LewsTherin:

Eldritch Warlord:
Except for Dune: Messiah, Children of Dune, the Young Jedi Knights series and all the David Eddings books I've read because he sucks (I say that and I've read everything he ever wrote as of 2006).

WHAT?!?! You've just had your Geek license revoked! The Belgariad/Mallorean are up there with the best series' of all time! I would agree that his latest stuff suck, however.

<--fanboy

But, I still love the big three (Foundation, Dune, Lord of the Rings), so I'm not a geek cause I don't care for Eddings? Perhaps my reading of them was colored badly by me reading the Sparhawk novels first. And what's his latest thing called? The one with the bugs in the desert. I got about half-way through that series before I somehow decided that I don't like these books and should stop reading them.

Hmph, look at me defending my geek status. I'm off to Wikipedia to see what Salvatore (best writer since Tolkien) has coming next.

-_^

ElArabDeMagnifico:

LewsTherin:

-I know how a lightsaber works.

-I own all of the Monty Pythons Flying Circus skits..on DVD.

-and I'm a nerd for watching things like History and Discovery channel, and finding out why the lightsaber won't work (they way it's explained in the series) - and how a lightsaber could work.

Also, Monty Python is awesome and I use to see his commercials for the flying circus collection on T.V. a lot - why does that make you a nerd? (Take this for whatever it's worth but in my books I'd see you as a "cool" person for having that)

Monty Python is a them not a him.
I'm a nerd because:
Every night as I lie in bed I listen to either Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, the first five books of Harry Potter or the first two books of His Dark Materials on tape.
I'm the only person I know that prefers the first two Harry Potter films to the most recent 3, because they stayed truer to the books.
I play games, a lot.
The UK release of Brawl this Friday is one of my most anticipated events. Ever.

I am a nerd.

Yes. For as long as I can remember.

And I'm not happy unless I own every single piece of merchandise related to whatever it is I'm obsessing over at that moment in time. Usually a game or anime/manga of some variety.

Today, I was compared to Hitler during a discussion of C-sections. I subsequently invoked Godwin's Law.

IRL. At lunch. With my coworkers who have no idea what I was talking about, so I had to explain.

I'm a hoog nerd.

I'm a nerd because I play alot of videogames

I'm a nerd because I play D&D

I'm a nerd because I like Science Fiction

I'm a nerd because I make obscure jokes(games and such) that only a few people I know laugh at

I'm a nerd because I'm posting on this thread

Eldritch Warlord:

LewsTherin:

Eldritch Warlord:
Except for Dune: Messiah, Children of Dune, the Young Jedi Knights series and all the David Eddings books I've read because he sucks (I say that and I've read everything he ever wrote as of 2006).

WHAT?!?! You've just had your Geek license revoked! The Belgariad/Mallorean are up there with the best series' of all time! I would agree that his latest stuff suck, however.

<--fanboy

But, I still love the big three (Foundation, Dune, Lord of the Rings), so I'm not a geek cause I don't care for Eddings? Perhaps my reading of them was colored badly by me reading the Sparhawk novels first. And what's his latest thing called? The one with the bugs in the desert. I got about half-way through that series before I somehow decided that I don't like these books and should stop reading them.

Hmph, look at me defending my geek status. I'm off to Wikipedia to see what Salvatore (best writer since Tolkien) has coming next.

I was pulling my fanboy rant, my apologies if I offended. I agree that the Sparhawk novels were a bit slow, however I was talking about The Dreamers series.

zen5887:

Videogames - Check
Star wars - check
Lots of time spend on the computer - Check

Girlfriend - Check

wait what?

Damn, ME too...

LewsTherin:

Eldritch Warlord:

LewsTherin:

Eldritch Warlord:
Except for Dune: Messiah, Children of Dune, the Young Jedi Knights series and all the David Eddings books I've read because he sucks (I say that and I've read everything he ever wrote as of 2006).

