Way OT: What's your geek?
With only a few weeks left, and football news coming in still pretty slow, I'd like to start one of the last OT threads of the summer.
The Mgoblog community is a diverse, intelligent community, with lots of great interests. So my question, what is your geeky thing you are into? Can be games, books, movies, cars, historic timeframe, some collectible you are into.
Here are some of mine;
I played D&D growing up with friends and brothers. I actually highly recommend any parents with kids support this, as there is lots of story telling and character development in this gameplay. We actually were able to play some last year.
X-wing miniatures: Is a table top game with models where you simulate a dog fight between Star Wars space ships. I've recently gotten into this, and I'm currently obsessed
Reading: I've read a lot of books, but are probably not considered as nerdy or geeky as the popularity has grown. Ender's Game, X-wing series, A Song of Ice and Fire series (GoT), Harry Potter.
This can also apply to Michigan Football, as I'd consider WolverineDevotee, Mathlete, WolverineHistorian to have taken their fandom to geek status with the amount of knowledge and devotion they've made to their hobby.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:42 AM ^
I'm really into Asians
August 13th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
My brain saw that as anal instead of asians.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
hand in hand
August 13th, 2015 at 10:01 AM ^
Squish
August 13th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
Man, that's funny right there, I tell you what.
August 14th, 2015 at 8:56 AM ^
You must be Asian
August 13th, 2015 at 11:00 AM ^
You're not alone.
August 13th, 2015 at 11:25 AM ^
Can you be more specific as they are over 60% of the world's population, that doesn't narrow it down much.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:11 PM ^
Does it matter as long as it's pink?
August 13th, 2015 at 4:20 PM ^
A) you assume that is what Rafi is after, could be the brown
and
B) if it is the pink, why just Asian pink?
August 13th, 2015 at 12:38 PM ^
I'm not generally attracted to Asians and don't see why many American males are.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
Tiny women make everything look bigger.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:43 PM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 9:45 AM ^
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
August 13th, 2015 at 12:12 PM ^
Can you donate some of the web-fu to the forum system here? Can we please has search?
August 13th, 2015 at 5:30 PM ^
Are you able to program a web browser game or a perpetual world type app? If so we should talk :)
August 13th, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^
I have a large Big Green Egg. Love grilling, smoking, and baking on it. Fall is my favorite time of the year, you can sit outside, grill, drink a beer, and enjoy the smell the smoke bellowing from the egg.
August 13th, 2015 at 1:16 PM ^
What no green ham as well?
August 13th, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 9:51 AM ^
Some real good new sets of late.
I found the Khans block to be *okay*, but you've missed out on a bunch of really good ones (Kamigawa, Gatecrash come to mind), the annual 13/14/15 collections, Modern Masters 15...
August 13th, 2015 at 3:45 PM ^
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August 13th, 2015 at 11:56 AM ^
I played for the first time last year on Steam. My friend says playing online is nothing close to as fun or fruitful as building your own deck.
Then I played him with some of his decks that he built. He let me use some of his best decks, but I still got shit on. I won 1 out of 10.
August 14th, 2015 at 12:01 AM ^
Forgive me if it is heresy to mention Pokemon in an MTG topic, but I played the Pokemon card game for the first time with my grandson a couple of weeks ago, and I loved it. Fun stuff.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
Pretty into cars. They're kind of my thing. and I can pretend that reading C/D is "Work" for my job, which is nice.
Also a casual XBox gamer, used to be into more geek stuff, I read some nerdy books as a kid (Redwall whats up!, Harry Potter, Ender's series, etc.) and have/had thousands of legos, although lots of engineers did.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
Redwall, hells yes.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:54 AM ^
Was always a fan of the badgers. I also never really got the size/scale thing down... were badgers like 40x bigger than mice? Or were mice like, people sized, and badgers were Kyle Kalis sized? I always assumed the latter.
Haven't picked one up recently, but as a kid I read just about every one in the series I could find.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:00 AM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 10:34 AM ^
Been meaning to get my hands on that TV show.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:35 AM ^
I always assumed mice were mice-sized, and bagers were slightly bigger (like maybe 10x the size?) and that's why they had so much fight in 'em.
August 13th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
Before Redwall I didn't even know what a scone was.
August 13th, 2015 at 11:41 AM ^
I think Brian Jacques wished he'd become a cook. Seriously there were like 40 pages describing feasts in every single one of those books.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:58 AM ^
I also played a few nerdy games back in the day. One I think was called Exile? (google: yep, might have been Exile escape from the pit) Then you had Civ 2, C&C Red Alert 2, then came N64 when it was cool to play games. Goldeneye was THE SHIT.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:14 AM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 10:21 AM ^
original C&C was WAY better than red alert or any of the sequels. that game I played hours on end.
goldeneye was also another one that I spent far to long playing.
now that I have an mgowife and mgokid; personal finances tend to be my latest time suck (reading about new websites, apps, investment services, budgeting etc). Shoutout to the person who mentioned Mr Money Mustache the other day.
August 13th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
A childhood friend of mine rented Exile, and whover had it before him completed it, and his/her password was still in the game. We would load play their game, which would take us to the last level and took turns beating it. I take beating games pretty seriously, and kind of felt like a fraud. Actraiser (SNES) was a pretty sweet and underrated game. The musical score is fucking awesome.
Nothing else needs to be said about Goldenye besides GOAT. My son and I play that to this day.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:03 AM ^
I believe the Redwall author had a food fetish. It was a series we read to our kids. The food descriptions always seemed over the top.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:37 AM ^
It's an issue with a lot of fantasy authors, I've noticed. I think to a certain extent they're trying to capture the wonder a commoner would feel seeing a lord's table, but it does get a little tiring going over how the cakes were made with honey and not lemons, etc.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:04 AM ^
August 13th, 2015 at 9:47 AM ^
history. Central and eastern europe in particular.
Also bondage.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:50 AM ^
I was on my university's quiz bowl team. I read historical books and watch a ton of documentaries. Also, cosplay hotties.
August 13th, 2015 at 9:53 AM ^
should hang out.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:23 AM ^
started to want to get into history but no clue where to start. about 10% or so through Zinns people's history and I am struggling a bit.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:39 AM ^
that interests you already and start there. For example. Like watching WWII documentaries? Well there are 1000's of great and very detailed books on every facet of the conflict.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^
what would be a good WWII starter book to decide which areas I want to dive into more?
August 13th, 2015 at 11:07 AM ^
I read the abridged version of his war stories, which was itself about 1000 pages, and I couldn't put it down.
August 13th, 2015 at 11:42 AM ^
thanks!
edit: although I wish I could downvote amazon for not having a kindle edition that I can preview!
August 13th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
I don't do ebooks, as I like the real thing. I picked my paperback copy up at a used book store for a few bucks.
I've read several of his other books and I enjoyed them all.
August 13th, 2015 at 10:52 AM ^
Whatever your political bent, Zinn is WAY too controversial as an overview of history. It is almost a re-writing of history to suit a political argument. You need something that is more of a mainstream history. I would suggest "1491" by Charles C. Mann. It is offers an astonishing look at life in the America's pre-Columbus. We imagine tribes of noble savages, when in reality some of the largest and most innovative civilizations on Earth inhabited the Americas centuries before the rise of some of the great European states.