Are you a geek ? (yeah right, like I need to ask)

[ZeroAdunn]

I have done homework for somebody else - does this count if I got paid to do it?

I ROUTINELY WATCH History or Discovery Channel : Does this still count if my only other options for TV are HGTV, TCM, or QVC?

I WANT TO BE (OR HAVE BEEN)a superhero: I want the superpowers, but I don't really want to be a superhero, does that count?

9.86193% - Geekish Tendencies - not to bad

[Puke]

Extreme Geek at 60.15779, but i exagerated and claimed a bunch of things that i HAVE done rather than CURRENTLY do.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

maybe we could make our own geek poll. one of my contributions would be: how many Elder Scrolls races can you match up with homelands?
7.

Nords - Skyrim
Wood Elves - Valenwood
Dark Elves - Morrowind
Argonian - Black Marsh
High Elves - Summerset Isle
Redgaurds - Iliac Bay
Imperials - Imperial Province. half point, at most.

[Alneyan]

*Cries* I don't recall the three missings, or rather, the spellings.
Khajit => Elsweyr? The name is almost Elsewhere, but not quite.
RedGuards => Hammerfall, Illac Bay is merely one place between Hammerfall and the Breton province. Daggerfall is in the Breton province, Sentinel in Hammerfall.
Breton => The province next to Hammerfell where you can go in Daggerfall. Sorry, I forgot the name. (Well, I could check for the name obviously, but...)
Imperials => Cyrodil is the other name for the Imperial Province, is a bit harder to remember heh.

[ December 05, 2003, 12:11: Message edited by: Alneyan ]

[Loser]

Originally posted by Puke:
Extreme Geek at 60.15779, but i exagerated and claimed a bunch of things that i HAVE done rather than CURRENTLY do.

There is some precedent for this.

Originally posted by Atrocities:
HELL NO I am not a geek, but I do play one in real life.

Someone please just shoot me now. I beg you, put me out of my mysery.

I'm gonna hafta ask you to translate these comments into the local language we like to call 'Context'.

[Torkle]

63.51085% - Extreme Geek

As with others, I included things that I have done at one time or another, as opposed to things I am currently doing. Using this rule of thumb, geekiness can only increase with age.

[PvK]

It gave my answers a 18.14596% - Geek.

I think the term geek is so subjective it doesn't consistently mean anything, even if it means many different things to different people. Personally, I don't think of myself as a geek, except to mean someone who's interested in intellectual things, including computers, games, and things outside USA pop culture crap. That's one way that it's USA-centric, since USA culture tends to distrust and/or disresepect intellectuals, or anything non-mainstream, or just foreign to the USA. Geek is often a label used by mainstream clods who are afraid to think outside the herd, and so ridicule those who do with a derisive stereotype.

Nonetheless, I can think of several flaws with the test, such as:

The answers don't appear to be waited at all, so "I have Vulcan ears surgically attached" and "I have day-of-the-week underwear" count the same amount as "I play Weird Al Yankovic" or "I own binoculars".

I'd add some more questions (which I'd have to check), such as:

* I criticize the accuracy of this test.
* I have looked at the source code of a web page.
* ... to see how it worked.
* ... to see how this quiz works.

There should also be one for Parasite:

* I figured out that if you click all these boxes, this quiz calls you a liar.
* ... by clicking all the boxes myself.
* ... by reading the source code.
* ... by writing a script to click all the boxes for me.



PvK

[ December 05, 2003, 20:37: Message edited by: PvK ]