I'm Admit it...I'm a Geek

“Nice to know it's OK for me to come out of the closet again and admit my geekdom.

D&D Turns 30”

“I'm admit it two. All your base are belong to us.”

“Did you really need a thread to prove you're a Geek?”

“Being an Electronics Engineer automaticly makes one a Geek, but at least I never played D&D! ;-)”

“Plugh.”

“Isn't D and D for fat 13-year-olds?”

“You have a point Dwettle. My geekiness is self evident.

I heard the story on NPR this morning (I heart NPR!) and it was really interesting.”

“NO WAY!”

“You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.”

“Shouldn't it be

"I'll a Geek...I'm admit it"?”

“yeah, heard the same story, kinda makes sense what they said about D&D stimulateing a lot of the ideas behind how the role playing computer games are set up.”

“D&D, 30 years old.

Yikes!

Anyone know if the D&D cartoon is available on dvd yet?”

“Oh, yeah...I'm a geek for sure. Good thing I don't look like one, I just play one at work. In a couple of months, I hope to be a certified IS security geek.”

“...but I've never played D&D.”

“I think I get the Double Geek Wammy because I also ride a scooter.



















Well, OK, triple wammy cause there's that habitual masterbation thing while fantasizing about Daphny from Scooby Doo too.”

“Java Programmer -- fortunately I don't look like one either -- especially those thick-framed glasses with nosetape (think Revenge of the Nerds)...

Never played D&D either, but I do have to admit to building our own quests for Hero Quest (almost like a simplified board game implementation of D&D sold by Milton Bradley about 15 years ago, and playing a lot of Magic: The Gathering back in High School...”

“I used to play D&D and loved it. And, there was a version of D&D for our Intellivision that I was so hooked on taht I would fake sick just to stay home and play.”

“Wow, 30 years - I still have the Dungeon Master's Guide, the Player's Handbook, and the Monster Manual stuffed in a box somewhere with my home-made milieu.

Oh yeah, and the Fiend Folio!”

“Dang Mutt. You just might be sittin' on some cash there. Check out Ebay and see what your editions are going for. I saw an origal Deities and DemiGods going for $85.

I'm playing Gary Gygax's newest game called Legendary Adventures which is twice as fun and it's about half as rule based as D&D. No half hour rules breaks and arguing. LOL! What a geek...”

“I'm hoping my crystal 100-sided die will be worth something...”

“I've got tons of roleplaying stuff at home.

It was fun, still is with the right people.”

“Only played D&D for about a year, and haven't since May of 1992. Played with some friends in college, never got back into it when I came home. Our DM was really into it, spending hours every day planning, had the octagon-printed mat you could write on, figures, every die you would ever need. It was fun, but real life takes priority I guess.”

“I just dug up all my old D & D stuff. Characters I made up, all the manual's.

I love being a geek.”

“Where did you have it buried?”

“Do you have to play D&D to be a geek. 'Cause other than that, no pocket protector, thick glasses or unkempt appearance, I think I'm a geek.”

“dhutch, take the test...”

“I'm a poser! I'm Cool, I'm Cool...for once in my life!”

“Even a Geek such as myself only managed to score 31.16371%, but that's still Total Geek.”

“I was under 2. I'm cooler than yoouuu, I'm cooler than yoouuu!

Ooops did I just earn 20 points?”

“I apparently am a major geek.”

“See, I never got into gaming, so I lose a lot of points there. I play a lot of computer games.”

“I was 24.45% GEEK.
All the math & science crap uped my score. ;-)”

“Never got into tabletop RPGs?
Oh the shame of it all!
Hang head geek!”

“The worst part is that I actually did a view source on the page because the alertbox code behaviour was bothering me.”

“Well, they came out when I was like 14 or 15. My younger brothers really got into them, so to me they were kid stuff.”

“17.55424%. I would've gotten bonus points had they known I've built my own telescope.

You'd think advanced degrees in tech subjects would've come up too, other than PhD.”

“OMG! I did the same thing because I wanted to figure out how the darn alert box was getting triggered! Guess I need to bump up my 21.4% score a little...”

“"I just dug up all my old D & D stuff. Characters I made up, all the manual's.

I love being a geek."

It was hilarious when I recently started back up and dug all my stuff out. The best of all was The Dead File. Characters who had fallen under my care as a dungeon master. Right on top was one of my buddy’s favorite characters. The character sheet was crumpled and furiously scrolled across the front it said “Suck ass shltty dice!”. Haha!”

“"I'm hoping my crystal 100-sided die will be worth something..."


I saw a set of dwarven dice that were plated with 24K gold the other day. $125 is a bit too rich for 6 dice. YIKES!”

“Sounds like a need to go through my parents basement to see if I can find my old D&D stuff. I've looked for it before with no luck. They feign innocence. My stuff would be from mid-80's.”

“My brand new Zire 31 PDA came today!

I pull it out of the box, then go and get a box cutter to free it from its plastic prison...I finally get it out...read the instructions...Step 1a, plug the charger into an outlet and into your Zire....Step 1b...allow to charge for FOUR HOURS before proceeding to next step!!!!!!!!!!!



FOUR HOURS!?!?!?!

WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!”

“DH...they feign innocence?

I got bad news, dude...they chucked that #&%!$ years ago.”

“I played D&D once, when my friends got me drunk and broke out a board. They soon regretted that. I was ....

The Psychopath!”

“I agree, it's gone. I can check though.”

“I can just see dayhikers parents sitting around on a Friday night dressed in their medieval gab…

Ma Dayhiker: OK, I’ll use my prismatic spray spell against the orcs and then start closing for melee with my staff.

Pa Dayhiker: Sorry you are out of spell range.

Ma Dayhiker: No way! Pa you damn jewbag!

Pa Dayhiker: HAWHAW! This is fun! I hope Dayhiker never comes back for his stuff!”

“...I think I totally qualify...

...when you totally fall in love with the new X40 ThinkPad we picked up at work (as a technology demo machine), you've gotta be a geek. But it's sooo small, and sooo light, and it has cellular Internet access...

Oh, what's the use -- I guess you just have to be a computer geek to understand...”