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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham

I'm a massive nerd, lover of gaming and painting little toy soldiers ^_^

Where all my other nerds hiding, I know you are out there :D

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By *reyToTheFairiesWoman
over a year ago

Carlisle usually

There's loads of warhammer players on here. Nerds can like sex too

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"There's loads of warhammer players on here. Nerds can like sex too "

I know, I certainly do ^_^

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Away for Christmas

I'm a nerd. I'm a geek.

In to some nerdy things. Not in to some nerdy things.

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"I'm a nerd. I'm a geek.

In to some nerdy things. Not in to some nerdy things. "

What nerd things do you enjoy?

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By *unCycleGymRepeatMan
over a year ago

Greater London

I never got the Warhammer/computer game thing. Why would you want to spend your time moving fake characters around a fake world doing stupid stuff.

Saying that though, I am a highly educated computer scientist.

That's just me though.

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Nowhere

Needy thing I would like to enjoy ‘ Prey to the faeries!!’

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Nowhere

Ffs nerdy fkn nerdy!! Bloody autocorrect again - i bloody hate this phone!

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"I never got the Warhammer/computer game thing. Why would you want to spend your time moving fake characters around a fake world doing stupid stuff.

Saying that though, I am a highly educated computer scientist.

That's just me though. "

I mean I suppose the same could be said of any media that isn't a documentary haha

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By *aitonelMan
over a year ago

Away for Christmas


"I never got the Warhammer/computer game thing. Why would you want to spend your time moving fake characters around a fake world doing stupid stuff.

Saying that though, I am a highly educated computer scientist.

That's just me though. "

Same reason other people watch TV shows and movies, the inconsequential result of sports, read books etc.

It's an escape from the bullshit of the real world and the bullshit of other people. And enjoyable escape.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

PC gamer, need to start picking up some table top games as enjoy Settlers of Catan and Lords of Waterdeep at friends. Also has been far far too long since last played Cards Against Humanity

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By *odgerMooreMan
over a year ago

Nowhere


"I never got the Warhammer/computer game thing. Why would you want to spend your time moving fake characters around a fake world doing stupid stuff.

Saying that though, I am a highly educated computer scientist.

That's just me though.

Same reason other people watch TV shows and movies, the inconsequential result of sports, read books etc.

It's an escape from the bullshit of the real world and the bullshit of other people. And enjoyable escape. "

^this^ - sometimes i like to be challenged and have to concentrate on a program - others I like to watch playdoh for the brain!

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"PC gamer, need to start picking up some table top games as enjoy Settlers of Catan and Lords of Waterdeep at friends. Also has been far far too long since last played Cards Against Humanity"

I do adore settlers of catan, been a while however.

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By *ohemianBristolMan
over a year ago

Bristol

Although I adore my video games, dnd, board games.

My speciality is Social Deduction games, though I often play moderator and watching the chaos unfoldMafia, Secret Hit*er, Two Rooms & A Boom, Hellapagos, Recently got a game called Speakeasy and planning a big 20/30 player session of it!

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Although I adore my video games, dnd, board games.

My speciality is Social Deduction games, though I often play moderator and watching the chaos unfoldMafia, Secret Hit*er, Two Rooms & A Boom, Hellapagos, Recently got a game called Speakeasy and planning a big 20/30 player session of it!"

Ooo interesting, give me the low down on speak easy

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By *ohemianBristolMan
over a year ago

Bristol


"Why would you want to spend your time moving fake characters around a fake world doing stupid stuff."

Oh no, wait until you hear about Real Life. Which is the fakest world ever with gameplay involving Society, The Economy, Laws, Taxes

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By *ohemianBristolMan
over a year ago

Bristol


"Ooo interesting, give me the low down on speak easy "

Two teams, Mobs & Feds and people get secret passphrases to identity allies, but teams have rats and a variety of abilities and point acquiring. It's played over an hour and end of it your team has to figure out the rats, passphrases and roles of the other team! Everyone mingles!

Also got to do a massive 50 player event in Bristol for two different custom written games, played over 3 acts with secret objectives, Currency and murder. So Speakeasy is the closest I've found without having to write it all myself!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm just here to observe who's nerdy. I like the nerdy people a whole lot more than people would care to think.

