C'mon MFP!!!SHow your inner NERD !?!?!?!?

See my username LOL

I was pretty epic on World of Warcraft.... almost 9000 achievement points

Also

Epic... I'm playing SWTOR right now!

Awesome!! Yeah I have a limited edition light saber too but IDK where it is at the moment lol

Very late to this thread but . . . it started with those awesome "choose your own adventure" fantasy books where you would have to choose between two possible paths and go to the corresponding page. When all my friends were reading Sweet Valley High I was into Piers Anthony, the Star Trek books and anything Tolkein.
I have gone on to indoctrinate my children to the point where my oldest daughter actively chooses to watch the original Star Wars trilogy in her down time and was very frustrated that I would not cut her hair to look like Luke Skywalker for Halloween. She ended up choosing Wonder Woman anyway

Remember when being a nerd was a bad thing? I dont watch a lot of TV and movies, but my screen name is an homage to my love of fruit flies.

Nice to see some real nerds.

And imma gonna cause some controversy here but watching some TV shows, reading a few books, and collecting things a nerd does not make probably closer to dork, but a true nerd can derive or tell you the periodic table from A-Z just saying but if you carry the nerd card youve earned it via a few wedgies or egging.

You know what, fruit fly guy, I think I have to agree with you. I don't think there are too many true nerds on here, just people with some mildly-geeky tendencies. And that includes myself. I was going to post a thread called "nerdier than thou" for this very reason. I wanted to come off nerdier, because I see everyone loving The Avengers and Thor and Iron Man and all of these marvel comic MOVIES (and, in some cases, actual comics) and I don't think that too nerdy. I teach high school and every kid loves these movies and wears clothes, possesses binders, doodles in their notes, images from these movies. They actually couldn't be more in vogue right now, which is not very nerdy.

But, I took a close look at myself, and came to the same conclusions. I've got some geeky lit / video game / movie / music tendencies, but I am far from true nerd. Cheers to you, person who knows the latin words for fruit fly and periodic table derivations!

IMO, there's different types of nerds. Comic Nerds. Movie Nerds. Science Nerds. Geology Nerds. Space Nerds.

True, I just don't think people who watch super high-grossing films about comic books really qualifies as a nerd. And if you started reading the comics after the movies came out, I'd doubt your level of dedication to being a comic nerd. I just think there should be boundaries here! Jk, I know I'm overthinking this.

In the world of nerddom, I'd say I'm a level 37 palladin of literature, film, music and trivia. There.

I didn't get into comics until after the movies and I'm sure there are others like me. It's hard to know where to start, where to go and so on when comics have been around years. But I have a pull list now, I expanded outside of the movie characters, I support various comic related kickstarters. Just the other day I spent $50 at my local comic shop. Plus being a woman, it feels a little harder to get accepted. I was very nervous about going into a shop for the first time but Matt Fraction told me via twitter to basically screw the haters and I did.

I play videogames everyday.

True, I just don't think people who watch super high-grossing films about comic books really qualifies as a nerd. And if you started reading the comics after the movies came out, I'd doubt your level of dedication to being a comic nerd. I just think there should be boundaries here! Jk, I know I'm overthinking this.

In the world of nerddom, I'd say I'm a level 37 palladin of literature, film, music and trivia. There.

I didn't get into comics until after the movies and I'm sure there are others like me. It's hard to know where to start, where to go and so on when comics have been around years. But I have a pull list now, I expanded outside of the movie characters, I support various comic related kickstarters. Just the other day I spent $50 at my local comic shop. Plus being a woman, it feels a little harder to get accepted. I was very nervous about going into a shop for the first time but Matt Fraction told me via twitter to basically screw the haters and I did.

If you want some comic street cred, while still checking out some awesome titles, I'd read all 10 issues of Preacher (when time and money allows), Watchmen (way better than the movie), V for Vendetta (ditto) and any of Frank Miller's Sin City stuff. Just my personal opinion. Neil Gaiman's Sandman is also awesome, especially if you're into art. I can't remember his name, but the guy who used to draw all of the final fantasy concept art did a whole Sandman issue.

Anyway, sorry for coming off as a hater. You're all nerd in my book.

I collect Star Wars books... I have a lightsaber at my desk at work. I play D&D Online. I am a geek!

We actually own a Dr. Who Tardis mug and cookie jar, a miniature motorized desktop Dalek and the newest arrival -- a sonic screwdriver universal remote control. Sure -- it's my husband that orders all this fluff but I am the one that programmed the screwdriver cause he couldn't figure out the instructions. It's kind of fun actually. We have also watched and enjoyed all incarnations of Star Trek and have some of that memorabilia around here too. I'm sure there's more but that's what comes to mind. Does Grimm count as geeky....we love that show too and the upcoming episode is definitely designed for geeks with the gamer aspect. Oh and I underwent Jedi training at Cub Scout summer camp when my son was in 3rd grade. Lots of fun!