Little fun fact: There are almost 21 thousand members in the entire Comicgenesis board who have posted over a million articles to date, but here in our geeky little corner only 8 of us have posted thus far, writing a grand total of 30 posts (31 counting this one). Sounds to me like we're a little underrepresented here. Let's see if we can do something about that, shall we?
I was looking for info on that geek-hunter fellow and I stumbled across the Cast page. The geek hunter wasn't listed there, but there was a lot of fun info on the five core characters. After reading about what makes each of them a geek and what type of geek they are I thought it might be fun to have a thread where everyone can share with the group just what makes each of us a geek.
I joined a D&D group in college, but unfortunately they were a tight-knit group of long-time friends and I was the socially-awkward newbie who never quite fit in. To make matters worse they kept having unscheduled weekend meetings I didn't know about between the officially scheduled Wednesday night meetings so I kept missing every other meeting. Makes it kinda hard to keep up with the storyline, not to mention getting the XP and treasure I had earned the last time I attended. Combined with my inexperience with the game itself, it was just frustrating. Eventually I just quit. Since then most of my gaming experience has been online where I'm much more comfortable.
I am very much a child of the 80s. I love 80's music, though I'm also into Country and Classical. I follow about 2 dozen webcomics pretty regularly, including Weregeek. I also watch several cartoon shows ranging from the Winx Club to Bleach, Negima to Ghost in the Shell, Inuyasha to Tenchi Muyo GXP. I even write adult fanfiction for the Winx Club. I have a tendency to get pedantic and verbose, right up until I stick my foot in my mouth. I can be pretty goofy and zany at times too. I play YuGiOh and HeroScape with the local kids, the oldest of whom is about half my age. I collect comics sporadicly. Currently I'm trying to follow Iron Man and Spiderman, but it's difficult when the local Tops doesn't carry those titles regularly.
Anyway, I think that's enough to establish my geekdom. How about the rest of you?
What's your Geek Factor?
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Lunaroki
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What's your Geek Factor?
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair;
Said Simple Simon to the pieman "Let me taste your ware."
Said the pieman to Simple Simon "Show me first your penny."
Said Simple Simon to the pieman "Sir, I have not any!"
Half-elves and golems and nymphs, oh my!
Said Simple Simon to the pieman "Let me taste your ware."
Said the pieman to Simple Simon "Show me first your penny."
Said Simple Simon to the pieman "Sir, I have not any!"
Half-elves and golems and nymphs, oh my!
I too started with D&D, although I began with it in the early 80's, when I was 11 or 12 years old (I guess that would have been '84 or '85). Before that, however, I was a big fan of Weird Al Yankovic, J.R.R. Tolkien and Terry Brooks. Later, in High School, is when I really geeked out in terms of RPGs, getting into a variety of Palladium games (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness, Robotech, Heroes Unlimited, RIFTS, etc). In College I began playing Shadowrun and miniatures battle games (Warhammer 40K), and eventually vampire LARP. I've been LARPing now for 12 years, and I run regular games of Kingdom Come (a game with Fallen Angels), as well as the occasional Vampire or Shadowrun LARP.
All of this says nothing of the usual geek movies, books, music and so forth that every geek has their hand it.
Also, my girlfriend draws a webcomic called Weregeek. 
All of this says nothing of the usual geek movies, books, music and so forth that every geek has their hand it.
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Tetramorpheus
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I suppose I pretty much started out as a book geek (or does that make me a nerd?). I've always preferred fantasy, as long as I can remember. The Dealing With Dragon's quartet sticks out in particular, but that was just one in the tide of pages I bookwormed through in my youth. There weren't any other real geeks at my school, so I didn't have anyone to D&D with or anything like that.
High School was more of the same, only I guess I got drawn into theater and wrote more than I read, for the most part. This set up a good entryway for college, where I was brought into roleplaying not primarily through D&D but through ad-hoc games. When my roommate's petered out I tackled making one myself (I'd helped him fine-tune the system for the previous one). Mythology (my game) ran for most of year. Now I'm finally in my first real D&D game playing a Dwarven WarPriest. I'm not sure what I'll do once I graduate.
But yeah... I was just at Lunacon this past weekend, so book geek is really my first calling.
High School was more of the same, only I guess I got drawn into theater and wrote more than I read, for the most part. This set up a good entryway for college, where I was brought into roleplaying not primarily through D&D but through ad-hoc games. When my roommate's petered out I tackled making one myself (I'd helped him fine-tune the system for the previous one). Mythology (my game) ran for most of year. Now I'm finally in my first real D&D game playing a Dwarven WarPriest. I'm not sure what I'll do once I graduate.
But yeah... I was just at Lunacon this past weekend, so book geek is really my first calling.
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UnicornEmily
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I've always been a book geek, myself. I learned to read at three years old, and I've been hooked to fantasy ever since. And while most people seem to go from liking fantasy as kids to liking "mainstream" stuff as grown-ups, my tastes have evolved in the reverse direction: I used to like all genres as a kid, and the older I get, the more specifically inclined I become to fantasy. It's just the most fun genre!
Soon after entering college, a friend introduced me to anime, and I've been an otaku (a.k.a. an anime geek ^_-) ever since. I'm particularly obsessive about mahou shoujo (magical girl) series, but a like a lot of other stuff, too.
Then my brother introduced me to webcomics soon before I got married. I decided I liked them a lot and I wanted to do my own, so I've been a webcomics geek ever since then.
Oh, yes, and of course I also love Star Trek, Andromeda, Babylon 5, and all those other great sci-fi shows out there. And movies -- mustn't forget the Star Wars or Back to the Future or Matrix trilogies, to name a few! And I love cartoons, even though I'm supposedly "too old" for most of them, as long as they have good stories and decent enough art styles.
I play D&D almost every week with a group of friends. I'm crazy about Final Fantasy games, and I used to play MUDs and Starcraft online. Our TV is hooked up to nothing but the VCR, DVD player, Playstation, and PS2. I have a collection of books that tends to make people's jaws drop, all the more so when they find out I have even more packed away in storage somewhere.
