Nerds Unite!

We could bring back Firefly...this post is growing rapidly. I loved that show. Stargate SG1 is my favorite show ever. I own all the seasons and still watch them occasionally. I was watching Revolution, but it just got cancelled, just like Stargate Universe, Legend of the Seeker, and basically every show that I loved to watch. =(
At least Once Upon a Time is still going strong.

Any Naruto fans? I love that show too. Anyone play Hearthstone? Not quite like MtG, but it reminds me of the game a lot.

I'm almost through Dollhouse... another Joss Whedon show that was canceled very quickly. It's almost hard to keep watching, knowing that it won't be resolved.

It reminds me of when I watched BSG, knowing that it turned to crap and people rarely finished it the entire series. I need to start watching things as they come out, and not years later.

This is why I haven't started Dollhouse or Firefly. I'll be sad because they are over after a short run.

Hello!
My names Brittany but a lot of my friends call me Venom from several games I play/played. Im trying to lose weight (obviously) to just feel better about myself and to look better! I enjoy MMORPG's mainly PC, but I also love my xbox! Big anime fan, one of my favs is probably Evangelion </thumbsup> . I also enjoy playing volleyball and hanging out with my friends. I love to cosplay! the last convention I attended as Android 18 ;P Well that's pretty much all I can think of at the moment, any more questions you can surely ask me ^.^

Agreed... but aren't you still a little curious to know who Shepard Book was? There's actually a Firefly comic I haven't read yet that is supposed to give the back story. It's the last piece of Firefly I haven't seen yet. I don't know if I am ready to read it and close things out completely yet... I'm still in mourning.

I was most disappointed by the lack of explanation surrounding the Hands of Blue, but now that you mention it, yes, there was a lot of... unfinished business with Shepard Book. Having consumed nothing beyond the series and movie, I predict he has some origin story similar to Han Solo, except he becomes a Shepard instead of a smuggler.

I also wish there had been more time to delve into River's psyche. Oh, well. Now Joss is off doing mainstream superhero movies.

We named our child Auron and walked down the isle to Final Fantasy music. Does this class me as a nerd?

Emily, 21, and don't really have a specific big goal. I'm just losing in 5-10 pound intervals until I'm happy with how I look and feel! Not new to MFP though! But could always use some more friends.
I'm a pretty big nerd. I used to go to anime conventions and cosplay (still do a bit of cosplay with friends now and again, I just can't afford to go to cons). I enjoy comics a lot, though I don't get to read them very often any more because of school, but I still read them now and again. Saga, Homestuck, and Strong Theory are the big ones for me right now (I make time for those).
Also a big bookworm, same deal as comics though, I don't have as much time to read. Young adult novels and classic novels are what I like best. And Shakespeare.
Also I'm a big art nerd.

TV Shows I like include: Supernatural, Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Merlin, Once Upon a Time, Orange is the New Black, etc.
Video games I love include: Assassin's Creed, Last of Us, and Sims. Sims single handedly ruins my entire day. Not such thing as playing Sims for an hour.

To sum: College is awesome but it stole away all the money and time I spent on being a geek.

I got through about half of this thread and decided I had to post. I'll read more later.

I'm a big geek. I am speaking this year at GenCon (best four days of gaming!) in Indianapolis this August. I love all kinds of gaming -- mostly Euro board games like Carcassone and Catan. I also played WoW for years but quit when my daughter was born. I love all things Star Trek, Firefly, Twilight Zone.. you name it. I also worked as a reader's guide in the Young Adult department of a public library so I read a heck of a lot of scifi and fantasy for teens and adults.

Add me! I love geeks!

Hi,

I recently joined this site. I've been using it to help track my goals, but when I came across this thread I felt compelled to introduce myself. I'm a gamer, mostly MMOs. Unsurprisingly, I gained most of my weight while working for a gaming company in Austin; I worked the graveyard shift, behind a computer all night, and ate nothing but Jack In The Box (opened 24hrs!). I enjoy comics, and cos-play (especially steampunk style) but have been too embarrassed to dress up due to being a fatty. Also, Whedonverse and Supernatural all the way!

