Topic: Current geeky activity ? (Read 26136 times)

doomtroll · « **Reply #25 on:** June 25, 2005, 10:04:06 PM »

building a File server out of spare parts I have laying around

12AX7 · « **Reply #26 on:** June 25, 2005, 11:54:02 PM »

Posting on several boards... at 12:53 on a Saturday night... and I'm NOT at work.

hackess · « **Reply #27 on:** June 26, 2005, 12:10:00 AM »

Checking several boards at 12:11amCST, after getting home from an excellent electronic/industrial music fest.

12AX7 · « **Reply #28 on:** June 26, 2005, 01:28:21 AM »

Just checking boards and going to a music fest cancel each other out, don't they?

hackess · « **Reply #29 on:** June 26, 2005, 08:58:59 AM »

Not when one of the band's names is "endIf" and another performs songs about the Transformers and the Konami Code.

12AX7 · « **Reply #30 on:** June 26, 2005, 01:23:01 PM »

Ahh. You get EXTRA points, then!

johnus · « **Reply #31 on:** July 04, 2005, 06:56:41 AM »

BOO paintball! Airsoft, w00!

Geeky thing? How about signing up for this forum, building a tower of doom with magnets, checking my spam (e-mail) every 2 minutes, watching a robotic dog wander around the room and figuring out my "hacker key" while eating cheerios naked at my desk while basking in deep red lighting (ceiling lights) at 5am.

Sleep is for the weak.

ivan · « **Reply #32 on:** July 05, 2005, 05:42:18 PM »

This one time I wrote some assembler routines to blanket-dial entire area codes using prototype fax/modem boards installed in 286 clones. I was trawling for fax numbers. That was back when there was only one published fax directory, and it only had 20K numbers, of which maybe 55% were valid. We found 100K working fax numbers using this setup -- we had around 150 of those machines dialing all night. You should've seen the phone bill. I also do a lot of yard work and gardening, and write bad poetry for effect.

Faint · « **Reply #33 on:** July 05, 2005, 06:55:24 PM »

I'm hooked on Evercrack, or for the rest of you Everquest. It's more addicting than meth. And I can't get enough.

P.Peach · « **Reply #34 on:** July 06, 2005, 12:26:01 AM »

1) Trying to beat a high score on an online version of boggle.
2) Studying anatomy books. For fun.

Faint · « **Reply #35 on:** July 06, 2005, 05:43:13 AM »

Yeah, this forum is just geeky by itself. Aside from the fact that I'm just reading random definitions on Urbandictionary.com and trying to beat Heli Attack3 on miniclip. I really need a life.

johnus · « **Reply #36 on:** July 06, 2005, 08:59:37 AM »

Don't we all...

...Wait...naahhhh.

blueeyedmama · « **Reply #37 on:** July 06, 2005, 10:33:58 AM »

Well, besides the fact that I signed up for midwifery school (with the philomath program) for FUN...let's see...

I'm building a website
I'm playing sims 2
I'm looking for a job on craigslist
I just found a man on craigslist by listing minimum stats their personal 2nd ed. character sheet must have. (I hate 3rd ed.)
Oh, and I just updated my blog with a link to meatspin.com

I miss EQ something awful...I'm such a Qrack whore.........

Demosthenes · « **Reply #38 on:** July 06, 2005, 12:23:01 PM »

Quote from: blueeyedmama

(I hate 3rd ed.)

Reeeeaaaaaallllllly.

BizB · « **Reply #39 on:** July 06, 2005, 12:43:01 PM »

My most recent geek activity was to make this:

blueeyedmama · « **Reply #40 on:** July 06, 2005, 01:05:51 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Quote from: blueeyedmama
(I hate 3rd ed.)

Reeeeaaaaaallllllly.

I do! It's like they took D&D, flipped it upside down, shook it a bit, and told me to keep playing. Maybe I just need an understanding DM...lol

blueeyedmama · « **Reply #41 on:** July 06, 2005, 01:07:48 PM »

Quote from: Scuzzy

Quote from: TheJudge
Quote from: Lacerda
I'm playing World of Warcraft. After I said I wouldn't.

