Geek meme

[gridlore]

Snagged from chaoswolf's bag of holding.

List 5 reasons why you are a geek. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud & proud about how big of a geek you are!

1. I've been playing RPGs for 28 years. Started on blue box D&D and Traveller, and have played literally hundreds of games in dozens of systems. I bought polyhedrals from Lou Zocchi himself. I played Metamorphis Alpha, Gamma World, 1st Edition C&S, even weirdies like Bunnies and Burrows and Empire of the Petal Throne.

2. I'm a complete Third Imperium geek. I can name, in order, more Emperors than Presidents. I have gotten in screaming flame wars of the rate of expansion of the Imperium into Sol Sector. Hell, I wrote the bloody book on the Imperial Army and Marines. My head is filled with facts and figures about the Imperium, and I want to detail it more!

3. I design planets for fun. I find it relaxing to sit down and start with the stellar data and create an entire star system. Filling in the details, justifying odd results, coming up with plot lines based on unusual conditions. I love it!

4. But away from my SF/RPG obsessions for a moment.. I'm a sports geek. Especially when it comes to my beloved Giants. I can not only tell you who gave up Robby Thompson's home run in the 1951 playoff against the Dodgers (Ralph Branca, in case you were wondering), I also know the count (2-1) and who9 was waiting on deck (21-year-old rookie center fielder Willie Mays). I love stats, strategy, and trying to out-think managers.

5. Then there's the military. I'm a complete military geek. I can't watch most war movies because I spot the errors in uniforms and equipment to quickly. I devour military histories with a passion, and have been war gaming for as long as I've been an RPGer. I played Advanced Squad Leader with all the rules. That should impress anyone.

Comments

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think.

IIRC, wasn't it the GURPS version of Spinward Marches that included another Grandfather being born among the Droyne?
I would think that anyone with a half clue would be shitting bricks and moving to get him nuked. Frankly, I can't imagine Grandfather being that pleased either.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

That's one of my many issues with Behind the Claw. If I was going to do any sort of "survivng Ancient" plot, it would be either a Drayskin that Grandfather missed (unlikely at best) or have one of the Drayskin uploaded into a massive computer, which is then buried for 200,000 years until MyMines, LIC, accidently digs it up...

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

That's a lot more reasonable than Yaskodray (IIRC) MkII.
Given his (for lack of a better term) proclivity for not tolerating interference, and technological proficiency, engineering a retrovirus that presents any sort of 'uberdroyne' being born again wouldn't be that hard to do.

Yaskoydray and the "new" Grandfather

[(Anonymous)]

I actually liked the idea of another supersport being born. It would change the Imperium, and those governments around it, far to much for most of the canonmongers though, so I don't think it would have gone anywhere, even if followed up on.