Looking for geek friends. :)

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  • Happymelz
    Happymelz Posts: 536 Member
    But as soon as American stores started carrying who shirts,sonics, and daleks I hear whovian all the time now. Funny how I went 10 doctors never hearing whovian before. Is this a new word or just as old as trekie only new in Texas?

    lol...I actually don't know! It is new to me...but I've only been watching Doctor Who since 2010. I personally think its a lame word.
  • thepiratemd
    thepiratemd Posts: 65
    I'm just gonna add as many people in this thread as possible :)
  • gsop22
    gsop22 Posts: 84 Member
    Geek checking in.

    Love this thread! Here are some of my interests and there are too many to name. I am an engineer also and some of this probably inspired me to go that route.

    I am a huge movie/TV fan in general, really anything. Love, Star Wars, X-Files, Star Trek(always second to Star Wars though), LotR, Game of Thrones, Firefly, Walking Dead, etc… too many to name but if it is sci fi I probably have seen it or it is on my list.
    I had an apple IIC when I was a kid, played on my Atari, NES, Xbox, and PC. Don’t really have any time to play that many games now. I played WOW a few years ago but didn’t have that kind of time. A few of my favorites include Neuromacer, original Might and Magic, Bards Tale, Civilizations, Starcraft, Borderlands, Fallout, etc. Currently playing FTL.

    I use to collect comics when I was young. Still read some manga and watch anime if I have time. But that is getting to be less and less. Some of my favorite anime started with Akira and progressed around to Ghost in a Shell, Robotech(one of my favorites), Full Metal Alchemist, etc.

    I also read a lot. Here are some of the book I have read but really took many to list so I will have a few of my favorites. Song of Fire and Ice all five books, LotR, World War Z(movie was horrible), Enders Game, Foundation Series, Neuromancer, Chronicles of Thomas Covenant and many more.

    Add me to your MFP list if you want. Always nice to have geek friends.

    Also, my dog is name Chewbacca, and I have a cat called Frodo.
  • ElusivePete
    ElusivePete Posts: 50 Member
    Howdy, fellow geeks! :) I'm a newbie here, and this thread seemed like a good place to pop-by.

    I'm a total computer geek, working as a Software Engineer by day, and writing up my PhD thesis by night/weekend. I'm really into the usual sci-fi/fantasy stuff, and am a moderately hardcore gamer too (computer and board varieties).

    I'm something of a Karate nerd as well. Have been training in Shukokai Karate for a couple of years, and have done a few other martial arts in the past. It's not easy when you weigh as much as I do, but that's part of the motivation to lose weight!
  • Miss_Maree
    Miss_Maree Posts: 33
    Convention geek here.

    I've been to just about every kind of subcultural, popcultural, nerd-tastic convention under the sun and have traveled all over the USA for them. (Guess you can call me a geek seeker!)

    Not gonna list all my "geek cred" here, but I love me some videogames, Japanese music, and 90s cartoons.

    Friend me if you wish!

    ~ Maree
  • beckerkra
    beckerkra Posts: 80 Member
    man i used to be a massive computer games geek (still am, sad i know), especially the real time strategy games like Civilisations and Age of Empires. it all started with Dune on the old Windows 95, then onto Command & Conquer, then Age of Empires then Civilisations. With a good old helping of Championship Manager (Soccer Management game). i still play computer games now, just not as much, i like MLB Road to the Show atm on the PS3, i think its the most challenging sports sim out there.

    I actually just bought the Age of Empires 2 HD rerelease on the last Steam sale. Miss the good ole days of RTSs for sure!
  • dlpau
    dlpau Posts: 25 Member
    Wow so many nerdy/geeky people on this site.

    I'll just go with the general things of liking video games/sci-fi/anime/computers and other generic responses.

    Last geek type thing I done was go to my first convention(pax au) down in Melbourne last weekend.
  • bunbunzee44
    bunbunzee44 Posts: 592 Member
    Feel free to add me too people :P I love Star Trek, Star gate, BSG, Farscape etc, but I also love anime and do cosplays :) I've been a gamer since I was a little girl and got my original nintendo :P My idea of a good time is still hanging out with a friend playing video games (: *forever a kid*
  • scruffykaz
    scruffykaz Posts: 317 Member
    I'm a geek! I love to play computer games. Currently playing "The Last of Us" but I also play Dark Siders, Guild Wars 2, Command and Conquer etc

    I love roleplay games, especially Cthulhu :-)

    Other geekery include Game of Thornes, Star Trek (especially Deep Space 9), Stargate, Defiance etc

    Just putting together my first cosplay for London Film and Comic Con in October! Feel free to add me :-D
  • EasilyLed
    EasilyLed Posts: 23

    I love Pratchett novels more than life itself, I live by them word for word, Tom Holt, Douglas Adams and other than that I read a lot of historical non-fiction, I also love the harry Potter books.

