I think for the most part, people generally act pretty well balanced through out the day, but sometimes you just come out and do something really, supremely nerdy, either because you’re a part of a certain fandom or you’re just that much of a geek—with your friends or by yourself, it doesn’t matter. We’re all nerds about something so come out and share all those momentary lapses of sanity where you show your nerdly pride!

I guess I’ll begin by saying, when the new pokemon game came out my best friend and I ran out and bought them on the day, and then met up. We ran at each other holding our DSs, squealing, and jumping up and down. In broad daylight. In the middle of a crowded square. People stared. I think we might have even high-fived with the game boxes—it was glorious.

My sister told me that she remembers the Latin word for ‘arm’ because of the 2nd Harry Potter movie, where Lockhart says that spell to try and heals Harry’s arm (but takes out all the bones instead), but does it in a narmtastically theatrical way. Then we ran around saying ‘Brachium, immendo!’ (or whatever the spell is) in really Shakespearean voices.

I shall use this thread as an opportunity to laugh at you all.

Don’t mind me teehee.

Spinny blade wall! Machiavellian.

Hmm . . . I have much nerdiness from which to choose. I think one of my more nerdy moments was when 4th Edition of D&D came out – my husband and I pre-ordered it, took the day off of work, arrived at the gaming store before it opened to stand in line, got our copy and then immediately went home and started drawing up characters. Oh, and then we decided that 4th Edition was crap and too unlike 3rd Edition and 3.5, so we ended up switching to Pathfinder. Yeah, that’s right, in our nerdiness, we decided that D&D was no longer “pure” enough for our nerdy tastes. I think I should be ashamed of myself.

Because I am not letting either of them get their grubby mitts on my still-in-perfect-working-order GBA SP.

That’s the power of Nintendium for you. Mine still works, along with my first-generation blocky DS.

I generally feel like a supreme nerd whenever somebody claims to be a nerd because they play “those mario games” or “black ops for like two hours every day” and I get a little offended. It seems like saying “I’m such a nerd!” now is the cool thing to do, which is weird for people who enjoy traditionally nerdy hobbies. (tabletop or video games, programming, fantasy/sci-fi media, etc.)

Nope, that didn’t come off as elitist at all.

Don’t worry about that. This thread is a safe place.

If they do not love games enough to remember which exact titles they are playing, or to play them for hours on end without realizing that they’ve been playing nonstop for way longer than is healthy, they do not deserve to call themselves nerds. u_u

Agreed. There have been way too many times in the past two years where students have asked me if I play games, and I say yes, and they say COOL I PLAY BLACK OPS HERP DERP. It’s like claiming you’re a football player since you play Madden.

The grass outside where I work hasn’t been mowed in ages. Getting ridiculously long. Today on the way home I had to cross it (sure, it’s only about a metre wide, but still). I said to myself, “This long grass is kind of dangerous. There could be rattatas in it”.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is my moment of nerdliness.

@Ninjacat – that’s an awesome quote. I love it.

Also, I made a Whateley reference and an A-Team reference a while ago in front of people who didn’t get it at all. Felt a lot better when the girl next to me laughed (as in, she got the reference) after I described a case study in Educational Psychology as “very Donnie Darko”.

^Yes.
You, sir, are teh coolness.

I hardly ever use spoons now thanks to The Matrix.

I’ve been planning on replacing my computer start up noise with either a quote from GLaDOS or HAL 9000. Because, you know, that’d be totally awesome. I might just re do all of the sound while I’m at it. I just have to go dig though the sound files and find stuff.

I think all of my nerdiness comes from my quoting ability. I’ve got Portal 1 and 2, most of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the beginning and the end of Revenge of the Sith (ALL of the beginning, by the way. Every line up to the part where they get back to Coruscant), some of the new A-Team movie. (Never seen the show though. Don’t get the channel it’s on), most of the first Tremors movie, a lot of Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes… I’ve also memorized the entire Voyager episode “Message in a Bottle”. Yeah.

I don’t know where all my quoting stuff came from, but it’s very helpful for acting.

Oh, hey, that reminds me, most of my system sounds are Minecraft-related now. I forgot I’d done that.

THERE IS NO HOPE FOR ME.

No, there is not.

There’s been a minor internet shitstorm in the last couple of days about a Gizmodo blog about some mean lady going on an OKCupid date with a famous Magic player. I got linked to the article before I knew what the deal was, and she mentioned getting an instant message from somebody named Jon, and I thought “Surely this couldn’t be Jon Finkel she’s talking about. HE’S SHADOWMAGE INFILTRATOR.”

Sure enough, it was in fact Jon Finkel.

Of course, the obvious joke that came to mind is that the Gizmodo lady is a black or artifact creature.

It actually crossed my mind today to buy a book because the author had the same surname as Jake from Animorphs.

Heeheehee. Yeah, well – I got my first car recently, and guess what I named her?

Doffs Top Hat and bows

Awesome.

The Internet got played.

How often does that happen?

salutes

Aw, thanks Jeni.
I love that car. She’s like the wife I never had.

Yeah, so, um, I had two videogame-related dreams last night. In detail.

Technically the one was sort of a fanfiction-of-a-videogame-related dream, which really doesn’t make it any better, does it?

At training yesterday, I got the instructor to name the practice company Wayne Industries, and name the business owner Bruce Wayne. My practice name? Selina Kyle. And one of my practice companies was Hogwarts. I signed up Harry Potter for an Accidental Indemnity Policy.

