

:tmgrin:

Leesifer

02-13-2008, 12:35 AM

I can't even believe I'm even posting on this nerdy forum.

You bunch o' nerds!

lisarea

02-13-2008, 01:10 AM

Hey, let's beat them up!

godfry n. glad

02-13-2008, 01:24 AM

Well, 'tain't me. From what has already transpired in this thread, it's clear to me that there are those here far, far nerdier than I.

Leesifer

02-13-2008, 01:26 AM

Hey, let's beat them up!

Heh! A gang of Lisas. That'll learn 'em for sure.

Brimshack

02-13-2008, 01:40 AM

As to being the nerdiest. Let's put it this way guys; I've have spent over 25 grand on D&D miniatures within the last 3 years. Whoa. Do you actually use them? Or just keep them in display cases?

Actually, I manufacture them. But given the state of the industry it's a bit like having a very expensive personal collection.

erimir

02-13-2008, 05:16 AM

:yup: But not nerdy enough to realize that I got the name of Rockman & Forte wrong. He was called Treble in the Americanized versions of MM7 et al.Hmmmm... now that you brought my attention to it, yeah you did get it wrong. But his name in the American version is Bass, not Treble. Treble is the name of his dog.
But yeah, your MM playing cred is better than mine. In my defense, I couldn't get some of those ROMs to play on my emulator, or I would have played those to the end as well.But not in your defense is the fact that I played almost all of those on their original systems.

Only needed ROMs for the Game Boy games (1 and 3-5).
My favorite is still MM7 (the first SNES game). It had the funniest characters, IMO. (Which screws up my nerdcred even more; MegaMan is s'posed to be SERIOUS business.)Mega Man 2, 3 and X1. The first two because they were the first ones I played, and they have the best music of all the Mega Man games. Who can forget such classic tunes as Flash Man, Bubble Man, Wily's Castle (MM2), Snake Man, etc.? And Mega Man X1 was just bad-ass.

I actually own all the NES Mega Man games on cartridges too.

And psh, Mega Man isn't serious business, Mega Man is a child-like/chibi robot with big-ass feet and a red robo-doggy. Mega Man X could almost be serious business if it weren't for how ridiculous many of the bosses look/are (Optic Sunflower? seriously?).

I still like it tho :propeller:
Sorry, it was embarassing enough to admit that I did it. That's as far as I'm willing to go.Boooooo!
:heckled:
he used to build these monster decks, like hundreds of cards, he thought library of leng was a great card cuz he would have to discard some of the awesome cards in his hand that he couldnt play.I was about to say that it IS an awesome card, but then realized I was thinking of Sylvan Library.
i recently gave my magic cards to a budy of mine. i have some cards worth some money or rather i had.

probably a little more than a complete set of dual lands for instance.:(

You should've given those to MEEEEEEEEE!

Caligulette

02-13-2008, 06:03 AM

I did Renaissance Faire for 16 years, Dickens Faire for 5, and made every costume by hand.

I am ON a Magic The Gathering Card- several, actually, as I was dating an artist at the time, but one actually looks like me. He used to be a comic book artist before that. Picture here: http://www.cardhaus.com/cgi-local/shop3.pl/SID=694372443451189/picture=3021

I did Civil War re-enacting.

I understand what "peek" and "poke" mean in computer terms.

I will often joke about "the eighteenth bummer of Napoleon Bonapart", thus proving myself to be even geeky in my Marxism.

Caligulette

02-13-2008, 06:15 AM

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/Yummytreats/000_0136.jpg
Plus- LOOK at me, for crimminysakes!

Qingdai

02-13-2008, 06:17 AM

I'm not nerdy, I'm a trendsetter!
:denial:

Qingdai

02-13-2008, 06:20 AM

You're hawt!

You should have posed with your Battlestar galatic figurines
:psst:

Caligulette

02-13-2008, 06:26 AM

They are NOT Battlestar Galactica! They are Babylon 5!!! And we couldn't find Londo's pants :hmph:! Nor Ivanova's, for that matter....She has been wearing one of Xena's costumes for a while now. The Bowler's pants didn't fit her. But you can almost get the head from the Mars Attacks martian lady to go on....

