The nerdiest thing that you've ever done while playing a simulation game...

[Blacklight]

I was discussing the topic of simulation games with a friend of mine and somehow we got into the topic of being nerdy while playing with one (Something I have VERY first hand experience with... read on). He told me that once, when he was in college, he went over to his friend's dorm room to see if he wanted to join him at the local bar for darts and beer. He said that when he walked into the room, he found his friend sitting next to another friend. They had multiple monitors and flight sticks with rudder pedals hooked up to a computer running one of the Microstoft Flight Simulators. When he asked if they wanted to go out for beer, they replied that they couldn't because they were flying from New York to Paris and it would take a few hours to get there. One guy was the pilot and the other was being the co-pilot and they also made the point that airline pilots shouldn't drink while flying.

I scoffed and told him I could top that. No one beats my nerdiness ! NOBODY !! (I have yet to find someone who's come close):rotfl: !

Back YEARS ago, when I first discovered the spaceflight simulator, ORBITER, I ended up with a week vacation durring a very inopportune time to go out with anyone or do anything. My girlfriend was working two jobs at the time, my friends were all either working or had moved away. I decided that I was going to fly to the Moon and back.... NERD style.

I started by pulling a mini-fridge and my small microwave into my room and filled it up with astronaut friendly food (mostly sandwitches and such... even those juice bags you poke the straws through). I then sectioned off my entire room with sheets and pretty much designed my own Lunar Module, and Lunar Lander control area/living space. I made it so I could swivel the monitor and keyboard around when I went in between the two (They were connected by a gap in the sheets).

I then spent three weeks before my vacation randomly inside my makeshift spacecraft/tent flying around the moon, figuring out where I wanted to land.. and pretty much assembling my entire flight plan.

I then flew from launch on top of a Saturn 5 rocket to the moon and back in real time flying the historical vehicles. The only time I left my improvised spacecraft was to use the facilities (of course) and I permitted myself a day to wander around my house when I landed on the moon's surface. But then, it was back into the spacecraft and back to Earth realtime again to splash down exactly on target near the US Navy ships waiting to pick me up.

All I can say is.. the experience made me SORE... VERY VERY VERY sore... and BOY did that shower feel good when I got back to Earth (God forbid if there were two of us on that mission together !) :rotfl:

My friend after hearing that declared me the "Nerd King".
I am KING of all Nerds !:88)

I was just wondering if anyone here has done anything nerdy while playing a sim (that you'll admit to... hehehe) that can come close to beating me and taking my title ? :rotfl:

[em2nought]

I was just wondering if anyone here has done anything nerdy while playing a sim (that you'll admit to... hehehe) that can come close to beating me and taking my title ? :rotfl:

I think you're going to win this one. :up: Just using the voice recognition software in Enigma Rising Tide made me feel uber nerdy. lol

[Janus]

Voice recognition, lol.

[Dowly]

The only time I left my improvised spacecraft was to use the facilities (of course) and I permitted myself a day to wander around my house... when I landed on the moon's surface.
I was waiting for this to continue "..which I had covered in fine sand and ashes..". :p

Kudos to you, mate! Would love to do something like this, for a flightsim. Build a very own cockpit with full working buttons etc, oh and of course the whole cockpit would be force feedback :rock:. Seen few do it, very nice.

Edit: Aaand of course it would have very short wings, with nav lights and some lights on the side/nose, so that when I press the trigger they would start to flash rapidly. *drool*

[Rotary Crewman]

Would like to have a Brabham BT24 replica for racing in Grand Prix Legends

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Brabham.jpg

[PeriscopeDepth]

Programming the Ekelund formula into my calculator and using it while playing Dangerous Waters.

PD

[Kapitan_Phillips]

I use a real NFL coaches headset when playing Head Coach - it lets you bark the plays to the players, like:

Thunder, 2, Go!

[Blacklight]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Blacklight
The only time I left my improvised spacecraft was to use the facilities (of course) and I permitted myself a day to wander around my house... when I landed on the moon's surface.


I was waiting for this to continue "..which I had covered in fine sand and ashes..". :p


:o
OMG !!! I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT !!! NOW I HAVE TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN !!!!!:doh:

(I hope my wife understands...):roll:

[NeonSamurai]

Understand sand and ash all over the floors and in the carpets... Ya right, you will be darn lucky if she only decides to crucify you on the front lawn.

I would suggest building yourself a sandbox in the back yard and playing in it instead, that way she will just think your crazy. :D

[ajrimmer42]

lol, i think the nerdiest thing I've ever done is fly from Sheffield City to Liverpool in RT on FS2004 using all lights and instruments and ATC. Not quite as nerdy as the shuttle to the moon I know. However I do play WoW.