My closest friends are all geeks and nerds, of course. My husband is a gaming nerd, a book nerd, and a comic book nerd. My brother is a book nerd and a computer nerd. My little sister, who is supposedly a "popular girl" (which weirds me out), loves fantasy and webcomics and Weird Al. And those are just a few of the people I love dearly.
So really, there are very few ways in which I'm not geeky. Yay for geekiness!
Soon after entering college, a friend introduced me to anime, and I've been an otaku (a.k.a. an anime geek ^_-) ever since. I'm particularly obsessive about mahou shoujo (magical girl) series, but a like a lot of other stuff, too.
Then my brother introduced me to webcomics soon before I got married. I decided I liked them a lot and I wanted to do my own, so I've been a webcomics geek ever since then.
Oh, yes, and of course I also love Star Trek, Andromeda, Babylon 5, and all those other great sci-fi shows out there. And movies -- mustn't forget the Star Wars or Back to the Future or Matrix trilogies, to name a few! And I love cartoons, even though I'm supposedly "too old" for most of them, as long as they have good stories and decent enough art styles.
I play D&D almost every week with a group of friends. I'm crazy about Final Fantasy games, and I used to play MUDs and Starcraft online. Our TV is hooked up to nothing but the VCR, DVD player, Playstation, and PS2. I have a collection of books that tends to make people's jaws drop, all the more so when they find out I have even more packed away in storage somewhere.
My closest friends are all geeks and nerds, of course. My husband is a gaming nerd, a book nerd, and a comic book nerd. My brother is a book nerd and a computer nerd. My little sister, who is supposedly a "popular girl" (which weirds me out), loves fantasy and webcomics and Weird Al. And those are just a few of the people I love dearly.
So really, there are very few ways in which I'm not geeky. Yay for geekiness!
A Magical Roommate: The World's Weirdest Webcomic
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Tom the Fanboy
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OK, what better way for me to get into the swing of things over here? If it carried over from the keenspace days my post count should ...count for something.
I'm a gamer first off, but before I ever owned a twenty sider I was a Star Wars geek. I still am to a point but I moved over to hard core gamer after the prequels came out. I still have a bookshelf of SW stuff in my living room though, and my old toys from the 80s on the top of my kitchen cabinets.
I've been running a Vampire the Masquerade game for 6 years now. It was built off of a now dead LARP I played for two and a half years in college. Which was itself built off of a LARP in Monterrey California that MY LARP ST played in before moving to the college town I was in. So you could say its a third generation game.
As far as anime goes I've been attending and helping with Kumoricon since its start in 2003 and am going to be staff for the first time this year. two years back I founded Pocky Club and we've been running around delivering Pocky at the convention since then.
I don't read as much as I'd like anymore since most of my time is devoted to RPG sourcebooks and comic books. The comics in my pull box are Knightsof the Dinner Table (since issue 15), any Army of Darkness titles, and currently the Dark Tower specials. There's more but I can't remember right now.
My music collection is about 1/3 soundtracks, it has every Weird Al Album (but not all the singles unfortunately), ranges from the Anthony Daniels Wonder column CD to the Hello Project All Stars, All for One single. Most of my CDs are in a californian wine bottel display case while the rest are in a rickety tower with my copies of Dark Forces and the original Diablo. I never got into online gaming much because I like tabletop gaming and LARPing better (and I'd rather spend the 20 bucks a month on a slurpee and comic books).
My girlfriend of 8 years is addicted to City of Heroes and Final Fantasy games. She got me into Buffy and I got her into Kevin Smith films. She's a long time fan of Sailor Moon and a sucker for a good shoujo lovestory. We met online due to her Haley Quinn fansite and fell in love quickly since I was infatuated with the character too (we both have every single issuue of her comics' two year run). She grew up in Star Trek conventions thanks to her mom and aunt so when we did the roadtrip to move her out to Oregon from Michigan, she was more than happy to schedule it around the Star Wars Celebration 2 in Indianapolis.
I'm a gamer but haven't played all that many different systems, an otaku but haven't seen the old school stuff (like Gunbuster and Captain Harlock), I'm into scifi but can't quote you the tech specs on an Incom fighter, I've read the Silmarillion but couldn't quote it to you.... I like to think of myself as a Renaissance man of fandom (whose never been to an SCA event). I'm a dilletante who knows a little about everything while only having experienced a small portion.
Also, if it helps my cred, I'm posting this from work.
I'm a gamer first off, but before I ever owned a twenty sider I was a Star Wars geek. I still am to a point but I moved over to hard core gamer after the prequels came out. I still have a bookshelf of SW stuff in my living room though, and my old toys from the 80s on the top of my kitchen cabinets.
I've been running a Vampire the Masquerade game for 6 years now. It was built off of a now dead LARP I played for two and a half years in college. Which was itself built off of a LARP in Monterrey California that MY LARP ST played in before moving to the college town I was in. So you could say its a third generation game.
As far as anime goes I've been attending and helping with Kumoricon since its start in 2003 and am going to be staff for the first time this year. two years back I founded Pocky Club and we've been running around delivering Pocky at the convention since then.
I don't read as much as I'd like anymore since most of my time is devoted to RPG sourcebooks and comic books. The comics in my pull box are Knightsof the Dinner Table (since issue 15), any Army of Darkness titles, and currently the Dark Tower specials. There's more but I can't remember right now.
My music collection is about 1/3 soundtracks, it has every Weird Al Album (but not all the singles unfortunately), ranges from the Anthony Daniels Wonder column CD to the Hello Project All Stars, All for One single. Most of my CDs are in a californian wine bottel display case while the rest are in a rickety tower with my copies of Dark Forces and the original Diablo. I never got into online gaming much because I like tabletop gaming and LARPing better (and I'd rather spend the 20 bucks a month on a slurpee and comic books).
My girlfriend of 8 years is addicted to City of Heroes and Final Fantasy games. She got me into Buffy and I got her into Kevin Smith films. She's a long time fan of Sailor Moon and a sucker for a good shoujo lovestory. We met online due to her Haley Quinn fansite and fell in love quickly since I was infatuated with the character too (we both have every single issuue of her comics' two year run). She grew up in Star Trek conventions thanks to her mom and aunt so when we did the roadtrip to move her out to Oregon from Michigan, she was more than happy to schedule it around the Star Wars Celebration 2 in Indianapolis.
