NB*** this list was made from a similar thread on Portent.**
...Your Internet Personia has more depth and meaning than your own life
...you remember obscure rules references from obsolete game editions, but struggle when it comes to people's names.
...you get so excited about a tournament/convention that you realise it's on your birthday after you've bought your ticket.
...99% of the population look at you strangely every time you use your own brand of "humour"
...you know what the letters THAC0 stand for.
...you start debating fiction as if it's reality.
...you consider new TV shows "reruns" because you've already watched the first three seasons on import DVD.
...none of your fave TV shows are on before midnight.
...you actually own a superhero costume and you're over the age of 10.
...you know dice come in more shapes and sizes than a cube with dots.
...you buy the crap movies in a series just so you've got the complete collection.
...you own more than one version of Star Wars.
...you know the differences between the various versions of Star Wars.
...you're serious when you answer Jedi to "what's your religion?"
... you carry a d4, d6, d8, 2 d10s, d12, and a d20 just in case...
...You ace advanced probility based on dice experience
...You have more forums than friends
...You read more than you speak
...You can speak techno-jargen easily but have the inability to speak casually
...You're at the bottom of the social food chain
...You never use monocylabic words
...You only have a square headed girlfriend
...you know the lyrics to every single Monty Python song by heart. Not because of having put any effort into learning them, it just comes naturally over time.
..... you now no longer laugh, you just chuckle "lol"
(i do this all the time now)
... you leave a window open dedicated to Portent.
...you hang out in the Chaos Wastes at 6am convincing Sprue to drink another pint of Guinness, when you should be sleeping instead.
http://forums.portent.net/showthread.php?p=2760844#post2760844
...you can calculate THAC0 in your head.
...you can read 1337 without trouble.
...one side of your bed is filled with gaming books that you were reading before turning out the light.
...and the pile just gets bigger as time goes on.
...and you wake up the next morning having forgotten to turn out the light, and the book is underneath you.
...your girlfriend (boyfriend) left you, because you told them to sleep on the couch to have more space for abovementioned bookpiles.
...you worry about damage to the book, since you slept on it.
...you remember the days when elf was a class (ok, that just makes you a grognard)
...you know what 'Grognard' means.
...you take your computer apart to install a more powerful soundcard even though the current one works just fine 98% of the time just so you can talk over an instant messenger instead of typing the "the 20th century way".
...you can take your computer apart and install hardware, and troubleshoot what's wrong on your own without having to summon Anseur.
...you have more friends on the internet than in real life.
...when a new edition of a game system comes out, you read the rulebooks to just to "see what's changed" and ignore the rest.
...you argue about the effects these changes have on the system.
...you can keep track of more than 4 active windows at a time as second nature i.e. a pair of instant messenger chats, a message board and a p2p while working on some other project in say, Photoshop.
...you know multiple computer languages.
...you debate the effectiveness of d4's as caltrops.
...you know what a caltrop is.
.....you print off all the posts so far in a forum, and start ticking which are correct for you
.....75% or more are ticked
.....you play rune scape because its more exciting then your real life
..... You live your life through the one RPG character you started as a child because he is what you always watned to be
...you threaten people by saying you'll hack their computer, and they take you seriously.
...you know what furries and LARPers are, and the majority of your pride comes from you knowing your not one.
...instead of cursing, you shout out l33t speak.
...you use a computer all day at work, then come home and use it most of the night.
...when at the bookstore or library, you only gravitate towards the Sci-fi and Fantasy sections.
...the only teams you were on in school were the Chess and Debate teams.
...all of your arguements are a result of either a ruleset or a work of fiction, and you, like everyone else has your own interpretation of it.
.. you knw what IRC is
.. you use IRC
.. You visit Bash.org
.. you already know all the Bash quotes
.. you have a quote on Bash
... when you convince non-gamer friends that Gak, Dren and Frell are valid curses.
... when reading corporate news you wonder which events have been caused by shadowruns.
... when you recite the litany of accuracy over your lasgun before playing Zone 3/Laser challenge.
... when you juggle dice as stress relief during exam period
You are a geek when u remember pi to 100 digits and e to 10 digits, and know 3 computer languages C++, C, Java .
Play 40k and actual study tactics....
Build High explosives in your spare time...
Hack your old school network for some fun...
Run Linux and know how to imporve it..
ware glasses
Able to do calculus in your head
know and understant General relativity
Live in a nerdy place like Cambridge
Get stright A's in exams
when you spend the better part of a day estimating, and writing down the attributes of yourself, friends and family members and make them all character sheets.
Str 6
Con 11
Dex 9
Int 10
Wis 12
Cha 12
THAC0 = 20 (16 with wooden spoon)
AC 10
Level 15 Mom
You understood that
...You are guilty of 80% of the things in this thread
...you mix 1337 into your conversations
...1337-speaking has caught on to your friends, so you have 3 person convo's in spoken 1337 (it happened to me )
...Losing your dice bag would be a serious financial blow
...You discuss D&D Theology (My friends and I did this today )
...You discuss the inherent difficulties in creating S'wars blaster
...you discuss the composition of a blaster bolt in casual conversation
...You get into an argment that 'it's Tibanna gas with laser inside, not just laser!" (happened today to me...all the three above )
...One of your friend's life ambition is to create a lightsaber (One of mine wants to)
...One of your freinds wants to create the Halo Ring (Yup)
...One of your freinds want to create Mjolnir Armour (Chiiiyeck)
...You act as if you are DMing life
...You find that you have the power to change life uin accordance with your DM powers
...You actually do change life
...A Discworld D&D campaign appeals to you (Check)
...You have 1k plus skill total on runescape (Check)
...You are officially voted "Uber Geek" by all the other school geeks (yay! happened to me <_<
...You have posted in the "SW ~Vs~ St ~Vs~ the imperium thread
...All the above are original
... you have been to http://www.planetadnd.com/humor/mis...a_player_if.php
...You find them funny
...You understood what makes them funny
...you find the Sci Fi Commandmentsto be hilarious and you can think of at least five instances of the use of the general ones in any given science fiction series.
you can name atleast two-dozen magic the gathering cards from their card text (probably..)
you can name atleast ten from their flavour text (yep..)
you can name atleast ten from a description of the art..
You've read that whole list
ok then thats much worse
oh my god !
...*smacks ROB*