Rate your geekness

[GlassJaw]

Gaming is a a fairly large portion of my daily existence but I'm also into sports, I run, play multiple instruments, extremely neat and organized, fincially secure, and have a very good job. Once the dice start rolling through, I'm full-on gamer geek.

I'd probably give myself a 1.

 

[MonsterMash]

My Gamer Geekness goes to eleven!!

not bad on a scale of 1-4!
I rated myself as a 1 - really not too much like the stereotype.

 

[Tonguez]

I'm married to a great looking gal who teases me about the roleplaying (She always asks if I will be dressing like Boba Fett),

um I don't think Quasqueton was refering to that kind of fantasy roleplaying

I don't watch the Sci Fi Channel.

now your geek cred has really plummeted

 

[Zzyzx]

My brother says I am a "special ops" geek because I work in a military office and to all outward appearances look to be a WASPy suburbanite.

But I can quote rules with the best of them, spend way too much time here, and am a card-carrying SCA member (and practice poking people with rapiers on a weekly basis.)

 

[Arc]

I'd call myself a 0. I'm as geeky as anyone else, but damn if I don't keep it hidden. I dress very well (as well as I can afford, really), date more girls than I have money for, party more than I play, and while I do have a bit of stubble going (shaving is annoying), I'm so far from fat that I'm occasionally scared.

I also play at least one MMO at any given time, have a weekly IRC DnD game, and have the core ruleset tucked in next to my textbooks. I don't announce my inner geek to the world, but I do accept it.

 

[warlord]

I don't know but all I can say is my own mother desrcibed me as a "Nerd Herd".

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I'm a 2 -- a high-functioning geek. I'm a computer geek, a law, geek, a D&D geek, and a sci-fi geek, but I can't stand stuff like Star Trek, anime, and MMORPGs. Looking at me, you could maybe guess at my geekdom, but you could just as easily assume I'm a bouncer.

 

[Old Fart]

Well, let's see-

sloppy - I'm actually often accused of being a neat freak, both in appearance and environment.
unwashed - absolutely not
obsessive - Well, I don't know if I'd call 30+ hours/week on geeky hobbies excessive. OK, yes, big time.
skinny/fat guy - Yep. I often joke that I'm as large as Jabba the Hut (notice how I even describe my geekiness in geek terms)
poor social skills - actually, my social skills are far better than most "non-geeks"
male - yes
under 30 - not for entirely too many years.
bearded - Yes. Long hair, too.
wears lots of black t-shirts - I don't think I own a t-shirt that isn't black. The vast majority of them have fantasy motifs, too.
plays Evercrack obsessively - Not Evercrack, but other CRPGs. So it counts.
lives in his parents' basement - Nope. Own my own house. There's actually a good chance that one of my parents or in-laws might need to move in with me.
doesn't have a job - Professional career type. So no.
never had a girlfriend - Married for over 14 years. Even have a teenage son. However, I am teaching him to paint miniatures, which puts this item on the the geek list for creating "Gamer: The Next Generation."
enjoys geeky hobbies apart form gaming - every sci-fi show from Star Trek to Farscape, science fiction, conventions, costuming, computers - actually, I can't really think of a "geeky" hobby I haven't been into at one time or another.

Overall, I'm not just a geek - I might just be the geek.

 

[haiiro]

Quasqueton, do you have a blog? If not, you need to start one -- your posts are always compelling and thought-provoking, even when they address fairly basic issues.

I'm serious, too.

 

[cincinnati reds]

It's amusing, to me, to see the number of people who rate themselves low on this "geek scale" and go on to say, in the same statement, that they "hide" the fact that they game, or their more ... esoteric (?) hobbies from the rest of society.

You know, if all of you zeroes and ones and such weren't ashamed of your hobbies, you might find yourself changing the general stereotype.

Oh yeah, and I'm a zero myself, if not a negative-one. And when asked why I'm not coming out to the pub/going to the ballgame/won't go to the show when invited on a Sunday, I always say, without shame, that I run a D&D game on Sundays.

Those few people who think that's "strange" or "geeky" or that I'm some sort of creep because of my hobbies... well, they don't get to be my friend/companion/girl anymore. And that's their loss.

I don't have time for people who don't accept me for who I am. And I don't hide.