What nerdy activities do you enjoy? (gaming, cosplay, sci-fi)
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I attend and participate in the renaissance festivals. And various comic con and cosplay events.
Redskirvin
Level 2
Oct 2, 2017
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I love the traditional skills at the renaissance faires and rendezvous gatherings. I used to work at a boy scouts camp, and got to teach candle-making and a few other basic traditional skills (where teach=learn the skill the morning before the class and fine tune your understanding while teaching the class). We never did any fiber arts though, so I have yet to learn spinning or how to clean and card wool. That's on my list of things to try to learn this winter. 
Thats sounds awesome, I love that kind of stuff too!!
Total Geek/Nerd here.
Video Games, anime, D&D/Pathfinder, most things Sci-Fi/Fantasy-related, DC/Marvel comics/movies, Trekkie, Whovian. Also I'm a math/science teacher so that opens up a whole other level of nerd right there. 
Jim314
Level 3
Oct 2, 2017
6
Nerd royalty right there. I think the only one of the nerdoms you have mentioned that I don't fit into is Whovian... the Doctor just never really grabbed me (but I recognize the awesomeness). Oh... and I'm not a teacher, but I appreciate that you are. Proper subjects for encouraging logic.
I'm 50% with you, but I'm with Doug, I never got into Dr Who and I'm real hit and miss with anime.
Well that's fair. As much as I love DW, I understand why it's not for everybody.
Trivial Pursuit, reading and readathons, and I grew up on a healthy diet of sci-fi and fantasy. During undergrad I used to host weekly Trivial Pursuit parties for several years, inviting over 5-7 people and playing for several hours. I'd provide some food, and my guests would bring food, not quite potluck, but enough that we were never stuck deciding between eating dinner and going to the Trivial Pursuit game night.
I read a lot of sci-fi and fantasy, especially epic fantasy with deep, complex world-building.
I have not owned a TV in many years, so I never really watched Enterprise when it came out, but I watched Star Trek, ST: Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and all the older Star Trek movies. I loved Babylon 5 (and had a brief fan-crush on Marcus-the episode where he dies was traumatic enough that I stopped watching that show for a few years when I hit that episode). I've seen most of the classic Doctor Who episodes, and all of the modern ones. I watched the original Battlestar Gallactica as a kid, and have rewatched the more recent Battlestar Gallactica series many times.
JamieB
Level 5
Oct 2, 2017
5
I've watched all of DW and Star Trek. Still need to finish Battlestar Gallactica. Bab-5 has been on my list for a looooong time. One day I'll get around to it.
Ever seen Firefly or Stargate?
I've seen a few episodes of both. I loved the Stargate movie, but didn't really like the series as much, and my sister was so obsessed with Firefly when I tried it that I couldn't really get into it. I might try Firefly later, but I tend not to watch as many shows during warmer months. I'll watch more shows when it is freezing outside and I feel like just burrowing into blankets in my cave(apartment) and not emerging till spring.
I debate, I organise and schedule discussions in a debate format. I get in touch with church leaders and ask them if they would like to discuss anything from evolution to morality to the existence of God. You would be surprised how confidently some of them accept. My point isn't to win the debate but to introduce the actual positions of atheists and scientists. Most of the time we have a Q&A with the audience, and the satisfaction I get from this is when someone who had been improperly informed on a subject like evolution, learns for the first time the actual position science takes. I often get someone saying "I'm not a monkey" I then take a minute to explain to them that science doesn't think their a monkey either. I tell them you're not a monkey you're a primate, and the name primate is given to us not to call us apes but as a classification designated by science to show commonalities with apes. So no you're not a silverback ape or a chimpanzee. Your classification is a human primate, and we share more in common with apes than we do any other species on the planet. Then I list off a dozen or so common traits ending with chromosomes. All their lives they've been fed misinformation, In many cases I'm introducing the most accurate representation of sciences position.
paul1967
Level 8
Oct 2, 2017
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I have been tempted to do this sort of ambassadorial work. I watch livestreamed deep sea dives and take lots of screenshots, and my Mom wants me to do some talks at her church about deep sea ecology. So far I've refused, because in her church the world began a few thousand years ago, man and the dinosaurs coexisted, etc., and just the established ages of the seamounts in my screenshots would contradict what they know of their world. The stories of how the various critters EVOLVED over millions of years is an unimaginable concept for that community. I still rely on my mom for financial support and housing, so pissing her off by publicly trouncing her beliefs might not be prudent right now. But it is tempting.
anime, video games, fantasy/science fiction
bloodypoptart
Level 5
Oct 2, 2017
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I'm into a lot of nerdy stuff, but I'm really into dungeons and dragons. That's probably the geekiest of it.
greenwiggly
Level 3
Oct 2, 2017
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I just got done running a superhero rpg (White Wolf system). D&D tomorrow... favorite class? I'm normally into playing a Monk, but I'm playing a Drow Assassin in this one...
