What makes me geeky? Man.
1) I own a TON of video games.
2) I have beaten about 98% of these games.
3) I have played Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross through enough times to see all the endings.
4) I can tell you the teams, winner, score, MVP, and probably key plays of any Super Bowl without looking anything up.
5) I spent two years designing a role-playing setting which has had all of 16 sessions (but is still going!). I have written, to date, 71,000 words on it.
6) I wrote my senior thesis on "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
7) My ideal Friday night currently is playing World of Warcraft.
8) While in important business meetings at my old job, I wrote the system for the abovementioned role-playing setting. I have notes on magic on a financial report somewhere.
9) EN World is one of my quick links on my work PC.
10) I bought the Planescape box set just to read it. I have NEVER played in a Planescape game. Regrettably. I bought Eberron for the same reason, but am now in a game.
11) Not only do I know who the voice actors in Kingdom Hearts are, but I can tell you a whole lot of what else they've been in (this is more because of my girlfriend).
12) I listen to the Dave Matthews Band mostly for the little tricks they do with the bass line running underneath the melody, and regularly try and pick out each individual instrument.
13) I still own (but it does not fit me anymore) a Legend of Zelda T-shirt that I got by pre-ordering Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64. I have worn this shirt in public. This shirt is partially pink and has a big elf on it.
14) I know all the words to WWE wrestler Chris Jericho's theme song.
15) I have spent entire days -- DAYS -- discussing the themes and stylings of Cowboy Bebop.
16) When I moved out to the Midwest to be with my girlfriend, I came with two of my friends, my old high school gaming group, because "gaming is a part of our lives and really is one of the most important things to us."
But as impressive as these are, I am feeling like the KING of geeks for what I have just finished doing.
I have been playing music during gaming sessions. Not as background music, but as a real soundtrack. NPCs have their own theme music. Each player has a theme for their character. I have themes for cities, for events, for certain conversations. I have an opening theme, a "you are sleeping" theme, no less than 6 regular battle themes (with extra boss themes), and victory theme, among others. I have used music from Hans Zimmer and Yoko Kanno and Nobuo Uematsu and Korn and Dragon Ball Z and Riverdance, to name a fraction of my sources. I made a four-CD set for my players of music from the games up to this point. 65 tracks.
But today, I downloaded a program for .wav file editing and modified a few songs to include elements of other songs, to really show the allegiance of a particular NPC or highlight a new ability. It took me about two hours to really get the hang of it, but the first three tracks are done and I've got about two more before this weekend's session, and then I'm going to pound a few more out as things go.
I have made custom music for a tabletop RPG.
I am such a geek.
-Matt