I'm a gamer but haven't played all that many different systems, an otaku but haven't seen the old school stuff (like Gunbuster and Captain Harlock), I'm into scifi but can't quote you the tech specs on an Incom fighter, I've read the Silmarillion but couldn't quote it to you.... I like to think of myself as a Renaissance man of fandom (whose never been to an SCA event). I'm a dilletante who knows a little about everything while only having experienced a small portion.
Also, if it helps my cred, I'm posting this from work.
Tom the Fanboy
Enthusiasm over Accuracy!
"You should totally put that in your signature Tom. You drain 1d10 investigators per round." -Dustman
Enthusiasm over Accuracy!
"You should totally put that in your signature Tom. You drain 1d10 investigators per round." -Dustman
Well, stating the obvious - I'm a big webcomic geek. I've got a long list of comics I read every day (or whenever they update), and I keep finding new ones to add to my list. I've been an art geek for about as long as I could hold a pencil, though I also love sculpting, woodwork, and costuming.
I didn't play tabletop games or LARP until only a few years ago, but I used to MUSH through most of high school. I actually founds some logs of roleplay on my hard drive not to long ago, and they made me all nostalgic. Those were the days... No newfangled graphical RP servers, no sir. Just you, a zMUSH window, and that good ol' /me command. *shakes her cane at the kids MMO'ing on her lawn*
My first foray into real game geekery came a few years ago when I was invited to a Vampire:TM one-shot LARP at a local gaming con. I was immediately hooked, and have been LARPing every since in a variety of settings/genres (and in a variety of cities!). I'm even helping out at a LARP con in town this summer!
In an unusual twist, it was LARPing that got me into tabletop games, and not the other way around. Folks I LARPed with invited me to try tabletop games, and I've played in a small handful of games since then. I haven't had the chance to run anything yet, but I think I might try it sometime.
What else... I'm no otaku, but I flinch when someone says 'Japanimation', can discuss Miyazaki's work for hours and I have a small collection of my favorite anime series on DVD. I love video games - I've got a penchant for platformers and adventure style games (I haven't played the newest Zelda game yet and that makes me sad). I can't wait for the last Harry Potter book to come out, or the next movie, and I love to curl up with a good book.
There's probably all sorts of other geeky things I do, but I can't think of any more right now.
I didn't play tabletop games or LARP until only a few years ago, but I used to MUSH through most of high school. I actually founds some logs of roleplay on my hard drive not to long ago, and they made me all nostalgic. Those were the days... No newfangled graphical RP servers, no sir. Just you, a zMUSH window, and that good ol' /me command. *shakes her cane at the kids MMO'ing on her lawn*
My first foray into real game geekery came a few years ago when I was invited to a Vampire:TM one-shot LARP at a local gaming con. I was immediately hooked, and have been LARPing every since in a variety of settings/genres (and in a variety of cities!). I'm even helping out at a LARP con in town this summer!
In an unusual twist, it was LARPing that got me into tabletop games, and not the other way around. Folks I LARPed with invited me to try tabletop games, and I've played in a small handful of games since then. I haven't had the chance to run anything yet, but I think I might try it sometime.
What else... I'm no otaku, but I flinch when someone says 'Japanimation', can discuss Miyazaki's work for hours and I have a small collection of my favorite anime series on DVD. I love video games - I've got a penchant for platformers and adventure style games (I haven't played the newest Zelda game yet and that makes me sad). I can't wait for the last Harry Potter book to come out, or the next movie, and I love to curl up with a good book.
There's probably all sorts of other geeky things I do, but I can't think of any more right now.
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Prsntypething
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i am a theater geek, and a gamer, and a tv/movie geek, and a book geek...and a little bit of a comic nerd(i know a lot about certain ones but i am clueless on others.)
yeah i started as a gaming geek, mostly video gams to start, but then in high school i finaly got a chance to play D&D and have been adicted to table top rpgs since, but i can't find a regular group to play with... i am also addicted to cardgames.. magic pokemon munckini'll try any game that has cards involved... but i haven't larped yet, again lack of availibility in the places i visit.
in high school i also became a theater geek and i can't free myself from the stage either.
in middle school i got over my slight case of dislexia and reallygot into reading (i couldn't seem to get the E's to stay in place through elementary, and it made me hate reading, but i struggled and eventualy learned to cope but i have a heck of a time wrighting...) and i love sifi and fantasy, douglass adams being one of my absolute favorite authors along with terry brooks and michael crichton. and i have a huge list of webcomics i read infact webcomics seem to be the thing taking up most of my time right now(besides theater.)
so yeah i geek on every thing except music... i like classic rock and metal (along with weird al tom lehr and jimmy buffett)
i don't know what type of geek to classify myself as... probably a theater gamer most likely....
yeah i started as a gaming geek, mostly video gams to start, but then in high school i finaly got a chance to play D&D and have been adicted to table top rpgs since, but i can't find a regular group to play with... i am also addicted to cardgames.. magic pokemon munckini'll try any game that has cards involved... but i haven't larped yet, again lack of availibility in the places i visit.
in high school i also became a theater geek and i can't free myself from the stage either.
in middle school i got over my slight case of dislexia and reallygot into reading (i couldn't seem to get the E's to stay in place through elementary, and it made me hate reading, but i struggled and eventualy learned to cope but i have a heck of a time wrighting...) and i love sifi and fantasy, douglass adams being one of my absolute favorite authors along with terry brooks and michael crichton. and i have a huge list of webcomics i read infact webcomics seem to be the thing taking up most of my time right now(besides theater.)
so yeah i geek on every thing except music... i like classic rock and metal (along with weird al tom lehr and jimmy buffett)
i don't know what type of geek to classify myself as... probably a theater gamer most likely....
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DrunkenPrayer
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Ok I'll start with a confession, apart from Warhammer 40K and Hero Quest I have never played a tabletop game 
Most of my geekness comes from being a huge sci-fi, comic and book fan. Since my dad got me hooked on Star Trek at about age six (now 24). I've always been interested in trying roleplay but due to the community around here it's hard to find people to try it out. I guess bookwise is the easiest way to put my style in perspective. I'm a huge fan of R.A Salvatore, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Poppy Z Brite and anything to do with horror, fantasy and mythology.
