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40. go me. i was up to 185, but then in the anti-geek section i was down to -60. so i gave myself 100 more points for understanding the chart.
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Woot! I'm an uber-geek! I think that for me, any geekier than that would be slightly scary.
I worked in a gaming store for a year and a half, and do a lot of casual gaming. Plus I love science fiction. But some of those questions are really extreme.
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I had 390 geek points but then I had 265 anti-geek points so I'm officially a non-geek - unless you're being generous and add in the extra hundred, but even then I'm only a wannabe . I think casual geek definitely fits me better.
I think we should get points just for taking the quiz and then again for disappointed if we don't rate higher . Also for belonging to online forums .
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I was up to several hundred when I went to post this. Let me see:
Played miniature game 10 Bought miniatures 20 Own Monty Python 10 Quote Monty Python 30 Watched the Star Wars Movies 5 Quote Star Wars 15 Know Star Wars history 40 Fact checked about Star Wars 50 Watched Star Trek (occasionally) 10 Watched Star Trek (regularly) 20 Played RPG 25 Know what LARP or RPG means 5 Ever lost someone in gaming conversations 20 Played an all night gaming session 10 Spent four hours or more in a gaming store in one day 20 make gaming references to real life 25 Know someone only by their character/in-game name 20 Read Literature for fun (school doesn’t count) 5 Read Sci-Fi for fun 15 Prefer the full pronunciation of science fiction because it’s classier 30 Own or read a Star Wars/Trek book 20 Own or read the core Tolkein books 10 Own or read all the Dune books 20 Know what garb means 5 Attended a ren-fair 10 Member of local gaming club 30 Read Sandman 5 Collect comic books 20 Own a comic book teeshirt 10 Own a computer 5 Own a maxed out computer 20 Built your own computer 50 Play computer/console RPGs 10 Play computer/console Strategy games 5 Chat 20 Met significant other through internet 60 Know computer language 30 per language [I would say 2.5-3] Know assembly 50 Have played a video game for more than six hours in one sitting 25 Are a video game junkie (play video games for more than 20 hours a week) 75 Enjoy watching video games 50 Shower less than six times a week 10 [usually 4, geez is that so bad?]
Okay, so after the plus part, I have... 1025
Now for the subtraction...
Skating (in-line or skateboard) 35 Mountain biking 35 Play sports 50 Play popular sports (football, baseball, basketball) 150 Generally athletic 10 Drink (we’re talking party drinking here) 15 Not a virgin 10 Are popular with members of the opposite sex 80
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Kat, you and I can write our own version. I think they left out a significant portion of geekdom. They should have questions like: Have you ever named a cat after a character in a Brontë novel?
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460, Level 3 geek. And only that high because of programming languages; I only lost 60 in the anti-geek cagegory. I = lame.
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I was looking pretty bad and hangin' around the level six geeks. Then the deductions started ringing in. Apparently I have plenty of non-geeky activities to even myself out.
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Do you plan vacations around people you've never met?
Do you keep track of the percentage of references you catch on Gilmore Girls? And compare your score? Online?Posts: 26077 | Registered: Mar 2000
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Would you rather read your physics text book than go out and socialize with people?
Do you study pointless subjects for no reason other than for your entertainment?
Would you rather converse with robots or artificially intellegent machines than people of your own species?Posts: 1831 | Registered: Jan 2003
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Played miniature game 10 Watched the Star Wars Movies 5 Quote Star Wars 15 Know Star Wars history 40 Fact checked about Star Wars 50 Watched Star Trek (occasionally) 10 Watched Star Trek (regularly) 20 Know the actors in Star Trek 20 Know the episodes of Star Trek (Plot and names) 45 Read Literature for fun (school doesn’t count) 5 Read Sci-Fi for fun 15 Prefer the full pronunciation of science fiction because it’s classier 30 Own or read a Star Wars/Trek book 20 Own or read the core Tolkein books 10 Read the other “Tolkein” books 20 Own or read all the Dune books 20 Own a trench coat 5 Know what garb means 5 Attended a ren-fair 10 Collect comic books 20 Own a computer 5 Play computer/console Strategy games 5 Chat 20 Met significant other through internet 60 Brush your teeth less than twice a day 5 Shower less than six times a week 10 Are or were in choir 10 Are or were in a theatre program 5
So before subtraction: 525
Play sports 50 Play popular sports (football, baseball, basketball) 150 Do drugs more than twice a year 35 Drink (we’re talking party drinking here) 15 Own higher end, name brand, trendy clothes 70 Not a virgin 10
Why did theater get such low geek points... We did some odd stuff *Shudder*
Also RTS's and Magic cards should have gotten way more geek points. This test had too much about RPGs. Like...
Ever stormed out of a card store becuase they told you they didn't have extended format tournaments
or
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How in the bloody heck do I count this?! Per campaign? Per game? Per player group? There have bee more individual gaming sessions than I can count. I've run three different games in the past, Alternity, Star Wars D6 RPG and D&D and I've run somewhere between three and four different D&D campaigns and more Star Wars campaigns than I count!
