What's your limit?

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-10-12 12:57pm

Fact: If you're here, you're most likely a geek. I am. You are. We all are. This website is geek heaven.

That said, there are different levels of geek. After all, just because you like Star Wars doesn't mean you can't laugh at the Wookie-suited losers lined up outside the theater.

Furthermore, even the guys in the Wookie suits would pull their masks off long enough to scream "FUCKING GEEKS!" at AJT and his Harry Potter LARP.

So, my fellow geeks, what's your personal limit? What things are just too geeky for you?

Off the top of my head, personally: Trek conventions and post-adolescent males who think Sailor Moon has some redeeming quality.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-12 01:10pm

watching some sci fi and posting on message boards... i never go any further than that.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-10-12 01:58pm

I'd have to say learning a fictional language is my threshold of geek, if only because I don't have enough spare time for it.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-10-12 01:59pm

I laugh at these people:

http://www.exploitationnow.com/d/20011022.html

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2003-10-12 02:00pm

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*

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-10-12 02:01pm

You will never catch me dressed up in any sort of sci-fi/fantasy related costume of any kind, whatsoever- especially not in public at a film premiere.

But then, I'm geeky in other ways. E.g. if I were ever to go to a fancy dress party, I'd go as a Red Army officer (1980s). That would rule.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-12 02:02pm

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*

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2003-10-12 02:03pm

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-10-12 02:08pm

Hmmm, a series has to have a large amount of coolness for me to nerd over it, like Red Dwarf or Blade.

That said, they never made me want to learn the entire scripts or anything, that's geeky, dressign up as characters i find a bit geeky, as is wearing football shirts, by the same token. Knowing the storylines of sci fi is not geeky, it shows you've been paying attention.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-10-12 02:09pm

My limit would be dressing up. I talk about Sci-Fi here and in RL with people who are interested, i watch SW and ST and bacically any eatchable Sci-Fi, but thats as far as i go. I am interested in LARP but only because the group i'd join is 1/4 female and they are apparently quite easy.

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2003-10-12 02:09pm

the thing im most geeky about the matrix... i've watched reloaded four tiems since i bought it on saturday

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-10-12 02:09pm

Going to message boards, watching the movies/shows, talking about it and reading. Thats about as far as I go. I don't dress up as my favorite characters, or attend conventions.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2003-10-12 02:10pm

I have dressed up for the cinema, actually... The Rocky Horror Picture Show

My limit is below dissecting the physical properties and powers of various technical elements that weren't written to withstand such dissection...

..and contructing imaginary fights between chaarcters from entirely separate universe.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2003-10-12 02:11pm

YT300000 wrote:Going to message boards, watching the movies/shows, talking about it and reading. Thats about as far as I go. I don't dress up as my favorite characters, or attend conventions.

IIRC you once said you could read marain, or whatever the sw language is. I've not done that with Blade vampire-language.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-10-12 02:11pm

I watch shows and movies and discuss them. Nothing more.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-10-12 02:14pm

Rye wrote:
YT300000 wrote:Going to message boards, watching the movies/shows, talking about it and reading. Thats about as far as I go. I don't dress up as my favorite characters, or attend conventions.
IIRC you once said you could read marain, or whatever the sw language is. I've not done that with Blade vampire-language.

Aruek-Besh. I mentioned it-reading

. Oh *slaps forehead* I'm working on a SWvsThe Matrix website, that should count too.

Demiurge · Post by **Demiurge** » 2003-10-12 02:40pm

InnerBrat wrote:I have dressed up for the cinema, actually... The Rocky Horror Picture Show

My limit is below dissecting the physical properties and powers of various technical elements that weren't written to withstand such dissection...

..and contructing imaginary fights between chaarcters from entirely separate universe.

Well that's... different.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-10-12 03:15pm

I post on this message board, I watch sci-fi and I've got many sci-fi books, but thats my limit.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-10-12 03:18pm

I spend often exorbitant amounts of money on anime, manga, video games, EU books, and other DVDs. That's about it.

And I think I'll buy the Kill Bill soundtrack today.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-10-12 03:26pm

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.

Pretty much the same for me. One of my mates at Uni dragged me alone to a role playing group once, when they mention dressing up as characters and acting it out I couldn't leave fast enough.

Laird · Post by **Laird** » 2003-10-12 03:32pm

Zac Naloen wrote:watching some sci fi and posting on message boards... i never go any further than that.

ditto,occasionally buy the odd scifi ship model.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2003-10-12 03:32pm

Post on the boards, watch the movies/read the books, and discuss them back on the messge board (there's some particulary spirited debate in the PSW, AWAY!).

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-10-12 03:38pm

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

Embracer Of Darkness · Post by **Embracer Of Darkness** » 2003-10-12 03:40pm

I watch sci-fi, I read sci-fi when I have the time. I really doubt I'll ever attend a convention and I will never dress up like a Wookie or anything. No LARP here either.

My true geek-ness is in computers. I'm the kind of guy who will skip a day of college just because my network is down, I also tend to format at least once a fortnight recently just because things become disorganised.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-10-12 03:40pm

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.