Oh I'm currently studying philosophy and comparative literature (feel free to ask for an explaination)
Oh and Tom if you were a member of Keenspace, did you read Ghastly comics? I loved that strip.
Most of my geekness comes from being a huge sci-fi, comic and book fan. Since my dad got me hooked on Star Trek at about age six (now 24). I've always been interested in trying roleplay but due to the community around here it's hard to find people to try it out. I guess bookwise is the easiest way to put my style in perspective. I'm a huge fan of R.A Salvatore, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Poppy Z Brite and anything to do with horror, fantasy and mythology.
Oh I'm currently studying philosophy and comparative literature (feel free to ask for an explaination)
Oh and Tom if you were a member of Keenspace, did you read Ghastly comics? I loved that strip.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charlie Brown
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charlie Brown
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Threnodist
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My Geeky facets
I, too, started reading at around three, so my 'home geek ground' is books. I did manage to get into comics a few years later and (dating myself) bought a D&D set when it was still in a bluish box with three booklets and dice included. Down through the years, I focused mainly on sci-fi, but fantasy and mystery stuff remained close behind. A friend turned me on to anime in high school by way of the original Japanese books and toys from the series(es?) that were eventually bowdlerized into Robotech. I've enjoyed many a sci-fi, gaming and comic convention, though hardly at all in the last couple of years (pesky rent and food and utility bills...) I've tried my hand at LARPing (one vampire game, one werewolf game), though my interest in the troupes centered mostly on trying to slap together home-brew rules for mages. I have tried my hand at writing fiction and non-fiction (blogging is out of bounds for personal reasons) and have accumulated many screams of "PUBLISH SOMETHING OTHER THAN FANFICTION, YOU LAZY BUT TALENTED HACK!"
My current fave is White Wolf's "Mage: the Awakening", followed by "Promethean: the Created" and the now-defunct "Mage: the Ascension". Other goodies include the perennial GURPS (nothing like a library of genuinely universal game supplements to boost creativity) and a number of other oldies I keep around for various component ideas: Amber Diceless (for Trumps and other things), Underground (for encouraging and tracking in-game social effects of the P.C.s' actions) and Cyberpunk ('cos it's just cool), to name only a few.
Other geek elements include managing to convince my fiancee that Firefly actually is a good show (she walked in on me at one point during Inara's spongebath scene and assumed that Firefly was just space porn, but after I made her watch the whole series she was forced to change her mind), following Supernatural somewhat, and toying with a Matrix RPG using Mage rules (paradox is the Matrix's "error-correction" algorithms actively resisting the free humans' attempts to hack the Matrix, etc.)
My current fave is White Wolf's "Mage: the Awakening", followed by "Promethean: the Created" and the now-defunct "Mage: the Ascension". Other goodies include the perennial GURPS (nothing like a library of genuinely universal game supplements to boost creativity) and a number of other oldies I keep around for various component ideas: Amber Diceless (for Trumps and other things), Underground (for encouraging and tracking in-game social effects of the P.C.s' actions) and Cyberpunk ('cos it's just cool), to name only a few.
Other geek elements include managing to convince my fiancee that Firefly actually is a good show (she walked in on me at one point during Inara's spongebath scene and assumed that Firefly was just space porn, but after I made her watch the whole series she was forced to change her mind), following Supernatural somewhat, and toying with a Matrix RPG using Mage rules (paradox is the Matrix's "error-correction" algorithms actively resisting the free humans' attempts to hack the Matrix, etc.)
Hmm. Well...
I don't know personally what I'd classify myself as, but I definitely started with gaming.
I grew up with 2 brothers (I'm the youngest!) who always played Video games in front of me as a baby [this also had the effect of tomboyism... As if it were some kind of ailment]. Soon after, I started playing... Starting with Mario, to Zelda, to Metroid, to Pokemon (Big jump, because I'm too lazy to list a ton XP) and beyond. I've been keeping up with my beloved baby (My DS <3), my faithful old PS2 that I rented out my room to my brother to get, and the newest edition, my Wii... I've gotten into computer gaming a lot more. I played Diablo 2 for awhile with my oldest brother and Starcraft with my other brother. For MMOs, I played Ragnarok Online for about 4 years, FFXI for 1 year [how I miss it ;-;], and World of warcraft for about 2 months now... ((Only on WoW because my friends are on it too XD... Without them I'd probably quit))
When it comes to tabletop gaming, I enjoy D&D, but I never have anyone to play it with. I've never gotten far into tabletop, because my friend who bought a ton of board games and such moved away, so I guess all I have left now for it is Heroscape (if that counts XD).
For comics... Well for anime, I became in love with the Japanese culture back in 5th grade when we had 3 exchange students. Naturally after looking more into Japanese culture during 7th grade, I discovered anime. Around 8th-9th grade I became a fanatic... My drawing styles drastically changed and evolved 4 years later into what I can do now ((It's a huge difference... Really)). Around 10th grade, Anime became like how many other things are to me: Interesting, but not my main focus.
When it comes to Marvel or DC, I love Marvel... I mean Spiderman (Venom too!), Wolverine and Deadpool! Win! I'm not the biggest geek when it comes to Marvel, but generally I still like them :3.
Music geek? Well, I'm absolutely unbiased when it comes to music... I mean completely (None of that 'Yah, I liek all music but rap or country' ... ALLL MUSIC) XD. That's enough I guess, but I'm sad to say I never learned to play an instrument ;-;.
Sci-fi or Fantasy? Fantasy. Sci-fi will always have a place in my heart. Watching "The Next Generation" or "Voyager" with my dad are some of my favorite memories... I never got to see "Deep Space Nine", but I happen to know that my dad has a box set of some of the episodes... Not sure which ones but still, I need to look into that. But really, Fantasy gets to me more. Swords, Magic, Dragons, Elves, etc! It's all so interesting to me!
Writing geek? YES! I love writing my own stories, comics and random dribble. X3 Not much else to say about it 8D;;.
Reading? <33
I love reading. Currently I'm reading the 5 "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books... I'd expand so much more on this topic, but it's getting late XD.
Anyways, I think that about sums it up, really.. @_@
I don't know personally what I'd classify myself as, but I definitely started with gaming.