[Rotary Crewman]

However I do play WoW.

You win ;)

BTW; what film is that animated gif from in your sig?

[Blacklight]

Understand sand and ash all over the floors and in the carpets... Ya right, you will be darn lucky if she only decides to crucify you on the front lawn.

I would suggest building yourself a sandbox in the back yard and playing in it instead, that way she will just think your crazy. :D

Well, she already thinks I'm crazy, so that's half the battle. I guess since I'll have to actually go OUTSIDE to take the soil and ash and rock samples, I'll need to design and build a space suit too. (She'd probably expect that from me anyway. Same thing with the neighbors :shifty: . Since I'm also an expreimental musician, they're used to strange, horrifying sounds coming out of this room when the windows are open so I'm sure me walking around the backyard in a space suit would be nothing new to them)

The other problem I'll have to overcome is my wife forcing me OUT of the spacecraft multiple times in flight.
"I'm sorry dear ! I can't take out the garbage !!! I'm 500+ miles above the Earth !!! STOP TEARING MY SPACESHIP APART !!! THERE'S NOTHING BUT COLD VACUME OUT THERE !!!! HOUSTON !!! MAYDAY !!! YAAAAAAAAA !!!!!:dead: " Yeah... that'll go over real well !

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Understand sand and ash all over the floors and in the carpets... Ya right, you will be darn lucky if she only decides to crucify you on the front lawn.

I would suggest building yourself a sandbox in the back yard and playing in it instead, that way she will just think your crazy. :D
Well, she already thinks I'm crazy, so that's half the battle. I guess since I'll have to actually go OUTSIDE to take the soil and ash and rock samples, I'll need to design and build a space suit too. (She'd probably expect that from me anyway. Same thing with the neighbors :shifty: . Since I'm also an expreimental musician, they're used to strange, horrifying sounds coming out of this room when the windows are open so I'm sure me walking around the backyard in a space suit would be nothing new to them)

The other problem I'll have to overcome is my wife forcing me OUT of the spacecraft multiple times in flight.
"I'm sorry dear ! I can't take out the garbage !!! I'm 500+ miles above the Earth !!! STOP TEARING MY SPACESHIP APART !!! THERE'S NOTHING BUT COLD VACUME OUT THERE !!!! HOUSTON !!! MAYDAY !!! YAAAAAAAAA !!!!!:dead: " Yeah... that'll go over real well !


Assure your wife that your expedition is for the good of the relationship. Or get her to join the "million miles high" club :arrgh!:

[ajrimmer42]

However I do play WoW.
You win ;)

BTW; what film is that animated gif from in your sig?
lol, it's from the New York intro trailer in World in Conflict. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvsbfCCap3w
I just used Fraps to record it on the game and Video Avatar (http://www.geovid.com/Video_Avatar/) to convert it.

[Rotary Crewman]

That looks very cool. Not played that game yet but I doubt my laptop will run it...

[Sailor Steve]

All I can say is.. the experience made me SORE... VERY VERY VERY sore...
You should have gotten up and walked around the room a lot. You could call it unrealistic, but then you weren't weightless the whole time.:sunny:

[Ice Forge]

Myself only got Chainmails and WW II us helmet :/ ( btw u get really stiff in the neck after wearing the helmet for 4 hrs straight....)

fyi i would say making the chainmail is almost in the class of the moon project :hmm:
what do you think?`( and the sheer fact that im nowadays running most sims i got on 100% total realism.. )

and yes i did assemble the chainmail myself ( complete set, copf, mail and leggings, took me about 40-60 hours in
total id guess.. going to get a roman legionaer uniform asap aswell)

[wamphyri]

I hate to lowjack this thread but I wana comment about world in conflict. I played the demo and the visuals are nice and perdy up close .. but you can't play the game up close .. you need to be zoomed out to have any chance of playing it. Looks good in screenshots but when you actually play the game it's a different story.

/end lowjack , return to nerdism

[Kraut]

I was discussing the topic of simulation games with a friend of mine and somehow we got into the topic of being nerdy while playing with one (Something I have VERY first hand experience with... read on). He told me that once, when he was in college, he went over to his friend's dorm room to see if he wanted to join him at the local bar for darts and beer. He said that when he walked into the room, he found his friend sitting next to another friend. They had multiple monitors and flight sticks with rudder pedals hooked up to a computer running one of the Microstoft Flight Simulators. When he asked if they wanted to go out for beer, they replied that they couldn't because they were flying from New York to Paris and it would take a few hours to get there. One guy was the pilot and the other was being the co-pilot and they also made the point that airline pilots shouldn't drink while flying.

