What's the most "nerdy" thing you've ever done as a gamer, the things that not only confuse non-gamers but even make those who partake of the hobby think "that dude's hardcore...or completely out of his mind"?

I ask because I'm in the middle of a Paradox 900. For those who aren't Pdox gamers, what that means is you start a game of Crusader Kings, use the save-game portability tool to port the save into Europa Universalis 2, use a fan-made converter to convert the save to Victoria: Revolutions, and use Paradox's save game porter to port THAT save to Hearts of Iron II. By playing the same country for all four games, you trace a continuous line for a country in Europe from 1066 all the way forward to 1964 (with only a 15-year gap between the end of EU2 at the end of 1820 and the beginning of Victoria in 1836.) My wife sees what I've done with the Count of Yaroslavl (in CK) who is now, through a series of interesting events, the King of Sweden, and she just rolls her eyes. And she plays EVE Online and WoW, so it's not like she's a non-gamer.

Incidentally, the above 900-year track takes about 150-200 hours, or "a month and change at a full-time job."

EDIT: initial post was missing five words that were needed to make it make sense.

patapon... i was just one patapon left and it was the last level... and i won! i was in the cafeteria of my college and... i just scream in happines... everybody look at me... and somebody ask me wich team was winning? and i just put my headphones and keep playing but i felt like a total nerd but... a happy nerd

and in the hardcore whay in diablo 2 i played 24 hours non stoping in a lan party with some friends :)

I accidentally started humming along to Patapon during class.

Pata Pata Pata Pon, Pon Pon Pata Pon, Pon Pon Chaka Chaka, Pon Pata Pon Pata...

As a social experiment, I once played Elite Beat Agents on the bus, without headphones. It was very loud, and a bunch of people gave me strange looks, but nobody said anything.

Probably whenever I go on rants about Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, WoW, who should've been in brawl, etc. around my friends who are a little more casual gamers than me. They usually just reply with a, "Yeah..." or, "Wow..."

any time in which i was playing WoW after i hit level 70 for the 4th time

milomalo:
and in the hardcore whay in diablo 2 i played 24 hours non stoping in a lan party with some friends :)

I have once been to a lan where we played diablo 2. We blasted through the entire game in like 6 hours.

I randomly quote video game characters sometimes, and see if my friends pickup the references. I also hum games music when I'm in the shower, yeah I know.

I cried at the ending of Final Fantasy IX. Just sobbed like a reunited army wife. Fortunately, I was alone at the time.

i recreated a halo battle scene in gmod with a halo addon and a lot of spare time...

When I finished Icewind Dale 2...

That and when I installed a new 9800GX2 in my PC, booted up Crysis on max settings, and literally orgasmed.

well, I'm not really a hardcore gamer, or that much of a nerd, but nobody else in my family is into gaming, and whenever they mention real-life moments I compare then to moments I've had in games and laugh out loud, and they just stare at me like I'm a loser... I am the black sheep of the family, and they never let me forget it T.T ...

Nerdiest gaming moment ever was when I went off on a rant about the physics systems in modern games, how many of them break Newton's laws. Citing each law and giving examples of a game that had broken it some way. I was greeted by blank stares from a group of people who had no idea what the fuck I was talking about.

A bit off topic, but aside from gaming, my nerdiest moment EVER, was when I tried to explain how infinite improbability works to a group of my friends, and actually made them understand it. (Those of you who don't know what infinite improbability is, read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy)

Aries_Split:
When I finished Icewind Dale 2...

That and when I installed a new 9800GX2 in my PC, booted up Crysis on max settings, and literally orgasmed.

BEST POST EVAR

Probably when I gold-starred "Welcome Home" by Coheed and Cambria on Rock Band. That or 5 starring "One" on Expert on Guitar Hero III.

My whole life has been a dork moment. I started playing consoles at the age of one and a half, with my older sisters SNES. Since I was able to talk, I've been saying things from games and watching other peoples faces go blank. Now I do it for kicks, and throw in a dorky voice while I'm at it.

Not a big nerd, but one time I jumped up and down after making a pretty cool comeback playing Brawl.

But one time in science my teacher said something to the extent that gravity is a fact that can't be disproven. I then went off about how Newton's gravity can't exist with Einstein's relative theory because objects falling in relativity, fall on a curve and do not need a starting force to set the fall in motion. They fall via inertia.

Most every kid in that class looked at me like I was fucking crazy.

Asking my teacher if I can roll a saving throw in gym class when he almost failed me...

