My geek moment was last night. I was waiting in the station for a bus to travel to another town to go drinking with some old work colleagues when I noticed someone that could only be described as a Skater-Goth. This in itself was not usual but then I notice who he was with and I decided that he must be a bodyguard of some sort as he appeared to be escort a "wizard" through the bus station. The "wizard" was carrying a staff (plain wood) and wore a hooded green velvet robe.
My geek moment: "He must be low level to still need a fighter escort".
hehe my geek moments; when I have to use a rpg game system to describe real life :) in game terms; heh, you know it has happened to you too.
The last three posts above all happen to me on a regular basis. I can't wait 'til after X-mas when the little trees and bridges and such go on sale.
My latest geek moment was yesterday, when I watched D&D: Wrath of the Dragon God for what I realized was the fourth time, special features included. Oh, and this morning when I thought upon waking "DC 20 Fortitude Save or oversleep and miss work"
A few nights ago my girlfriend and I are walking through hobby lobby, holding hands, and I asked her since we're occupying the same square, are we technically grappling? She laughed
When I watched Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" video and pointed out all the nerd-tastic fun things to my boss (the dice, the PacMan candles, the jacket...)
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This last weekend.
My roommate and I took a break from playing hours of WoW, only to send the time discussing with much excitement the upcoming new powers for my Shadow Priest in the new expansion, as well as how to more effectively spend my Talent Points in the free respec coming after the update this week.
Then we went back and played the game some more.
There was this incident when we were guarding the preparations for some ceremony in Jerusalem (we were soldiers at the time). We guarded only six hours a day and spent the rest of the time playing D&D in an unused dance hall in the hotel our unit was staying in.
One night some girls came and said: "we're havin' a party, wanna come?" and one of my players said: "yak! girls! go away we want to play D&D."
Later when we were physically forced out of the hall we went on playing... in an underground parking, mumbling about those "vulgar and loud kids"...
Oh and when my mom came to visit me in my base, she didn't bring chocolate and coke - she brought dice, minis and a PHB.
HOORAY MOM!!!!Oh and when my mom came to visit me in my base... she brought dice, minis and a PHB.
Go Mom! Moms are cool! (Me mum bought lots of M:tG cards because she liked the artwork - got her to play, too!)
HOORAY MOM!!!!
Go Mom! Moms are cool! (Me mum bought lots of M:tG cards because she liked the artwork - got her to play, too!)
Yeah, my mom was always there, she even came to visit me once (twice actually) when I was stationed at the Syrian border bringing a much needed supply of books and food.
Good thing Israel is so small...
My wife and I were settled into bed for the evening. Mind you, this is the woman I knew I was going to marry because we talked about Dune and Star Trek and Star Wars on our first date. So we are all settled in and cozy, and watching TV together like an old married couple.
So we flip past the TV Land Star Trek Marathon, and we watch it for a few seconds, and my wife says, "I hope you aren't upset, but I'm just not into this tonight."
"But honey, this is Balance of Terror, the firs episode with the Romulans in it."
She fixes me with a gaze that I would always have assumed would have accompanied me telling her "where the bodies are." Then she said, "You know the TITLE of that one? You scare me."
My last "whoa, I am a geek" moment was this morning during my commute to work. It suddenly occured to me that if Thomas Paine were raised from the dead he could sing the classics on late night TV and sell thousands of Time-Life CDs.
See, that's TWO kinds of geek: gaming geek and history geek.
-Josh
Combing for Star Wars figures.
There was some lady looking for fig's for her grandson, who didn't know what the heck to get him.
"Stormtroopers. You can never have too many stormtroopers."
Sheeeeeesh!
True. When I was a kid, I had almost a dozen (of various types), and it still seemed like I needed more. (I probably did. Snoogins.)
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True. When I was a kid, I had almost a dozen (of various types), and it still seemed like I needed more. (I probably did. Snoogins.)Combing for Star Wars figures.
