quote:Originally posted by Primal Curve: Gah. I'd love to take the geek test, but it's blocked by my work's filter.
If you were really a geek, that wouldn't stop you.
If I were really a geek, I wouldn't be married and have responsibility to not put my job in jeopardy.
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Yay Kiwi! I was afraid I remain the highest-scoring, and something would totally be wrong with that since I clicked no roleplaying boxes and barely any computer/programming ones. Phew!
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Wow, I'm impressed, but not surprised, by the geek-level in this forum. I used to post in the Geek Forum (on the Geek Test site) but when you get a group of people together who self-identify as geeks based on getting the highest score on a rated geek-system, you get many super obnoxious, pretentious, insecure geeks who become insufferable over time. I imagine that Mensa functions are much the same.
Yeah, I lost points in the programming and Anime departments.
Haha Kwea, I always wondered if there were ones on there that made you lose points...
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45.759%--mostly on math/science and RPGs. Though one that they could never get on the test--wrote a love letter to my (now ex) girlfriend in Matlab m-code. That should be worth at least another 10%.
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I've memorized the first 140 decimals of Pi.
I've read quantum physics at dinner table, and laughed out loud.
I cracked the code in the last page of the book 'Digital Fortress' by Dan Brown.
I 've finished 'X-Com: Enemy Unknown' at Superhuman difficulty level (with the difficulty bug fixed). I still play it after all these years.
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I have a fetish for attractive women in lab coats, like the one in my lab that just talked to me 5 minutes ago.. *drewl*
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quote:I also own the Star Wars RPG core rule book.
West End's d6 version, WotC's d20 version, or both?
I've got a D&D Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, plus the Eberron Core supplement, Spycraft v1.0 and Spycraft v2.0 rulebooks, and West End's Star Wars core rulebook and Dark Empire sourcebook.
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Every major video game I've purchased I've finished in one sitting. Call of Duty 2 in about seven hours, Soldier of Fortune 2 in nine hours, American McGee's Alice in eleven, Half-Life 2 in nineteen, and the original Half-Life in twenty-three hours.
I repeat: one sitting. Non-stop, no sleep, no breaks, no food for the most part.
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quote:Originally posted by Angiomorphism: I have a fetish for attractive women in lab coats, like the one in my lab that just talked to me 5 minutes ago.. *drewl*
That doesn't make you a geek. They're the one in the lab coat.
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quote:I've got a D&D Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, plus the Eberron Core supplement, Spycraft v1.0 and Spycraft v2.0 rulebooks, and West End's Star Wars core rulebook and Dark Empire sourcebook.
If geekiness is measured in RPG rulebook quantities, I win the thread.
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quote:Originally posted by Angiomorphism: I have a fetish for attractive women in lab coats, like the one in my lab that just talked to me 5 minutes ago.. *drewl*
That doesn't make you a geek. They're the one in the lab coat.
Well to be fair, I'm wearing one too...
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I had senioritis in high school...so I joined the Academic Decathlon team. We went on to take 6th at nationals and I won a bronze medal in math. My mom later threw it out by accident.
In our coach's classroom we had a storage room that we called "The Time Chamber" where we would skip class to go study.
EDIT - spelling...Not a geek of the literary variety.
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I joined an applied physics class and we built cars that could successfully navigate through a maze and they played Beethovens Fur Elise whenever they moved. I insisted that my car play Fur Elise correctly and with all the proper rests.
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I just went back to school shopping both online and IRL, then took an inventory of what I bought. I've found that about 75% of my stuff--including pants, underwear, shirts, coats, and so on--has a Serenity or Firefly logo on it, makes a reference to Serenity or Firefly, or is a replica of one shown in Serenity or Firefly.
I get Geek Cred, yes?
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Plus, I've founded the Most High and Secret Society of the Emerald City, where we go and watch all the Oz-related movies, read the books, and discuss which is the best. Yes, this is a real, school-sponsored club.
And I founded Book Club. Except I can't tell you that, because rule one of Book Club is you don't talk about Book Club.
Rule two of Book Club is you don't talk about Book Club.
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I found it ironic by the way that Hot Topic is one of the sponsors of the site that hosts the geek test.
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Aw I only scored a 19.32939%... still a "Geek" though. I like how no matter how low you get, you at least are said to have "Geekish Tendencies"--just for taking that test I suppose.
Anyways, this thread reminded me of this OSC excerpt I just read not 3 hours ago.
