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Title: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: jr2 on July 11, 2010, 07:35:27 pm
http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

I got 25.64576% - Total Geek

EDIT: Apparently "Poser" is an actual score, so I added it to the bottom of the poll, after discovering there was no way to move the results "down" in the list and add an option to the top.  IDK what the score for the ranking "Poser" is, however... :nervous:

Ratings are:

+ Geekish Tendencies................................≥09%
++ Geek.............................................≥15%
+++ Total Geek......................................≥25%
++++ Major Geek.....................................≥35%
+++++ Super Geek....................................≥45%
++++++ Extreme Geek.................................≥55%
+++++++ Geek God....................................≥65%
+++++++! Dysfunctional Geek.........................≥75%
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Angelus on July 11, 2010, 07:57:58 pm
Geek with 19.00369%.  :nervous:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: iamzack on July 11, 2010, 08:00:04 pm
33.39483%
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: BengalTiger on July 11, 2010, 08:18:14 pm
16.05166% - Geek.

Also, I know who Snuffle is :P

And that his name is spelled: Snuffleupagus
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Nuke on July 11, 2010, 08:22:11 pm
25.46125%

33.39483%

:lol:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 11, 2010, 08:27:02 pm
23.06273%

iaz srs win
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: StarSlayer on July 11, 2010, 08:41:56 pm
 :wtf:

Geeks and Nerds are two different things, but that survey doesn't seem to make that distinction.

A nerd is smart/brainy and while many are prone to liking geeky topics thats not a given.  But being a geek and liking geeky things hardly makes you smart.  I've seen plenty of geeks who are dense as lead and nerds who could give a flip about Star Trek/D&D/whatever.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 11, 2010, 08:44:00 pm
10.1476% - Geekish Tendencies

Apparently, I really am The Sane One. DAMMIT.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Shade on July 11, 2010, 08:44:52 pm
49.07749% - Super Geek :nervous:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Shivan Hunter on July 11, 2010, 09:02:20 pm
CBA to take it (see my new sig).

One wonders how scientifically rigorous a test can actually be if the only thing it tries to quantify is some subjective measurement from pop culture. This thing probably doesn't even try to disprove a null hypothesis.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Scotty on July 11, 2010, 09:23:21 pm
26.93727% - Total Geek

Honestly surprised I didn't get higher than that.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 11, 2010, 09:25:20 pm
:wtf:

Geeks and Nerds are two different things, but that survey doesn't seem to make that distinction.

A nerd is smart/brainy and while many are prone to liking geeky topics thats not a given.  But being a geek and liking geeky things hardly makes you smart.  I've seen plenty of geeks who are dense as lead and nerds who could give a flip about Star Trek/D&D/whatever.
http://xkcd.com/747/
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dark Hunter on July 11, 2010, 09:42:45 pm
29.33579% - Total Geek

I am disappoint. :blah:


This test is biased toward (or against, as you prefer) Star Trek fans. I am not a Star Trek fan.
In other words, I a little peeved that there are so many Star Trek questions, and that that hurt my score.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 11, 2010, 09:59:57 pm
10.1476%.

I think it'd honestly be tragic if people ticked some of those boxes there...
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 11, 2010, 10:02:05 pm
10.1476%.

I think it'd honestly be tragic if people ticked some of those boxes there...

Hey.

That's my number!
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: StarSlayer on July 11, 2010, 10:18:10 pm
11.80812% though to be honest it would be a lot lower if it weren't for the programing section
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: perihelion on July 11, 2010, 11:32:53 pm
38.92989% (Major Geek) /me  is amused
Frankly, I'm shocked it is that high.  I have never played an RPG (except single-player on a computer, which I did not think they were talking about most of the time).  I have the computer programming skills of a molded cereal box.  And I never got into comic books of any kind.

I guess I got a lot of bonus points for all the SF references that were scattered through there.  That and I assumed that all technicalities still count.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 11, 2010, 11:43:32 pm
10.1476%.

I think it'd honestly be tragic if people ticked some of those boxes there...

Hey.

That's my number!
Great minds think alike? :P
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Flipside on July 11, 2010, 11:51:37 pm
14.39114 - Geekish Tendencies.

One question did make me laugh, which was:

Spoiler:

'the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow'

First thought that went through my head was 'African or European?' then I realised, '****! Yes, I do know...'
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Jabba on July 12, 2010, 12:09:32 am
27.30627% - Total Geek pfft as if.

