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Posted by Endless Orion (Member # 11017) on :
 
I am a fantasy geek before I am a sci-fi geek. This is something about my life I've come to accept. I do D&D, but only in the virtual sense, having only really played it like once.

My best friend, and the only other happily geeky friend I hang out with on a regular basis is a reverse, sci-fi before fantasy. Which means if it's Star Wars, he does or will own it. I have hit a stump in that, I being the completely willing to go out and try new stuff person that I am, shut away my true geeky-ness, and play through hours of Knights of the Old Republic, and I've even taken up reading the New Jedi Order books, along with several other not-just-Star-Wars-sci-fi activities. My dearest ol pal treats D&D like poison. He won't play annnny of the stuff, won't read the books (I'm a Drizzt pusher just as much as I am an Ender pusher). To quote him "If I play it, how can I make fun of the people who do?"

Naturally this has waged into a bitter war leaving many fallen in our bloody paths. Or something like that...

In conclusion, my inner geek is repressed and sad, being able to only express half of itself!

I was just wondering if anybody else has to repress their inner geek, and how they deal with the un-ending agony of it?
 

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Posted by erosomniac (Member # 6834) on :
 

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"If I play it, how can I make fun of the people who do?"

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Originally posted by Endless Orion:
"If I play it, how can I make fun of the people who do?"

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"If I play it, how can I make fun of the people who do?"

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Less maliciously?
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
Suggest a compromise: Endless hours of Lord of the Rings RISK.

I mean jeez, if you're reading the NJO series and you don't like sci-fi before Fantasy, that's the least he could do.
 

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Posted by Omega M. (Member # 7924) on :
 
How can a Star Wars fan feel superior to a D&D fan? Aren't the two settings equally unrealistic?

Maybe your friend is creeped out by the idea of pretending to be a knight or wizard in D&D. Does he also look down on Star Wars RPGs?
 

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Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
 
Yeah, get him hooked on Stars Wars RPG's and then you can ease in D&D. And LOTR RISK is a good suggestion.

Aaaand Juxtapose's post was spot on. It has been my experience that comic nerds <3 making fun of comic nerds. It's a part of the culture!

This thread reminds me of this.
 

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Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
 
And if you're going to play LOTR RISK, play the deluxe edition. Playing without Harad, Mordor, and Gondor is just unrealistic. Then again, using Eriador as a source of armies is as well, unless you count the Blue Mountains Dwarves as a source.

God I need a life.
 

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Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
 

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Originally posted by Eaquae Legit:

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Originally posted by Endless Orion:
"If I play it, how can I make fun of the people who do?"

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You end up writing Order of the Stick, that's how.

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Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
And if you're going to play LOTR RISK, play the deluxe edition. Playing without Harad, Mordor, and Gondor is just unrealistic. Then again, using Eriador as a source of armies is as well, unless you count the Blue Mountains Dwarves as a source.

God I need a life.

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That sounds like a pretty good life to me.
 

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Posted by Endless Orion (Member # 11017) on :
 
He's actually fine with Star Wars roleplaying stuff. He's hard and heavy with Knights of the Old Republic, so that's not the problem. He'll do lord of the rings just fine. It's more along the lines of all things D&D related. He has stated that D&D is higher up the geek scale than is Star Wars. My guilt tripping only goes so far. And I've come to realize it's just the D&D stuff. He'll read webcomics that are clearly derived from D&D, so long as they don't specifically say D&D.

*sigh* And he has also committed a great blasphemy. Upon borrowing Ender's Game, he let it sit on his shelf gathering dust as the last 3 NJO novels came before it. After a month I had to rescue my baby back, so he has yet to touch EG.
 

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Posted by Sean Monahan (Member # 9334) on :
 
I've got to say, Star Wars falls much further into the fantasy genre than sci-fi for me.
 

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Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
 
Yeah. Space Opera. I think the fact there are starships are one of the only things that makes it seem sci fi... but the Force? C'mon. Is your friend in his teens?

I personally have caught WAY more flack for admitting to playing Star Wars RPG's than my friends that played D&D. Yes, the latter is more notorious, but...well even that makes it less dorky. It is less obscure and nitchy in general. But that is why it catches all the cultural flack. It is recognizable.

Edited to add: I realize the prequels reduced the force to bacteria, so more sci fi there-- but I don't acknowledge those catastrophes. It's a nice combo of both sci fi AND fantasy, really.

[ January 08, 2008, 07:54 PM: Message edited by: porcelain girl ]
 

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Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
 
I'm a huge anime fan... like HUGE.
Not the silly kind but the really serious, end of the world, philosophical stuff.

And of course all of my close friends hate it.

Funny enough, my boss, who I can hardly hold a conversation with, is into it and we will often borrow each others' new anime titles.
 

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Posted by Endless Orion (Member # 11017) on :
 
porcelain girl, he's 16.

Telperion, i'm surrounded by people who live and breath anime. My girlfriend is actually the one who got me into it. But none of the local stores carry any anime that isn't mainstream (i.e. the stuff on Adult Swim) so I have to turn to amazon for just about every anime need.
 

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