"Some are born nerds, some choose nerdhood, and some have nerdiness thrust upon them. I chose."
(First paragraph in the Afterword for his short story Fat Farm, from Maps In A Mirror)
I was over at my parent's friends' house for a dinner party and I, being a (now official) Geek, was reading instead of socializing. I laughed when I read that, partly because its plain funny, and partly because of the coincidence between the quote and my position. Thanks Mr. Card for inadvertently relating to me and, in a way, consoling me.
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I'm a geek. A) I work in a laboratory. B) you should see the cool extraction/distillation setup I put together yesterday.
The acetone evaporates up into a second stage, where it condenses and drips down into an area that holds about 50ml of fluid and the part that we are extracting organics from. The cool thing, is that once it drips over 50ml, the whole thing self-siphons back down into the bottom flask. It keeps a steady supply of pure acetone bathing the part to make sure everything is extracted.
I can stand there there and just be mesmerized watching the whole system work.
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I am a geek. I don't know and programming, but I can quote extensively from Firefly, Serenity, LOTR, and Harry Potter. I like to read more than almost anything else. I know I don't completely compare to some of the more superior geeks, and to you, you have my complete and utter respect. Long live geekdom!
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Plus, I think we can all consider ourselves geeks on a higher level because we post in an online forum about a sci fi author. That definitely helps our geek rating.
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I always thought that coming here every day made me a pretty big geek, but I guess I was wrong. I got 24.999% on the test, but mostly because I was really bored in high school and calculators and computers were the only way to pass the time.
Also, I would like to thank each and every one of you. I have never in my life felt so cool, and yet so incredibly inferior. It is quite exhilarating. Posts: 2596 | Registered: Jan 2006
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quote:I cracked the code in the last page of the book 'Digital Fortress' by Dan Brown.
Oh yeah? Well I GOOGLED it!
Hmm, I don't program (QBasic doesn't exactly count, I don't think), I don't roleplay, and I've only read LOTR once. I don't even play video games, and I've lost Risk every time I've played it (less than ten times, and against an expert, but still...) I don't know my geek code, and I haven't played the flute in a year.
But I've read the Silmarillion (without falling asleep), and enjoyed it. I can quote passages of most books I've read more than once or twice (I drove my mom crazy quoting Animorphs, but by now I just quote H2G2 and EG and ES in my head). I have way more books than anything else, including, I bet, articles of clothing, which is saying something since I rarely throw any of it away. I know how to convert bases, and I know why all of it belongs to us. I know the meaning of the word "gafiate" and I can pick out a certain filk song on the guitar. I've taken the geek test, which certainly counts for something, although I don't remember what I got. I think it was in the high 20s, low 30s. I wear glasses and I read a lot, to the point that I got a pass in middle school so that I could come into the library every lunchtime and read. I know my way around the section of the Dewey Decimal system that I was in charge of organizing when I was a library aide in eighth grade. Money that comes into my possession is more likely to be spent on books than anything else. I have a wish list of items at thinkgeek.com. I beat most people at checkers. Geekiest of all...I'm geeky enough to care.
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quote: Also, I would like to thank each and every one of you. I have never in my life felt so cool, and yet so incredibly inferior. It is quite exhilarating. [Wink]
I think I've done better in the past on it too, I've forgotten some stuff. And I can think of a lot more than five things that should be on that.
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quote: quote:I've got a D&D Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, Monster Manual, plus the Eberron Core supplement, Spycraft v1.0 and Spycraft v2.0 rulebooks, and West End's Star Wars core rulebook and Dark Empire sourcebook.
If geekiness is measured in RPG rulebook quantities, I win the thread.
Wanna bet? I could give you a run for your money.
I have over 20 of the old West End Games d6 books. The Alternity Core Rule books (they need to bring that game back, it was great). Plus countless number's of D&D books.
Edit: And incidiently the West End games version is so much better than the d20 version.
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quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: Good heavens, I have all of Macgyver, too. Sheesh! (And we're in the middle of watching season 3.) Dead Zone - just started watching season 4. Firefly isn't available here yet, and neither is most of Star Trek.
But no, I have nothing memorized and couldn't quote my way out of a wet paper bag. But I'm still a geek.
My proof?
I married a programmer two months after downloading his software and meeting him online and eight hours after meeting in person for the first time. That's TRUE GEEKNESS! Hah!
You can get Firefly on iTunes store under Fox Classic TV Shows.
I guess since I knew that, I would be a geek?
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