Although I guess I know moar stuff than I realised re: g33kiness

Wha-evar  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Hero_Swe on July 12, 2010, 01:58:27 am
7.01107% - Poser

All of a sudden I feel very...out of place. Maybe I just don't get out enough?
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 12, 2010, 02:02:34 am
Where is the too old to be geeky anymore option?
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: headdie on July 12, 2010, 04:06:52 am
tbh I would have said that I was Geekish Tendencies but according to that I'm 26.38376% Total Geek
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: qazwsx on July 12, 2010, 04:46:31 am
45.01845% - Super Geek D:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Nuke on July 12, 2010, 05:14:01 am
the reason my score is so low is that i detest some of the fictional aspects of geekdom. its sad that there were so many questions about rpgs, lotr, and other fiction that i usually avoid like the plague.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 12, 2010, 06:42:37 am
45.01845% - Super Geek D:
Admirable, qazwsx. Admirable.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: TopAce on July 12, 2010, 06:54:14 am
I scored slightly above 9% (Geekish Tendencies).
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Klaustrophobia on July 12, 2010, 08:45:39 am
14% and change. 

i got to answer yes to "designed nuclear device" and "built nuclear device" though.  :D
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Wobble73 on July 12, 2010, 08:47:52 am
http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html

I got 25.64576% - Total Geek



My score was exactly the same.............................much to my surprise! I didn't think I was that much of a geek!!!
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 12, 2010, 08:53:55 am
i got to answer yes to "designed nuclear device" and "built nuclear device" though.  :D
Can you build one for my uncle Kim? He'd really appreciate it. =3
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Ghostavo on July 12, 2010, 09:07:20 am
40.59041% - Major Geek

Are Engineers by definition geeks? Especially in the area of Computer Science?  :confused:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: headdie on July 12, 2010, 11:27:48 am
i got to answer yes to "designed nuclear device" and "built nuclear device" though.  :D
Can you build one for my uncle Kim? He'd really appreciate it. =3

just make sure it blows up in his face, then see what happens on the Korean peninsula
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: perihelion on July 12, 2010, 11:35:35 am
40.59041% - Major Geek
Are Engineers by definition geeks? Especially in the area of Computer Science?  :confused:
I've met some other engineers that wouldn't really qualify as geeks, but they are also "engineers" only in the sense that they got engineering degrees.  I wouldn't trust them to do real engineering as in design or test anything.  But that's really just a variation on the whole geek vs. nerd debate.  (My emphatic position is that I am a nerd, not a geek, but by even having this position I somewhat invalidate it.  PARADOX!!!)
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: MP-Ryan on July 12, 2010, 01:56:21 pm
24.72325%

Phew,  Just snuck under that Total Geek category, though my wife probably disagrees with that assessment.  Thank goodness for all the comics/fanfic/RPG questions - they're what kept my score low =P

I snickered at this one as it reminded me of a recent discussion on HLP:
Spoiler:
the difference between nuclear fission and fusion
   and can explain it in detail

Really, this test needs a two-axis scale:  one for geekiness, and one for social ineptitude.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Colonol Dekker on July 12, 2010, 05:04:05 pm
Quote from: Website of infinite wisdom
40.95941% - Major Geek


I can be a hardcase, and have excellent taste in sci-fi and computery film stuff too. :D

So i defy your options and tick Major geek and the :nervous: punch in school box.



Denial is a terrible thing.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Herra Tohtori on July 12, 2010, 05:32:13 pm
24.35424%

 :rolleyes:
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 12, 2010, 06:24:18 pm
33.57934 - Total Geek. 

You should get bonus points for finding errors in the quiz.  I don't want a 100 sided die I already have one.  Also can't believe they left out the whole BBS era in the questioning. 
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Flipside on July 12, 2010, 06:25:53 pm
Yup, I put down that I ran a website once, but the truth is, it was before the 'Web' existed, it was a dial-up BBS centred on the Amstrad CPC systems, I'm sure that's worth more geek points than a simple website ;)
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Demitri on July 13, 2010, 05:46:43 am
26.19926% I can live with that.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: asyikarea51 on July 13, 2010, 10:27:13 am
3.50554% - Poser
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: iamzack on July 13, 2010, 10:43:09 am
i beat up geeks

because i am tuff

and awesome
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 13, 2010, 12:14:53 pm
i beat up geeks

because i am tuff

and awesome
:(
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Angelus on July 13, 2010, 12:24:07 pm
i beat up geeks

because i am tuff

and awesome

                                 +

33.39483%

                                 +


 

