Nerdy things you don't/didn't want friends to know?

[Aeonknight]

I'm probably the nerdiest out of all of my friends so I can't really find anything that I wouldn't want them to know... Though at one point I didn't want my friends to know just how much anime I watched... Couldn't be helped when they'd randomly walk in with me watching something like Excel Saga, Dokuro-chan, or Goldenboy... Why couldn't they have walked in on Black Lagoon or something else... y'know... less wacky?

Hello Shantotto avatar. I'm still playing that damn game lol.
(Also Dokuro-chan is awesome.)

Let's see... what else...

I played and thoroughly enjoyed FFVII. Hell, I can barely let people on the internet know that, apparently that game's still cool to hate.

me too. Also enjoyed FF7.

Points to Avatar.

This.

For anime/manga, I enjoy everything .hack related. And a few random series I watched like Lucky Star.

I think I've divulged enough nerd information about myself to seriously hamper my "sarcastic internet asshole" thing I have going on.

 

[Berithil]

I used to have really, really long hair and when I started getting obsessed with LOTR I would always wear my hair like Legolas's, side braids and everything... Let the mocking commence

Don't worry. When I was in junior high, I wore a replica of the one ring around my neck on a chain, in addition to other things. Although I've gotten older and stopped being as obsessive, I've still got the theatrical RotK poster hanging up on my wall as well as replicas of Anduril and aragorns elven knife. So yeah, still a big LotR geek, just not as public about it.

 

[ms_sunlight]

Oh wait i know something else i do not tell friends(though it is not really nerdy). I cry easy reading/watching sad stuff (like fruits basket i am watching again). This is also why i do not read romance/drama stories in public.

I cry all the time at telly and films. I cried like mad at the final episode of the Ouran High School Host Club anime, and at the Witchblade anime ending. And yes, I admit to tearing up to Fruits Basket. It's one of those things I don't feel like I should be embarassed about but I am!

 

[Nightwolf214]

I wouldn't know of anything that I'm particularly ashamed of really. But I am a true mythology nerd (Greek preferably, Norse next, and the rest are meh at best), I have a near encyclopedic knowledge of the Star Wars Extended Universe (depends on the book series). The only thing I don't tend to mention in public often is that I adhere to the tenets of Mandalorian culture and society. People tend to give you funny looks, don't care regardless

 

[Rin Little]

I used to have really, really long hair and when I started getting obsessed with LOTR I would always wear my hair like Legolas's, side braids and everything... Let the mocking commence

Don't worry. When I was in junior high, I wore a replica of the one ring around my neck on a chain, in addition to other things. Although I've gotten older and stopped being as obsessive, I've still got the theatrical RotK poster hanging up on my wall as well as replicas of Anduril and aragorns elven knife. So yeah, still a big LotR geek, just not as public about it.

Yea, I had one of those too lol and I got a ton of action figures and books that are now pretty much in storage...

 

[Brown Cap]

Not really a secret at all but my friends are often astounded by my knowledge of random nerdy trivia.

Did you know there are 2,759 lakes in the Adirondaks?

 

[Brown Cap]

I play Zork with friends through Facebook Chat

And beaten the orginial NES Super Mario Bros

And made it to level 14 on Tetris (The original NES kind without all the cheating crap of today's easy mess with a score 100,000,000+)

And I've learned how to play the songs from Scott Pilgrim

 

[darkcalling]

Not really a secret at all but my friends are often astounded by my knowledge of random nerdy trivia.

Did you know there are 2,759 lakes in the Adirondaks?

ok maybe not THAT random. lol

 

[Mayamellissa]

Unfortunately I don't have any friends... so there really isn't anything I can add to this thread. Except for that.

 

[Mitchell Leger]

I would like to make sure my friends never knew how much elder scrolls lore I really know.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I admit plenty of nerdy stuff to my friends, usually as a mood lifter or "no way, you cannot beat TheYellowCellPhone at a nerd-off, he is simply the best there is."

My Little Pony, my Homestuck obsession, all the time I spend on games like TF2, yadda yadda, I've admitted it in a jovial tone.

 

[requisitename]

I'm just really lucky that all my friends are as nerdy as or nerdier than I am. He who is without nerd cast the first action figure and all that. Heh.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

I don't think it counts as 'nerdy', but nobody off the internet knows I'm a furry.

Oh and I've had weird sex dreams about half the characters from Death Note (both male and female), but then again, who hasn't?

Uh... asexuals? So... I suppose that counts? Can I throw in the fact that Joel from Concession made a guest appearance too?

 

[ZehMadScientist]

I watch more anime than is probably healthy, but most of my friends know that. It's my playing of Visual Novels that I'd like to keep private.
I never push my preferences or hobbies on people unless they ask me, and they actually show interest. I have to say I'm a lot more reluctant to admit that I play visual novels as opposed to my anime watching habits, do their infamous reputation of usually containing fetishized ero scenes.

And yeah, I'm probably by far the nerdiest of my friends, I just don't look and act like it.

 

[TephlonPrice]

I'm a brony.

I'm also an African-American male who's built like a Navy SEAL sniper.

 

[The Shadowlord]

I was a massive Bionicle fan. Like, massive. I've got shelves lined with the things. Ask me a question related to the storyline and I could probably give an extensive answer, even now with a fairly rusty knowledge.

 

[ServebotFrank]

I played and thoroughly enjoyed FFVII. Hell, I can barely let people on the internet know that, apparently that game's still cool to hate.

Is it also cool to hate the Titanic movie with Leo DiCaprio, and Shadow of the Colossus? I dunno, maybe we go on different parts of the 'net, or maybe I just woke up from a cryo-chamber, but...

Hey I hated Titanic before it was cool!!! Also where do you go where people hate Shadow of the Colossus? Do these people not want to live to see tomorrow?

OT: Practically everything I like is nerdy. Not many people know I'm a huge, giant Japanese monster movie fan (no pun intended) so there's that.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I watch competitive starcraft 2 tournaments and commentary online, but I haven't played the game in months (my powerful computer broke). I can know what is happening in the game just by listening even with all the jargon. I have a zerg muta necklace and really want plushies of the zerg and protoss. My friends find it weird for a girl to enjoy that sort of stuff while I dislike facebook and rom coms (I think they are degrading to women and just poorly written). I do love skirt and dress shopping so guess I'm an enigma.