You Know Your A Computer GEEK When.....

FIREWALL · 06-22-09, 12:24 PM

You watch a cartoon with your kid and you yell out ...

THAT'S NOT REALISTIC or HISTORICALLY CORRECT !!!!

FIREWALL · 06-22-09, 12:51 PM

When your wife won;t let you install a more complicated toilet.

SteamWake · 06-22-09, 01:00 PM

When you lose power and you have to "re-boot" all your clocks

AVGWarhawk · 06-22-09, 01:07 PM

You attempt to re-boot your Grandfather's typewriter.

Sailor Steve · 06-22-09, 02:05 PM

I can see them all making you a geek, but how do the first two make you a 'computer' geek?

However, you know you're a computer geek when you complain about people using "impact" as a verb but then talk about "accessing" information or, when asked where you found something out, blythely reply "Oh, I just Googled it."

kiwi_2005 · 06-22-09, 02:33 PM

You know your a geek when you play Eve online!

Not a joke but i downloaded the trial version of Eve MMO and after 5-6 hrs of playing this game i realize I am not a geek cause that's what Eve was made for, Geeks!. Beautiful looking spacesim first thoughts were who needs spacesims like X series when there's Eve available. I just didn't find clicking on dots in space to make your ship head in that direction fun at all!

Raptor1 · 06-22-09, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

You know your a geek when you play Eve online!

Not a joke but i downloaded the trial version of Eve MMO and after 5-6 hrs of playing this game i realize I am not a geek cause that's what Eve was made for, Geeks!. Beautiful looking spacesim first thoughts were who needs spacesims like X series when there's Eve available. I just didn't find clicking on dots in space to make your ship head in that direction fun at all!

*cough*

I played EVE for 2 years, it's a great game...once you get used to it

Nobody will enjoy EVE just from playing 5-6 hours...

SteamWake · 06-22-09, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raptor1

*cough*

I played EVE for 2 years, it's a great game...once you get used to it

Nobody will enjoy EVE just from playing 5-6 hours...

Its no WoW thats for sure. I think the point was that you have to be willing to dedicate hundreds of hours into the game in order to get anywhere.

I played EvE for quite a while but the socio political aspects of it got to me in the long run.

Im playing Jumpgate now

SteamWake · 06-22-09, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I can see them all making you a geek, but how do the first two make you a 'computer' geek?

However, you know you're a computer geek when you complain about people using "impact" as a verb but then talk about "accessing" information or, when asked where you found something out, blythely reply "Oh, I just Googled it."

Sadly I have to report that "Googled" has been accepted into Websters dictonary.

kiwi_2005 · 06-22-09, 02:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raptor1

*cough*

I played EVE for 2 years, it's a great game...once you get used to it

Nobody will enjoy EVE just from playing 5-6 hours...

Yeah i know i should of stuck with it, but I'm sure some of the 30 tutorial missions are bugged, I get a mission to go mine choose the set destination & undock now all i see is tiny squares no direction where to go to mine i end up finding some to mine get the requirement needed to finish mission head back to base only for mission "not complete" Apparently i found out i was in the wrong area thanks to the helpful GM in chat, even though i was mining the correct mines so i fly to the correct area once im there i get a message i must be in the rookie area to do this mission please choose one of the following (just a bunch of planet destinations to pick from) so i choose anyone warp speed to the area which took a good 5-10min don't know how i came to be so far away from the rookie training area. Once im there i start mining the 1665 mines needed head back to base only for mission 'not complete' apparently i was again in the wrong area!

by this time frustration set in. SO i start all over again with a new character and same thing happened. Then i tried just flagging the tutorial missions and just get on with playing the game but would find myself in the wrong area or i mined the correct mines but in the wrong area!

The GM told me to stick to them cause i will get a new ship once the 30missions are done. Just found it to frustrating this is a geeks paradise!.

I still have the game might give it one more attempt in a few days.

FIREWALL · 06-22-09, 03:05 PM

Get back to GEEKING , Geeks.

Or is that, GEEKING ?

06-22-09, 12:24 PM	#1
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	You Know Your A Computer GEEK When..... You watch a cartoon with your kid and you yell out ... THAT'S NOT REALISTIC or HISTORICALLY CORRECT !!!! __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

06-22-09, 12:51 PM	#2
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	When your wife won;t let you install a more complicated toilet. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

06-22-09, 01:00 PM	#3
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	When you lose power and you have to "re-boot" all your clocks __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

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AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,253 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	You attempt to re-boot your Grandfather's typewriter. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I can see them all making you a geek, but how do the first two make you a 'computer' geek? However, you know you're a computer geek when you complain about people using "impact" as a verb but then talk about "accessing" information or, when asked where you found something out, blythely reply "Oh, I just Googled it." __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-22-09, 02:33 PM	#6
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	You know your a geek when you play Eve online! Not a joke but i downloaded the trial version of Eve MMO and after 5-6 hrs of playing this game i realize I am not a geek cause that's what Eve was made for, Geeks!. Beautiful looking spacesim first thoughts were who needs spacesims like X series when there's Eve available. I just didn't find clicking on dots in space to make your ship head in that direction fun at all! __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

06-22-09, 03:05 PM	#11
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	Get back to GEEKING , Geeks. Or is that, GEEKING ? __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???