There was some lady looking for fig's for her grandson, who didn't know what the heck to get him.
"Stormtroopers. You can never have too many stormtroopers."
Sheeeeeesh!
Man, have you seen the types of clone troopers they have now?
Aye carumba! I must have a 2 full platoons by now.
Driving to work this morning, and thinking about some were_cabbagey stuff, then had a really good article idea. I rush to work, post on the computer, to share an idea with people I've never met in person.
o.O Oy!
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Well I guess I am a geek. Last night I had a house full of people, when my wife to be asked me to hand her, her purse. I couldnt find her purse and its was right in front of me. When they all started laughing at me, I told them " I must have failed my spot check. " The blank stares in the room let me on to the fact that I am a geek. The same night I was a wee bit pale and my ever so understanding wife to be asked me if I was feeling well and I told her " I was going to bed cause I voluntarily failed my FORT save. " At least she understood the last one. Thats why I have to marry her.
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Regularly...
... when I spend too much time reading these threads,
... when I catch myself trading D&D stories and realize that there are only so many people who understand what I am talking about,
... when I realize that some of my players are content to just play D&D, never caring about trivialties like the working of the campaign world,
... when I consider the percentage of fantasy/ D&D books in my book shelves,
... when I consider the total number of books in my book shelves,
... when my gf rolls her eyes at the mere thought of my book shelves and my "D&D hobby" in general
... when I realize the depth of my gf's love amongst others by her D&D tolerance (she is very tolerant!).
Watching a YouTube video about a multi-touch interface and immediately thought "Duuuuuude! This would so rock for a D&D game!"
When I was layed out for two days with food poisoning and the only articulate thought in my head was "I rolled a 1 on that Fortitude save."
Quoting The Venture Brothers, The Simpsons, The State, The Kids In the Hall or The Big Lebowski in casual conversation, verbatim, and with silly voices. All from memory. And on a whim.
Watching VH1 Classic: a comercial for some cellphone downloadable trivia game of theirs. The question they pose (for the advertisement) is "In Dungeons & Dragons what do you need to lose for your character to die?" Before they doled out the 4 multi-choice answers I hollered across the room, to no one in particular, "Hit Points!". *DING* 1 point for me. :)
- Chris Shadowens
Well, besides posting here ...
Over the years I have collected snippets of Visual Basic code for use in an Excel spreadsheet. I have each one in a .txt file, for example one to get a distribution from a listing of data, well I don't just have these sitting in any old directory. I have named the directory "Book of Spells" and have organized them by level as if they were spells. In effect I have used the D&D magic system to place some cognitive order over the functionality of each snippet. Why? It just makes more sense that way. :)
when my scanner at work wasn't working properly, I figured out how slanted the refractor in my scanner gun was by observing the behavior of the nodes.
Coming to the messageboards and checking the Obits. :)
When my wife got me the Dungeons & Dragons animated series and I got excited about the book in there stating all the characters for 3.5, then I called my best friend so that he could bask in my geekiness:)
Watching VH1 Classic: a comercial for some cellphone downloadable trivia game of theirs. The question they pose (for the advertisement) is "In Dungeons & Dragons what do you need to lose for your character to die?" Before they doled out the 4 multi-choice answers I hollered across the room, to no one in particular, "Hit Points!". *DING* 1 point for me. :)
- Chris Shadowens
A) Hit Points
B) Your Constitution ScoreC) A Fortitude Saving Throw
*D) All Of The Above*
Of course, there are other options -- DM Fiat, lost character sheet, and in certain cases just losing initiative will do the trick (Power Word Kill.)
Do you remember what the real other options were?
