Scan the above tropers power level.

Describe something geeky that you have done or are doing, and have the next troper scan it to identify your power level!

(power level refers to how geeky it was.)

I have had my picture taken with cosplayers at convention halls.

(INB 4 ITS OVER NINE THOUUSAAAND!!, yeah its funny, but don't use it too often or else the game will be ruined.)

edited 15th Feb '11 6:08:53 PM by Dynamod

At least 100!

I spent my Valentine's Day studying the structure of Slavic names.

That never happened.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:10:57 PM by annebeeche

Zero, you didnt put anything geeky down! I'd say at least 500!

I once sang a vocaloid song out loud on the bus.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:11:20 PM by Dynamod

Metric: 0 for standard, 100 for geeky as hell.

@ the top: 40 or so: amongst otaki, that's pretty standard.

Not sure how geeky that would qualify as. Instruments registering nothing.

I have been to a collection of old military equipment and was able to identify most of the tank models there by myself, including such old gems like the M50 Ontos and the M551 Sheridan.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:11:47 PM by SabresEdge

Over 1500

I can quote at least the first three lines of Beowulf in Old English.

That right there's a 1500.

I once bought a sandwich during lunch, struck a dramatic pose and screamed FALCON LUNCH in front of everyone.

I don't regret it.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:14:07 PM by SheWhoChewsGum

250

(To me, that's just regular everyday hamminess)

I enjoyed reading every book assigned in school except Billy Budd.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:15:32 PM by annebeeche

50. I was the same way, except with The Count Of Monte Cristo and A Tale Of Two Cities.

I just drew a Milotic with six chubby nonfunctioning arms, its face and tail burned away to reveal a metallic skeleton.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:15:47 PM by MsieurLapin

1337. (lol) edit: ninjas, thats maybe a 600 at best

When pokemon GSC came out, I had memorized the names and elements of every pokemon out there.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:16:29 PM by Dynamod

@Annebeeche: 100. (That's just ordinary bibliophilia, which I can totally relate to.)

Impressive! 2300.

I developed the habit of marching from place to place, and used to mark time to any background music present.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:16:50 PM by SabresEdge

100. I do that sometimes.

I have passionate, avid discussions with my friend, a student of German, on the language's grammar.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:16:42 PM by annebeeche

@ Dyna: 500
(I did that when for the first 350 Pokemon.)

@ Ann: 200
(I do that with English and I pretty much consider it Gramma Nazi [no pun intended on the German])

Often when I'm out I will be singing along to something that is only in my head, complete with twirling.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:19:28 PM by StolenByFaeries

500. Not really geeky, per se, but the twirling gets you points for style.

I wrote down the entire formula to determine the catch rate for any given Pokemon and apply it to in-game scenarios with which I am faced.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:20:39 PM by MsieurLapin

@ Stolen; 250. (I do that, only I conduct with my hands and play the percussion track with my fingers.)

That's just everyday min-maxing, but it takes a lot of dedication. 2000.

VG game thread. I posted the background music to game-within-an-anime, The Day of Sagittarius III, as a challenge (legit because the game was defictionalized). Furthermore, I was already familiar with the composer and work in question due to Quiz Bowl and band.

edited 15th Feb '11 6:21:47 PM by SabresEdge

3000

750

With the help of various google searches, I translated Beowulf Ecgtheowing into Old Norse (Býulfr Eggthegnson) and Proto-Germanic (Béowulfaz Ecgthegningaz or such).

edited 15th Feb '11 6:23:07 PM by annebeeche

4000 at least. Why would you put yourself through that?... nvm that question.

I'm playing a romhacked version of pokemon emerald right now that replaces the pokemon with touhou characters, and tweaked the game in such a way that I can trade touhou's online. (This wasn't normally possible with what the emulator gives you.)

edited 15th Feb '11 6:37:04 PM by Dynamod

...you win. (2000 or so: not as impressive as what Anne did, but damn.)

I memorized large portions Hymn to Red October, the Russian national anthem, and Katyusha in their original language, despite not being Russian.

Nerdier than my three lines of Beowulf. You get a 5500.

I play Net Hack. I suck at it, but I play it.

100,000... 200,000... 600,000... You just broke my scouter.

I memorized the entire script of Aladdin and can sing pretty much any song you name from it.

174,000...

I dressed up as a maid and played Saya No Uta to get a nerdy otaku boy to do my homework for me.

...you were able to weaponize your nerdiness? I think you just won the thread!

I once correctly identified "credits cards" as the correct answer to a question within a second or two based only on the clue "Marquette court case".

edited 15th Feb '11 7:12:52 PM by SabresEdge

6000

I sometimes listen to a loop of the same song over and over (or even worse, part of a song) for at least a couple hours on end.

10 (Regular day for me)

I regularly reference some manga, science, faerie, or obcure topic just to have people look at me all confused so I can explain it to them.

@ Vorpy -

& Just like me. Over 9000.

Right now it listening to KH music, namely Forze dell'Oscurita.

edited 15th Feb '11 7:17:50 PM by rmctagg09

250 or so, not particularly nerdy. I listen to VG music all the time.

I've set tunes from the Haruhi Suzumiya movie as my wake-up call. (This probably puts a large hole around the waterline of any assertions that I'm not actually an otaku.)

edited 15th Feb '11 7:20:12 PM by SabresEdge