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Reading this comic and realizing that could have been me.
Me just now reading the comic and saying "Duh, you can't roll a 2 on 3d6 or 4d6....." oh well, every breath I take is a proud geek moment.
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Spending nearly an hour working out the best possible setup for my KoL characters to be farming for Meat, and then wondering how hard it would be to run my multis as buffbots for each of their class types.
Followed up by trying to figure out how well the old Planescape factions would map to the concept of affiliations in the PHBII.
...And then posting about it here while my noble Turtle Tamer farms to recover the cost of the gear he picked up to maximise his Meat-making potential.
At a writer's club meeting I attended, we talked about "writing what we know." Someone suggested I write about roleplaying.
Me: "But it's boring."
Friend1: "Not about the games themselves, but about the people! The types who play, the involvement, the drama inherent when someone jumps up shouting, 'I rolled three sixes!'"
Friend2: "It might be more dramatic if they rolled a 1."
Me: "Unless they were playing GURPS, in which case three sixes is equivalent to a natural one."
*everyone stares*
Me: "Oh...sorry. That just slipped out."
At a writer's club meeting I attended, we talked about "writing what we know." Someone suggested I write about roleplaying.
Me: "But it's boring."
Friend1: "Not about the games themselves, but about the people! The types who play, the involvement, the drama inherent when someone jumps up shouting, 'I rolled three sixes!'"
Friend2: "It might be more dramatic if they rolled a 1."
Me: "Unless they were playing GURPS, in which case three sixes is equivalent to a natural one."
*everyone stares*
Me: "Oh...sorry. That just slipped out."
Oh that's awesome Medesha! :D
Sunday--
Driving my 70 y.o. father in the car on the freeway. A gust of wind through our open windows blew an important piece of paper from the dashboard where it was resting directly toward my open window.
Certain disaster.
'Til I reached up and snatched it out of the air with one hand, without taking my eyes off the road.
I said proudly, "Guess I made my DEX check, huh?"
He just stared at me like I was speaking Greek...and that's when I knew.
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Being reminded of the following, from when the first of the summer monsoon storms hit...
Upon being awoken from a sound sleep by a HUGE thunderclap right outside, my chain of thoughts went about like this:
"Bwah?"
"Hn. Some kind of sonic-energy attack?"
"...I wonder who Fox pissed off this time."
"......Wait."
"That was thunder. Right on top of the house."
Followed by me scrambling frantically out of bed to get my computer shut down and safe from the nasty frying lightning bolts that desert monsoons tend to throw around.
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Does anyone else pretend (entirely in your head) that when you approach an automatic door at a supermarket, you are a wizard commanding the door to open before you?
No, but I have had them fail to open for me. Apparently they can't detect shadow-template creatures.
...and my mother thought it was hilarious when she was with me and my reaction to it not seeing me was to reach up and grad the overhead sensor. It certainly noticed then...
I will admit to having "used the Force" to open doors, accompanied by the appropriate Jedi hand gesture.
....I mean, recently.
I will admit to having "used the Force" to open doors, accompanied by the appropriate Jedi hand gesture.
....I mean, recently.
I do a hand motion every time I'm walking up to an automatic door...I will also set me radio to scan and do hand motions to "change" the stations.
Fizz
I do a hand motion every time I'm walking up to an automatic door...
Glad to know I'm not the only person who does this. Everyone needs a little magic in their lives.
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I do a hand motion every time I'm walking up to an automatic door...Glad to know I'm not the only person who does this. Everyone needs a little magic in their lives.
I actually throw my arms wide sometimes with the doors like I am rending to giant stone doors from their hinges with my metal powers! Kinda looks like my avatar, only without the armament and usually without the skirt.
I am a God of Doors!
Yesterday I was walking through a mall when I bumped into a gamer acquaintance. I was carrying a bag of recently purchased model paints, so when he asked me what was in the bag I said "oh I got some miniatures last week and some of my paints have dried up."
He said "Awesome man, I got an email yesterday from Cancon (big Aussie wargames tournament), so now I've got two and a half months left to paint up my Skaven!"
I couldn't help but think how incomprehensible our conversation must have sounded to anyone who passed by...
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I do a hand motion every time I'm walking up to an automatic door...Glad to know I'm not the only person who does this. Everyone needs a little magic in their lives.I actually throw my arms wide sometimes with the doors like I am rending to giant stone doors from their hinges with my metal powers! Kinda looks like my avatar, only without the armament and usually without the skirt.