I grew up with 2 brothers (I'm the youngest!) who always played Video games in front of me as a baby [this also had the effect of tomboyism... As if it were some kind of ailment]. Soon after, I started playing... Starting with Mario, to Zelda, to Metroid, to Pokemon (Big jump, because I'm too lazy to list a ton XP) and beyond. I've been keeping up with my beloved baby (My DS <3), my faithful old PS2 that I rented out my room to my brother to get, and the newest edition, my Wii... I've gotten into computer gaming a lot more. I played Diablo 2 for awhile with my oldest brother and Starcraft with my other brother. For MMOs, I played Ragnarok Online for about 4 years, FFXI for 1 year [how I miss it ;-;], and World of warcraft for about 2 months now... ((Only on WoW because my friends are on it too XD... Without them I'd probably quit))
When it comes to tabletop gaming, I enjoy D&D, but I never have anyone to play it with. I've never gotten far into tabletop, because my friend who bought a ton of board games and such moved away, so I guess all I have left now for it is Heroscape (if that counts XD).
For comics... Well for anime, I became in love with the Japanese culture back in 5th grade when we had 3 exchange students. Naturally after looking more into Japanese culture during 7th grade, I discovered anime. Around 8th-9th grade I became a fanatic... My drawing styles drastically changed and evolved 4 years later into what I can do now ((It's a huge difference... Really)). Around 10th grade, Anime became like how many other things are to me: Interesting, but not my main focus.
When it comes to Marvel or DC, I love Marvel... I mean Spiderman (Venom too!), Wolverine and Deadpool! Win! I'm not the biggest geek when it comes to Marvel, but generally I still like them :3.
Music geek? Well, I'm absolutely unbiased when it comes to music... I mean completely (None of that 'Yah, I liek all music but rap or country' ... ALLL MUSIC) XD. That's enough I guess, but I'm sad to say I never learned to play an instrument ;-;.
Sci-fi or Fantasy? Fantasy. Sci-fi will always have a place in my heart. Watching "The Next Generation" or "Voyager" with my dad are some of my favorite memories... I never got to see "Deep Space Nine", but I happen to know that my dad has a box set of some of the episodes... Not sure which ones but still, I need to look into that. But really, Fantasy gets to me more. Swords, Magic, Dragons, Elves, etc! It's all so interesting to me!
Writing geek? YES! I love writing my own stories, comics and random dribble. X3 Not much else to say about it 8D;;.
Reading? <33
I love reading. Currently I'm reading the 5 "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books... I'd expand so much more on this topic, but it's getting late XD.
Anyways, I think that about sums it up, really.. @_@
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DrunkenPrayer
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Well you've just earned an automatic +5 cool points with that comment. My copy of the original trilogy is battered beyond belief because it goes on every single long journey I take. If you enjoy those you should try reading the Dirk Gently books that he wrote as well.Aurana wrote:
Reading? <33
I love reading. Currently I'm reading the 5 "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books... I'd expand so much more on this topic, but it's getting late.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charlie Brown
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charlie Brown
I'll definitely look into those! Thanks for the referral :3.DrunkenPrayer wrote: Well you've just earned an automatic +5 cool points with that comment. My copy of the original trilogy is battered beyond belief because it goes on every single long journey I take. If you enjoy those you should try reading the Dirk Gently books that he wrote as well.
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SickandCute
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My father taught me to read with Lord of The Rings.
It all started there... I spent most of my youth reading obsessively through various fantasy books, just what I could find. It wasn't much, living in a small english village. I started roleplaying online at about the age of 14, but as I was so massively shy and itroverted by that point I didn't get into roleplaying with actual people, as that would have required speaking. I eventually, when my shyness subsided a bit, got involved with a few table-top games with friends and started watching way too much anime.
When I met my boy, I started occaisionally going to LRP with him (what is described as boffer larp in this comic) but don't go often as I have an active job, work saturdays and it runs on sundays where we are, which I usually like to spend sitting rather than running around more.
It all started there... I spent most of my youth reading obsessively through various fantasy books, just what I could find. It wasn't much, living in a small english village. I started roleplaying online at about the age of 14, but as I was so massively shy and itroverted by that point I didn't get into roleplaying with actual people, as that would have required speaking. I eventually, when my shyness subsided a bit, got involved with a few table-top games with friends and started watching way too much anime.
When I met my boy, I started occaisionally going to LRP with him (what is described as boffer larp in this comic) but don't go often as I have an active job, work saturdays and it runs on sundays where we are, which I usually like to spend sitting rather than running around more.
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Thunderhowl
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My Geek Factor
Ever since I was a wee lad I've been voraciously reading, watching, playing and absorbing roleplaying games, comics, sci-fi and fantasy movies, TV shows and books. I have both played and/or run D&D, AD&D, D20, Shadowrun, Palladium's Megaversal games, Star Wars, Star Trek, 1/2 White Wolf's entire gameline (including Pimp: the Backhanding), Other Suns, Twilight 2000, Pinnacle's Weird West and Weird Wars, CCGs, MMORPGs, Battletech, DC Heroes, Marvel Heroes, LARPs of almost every type, and even Chaosium's Elfquest.
I collect comics, movies, books, CCGs, and RPGs.
I am a whore for Werewolf: the Apocalypse and the Super Hero genre.
I watch Anime and Buffy and X-Files and Kevin Smith and LoTR among others.
I read around 10 webcomics daily and Weregeek is one of the best I've read.
I am on a first-name-beer-drinkin-rpging-with basis with at least one webcomic creator (Hi Alina!)
I have friends who work at Bioware and Cryptic and one who might possibly be freelancing for Green Ronin soon.
I have a Myspace page, and a livejournal and list my books and DVDs on Librarything and DVDspot.
I play Kingdom of Loathing, founded a Clan and have Ascended 12 times.
I play CoH and CoV.
I, shall we say, get my Geek On. And here, I am in good company. Greetings fellow geeks.
I collect comics, movies, books, CCGs, and RPGs.
I am a whore for Werewolf: the Apocalypse and the Super Hero genre.
I watch Anime and Buffy and X-Files and Kevin Smith and LoTR among others.
I read around 10 webcomics daily and Weregeek is one of the best I've read.
