The Ultimate Nerdery

[Skwinky]

I've come to realize that I've reached a new low of geekery-nerdom this past week. Not only have I recently fallen in love with the infamous Yugioh franchise (never saw that one coming), but in the past week I and a few friends figured out all the mechanics for this series so it could fully function in a D&D 3.5 setting.

And I cannot tell you how pleased I am to figure this out, but I'm not sure what it says about how I spend my free time.

However now I'm curious to know what other ultimate nerdery has been done by others! I know I can't be the only one on the internet to do something quite like this.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

That is a truly inspiring and beautifully nerdy endeavor. By combining two things you hold dear, you have become The Alligator of Learning.

Let's see what I've got.

Over winter break, I played The Sims a lot and I made a neighborhood where all the characters from my webcomic live. I didn't think I was even going to play them that much, I figured I'd make them and build their houses and that'd be it. But no. I played them. o how i played them

I haven't done this in a while, but sometimes I like to read the dictionary, just to learn new words. There is a little trouble as the dictionary in question was published, if I recall correctly, during the Carter administration, and therefore many of its terms are a touch quaint- for instance the back of the dictionary has a segment devoted to computer components and their purposes. Still relatively useful but at times obsolete. I would read a few pages before bed each night but I got to somewhere within the S uh.... "chapter" and then fell out of the habit.

I don't read fan fiction, but I do read fanfic rants (a livejournal community). There's another "I don't do this, but I do this tangent of it" also but I can't recall it at this time.

ETA Oh oh oh I remembered it. I read videogame webcomics, but I don't play video games.

I feel like I do a lot of things that are almost nerdy, but are closer to just being kind of strange.

[McDuffies]

I stare at two computer screens simultaneously... a lot.

[Lostmind]

I haven't done this in a while, but sometimes I like to read the dictionary, just to learn new words. There is a little trouble as the dictionary in question was published, if I recall correctly, during the Carter administration, and therefore many of its terms are a touch quaint- for instance the back of the dictionary has a segment devoted to computer components and their purposes.

I used to do the same thing but mine the back has foreign phrases and I stopped for the same reason, exactly when I used the word "fag" in a high school writing assignment. Why? Because in my dictionary it was listed as an English public-school boy who acts as a servant to another. I thought it was like "gay" having an old use meaning and newer less positive one (not sure how to phrase that.) Also the book lists "faggot" as a bundle of sticks or twigs esp. as used for fuel. Ah, Webster 1989 edition making even the outdoors an uncomfortable place. I've said too much again.

[MixedMyth]

Even though I beat Super Scribblenauts in three days I still keep going back to it, mining it to find as many wacky words as I can! They even have the word Technomancer!

[peterabnny]

Ah, you amateurs! In addition to cartoons, I also do Civil War re-enacting and model railroading; they don't get any nerdier/geekier than that!! Sometimes I think my wife only married me to get a green card...

[Skwinky]

Even though I beat Super Scribblenauts in three days I still keep going back to it, mining it to find as many wacky words as I can! They even have the word Technomancer!

Um um I do this exact same thing, but with the Ace Attorney games, which is odd considering those are RPG-Puzzle mixed games. You'd think I'd have memorized the cases by now.

And also--

In addition to cartoons, I also do Civil War re-enacting and model railroading; they don't get any nerdier/geekier than that!!

This is the best. I shake your had, sir.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

This is the best. I shake your had, sir.

MAY I TAKE YOUR HAD, SIR.

MAY I TAKE YOUR HAD, SIR.

[comicracy]

Just being here makes you a nerd.

[peterabnny]

In addition to cartoons, I also do Civil War re-enacting and model railroading; they don't get any nerdier/geekier than that!!

This is the best. I shake your had, sir.

But only after the second date, 'k? I'm not that easy a guy...

[Risky]

I stare at two computer screens simultaneously... a lot.

I am have some nerd...