    I love all those too! I find Pratchett novels to be such a release from the real world I re-read them obsessively. As I get older and read more classic literature I realist more jokes and puns TP has referenced. It never gets old.

    In other news has anyone heard of Robert Asprin? I found a handful of his books by accident (both Myth Adventures and Phules company) in the UK and LOVED them, but I don't know anyone else who has ever heard of him!
  • flupps_
    flupps_ Posts: 17 Member
    Ok, guess it's time to come out of lurking mode, feel free to add- can always use more friends on here.

    Varied forms of geekery, goes in waves between different areas, very much "Oh shiny!"-syndrome.
    The stuff that lasts is Gaming, TV Series/Movies, Photography, Coffee geekery. For the others I'll get really intensive periods and then slow periods and then return a year later and catch up or similar.

    As for TV series, I'm into most Scifi (Firefly, Galactica, etc), some Dramas (The Wire was awesome, Rome, Game of Thrones, etc) and a few comedies (Archer, Arrested Development, Black Adder).

    Steven Erikson is probably my favorite fantasy writer, closely followed by Tolkien and Pratchett.

    I started playing games around when they still were text-based, and during high school me and a friend knew a guy working at the local video rental place that let us rent NES/SNES games for basically free. So we went through their whole selection in one semester in alphabetical order.
    Games that make me nostalgic would be Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, Secret of Mana, Actraiser, X-com, Civilization-series, X-wing/Tie Fighter, All Lucasarts point-n-click adventure games, Fallout 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Rez, Windjammers, Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 2, Eternal Darkness, etc, etc, etc...
    Recent games I enjoyed (as in the last 2-3 years or so) was Demon's/Dark Souls, Journey, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Metal Gear Solid 4, Burnout Paradise, Ni No Kuni...
    Right now I'm playing through Okami, and after that I have "Last of Us" waiting.

    I don't watch as much Anime as I used to, but "Now and then, Here and There", Noir, Serial Experiments Lain, Berserk, Escaflowne are the ones I remember fondly.

    I dabble a little in things like Board gaming, horror, steampunk, music, comics as well, but not to the same extent.
  • ElikaCousland
    ElikaCousland Posts: 62 Member
    Meh. I miss the old days when we weren't so trendy. That's just me.

    I absolutely love that it's trendy. When things gets popular, more money gets poured into productions, quality and quantity increases, leaving me to vast in all it's magical glory.
    ^THIS. I will gladly accept hipster girls in thick rimmed glasses posing with NES controllers on Instagram, as long as they keep throwing cash at stuff I love. I hope it stays trendy forever.

    Video game geek here. Mostly RPG's, but I'll play anything as long as it's good. I'm sort of obsessed with Dragon Age...I played through DA:O probably 10 times on Xbox, THEN bought the PC version just to play with mods lol. I've written a couple fanfics for the DA kmeme/ff.net...annnnd when I get closer to goal weight, I am absolutely doing some cosplay. I'd make a pretty believable Leliana, I think.

    Not going to throw out a comprehensive list of everything I'm into, but a lot of it is the usual suspects - Game of Thrones, Firefly, Marvel superheroes, dystopian novels, Star Wars, zombies, blahblah etc. ADD ME! I need more awesome friends. =]
  • SylentZee
    SylentZee Posts: 262
    Mega geek here. I have me BA in Game Development and work in the industry. Oh and obviously, I'm a big gamer lol.
  • nozillanooc
    nozillanooc Posts: 1
    I would like consider myself a geek or at least have geekish tendencies. I love table top games and various sci-fi television. I also live in frat/sorority central so it is difficult to meet like minded people.
  • thatgeekgirl
    thatgeekgirl Posts: 5
    YAAAY

    EVERYONE FRIEND ME AHHH

    I am a whovian, mtg player, pathfinder, lady spartan (halo), assassin's creed-er, Game of Thrones fan, Marvel lover, and Hyrulian.
    EDIT: How did I forget about my Skyrim adventuring ahh!

    Basically. As geeky as it gets. And I am proud about it.

    Kiss me. Kiss me now. All of you. Finally. I have found you people. Let's become betrothed. All of us.
    :'D
  • freewilldanny
    freewilldanny Posts: 1
    Add me on League of Legends! :D

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