+++ Total Geek......................................≥25%        


                                     =          


 :P                              
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Titan on July 13, 2010, 12:47:55 pm
33.76384 - Total Geek
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Rodo on July 13, 2010, 12:56:01 pm
Geek: 16.605someothertwonumbersthatIdon'trememberrightnow.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: mister J on July 13, 2010, 01:44:51 pm
+++++ Super Geek....................................≥45%

I was less than 1% away from Extreme Geekness. lol
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: achtung on July 13, 2010, 02:32:01 pm
Got 26.something.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 13, 2010, 02:45:51 pm
Yup, I put down that I ran a website once, but the truth is, it was before the 'Web' existed, it was a dial-up BBS centred on the Amstrad CPC systems, I'm sure that's worth more geek points than a simple website ;)

I was a hub for about 4 or 5 networks (regional coordinator for 1 so anything in the Midwest went through my PC) and a member of several others.  Lovely phone bill.  3 lines, and about 5 or 6 pages of calls every month.  Didn't cost much but it was long.  All those 1-3 minute phone calls.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: iamzack on July 13, 2010, 02:48:20 pm
:P                               

Never said I wasn't a hypocrite.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Nuclear1 on July 13, 2010, 02:50:45 pm
15.86176%

Not really surprised.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: sigtau on July 13, 2010, 03:08:05 pm
Poser! :D

7.011017%
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Satellight on July 13, 2010, 03:18:04 pm
26.70455 % - Total Geek   :)
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Scourge of Ages on July 13, 2010, 05:02:26 pm
20.1107% - Geek

I am ashamed.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: watsisname on July 14, 2010, 02:15:10 pm
/me preemptively votes for snuffie.
/me takes the test out of boredom.  will post results (probably via edit)

edit:  17.16%

Mostly thanks to the stuff about movies and movie watching.  Stupid old job at Hollywood Video. :|
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 14, 2010, 05:40:17 pm
That sounds like a pretty swell job.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: JGZinv on July 14, 2010, 09:57:01 pm
38.56089% - Major Geek.

Helps to be a former ST/SW person, anime fan, and studying for A+ certs.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Hades on July 14, 2010, 10:39:20 pm
4.42804%, poser.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 15, 2010, 04:04:56 am
4.42804%, poser.
...

GTFO Hades what are you doing here
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Hero_Swe on July 15, 2010, 05:10:06 am
YESSH! Not the lowest number!
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 15, 2010, 06:57:45 am
4.42804%, poser.
...

GTFO Hades what are you doing here
No.

That can't be.

I am not more geeky than Hades. No. :P
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Hades on July 15, 2010, 11:34:41 am
4.42804%, poser.
...

GTFO Hades what are you doing here
No.

That can't be.

I am not more geeky than Hades. No. :P
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1397/1408075081_5607ee607d.jpg)
Big whoop wanna fight about it?
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 15, 2010, 11:37:33 am
/me phones the gang.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 15, 2010, 11:39:02 am
I'll help you Dilmah. I'll bring my father's Kalash.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Mika on July 15, 2010, 02:31:59 pm
The test says I have Geekish Tendencies (~10%)

Weird. I would have expected poser. I guess I got a lot of points from knowing sci-fi writers names, but I usually don't remember much from their books. Two other things that affected the result were me being a Physicist and a research scientist by the trade, and me having a side role in a fan-movie/parody/crossover. And I never watched Battle Star Galactica to begin with!

Where were the questions that took account 12 years of breakdance and 8 years of kung-fu?!

I call the test unfair - BAAAAH
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: General Battuta on July 16, 2010, 02:35:54 am
42.6% - Major Geek

I expect to be promoted shortly.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 16, 2010, 03:20:23 am
Dear God, I don't know how you people get such high scores. I mean, how many people would honestly tick the box for

"skipped parties to program or repair computers "

or "gone to a party just to play Trivial Pursuit "  :lol:

/me shakes head and stops attempting to understand.


I'll help you Dilmah. I'll bring my father's Kalash.
:D

Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 16, 2010, 03:37:58 am
"gone to a party just to play Trivial Pursuit "  :lol:

I admit I did a Trivial Pursuit showdown with someone who thought they were unbeatable at Star Wars Trivial Pursuit.

