A brief Moment of Geekyness

extra nerd points if you know the story behind this.

dethtoll dot mid: hah, awesome
dethtoll dot mid: i just discovered a feature in gzdoom
dethtoll dot mid: that lets me change the way the music is played so it sounds more old-school rather than the full-featured general MIDI
dethtoll dot mid: it sounds like older sound cards do now
dethtoll dot mid: it's so nerdy that this should actually matter to me

I was watching a friend of mine play a video game yesterday. I find him very attractive....except when he's playing video games.

I've only just realized that someone can be UNattractive playing video games; and it's not because of his looks or anything like that.

He sighs a lot, and it's not your typical 'I suck at this' sigh. He sighs as though he is LITERALLY in PAIN or some form of GREAT discomfort.

So thinking of unattractive playing styles of video games got me thinking about the opposite end of the spectrum, what's ATTRACTIVE in video gaming?

To me it's intense concentration, if playing mainly solo, though capable of carrying on a conversation when needed (which is how I am). Maybe the occasional 'face' (like biting the tongue or, as my habit is, biting my lips). And when playing with other people? Aggressive, smack talk! Mainly because that's how I do it.

So what is attractive and unattractive in another person playing video games for you folks?

dethtoll dot mid: sup cracker
bonethistle brew: supper cracker?
bonethistle brew: what?
dethtoll dot mid wants to directly connect.
bonethistle brew is now directly connected.
dethtoll dot mid:
bonethistle brew: seen it :P
dethtoll dot mid: yes, well
dethtoll dot mid: clearly you needed your memory F5'd
bonethistle brew: f5'd?
dethtoll dot mid: refreshed
bonethistle brew: that's so incredibly geeky
dethtoll dot mid: thanks
bonethistle brew: that's like
bonethistle brew: joke of nerdiness +5
dethtoll dot mid: oh come on, it's clearly a +7
bonethistle brew: (you got it from a bag of holding)
bonethistle brew: no
bonethistle brew: +7 is like
bonethistle brew: that somethingpositive joke
bonethistle brew: "heh heh WHOA DUDE those are at LEAST eight hit dice girls!"
bonethistle brew: "i failed my charisma check!"
dethtoll dot mid: hahaha
bonethistle brew: +10 is like
bonethistle brew: "man, my internet girlfriend right? well i told her to flash her BIOS and she was like okay and she downloaded the WINDOWS utility even though i told her she'd be better off using SuSE!"
bonethistle brew: and the joke comes from that EVERYONE knows she should be using fedora core
dethtoll dot mid: ... i failed my nerd tolerance check
bonethistle brew: i have lesser restoration
bonethistle brew: it should heal your level drain.
bonethistle brew: up to 1d4 levels worth of experience, in fact.
dethtoll dot mid: okay shut the fuck up and let's play some CS
bonethistle brew: done
bonethistle brew: you quote this
bonethistle brew: now

I'm a reporter for a newspaper and I was writing down the slug for a picture I took for the newspaper. The picture had a man who was barbequeing, so I naturally put the slug as: 0702bbq5 (we can only use 3 letter identifiers for stories and pictures).

Then it came time for putting down the description for my editors. And of course I instantly knew what it had to be:
OMGWTFBBQ?!?!?!?

I chuckled all the way back to my seat.

i made an excel spreadsheet detailing a huge list of missions in thief, both official and fan-made, that i was going to play, at a rate of one per night until i was finished with all the ones in my list. i've been playing since august. i won't be finished until november.

does that make me dorky?

I realized the other day that I have Nintendo-coloured underwear. They're black, the band is Nintendo-grey, and there's red on it. Beat that?

The song isn't so terrible, and perhaps the cheesiness is purposeful (it is extremely cheesy).

Unicorns L.A. by My Barbarian.

It's Quicktime, for anyone that doesn't have it. And it's scary (work safe, but emotionally it may scar you).

ladies and gentlemen, you have been outdorked.

i'm buying this and i'm going to sleep with it.

So, I was idling on IRC (bad enough, right?), when I saw this:

* Joins Grue (...

My heart leapt in my chest, I recoiled from the computer, and said "Oh shit!" I was on the phone with my friend Jon at the time, too. He was so confused until I told him what happened. He laughed at me, but it was really only because it happened to me, not him.