Qingdai

02-13-2008, 06:32 AM

D'oh!
Battlestar Galatica is Chunk's deal.
See, not nerdy enough.

Caligulette

02-13-2008, 06:35 AM

If he has Battlestar Galactica Figures, I would gladly bring my Bab5 Folks over to join forces and totally kick the crap out of the Shadows/Cylons. Dude! We could have a play date while the kids play! How's that for multi-tasking!? In Your Face, Martha Stewart!

Qingdai

02-13-2008, 06:55 AM

I've only got some "Tick" figurines and some from Frank (http://store.jimwoodring.com/).
It may be a more surreal play date than you had in mind.

See I don't do nerdy so well, obscure, well bang on!

chunksmediocrites

02-13-2008, 07:23 AM

Caligulette:
If he has Battlestar Galactica Figures, I would gladly bring my Bab5 Folks over to join forces and totally kick the crap out of the Shadows/Cylons. Dude! We could have a play date while the kids play! How's that for multi-tasking!? In Your Face, Martha Stewart!

No, I just have Tick Figurines, plus Arthur and American Maid, and some Jim Woodring figurines- Pupshaw and Pushpaw, and Frank.

I cannot out-nerd ye all, but I thought I would post the pic I did recently of myself with a jacket. The jacket is a reproduction of one I did as a teen-ager, that my friend found so amusing as an anecdote that I made one for him, tailored to his life a bit.
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p72/alliterationwtf/nerdy2.jpg
The original had the giant winged black panther (hello, David Trampier's Wormy) standing next to a hot chick in a futuristic bathing suit and thigh-high boots. All the artwork was done in black ball-point pen. On the left shoulder was a copy of the head of Thrudd the Barbarian, the old character from White Dwarf Magazine. That sleeve also had an unfinished chinese dragon coiling up the arm. The breast pocket had a drawing of Pink Floyd's The Wall album cover, and I kept two Tarot cards in the left breast pocket, Death and the Fool. I would sometimes wear this along with my Good and Plenty (tm) bandana, that I still own and am wearing in the picture.

The reproduction jacket for my friend has 'Irish' down one sleeve in Gothic script and the Cheshire cat illustration from Alice In Wonderland above the names of his five cats, all in Gothic script as well.

I own Thundarr The Barbarian and all five seasons of Angel on DVD. I bought 50 old Dragon Magazines for the Wormy cartoons and nostalgia. My guilty pleasure is buying out-of-print sci-fi and fantasy. I own two Tick t-shirts and a Tank-Girl t-shirt that I bought back when it was just a comic book, I had to convert my money to pounds to order it from the UK. Good thing I got that shirt because that's how I met Qingdai! Nerdar was in full operation mode.

Qingdai

02-13-2008, 07:28 AM

AHHH!
:caught:

Uthgar the Brazen

02-13-2008, 12:05 PM

My nerd-fu is...fail. :cryhome:

TomJoe

02-13-2008, 12:56 PM

I've only got some "Tick" figurines and some from Frank (http://store.jimwoodring.com/). I have the Tick debute. Not the comic, but in the New England Comics Newsletter.

wei yau

02-13-2008, 03:16 PM

Oooh, TomJoe FTW.....with regards to Tick nerdom anyway.

All I've got is reprints of the Tick debut.

erimir

02-14-2008, 05:01 AM

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/Yummytreats/000_0136.jpg
Plus- LOOK at me, for crimminysakes!

Psh, that's nothing, look at how nerdy I am in this picture:
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v195/82/123/2735035/n2735035_36812471_5386.jpg
Ok, so maybe I have seriously reduced the nerdiness of my style since high school. I was considerably more nerdy looking in high school, I assure you.

And yeah, I'm being an attention whore, posting a pic of me with one of my hos.