Geek Rites Of Passage

[JHunz]

Out of curiosity, how many did you get right?

[DruBo]

40.00

[A Boojum Snark]

23, gamma.

I surprised myself

[Niteowl]

40.

and i stand by his custom title

[Ulatoh]

Isn't it called The Dark Tower series , not the Gunslinger series?

Geek.


lol,
 Caffiene addiction can be specified to Mt.Dew or a clone of it

-Mechwarrior
-Dune the game
-remembers "Deagle Sniping"
-has edited the win95 startup screen in any way (+3 geekiness if it included buxom broads)

-Paganitzu, anyone?
-Has ever MUD, MUSH, MOO, or MUCKed
-knows that /me is an IRC command, not just something grammtically incorrect and fun to do on a message board

-Sim City 2000, anyone?
-Flight sim, the origional?
-has ever delayed higene for gaming
- knows who the Kilrathi are
-Has ever yelled "PING!" at a friend who replied " 127.0.0.1!"
-knows why banning 127.0.0.1 is fun to tell nubs to do
-has ever closed port 80 just to mess  with people ( My IMS still work, but no webpages, WTH!"

[confused!]

well i took the test and got a 38 that makes me feel like i should turn my machine off and go outside. im not going to becasue my roomates internet runss through here and that and its 1 am.

kilrathi are teh guys from wing commander, right? or is it decent free space...

[lolfighter]

Yes, Wing Commander.
Sim City has nothing to do with beeing geeky.

There's no place like 127.0.0.1

[Jefe]

weeeeeeeee, 23

[Uranium - 235]

FFS Simcity.


Just Simcity.


Known as SimCity classic now and you can play it for free at their website...

EDIT: Got 22 on the test, I'm assuming Beta Geek, because my popup killer killed the popup.

[BobTheJanitor]

36, some of the questions were pretty stupid and obscure, but I guess that's what makes it fun (?) so I appear to be a beta geek. You'd think I'd know more than that working in a PC store, but meh. Also, that geek test totally derailed this thread.

[Satiagraha]

w00t, i got a 30, i'm "a Beta Geek
- You know more about PCs than some PC magazine editors, and MOST PC magazine readers. You eat, drink, and breathe PC hardware, which explains why your nickname is "Fun Tony" at LAN parties, but "Relentlessly Annoying Tony" at PTA meetings."

Guess i didn't really expect anything different though, me and my RAMs and Serial I/Os lol

[BrianL03]

21, but that was with guessing. So I'm assuming more like 15 or something, since I sincerely doubt I'm that close to Uranium in terms of score. (Gamma)

[LzX]

39...



If you've only seen the LOTR movies, you're a sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, sad, person. READ THE BOOKS MAN!!! They're so much better... Also, Dune... Great series.

[Satanic Monkey]

This tread got ^bumped

[Uranium - 235]

Necrobumped...


Mine was with guessing too Some of those questions had nothing to do with being a geek, they're just stupid questions.

[Niteowl]

this is a bump for grayduck, who has not read HGTTG!!

[GrayDuck]

Let me make this clear.  I am not a geek!  You guys/gals live in a whole different world than me!  I have never and am still not a Geek.  I play video games because my co-workers made me, I hang out on LM because they got me hooked and changed games up on me.  I IRC because I get bored at work.  I like LOTR because that’s ALL my co-workers talked about for so long that I had no choice but to watch and like it.  I own a couple sets of the star wars movies because my husband used to be a fanatic.  All the evidence you have that points towards me being a geek is circumstantial, you can’t prove anything!!!

Oh – for the record I scored an 18 on that test.  I think most of my right answers were good guesses.  I was, however, pissed that the one question that I KNEW the answer to right away didn’t have the correct answer listed:

47. How do you minimize all windows?
A Alt+Tab
B Ctrl+W
C Alt+F4
D Windows Key+M

Come on test-maker, the true answer is Windows Key + D  HELLO MCFLY!

So in closing… I’m not a geek.

[BobTheJanitor]

Well, win+m works as well, and is technically the correct answer to 'how do you minimize all windows'. It's just that win+d is the way an intelligent person does it, because the d is closer to your left hand (and who uses the right hand win key, these days? I mean REALLY?) and because it allows you to keep repeating the key combo to minimize and then reopen the windows as much as you want.

[Niteowl]

man, GD is a closet geek if i ever saw one

[SwiftSpear]

23 correct, gamma geek

- not the lowliest dog feasting on the sinew of gutted testing systems, but certainly not as digitaly dominant as the Alpha Geek. Still, you do know your way around a PC with some level of competency. Good enough for government work, indeed.

Not too bad considering I just got out of highschool and have absolutly no geek RL friends...