I scoffed and told him I could top that. No one beats my nerdiness ! NOBODY !! (I have yet to find someone who's come close):rotfl: !

Back YEARS ago, when I first discovered the spaceflight simulator, ORBITER, I ended up with a week vacation durring a very inopportune time to go out with anyone or do anything. My girlfriend was working two jobs at the time, my friends were all either working or had moved away. I decided that I was going to fly to the Moon and back.... NERD style.

I started by pulling a mini-fridge and my small microwave into my room and filled it up with astronaut friendly food (mostly sandwitches and such... even those juice bags you poke the straws through). I then sectioned off my entire room with sheets and pretty much designed my own Lunar Module, and Lunar Lander control area/living space. I made it so I could swivel the monitor and keyboard around when I went in between the two (They were connected by a gap in the sheets).

I then spent three weeks before my vacation randomly inside my makeshift spacecraft/tent flying around the moon, figuring out where I wanted to land.. and pretty much assembling my entire flight plan.

I then flew from launch on top of a Saturn 5 rocket to the moon and back in real time flying the historical vehicles. The only time I left my improvised spacecraft was to use the facilities (of course) and I permitted myself a day to wander around my house when I landed on the moon's surface. But then, it was back into the spacecraft and back to Earth realtime again to splash down exactly on target near the US Navy ships waiting to pick me up.

All I can say is.. the experience made me SORE... VERY VERY VERY sore... and BOY did that shower feel good when I got back to Earth (God forbid if there were two of us on that mission together !) :rotfl:

My friend after hearing that declared me the "Nerd King".
I am KING of all Nerds !:88)

I was just wondering if anyone here has done anything nerdy while playing a sim (that you'll admit to... hehehe) that can come close to beating me and taking my title ? :rotfl:

ROFL

I don't think anyone can beat that, unless the guy who is building the sub room goes on a Silent Hunter patrol using no time compression inside his sub room.

[Heibges]

Issued myself half a bottle of Beck's.

[Blacklight]

I don't think anyone can beat that, unless the guy who is building the sub room goes on a Silent Hunter patrol using no time compression inside his sub room.

:rotfl: If my wife would let me build a "Sub Room" like his.... I would probably be YEARNING to do just that !! I'd even have bunks on the walls to sleep on. :rotfl:

[Letum]

Voice activation
Installing a red light
Writeing Foot to Meter and MPH to KPH conversion charts down the side of my moniter
Printing out maps
Learning the phonetic alphabet

[lambda*sqrt(u*x)]

The nerdiest thing I've ever done in a flight sim was being bombardier lead plane in a group of four Ju-88 in Il-2 1946. It was on the www.warbirdsofprey.org (http://www.warbirdsofprey.org) "Spits vs 109s" full realism server...
Before that I spent days working out a formula, and on the flight I calculated the bombsight release angle with a 1940's slide rule. =)

[darius359au]

Taught myself to Juggle while flying between planets in Elite :D

[Blacklight]

Juggling in zero gravity HAS to be tough !!! I havn't tried it yet !

Next time I fly the Space Shuttle in Orbiter, I'll give it a shot. :D

[Radtgaeb]

I keep a TI-83 close at hand whenever I play a subsim. Just for good measure, of course....:ping:. I also went to Lowes and purchased a red flourescent (gotta be eco-friendly y'know) to put in my computer room when I play.

[nikimcbee]

I wore my Civil War uniform once while playing Sid Meyer's Gettysburg. :oops: It was right after I got back from my re-enactment though.

[Biggles]

I breathe much slower and quiter in SHIII/IV if I'm under a DC attack.

Sometimes, while playing OFF, I look around my own shoulder to see if there is a jerry closing up from behind, then I remember....

It happens, when I play Team Fortress 2 (I know, not really a simulator but...) that I try to look around the corners of my screen. Also, sometimes I stop and just listens, to try to hear if there is a sentry nearby...

[Blacklight]

It happens, when I play Team Fortress 2 (I know, not really a simulator but...) that I try to look around the corners of my screen. Also, sometimes I stop and just listens, to try to hear if there is a sentry nearby...

:rotfl:
I've actually caught myself doing the same thing !

[Captain Vlad]

Oh yeah. I try and 'look around corners' a lot on action or other FPS games. Worse, on racing sims, I lean into the turns.

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Oh yeah. I try and 'look around corners' a lot on action or other FPS games. Worse, on racing sims, I lean into the turns.