Went as Princess Peach to school for Halloween. Mind you I was 12, though I'm not sure if that excused me.

catching Zapdos in pekomon red
Booting my ps2 for the 1st time, and going " oooooee "
Unlocking Supersonic and telling every one.
explaning why i had 180 hours of game play in FF VII to a none gamer

Looking at my played time on my main avatar in WoW. It was freaking big, around 15 days or something. I've been off WoW for about 8 months, but I'm looking back into playing it again, whilst restricting all the time I give it. Still fun.

Mnemophage:
Went as Princess Peach to school for Halloween. Mind you I was 12, though I'm not sure if that excused me.

Slightly, IF you're female. If you're male however...

My nerdiest moment must've been when I played Farcry during one evening. It was totally dark and watching Alien as a teenager has given me a slight phobia for crawling in ventilation systems. I explore one of these dark vents with my flashlight, that happens to be shaped like a Z, with a dead end in it. I turn around and - obviously - one of those frigging mutant gorillas comes charging at me. The bastard had tracked me. I scream out loud in my little student room and blasts away with my machine gun, emptying the clip. As I exhale, another frigging gorilla comes charging around the corner. I scream out even louder, as I haven't reloaded yet. I panick and quickly presses quickload.

Now, the reason why this fealt very nerdy was I had forgotten to close the door to my room. It was more than one in the student corridor who was wondering wtf was going on. Awkward.

iv got into a nasty habbit of saying "lol" to my mates :S

My love of video game music.

Back in the NES days, I pushed my stereo up close to the TV to record some of the good music. I had to demand silence from my niece and nephew, else I had to restart the tape. My niece used to make fun of me for that - but I think it is what developed my taste in music towards electronic/techno type stuff.

I could name just about any NES game by the music.

Divine-Devil:
Looking at my played time on my main avatar in WoW. It was freaking big, around 15 days or something. I've been off WoW for about 8 months, but I'm looking back into playing it again, whilst restricting all the time I give it. Still fun.

Amateur. I had almost a month of real time clocked.

... I made myself sad.

When i Cried when they stopped showing Dragonball Z!
It was horrible

when i played super smash bros. melee for god only knows how long to unlock mewtwo so i could just prove my friends wrong and laugh in their faces saying mewtwo is in it

oh jesus crist it seems worse than i thought before ok time to find myself some expensive rope to hang myself as cheap rope snaps and gives u a nasty headache

(just so u know last part was a joke with the whole suicide thing)

Necrith:
catching Zapdos in pekomon red
Booting my ps2 for the 1st time, and going " oooooee "
Unlocking Supersonic and telling every one.
explaning why i had 180 hours of game play in FF VII to a none gamer

also that would be fun to explain but try over 300 hrs on ffx on one game because i insisted on getting them all maxed out with every thing possible then ffx-2 came out i tried tht and about 2 hrs in i was wtf no wonder they neva made sequals for FF before this

lets see, i was playing online with some friends, when a new guy came to the server. he kept complaining that he was getting lag horribly and his ping was pretty. after talking to him i found out that he didnt have the graphics card he needed to run the game at as high of a setting as he was doing.so i gave him tips on what to turn up /down/off to get better performance. all my friends just stared at me for a minute and had their jaws hanging open.

Shadowtek:
lets see, i was playing online with some friends, when a new guy came to the server. he kept complaining that he was getting lag horribly and his ping was pretty. after talking to him i found out that he didnt have the graphics card he needed to run the game at as high of a setting as he was doing.so i gave him tips on what to turn up /down/off to get better performance. all my friends just stared at me for a minute and had their jaws hanging open.

mind telling me how to get that stuff fixed so i can play oh wait nvm my computer cant play age of empires 1 for more than 4hrs straight let alone anything with better graphics

One sleep deprived morning my room mate proudly explained "I'm going to get in shape, you know start running and stuff" half listening I replied "Running what? Kara?" he just stared at me for a few moments, shook his head and walked away.

i lent a friend Golden Sun (the first one and The Lost Age) and as he was playing it i was singing the tunes from the game as he went along and was able to guess where he was by the tunes that were playing. the reasons i'm single have suddenly become clearer!!

Nothing good:
I spent 11 hours straight playing Totalwar.
I am trying to finish gutair hero on expert.
I play warhammer as a tabletop game.

Ignoring my naked girlfriend and explaining why some one was wrong on the internet instead.

I also asked a mugger if I could roll for initiative. It didnt work

scarbunny:
Ignoring my naked girlfriend and explaining why some one was wrong on the internet instead.

I also asked a mugger if I could roll for initiative. It didnt work

we have a winner!!