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Watching VH1 Classic: a comercial for some cellphone downloadable trivia game of theirs. The question they pose (for the advertisement) is "In Dungeons & Dragons what do you need to lose for your character to die?" Before they doled out the 4 multi-choice answers I hollered across the room, to no one in particular, "Hit Points!". *DING* 1 point for me. :)
- Chris Shadowens
A) Hit Points
B) Your Constitution Score
C) A Fortitude Saving Throw
*D) All Of The Above*Of course, there are other options -- DM Fiat, lost character sheet, and in certain cases just losing initiative will do the trick (Power Word Kill.)
Do you remember what the real other options were?
....and that would be White Toymaker's last "geek" moment....
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My most recent geek moment:
-I recently had a VERY loud 'Kirk or Picard' argument with one of my friends in a crowded shopping mall. The argument almost came to blows. In fact, it did. I smote that dastardly Picard fan with a well-placed retort! It also attracted a lot of attention. I 'scare the normals' a lot.
-The Eldritch Mr. Shiny
Someone in my Not for the Squeamish: History of Medical Illustration class was talking about a graffiti guy in the city that writes "Jesus Saves" everywhere, because he's kind of demented and religious; and I had to really resist not piping up and finishing with "..but the rest of you take half damage."
And it was a joke I heard here on the boards.
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Someone in my Not for the Squeamish: History of Medical Illustration class was talking about a graffiti guy in the city that writes "Jesus Saves" everywhere, because he's kind of demented and religious; and I had to really resist not piping up and finishing with "..but the rest of you take half damage."
And it was a joke I heard here on the boards.
That's gold. I've gotta find a way to use that.
Oh, yeah. Almost forgot. Around Halloween, I shaved my head for the first time (overdue, I think; premature balding) to go out as Dr. Venture from the Venture Brothers. And I kept it. For three solid months now. Shaved down to a nice pointed goatee, head completely bare, big thick black glasses. If I had a more aquiline nose and a "speedsuit"...you'd all be calling me Doc.
I was waiting up for a friend in the halls of my high school today (dang, I feel young compaired to a lot of these people*) when my friend passed me. I caught up to him and he was like, "woah, I was wondering where you were. I thought you were behind me."
My reply was, "I was, but I just cast dimension door in order to appear right next to you."
*Not to say that all the others are old geezers or something. It's just that it seems that almost everyone here is married, has a job etc. etc.
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Someone in my Not for the Squeamish: History of Medical Illustration class was talking about a graffiti guy in the city that writes "Jesus Saves" everywhere, because he's kind of demented and religious; and I had to really resist not piping up and finishing with "..but the rest of you take half damage."
I always thought that was a sports joke. Y'know - "Jesus saves... but Messier scores on the putback".
When I saw Clerk's 2, and that kid picked up that onion ring talkin' about, "wenn ring to rewl thim all..."
I was like, "so?"
Heh, totally. Though I did laugh in the first one when they were talking about the death star and that dude goes "excuse me, I'm a contractor myself and I'd just like to say that anyone working on the death star would have known what they were getting into." Classic geek moment.
My latest geek moment was when I went to my girlfriend's last photography exhibit and walked past a guy talking to another dude about his fighter. I was like "are you guys talking about Dungeons and Dragons?" and was quickly welcomed into the conversation. A few minutes later another artist walked past the three of us, stopped and said "excuse me, are you guys talking about gaming?" the four of us spent the rest of the exhibition talking about D&D, warhammer, warcraft, and street fighter.
Every now and again a normal (well, as normal as you can get at an art school) would try to enter our conversation, stand silently, and then walk away completely baffled. It was great.
I always thought that was a sports joke. Y'know - "Jesus saves... but Messier scores on the putback".
There are plenty of variations. There is also "Jesus saves...and does not lose the document when Windows crashes".
My most geek moment is not pop culture related, it was writing a scientific essay of couple pages in response to another essay about the question "which came first, chicken or egg?" (Biologically speaking it is egg, but if we concentrate on hen's eggs, chicken).
Every time I pick up my cell phone I think "Fine lawful good verizon construct. Market price: $50..."