WHAT?!?! You've just had your Geek license revoked! The Belgariad/Mallorean are up there with the best series' of all time! I would agree that his latest stuff suck, however.

<--fanboy

But, I still love the big three (Foundation, Dune, Lord of the Rings), so I'm not a geek cause I don't care for Eddings? Perhaps my reading of them was colored badly by me reading the Sparhawk novels first. And what's his latest thing called? The one with the bugs in the desert. I got about half-way through that series before I somehow decided that I don't like these books and should stop reading them.

Hmph, look at me defending my geek status. I'm off to Wikipedia to see what Salvatore (best writer since Tolkien) has coming next.

I was pulling my fanboy rant, my apologies if I offended. I agree that the Sparhawk novels were a bit slow, however I was talking about The Dreamers series.

I loved the ones with Sparhawk in them. I get tied up in characters more than anything else, and the rich history of the characters in those series really drew me in. To this day, I still think Polgara is the most badass sorceress ever, and I read those books AGES ago. Seventh grade, I think. I picked up "Regina's Song" not too long ago because it was the only Eddings novel (on the shelf at Barnes and Noble, anyways) that I didn't have, but I haven't gotten around to it. Good? Bad?

I also read all of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series... but was secretly glad when he died working on book 15... It was getting kind of old.

As far as LOTR goes, I fall asleep to the soundtracks and can sing the ones in Elven... and the movies are my "depression movies," as noted by my close friends. I own all three extended-special-editions, and I watch through all three of them in a row multiple times when I'm really upset. I also thought Tom Bombadil should have been kept in, not just his lines, but I have this crazy-rare nerd ability to judge movies and books separately so that I'm never disenchanted with either.

PingPongJoe:
I became a nerd the moment I got glasses.

At that time I wasn't willing to accept it. But now, I think I'm a better person because of it.

Yup, same here. Once you get glasses, everyone thinks you're a nerd so you might as well become one.

I'm a nerd because I own over 150 comics and still collecting and I watch a lot of G4 plus I'm a movie buff as well and I'm a gamer to the core been playing my entire life and I have a huge collection of games to prove it. Plus the cherry on top of it all I'm a huge Metal Gear fan now I'm off to play some MGS4.

ok, lets dance:
i have five networked computers in my house, all laptops set up with monitors and new hard drives running vista. I built these

I have seen every TNG episode ever made

I have an opinion on "who shot first?" and "kirk Vs Picard"

I speak and understand Klingon

I know who the following people are: Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Warren Burt, Neil Gaiman

I collect and rate old video games

I wear glasses

I know every word from the five Hitch Hikers books and the radio show

I have seen every episode of the simpsons at least once, and have yet to miss a joke, or so i think.

I used to hate being called a nerd when I was in gradeschool and highschool. There were a couple of other nerdy kids in our very small (less than 200 students total) school and we were friends. Everyone else was into sports and treated us like we were lower than pond slime because we either physically couldn't play (one of my friends had severe ashtma and I had very bad scoliosis and poor eyesight) or simply was totally disinterested in sports. We also didn't care about what clothes were in style and thought the music everyone else liked was rubbish. We didn't fit in at all and the bullies in school had a lot of fun making our lives miserable.

Then, I went to a big college with more students than the population of the county I grew up in. I met lots of people with similar interests who treated me very well. I forgot all about the jerks in highschool. I still keep in touch with the few friends I had in highschool but couldn't care less about the rest of those people. In college, I played table-top games with a bunch of other students which is a lot of fun. I also built my own PC and started going to LAN parties. I found all kinds of neat comic book and video game stores to hang out in (and occasionally buy something). We'd go to the dollar movie theater when they had film festivals of sci-fi or cult-classic movies. I was a member of the Plant ID team. We traveled around to other schools and to Society for Range Management meetings. We even won some contests.