YES. :rotfl:

[HunterICX]

Pushing myself back in the seat while trying to level the aircraft to crashland in IL2:oops:

HunterICX

[caspofungin]

Issued myself half a bottle of Beck's.

good one.

i wish my ex could've read this thread -- she wouldn't have given me such a hard time for playing sh3.

[KeptinCranky]

Looking around corners of your screen...oh yes done that...

worse, I tried doing that while in an actual car instead of just looking out the sidewindow :doh:

[nikimcbee]

Sometimes I wear my Russian Navy shirt when I play SH3,4, or DW.
It's a very comfortable shirt; official lounging around shirt.:up:

[Philogogus]

One summer I vowed to do an entire Aces of the Deep patrol (on a IIC... so it was relatively short) in realtime. 4 weeks... 4 WEEKS of about 8-10 hours a day.

Yeah. I was a nerd...

[PeriscopeDepth]

When playing Red Orchestra and I see a grenade land in front of me, I often physically lurch backwards in my chair. One day, I'm going to fall out of my chair at 2 in the morning and scare the hell out of my girlfriend.

PD

[Biggles]

I always wave to my enemy after a kill with my sniper on TF2 ("Thanks fer stayin' still, wanker!"). Always laughs quietly at the same time. I know pretty much every quote from the game:

Oh dear, I make quite a mess...
Eat it, fatty!
Now is Coward Killing Time!
Take it like a man!
From now on, losing is verboten!
This is my world...You are not welcome in my world!
Mmmmfffmmmmffmmmmmmff!
I should've saved a bullet for some of you blokes!
Ooh....I love...every...single....one of ya'!.........Not you....

And the list goes on:rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

Oh yeah. I try and 'look around corners' a lot on action or other FPS games. Worse, on racing sims, I lean into the turns.

YES. :rotfl:

I used to play a couple of Formula 1 games on a Playstation. Sometimes I would find myself turning the gamepad like it was a wheel, and moving it in the direction of the turn.

Playing Pirates! I notice I'm moving my head around and tapping my fingers during the dance sequences.

[Jacky Fisher]

Pushing myself back in the seat while trying to level the aircraft to crashland in IL2

I do that all the time when I play Ace Combat Six.

When I start my manager modes in the newest iteration of FIFA, I always have a 'scouting cheat sheet' of all the under-19 players in the game. I do this because I'm very picky about realism in my sports games, and the game 'generates' ersatz players as the manager mode progresses. I also write down the final table at the end of each season as well.

[Captain Vlad]

Anyone remember that old EA game 'SEAL Team'? For it's time, the ambient noise was great...serious immersion.

Was late one summer night, and I was sneaking my virtual SEALS through the Mekong Delta, taking pains to be as silent as possible. A sudden noise alarmed me, and I fired off ten rounds from the Stoner my guy was carrying.

What was the noise?

My icemaker, in the kitchen, dropping it's latest batch of cubes.

[Janus]

The other day I was talking to someone on the phone and I noticed how I kept pressing my push to talk button for Teamspeak on my keyboard :oops:

[Oberon]

Once, I recall in LOMAC almost falling out of my chair whilst ducking out of the way as an Su-27 (think it was a -27) flashed past my F-15 from nowhere and so almost collided with me.

I do the same thing with the sentries in TF2...it's just that "Beep-beep-beep.....beep-beep-beep...." sound that lets you know that trouble is ahead....then of course, there's the inevitable...

"Spy sappin' mah sentree!"

[Warner Von Shultz]

Hey all, nice place you have here. I remember once, last year actually, there was a time where I was playing the STEAM game Day of Defeat: Source (a WWII squad level multiplayer game). I was working as a Security Officer in a local hospital at the time and the night before my shift began I must have play for hours before bed time. During the game I was mostly playing as a German Rifleman.

The next day I was walking through what was suppose to be an empty building in one wing of the hospital and I was lost in my own thoughts thinking about the night before and how much fun I had playing Day of Defeat Source when a janitor came walking around the corner of the far side of the hallway I was on. What was my first reaction and instinct? I did like what any self respecting soldier would do lost in his own thoughts, I pulled my hands up to my chest as if I were holding a K-98 and about to target with the iron sights.

As I were going through the motion it suddenly dawned on me when I came out of mid thought that I was actually mimicking the first reaction that came out of my mind (still in Day of Defeat mode in gah gah land) and that I had raised my hands to my chest.I made cool recovery though as I pretended I was about to sneeze. What about the janitor, he never new he almost became my latest victim of the German war machine. 

Making motions with my hands. Done that while in public. Turning my bedroom into an Apollo moon orbiter. Not there yet. Great story. You can be my friend anyday.

Cheers!

[Arclight]

Flinching whenever I hear a splashing sound or a sonar ping on TV or something...