I am on a first-name-beer-drinkin-rpging-with basis with at least one webcomic creator (Hi Alina!)
I have friends who work at Bioware and Cryptic and one who might possibly be freelancing for Green Ronin soon.
I have a Myspace page, and a livejournal and list my books and DVDs on Librarything and DVDspot.
I play Kingdom of Loathing, founded a Clan and have Ascended 12 times.
I play CoH and CoV.
I, shall we say, get my Geek On. And here, I am in good company. Greetings fellow geeks.
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Khayankh
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I'm in high school, I guess I started with reading Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings in elementary school. I also was into the Pokemon GameBoy games, but not the cards or TV shows. As an avid reader in a school where pathetically stupid graphic novels are used to teach the 'minimally literate' kids, I always had a certain disdain for comics, then I read Sandman my freshman year, and a friend got me into Order of the Stick. I also read this and Girl Genius. I <3 Terry Pratchett, and I also like Douglas Addams and Isaac Asimov. I respect the right of adults to disparage Harry and friends, but that is because the first book was written on a ten-year-old level and you didn't discover fantasy along with it when you were eight like I did.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -unknown
You broke the universe - my DM this one time
You broke the universe - my DM this one time
"let me explain...no, there is too much. let me sum up"
- I. Montoya
My geekdom spreads in to far too many branches. I'm not sure where to start because none of them are really more or less important than the others. So I guess i'll just grab one at random and go from there.
My nana was a teacher librarian, right up until someone decided computers could do the job better and she lost her position. But she has always had a huge love for books. I learned to read when I was quite little (before I even started kindergarten) and since I was a really shy kid (and got picked on a lot for being the "smart kid" in class) I loved books more and more as I went through elementary school. As far as my reading tastes? Well, I'm not ashamed to admit that I own close to 100 of the yellow hardcover Nancy Drew books. Granted, I haven't really read them since I was young, but they still factor in to my current stage of geekery. I started reading fantasy and sci fi when I was really young. I love LOTR, David Eddings, and Terry Brooks. I started reading the wheel of time series, but stopped reading when I discovered it wasn't finished yet. When it finally is finished I'll start again (or maybe it is finished and i'm just that far behind the times), but the prospect of starting a really good series and then being left on a big cliffhanger really didn't appeal to me. My love for books is what prompted me to go in to English at the university. I'm almost finished with my Masters Degree. !!!!!! I got exposure to quite a few different types of books while studying english. I really enjoy Dystopian Fiction (or Speculative Fiction) - the likes of P.K. Dick, william gibson, aldous huxley, ray bradbury, etc. However I also have a great love for middle english and old english (and no, shakespeare doesn't count! although i do enjoy shakespeare as well, technically he's modern english, with weird spelling and some out-of-use words). I read a lot of dragonslayer sagas, some in translation and others that we as a class learned to translate from the original old germanic and icelandic texts. I'm also really in to the greek classics. There are more types of books that I lke but I can already see the wall of text factor is getting out of hand so we'll leave books there. hehe.
what's next? ah, video games. my nana also happened to be a huge tech geek, and always wanted to have the newest gadgets and toys. so i grew up on atari, coleco, intellivision, commodore 64, and the original Pong. i remember the day we went to buy our first Nintendo. My brother would always tease me becuase he was so much better than me at mario bros. But then we got tetris and well, apparently i'm a natural born ninja with puzzle games. so the teasing slowed down a bit ;o) i love ALL puzzle video games, and my boyfriend wears a t-shirt that says "my girlfriend can kick my ass (at tetris) " with pride. I also love, love, love, LOVE quest games, RPG's and fantasy games. Star Tropics was the first one I played, but zelda didn't come that long afterwards. my dad and i would sit in the basement playing zelda allllll night. to this day i still can't figure out the final temple on zelda 2, because by the time we got there i would always be asleep, so dad would go all the way through the temple for me and then wake me up so that i could "help" fight the last boss. the final fantasy series was my lifeblood through high school, i swear. i also really loved Chrono Trigger. for the most part my console gaming has been limited to the nintendo platforms and i am not much of a fan of sports games or shooter games or fighting games. over the past few years i've also gotten in to pc gaming - mostly blizzard games. starcraft, warcraft, and the dreaded WOW...
star trek deserves its own paragraph. hehe. when i was young my mom was VERY VERY strict about bedtime...but the one exception was, we got to stay up late on friday nights (at least i think it was friday nights) for the original series of Star Trek. she would set up a blanket & pillows in front of the tv, and my brother and i would get to share a big bowl of popcorn. i usually fell asleep about halfway through the episode. my boyfriend and i downloaded and are currently watching all of the original series, and i recognize most of the episodes right off the start but fortunately am still surprised by the endings since i never did see them. of course we eventually started watching TNG as well, and i will proudly admit to owning all 7 seasons of TNG in dvd boxed set. i got my boyfriend completely hooked on and addicted to trek with tng...when we first started watching, it would always be me who would suggest we should watch an episode of trek that night. but after a few weeks he was the one making the suggestion, and "an epsidose" often became three or four. my whole family knows that i love trek, and every christmas i can count on getting some really incredible trek paraphanelia. i have a really really large family, and they're the type that like to find really special (not necessarily costly) presents for christmas. i've gotten some really neat stuff like star trek records (thank GOD they weren't the shatner ones!!), figurines, models, board games, movies, books, posters, plates, plaques, etc etc etc.
which leads in to my next geeky thing: toy collecting!! i have all sorts of toys, figurines, models etc that i collect. my two largest collections are Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, but there are some other smaller collections (zelda, pirates of the caribbean, and more) that also deserve to be mentioned.
