what kind of geek are you?

I'd have to say i'm a video game geek as much as i'm a movie geek. If I was defined by one, it would be video games.

But I don't "look" like a geek. Never have.

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Actually, now that I think of it, the movie/video game geekiness may be equal for me.

While physically I can pass for a regular person there is no denying my being a video game geek.

I'm an elitist one.

In school, I was a very skinny (you could see my heart beat through my ribs) and uncoordinated kid, with low self confidence. I tried to be the "class clown," but my sense of humor was generally too "weird" to make me popular. So I was a big ol' geek, generally referred to as "the weird kid."

My biggest obsession is music, generally music far off the beaten path (ie, only kid who spent 9th grade trying to find Velvet Underground albums). Also a pretty big geek for movies and cartoons. Also, TV. I've been a huge couch potato for as long as I can remember. I try to limit the shows I get involved with because I get VERY obsessive about my shows. I like weird books, although not as big a reader as most of my geek friends. I was a comic book geek up through 8th grade, though never as obsessed as most true comic geeks. I guess I still read alot more comics than the average non-geek.

I got into superheroes in kindergarten (when Superfriends premiered), was big into scifi and especially fantasy in elementary-middle school, became obsessed with cult movies/punk rock/weird 60s bands/countercultre lit (Vonnegut and stuff)/underground comics in high school.

I would have to say I am more a movie geek than anything else. There have been a few times when people have just stared at me and asked "Don't you DO anything else?" Oh, and I am on the internet a hell of a lot but notice I am always on CHUD, a movie site. *sigh* I'm wasting my life.

I did really well in high school, but I somehow didn't get pegged as one of the smart geeks. Probably too much English in me and not enough math. And I was truly a band geek, but we didn't face much ridicule, and I was a drummer, besides, which automatically makes one cooler than most band geeks.

I was huge into Marvel and DC from 4th grade to freshman year or so, but no one ever really knew, so again... I escaped any sort of ridicule (though I'm not sure that's worth ridicule). I've always been something of a movie-geek, but on this board, I'm probably less so by comparison.

Freshman year of college, I was sort of a geek again, strictly by comparison with my football player roommate. Some of the folks in my dorm thought I was weird because I had a Jane's Addiction poster up and put Anton Levay's 11 Satanic Rules of the Earth up on the door as a joke.

Movie geek all the way. Movie geeks are sneaky because you can't pick them out unless they are starwars or startrek movie geeks. I used to think I was a Star Wars geek until I went to the midnight showing of TPM and saw that I was tame... very tame.

I've also been known to be a baseball and video game geek.

oh god where to start, okay, geeks i have been or presently am:

band/jazz band/orchestra geek
comic book/cartoon geek
science fair geek
computer/book/math/science/engineer geek
movie/tv geek
socially inept/outcast/recluse/hermit geek
internet chat/mb geek
writing geek
and no luck with love geek...

i went through that whole not fitting in anywhere thing, trying different 'groups' and 'cliques' all the time, after a while i just stopped and formed my own group with jetfire, jacques mayol, that mechanical bear that keeps haunting me and shaking my refridgerator, and my life-sized cardboard cutout of nell carter...

Late 80's/early 90's HK film geek all the way. I literally squealed when I got John Woo's autograph (I waited till I was safely inside my car).

Lately, becoming a Miike and Ryu Seung Wan (Die Bad, No Blood No Tears) geek.

Then, I was the athletic geek who loved video games, movies and fantasy lit. Off just enough to date the "weird" chicks and on just enough to not get snubbed by the rest. Now, married accountant in the process of putting the finishing touches on Project Let It All Go. Let full-blown geekdom ensue.

I've changed my geekish ways a few times over the years. At one point during early high school I was absolutely obsessed with heavy metal. Resulting in unhealthy partying, religious guitar playing, and a massive CD collection.

Now my tastes have stemmed into other realms, mostly horror movies and the like.

As for appearance, I'm the hulk!

Hmmm, that would be a "on a budget" geek.

I'am a film-book-pussy-porn geek

I hear ya... Morbid Angel, Slayer, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse. The list goes on and on. That was the kind of geek I was in high school. Same M.O. as well. Endless Bass playing, and have been in bands ever since.
Now, it's movies, mostly horror and my musical tastes are WIDELY eclectic.

