# The most geeky group activity, aside from RPGing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 30, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410 "2003-10-30T08:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/41 "2003-10-31T06:43:02Z")
Magic!!! šŸ˜ƒ I vote for nerdy pick-up lines. ā€œI must have failed my saving throw, because you just charmed me!ā€ (See [http://www.suescomic.reallyrules.com/comic33.html](http://www.suescomic.reallyrules.com/comic33.html)) Although the card came Munchkin comes a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/42 "2003-10-31T06:44:26Z")
Shoot, I mean \*game. \* šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/43 "2003-10-31T08:04:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kevo4us \* > \*\*I noticed that no one said the ULTIMATE geek fest, one of which I am not ashamed to be apart of > > DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS ANYONE? > > \*\* Umm, the OP asked for things aside from RPGing - Dungeons&Dragons is an RPG. That and I did mention it in my explanation of what RPG stands for in a previous post. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/44 "2003-10-31T12:33:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanguineSpider \* > \*\*Oh my GAWD! I must be the biggest loser on the planet!!! > > ā€¦DAMNā€¦ I guess Iā€™ll stop working on my RenFest costume, my Star Wars costume, my Star Trek costume, my Babylon 5 costume and so onā€¦ > > \*\* At least you didnā€™t mention **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/45 "2003-10-31T13:23:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Danalan \* > \*\*Dopefest. \*\* See, thatā€™s the first thing that came to mind for me as well - until I remembered all the T&A, same-sex gropage, and general not-geekness in the room of every DopeFest Iā€™ve ever been to. Well, excluding our wedding 'Fest - our MOMS were there! ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/46 "2003-10-31T13:48:22Z")
Can you give us a little more context? I think peopleā€™s connotations of geek differ, for instance, ā€˜furryā€™ doesnā€™t say ā€˜geekā€™ to me at all. Depending on what youā€™re aiming at you might choose between: Nitpicking startrek Planning a party and totally missing the fun part Doing maths/physics/programming Using some geek terminology innapropriately () Telling geeky jokes ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/47 "2003-11-01T08:02:01Z")
Playing Madden 2004 does not make you geeky, it makes you a sports fan. Playing The Sims does not make you geeky, it makes you a middle-aged mom from Nebraska. (Someone mentioned The Sims in another geeky thread.) I talked to these people all day long when I worked at EA. Now, creating your own teams and playing hours and hours and hours of career mode, or creating your own skins, meshes, and tilesets to reenact your favorite fictional setting _that_ makes you geeky. ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/48 "2003-11-01T17:04:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BMalion \* > \*\*At least you didnā€™t mention **The Rocky Horror Picture Show** \*\* Every Friday night, man! Elbow sex! Elbow sex! Again, do what you love to doā€¦ who cares if youā€™re a geek or not? The geekier the better, I say!! HUZZAH! Oh, Rocky! Live long and prosper. May the force be with you! Just because you donā€™t understand, doesnā€™t mean itā€™s to be insulted, feared, run away screaming from, or whatnot. Though I had a ā€œfrighteningā€ moment waiting for my pals to arrive at the re-release of The Empire Strikes Back at the Cineā€™ Capri one weekend a few years back. This very large fellow in a pea-green bathrobe turned homemade Jedi Counsel costume saw me, a solitary and attractive female, standing near the doors of the theater (theatre? ha ha! I know the difference!) and so decided to rescue the damsel not in distress (I was distressed after he came over to me). He asked me if I needed anything. Need? Um yeah, I _need_ my boyfriend to arriveā€¦ like NOW. I shook my head and smiled politely (wrong move). He hovered close as if he was playing protector to some helpless maiden and proceeded to tell me his name and rank in some imaginary Jedi Counsel (group of his friends who met in the backyard every other weekend for serious debate=geektalk for ā€œWhoā€™d win this fightā€¦ X or Y?ā€ and discussions on the logistics of making a real Death Star). :rolleyes: OK, I am creeped out at this point. When a guy justs offers this kind of revealing smalltalk, back away very slowly (hee hee). No, I wasnā€™t really upset by his hobbies, I just didnā€™t want to be scented down by every single, lonely geek male in the area because I was without escort. **Fresh meat!** No thank you. All of these hobbies and interests, IMHO, make you who you are and itā€™s cool. I loved watching ā€œXenaā€ when it was on and Iā€™m considering buying the videos when I get the spare cash. Itā€™s ALL GOOD, people! Be whomever you are. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/49 "2003-11-01T17:44:15Z")