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By *ruceyyMan
over a year ago

London

Not particularly nerdy but definitely still a gamer for the AAA blockbuster like games, just not the classic CODs or MMO type stuff

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Ooo interesting, give me the low down on speak easy

Two teams, Mobs & Feds and people get secret passphrases to identity allies, but teams have rats and a variety of abilities and point acquiring. It's played over an hour and end of it your team has to figure out the rats, passphrases and roles of the other team! Everyone mingles!

Also got to do a massive 50 player event in Bristol for two different custom written games, played over 3 acts with secret objectives, Currency and murder. So Speakeasy is the closest I've found without having to write it all myself!"

Omg that sounds amazing, I absolutely have to check it out.

Good luck with your plan as well. Let me know how it goes because it sounds like great fun

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By *enSiskoMan
over a year ago

Cestus 3

PS5 here, but after the price rise, will be moving to PC.

Will miss gt7

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"I'm just here to observe who's nerdy. I like the nerdy people a whole lot more than people would care to think."

Well hopefully this thread will let you find a few for your hotlist ^_^

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Not particularly nerdy but definitely still a gamer for the AAA blockbuster like games, just not the classic CODs or MMO type stuff "

What are you playing at the moment?

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By *heExcommMan
over a year ago

Llantrisant

Howdy hey.

Warhammer 40k player: Death Guard

D&D DM (pm me if interested in games)

Gamer

History nerd

Avid fantasy reader

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


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PS5 here, but after the price rise, will be moving to PC.

Will miss gt7 "

I'm a big fan of pc

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By *heExcommMan
over a year ago

Llantrisant

Oh, and I also play Savage World's, Shadowrun, ect.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Model aircraft maker.

Pc flight simulator.

Nerdy and I’ll shout it out loud. I quite doing the sex occasionally too.

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Model aircraft maker.

Pc flight simulator.

Nerdy and I’ll shout it out loud. I quite doing the sex occasionally too."

Yes. The sex. It does happen sometimes ^_^

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Howdy hey.

Warhammer 40k player: Death Guard

D&D DM (pm me if interested in games)

Gamer

History nerd

Avid fantasy reader"

Ahh one of the sons of mortarion.

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By *ornucopiaMan
over a year ago

Bexley

Come on, guys, opent this up a bit.

There's far more to being nerdy than merely playing computer games.

I do realise, however, that most of you are too young to have experienced much else!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We ain't hiding we busy paining our miniatures and writing our dnd campaign

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Come on, guys, opent this up a bit.

There's far more to being nerdy than merely playing computer games.

I do realise, however, that most of you are too young to have experienced much else!"

I mean there has already been talk of ttrpgs, tabletop war gaming and card games?

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By *cnugatugMan
over a year ago

Chatham

Nerd here gaming god lover of all things batman and some what of a Star wars geek plus other stuff lol

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By *oxesMan
over a year ago

Southend, Essex


"I'm a massive nerd, lover of gaming and painting little toy soldiers ^_^

Where all my other nerds hiding, I know you are out there :D "

Nerd: Henry Cavil loves Warhammer, wrestling and comics... He is one of us!

Appears in a Netflix remake of dirty dancing.

Nerd: he is definitely not one of us

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very avid gamer here. Been playing for years. Started with the ZX Spectrum when I was very young, all the way through the Mega Drive, SNES, Game Boy, N64, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Xbox and Xbox 360, and the PS1/2/4/5. But not the PS3. I don't own any of the old game consoles except for the Mega Drive, an original, bulky, yellow Game Boy which doesn't work, and a slim PS2

I also played World of Warcraft for a few years all the way from Classic through to Mists of Pandaria, although I never did any raiding because it felt impossible to gel with a good guild. Tried to pick it back up in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands but couldn't stand it. Don't have the time or enthusiasm to replay Classic now

I play all sorts, really. But probably more on the mainstream/AAA side. There are some great indies out there, though

I know being nerdy goes beyond gaming but I've probably played some weird and obscure stuff which would qualify

Someone also got me into card battles recently but I no longer play with him after a bad situation

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By *unCycleGymRepeatMan
over a year ago

Greater London

Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym."

Cool story bro

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By *agan_PairCouple
over a year ago

portchester

Both nerds here too, video games (diablo her, witcher me), warhammer and all the board games you can think of

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym."