But first and foremost.
I'm an Anthropology Geek. I tape shit off of PBS for chrissakes! If only I had money for a satellite dish... oh the ethnographic film collection I would have!

As for looks, I've posted my ugly mug in the Chewervision thread. I haven’t changed too much since high school. The long mohawk thingy is gone and I'm about 30 pounds lighter. Thread number 11 I do believe.

In my appearance are apparent the last remaining vestiges of my Goth past. I wear glasses. I love movies. In my home there are a GameCube, PS2, Xbox and gameboy. Oh, And all of my friends are geeks. I guess that makes me a Film/Game geek.

Though I do, occasionally, bite the heads off of live chickens in the true sense of the word...

I base my life upon the teachings of the honorable Steven Seagal. If that makes me a "geek" then so be it.

By the way, if you called me a "geek" to my face I would hurt you physically.

Spoken like a true Seagal protege.

May Buddha himself grant you inspiration and guidance, Khitcher.

Or something.

I can practically smell the blood and incense.

*bows, hands together*

"Domo..."

Is there such a thing as a sex geek?

What the hell does OT mean?

I'm a laserdisc geek, which makes me an elitist.

That would be a nerd pal, you don't want to know what happens to nerds around here.

now that I know what OT means... does that make me an even bigger geek?

It doesn't go into affect untill you use OT in a conversation with a non SW geek and have to explain yourself.

Psh and shaw.

great, so there is a distinction, wonderful ostracized again, eh, more of the same, and who you calling pal missy!...

Movies, Video Games, and Simpsons. There are probably other things I'm geeky with... but this would be the top 3. Being a Simpsons geek, of course, is socially acceptable.

Movies, television, video games, and flashlights.

That's right. You heard me. Flashlights.

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Anyway.

Hey, I've been all over OAR for over 13 years now. You newcomers make me sick. Plus Criterion meant more then.

Damn, you ARE elitist.

*high fives, realizes that's such a pedestrian thing to do, nods, and sips his latte*

Movie, video games, comic book, anime, asian films and Buffy geek.

Don't know if that falls under the geek category but I have a unhealthy man love for Chow Yun Fat, to the point that I swoon every time I see him and decide that soon as I get enough money, I'll buy a trenchcoat and start chewing on a toothpick most of the time.

I'd say I go into all areas of geekism except for those role playing card games. Just don't understand the appeal of all the crap. I dig comic books(go every week, read almost every title. Got boxes all over my room filled with them. Talking thousands of comics), movies(have like around 150 dvds now, go to the movies atleast once a week, and rent atleast three times a week. Film student), video games(Own an X-box, PS2, and Gamecube, along with a GBA, Dreamcast, N64, GBC, and even have a Gamegear somewhere) , anime (a little bit, not all hardcore like some people (though I do enjoy the hardcore anime)) and I'm all in to shows like 24, Smallville, Buffy, Sopranos, Shield, and South Park. I shield it well from most people. They think I'm just normal. Only some know the extreme amount of knowledge I hold on these subjects.

Want proof of my geekiness? Check out my name and sig.

I'm a vagina geek. I love vagina.

Horror Geek or Whore Geek both of them works for me.

I dont look like a geek at all. But im a bit of a computer geek, a video game geek, and a movie geek for sure.

Will drinking drano rid me of this dangerous knowledge?

Movies, animation, science fiction, horror (I was reading Stephen King in 5th grade), graphic novels (the monthly's are too short and too episodic - so I'm not a collector, so what?), video games, books, Oingo Boingo (which means Danny Elfman), DVDs (couldn't afford laserdisc, elitists be damned!), music, etc. When I was younger, I liked role-playing games. I was BIG into Magic:The Gathering until I moved back to San Diego (can't find anyone I like playing with, and the rules keep changing anyway), still have all my cards tho'. There are a lot of shows I watch on TV, mostly all the "Law & Order"s and weird genre stuff (I'm currently lamenting the demise of my all time favorite, "Farscape" ). I've always been an all around geek, but I blend in with the mundanes rather well, even tho' I don't have any hair or eyebrows (long story). Most of my friends are geeks that blend in well, too.

Viva la geekdom!