I stare at two screens simultaneously since I'm a computer chip layout designer. I have a webcomic about elves, in a fantasy world that I made up myself and used to run tabletop gaming sessions of with my marching band mates. I change the webdesign for it more often than I actually update the comic. I used to make dice-based RPG games in Applesoft Basic, which usually required typing in machine language graphic toolbox programs from Compute! magazine byte by byte so I could use super high resolution graphics (pixels instead of giant squares).

I also have a degree in Game Design from ITT, and just spent the weekend participating in Global Game Jam, where I worked on the parts of the menus you can't see, and the network code, for a multiplayer game about either defending sheep from an angry god, or alternately about destroying sheep by lobbing disasters at them from space. This was done with very little sleep since there was a 45 hour deadline. ( http://tinyurl.com/god-hates-sheep for the record).

I also wear glasses.

Yet... I know people nerdier even than that.

[Laemkral]

I stare at two screens simultaneously at work when I'm in my office. And my job doesn't have a damn thing to do with computers, I just have a lot of shit that needs to be on screen at the same time.

All 4 of us Lieutenants in the Company have nicknames based upon the hobbits from LOTR. It started because one kinda looks like Frodo. Therefore, the other two platoon leaders became Merry and Pippin (the elder, more serious one being Merry, of course) and I'm Samwise (cause I'm the one who has to get everything done). This of course led to me pointing out to my boss that this makes him Bilbo. He seems content with that. Not only are these nicknames NOT kept internal to the Company, but the Battalion Commander has often referred to Frodo as....Frodo. Probably more than by his real name, as of late.

I had comic books delivered to me on a twice a month basis from my comic store in San Diego while I was in Iraq. I did this for an entire year, resulting in at least 7 flat rate boxes worth of comics that I then had to ship BACK to myself, spread out amongst two footlockers filled with other junk so as not to exceed the 70 lbs limit on any single shipment (the Army postal system won't give you the free "intersystem" discount if its a USPS flat rate box, so I had to put them into other things).

I celebrate Towel Day, and reread the series annually. I am such a Hitchhiker's nerd that I went to Fenchurch Street Station and had my picture taken there. I also have a copy of the HHGTTG in French, for no reason other than IT WAS THERE. I always pack a towel when I travel around Europe.

I ran a D&D game for my best friend's bachelor party. His best man present to me was a plastic Captain America shield from Hot Topic (the only reason he would ever go into that store). Since it's too big to fit into any of my suitcases, it will not be hung on my wall until I live in the States again.

I'm sure I've had a few other super nerd things in my past, but nothing comes to my mind. Oh yeah, I still post here even though my comic ended several years ago, it will never start up again, and I'll never in any way become involved with the creation of comics again (with one minor exception....).

[McDuffies]

My other activity besides making webcomics in playing in a band! Now how nerdy is that, ha!

[Spaceprincess]

I've been watching way too much dragon ball z kai lately. last saturday I watched around 20 episodes straight, I only stopped because thats all the episodes there we're on the dvr. I cried a little when Chiaotzu died... even though I've seen the series I still get excited watching it.

[Ekolter]

Hell, around here our last name = major nerdy/geekage.

[VinnieD]

I had a public speaking class today in which I gave a speech prominently featuring the philosophy of Optimus Prime.

[siguyva]

Over winter break, I played The Sims a lot and I made a neighborhood where all the characters from my webcomic live.

That.. that's awesome.

Sometimes I think my wife only married me to get a green card...

HAHAHA - but model railroading is pretty cool.

Though I have to agree with comicracy, just being here makes you a nerd. And we're damn proud of it. As for me, I get excited whenever the Large Hadron Collider makes an announcement, and I drink coffee or tea out of a goblet I bought from a ren faire.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

Over winter break, I played The Sims a lot and I made a neighborhood where all the characters from my webcomic live.

That.. that's awesome.

Thanks It was a lot more fun than I thought it would be... freaked myself out a little bit actually.

[siguyva]

Let them run out their lives randomly and watch what they do. Bam, free story arcs.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

They are already deviating from their norm. It's actually kind of frustrating. Oh well. I just want to make them all have baybees.