i don't know if you guys would count this as "geeky" but i consider myself a pretty big outdoorsy geek. i love camping, canoeing, hiking, kayaking, fishing, boating, and the like. maybe that doesn't count. i'll move on ;o)
i also happen to be a gigantic music geek. my family is very very musical. as far as we can tell, my generation of my family is the 5th generation of performing musicians and recording artists. i can play (but am not necessarily incredibly good at) saxophone (alto, tenor, and baritone), keyboards, guitar, clarinet, and all manner of rhythym/percussive instruments. i am also a singer/songwriter. i used to be in a band called The Goat Next Door that was a crazy mishmash of about 8 million different music genres, but that sadly is no more. most of what i do now is just mellow acoustic type stuff. when i was in high school and i started listening to green day, my mom freaked out. "is that what kids are calling punk these days??" so she hauled out her old sex pistols, clash, dayglo abortions, and a bunch of other albums from her high school days. my mom's main musical love, however, is blues and jazz, so i love all sorts of that music as well. my dad preferred his classic rock and metal so i listened to a lot of ozzy, sabbath, and rush growing up. whenever our family gets together (at least once a month) we end up jamming and making music. most of what we do is bluegrass and folk stuff, although we also do a decent amount of older songs from my grandma's time. and of course since my younger cousins now have electric guitars and are getting in to the whole family music thing, the rest of the family patiently tolerates some billy talent and green day tunes. luckily my cousins have their own jam space out in the garage so the people who don't like the louder music can stick to the bluegrass and folk. (o:
i can't believe i'm still typing. i'm SUCH an attention whore. i really should have taken inigo's advice ^^
- I. Montoya
My geekdom spreads in to far too many branches. I'm not sure where to start because none of them are really more or less important than the others. So I guess i'll just grab one at random and go from there.
My nana was a teacher librarian, right up until someone decided computers could do the job better and she lost her position. But she has always had a huge love for books. I learned to read when I was quite little (before I even started kindergarten) and since I was a really shy kid (and got picked on a lot for being the "smart kid" in class) I loved books more and more as I went through elementary school. As far as my reading tastes? Well, I'm not ashamed to admit that I own close to 100 of the yellow hardcover Nancy Drew books. Granted, I haven't really read them since I was young, but they still factor in to my current stage of geekery. I started reading fantasy and sci fi when I was really young. I love LOTR, David Eddings, and Terry Brooks. I started reading the wheel of time series, but stopped reading when I discovered it wasn't finished yet. When it finally is finished I'll start again (or maybe it is finished and i'm just that far behind the times), but the prospect of starting a really good series and then being left on a big cliffhanger really didn't appeal to me. My love for books is what prompted me to go in to English at the university. I'm almost finished with my Masters Degree. !!!!!! I got exposure to quite a few different types of books while studying english. I really enjoy Dystopian Fiction (or Speculative Fiction) - the likes of P.K. Dick, william gibson, aldous huxley, ray bradbury, etc. However I also have a great love for middle english and old english (and no, shakespeare doesn't count! although i do enjoy shakespeare as well, technically he's modern english, with weird spelling and some out-of-use words). I read a lot of dragonslayer sagas, some in translation and others that we as a class learned to translate from the original old germanic and icelandic texts. I'm also really in to the greek classics. There are more types of books that I lke but I can already see the wall of text factor is getting out of hand so we'll leave books there. hehe.
what's next? ah, video games. my nana also happened to be a huge tech geek, and always wanted to have the newest gadgets and toys. so i grew up on atari, coleco, intellivision, commodore 64, and the original Pong. i remember the day we went to buy our first Nintendo. My brother would always tease me becuase he was so much better than me at mario bros. But then we got tetris and well, apparently i'm a natural born ninja with puzzle games. so the teasing slowed down a bit ;o) i love ALL puzzle video games, and my boyfriend wears a t-shirt that says "my girlfriend can kick my ass (at tetris) " with pride. I also love, love, love, LOVE quest games, RPG's and fantasy games. Star Tropics was the first one I played, but zelda didn't come that long afterwards. my dad and i would sit in the basement playing zelda allllll night. to this day i still can't figure out the final temple on zelda 2, because by the time we got there i would always be asleep, so dad would go all the way through the temple for me and then wake me up so that i could "help" fight the last boss. the final fantasy series was my lifeblood through high school, i swear. i also really loved Chrono Trigger. for the most part my console gaming has been limited to the nintendo platforms and i am not much of a fan of sports games or shooter games or fighting games. over the past few years i've also gotten in to pc gaming - mostly blizzard games. starcraft, warcraft, and the dreaded WOW...
star trek deserves its own paragraph. hehe. when i was young my mom was VERY VERY strict about bedtime...but the one exception was, we got to stay up late on friday nights (at least i think it was friday nights) for the original series of Star Trek. she would set up a blanket & pillows in front of the tv, and my brother and i would get to share a big bowl of popcorn. i usually fell asleep about halfway through the episode. my boyfriend and i downloaded and are currently watching all of the original series, and i recognize most of the episodes right off the start but fortunately am still surprised by the endings since i never did see them. of course we eventually started watching TNG as well, and i will proudly admit to owning all 7 seasons of TNG in dvd boxed set. i got my boyfriend completely hooked on and addicted to trek with tng...when we first started watching, it would always be me who would suggest we should watch an episode of trek that night. but after a few weeks he was the one making the suggestion, and "an epsidose" often became three or four. my whole family knows that i love trek, and every christmas i can count on getting some really incredible trek paraphanelia. i have a really really large family, and they're the type that like to find really special (not necessarily costly) presents for christmas. i've gotten some really neat stuff like star trek records (thank GOD they weren't the shatner ones!!), figurines, models, board games, movies, books, posters, plates, plaques, etc etc etc.
which leads in to my next geeky thing: toy collecting!! i have all sorts of toys, figurines, models etc that i collect. my two largest collections are Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, but there are some other smaller collections (zelda, pirates of the caribbean, and more) that also deserve to be mentioned.
i don't know if you guys would count this as "geeky" but i consider myself a pretty big outdoorsy geek. i love camping, canoeing, hiking, kayaking, fishing, boating, and the like. maybe that doesn't count. i'll move on ;o)
i also happen to be a gigantic music geek. my family is very very musical. as far as we can tell, my generation of my family is the 5th generation of performing musicians and recording artists. i can play (but am not necessarily incredibly good at) saxophone (alto, tenor, and baritone), keyboards, guitar, clarinet, and all manner of rhythym/percussive instruments. i am also a singer/songwriter. i used to be in a band called The Goat Next Door that was a crazy mishmash of about 8 million different music genres, but that sadly is no more. most of what i do now is just mellow acoustic type stuff. when i was in high school and i started listening to green day, my mom freaked out. "is that what kids are calling punk these days??" so she hauled out her old sex pistols, clash, dayglo abortions, and a bunch of other albums from her high school days. my mom's main musical love, however, is blues and jazz, so i love all sorts of that music as well. my dad preferred his classic rock and metal so i listened to a lot of ozzy, sabbath, and rush growing up. whenever our family gets together (at least once a month) we end up jamming and making music. most of what we do is bluegrass and folk stuff, although we also do a decent amount of older songs from my grandma's time. and of course since my younger cousins now have electric guitars and are getting in to the whole family music thing, the rest of the family patiently tolerates some billy talent and green day tunes. luckily my cousins have their own jam space out in the garage so the people who don't like the louder music can stick to the bluegrass and folk. (o:
i can't believe i'm still typing. i'm SUCH an attention whore. i really should have taken inigo's advice ^^
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Wxgirl
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- Location: North Dakota ... sigh
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Lets see here where to start lol...
