Are you a geek ? (yeah right, like I need to ask) - Page 4

BadAxe · #31 December 5th, 2003, 05:06 AM

35.89 Geez I am a loser.

Loser · #32 December 5th, 2003, 06:25 AM

watch it, don't you let me catch you stealin' my flavor.

Atrocities · #33 December 5th, 2003, 06:39 AM

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.

ZeroAdunn · #34 December 5th, 2003, 07:21 AM

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 · #35 December 5th, 2003, 08:24 AM

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 · #36 December 5th, 2003, 10:35 AM

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.

Torkle · #37 December 5th, 2003, 08:24 PM

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 · #38 December 5th, 2003, 10:22 PM

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 ]

Atrocities · #39 December 6th, 2003, 12:05 AM

I scored 9.86193% Geekish Tendancies.

The quiz did not ask a lot of standard geek questions.

The Tough Questions!

1. Are you over weight?
2. Have you ever been on a date?
2a. In the Last year
2a1. More than 1
2a1a. Are you still dating her?
2a1a1. Have you had sex yet?
2b. In the Last two years
2b1. More than 1
2b1b. Are you still dating her?
2b1b1. Did you ever have sex with her?
2c. In the Last five years
2c1. More than 1
2c1c. Are you still dating her?
2c1c1. Did you ever have sex with her?

3. Do you still live with a parent
3a. Are you over 25?
4. Have you ever had sex before?
4a. With a women?
4a1. At a Star Trek Convention or met at one?

5. Do you drive a volvo?
5a. A dessel volvo?
5a1. Does it need to be painted?

6. Do you sit at your computer in costum to RP?
7. Did you give your computer a name?
8. Do you talk to a hand puppet or pillow?
9. Is your hair always messed up and or oily?
10. Do you shy away from women?
11. Do you think your to nice?
12. Do you often look up and ask Scotty to beam you up?
13. Do you enjoy going to the computer store?
13a. To buy new parts
13a1. To look at the other Geeks?
13a1a. To look at the butt of that fat blue haired chick behind the counter?
13a1a1. To ask the fat blue hairedchick out on a date.

14. Hate guns
14a. But love violent video games?
15. Think that Night Rider was one of the best 80's series ever made?
16. Have never seen an episode of Baby Watch?
17. Participate in no sport or motorized activity?
18. Talk in a nazzally voice
19. Where investing in tech stock when you were 10?
20. Are a self made Microsoft milloniar?

Cipher7071 · #40 December 6th, 2003, 01:32 AM

Ya know, geekdom, like so many other fine qualities attributable to human beings, is necessarily of an esoteric nature. One man's geek is another man's Drew Carey. I mean, we've come a long way since those days when early geeks began by biting the heads off chickens. Geez... now geekdom is practically mainstream. I scored 22.09%, which rates as your common garden variety geek. And yet I steadfastly maintain that mediocrity is the hallmark, and yes, the very soul of geekdom. I wear my score proudly.