Ahhh, the Promised Land. Finally, I’ve Come Home.
First of all: Where were you ladies when I was in High School??
-sorry, touchy subject.
I’ll start with the anime subject. I loved Perfect Blue and Akira. Cowboy BeBop is also cool, but so far I’ve only seen a few episodes. Current favorite series: Kenshin.
Has anybody here ever played the PRG Lords of Creation??
I thought not.
I don’t belive this. The female geeks and the women who like geeks are actually outnumbering the male ones. What in the name of Zomel Gustav is going on here?
WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL?! Did you all just appear out of a clamshell software package on the shores of the information sea or something?
grumble grumble bitter grumble grumble evil impulse grumble grumble . . .
Cool. Thanks, Guanolad. Though it was more fun to complain about it not being out than it is to know when it is coming out. 
Uh, “Your mother took one,” Jonathan Chance?
FOR SHAME! I have DEFILED the geek thread with a line from a Van Damme movie. I must sacrifice a pure, unpainted miniature to Chow Yun Fat as attonement!
Maybe from that very short lived show with the guy who was insanly lucky?
“Auugh! An giant glowing mallet!”
Oops. Simulpost, more or less. Actually, more like would-have-been-a-simulpost,-but-I-got-up-to-get-some-Dr.-Pepper.
To the blackest pits with high school, ladies! Where are you now?!
AD&D thieves do suck–but a mage-thief multiclass can be a wonderful thing.
I like the kinky trend in fantasy novels, but then I dream in anime sometimes. If only I could draw…
I have a long-standing loyalty to AD&D, but I’ll admit that the system is awfully clunky. Maybe the coolest RPG I’ve ever played was “Lost Souls”–you play ghosts trying to finish your worldly business so you can be reincarnated. I think the reincarnation scale ran from “Higher Being” down to “Pond Scum”–or maybe “Lawyer”, I’m not sure what the bottom rank was. Who would’ve guessed being dead could be so funny?
Hopefully this will improve with the new edition. It’s supposed to be all-that. We’ll just see about that…
The way our gaming has evolved has moved us into a more ‘free-style’ brand of playing and I’ve never been one to get squeemish over modifying to fit that game. Of course, I’m a writer and rules are not quite as interesting as plot and character development.
As a DM, my favorite is the look on peoples’ faces as you describe a NPC and watch as their little mind-catalog flips madly through the Monstrous Manual trying to figure out just what I’m explaining. That beautiful sound of them whispering, “What the f**k is THAT?”
Great…now I’m really jonesin’ to play. sigh
You know how sometimes you can see a thread is gonna be huge, yet you can’t quite join in ?
I have yet to find anything to contribute to this, um . . . except the fact that I tried on several occasions.
Guess I am just not a geek.
I saw this go up in the middle of the night, and I tried to think of something to add.
Seems I am far more of a weirdo than a geek. Damn. Where is the “Gonzo” worship thread when you need it ?
You’d fit right in with my group, struuter. We tend to throw out as many rules as we use.
To the WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU LADIES… crowd:
I was the quiet chick in the back of the class that constantly had her nose buried in a book. Not my fault you didn’t ask me out then. Too late now, I’m married. 
chrisbar
I went to an all girls school, so that (& being on a different continent) may explain why I wasn’t available when you were in high school.
The thing that bugged me was that we didn’t have a D&D/RPG group & no one else seemed interested (although there were a lot of sf&f readers). On the plus side, the girls school in question was King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham, England. It was next to the boys school of the same foundation.
+3 intelligence on your next trap if you can tell me what famous person went to that boys school…
Guess what, Ice and Fire fans? Storm of Swords came out this month in England. 924 pages of genius, pure and simple.
SO MANY PEOPLE DIE!
Get your copy today at http://www.amazon.co.uk! It’s in both harcback and trade paperback.
MR
Not only are Fallout 1 and 2 the greatest RPG’s of all time, but the new Bioware/Infinity Engine games are great as well. If you are not big into combat, you at least owe it to yourself to pick up Planescape:Torment. Game has typical opening (you wake up, need to find out who you are) and spreads out to areas that are brilliantly written.
Oh, and we geeks aren’t complete without testifying our love for They Might Be Giants =) They have a big ol’ 5 on my RadioSonic net, a number reserved only for them, Devo, Presidents of the USA, and Beastie Boys.
And for any of you geek loving ladies out there. Care to wed (I have to check with my wife first, but I am hoping it will be okay… LOL).
– I am not your friend, I am your only friend, but I’m a little glowing friend… –
Hey, I did ask you out. Or at least several people in the back of the class with thier noses in books. You wern’t intereseted.
Sorry, but I have to squeeze my Jon Stewert impression in somewhere.
Now, I didn’t start this as a dating service, but seeing that far more of the female geek army of doom showed up than I expected, I do have one (and only one, I promise) question for all the ladies out there in geek land.