I thought you of when I read it. Does that make you happy?

I thought of Nate, actually. He plays Magic too, right?

The first thing I did with my new Nerf gun is to determine that at a distance of 4 feet it has an 81.25% ‘stick’ rate on a smooth semi-gloss surface. Compared to a 39.6% stick rate by throwing the darts by hand.

I have yet to test accuracy op a surface, but it’s already clearly more accurate than hand throwing.

I have a dishearteningly large collection of Battlefield Earth memorabilia. I would have posted the picture that I took of it, but I can’t find it. I’ll probably take another one sometime soon.

Not my win, but a car in front of me today had an “I heart Linus” bumper sticker.

Got my copy of Fire Emblem in the mail today. Went to play it. Found out my L/R buttons only worked ~10% of the time (when they were feeling generous). So I disassembled my GBA SP in a long and painful process involving sticky jeweler’s screws that were nigh impossible to torque, a rather obvious lack of proper bits, uncooperative rods and springs, and three varieties of tape in order to discover the problem.

I am happy to report that thanks to my L33T troubleshooting skillz, my GBA SP is now in perfect working order. :3

We had a German backpacker in kung fu the other night. The only reason I didn’t stage-whisper “don’t mention the war!” is because I wasn’t sure he’d get the joke.

They never get it.

Kids these days.

While I was stuck in traffic last semester, I looked at the sign in front of an office on the side of the road. The name ‘Pettigrew’ was on it, and my first though was something along the lines of “So that’s what happened to Wormtail.”

Picture of my Battlefield Earth junk, because I know that you guys have been just dying to see it:

@Snow White Queen

Why do you have so much of it?

Because I love insane crap. Battlefield Earth, as a book, as a film, as an avant-garde synthesizer album, along with that inimitable man behind it all, beautifully encapsulates that elusive aesthetic. It’s like David Gonterman or Jurassic Park: Tresspasser, you know? It’s one thing for something to be bad; it’s quite another for it to be bad and completely off-the-wall bonkers. The Scientology connection is just immaculately-spread icing on the seven-layer cake.

the other third just seemed bewildered.

The must have been ‘Video Gamers’.

I’m on a Fell Beast.

^Brilliant.

Look again! The gray wizard is now a WHITE WIZARD!

okay, that was lame, but I tried.

Hello rebels,

Look at your ace pilot. Now back to me. Now back at your ace pilot. Now back to me.
Saldy, he’s not me. But if he stopped waving around a blaster and switched to An Elegant Weapon For A More Civilized Age, he could look like he’s me.
Look down!
Now back up! Where are you?
You’re on Yavin 4, with the ace pilot your ace pilot could look like. What’s in your hand? Back at me – I have it. It’s a droid, with the blueprints of that moon you love!
Look again: the blueprints are now PROTON TORPEDOES!
Anything is possible when your ace pilot uses An Elegant Weapon For A More Civilized Age and not a blaster! I’m on a tauntaun!

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I Did Not Want you to miss that one, Beldam.

Well, it sounds awfully familiar. Now I’m gonna go crazy trying to work out why it sounds so familiar.

Damn you.

Yeah, I’m talking about you, No One. :P

GEH

EDIT: Star Wars? I’ve never actually read or watched Star Wars/Trek/Gate before.

^^Hahahahaha… I’m so sorry that I’m rather out of touch with the world… and in actual fact, I live at the foot of a mountain.

slinks away to a dark corner to mope

watched Star Wars/Trek/Gate before.

Dear goodness. That makes my inner geek scream. It’s… disgusting.

I’ve never actually read or watched Star Wars

ಠ益ಠ

Star Wars/Trek/Gate

I’m listing all of the kind of sci-fi shows that I’ve never watched or read before! I’m not mixing them up! I know they’re different!

ಠ益ಠ

.....

Solution: Watch Star Wars, feel better.

I’ve never watched the original Star Wars all the way through either,

WHAT

Eh, Star Wars and Star Trek are basically the Mickey Ds and Burger King of Sci-Fi. Sure, I love Empire and I’ll always be sure to give my props to Picard, but there are much better stories in the genre that neither Lucas nor Roddenberry/Berman have managed to tell.

I’ve probably seen at least most of Star Wars, and never was particularly enamored myself. But I amused myself by watching the 2nd of the new movies dubbed in Spanish.

I don’t have many moments of nerdiness, but I am making my friend a Totoro bonnet, and she gave me a cunning hat.

I love Empire

Empire is Star Wars. The rest of the OT is pretty good, and the prequels are obviously garbage, but it’s all there as window-dressing to Empire.

In general, though, Star Wars isn’t required viewing based because of quality or lack thereof, it’s because it’s so important to pop culture. The sheer number of trilogies that follow the Star Wars structure is reason enough alone to try and understand it(specifically, why everybody tries to have the middle installment follow Empire’s example, and why Empire succeeds where many other middle entries fail).

Plus it’s goddamn Star Wars. Come on.

[picture of prop from a terrible comedian]

My point proves itself.

There’s also how Spaceballs is nowhere near as funny unless you’ve seen the original trilogy.

Oh Spaceballs. It would be a classic even if it was five seconds long and only had the “father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate” reveal and a quick shot of Pizza the Hutt.

How could you not enjoy Achmed the Dead Terrorist?

I just prefer comedy that’s funny is all.