Ok. Glad you've got your thing you enjoy. I didn't realise it was a competition or that sports were supposed to be something everyone likes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’m a knitting nerd if that counts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Massive nerd here into final fantasy D and D and anime

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Sewing and Museum fans here

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By *agan_PairCouple
over a year ago

portchester


"Model aircraft maker.

Pc flight simulator.

Nerdy and I’ll shout it out loud. I quite doing the sex occasionally too."

Which sims, I'm well down the dcs rabbit hole now.

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By *heArrowsCouple
over a year ago


"I'm a massive nerd, lover of gaming and painting little toy soldiers ^_^

Where all my other nerds hiding, I know you are out there :D "

I'm only after getting back into painting warhammer figures after a 20 year gap.

Love books, comics, movies, fantasy and games.

I'm a geek and a nerd and I'm proud of it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym."

I also go to the gym, stay physically active, go to kinky parties -- the lot

Sports themselves bore me tbh. Doesn't mean I can't lift weights, go for runs, and such

But I guess I'm not a well-rounded individual because of all the vidya gaems

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By *heExcommMan
over a year ago

Llantrisant


"I’m a knitting nerd if that counts "

All things count if you get excited by it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nerd in my soul, not massively into videogames anymore due to lack of time (but Id like to)

But I try to nurture and keep alive my interest in neuroscience and tech

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym."

Can't tell if genuinely serious

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"I’m a knitting nerd if that counts "

Absolutely:D send me pics of your latest patterns ^_^

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"I'm a massive nerd, lover of gaming and painting little toy soldiers ^_^

Where all my other nerds hiding, I know you are out there :D

I'm only after getting back into painting warhammer figures after a 20 year gap.

Love books, comics, movies, fantasy and games.

I'm a geek and a nerd and I'm proud of it "

I feel your pain there, I had a good decade gap

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym."

Weird as I’m a huge hockey fan but yet still find time to work through comic books and movies

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Both nerds here too, video games (diablo her, witcher me), warhammer and all the board games you can think of"

What does she make of the latest diablo debacle?

I love the witcher

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

Does having a collection of 40,000 plus comics make me a nerd? Am I more of a nerd if I say I've got most of them indexed, or less of a nerd by admitting that the index is incomplete?

Does having thousands of books make me a nerd or a bibliophile? What if many of the books could be classified as science fiction or fantasy? What if some of the books are poetry? What if some are science and mathematics text books? What if I have the complete works of some authors? What if I don't have the complete works of some authors?

Is it nerdish to have a large collection of OS maps? Am I disqualified as a nerd because I don't have the full set?

Do nerds like progressive rock music? How about non-progressive rock? Mid 19th century tone poems and romance music? English folk music? English folk music as evolved by Jah Wobble?

Perhaps I am a Schrödinger's nerd, simultaneously nerd and not nerd as long as I stay inside my box... Or I have Heisenberg Uncertainty about my nerdishness...

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym.

Weird as I’m a huge hockey fan but yet still find time to work through comic books and movies "

No no, you can't like both, he might get angry.

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Does having a collection of 40,000 plus comics make me a nerd? Am I more of a nerd if I say I've got most of them indexed, or less of a nerd by admitting that the index is incomplete?

Does having thousands of books make me a nerd or a bibliophile? What if many of the books could be classified as science fiction or fantasy? What if some of the books are poetry? What if some are science and mathematics text books? What if I have the complete works of some authors? What if I don't have the complete works of some authors?

Is it nerdish to have a large collection of OS maps? Am I disqualified as a nerd because I don't have the full set?

Do nerds like progressive rock music? How about non-progressive rock? Mid 19th century tone poems and romance music? English folk music? English folk music as evolved by Jah Wobble?

Perhaps I am a Schrödinger's nerd, simultaneously nerd and not nerd as long as I stay inside my box... Or I have Heisenberg Uncertainty about my nerdishness... "

I would say welcome to the nerd gang

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By *ake_or_deathMan
over a year ago

Manchester

Literature, film, music, sci-fi nerd rather than gaming nerd if that counts?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Model aircraft maker.

Pc flight simulator.

Nerdy and I’ll shout it out loud. I quite doing the sex occasionally too.

Which sims, I'm well down the dcs rabbit hole now."

I too am in that same rabbit hole of DCS.

I’m currently doing study level simulating of the F/A-18C. Have just downloaded a slightly redacted version of the NATOPS manual for the jet.

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym.

