What's your limit?

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-10-12 03:53pm

I don't know what a LARP is. Does that make me less of a geek?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-10-12 03:56pm

Demiurge wrote:I don't know what a LARP is. Does that make me less of a geek?

If anything, it makes you more of one. It means "live action roleplaying" i'm not totally sure what it entails.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-10-12 03:57pm

Rye wrote:
Demiurge wrote:I don't know what a LARP is. Does that make me less of a geek?
If anything, it makes you more of one. It means "live action roleplaying" i'm not totally sure what it entails.

LARP is exactly what it sounds like: you dress up and act out a role-playing game.

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-10-12 05:04pm

I'm in the SCA, I've dressed in pajamas and a bathrobe for a convention(I really don't care what replies this gets; I was honoring Douglas Adam's unfortunate death the year before), I tabletop alot, and would consider LARP with my friends somewhere non-public.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-10-12 06:25pm

Kuja wrote:
Rye wrote:
Demiurge wrote:I don't know what a LARP is. Does that make me less of a geek?
If anything, it makes you more of one. It means "live action roleplaying" i'm not totally sure what it entails.
LARP is exactly what it sounds like: you dress up and act out a role-playing game.

How exactly? The only RPGs i've ever played are computer games, so what exactly does it entail, does one guy like make up the story or what?

edit: formatting

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2003-10-12 07:08pm

Zac Naloen wrote:
Fighter of Foo wrote:Well, i don't even really watch Sci-fi. I just post here to laugh at all of you geeks and sit here plotting to take over the world.

Wow, im really feeling mouthy today.

*hides*
*resists urge to take the bait*

She's thirteen. Please try and control yourself.

What's my limit? Well I don't dress up or do live-action role-playing. I do, however, wear a black leather trench coat. I moderate a BBS dedicated to Star Trek vs. Star Wars and major in physics along with having a Slashdot addiction that's led to me getting mod points and meta-modding at least once every couple days. I figure that my geek factor is high enough.

StimNeuro · Post by **StimNeuro** » 2003-10-12 07:18pm

Rye wrote:
Kuja wrote:
Rye wrote: If anything, it makes you more of one. It means "live action roleplaying" i'm not totally sure what it entails.
LARP is exactly what it sounds like: you dress up and act out a role-playing game.
How exactly? The only RPGs i've ever played are computer games, so what exactly does it entail, does one guy like make up the story or what?

edit: formatting

Legynds is a good example of a LARP.
Basically, people pay money to play D&D in a forest somewhere. I'm going this weekend with a bunch of friends, but only because it's free if you play the NPC bad guys.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-10-12 07:21pm

Let's see, I'm in Computer Science which has got to be worth a bundle of geek/nerd points. However I don't spend my days playing computer games and couldn't care less about CPU speed and Quake 3 FPS wanking. A computer's a tool, all it has to do is run my programs at a decent speed without crashing. Sci-fi, well, I watch some movies, read some novels and post on this message board, and that's as far as it goes. I would consider building a nice kit model of a Star Destroyer or the Enterprise or something like that to hang in my room, but no action figures, Vulcan ears or plush toys for me.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-10-12 08:15pm

I generally stick to reading/watching sci-fi.

About the geekiest things I have are the majority of the Lego Star Wars collection and some of the old Micro Machines for SW and ST (I'm a pack rat, though; they're probably 10 years old). I have action figures, but they were gifts from my cousin (who bought them when ESB came out) that I'm planning on possibly giving to his kids someday (assuming they ever visit again from Germany). I do some tabletop RP, and occasionally a chat-RP on servers I know, but I don't LARP (tried it a couple times, not really my cuppa).

And I figure doing paintball should overcome some of that geekiness.

Agent R · Post by **Agent R** » 2003-10-12 08:27pm

No LARP, or dressing up, or conventions.

There are lines which not even the highest powers (i.e. me) may cross.

Geek or nerd, is there a difference?

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-12 08:29pm

Too geeky for me? Spending my waking hours debating whether Star Wars or Star Trek is better.

~ver

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-10-12 08:32pm

Dressing up in a costume of someone that is masked (Vader, Boba, Jango, Stormies, Death Star Gunners, TIE Pilot, etc.)
Anything beyond that is horrific.~Jason
Edit: And I don't mean those cheesy polyester, plaster or cotton suits too!~Jason

Post by **Zaia** » 2003-10-12 08:53pm

Well, I like Star Wars a lot (just the original 3 though, really), I don't really read any sci-fi, never dress up for anything, I've never read The Lord of the Rings (please don't hurt me), 'X-files' rocks (but partially because I want DD to have a thousand children with me), and I hardly play any video games, so...yeah. I post here, and am friends with Ando. That's about as geeky as I get.

Unless we tally up my musician geekiness. Then I'm probably off the charts and proud of it, baby.

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-10-12 08:54pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I think when you put gaming/sci-fi/etc before getting pookie you have crossed the line.

The lesser case is playing those games so you get offered pookie in the first place. As for me, I have done an technical analysis of numerous things in Star Wars and can mouth off alot of sci-fi knowledge but RPing, LARPing, or dressing up to viewings is viewed by me as absurb.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-10-12 09:17pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:I think when you put gaming/sci-fi/etc before getting pookie you have crossed the line.