Typically I play a cleric (ironic right?) but I often do a bard too, I tend to like support classes though in our last campaign I played a monk for the first time and was surprised how much I liked it (we play 5th edition, used to do pathfinder, sometimes play starwars rpg and call of cthulu too)
I usually go for either a Ranger or a Wizard.
My friends and I like to home-brew D&D/Pathfinder games in the Legend of Zelda universe. I'm currently building a character that is a Warlock who has a pact with Majora. It's gonna be good. 
Board games, card games, sci-fi/fantasy (books, films, TV shows), anime, cosplay. I just attended my first (NOT last) Ren Faire. I need to get IN to Dragon Con yet. I've attended the parade, but not gone to the actual con yet. Oh, and I was recently invited to LARP.
Question: are escape rooms part of nerd culture do you think?
Zster
Level 8
Oct 8, 2017
2
WOW, okay here we go, hold on. I love mmorpg (I am currently playing World of Warcraft, Star Wars the Old Republic, Star Trek Online and DC Universe Online), star trek, star wars, firefly, DC & Marvel comic books, TV, Movies. I also enjoy reading about the supernatural.
ajr715
Level 6
Oct 3, 2017
2
I'm a big fan of board games. I like comic book movies...well just movies in general. Although, I have never gotten into comics that much. I'm game for just about anything.
JimmyOneLeg93
Level 5
Oct 2, 2017
2
I like D&D, though I don't have a gaming group. I also game on the computer. My current addiction is Neverwinter. I also love to read fantasy novels. R.A. Salvatore is my favorite author, so is Neil Gaiman.
adaptagirl
Level 3
Oct 28, 2017
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Ah nerdy actives, this is my jam. I game (rift, batman, blackops ect), we do Ren fair most years (yes I period dress). Board games and cards games are always good. We play a lot of cards against humanity.
DragonsOwl
Level 3
Oct 8, 2017
1
Board games. That's my thing. And no, let me stop you right there. I don't play monopoly. Because I loathe it. Here's a list of only 10 of, roughly 30 games I have in no order.
Fortress America
Fury of Dracula
Dead of Winter
Time Stories
Dread
The Resistance
Ikusa
Ghost Stories
T.I.M.E. Stories
Tragedy Looper
Lugo1993
Level 4
Oct 6, 2017
1
Catan? Game of Thrones board game?
What about card games like Superfight or Munchkin?
Negative. Haven't played those. Sorry.
Single player RPGS, Sci-fi shows like stargate and star trek, Lots of action anime and maybe one day collecting figures.
GavinPritchard
Level 2
Oct 6, 2017
1
ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!! 100% stoked to learn and experience new things, always interested in other people's views (so long as they aren't regurgitating something they heard somewhere before)
foistfoments
Level 2
Oct 6, 2017
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I love watching anime and shows like Supernatural, cosplaying, I sometimes play video games, but rarely since i don't have a computer right now. I also go to conventions. Also like Star Wars!
MarieSinycal
Level 5
Oct 4, 2017
1
I have a regular game group, meet once a week, also go see a lot of movies
BillyRedding
Level 2
Nov 4, 2017
0
Scifi movies - generally love them especially the current spate of Marvel superhero ones. Some video gaming. A fair amount of computer work building and designing websites, etc. I read A LOT - that's a nerdy thing to do nowadays, no?
Hugene2002
Level 7
Nov 4, 2017
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I like sci fi movies. Some board games. Not into gaming really other than ipad games. Love the horror movies but not sure that falls under being nerdy, just bizarre.
mistymoon77
Level 9
Oct 23, 2017
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Iām a nerd for.... old buses, trains and vehicles and will travel miles for exhibitions etc. Also Telegraph cryptic crosswords doing more than one a day which is now becoming difficult as Iām running out. Obsessed with QI and Have I Got News for You (tv programs).
mjpwl
Level 3
Oct 20, 2017
0
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