Suleiman
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Jeez, ask me an easy one why don't you? It might be better to say what geeky things I don't do, collect, or obsess over. I am livin' la vida dorka over here. I am not only a geek, I am uber-geek. I have supreme esprit d'geek.
HACKMASTER, alright? I don't just play D&D, I play HACKMASTER. Registered HMGMA liscense number CA-1-00401-02. Most geeks don't even know that hackmaster is an actual game system. I can actually quote chapter and paragraph. I'd have a higher rating, but I can't be bothered to run any tournament-level games.
I argue in favor of jar-jar binks, just so I can keep a discussion on episode one going. I don't like him, I think he's annoying and idiotic, but I'll argue in his favor just to keep the conversation rolling.
When I was a child, I learned base sixteen mathematics and algebra by playing Traveller. I also learned that, even in outer space, you can not go adventuring until you visit the nearest tavern and get into a fight with the locals.
You wanna know how geeky my life is? My wife is turned on by the fact that I can compare and contrast golden age batman versus bronze age batman and how the dark knight variant is just as much of a departure from the pre-golden age pulp original as the later silver age version most folks are familiar with. That's considered a form of foreplay in my house.
My wife once broke her ankle on a tom baker scarf she knit herself. We still have that half-ton mobility hazard lurking in a closet somewhere. To be a geek is one thing. To be a geek that was married out of admiration for his geeky qualities, that is supreme geekdom.
I have been known to argue the differences and merits contained within the shared continuity of Robert E Howard and H P Lovecraft.
I donate my old computers to a local hermetic square-eyed monk of unix that I know. He's not just a hermit, he practices hermeticism. He has champions conversions of all seventy two goetic lords for use in teaching disciples how to tell them apart.
I am not a solitary geek. I am a tribal geek. I attend the local conventions so that I can confer with tribe members that I have not seen in many moons. I also go to party down and try to get laid by other people who are impressed by useless esoteric knowledge.
I am a second generation geek. I inherited these qualities from my father, as did my brother.
I used to wear a propeller beanie just to try and pick fights. I am not only proud of my heritage, I defend it fiercely.
Out of the closet my flabby white butt. The only things in my closet are those shameful little secrets that hint of normalcy or middle-american mundanity - and for gawd's sake don't tell my wife I said that, or she might make me sleep on the couch!
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Think of my verbosity as a sort of litmus test for our relationship. I write in a manner identical to how I speak and how I think. If you can not cope with what I have written here, it is probably for the best if we go our separate ways.
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RE: What do you collect ? GEEK HOBBY ? - 
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RE: What do you collect ? GEEK HOBBY ? - 
Like I need anything else. LOL 
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