I'm getting pressure from a lot of people to buy it. I fear that my marriage may never take place if I do.

Well lets look at whatll happen if you by it now...you wont get married...if you buy it AFTER your married, your wife will want a divorce becaus WoW stole your life and soul, so you pay no attention to her

No WAY! He just needs a good geek girl! I played EQ with DH for years, and held off on WoW because EQ2 was coming out...but now want to play WoW instead.

We DO exist...we're just snatched up fast

Demosthenes · « **Reply #42 on:** July 06, 2005, 02:28:50 PM »

Quote from: blueeyedmama

Quote from: Demosthenes
Quote from: blueeyedmama
(I hate 3rd ed.)

Reeeeaaaaaallllllly.

I do! It's like they took D&D, flipped it upside down, shook it a bit, and told me to keep playing. Maybe I just need an understanding DM...lol

No, I think that's wrong.

You know what 3rd Edition D&D is?

3rd Edition D&D is a brand new Corvette being "passed off" as a 1964 Corvette Stingray.

It's shiny. It's got all the latest nosehair clippers. It's noisy. It's fast. It's got twice the horsepower. Everybody drools over it.

But it still can't hold a candle to the '64.

In fact, one could even say it really isn't anything like the '64, except for the "Corvette" name.

"New and improved" doesn't automatically equate to "better".

That's why I play this.

Kenzer & Co. took that classic 1964 Corvette Stingray we know and love and put a wicked custom paintjob on it, some high-performance tires, tuned up the engine, installed a sick stereo system in it, and put on some personalized plates.

It drives and roars like the original car, and in most respects IS the original... but it's souped up and brought up-to-date without compromising what makes it a "classic".

If you like 1E or 2E, check it out.

blueeyedmama · « **Reply #43 on:** July 06, 2005, 02:54:32 PM »

NICE! Will do.

ITA with your analogy.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #44 on:** July 06, 2005, 03:07:44 PM »

I ran AD&D for 16 years, and for the past three years, HackMaster has been my game of choice.

My players and I consider HackMaster to be "what 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons SHOULD have been".

</shameless plug>

reimero · « **Reply #45 on:** July 06, 2005, 03:12:02 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

I ran AD&D for 16 years, and for the past three years, HackMaster has been my game of choice.

My players and I consider HackMaster to be "what 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons SHOULD have been".

</shameless plug>

What he said. Agreed 10000000000000% Hackmaster RULES. (Yes, I'm a certified level 3 Hackmaster GM.)

Demosthenes · « **Reply #46 on:** July 06, 2005, 03:16:40 PM »

Plenty of people enjoy 3rd Edition D&D... that's fine by me.

But as Jules says in Pulp Fiction, "well, sewer rat might taste like pumpkin pie, but I wouldn't know, because I wouldn't eat the filthy motherf*cker."

If they had called it anything else, say "D20 Fantasy", for example, I probably wouldn't object.

See, it's mostly the fact that they invented a wholly new game from scratch and then had the gall to call it "Dungeons & Dragons" that I take issue with.

Because of that, I won't touch it with a 10' pole, or any other D20 based game for that matter, just on principle.

Fortunately though, support for AD&D is alive and well. It's just called "HackMaster" now.

Crystalmonkey · « **Reply #47 on:** July 06, 2005, 03:54:01 PM »

I'm considering trying that out, the only problem is I don't know anybody in the area that plays Hackmaster.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #48 on:** July 06, 2005, 04:28:57 PM »

I didn't either. So I started running it at my own table after convincing my regular players to give it a try.

It didn't take much convincing. They were sold pretty much from the character creation process. It was all downhill from there.

Crystalmonkey · « **Reply #49 on:** July 06, 2005, 05:01:46 PM »

That reminds me, I need to find some people to play D&D...

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