I am a God of Doors!
I don't suppose you could talk to the God of Traffic to find out what I did to piss him off? This whole thing with repeatedly getting stuck in completely inexplicable traffic jams is getting old fast.
I'm watching Tron with some friends and Saark (David Warner's character) yells to some flunkies: "Bring in the logic probe!"
After a pause I comment:
"Boy, I hope they don't bring Occam's Razor with them."
I'm watching Tron...
You could have stopped right there, dude. :)
I love Tron.
I do a hand motion every time I'm walking up to an automatic door
I've been known to do this from time to time.
lol; I gotta fess up too; I did this for my kid doing the Harry Potter thing with wands; swish and flick (step on pad or activate sensor) she loved it; but was like a Geek Moment.
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I did this on BabelFish and e-mailed it to all of my friends:
'Twas brillig And the slithy toves and the gimble did the bare electric wire elder brother inside the wabe,:
The whole was mimsy borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe.
"The Jabberwock take care my son! The water the chin, the claw which it seizes!
The Jubjub take care the bird, avoid the frumious Bandersnatch!
"He had his vorpal knife on underwater and he went,:
Long time he searches and will be wrong and manxome in the Tum-tum tree side it rests stood inside thinking, and moment.
And, inside the uffish with the thing him to think together, the Jabberwock, it stands in the eye of fire, when coming coming, and vice- writing vice- writing sound or the tulgey tree it leads, the whiffling!
1 thing and 2! 1 thing and 2! And the snicker meal the vorpal leaf thoroughly it went,!
He died it and he let to leave, elastometer grudge he went after in it head.
"With as is the Jabberwock slaughtered the hast thou? Comes to my eight, the boy who me, dawns!
O frabjous one! Callooh! Callay! "He will peel inside his joy and he will peel and he laughed.
'Twas brillig And the slithy toves and the gimble did the bare electric wire elder brother inside the wabe,:
The whole was mimsy borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe.
(If you're wondering it was merely translated from English to Korean and back again. A friend of mine (Dirk Gently on the boards) ha smade it his life's mission to go through this painstaking process with EVERY SINGLE ORDER OF THE STICK COMIC.)
I was on the Mutants and Masterminds website looking at some character conversions I could use as NPC's for my game when I came upon one for Despero, the bad guy from Justice League when I thought "Anyone who could fight Superman should be more powerful than that!."
A friend of mine (Dirk Gently on the boards) ha smade it his life's mission to go through this painstaking process with EVERY SINGLE ORDER OF THE STICK COMIC.)
That is...quite a goal.
Last night, I played D&D from memory. No books. No character sheets. Just dice. And it kicked ass.
I was there. I share in the geekiness.
When I was ready to goto bed last Saturday I realized during the course of the day I had:
1) Read a fantasy novel for 3 hours (The Brotherhood of the Wolf)
2) Spent 2 hours adapting our next D&D adventure (to be played next
weekend)to our our current setting.
3) Played an hour playing Dawn of War RTS
4) Spent a couple of hours painting minatures
and to finsh it all off I watched the live action Transformers movie.
Saturday night; was at a party drinking, mingling; beating on a drum; you know; ordinary stuff when in the kitchen I hear some rpg related talk; pretty soon three of us or so are in the kitchen for a while talking about rpg; online games; D&D, the need for good games; I am like; Whoa, I am a geek and loving it. Beers empty; women come and go, but the game goes on forever.
I recently paid $400 as high bidder on an Ebay auction for an ultra-rare RPGA Adventurer's Guild Ravenloft module. Only 300 were printed. No way I will be able to explain that to my wife.
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On Friday night I was at a Halloween party and somebdy made a joke about saying sorry in different languages, French is this, German is that, H2SO4 is sorry in any language. I have no background as a chemist, other than a couple of classes in high school, but I recognized the formula. What a geek!!
Little Johnny was a chemist, now he is no more
What he thought was H2O was H2SO4|
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On Friday night I was at a Halloween party and somebdy made a joke about saying sorry in different languages, French is this, German is that, H2SO4 is sorry in any language. I have no background as a chemist, other than a couple of classes in high school, but I recognized the formula. What a geek!!Little Johnny was a chemist, now he is no more
What he thought was H2O was H2SO4
EEEK!