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Considering I put everything before getting pookie, I guess that would put me over the line.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2003-10-12 09:59pm

Well, let's see, discounting my trek-fan past (which was very much a 12 year old thing, all the airfix style models etc), I am guilty of:

Star Wars fan - extends to films and eu and posting here
Lord of the Rings - read books/own films/retain knowledge of a large majority of the Silmarillion stuff, but not on the level of some of the more knowledgable types
Star Trek - own all the movies bar Nemesis, which I won't be getting, will happily watch all series bar ENT and anything after VOY series 3, barring the Borg episodes, simply for old times sake

Go for board game nights and play bizarre games which noone has ever heard of.

Dungeons and Dragons - basic kiddy version, although we're starting to pick up the more advanced versions, whilst I originally had my doubts about doing this, noone takes it too seriously and everyone has fun, so I'm all in favour of it.

Have dressed up as wizard - although admittedly, that was a joke, intending to surprise and embarass and remind everyone that I wasnt taking it too seriously. The funniest part was getting out of the car, wrapping a white sheet around me, taping a paper beard to my chin and wearing a ridiculously tall paper wizard style hat, simply for the alarmed looks that the children playing in the street gave me...

Have written own D&D basic adventure based on LOTR - probably the most geekish thing I've done, although the first room revolved around allowing people to bugger sailors, get rat-arsed and generally learn not to trust me, after that, I got rather involved with the actual plot and lost the humour, but at the expense of gaining a pretty cool plot IMO.

Have created entire global domination plan and expanded universe to contain enemies and allies and to list the policies, have posted this on web. I mean, doesnt everyone?

So, if you look at all that, yes, I'm a bit of a geek, but then I also play football, socialise, listen to a wide range of music and generally get on with being a fairly well balanced human being. I hope. Geekdom is in the eyes of the beholder, grasshopper.

*squashes grasshopper, because noone wants to have an insect call them a geek*

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-10-12 10:36pm

Zaia wrote:Unless we tally up my musician geekiness. Then I'm probably off the charts and proud of it, baby.

Hehe.. Ditto on that one.

~ver

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2003-10-12 10:55pm

Kuja wrote:
His Divine Shadow wrote:I post on this message board, I watch sci-fi and I've got many sci-fi books, but thats my limit.
Same here.

ditto, actually I don't even have but a handful of books.(for my sci-fi limit)

My other geekiness tends to go in the direction of outdoor stuff, which is not geeky come to think of it, hunting rules!

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2003-10-13 12:24am

Learning a language that only exists in a work of fiction, or even worse: translating something into said fictional language (Hamlet in Klingon, anyone?)

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-10-13 12:39am

Pretty much posting on this board and a couple others(mostly be3cause I enjoy some writers on comicon's board...their views of the industry are quite intriguing)

And the usual persay reading and watching of sci-fi.

I have only dressed in costume because of Halloween.

Though I win at game tourneys(usually not national level since I have a full time job...though on persay a coastal I did once rank top 20 for SF Hyper)

Also I suppose though if one wants to really egg on...my comic book geekdom is rather high since I've won many pointless objects at comic trivia contest at a variety of comic book conventions.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-10-13 02:49am

Watch a few sci-fi shows, maybe a few books, and come and browse through this board and post occasionally in my free time (which is usually 1-3 pm in the morning, or as I call it "braindeath). Anything more weirds Lisa out.(not that I've actually done anymore than the above mentioned, mind you)

(Maybe myself too...)

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-10-13 04:16am

My limit?

Arguing over (and being able to recall with frightening accuracy... I may not be able to recite episodes line for line but my ability to retain stupidly made up tech specs while I sometimes have a hard time remembering my PIN is just a little freaky) mundane details in Star Trek on an Internet message board. That's it, that's as far as I go. The line must be drawn here, and no further!

Actually, my limit is visiting Star Trek: The Experience while I was in Vegas. Fun, but I think that about hits my limit.

Oh, and I have a couple of bottles of Romulan Ale from Star Trek: Experience. Haven't tried them yet. I've been told it's decent, but it turns your shit green. (Probably all the coloring they put in to make it blue.)

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-10-13 04:46am

And before someone starts dising cosplayers again, I remind you all, I still have my Trenchcoat, floppy hat, and 5 meter scarf....

Too Bad RC K9 died. Oh well

Now if I could just pick up a Leela or a Sarah Jane Smith....

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-10-13 04:48am

I still say we need a Police Box with a trap door, so we really can muck with some minds.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2003-10-13 01:29pm

I think LARP is also my limit. I even have a problem with regular role-playing (just can't force myself to "play" a character, as in, try to imitate one or whatever). Maybe if I was in some sort of play I could overcome that shyness... but none of that would overcome the sheer stupidness of LARP.

*dresses in Hogwarts uniform and waves a magic wand at the imaginary two-headed dog* "Ah, take that evil monster! Sleeparu Interruptus!" *rolls 3d6 while everyone claps*