Where are the Nerds??
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theresa120 wrote: »Anyone have any favourite movies/shows you’ve been watching on Netflix?
About to start Lost in Space. Otherwise, nothing nerd worthy. Been working through Hawaii Five-0 and Hell on Wheels.0 -
Haven't figured out the whole multi-quote thingy on this forum yet (my nerd card is in jeopardy!), but some responses to responses...
--> Yes, my novel is a fantasy genre, available on Amazon in both paperback and e-reader formats. Nothing but great feedback from my readers, few copies sold to anybody not a family member or coworker. (Guess my marketing campaign stinks.) Done as a bucket-list item, my teenage daughter hounded me into writing the sequel (or more accurately prequel); final editing in progress before shopping around for perhaps a real publisher rather than another attempt at self-publishing.
--> I have seen The League, but only the first season.
--> I used to love D&D, and in fact many of the characters in my novel were based upon my old characters from D&D! Alas, I Haven't had a game of D&D since 1995 (sad face). Third edition rules were just hcoming out as I was heading to college, and nobody there had time for anything other than studying and drinking (typically not in that order). After graduation I moved around a lot, and never found anybody else playing. Now they have published fifth edition rules, and I am probably hopelessly lost!
--> The Lord of the Rings novels are pretty intense reading, especially when you're like me and take a college English class breaking them down in a literary sense, lol. (As a science major, this was one of the few English courses I can honestly say I ever enjoyed.) I've read them perhaps a dozen times through, and simply LOVE the movization of them. (If a novel based on a movie is a novelization, then a movie based on a novel is a movization, right?) The two are right on par with each other, though admittedly I am far less enthused about what they did to the Hobbit. How on earth can you get over 10 hours of footage from a 130 page short story?
As a related sidebar, I have found only two occasions where I hands-down prefer the movie over the book. Those two are the Princess Bride and the 13th Warrior (based upon "Eaters of the Dead"). In virtually all other cases, the novels far outstrip the movies, or at minimum are on par.2 -
Yeah... Lost in Space, Stranger Things, and The Expanse on DVR. I also watched the first episode of Disenchantment which was pretty good.
I’d like to watch Lost in Space, and will probably start Disenchantment soon. I haven’t heard of The Expanse! Oh and everyone is telling me to watch Westworld so I’ll have to get caught up somehow. So many shows, so little time!0 -
New nerd here. Just joined MyFitnessPal today. I'm into the MCU, animation, disney/pixar, some anime (such as FMA:Brotherhood, Death Note, and my guilty pleasure Yugioh), Game of Thrones, the Discworld books, Harry Potter, and a bunch of other stuff.
I also love going to cons and cosplay. My biggest hit is Elsa, but I've also done Winry from FMA and lady Thor with some regularity. I've done Deanerys a few times but I haven't made a costume I'm satisfied with yet.
Let's see, what else?
Oh, does anyone around here do Zombies, Run!? It's a great, nerdy fitness app that actually got me into running. I've only been doing it for a few weeks but I love it!
Discworld books were a lot of fun. One of the local B&N employees turned me onto the series after picking up a couple Xanth novels from Piers Anthony.1 -
theresa120 wrote: »Anyone have any favourite movies/shows you’ve been watching on Netflix?
Definitely give Stranger Things a shot!! It is great!1 -
danielle77speed wrote: »theresa120 wrote: »Anyone have any favourite movies/shows you’ve been watching on Netflix?
Definitely give Stranger Things a shot!! It is great!
Yes! I love Stranger Things! All caught up on it though! Need a new season!!0 -
@theresa120 YES!!! I can’t wait for the new season to come out!!0
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Altered Carbon is another one that I thought was good. I haven't read any of the books it was based on, but I really liked the series.2
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Anyone playing No Man's Sky? I bought it not long after it first came out (the first time it was half off on Steam), but never really got into it until now. I'd go back to it after each big update, but with "Next" it's finally clicked with me.0
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Reckoner67 wrote: »Altered Carbon is another one that I thought was good. I haven't read any of the books it was based on, but I really liked the series.
I really liked altered carbon too. You get different things out of watching a second time then the first time too.1 -
Anyone playing No Man's Sky? I bought it not long after it first came out (the first time it was half off on Steam), but never really got into it until now. I'd go back to it after each big update, but with "Next" it's finally clicked with me.
I bought it a week before Next came out and just waited for the update. I am in love with the game, though I haven't gotten too far, yet.1 -
auzziecawth wrote: »Reckoner67 wrote: »Altered Carbon is another one that I thought was good. I haven't read any of the books it was based on, but I really liked the series.
I really liked altered carbon too. You get different things out of watching a second time then the first time too.