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Played miniature game 10 Bought miniatures 20 Own Monty Python 10 Quote Monty Python 30 Quote Mel Brooks 20 Watched the Star Wars Movies 5 Corrected the previous statement to “the first Star Wars movies” 10 Quote Star Wars 15 Know Star Wars history 40 Fact checked about Star Wars 50 Watched Star Trek (regularly) 20 Know the actors in Star Trek 20 Game system map on the wall 50 Played RPG 25 Own a RPG book 30 Own a library of RPG books (15 or more) 50 Quote from RPG books 100 Have a dice bag (doesn’t everyone?) 5 Ever lost someone in gaming conversations 20 On a daily basis 50 Fact checked a RPG or LARP outside of game 40 Played an all night gaming session 10 Spent four hours in a gaming store in one day 20 Run a LARP or RPG 90 make gaming references to real life 25 Know someone only by their character name 20 Read Literature for fun (school doesn’t count) 5 Read Sci-Fi for fun 15 Read literature based off of RPGs 35 Own or read a Star Wars/Trek book 20 Own or read the core Tolkein books 10 Read the other “Tolkein” books 20 Own or read all the Dune books 20 Own or read all the Star Wars books 75 Own a gaming teeshirt 30 Member of local gaming club 30 Read Douglas Adams books 5 Quote from a Douglas Adams book 10 Own a computer 5 Own a maxed out computer 20 Play computer/console RPGs 10 Play computer/console Strategy games 5 Chat 20 Know computer language 150 Own computer teeshirt 40 Have played a video game for six hours+ 25 Are a video game junkie 75 Own Tony Hawk Pro Skater 10 Have a comics/Anime/gaming poster 20 Have a station wagon or van 5 Brush your teeth less than twice a day 5 Brush your teeth less than twice a week 25 Shower less than six times a week 10 Wrote of helped write a geek test 100
And then from the malus secotion: Mountain biking 35 Treking (hiking, backpacking) 50 Generally athletic 10
Total: 1440 Level 5 geek (Jedi Master)
Personally, I'd hold the Treking and Mountain Biking should be plusses instead of maluses. The vast majority of trekkers and such that I've known were total geeks.
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Quote Monty Python 30 Watched the Star Wars Movies 5 Quote Star Wars 15 Watched Star Trek (occasionally) 10 Watched Star Trek (regularly) 20 Know the actors in Star Trek 20 Game system map on the wall 50 Played RPG 25 Own a RPG book 30 Play LARP 25 Play LARP weekly 50 Play LARP or RPG more than three times a week 120 Know what LARP or RPG means 5 Have a dice bag (doesn’t everyone?) 5 Fact checked a RPG or LARP outside of game 40 Played an all night gaming session 10 On New Years Eve 100 Spent four hours or more in a gaming store in one day 20 Run a LARP or RPG 30 per game **** Play rock, paper scissors a lot 10 make gaming references to real life 25 Play Magic 20 Have an extensive Magic card collection (1000 or more) 80 Read Literature for fun (school doesn’t count) 5 *** Read Sci-Fi for fun 15 Prefer the full pronunciation of science fiction because it’s classier 30 Read literature based off of RPGs 35 Favorite author is R.A Salvatore 70 Own or read a Star Wars/Trek book 20 Own or read the core Tolkein books 10 Read the other “Tolkein” books 20 Own or read all the Star Trek books 150~~~ Own a gaming teeshirt 30 Know what garbv means 5 Member of local gaming club 30 Own a Final Fantasy soundtrack 50 Own a computer 5 Own a maxed out computer 20 Play computer/console RPGs 10 Play computer/console Strategy games 5 Chat 20 Know computer language 30 per language (90) ** Own computer teeshirt 40 Have played a video game for more than six hours in one sitting 25 Are a video game junkie (play video games for more than 20 hours a week) 75 Enjoy watching video games 50* Own any Anime 15 Have extensive Anime collection 80 Have a comics/Anime/gaming poster 20 Brush your teeth less than twice a day 5 Having long hair if you’re a man 5 Shower less than six times a week 10 (I shower every two days) Have a distinctive unpleasant odor (ask a friend or co-worker) 15 (only because its summer time)
1855 Lvl 6 Leader of the Golden Crown and Rear Admiral of the Fleet
*This is iffy since I prefer playing to watching but I will watch to learn that person's skillz. **GW Basic, C++, Visual Basic *** finished reading Children of the Arbat but ya I read alot ~~~My friend dumped me alot of ebooks I believe its all of them. But I didn't add it to the score.
****I've cohosted larps with my friend so I added only half the score for each larp meeting. around 180ish score (6 or so larps)
Now I gave a rough geuss to my score being around Jedi Master I geussed wrong and got alot higher do I still get the 100? I made a rough geuss from adding up the numbers.
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Level 2 geek if I deduct the "well-traveled" points. However, since that was due to my parents and isn't really true any more, I think I'm a level 3.
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Apparently, I am a Level 5 Geek (Jedi Master). Oh well, not so sure I would want to be Maud'dib anyways. All that sand up my butt and sandworm rash wouldn't be that much fun. (And I hear drinking the Water of Life can kill you... or at least give you Montezuma's revenge.)
Btw, if these people were true geeks, they would have made this quiz interactive. Of course, if I was a bit geekier, I would have done it myself.
I like kat's and Annie's questions. I would get a lot more geek points with those included. Yay for geekiness. (Nerdiness is okay, too.)
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I saw that they wanted the questions answered on the basis of just the past two years or so. I haven't had time to be much of a geek in the past couple of years. If I could count my teen and college years, I would probably get a pretty high score.
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My score was only 215. I don't play RPG's so that lowered it a lot. I also lost a lot of anti-geek points because I play many sports.
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I did all the point totals in my head and was hoping it would give me points in the end. I got a 280, was at like 560 but lost alot in the non-geek section.
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In all fairness, I think building a robot and quoting Shakespeare are very geek things. This is really a dork test.
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(Robotics is in the second one, is it at all sad that I didn't want any of the women suggested in the test, but did want ASIMO?)
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190. They should change jail time to prison time though, or at least have a thirty-day minimum.
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