I'm out of college now and build and repair computers for a living. I still like botany and go to botanical gardens to check out the plants. When I'm in Lowes or Home Depot, I can't help but observe the plants and try to figure out what plant families they are from and what ailments they might be suffering from. I joined Electronic Technicians Association International and am a proctor for the certification tests they give. I also volunteer to watch their booth at CES here in Las Vegas where I live so I get to go to the convention every year for free. It's a nerd's paradise.

My favorite games to play are real time and turn based strategy games and I have a lot of them. I make my own maps in games like Disciples II and Star Wars Battlefront.

You could say I'm a bit of a nerd.

I'm a nerd, because I imagine how useful a lightsaber would be in a zombie survival situation.

I'm a nerd because I rawk at maths.

I'm a nerd because I use computers a lot.

I'm a nerd because I can land headshots like it's nobody's business.

HOWEVER I'm not shy, nor do I have mild heart failure whenever a hot girl talks to me. At least, not any more.

I think laughing when someone makes a refrence to an intenet meme makes you a nerd.
That, or a teenager.
Ick! Nerdieness is being violated!

Proof I am a nerd:

After watching Prince Caspian I bought a replica of Peter's sword and shield. Then I immediately talked to my custom costume designer about getting to work on my Peter outfit for Halloween.

I am sort of a nerd, I don't really get into things to much, I don't watch any Sci-Fi shows but I do Play DnD (And know WAY to mcuh about it) and the occasional Videogame.
But my biggest claim to Nerdom is that me and my Band (Plan B, look out for us in the near future!) are working on a Rock version of Go K.K. Rider!! From Animal Crossing.

I accept the term nerd ironically. In other words, I agree with others when they call me a nerd so it no longer becomes an insult but actually makes me somewhat better than them.

Ways in which I am nerdy include:
1. I make obscure referances that only myself and a select few find funny.
2. I once adorned a body warmer while playing Quake 2 so I could pretend it was body armor (I was young then so don't give me too much grief).
3. I have written game reviews in the past without payment (have a look at BG planet...BG doesn't stand for Baulders Gate by the way)
4. I have a map of Cyrodil on my bedroom wall.
5. I am genuinely interested in the back story and minor details of most games (I actually went through and read all the codex entries in Mass Effect).

Oh... I can make people laugh so hard they can't get off the floor with a single word. That speaks as much of their nerddom as mine, but still.

I own a leather armour.

I own at least 10 swords.

I have 20+ maps in my room, perhaps one is of a real place.

I spent a number of hours yesterday reading up on the story of Command and Conquer because I had forgotten much of it from when I played it myself. (If that's not nerdy I don't know what is. Playing games for the story, that I can take. Reading the story of the game without playing it, that's pushing it)

Yea some of the time must admit I'm a pretty huge nerd, especially when it comes to games and films. I'd give myself about 6/10 on the nerd-o-meter because I do tend to balance the nerdy stuff with a fair bit of non-nerdy stuff, like football and clubbing etc.

PurpleRain:

I play a bit of Call Of Cthulhu mostly because it's much easier and more horrific then DnD. I could never rap my head around the rules and sytem of DnD so I basically never play, similar to Shadowrun but I'm trying to learn.

Shadowrun is really worth playing, I'm in the middle of GMing a campaign at the minute and it is very time consuming but very rewarding with its versatility.

I made myself a rick-roll T-shirt. It has the intro verse and chorus on the front, and "YOU JUST GOT SHIR-T ROLLED" on the back. Yes, it does say 'shir-t'. I messed up.

We australians have a different meaning of 'nerds' becuase anyone who passes high school IS a nerd or at least partly one. But i could be called a nerd because i comunicate only in quotes from movies and spend most of my time playing games and writing stories often about zombies or genetically enhanced superhumans

I suppose splitting hairs over nerd or geek (begrudingly appropriated from the good people with an appetite for lightbulbs) is another discussion altogether, but for my 0.02 of Nerd/Geek/Freak-ness...