I'll have to give it a second run through then, those are the best kinds of media--layered stuff that gets better each time1 -
I curl
The sport
Doesn't get much worse than that eh2 -
Yup, I'm a 53 year old nerd. Have over 300 games on Steam (No Man's Sky has made huge improvements in the NEXT update that was released recently, prior to the NEXT update I had about 2 hours, now I've got over 70) other than that, as you can imagine with 300+ games I've played a lot of different games over the last 10 years or so. Some though were just so bad that I might only have one hour play time on them, or some even less. Also enjoy playing Oxygen not included, Mashinky, Civilization 4, 5, 6, Railway Empire, Path of Exile and "Raft". However Raft is terribly optimized, even on my 1070TI, I'm only getting like 28 FPS until it tanks down single digit after 30 minutes.
I build my own computers ever since I bought my first mass produced Compaq, opened it up to put a new card inside only to find that only 2 of the 5 slots lined up with the case slots and they were both already taken, returned it and started building my own.
Ever so thankful now for plug and play... Remembering the days of having to set jumpers on hard drives and other devices.
Used to use BBS's (Bulletin board services) that you dialed into for basic entertainment and information from product manufacturers (ran my own 99 line BBS at one time and thought this new fangled Internet thing will never take off. LOL)0 -
Yup, I'm a 53 year old nerd. Have over 300 games on Steam (No Man's Sky has made huge improvements in the NEXT update that was released recently, prior to the NEXT update I had about 2 hours, now I've got over 70) other than that, as you can imagine with 300+ games I've played a lot of different games over the last 10 years or so. Some though were just so bad that I might only have one hour play time on them, or some even less. Also enjoy playing Oxygen not included, Mashinky, Civilization 4, 5, 6, Railway Empire, Path of Exile and "Raft". However Raft is terribly optimized, even on my 1070TI, I'm only getting like 28 FPS until it tanks down single digit after 30 minutes.
I build my own computers ever since I bought my first mass produced Compaq, opened it up to put a new card inside only to find that only 2 of the 5 slots lined up with the case slots and they were both already taken, returned it and started building my own.
Ever so thankful now for plug and play... Remembering the days of having to set jumpers on hard drives and other devices.
Used to use BBS's (Bulletin board services) that you dialed into for basic entertainment and information from product manufacturers (ran my own 99 line BBS at one time and thought this new fangled Internet thing will never take off. LOL)
Dang, I remember the BBS days! There was a local multi-line BBS I was a member of for a few years. Fond memories, I probably learned a lot of stuff there that I shouldn't have
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AliNouveau wrote: »I curl
The sport
Doesn't get much worse than that eh
If I knew an easy way to give it a try, I would very much try it. We had some sort of championships hosted locally a few years back, I really wanted to go but wasn't able to0 -
Used to use BBS's (Bulletin board services) that you dialed into for basic entertainment and information from product manufacturers (ran my own 99 line BBS at one time and thought this new fangled Internet thing will never take off. LOL)
I have so many good memories of BBS's. Where I lived in NE TX there wasn't local dial-up internet until about '95 so BBS was the only option for a long time. I'd dial into a local BBS, telnet into one about 45 miles away and then I could pull down good news and files and all that from around the D/FW metroplex. Ah, the good ole days. I really kinda miss it. BBS's and mailing lists. I ran a small private one for a while but by that time they started dying out and mine went the way of the dinosaurs.
I typically build my own computers except for the one I'm currently using - got way too good of a deal on a HP Xeon Workstation to it pass up. Someone didn't know what they had and I got it for pennies on the hundred dollar. When this one gets a bit older I'll go back to a homebuilt - currently eying the new Threadripper 2990WX.
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AliNouveau wrote: »I curl
The sport
Doesn't get much worse than that eh
How aboot that, eh!! Hehehe 👍👍 I’ve always been terrible at curling lol0 -
auzziecawth wrote: »AliNouveau wrote: »I curl
The sport
Doesn't get much worse than that eh
How aboot that, eh!! Hehehe 👍👍 I’ve always been terrible at curling lol
I really like it. My husband says I can't be a nerd though cause I was a figure skater first
I say I can because lady year I played in 3 leagues and practiced once or twice a week.0 -
I’m not sure selfies are allowed in the nerd thread BUT I’m hoping my HP shirt gives me a pass 😊6 -
Hey NERDS! lol
Sorry for interrupting the curling conversation (awesome sport btw) and Harry Potter shirt selfies (and awesome shirt btw), but I just wanted to pop in and represent the anime and manga nerds.
I'm also into gaming (PS4, PC, Switch), LotR, Renaissance Festivals, table top games, computers (3d modeling, video editing, animation, etc), and pretty much everything else that falls into the spectrum of nerdiness.
Also while I'm here, to OP and anyone else, feel free to add me as a friend here on MFP and Pokemon GO (my trainer code is 6711 3098 1586) since that's been a big motivation in keeping me active.
It's nice to meet you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm looking forward to visiting this thread again in the future. Always good to meet like-minded individuals...especially in my neck of the woods here in Pennsylvania...everyone hates that stuff here.
