what has ever been your nerdiest hobby?

  On 10/9/2010 at 10:42 PM, yek said:

magic cards

definitely making idm.

i used to collect these:

i was once a very avid fisher, bordering on nerdism.

i own every gaming console from the current generation and most from past generations aswell.

i enjoy making electronic music and photography.

i enjoy reading/watching popular science and history.

i wear glasses because i have to.

basically im a massive nerd.

Spawn toys were the shit. Todd McFarlene sure could make some wicked figurines.

I played D&D twice in grade school and Shadowrun a few times in junior high.

I fucking hate magic. 2 of my mates got obsessed last year and they wouldnt shut up about their gay hobby.

Playing Scrabble and posting here.

(and I didn't realize it until just now, but I had a Scrabble tab open when I wrote that... so yeah, Scrabble and watmm.)

I won a Magic tournament once. Everyone was pissed because I had just tagged along and wasn't serious about the game. More than one person checked my deck to make sure I wasn't cheating. I showed those fucking nerds...

Something about scrabble that isnt nerdy. Its like classic or something, artsy.

so he's a fag, not a nerd basically?

I just watch the whole 1st series of The X-Files, is that more or less nerdy than watmming or chatmming?

I started painting warhammer 40k miniatures (necrons mostly) when I was 12/13 and stopped during high-school because I haven't had much time. I should really start again asap.

During middle and high-school I used to read and collect marvel comics and used to go the local comicon every year. Now I just buy one comic a month, either iron man or fab4.

I played D&D a tad in high school. I also used to collect Star Wars figures around the time of the theatrical re-releases... but posting on watmm is by far the nerdiest past-time I've ever had.

When I tell people about it I feel like such a fucking nerd. That is probably because the person I tell usually makes a face like "you are such a fucking nerd".

Played magic, but a hobby shop that specified in magic cards opened in my town, so all of my friends got really competitive and were spending all of their money on it.

I wasn't going to spend my paychecks on cardboard rectangles.

Otherwise I have played a lot of SimCity and read Chess strategy books. Like "Checkmate in 2" strategies and shit.

Edit: Ha, I'd listen to Antonio Vivaldi in my bedroom in 8th grade and read Chess Books. So proper. Aphex Twin didn't go well with Chess imo.

  On 10/10/2010 at 5:13 AM, Murveman said:

Aphex Twin didn't go well with Chess imo.

Oh god, this sounds horrible... I might break something.

collecting stuff in general, from magic cards (never knew how to play) to tamagotchi for some reason (never took care of any of them) to everything alien-related (idm) etc. by the time i finally decided to start collecting records, i had dropped all of that stuff.

  On 10/10/2010 at 1:38 AM, data said:

basically im a massive nerd.

When I was young:

-Gundam model kits/action figures

-read a shit ton (every fantasy book I could get my hands on usually)

-brought LEGOs to school

-wanted to be a biophysicist

-played video games

-anime

Nowadays:

-tabletop games (Tephra mostly)

-getting into Magic

-make IDM

-part of an indie video game studio

-anime

-watmm

I used to tape kids shows , then spend 16 hours trying to find hidden satanic messages.

I like nuclear reactors.

I collect Britains and Astra military toys.

I own four dolls houses and make miniatures in my spare time.

I post on internet forums and am an avid user of chatmm.

I read comics and collect some comic figures.

The next time my Mom asks me why Im not yet married,I shall direct her to this list.

  On 10/10/2010 at 4:44 AM, Super lurker ultra V12 said:

I started painting warhammer 40k miniatures

Yeah, definitely Warhammer 40k for me

  On 10/10/2010 at 3:03 AM, chassis said:

I just watch the whole 1st series of The X-Files, is that more or less nerdy than watmming or chatmming?

i watched the entire 9 seasons in roughly 4 weeks

  On 10/10/2010 at 5:50 PM, kaen said:

  On 10/10/2010 at 3:03 AM, chassis said:

I just watch the whole 1st series of The X-Files, is that more or less nerdy than watmming or chatmming?

i watched the entire 9 seasons in roughly 4 weeks

also i took up gardening for a while, grow some epic veg in my back garden

dabbled at woodturning

i watched terminator 2 every morning before school for roughly 5 years

got up to regional level in ten pin bowling when i was a teenager

used to build and race my own nitro rc trucks

as a side note, i used to paint my back garden wall with water and a paint brush, then when it dried id do it all over again, fuck that was a weird thing to do, not a hobby but bizarre anyway

i larped vampire the dark ages for a brief period when i was a teenager but that was mostly a fUCK YOU DAD thing

im a massive sci fi nerd and i like video games i dunno, thats pretty nerdy

oh an obsession with roman history i guess. and art history.

Also this minecraft shit is possibly the nerdiest thing I've ever been into.

  On 10/10/2010 at 5:55 PM, kaen said:

also i took up gardening for a while, grow some epic veg in my back garden

ths isn't nerdy in my standards.

  On 10/10/2010 at 5:55 PM, kaen said:

i watched terminator 2 every morning before school for roughly 5 years

  On 10/10/2010 at 5:55 PM, kaen said:

as a side note, i used to paint my back garden wall with water and a paint brush, then when it dried id do it all over again, fuck that was a weird thing to do, not a hobby but bizarre anyway

why ? WHY ?

as for myself : 40K like many of us. I stopped when i went to highschool

And I'm currently building my own text based game (a gta like game).