Pivotal Moment

[zachatree]

So this might be a long shot for a topic, but what was that pivotal game/moment that you realized that you were in fact a geek/nerd? Mine was when I ended up cutting off a large group of friends due to my World of Warcraft addiction (which I have now replaced with Warhammer )

 

[Cinder Block of Oppression]

When I cried about my account being hacked in Runescape.

I was like, 8 at the time, so be cool.

 

[Solo508]

Haha Cinder Block, mine was when I cried because my Runescape account got banned... yeah I was addicted to that game. Got me into online gaming. I wouldn't really consider myself to be a nerd though... I have a girlfriend and I go outside reguraly, only thing seperating me from anybody else is the fact that I could hit you right between the eyes from the other side of the map in CoD4

 

[Vallen00]

Mine was probably when i realized I could name every one of the 151(at the time) pokemon just from a look at the shadow. I could almost name every single one from memory with out any help, either.

 

[Graustein]

Mine was probably when i realized I could name every one of the 151(at the time) pokemon just from a look at the shadow. I could almost name every single one from memory with out any help, either.

Ye call that nerdiness?
I know a guy who can identify the first 251 Pokemon by number.
It's scary.

I personally never had a nerd moment. I always knew.

 

[Novajam]

When I had so many trading cards that I had to store them in a shoebox. This is when I was about eight.

As a reaffirmation, I only realised that I spend more time posting on game forums the Escapist, thinking up game concepts and reading about games than actually playing them a few weeks back.

 

[Sensenmann]

When I realised I was soo geeky I knew what the Medulla Oblongata was and how to spell it without Google.

 

[Ultrajoe]

When someone using the 'Alert' sound from MGS as a message tone on their mobile made my fingers twitch and my head snap around to spot the bastard.

 

[Amnestic]

I know a guy who can identify the first 251 Pokemon by number.

That's fairly impressive. Why 251 though? Why stray into the second set? Doesn't the first+second set have over 251 pokémon, in which case it'd be an only half-complete second set? I'd be more impressed if you'd said 151. Sure it'd be 100 less, but it'd be the complete first set only which I can appreciate.

That said though, Espeon>all other pokémon.

When someone using the 'Alert' sound from MGS as a message tone on their mobile made my fingers twitch and my head snap around to spot the bastard.

The alert sound would go great with my codec-ringing ring tone!

My moment was when I started listing all the animes I watched all the way through over MSN and ran out of characters for more than two IMs, and I'd still forgotten some

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

When I took my maths book and school desk into the garden on a sunny day...(5 years old)

 

[Graustein]

I know a guy who can identify the first 251 Pokemon by number.

That's fairly impressive. Why 251 though? Why stray into the second set? Doesn't the first+second set have over 251 pokémon, in which case it'd be an only half-complete second set? I'd be more impressed if you'd said 151. Sure it'd be 100 less, but it'd be the complete first set only which I can appreciate.

That said though, Espeon>all other pokémon.

The second generation of Pokemon has 251 named Pokemon, Unown having 28 forms, one for each letter of the alphabet plus the ! and ? symbols.

He refuses to learn any of the third generation or later because he's a G1 purist. He only memorised G2 cos he was bored.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Birth.

I'm a huge geek/nerd (not sure of the difference, prefer the term nerd), always have been.

 

[Obiter]

That fact that I am gainfully employed on a more than full-time basis as a lawyer but somehow still find the time to make fansites about Heroes of Might and Magic Kingdoms (link in profile if you are interested).

Or perhaps the fact that I post 1500-word missives on Roguelike games to game discussion boards like this one [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.72684#770148] for no appreciable reason, end or benefit other than as tribute to the love of a gaming genre.

 

[rottenbutter]

I realized it at some point while watching G4 (I think I was watching Attack of the Show at the time).