Weird as I’m a huge hockey fan but yet still find time to work through comic books and movies

No no, you can't like both, he might get angry."

That kinda works as my fantasy team kinda suck

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Literature, film, music, sci-fi nerd rather than gaming nerd if that counts?"

Yes, welcome to the gang. Your badge is in the mail

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Playing games leaves no time for sports. Also more girls at the gym.

Weird as I’m a huge hockey fan but yet still find time to work through comic books and movies

No no, you can't like both, he might get angry.

That kinda works as my fantasy team kinda suck "

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By *oby321Man
over a year ago

Earth

Nerds unite!

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Nerds unite! "

Shoulder to shoulder ^_^

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By *uke_silverMan
over a year ago

London

I'm very much into technology if that counts (mainly on the software side) - I think Hackerman from Kung Fury is the coolest character ever! I like using the full power of root on my devices (laptop and phone), programming and reverse engineering apps. Fun fact: I (probably) have the highest score on Subway Surfers in the world - 2,147,483,630.

Also like games, movies, TV shows, some anime, etc. of course!

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By *heExcommMan
over a year ago

Llantrisant

Should we set up a nerd discord

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"There's loads of warhammer players on here. Nerds can like sex too "

Shhhhhh you will alert the normies and then Games Workshop will triple the prices ..... oh waiiiit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Currently "hiding" 6 years of research into Lithuanian farm brewing and maybe the earliest (dated and verified) Lithuanian mead recipe..... Cause I do not want to try and bring it all into a proper educational paper.

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By *heExcommMan
over a year ago

Llantrisant


"Currently "hiding" 6 years of research into Lithuanian farm brewing and maybe the earliest (dated and verified) Lithuanian mead recipe..... Cause I do not want to try and bring it all into a proper educational paper."

Could you possibly send me the recipie? Started making mead last year and running out of recipies. I have a Polish recipie that I've done but personally it's too acidic for my tastes

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"Should we set up a nerd discord "

Yeah maybe

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By *eneralKenobiMan
over a year ago

North Angus

The postie has delivered another funko for this wee dweeb

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"The postie has delivered another funko for this wee dweeb "

You can't drop such spicy info and not send me a pic of it. Tease.

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"The postie has delivered another funko for this wee dweeb "

Just to confirm he did share a pic of his pop :D

He is no longer a tease, and is in fact a scholar and a gentleman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I built my own PC, does that make me a nerd?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I built my own PC, does that make me a nerd? "

With Lego? Because that would be +300 nerd points

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham


"I built my own PC, does that make me a nerd?

With Lego? Because that would be +300 nerd points "

Whereas only using components and such would only get you 150.

I'm sorry, thems the rules

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've always considered myself a nerd and certainly never hid it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I built my own PC, does that make me a nerd?

With Lego? Because that would be +300 nerd points "

I have a Lego Charizard sat on top of my PC

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By *inkedKuntsCouple
over a year ago

Sheffield

Pair of proud nerds here

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By *isfits behaving badlyCouple
over a year ago

Coventry

Well we both love our reenactment although to be fair mainly from the aspect of the fighting, drinking and clothing. Mr Misfit is more a history buff than Mrs Misfit.

Mrs Misfit loves her books.

Mr Misfit his model railways, tinkering with old electronics and whatever his current temporary fixation/subject is at the time.

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By *lynJMan
over a year ago

Morden

I have a 3d printer - does that count. I also make scale models from kits.

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By *ersiantugMan
over a year ago

Cardiff


"I built my own PC, does that make me a nerd?

With Lego? Because that would be +300 nerd points

"

lol

I think these days it probably does.

I built my first several pcs in the 90's and early 2000's but lots did and you could save a bomb back then. I used the same floppy in maybe four or five distinct pcs I remember, more even than the towers. I just assume now that with less components the savings aren't really there. And I went for a really powerful laptop last time anyway.

pt

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By *lark_KentMan
over a year ago

Northampton

Holds hand up to confess to being a nerd

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By *ambert OP   Man
over a year ago

Cheltenham

I am loving all the nerd candy in this thread. Thank you, beautiful people

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By *assConductorMan
over a year ago

the wild

Reporting in; books, gaming, anime and diving down internet rabbit holes to learn about some niche thing that will have no impact on my life whatsoever.

However, I no longer collect Warhammer/40K figures, do I get any street cred for that? (Though the re-boot The Old World will test my willpower).