...and won. But I have a good memory. A lot of the stuff on there seemed incredibly trivial if you have any ability to remember stuff. Like the "five author names" questions. That's not hard. I probably picked up enough just in a trip to Barnes and Noble.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Scotty on July 16, 2010, 08:17:24 pm
42.6% - Major Geek

I expect to be promoted shortly.

Oof, gonna have to work your way back up to General again?
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: The E on July 16, 2010, 08:28:14 pm
23.4% Just a Geek.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Aardwolf on July 16, 2010, 09:00:53 pm
18.63469%

I should get bonus points for being annoyed that I couldn't just copy+paste that :P
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Ravenholme on July 16, 2010, 10:07:33 pm
I'm a poser at 7.***** percent (I accidentally closed the window).

Guess I'm not as geeky as I thought.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 16, 2010, 10:18:03 pm
Well it's the way you go about half of those things that actually determines whether you're a geek or not. (But I guess it checks that too).
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on July 16, 2010, 10:33:43 pm
I would have been geekier if Warhammer 40,000 stuff showed up.  And you can't get much geekier than the universe behind a tabletop game which has genetically-mutated super soldiers in power armor with pauldrons big enough to crush medium-sized predatory animals.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 16, 2010, 10:41:20 pm
I would have been geekier if Warhammer 40,000 stuff showed up.  And you can't get much geekier than the universe behind a tabletop game which has genetically-mutated super soldiers in power armor with pauldrons big enough to crush medium-sized predatory animals.

See, the problem with that assertion is that 40k has vast non-geek appeal, like, y'know, chainsaw swords.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Scotty on July 16, 2010, 10:42:22 pm
I think you have the situation reversed.  Having chainsaw swords doesn't make it a non-geek appeal, it makes non-geeks more into geeks for liking them. :P
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on July 17, 2010, 01:57:07 am
I thought chainsaw swords were cool in a geeky sort of way since they're completely implausible weapons.  Especially eviscerators, which are two-handed chainsaw greatswords capable of shredding through tank armor (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BFS), with some of its biggest fans being fanatical, zealous nuns who fearlessly charge into battle waving those two-handed chainsaw greatswords around (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FetishFuel) while half-naked (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Stripperiffic?from=Main.Stripperific) as a form of penance for their sins.

Can you believe Warhammer 40k only had a few short entries for each of those categories?  Someone at Games Workshop needs to get working on that.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 17, 2010, 03:57:23 am
So basically, it's a summer blockbuster action movie.

Not geeky at all.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: General Battuta on July 17, 2010, 12:21:54 pm
I hate to say it, but as far as I know 40K players are the geeks that geeks look down on for being too geeky.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: qazwsx on July 17, 2010, 04:48:08 pm
I know 40k players, and I've been into Games Workshop, it's probably one of the most expensive hobbies I've seen large numbers of 10-16 year olds have.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: SpardaSon21 on July 17, 2010, 06:16:34 pm
Yeah, and being so expensive which is why I don't play the tabletop game.  I just read the novels and play lots of Dawn of War.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 17, 2010, 10:03:30 pm
I know 40k players, and I've been into Games Workshop, it's probably one of the most expensive hobbies I've seen large numbers of 10-16 year olds have.
A few of my mates used to play 40k in grades 7/8. Needless to say, finances caught up with them and they don't play too often these days. :P
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: qazwsx on July 19, 2010, 11:06:04 am
the fact it mainly appeals to young teenagers really seems quite strange, given the violence and high octane nightmare fuel of the whole thing, Hell, TVtropes as a page just for it:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HighOctaneNightmareFuel/Warhammer40000
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Snail on July 19, 2010, 11:07:23 am
I hate to say it, but as far as I know 40K players are the geeks that geeks look down on for being too geeky.
Yeah, seriously. Weirdos.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: NGTM-1R on July 19, 2010, 11:33:29 am
A few of my mates used to play 40k in grades 7/8. Needless to say, finances caught up with them and they don't play too often these days. :P

The hilarous thing about that is that finances shouldn't have caught up with them unless you buy direct. The market is hilarously oversaturated and just buying stuff off ebay or wherever you can get it all for a heck of a lot cheaper than Games Workshop wishes was possible.

Unless you've just got to have a Titan model or something. Then you just kitbash your own because the Reaver model will cost you $400 and I'm scared out of my wits by the concept Forge World will try to sell a Warlord ever.
Title: Re: How geeky are you (test and poll)
Post by: Dilmah G on July 19, 2010, 08:16:28 pm
I'm quite sure all of them bought them from games workshop, bar a few of the smarter ones who used ebay.