Is it too wierd to try to strike up a conversation at a video store or a bookstore? Any other type of store, I wouldn’t have a problem with, but I know that male geeks sometimes have a tendancy to be, well, less than subtle when exposed to a woman who might share their interests, and I don’t want to come off as stalker type. Would it be better to just avoid that kind of enviornment?
Obviously, assuming a polite conversation, appropriate grooming habits, not trailing off every sentence with “. . . breasts . . .” and not carrying the complete Cool Devices collection.
I did meet a yoei writer in a computer store once, but she didn’t seem interested in anything beyond conversation. I guess I’m just not the bishonen type. Maybe we need a “young geeks in love” thread.
Ok. We can get back to the regularly scheduled geek stuff, now.
Sweet Merciful Crap. How much do I have on my credit card?
At least tell us, with a spoiler warning, of course, who the “mystery POV” is.
“Like an ant trying to fight God.”
What’s wrong with striking up conversation at the video store? If she’s cruising the anime and you’ve seen every video there, take a chance and offer a recommendation. Just make sure she doesn’t have a boyfriend over by the action flicks first.
Starting out knowing you share an interest is the easiest way to get to know someone. My gaming group didn’t start out as all couples. They just paired up as the games went on.
chrisbar
Well, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it, I was just worried that it might set off the old stalker alarm. I mean, everyone knows that geeks and quiet guys are all obsessivly dependant serial rapists, right? Don’t you ever watch movies?
Hmm. Maybe I’ll stop at the old suncoast this evening. There’s a, uh, Slayers tape that I need to buy. Yeah, that’s it.
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“Like an ant trying to fight God.”
Ura-Maru! You are the third person to actually try to ID my handle. You join the ranks of Ellen and evilbeth. Unfortunately, NO. I didn’t get it from any of those places. Thanks for playing…please come again.
I run at my place in the hills of VA a role playing group the first Saturday of every month. We play about 10 hours and break in the middle for the caterer. Do I know how to live or what? Lasagna and Hot Fudge Sundaes last time.
The game I run is original D&D. The 8 paperback books that Gygax published back in the 70s. The rules are vague, the intentions unclear, and we have a helluva time. Stat checks and making it up as I go abound!
Anyone want to join us?
It only costs about $35 overall for the hardback. Postage via the Royal Mail is surprisingly cheap, and it arrived only a few days after it came out. I had the great tome preordered at least a month ago.
As for the mystery POV…well…that would be giving it away, wouldn’t it? 
I will tell you this, though. Some of the POV chapters end. There are passages I had to read five times to make sure I got the meaning right. It’s a grand old read.
MR
Sweet lord, what a set-up! Reminds me of a game we had going a few years back. Catering? Uh…more like pizza or chinese delivery. But 10 hours of gaming is not foreign to me. 12 hours…? shamefaced Not unfamiliar either.
I think we may have some of those original books too.
I would SO go out with a guy or girl who was carrying the complete Cool Devices collection if I were single…Heck, I might just anyway!
I wouldn’t have a problem with someone talking to me in a book or video store, but it’s about 70-30 that I’d fail to realize that he were flirting with me if that was his intention.
I’m a member of a gaming group. We meet every Saturday and play for 5 or 6 hours on a good day. More if we get into an epic-sized fight. Right now the group is 4 women and 1 man. Until 3 weeks ago it was 5 women and 1 man. (Poor Frank…) We’re looking for a few more players, but we haven’t had any luck at all so far. Maybe we can put up a few signs at the local high-school when it’s back in session. We range in age from 23-33, so we could use some new blood.
Boy, we really need to get us some new players!
K.
K.
Wow!!! I finally get to join an army - the ULVAN wouldn’t have me, but I can be in the female geek army of doom!! I’ll just get the t-shirts printed & I’ll be right back…
Don’t you pay attention?
Mark & I met in a bookstore… we were both looking at Batman graphic novels & they were on one of those stupid spiral stands that you turn, so I was watching him to make sure I didn’t turn too fast & he was watching me for the same reason (I assume…being stunningly good looking (& a bad liar) had nothing to do with it!) & we just started talking to each other (this is a thing that humans do in non-virtual reality - they open their mouths and produce sounds known as words - for more information on this phenomenon, visit theonion & search for actualreality).
This whole geek boy/geek girl thing reminds me of the movie Free Enterprise. That’s basically what the movie is about. Quite enjoyed all the SF and comic book references they put in it.
Of course, every time I go to the local comic shops, or “hobby” stores or the local Electronics Boutique there never seems to be any women there. Maybe I am just in the wrong part of the world or something?
I was the slightly chubby, pale-skinned, redheaded girl that never said much in class, wore all black, and worked in stage crew. Even when I tried to flirt with you guys, it never worked! (sorry–sore spot about that–many failed attempts at a few geeks from high school)