- Relatively faithfully recreated the first 2 levels of the original Mario Bros in Megazeux. Similar excercises spent working in ZZT and superZZT.

- Went to computer camp as a kid, original Quake TF and superheros LAN party lunch breaks.

- Better late than never - I've gotten into collecting comics in the past few years after being introduced to series like Preacher, Transmetropolitan, The Invisibles, The Filth, Y: The Last Man, The Maxx, Sin City, etc.

- All the usual symptoms such as 40k, Magic cards, Table top RPGs (D&D, Shadowrun, CoC, Cyberpunk 2020, Vampire: TM, Alternity, etc), computer games, console games, avid cult movie and TV enthusiast, glasses, slower than average social skills development, etc.

I think like most nerds (or what have you), the awkwardness of my interests were greater as a kid growing up and while I haven't given up on my past interests, they've become a clustered facet of a (slightly) more rounded person.

P.S.... Other worthy nerdiness I just recalled:

- Mines of Moria
- Legend of the Red Dragon on dial up BBS services pre-WWW.
- Scorched Earth
- Fallout 2 / Myth 2 community member... There's a certain type - they'll understand.

Duck Sandwich:

I actually looked forward to the release of Brawl more than I looked forward to my high school prom. Then again, my prom was only fun for the first 2 hours or so.

Me too, actually. But I think prom is one of those things that is usually a disappointment for pretty much everyone, like valentines day.

I think my freaking out my family by attempting to marry myself to my Xbox 360 safely qualifies me.
Also that whenever I see ridiculus and minimal coverage outfits on girls in games I imagine what they'd look like on me..

nilcypher:
We're posting in the forums of a video game website. I think our status as nerds is assured.

Yeah, pretty much what Mr. Nilcypher said.

I am a nerd according to my class mates because I "am gay and know what a metaphor is and use cleverness (wit?)".

I guess I am, but I hate the terminology.

The other day I was driving along and I saw a billboard that said "Free ATM" and the first thing I thought was, "what is? What's free at the moment?" It was at the point that I realized I'm a nerd.

Well, I do roleplaying, not this tabletop stuff though, it all confuses me.
Also I do play a lot of games, but I also work out and play sports and have a girlfriend, so does that cancel out all other nerdiness?

Too much time on the computer- nerd.

Don't do homework, ever. It's against my values.- not nerd

Had a stint on second life- super-screwed-up-social reject.

Have got more 'action' then most of my friends- not nerd.

I put woot and other internet speak into irl sentences- super nerd.

Have so many games I don't even have the boxes, just a pile of CDs- nerd.

Train in TKD for 4 hours a week, and kickboxing for 2 hours a week- not nerd, but not cool either. Either way I'm proud ^.^

Do gymnastics for an hour a week- Social suicide.

Train with two UK Bo staff champoins, and the world champion every now and again- awesome.

I know how some bits of a computer work- hah, guess.

I do IT for my GCSE- yeah.

I win tech arguments with a PS3 fanboy- muahahaha.

The list goes on. Oh, one more.

I don't have an Ipod= nerd.

nilcypher:
We're posting in the forums of a video game website. I think our status as nerds is assured.

That does cover it.

But I also do a host of nerdy things. The obvious ones that other people haven't said so far: my username is taken from a well rating but obscure Australian radioshow that i have listened EVERY podcast of (all 162, sadly it was cancelled last year and yes I signed the petition) more than once, I have every Nine Inch Nails album LEGALLY (not sure if thats fan-nerdy or just a stupid consumerism), go to extreme effort for fancy dress parties, get annoyed by stupid movie mistakes (Resident Evil 3, how did so many damn zombies fit in that shipping container?) and I have a Starwars posted signed by Ewan McGregor.

I don't think doing nerdy stuff automatically makes you a social reject though, It just depends on wether you do other non-nerdy things as well. Its all about balance.

Oh and did I mention the WoW addiction?