[OT] Your Geekiest Moment

[s/LaSH]

From my perspective? Probably when I calculated the breakpoint at which Santa Claus (Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Pere Noel, whatever you choose to call him) would have to break the speed of light to reach every person on Earth. It was somewhere around 60 billion, to memory, but I've forgotten.

(Several other amusing memories swing to the surface, like figuring out how long it would take our planet to move its own radius along its orbit (1 minute almost precisely, I figured) - while I walking down the street with no calculator or even a pen; or when I came up with a patently impossible quark bomb that had a circular explosion, not a spherical explosion. A pity quarks can't exist on their own.)

From someone else's perspective? I had a good moment tonight, when my sister's friend said, "Hey, you're listening to Age of Empires music!" Which was true. "Have you paused the game and alt-tabbed out?" To which I replied something about CD audio data tracks and the different implementation of proprietary soundtracking technology. That's pretty geeky.

Probably the second best one would have to be my homebrew RPG system, Twilight (the child of Nocturne). It's currently at 90 pages, and aaalmost complete and ready for playtesting. I personally think it's THE best system out there, but developing it for 10 years probably distorts my perspective. I should finish reading the Ars Magica rules and laugh quietly to myself, I suppose (as a geek moment, I saw the question in the FAQ about using a ritual to levitate a mountain - and immediately went for the calculator to determine how to do that in Twilight. Because I could.)

The biggest geekiness is probably my scifi universe. When I can recite basic, public history for five hours straight I know I've gone too far... to stop. Mwa. Mwaha. Mwahahahaha!

 

[kengar]

Not my moment, but both my brothers'. Since they "blame" me for the fact they game regularly, I guess I can share it.

They go to see the Two Towers (I'm at work and already saw it opening night the day before, so I am absent). At the part where Sam says to Frodo (referring to Frodo's short temper):

"It's that Ring! You don't eat. You hardly sleep!"

They both turn to each other and whisper "Ring of Sustenance!"

 

[diaglo]

my geekiest moment and most embarrassing.

convincing my wife to "camp out" with me for tickets to the opening of the D&D movie.

i'd waited 20+ years for that moment.

only to be totally disappointed. with the results.

of course, i was expecting Original D&D mechanics and got something completely different.

 

[Robbert Raets]

This one's a classic: http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=13072#post13072

And this: http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=1856#post1856

Realising I just shouted "WOO-HOO!!" after seeing the Two Towers Trailer for the first time.....

Realising I was sitting in a train wagon with only fantasy geeks, most of which had dressed up on my way to a Fantasy Fair....

 

[Tewligan]

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.

Heh, reading that made me chortle merrily to myself. I think I shall have my friends playing the SUG within a week.

 

[Datt]

It's not really my geekiest moment but it is the point at which my wife realized I was truly a geek.

We went to our FLGS to get the Arms and Equipment guide. (So yes this has been within the last week.) I went it to pick it up and saw some kids playing something, I don't even remember what. I passed it off as normal everyday and proceeded to the books. One of the employees there starting talking to me about how good the book was and about how he liked the different things in it. I then spent another 15 minutes conversing about the different splatbooks that had come out and how they effected each class. My poor wife had no idea I was truly a geek. I had tried to warn her but she didn't believe.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

2 moments, one very recent, one from a long time ago.

This past Saturday, I proposed to my fiance using a replica of The One Ring and asked her to be my ring bearer because she is my precious. She is not a gamer, not a fantasy reader, not remotely a geek at all, but she enthusiastically accepted it and is wearing it, at least until we pick out the engagement ring she wants.


Way back when the first Oriental Adventures book came out for 1st edition, I brought it to school (7th grade) to show my friends and to keep reading it at lunch. After my history class I found that I didn't have the book with me, and went on a frantic search through all the classrooms that I had been in that morning. When I entered one classroom, I saw the girl that I had the biggest crush on sitting calmly and looking though my OA book. I turned bright red, walked up to her, and said "Thats my book, can I please have it?". She looked at me, handed over the book and smiled, then said "You really play this? God, you're weirder than I thought." Ouch.

 

[Ruined]

Origins '95. A friend and I watched a group of Larpers gather nearby and start howling in unison. We laughed with disdain...

Then we returned to our game of Magic, tweaking our decks.

What makes this so bad is that two years later, a few friends and I were complete Larp junkies, running our own game. And we laughed with disdain at the Magic players...

 

[Marius Delphus]

Personally, I find my most recent geek moment (whatever it is at the time) to always be the geekiest.

Today's geek moment: looking at the (photos of the) WOTC PowerPoint presentation at Gamingreport.com and thinking to myself, "Wow, you mean they don't have anyone who can build a nicer looking PowerPoint presentation than that?" (No offense intended of course... it's only that PowerPoint is part of what I do for a living, and I'm picky....)

 

[Jeph]

Heh, reading that made me chortle merrily to myself. I think I shall have my friends playing the SUG within a week.

For me? Using words like chortle, frood, and frumious on a regular basis. Lwis Caroll and Douglas Adams should have invented English. Then it would be soo much cooler . . .