[OT] Your Geekiest Moment

[mistergone]

Oh, there has been so many... so very very many...

1) The large part of the 90's where everyone I knew called me "Lazarus". My name is not Lazarus.

2) The time I was standing in line with an armful of Episode 1 action figures and some teenagers on their way to the video game section paused to snicker at me.

3) Playing, and making up most of the rules for, "The Secret Ultimate Game" where actions involved things such as "Hey, go over to that chick and ask her if your shoes make your feet look too big for 2000 points and progression to the next level." or, "Ah, one bean burrito, one taco, one drink. 10,000 points for most efficient lunch!" and etc. ad naseum. Usually played while wandering the local malls aimlessly back in my early wasterel 20's.

4) My mom buying me Mutants & Masterminds for Christmas. I'm 31.

5) The first time I LARPed, standing in an outdoor mall with a foam stake, and thinking I was clever when I wadded up the stake into a ball so I could open my hand and "surprise!" instant stake, bloodsucker!

6) Wearing a costume into a comic store just to get a discount.

7) Watching people play Magic in the quad at college, and not wandering away disinterested.

Oh yeah. There's way too many moments, I could make a top 100 list all by myself. I also have the same thing with paper products that others have mentioned. I was drawing out dungeons before I even played the game. I'm always looking for the "ultimate notebook" like the one my friend brought back from Spain that has pages that were partially ruled and partially graphed. I can spend far too long in Office Depot. I should probably get a job there.

 

[Crothian]

Another moment of geekdom. I was dragged to a candlke party by a friend when she sisn't want to go alone. It was in the basement of a really cool house so I started telling people how this place could be turned into a really cool gaming place.

Edit: Not mine geek moment, but a friends. He convinced his wife to allow him to have the One Ring as his wedding ring.

 

[DonAdam]

While watching the Empire Strikes Back, after Yoda says, "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter," proudly exclaiming: "Yoda's a Cartesian!"

 

[Moe Ronalds]

When I realized that at work, I'm the guy people come to with Lord of the Rings questions.

This reminded me of another geeky moment, very similar. Except instead of people asking for lord of the rings answers, people ask me for writing utensils. I usually carry 20-30 or so wrapped together with a hairband with pencils and pens in seperate bundles. In my shirt pocket.

 

[Skade]

I was driving through an area of town I hadn't been to before. I noticed a street sign that read "Agin CT". I thought it was cute, humorous, and inventive.

Hey if its any consolation, I'm an American, and I got it. Now, do the French try to forget?

My geekiest moment was realizing that my gaming materials outweigh overy other posession. Literally. I moved and my gaming books, miniatures, tables, and PC (I count that) weigh more than everything else I own combined.

 

[argo]

I went with a couple of friends to the 12:05 am showing of Attack of the Clones the day it opened but that isn't the geeky moment. The geeky moment was in the factory scene where Anakin is on the conveyor belt in front of the big smashing press and he is doing the jump-back-jump-foward motion trying to get the timming right: it is then that my friend and I both turn to each other at the same time and say

"I've played this video game!"

(c'mon you know you were thinking it too )

 

[Skade]

Another one of mine was the Two Towers opening night. I went to the midnight showing here, and then drove to Houston to see it with a lady friend that morning at 11, which is a 4 hour drive (5 that day with traffic), so I saw it twice within 12 hours, and drove half of Texas to do it.

Edit: Argo, love the sig.

 

[Darrin Drader]

It has to be the time I saw a set of dice in a store - you know, the usual assortment of gamer's dice - and then not buying them. A week later I was obsessing about having these dice to the point where I actually went out of my way to buy a set. And then it gets worse. The set was gone, so I bought the loose ones (costing me twice as much as I would have paid if I would have just bought the set when I first saw it), and then finding all but the 4-sided one. My quest to have the complete set came a week later when I found the 4-sided dice from that set at another store, several miles away, which I had gone to for the sole purpose of completing the set.

The sad part of all this - it happened about 2 weeks ago.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Still, my geekiest moment has to be the first time I can remember ever breaking the law. I was 8 or 9 years old, and I had just gotten the old green-and-white character sheets for 2nd edition...but blast it, the lines to write the info were so darn small. So...the next time I was in k-mart....I shoplifted a mechanical pencil. For the sole purpose of creating characters for a game I hadn't even played yet.

Heh heh. When I was like 6 or so, I nicked an awesome GoBot from this kid in my afterschool day care. Thus I was well on the road to misanthropic geekdom.

I guess the last time I really felt geeky was when Epic Level Handbook came out. I was temping at this county office, and I'd made a lot of friends in my department. They just thought I was this really hip dude who knew a lot about movies and music. I was actually starting to feel pretty cool, if I may say. Then ELH day hit and I was calling my FLGS every hour to see if it was in. It probably sounded to my officemates like I was trying to score drugs. That's when I realized I was going to have to have "The Talk" with these poor people whose only crime was in thinking I had a shred of coolness.

 

[DM with a vengence]

1) Wearing my Orc and Pie T-shirt, watching The Gamers VHS, on a 64 inch TV, and fiddling with my Steal Battalion controller before going over to one of the computer in the same room to read the ENboards.

2) Making a character for the upcoming Game of Death, and wandering around giggling over my complete badassitude. Then going up to random people and telling them about how anybody who faces me will have no chance to survive, and should make their time.