When I was in junior high, before we began to learn about acids in class, our teacher rolled up his sleeve to show us a foot-long raised scar on his shoulder and arm. When he was in college, someone in his Chem 101 class had thought it would be funny to throw a beaker of "water" on a group of students. Mr. P. was lucky. His arm shielded his face from the sulfuric acid. A couple of other students weren't so lucky. They suffered severe burns to the face and eyes.
Nasty stuff.
My last geek/fanboy moment was dressing as Frank Castle a.k.a. the Punisher this Halloween. I even had a double-barreled cap shotgun to go with it (purchased from the kid's section of Cabela's!). I scared a liquor store clerk who apparently forgot that it was October 31st. I did get a lot of looks. It's probable that the movies and comics of the character's namesake aren't very mainstream or popular. Oh, whatever. Also, that joke with the sulfiric acid is pretty witty. Props on the submitter.
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I saw this really striking looking woman on the bus the other day; rather than thinking “Whoa – hot,” my first thought was “Whoa – she looks exactly like Iggwilv – that’s hot.”
She did too. I just couldn’t figure out how to politely work that into a pickup line. “So, has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like the Witch Queen of Perrenland?”
RPG Superstar 2013 Top 32
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My last geek moment involved starting this discussion about what we were preparing to face in our Eberron PbP game.
Last week, my boss mentioned how he used to play D&D years ago and he thought he might still have his dice at home somewhere.
Mine were still on the front seat of my car.
“So, has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like the Witch Queen of Perrenland?”
You should have tried. She could have been a gamer. :)
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My last geek moment involved starting this discussion about what we were preparing to face in our Eberron PbP game.
Yeah ... that was pretty geeky come to think of it.
While busily writing away on Saturday and watching Krull, my DVD player refused to give up the DVD. At all. It refused to open up, and turning it off didn't work, as it didn't turn back on.
I call my hubby and let him know that things are not good. He suggests bringing down the other DVD player in the bedroom and hooking it up. I say "Okay" and hang up the phone.
Using old outdated equipment? We can't have that. I call up my friend and tell him I have an audio-visual emergency. "To Best Buy!" says I.
Toshiba HD DVD player. Mmm...It came with two HD DVDs, and I got a third, and laid them on the hubby's chair so it was the first thing that he saw when he came home. Late birthday/early Christmas present.
Why does this make me a geek? Because as my accomplice said, I followed the Geek Credo.
"When things break, do not use a replacement that's lying around. Upgrade to better tech."
I opened up my Dungeon Crawl Classic #51: Castle Whiterock the other day and read the introduction. I immediately caught the reference for dividing up the adventure into four books. The books are in order a red book, a blue book, a green book, and a black book.
Some D&D things you just can't leave behind even if you haven't played them in a decade.
I will admit to having "used the Force" to open doors, accompanied by the appropriate Jedi hand gesture.
....I mean, recently.
I do a hand motion every time I'm walking up to an automatic door...I will also set me radio to scan and do hand motions to "change" the stations.
Fizz
lol I do that for red lights, but i think most of them are Toydarians (yes I said that out loud once) with my mate just staring at me.
you know those I can not stop laughing and "my eyes are watering and it is getting difficult to breath" moments? Big Bang (CBS)* opening seen last night. Mate looked at me like this is not that funny. "but... but," I gasped, " I know those people. I... I could be those people."
*I will ruin it if I try and describe it, but they were playing some MMORG, one runs ahead rather than saving the party and sells the sword on ebay...
I just bought the last pieces of my wife's christmas present here on Paizo... board games, but still, I'm slowly working on converting her ;-)
*And rather than have our 1 year old daughter watch kid's shows like Teletubbies, Dora, Barney, etc... I've dug out DVDs for Justice League, Superman, 80's Transformers, 80's TMNT, He-man, She-Ra, Thundercats, Jem, etc. And then I dumped them all onto the hard drive, and made a bunch of "mixed" DVDs so that: A)Its like watching afterschool cartoons. B) If she scratches them, I don't care.
My wife gets a pained expression when she sees how excited our daughter gets at the theme music for each show when it comes on.
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My geek moment happens daily, when I get in my car.
My KIA decked out with my purple D20 magnet, my red fuzzy 20-siders hanging from the rearview mirror (both purchased here), my Trogdor window decal, and the clincher...my "ROLL D20" vanity plate.
If my friends weren't such hardcore geeks too, I think they'd be embarassed to ride with me anywhere.
I was in the local elementary school, and spent ten minutes trying to make dungeons and temples in my mind from the "fire escape route" maps.