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By *ulieAndBeefCouple
over a year ago

Manchester-ish

I love computer text games (xyzzy) and point and click adventures. Typeface geek and maths nerd. And if crafty things count then also crochet.

J

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would class myself as a Nerd.

Love everything Sci fi from Doctor who to Stargate. Enjoy playing the PlayStation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Currently "hiding" 6 years of research into Lithuanian farm brewing and maybe the earliest (dated and verified) Lithuanian mead recipe..... Cause I do not want to try and bring it all into a proper educational paper.

Could you possibly send me the recipie? Started making mead last year and running out of recipies. I have a Polish recipie that I've done but personally it's too acidic for my tastes"

Okay for the denizens I apologise but I am happy to share the translation as far as I have got it;

Cap 24

Let be taken a certain quantity of good honey, pure and whole, along with a predetermined quantity of the prepared [material], which you know, for example: ten pounds of honey, and forty pounds of water, more or less, mixed to the desired strength. Let the water be heated in a cauldron (hot bath) or copper cooking-pot, or great bronze vessel, the honey put inside, that it may be well cooked, and skimmed. Let be cooked likewise hops separately, in a little sack, in what is said to be the superior manner, to the quantity of one pound, or less, along with a quantity of honey and water which having been decocted and water boiled and skimmed, is to be rested until it has cooled a bit, and the sack of hops placed in the same decoction, and six beers (!?) or yeast that it may be well covered up above, and let it stand for one day and night; and finally this having been decocted, or stirred up, let it be put back very completely into a clean vessel. and it will be the most delicate and most healthy drink. which will either be able, having rivaled wine or in necessity, it having refuted the vines most agreeably to serve indeed its dignity among the most precious liquors that merit being obtained. It has, indeed, in its family all the color, flavor, scent, and hidden strength of healing, and character of strengthening in the most robust people, of nearly whatever sort of wine he has in his perfect estimation. If truly you are able to have a more moderate mead, or one might wish to have stronger, one may add following this, or may subtract honey in comparison to the decoction. And this has truly been told to me at Rome in 1543 by the venerable man Lord Martin Pole of the Penitentiaries of Gnense [???] of whom and his hand such mead having gratefully tasted and who has performed benevolence and also thus charity of wine rising in Rome most agreeably will be able to become.

CAP 25

25: Thus far concerning the precautions of hydromels, or meads, otherwise composed mulses in the Gothic manner

Making a great quantity of mead, to the most complaint [??!!: questum is "complaint"; I don't see how that fits] and profit, the northern peoples, whenever they seize (obtain?) a thousand pounds, or two, or three thousand pounds of pure honey with proportional water, and myrtle, which the image of ?? " resembles"?) juniper berries in a humble stalk of a vine of single length grows in a swampy place and begins to mature in August and suffices among the aforesaid peoples for the place of hops, provided that for a whole hour and more, it is cooked with a strong fire, just as hops, but mixing of great honey and water, it comes to a boil for a day and night, and finally the dregs of beer having been added, or baker's yeast, or two days more in its operation, and combination. It is made and among the Goths, especially the Southerners, which drink might be called mulse [mulsum: lit. "extract"], from beer, and honey, and myrtle-berry; which a fourth part in its comparison is assumed; that is four parts beer, and a fourth part myrtle; and this mixture is boiled down on a strong fire, for one hour, or two, until the honey has stopped foaming [or "is skimmed"]; and the lees having come to the top [= fece superposita, dregs having superpositioned] it is completely covered, and covered it remains one whole day and a half, and it comes out the most strong drink; and as it were the ancient hydromel, or mead, a bowl or a pint is filled up, because of its strength it sends out sparkling rays, just as shining iron. These people frequently use this liquor in wedding feasts, and receptions of honoured friends and guests. Nor only in this drink, but the strongest beer always abounds; although this mulse might be devised by artificial adulteration of honey, just as and care of others always mounts up, or creeps in prepared must of diverse fruits; which is a work of cleverness [= trick?], and not of nature. I prefer, nevertheless, wine in its native land, where it is rendered in proportion by its own people, and so forth.

Feel free to try and tighten it into a workable mash/boil I am still chasing down the idea that they would move yeasts from village to village by dipping a charred willow branch into the brewing slurry then wrapping that in wet linen and into an oilbag (leather soaked in animal fats like tallow).

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