For a few years I've been wishing I could lose these extra pounds (its amazing how they creep up on you when you're distracted by life in general). This past year was especially hard on me health-wise. My blood-pressure skyrocketed, I suffered from migraines, and overall just wasn't a happy person. But "wishing" the weight away only does so much.

One night I was laying in bed (feeling cruddy as usual) and instead of Youtube-ing PVP strategies for World of Warcraft, I looked up "weight-loss, before and afters". The next morning I made the decision to get fit. At 5'2" I shouldn't be 213 pounds.

That was a month ago. I have about 70 lbs to go (already down 12!). Seeing how others progressed with their weight-loss is really an inspiration to me. I hope y'all continue to post on these forums.

C'mon everyone come join the group!
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/21869-nerds-unite

Huge Green Lantern fan growing up. Followed Kyle Rayner from the start of emerald twilight up until the rebirth series in 2005.
Even named my daughter JAde after the first Green Lanterns Daughter.
Collected comic books up until i was 22 now my kids read them all.

Loved anime my whole life, watch alot of it with my kids. read alot of manga.
Sill play video games.

Hey!

First time poster here. My name is Candace and I'm a nerd.

I absolutely LOVE Marvel comics. My favorite is Spider-man (Amazing, Spectacular, 2099, Friendly Neighborhood, the ultimate spider-man with Miles Morales, the only one I disliked was Superior, sooo glad that's over with). I also really enjoy Daredevil, Deadpool, Hawkeye, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Savage Wolverine, Moon Knight, Scarlet Spider. I'm waiting for the trades to get into the new MS Marvel, the new Daredevil, Punisher, Loki Agent of Asgard, the new Moon knight. I'm sure I'm missing a few titles. I also want to start reading Deadpool, the few I've read so far has been awesome. DC can mostly suck it, although I do follow some stuff from the new 52 (Aquaman and Catwoman).
Outside of the big two I really enjoy Fables, East of West, Walking Dead, Cowboy Ninja Viking, Fuse, Rising Stars, Thief of Thieves, Saga, X, Pretty Deadly, Hinterkind One of my favorites was something that ran in Dragon magazine back in the day, Zogonia. There's only the one collected edition but it was sooo good! Trees just came out and seems pretty good so far. There's a couple other that I just started and they seem pretty cool too.

As you can see there's comics but I do have other nerdy interests such as Game of Thrones (I read the books before it became a show, I do watch the show too), Walking Dead, Grimm, Once Upon a Time, Marvel's Agents of Shield, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Stargate SGI, Stargate Atlantis to name a few. I have started to go to the gym every second day which leaves less time for watching tv. Even though I read tons of comics I still find myself able to really enjoy the new Marvel movies that have been released. I'm really looking forward to the Guardians of the Galaxy movie in August (I am a little worried about how Groot will be played but I was assured at commiccon last month by Nick Bradshaw that I won't be dissapointed so I've got my fingers crossed!)

I'm also a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder. I've tried playing World of Darkness in the past but that always fell through. Currently I'm in two campaigns, one for D&D Next and the other is a Pathfinder game. I'm considering running my own game but I'm waiting for the rule books to be published for the new version of D&D. Even then I might not have the time to organize it all.

Apps make tracking so much easier!

I use Stronglifts 5x5 app for Android to keep track of my Stronglifts progress. Nowadays, I just go to the gym, look at the app how much weight I should lift and just do it. It adds 5lbs to what I should lift every exercise and it does the deloading for me when I've hit a plateau for 3x in a row. It even tells me to start my next set after 90s/180s.

I'm deciding if I should add running into my regiment. Maybe I'll give the app that you use a try.

Edit:
Also, Don't Starve and Elder Scrolls fan here!
I speak English, Filipino and Norwegian. I'm learning Japanese too (albeit casually).

