Is your H/SO a geek? Is your family?

[mookie]

@dr.girlfriend  so cute.
SO is definitely not a geek (neither am I really, just a Sim geek)and he definitely takes a very 'ain't nobody got time for that' stance when i lament about my Sims and their 'lives'. But he's very accepting of my Sim pobsession and amuses me when I jibber jabber on and on about it. Sometimes i even catch him glued to my laptop screen over my shoulder when I'm playing.

I'm pretty sure one day I'll come home to find him knee deep in it.

[picaflora]

DH is a gamer for sure. He prefers RPGs and strategy games (like Civ, Europa, Tropico, etc). He's been playing Final Fantasy VI on-line since 2002. He mostly plays PC games, but we do have a PS3. Shooters are probably his least favorite, and he won't TOUCH a zombie game. he has an irrational fear of zombies.

He's recently gotten into boardgames as well. I can't name what he has other than Settlers of Cataan and Android Netrunner because I made up new names for them. The Q dice game (you have dice to roll to get things to spend on creatures. Almost everything starts wtih a Q.), the block game (colored blocks that represent resources like mages, warriors, what-have-you and use them to complete quests to score.), and the farm game (use meeples to build buildings, farms, and roads. Not Agricula (sp) I want that one). The problem we run into is that most of these games are more fun with 3+ players, and we rarely have an extra person that wants to play with us.

He also likes his sci-fi books and was a Star Wars nut. He's backed off of that one some.

I'm a nerd in the message board/reddit way. Mostly from playing on our college message board and knowing way to many of the memes and such (ORLY owl for example). I SUCK at most video games, but I'll play a 2nd player to his shooting games if he really needs me. I got semi-decent at Modern Warfare. I have a Pinball Arcade game on the PS3 that I love, and all the PS Katamari's. LOVE that game! Otherwise I stick to simulation games and "dippy" games (Big Fish, Pop Cap)

My sister played WoW for a number of years, and is an insane Dr Who nut. She also really enjoyed Hunger Games, and loves her some Mario.

DH's brother is full on nerd. Board games, D n D, you name it he does it. The last time we talked to him he was excited because he was a GM for his first game.

Everyone else in the family... thinks we're weird =0)

[starfish]

I made my sister, and brother into geeks. They use to make fun of me hard core for playing WoW, watching anime, and all my fantasy love. Now my sister, brother, and my cousin all play wow, my sister is a hardcore Dr who, and loves to visit and play talisman, so much she bought her self the starter board. My brother now geeks out with some magic, and hardcore fps.
I keep telling them they have come to the dark side.

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Aug 22, 2013 9:33:55 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

Aug 22, 2013 8:38:13 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

When my friend was trying to set my husband and I up she said, "He's black, and he's a geek. Will either of those two things be a problem?" At the time I got an immediate picture of Urkel -- that's before black geeks really started to represent. At least now we have Baratunde and Wyatt Cenac. ;-) But my DH is definitely a geek.  He's the one who got me into Doctor Who.  I tend to love a few things intensely and obsessively, while he's more diverse in his geek interests.

We joke that I fell for him on our first date when he referred to X-Files episodes by title, and that he fell in love with me on our first date  when I quoted The Simpsons to him.

Our son is basically a geek-in-training...but I expect most 4-year-old boys are geeks about *something*. He's crazy into Transformers and robots, but he also loves our Doctor Who toys and DH's old Star Wars toys. We've let him see select clips from Star Wars (the battle on Hoth, the pod race). We're trying to keep him from finding out that Jar-Jar exists.

Here's our little geekling surrounded by daddy's Star Wars toys:

Omg that photo is awesome. Now I need to get my hands on all of @ameliapond 's old SW toys for my DS in a few years.

NO WAY are you getting my action figures! Lol. I will by him some for his birthday/Christmas though. 

I think Mom got rid of the Millenium Falcon. 

[dr.girlfriend]

Aug 22, 2013 14:26:47 GMT -5 @stalkermom said:

Aug 22, 2013 10:18:18 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

NO WAY are you getting my action figures! Lol. I will by him some for his birthday/Christmas though. 

I think Mom got rid of the Millenium Falcon. 

Oh, yeah, blame Mom! 

I (heart) the Pond family.

[dr.girlfriend]

Aug 22, 2013 10:18:18 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

Aug 22, 2013 9:33:55 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

Omg that photo is awesome. Now I need to get my hands on all of @ameliapond 's old SW toys for my DS in a few years.

NO WAY are you getting my action figures! Lol. I will by him some for his birthday/Christmas though. 

I think Mom got rid of the Millenium Falcon. 

I was thinking the same thing...DH has a 48-year-old half-sister, and she carefully marked her three action figures with nail polish on the bottom just so DH would never get them!  Childhood toys are serious business, yo.

[gault]

Yep. bf is more of a video game, scifi and tabletop game person, I'm more of a video game, book and theater geek. We tend to mesh pretty well with our geekdom.

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Aug 22, 2013 15:15:46 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

Aug 22, 2013 10:18:18 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

NO WAY are you getting my action figures! Lol. I will by him some for his birthday/Christmas though. 

I think Mom got rid of the Millenium Falcon. 

I was thinking the same thing...DH has a 48-year-old half-sister, and she carefully marked her three action figures with nail polish on the bottom just so DH would never get them!  Childhood toys are serious business, yo.

They're already at my house anyway, so scribellesam would have to fly 2000 miles to get her greedy mitts on them. I have a super awesome original carrying case for them too. And a Tauntaun.

