Board 8 > What's the "nerdiest" thing you do?

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For me, it's between:
1. Blogging about Survivor
OR
2. Making silly topics like this on a gaming message board

What about you?
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I'm a Physics & Astronomy and Math double major.
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IMDB
Wikipedia
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You're asking me to choose?
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arguing in mercs
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I maintain a model in excel that evaluates the rank of players of board games

I have a bookshelf filled with plushes and figurines

I regularly go to gaming conventions and esports events

Probably one of those would qualify as the nerdiest thing that I do
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Video games
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Look at the tax returns of nonprofits.
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Gatarix posted...

arguing in mercs

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Furry stuff
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Make Youtube videos
Watch and play almost all Japanese things (rather than watch American TV outside of wrestling)
Go to conventions
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Having a Pokemon username on an 18(?)+ year old gaming site?
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Umbreon posted...

Having a Pokemon username on an 18(?)+ year old gaming site?

This is a badge of honor at this point.

I go to 2-3 conventions a year but don't cosplay or anything. I thought about mentioning that but it's only a few times a year and I'm nowhere near the nerdiest guy there.

KingButz posted...

Video games

What in video games? Playing video games isn't "nerdy" anymore - if that was the case, every 12 y/o Duty Calls player screaming inappropriate words and mom jokes would be considered a nerd. Playing for hundreds of hours, finding every last secret and/or glitch, making mods, saying your best friend is a video game character, etc. IS "nerdy." Just playing games is not.

Everything else in here, though, is nerdy, so yeah.
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Co-host a podcast about GameFAQs contests. Also one of the funnest things I do.
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KujikawaRising posted...

I go to 2-3 conventions a year but don't cosplay or anything. I thought about mentioning that but it's only a few times a year and I'm nowhere near the nerdiest guy there.

KingButz posted...

Video games

What in video games? Playing video games isn't "nerdy" anymore - if that was the case, every 12 y/o Duty Calls player screaming inappropriate words and mom jokes would be considered a nerd. Playing for hundreds of hours, finding every last secret and/or glitch, making mods, saying your best friend is a video game character, etc. IS "nerdy." Just playing games is not.

Everything else in here, though, is nerdy, so yeah.

Technically, they *are*.
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i read books
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Definitely something on this board

Between TEW, mercenaries, and contest analysis, I think mercenaries involvement wins if for no other reason than being more recent than me giving a crap about contests. Though I scarcely give a crap about mercenaries currently. I do see myself being more likely to go back to it than contests though.
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Hentai
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I agree that video games are not very nerdy anymore. But they are still the "nerdiest" hobby I have.

I also read the news and long-form journalism and I guess at this point that might be nerdier.
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running a mercenaries spinoff by and for myself
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Gamefaqs most likely. I mean that in a good way.
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Play MTG casually
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Gamefaqs most likely. I mean that in the worst possible way.
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I make and host Mega Man and Pokemon contests on a video game forum. (And I'm 38 in a few months >_>)
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Gamefaqs browsing
Watching video game stuff on youtube

You'd never guess I spend time doing that if you didn't know
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Definitely Gauntlets
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Wacking to cartoons
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Collecting figures, pretty easily.
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I've contributed heavily to some game wikis over the years, but it's been awhile since the last time I've cared enough to do it.

I keep notepad and sometimes spreadsheet files of details and things of various RPGs I play. For example I have a notepad for Fire Emblem Fates where I detailed all the shipping options I wanted to do for the characters, carefully mapping it out in a way where every character and child had optimal job/skill selections with as little overlap as possible.

Also I play Save Mys.
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Go to the Rickmobile and STAYING there was probably the worst nerdiest thing

it was awful

I like to collect random toys and shit but thats not too out of style, what with funko pops being pretty normal nowadays

plus I have the excuse of getting stuff from my job so its not too nerdy I think
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mnkboy907 posted...

Also I play Save Mys.

I had another answer in mind clicking on this topic but nope it's definitely this.
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I play D&D (or other RPGs) twice a week and have a podcast about religious media. Those are nerdy-ass niche markets if there ever were such a thing.
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Competitive Pokemon battling probably.

Was into it enough that at one point I had a spreadsheet detailing the statistical performance of every Pokemon in my matches+matches I spectated, though I eventually stopped because I decided it wasn't worth the effort.
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pjbasis posted...

Play MTG casually

This, but heavily instead.
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View this message board, doesn't get a whole lot more niche
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spending tons of time watching speedruns on twitch is probably up there.
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Immediately thought of tabletop RPGs like D&D or whatever.

tazzyboyishere posted...

Wacking to cartoons

yup

I'm a Dungeons and Dragons DM.
I meet up with international friends I met at a video gaming website on an annual basis.
I post here.

I dunno, take your pick for what's nerdiest.
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Oh shit. Forgot to mention D&D.
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I ask life advice from a concrete mixer expert and all I get is zaxbys recs

There arent even any around me
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KamikazePotato posted...

Gatarix posted...

arguing in mercs

bonus nerd points for co-creating an entire mercs spinoff
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TBH, probably mechanical engineering
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SgtSphynx posted...

TBH, probably mechanical engineering

you're adorable
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Probably playing pathfinder
Possibly building Gundam models when I used to do that.
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I wrote a 56-page novel about a character I played for two years in a roleplaying game world so specific and obscure that it can only be intelligibly understood by five other people in the world

that's the nerdiest thing I did this week

If we're talking about on a recurring basis, it has to be the amount of time that I spend on this site. Even Twitch is more mainstream at this point.

Of course I have done individual one-off things that I could mention.
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Completing a living dex in every generation of Pokemon
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complaining about how the unwashed masses stole our word "nerdy"
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