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Here is mine. I work for the Royal Mail, the nationalised UK postal service. I'd just got Medal of Honor Rising Sun, for the PS2, and loaded it up.

What did I do?

I'll confess it now.................

Rather than run  out of the burning ship and play the game, I said to myself "oh wow - it's a mail room, on the ship - it must be a sorting office"

I then proceeded to take a virtual tour of the sorting office, and tried to see how it was set up, and forgot all about playing  the game at all, for several minutes.

I guess this one works... When I play Caesar 3 I say screw the starving people. I just want to trade with other cities and fill my warehouses full of goods. My Sims experience goes as far as actually playing the game without cheating (I'm under the impression that doesn't happen often) and importing stuff I made that matches crap I actually own. I recreated the first house I ever lived in...lol

well this is kind of nerdy. on my copy of NHL 96 for the Sega Genesis I created players for myself, my wife and a bunch of my friends. My wife and I play for the Red Wings, I of course am the leading scorer and all my buds are on other teams.

I've named players in sports games after my friends too, but the nerdiest thing that I have done is refer to characters in video games as if they are real people to people that have no idea what I'm talking about.  Example:
Hey Mike what did you do today?
I took Cecil and Rosa to Baron today

oh on Worms 3D and Hogs of War all of the team members are named after members of my bulletin board :)

Back in '99 when I got NFL2K, I re-created the entire football team from my high school with the create-a-player feature in the game.  Their uniforms, names, numbers, sizes, and positions all matched.  I guess I was pretty bored at the time.

I collect videogames. I buy them, catalogue them and then put them on a shelf in alphabetical order.

yeah, but we all do that. :)

But we also all name video game characters to people we know ;)

I also find myself doing the opposite quite often.  Rather than just naming characters I create in my games after people I know, I often "name" people I see walking down the street after video game characters they resemble.

I do both of those and I talk about life as if it were a game. I've actually used "I got caught up fighting Gannon" as an excuse for being late.

There was this really slutty girl I knew, and I told Mike that she was "easier than Devil May Cry 2."

I also told someone (it may have been my ex-girlfriend) that she was more beautiful than 1024 x 768 with anti-aliasing running at 60fps.

evili_leon - that is pretty nerdy!

WOW.  You've never told me that one.  Reading it made me laugh out loud.

What did your ex say to that?

damn that was funny.

The day before the Dreamcast came out (9/9/99), I went to Software Etc. at 6pm, so I would be the first in line when they released them at 12am. Of course, I was the only one in line for about 2 and a half hours. But there was a line dammit!
Also, while standing in the front of this nerd line of "I've met plenty of girls on the internet" type nerds, I attempted to pick up a girl who was getting off work from the gap. (That actually worked, unfortunetly)
Sadly, Im sure I'll repeat all this when the next wave of systems hits. But that all depends on the games at launch.

waitasecond, repeat this story for Star Wars episode 1 and 2, but take out the picking up girl, and add in, having plastic glow up light saber fights in the dark with 300 other people standing around acting like YOU'RE the wierdo.

the old topic of the week:
my "nerd" thing his to be my love of simulation games.  It's one thing when you run to tell your wife you just scored a touchdown in madden, but it is alot more nerdy when you run to tell your wife that you just delivered your first load of coal from your mines in west Virginia to your power plant in New York (Railroad Tycoon). My name is Rejinx and I am a nerd.  :ninja:

I get excited over a picture of a PCB. (Prototypes)

I joined an AV forum with a gaming section. My first post was telling someone off for their advice on how to clean a SNES cartridge slot. They said to put the cartridge in, take it out, put it in, etc. Reading that made me cringe. I then went on about how to clean it using a thin cloth and a credit card, and how to bend the pins back in place.

I once said "noob" out loud with other people in the room.

My name is James and I'm... more of a loser than a nerd.

I didn't think I was that big of a nerd, but when I was watching South Park last night (the World of Warcraft one) with my girlfriend, so explained exactly how nerdy I am in explicit detail.

Apparently laughing at jokes made about swords that do 120 DPS and drain mana is looked down apon in popular society.

Before I had many real video games, like when all I had was Tetris and Falcon on my old black and white, Apple, SE-30, I used to build what I called "levels" with micro machines and lego's which an intrepid band of the coolest looking micro machine guys I had, had to traverse. I wanted to play RTS games so bad that I was doing it all manually. And, truthfully, playing with those toys and making my own "levels" was more fun than most RTS games ever are (except for the Myth series) I acted out battles and all kinds of stuff. I once built an accurate model of the Alamo with wooden blocks, and then I had the Mexicans attack. I still have hundreds if not thousands of tiny little plastic figures. If they still made Micro-Machines I'd probably still collect them.

So I guess I wasn't really a gaming nerd, I was more of a Micro Machines nerd, but I always just kinda wanted to be a gaming nerd.