Hey all, this would be my first post (considering I joined today) and I have to say this thread really appealed to me! I'd definitely consider myself nerdy. Even my workout method is a tad nerdy.

I use an app (one of those couch to 5K sorta things) called Zombies, Run! and Zombies, Run! 5K Training. I'm in my second week of the 5K Training and I have to say I love it so far! Basically, it's an IRL RPG and an audiobook and DayZ all had a wonderful manchild together. You listen to a story of this zombie apocalypse as you run, and you collect items and build up a base. It's a very gentle introduction for people who are used to just sitting on their butts all day, and I'd love to know if anyone else has tried it!

Besides, Zombies, I enjoy anime, manga, gaming, linguistics, tabletops, and writing. I watch almost any sort of anime. Some favorites would include Higurashi, Elfen Lied, Yu Yu Hakusho, and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya. I mostly read slice-of-life manga, and some favorites would include: Kuragehime (the anime was great too), 1/2 Prince (I believe that's the title anyway), and Fruitbasket. I'm VERY big into gaming. Mostly RPGs, Surival, and Indie games. Some favorite games would include The Fallout Series, The Fable Series, The Elder Scrolls series, Don't Starve, Starbound, Terraria, and plenty more! Linguistics-wise, I speak English and a very little Spanish, but I'm learning German and Japanese fairly soon. I find languages and accents and voices and cultures all utterly fascinating. And for tabletops, I LOVE DnD nd quite a few other tabletop RPGs. I've recently started playing Neverwinter just for a little more DnD in my life. :P

Feel free to add me if you'd like to talk! I don't bite, promise.

- Megan

Huge GoT fan here and hoping to as other fans as friends before tonight's episode.

Other things I love include Marvel, Disney, Star Wars, Lost, Clever/geeky T-shirt designs, Tabletop games(currently loving Marvel Legendary, Resistance Avalon, and Cards against Humanity), Sims, WoW, Zombies, Civ V.

Here here. :drinker:

I am a nerd. I must confess. I'm a proud one, though. I play World of Warcraft. I'm a level 90 blood elf paladin, though I do enjoy my 90 Pandaren priest, too. Retribution and shadow, respectively. Off specs are prot and holy. I tried tanking once, but got mad at the way people treat tanks. So, I gave up. I just don't like people. I've tried LoL. People always tell me "If you like WoW, you'll love LoL". That's totally not true. I have played other MMOs that I enjoyed, though. So, there's that. I still play Pokemon. I probably will as long as they keep making them. I'm not one of those Pokemon fans that only likes the first gen, though. Gen II was my favorite, Raichu is my favorite Pokemon, Unova was my favorite region, and the newest gen has my favorite plotline. I like them all, essentially. I love collecting knowledge. I read about dogs and psychology for fun. Yes. For fun. I'm known as a walking encyclopedia on dogs. Ask me anything. I do text based RP. On forums. Harry Potter, zombies, things like that. I liked Harry Potter before it was cool. Pottermore put me in Slytherin. Some sorting quizzes say Hufflepuff. I'm that rare Slytherpuff or Hufflerin? I love manga. Chobits, Fruits basket, Bleach, Crimson Hero, Sailor Moon, Love Attack, .Hack. Manga is awesome. I dn't watch anime much, but some are interesting. I loved When They Cry. I do love video games of all sorts. Fable is awesome. Anything to do with the zombie genre is awesome. And graphic novels, in general, are awesome.

Feel free to add me. And don't be afraid to talk if you do. Lots of people add and only like things .Which is awesome and stuff. But sometimes I like talking, too. :flowerforyou:

Hi there!

I think I fit in this category well. I am a huge GoT fan, Star Wars, Comics. Play Cards against humanity and think it is so wonderfully wrong. I am looking forward to being able to do a little Black Canary Cosplay. I am a PS4 gamer too and looking to find more people to game with.

I was on this site a long while back and looking to get back in the groove of things.

Feel free to add me.