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philosearcher wrote: »Hey NERDS! lol
Sorry for interrupting the curling conversation (awesome sport btw) and Harry Potter shirt selfies (and awesome shirt btw), but I just wanted to pop in and represent the anime and manga nerds.
I'm also into gaming (PS4, PC, Switch), LotR, Renaissance Festivals, table top games, computers (3d modeling, video editing, animation, etc), and pretty much everything else that falls into the spectrum of nerdiness.
Also while I'm here, to OP and anyone else, feel free to add me as a friend here on MFP and Pokemon GO (my trainer code is 6711 3098 1586) since that's been a big motivation in keeping me active.
It's nice to meet you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm looking forward to visiting this thread again in the future. Always good to meet like-minded individuals...especially in my neck of the woods here in Pennsylvania...everyone hates that stuff here.
Welcome, my man. I want to take part in the curling convo, but don't know jack about it. Haha. Nice to meet you, my man. Let's have some fun!2 -
@danielle77speed HP is always a free pass ^.^
@philosearcher I'm always in need of more Pokemon Go buddies (about to go out to walk my eevee)!2 -
Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »shelbydodgeguy wrote: »shelbydodgeguy wrote: »Nerd/Geek here.
Former vintage car collector/hoarder who also has a soft spot for 80s Shelby Dodges hence the user name.
Would not be opposed to seeing some of the vintage cars. The important question with Star Trek is who is your favorite captain?
I wish I could say I had a lot of photos of the vintage cars, but I had a major shop fire in '96 (arson - long story) and lost nearly all my photos of my early and awesome build from when I had my shop. Plus I lost a ton of cars. But I do have a photo or two I might be able to grab real quick that managed to survive.
I did this 60 VW Bug in my early teens. Wasn't even finished in the photos. Got the car in SE Iowa and hauled it to NE TX. Replaced nearly every panel on it. Numbers matching car with original 36HP engine. Started a VW obsession and wound up owning a handful of other VWs and a warehouse full of parts before I sold them all to a collector around 1993.
Weird project I tackled a few years ago that I got in Michigan. 84 Dodge Rampage combined with an Shelby Charger to make a Shelby-ized 2.2 turbocharged Rampage.
And I still own my car from high school. 28 years now.
As for other cars I did I was mainly into Ford stuff - 49 - 51 Fords, 63 - 64 Galaxies, 60s Lincolns, etc. Also had a 1917 T-Bucket hot rod, 36 Ford, Dodge Duster, Ford Torino GTs, Ford Rancheros, old Ford Trucks, and some oddball things like a Jaguar XJS with a 350/350 Chevy V8 swap. I used to buy/sell/swap cars constantly and at any time I probably had anywhere from 15 - 25 cars on hand before I sold nearly everything off in 2005 - 2006. Even if I tried to compile a list I'm sure I'd forgot a bunch of cars.
As for Trek captains that's a tough one. Every time I rewatch there's things I like and dislike about every one and it's hard to pick just one. But if I had to pick a least favorite overall I'd have to say Janeway and Voyager even though I still appreciate the series overall. Sorry Voyager fans!
Those r some awesome cars. I wish i could say im a car collector but I usually only have 3 at once at most but i been through a lot of them in such a short amount of time. I usually get a new one every year
Love the classic buggy
Here are some of my fun toys. They never stay the way they look rolling out of the showroom floor
And i do a lot of the work myself (;
Absolutely dig the second one. But they all look clean as hell. Nicely done.
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theresa120 wrote: »Anyone have any favourite movies/shows you’ve been watching on Netflix?
Criminal Minds lately..started maybe 2 months ago or so, on *coughs* season *coughs* 12.
Binged all of Disenchantment and it was wonderful, but now I'm sad that I have to wait for season 2. 0 -
I’m a scientist, like to read, watch anime, and play video games. I consider myself a nerd haha. Any other scientists on here?0
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*waves hands excitedly* @Mike9294
I'm a scientist! Postdoc scholar!0 -
@yumesoraki Awesome! What do you research?0
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@Mike9294
Right now we're looking at using VR for people with chronic pain (low back pain and spinal cord injury mostly), and a few other side things for embodiment in the virtual space.
I recently completed my PhD work which looked at gait dynamics in individuals with chronic post stroke hemiparesis, which some of the data still needs to be published on, but I really just dislike the writing part of the process ^.^;;;0 -
@yumesoraki
Thats incredible. I would actually be really interested in reading that research. I am in cancer research. Right now we are looking at using a CCK inhibitor to reduce fibrosis in pancreatic tumors. We are about to start putting the paper together. I’m only in my undergrad but I have been in my current lab at Penn State College of Medicine for over a year now. I graduate this semester and then hope to pursue a PhD as well.
Feel free to friend request me if you’d like 0
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