[scribellesam]

Aug 22, 2013 15:57:12 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

Aug 22, 2013 15:15:46 GMT -5 dr.girlfriend said:

I was thinking the same thing...DH has a 48-year-old half-sister, and she carefully marked her three action figures with nail polish on the bottom just so DH would never get them!  Childhood toys are serious business, yo.

They're already at my house anyway, so scribellesam would have to fly 2000 miles to get her greedy mitts on them. I have a super awesome original carrying case for them too. And a Tauntaun.

Whatever who wants to play with that pinheaded Han anyway :-P

[Dumbledork]

I actually think that one of the great things about geek culture is that there are so many different types of geeks. Like I said in my intro, DH is more of an Internet geek, but he'd have no idea what cosplay is and isn't at all into HP or Who or anything like that. We're kind of opposites. He likes Star Wars and I like Star Trek. I do fan fiction and am dying to go to HP World, he's always sending me links to all these techie articles that I don't really understand, but am assured is the coolest thing ever. His laptop in college ran Linux. He's more of a traditional geek I guess while I'm more of a pop culture geek. We do have some similar geek interests. We both love certain superheroes and the vlogbrothers, things like that. It's pretty limited though.

My younger sisters got me into it all when we were younger. They introduced me to Buffy and a couple sci-fi books they enjoyed, and it went on from there. My older sister and my parents are the farthest you could ever get from a geek. They all think we're weird, but my mom loves us anyway, my dad thinks it's funny, and my sister tolerates it as long as she can.

[statlerwaldorf]

We are different kinds of geeks.  We both play PS3, but DH is weirdly adverse to computers.  I cannot remember the last time I've even seen him use a computer.  I just can't understand it.

DH is really into comic books and spends a lot of time at the local comic book store.  He's a Batman, anime and Buffy fanatic.  I don't care for most geek type shows or movies.

One of my brothers is a gamer.  The other one is a casual player.  SIL is really into gaming and anime.

[CheshireGrin]

I remember on our very first date, while we were still in the "what do you like?" stage, my husband looking at me in sudden shock and delight and exclaiming, "You read sci-fi?!"

This is a large part of why we get along so well. We totally get each other's geekery.

My brother and I can have entire conversations in nothing but movie quotes, so I would definitely say he fits into the geek category as well, although beyond that our interests are a bit different.

I originally got started on sci-fi by my Dad giving me Heinlein and Sturgeon and Asimov to read when I was a kid, among others. So I guess I have him to blame for all of it. My Mom is definitely not a geek, but she puts up with all of us with loving tolerance.

[Kit]

My husband is a huge geek, and a huge gamer. Primarily video games and computer games.

[2curlydogs]

I am a geek. H is a geek. We have bachelor degrees that prove it, even. Neither of us were raised by geeks, though I have siblings and a niece and nephews who would identify as geeks.

I have always been a huge Star Trek and Doctor Who type of geek.  I got H into both of those.  H has always been more a Magic The Gathering, Monty Python-esque geek.  We're both gamer geeks.

What makes a person a geek? I like Wil Wheaton's most recent definition (they use the term "nerd", but same concept) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_BtmV4JRSc.

I think it's too early to tell if my son is. He's 2 1/2. We don't hide geek culture from him (he's watched a bit of ST:DS9 with me. he likes the space ships) but right now he loves legos, cars/trucks, and trains. He loves reading (or being read to). And lord knows we quote more Monty Python, etc. and other geeky stuff at him (my defining moment as a parent thus far was, in all seriousness, telling him to "Stop that. You're being too silly").

[Deleted]

Yeah, FI is a geek to the core. He likes MMOs and shooters. I'm terrible at shooters and I get bored with mmorpgs, because of the pvp and monster killing. He has a nice collection of random lego figurines and trinkets on his desk.

[TemperanceBrennan]

I was gone at a con and missed that this board got added.

My H is a geek. He always has been. He's into a few different things. (He says you can be a geek about anything.) He has his things and I have mine. Although, some of his things are becoming my things too.

I think that you are a geek if there is something that you love so much that you love talking about it to others and learning about it as much as you can. I think that you also like to share it with other people. I am really into Harry Potter and some TV shows. My husband has recently gotten me into Doctor Who. He's also trying really hard to get me into table top gaming. That isn't as hard, since I like to play games.

Anyway, I think that I am mostly a Harry Potter geek (for typical/"accepted" geek things), I would also consider myself a Gilmore Girls geek. I love Gilmore Girls. And, in general a TV geek. I think that you can be a geek by loving the "normal" geeky things or you can be a geek about things that aren't "normal" geek things, like sports or music/bands. Anything really.

I think I became more aware of the geeky things I liked once I met my H.

[laddie]

I outnerd BF (his words) but he manages a Gamestop. Bastard is in Vegas right now getting his dick sucked by Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo.

[gibbinator]

Dh is heavily into Star Trek and has an amazing Nintendo collection and every system except the U, but that's where it ends. I'm the real geek in this household - from gaming to star trek to DBZ to, well, message boards. I also qualify as nerd.

[omgzombies]

I grew up geek, became a geek and married a geek. My dad actually frequented The Dungeon Hobby Shop, and met/hung out with Gygax a few times. My husbands and our interest know no bounds really, we're fans of Star Wars, Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels, board games, RPG, Tolkien, Firefly, computer gaming (mostly Starcraft and League of Legends at the moment). Hopefully we'll be able to impart some of our love of these things to our kids!

[Deleted]

Of course my H and I are geeks. He is much more than I am, but still. 

We went to our first DragonCon in 2010 and bought our 2011 tickets before leaving. The only reason we didn't go is that I ended up having a baby - whom we named Annika -  on opening day of the 2011 Con. We'll take her back for her birthday when she's a little older, if she hasn't decided she hates us for naming her after a Star Trek character.