Weather: Heck it is where my screename comes from wx=weather (do not ask me why I do not know). My big geek factor is that fact that I am a weather nerd. I look at radar images and current weather maps and drool over the possibility of there being a thunderstorm. I have chased severe weather before and seen tornadoes (11 to be excat). Fellow geek frineds have made the mistake of mentioning weather around me and then prepare for me to smile and tell them why and how that darn snoflake fell on their car. It is why I am in graduate school right getting my masters in atmospheric sciences and the rason why I am in North Dakota right now and not having fun gaming back in Michigan T_T.
Video Games: I started off as a video game geek, while other girls played Barbies I played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes and Video games with the boys. Had a Nintendo since I was five (was one of the first kids to have one ) and got quickly addicted to Mario, Zelda, Tetris and other classics. Moved up to a Sega then PS one then my lovely PS2. I am currently addicted to Katarmari Demacy, Soul Calibur III and DDR
Anime: This was my second step into geekdom, although it was not until middle school I got a little bit into. As with most children of the 80's there was a show called Sailor Moon that I got addicted to. However thanks to Cartoon Network and Toonami I got a bit more and more into anime as time went on. Then came college and anime club where I quicly immersed myself into manga and anime and all sorts of the fun shiney things that come out of Japan. I started to download fansubs and buy so much manga and anime that I had to hide it a bit from the paretnal units. Currently like Naruto, Bleach, FMA, NANA, Ouran HS Host Club and much more.
LARP: Senior year of college my roomate asks me to join her in a game she was invited to and I tagged along. I find out a bit more later that I was comming to a LARP (werewolf to be excat) with the Mt. Pleasant By Night Chapter of the Camarilla and got some help makign a character. Needless to say I made a storm lord and fell in love with the game, while the original person invited not so much. I started becomming great friends with these wonderful people and got more and more into game. I joined Mage and Vampire and Mortal and was gaming every Friday and Saturday night with them. It was good times and had a lot of fun ... then I had to leave for graduate school ... oh well real life calls.
Tabletop: I got into this because people at LARP asked me to join one of their campaigns. However when a gradaute student is running a game yeah sometimes school works gets in the way ... but I understand now that I am a grad student too.
Misc.: Thanks to my ex and my guy friends I did get into Dragon Ball Z the CCG for a while and Vs. as well. Also Munchkin and a few other non collectable card games as well. Oh oh oh and addicted to gunbound I <3 that game.
Weather: Heck it is where my screename comes from wx=weather (do not ask me why I do not know). My big geek factor is that fact that I am a weather nerd. I look at radar images and current weather maps and drool over the possibility of there being a thunderstorm. I have chased severe weather before and seen tornadoes (11 to be excat). Fellow geek frineds have made the mistake of mentioning weather around me and then prepare for me to smile and tell them why and how that darn snoflake fell on their car. It is why I am in graduate school right getting my masters in atmospheric sciences and the rason why I am in North Dakota right now and not having fun gaming back in Michigan T_T.
Video Games: I started off as a video game geek, while other girls played Barbies I played Teenage Mutant Ninja Turltes and Video games with the boys. Had a Nintendo since I was five (was one of the first kids to have one ) and got quickly addicted to Mario, Zelda, Tetris and other classics. Moved up to a Sega then PS one then my lovely PS2. I am currently addicted to Katarmari Demacy, Soul Calibur III and DDR
Anime: This was my second step into geekdom, although it was not until middle school I got a little bit into. As with most children of the 80's there was a show called Sailor Moon that I got addicted to. However thanks to Cartoon Network and Toonami I got a bit more and more into anime as time went on. Then came college and anime club where I quicly immersed myself into manga and anime and all sorts of the fun shiney things that come out of Japan. I started to download fansubs and buy so much manga and anime that I had to hide it a bit from the paretnal units. Currently like Naruto, Bleach, FMA, NANA, Ouran HS Host Club and much more.
LARP: Senior year of college my roomate asks me to join her in a game she was invited to and I tagged along. I find out a bit more later that I was comming to a LARP (werewolf to be excat) with the Mt. Pleasant By Night Chapter of the Camarilla and got some help makign a character. Needless to say I made a storm lord and fell in love with the game, while the original person invited not so much. I started becomming great friends with these wonderful people and got more and more into game. I joined Mage and Vampire and Mortal and was gaming every Friday and Saturday night with them. It was good times and had a lot of fun ... then I had to leave for graduate school ... oh well real life calls.
Tabletop: I got into this because people at LARP asked me to join one of their campaigns. However when a gradaute student is running a game yeah sometimes school works gets in the way ... but I understand now that I am a grad student too.
Misc.: Thanks to my ex and my guy friends I did get into Dragon Ball Z the CCG for a while and Vs. as well. Also Munchkin and a few other non collectable card games as well. Oh oh oh and addicted to gunbound I <3 that game.
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Khayankh
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- Joined: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:23 pm
- Location: southwestern bit of CT, near NYC
You still have those yellow Nancy Drew books? I had about forty, then I got out of elementary school, stopped reading or looking at them, and my mom got rid of them or hid them somewhere in the depths of the attic or something...they're gone...(misses Nancy Drew books)...I had totally forgotten about that, I was in third grade when I got into Nancy Drew!
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. -unknown
You broke the universe - my DM this one time
You broke the universe - my DM this one time