What is your Transcendent Geek Moment?

[aaron]

i will say that i'd pick patrick stewart over shatner any day, but the wrath of khann is unfuckwithable.

[lordofduct]

I'm a Picard fan as well personally.

[fastbilly1]

I guess another would be yesterday when I stood in line for almost two hours and talked to a guy about old FASA board games and no one around us knew what we were talking about - it was the line for Dragoncon Preregisters. Granted when we were in line another guy was looking for help in some high level physics and a guy a couple back was a physicist and knew it cold.

And when I got out I got a call from my friend who is running the animation track this year asking if I knew anything about French animation (Asterix, Tintin, etc), I know a moderate amount and am now on a panel for it.

[Ramatut4001]

After years of comics, video games, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc, I went the extra mile and played through a DND campaign. Also this year I have begun watching Dr. Who. And not the Tom Baker Dr. Who or the new one, but the original black & white ones. I figure those two things were just about the final tics on my checklist.

[lordofduct]

I wanted to play D&D, and I did when I was a kid with my brothers (I guarantee they'll NEVER admit that one). But we did it all old school poor and shit. Where the eldest brother just drew a map, pulled the dice out of Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit, and made the story up along the way. It made it rough for me... my 12 year old brother ripping my 7 year old ass a new hole.

Tobin - "K, you start out in a clearing, you have a wooden dagger you constructed from a near by tree and some light rags as protection. You see a path to the North and another to the East. What do you do?"

Me - "Ummm, I gotta pee!"

Tobin - "No, pick a path, when it's Markys turn you can go pee."

Ian - "NOH, it's me turn next."

Me - "NO, I want to pee in the game."

Ian - "I pee on Dylan."

Me - "You're not playing Ian."

Ian - "Yes I am."

Tobin - "Shutika, no your not."

Ian - "WHY!"

Me - "You're to young poop head."

Tobin - ::face palm:: "Fine, you pee. You feel refreshed, now what do you want to do."

Me - "I want to take the south path."

Tobin - "North or East shit for brains."

Me - "Wheat!"

Tobin - "We never should of fed you lead paint. What the hell do you mean by wheat?"

Me - "Never Eat Shredded Wheat!"

Tobin - ::face palm:: "o...k... you head 'wheat' toward Davenshire. As you are walking ahead in the distance you see a smm..."

Me - "I gotta pee!"

Tobin - "You already pee'd."

Me - "no in real life dummy."

Ian - "My turn!"

... time passes, I use the lavatory...

Me - "K, there's a small..."

Ian - "I stole your wooden thingy."

Me - "Tobin, Ian stole my wooden dagger... can he do that?"

Tobin - "Yes, your dead."

Ian- "haha!"

Me - "WHA!? How, I only pee'd. This sucks... I didn't die, I wasn't even here. Dat's not fair."

Tobin - "Fine, you're walking to Davenshire and ahead you see a giant Dragon and he rips off your head leaving your dieing corpse to be eaten by scavangers. Enjoy!"

Ian - "I'm wearing Dylan's dead corpse." Ian dances around the bedroom like a little monkey on crack

Me - "MOOOOOOMMMMM, TOBIN KILLED ME! AND IAN'S WEARING MY DEAD BODY!"

Tobin - "So... Mark, you start out in a clearing, you have a helmet of knowledge, armor of indesctructability, and a sword of rape. You see Ian next to you with Dylan's wooden dagger and apparently dressed in what remains of Dylan. What do you do?"

Mark - "Wicked! I kill Ian."

Ian - "Hahaha, WHA!? Noh, no, no."



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sorry, it's long I know. But I make myself laugh. I don't care if you guys don't like my little story. I'm rolling on the ground right now.

[UBERTRON777]

I am naturally a geek like my brother and dad before me. It was impossible to escape becoming a geek, I can't remember the specific moment, I just am. Although, I would say that I reached new heights on my discovery of Wikipedia, Racketboy, and Kotaku.