Board games, preferably wargames, preferably very complicated ones. ---
**Author:** ![yawndave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/43a26b/32.png) [@yawndave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawndave)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/50 "2003-11-01T17:49:49Z")
How about geocaching? > **[Get the free Official Geocaching app and join the world's largest treasure hunt.](https://www.geocaching.com/play)** > > There are millions of geocaches worldwide, just waiting for you to find them. There are probably even some within walking distance of where you are right now. Visit Geocaching.com to see just how many geocaches are nearby and to learn how to start... ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/51 "2003-11-01T23:38:34Z")
I find it interesting how many of these activities begin with the words ā€œsitting aroundā€¦ā€ So with that in mind: Sitting around with a group of people recalling _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_ line by line, word for word. There have to be arguments not just about phrasing, which must be precise, but also about _timing_, such as the exact length of the pause before Cleese says, ā€œā€¦Tim.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/52 "2003-11-01T23:43:21Z")
Is considering whether an activity is geeky, in itself inherently more geeky than it? If so, this thread, and then this post, are paradigm shifts in geekiness. And if I then considered that this concept could be extended indefinately, weā€™d end up with some w-geekiness, merely by making that observation. Can we go beyond that? ---
**Author:** ![dave316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dave316](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dave316)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/53 "2003-11-02T00:43:39Z")
Odyssey of the Mind ---
**Author:** ![SanguineSpider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SanguineSpider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanguineSpider)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/54 "2003-11-02T05:14:39Z")
_Hey_ā€¦ wait a sec! I like watching Monty Python (movies included) and have been known to quote a line or two. Like **OpalCat** says, ā€œDay-am!ā€. I must be the geekiest girl on the planet! D&D, RHPS, Star Wars, Star Trek, MP, SNL, KITH, Xena, Highlander, GS, comics, LOTRā€¦ you name it, I probably enjoy it (even to a lesser degree). I donā€™t mind being a geek but then again, I enjoy being perverse and strange. Well, except for geocachingā€¦ that I just donā€™t get. _scratches under her Xena wig in confusion_ ---
**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/55 "2003-11-02T08:58:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*Is considering whether an activity is geeky, in itself inherently more geeky than it? If so, this thread, and then this post, are paradigm shifts in geekiness. > > And if I then considered that this concept could be extended indefinately, weā€™d end up with some w-geekiness, merely by making that observation.\*\* Any activity that includes the use of the word ā€œw-geekinessā€ would qualify IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/56 "2003-11-02T09:18:52Z")
I thought it was unclear if an activity involving w-geekiness would be (w+1)-geekiness or (1+w) geekiness. OK, _that_ counts. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/57 "2003-11-02T16:26:54Z")
Sitting around, arguing who would win a fight between Captain America and Batman. Particularly when discussion opens about Known Tricks Captain America Has Done With His Shield vs. Known Items Batman Carries In His Utility Belt At Any Given Time. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/58 "2003-11-03T03:29:57Z")
Okay, so not technically RPGing: Holding a 21st ā€œbirthdayā€ party for your RPG Campaignā€¦ (yes, itā€™s been running that long)ā€¦ a costume party mindā€¦ come as one of your charactersā€¦ And of course the campaign itself is based on DragonQuest, a game thatā€™s been out of print for 20-odd years. (We donā€™t count 3rd edition) šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![cletus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@cletus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cletus)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/59 "2003-11-03T05:29:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shade \* > \*\*I thought it was unclear if an activity involving w-geekiness would be (w+1)-geekiness or (1+w) geekiness. OK, _that_ counts. \*\* Debating trivial comic details would qualify as (w+1)-geekiness. Debating the usage of w-geekiness would be closer to (w+w)-geekiness. Does this make me a (w+w)geek? ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-geeky-group-activity-aside-from-rpging/210410/60 "2003-11-03T06:29:37Z")
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