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Poll Question: Are you a dork like me?
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18 [51.43%]
5 [14.29%]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 15 2006 at 18:01
Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Although there are Dungeons & Dragons based video games, Balder's Gate for one.Wink


It's actually based on a world and campaign setting that people created for D&D which is known as the Forgotten Realms or Faerun if you prefer... Geek

Ok... Now I'm a dork LOL

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2006 at 03:54
Originally posted by The Miracle The Miracle wrote:

Dungeons and Dragons is a video game whose fans are the nerdiest(I think...Confused)
 
Debby,
 
First D&D is a role game either played on on a member-drawned board (or not) with the members making their own set of rules. The concept in itself was fascinating, but it quickly became nerdy, geeky ........ and dorky because those members would shy away in the fantasies and some forget about the outside world.
 
 
 
Eventually twenty years after it might have become a videogame
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2006 at 04:03
Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Although there are Dungeons & Dragons based video games, Balder's Gate for one.Wink


It's actually based on a world and campaign setting that people created for D&D which is known as the Forgotten Realms or Faerun if you prefer... Geek

Ok... Now I'm a dork LOL

This is true, but still it had its roots in D&D so I'm correct you just elaborated for me.Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 16 2006 at 05:58
I'm a recluse whom nobody hates, I'm a quite a large person so I'm left alone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2006 at 10:33
Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Dungeons and Dragons isn't a computer game actually. It's a roleplaying game you play with friends in a basement on paper with dices, maps and all. Wink

It sounds nerdy but it's pretty cool.

I actually have a scheduled game for tonight. It's the first time I'm playing in years. Smile


Which Version do you play? I just started so I'm a 3.5 edition-er.

Yeah, for three years on a weekly basis I've been playing. No, I'm not a dork. I only like unpopular intellegent music, Play Dungeons and Dragons, Watch Star Trek, have read Lord of the Rings, Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy, The Eye of the World series, and I went to school dressed as a rendition of Peter Gabriel's watcher of the Skies outfit... yeah I'm cool. (And somehow... somehow I end up being friends with all the Hawthorne Heights/My Chemical Romance/Panic! At the Dicso  listeners... go figure.Confused)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 17 2006 at 17:02
Originally posted by GPFR GPFR wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Dungeons and Dragons isn't a computer game actually. It's a roleplaying game you play with friends in a basement on paper with dices, maps and all. Wink

It sounds nerdy but it's pretty cool.

I actually have a scheduled game for tonight. It's the first time I'm playing in years. Smile


Which Version do you play? I just started so I'm a 3.5 edition-er.



I'm playing the 3.5 version too.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 08:57
Yes, I am a penis... ClownLOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 09:53
I love D&D... 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 13:05
Im not a dork (I think) and I dont have an interest in D&D, videogames are more fun.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2006 at 14:43
Originally posted by Ed_The_Dead Ed_The_Dead wrote:

I love D&D... 
 
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I am playing "DSA" which means "Das Schwarze Auge" ("The Black Eye" in English) and I also play Shadowrun which is a pen & paper game either...

I LOVE PEN & PAPER!!!  Hug
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2006 at 04:14

D&D >> Dicks and Dorks?????????? Evil SmileWink

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 28 2006 at 20:52
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2006 at 02:50
Never been a geek/nerd.
 
I am a weird person, but not really a dork.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2006 at 16:58
16 people in denial...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 14:00
Napoleon Dynamite is a dork, a person with socially inadequate tendencies.

D&D isn't dorky but nerdy. And great.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 14:37
I'm unclear as to the difference between nerdy and dorky. Suffice it to say that I have never lost a game of Trivial Pursuit or Scrabble.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 18:26
Originally posted by xtopher xtopher wrote:


Dork
598 up, 100 down

Someone who has odd interests, and is often silly at times. A dork is also someone who can be themselves and not care what anyone thinks.

You are such a dork.

I guess I'm closer to a "geek", which is a nerd that doesn't necessarily need to be bookish or technologically apt. But if you're mixing the two definitions together, I'll just choose "yes".

To recap:

a nerd entails a geek
a geek does not entail a nerd
a dork does not entail a geek or a nerd, but there is a high correlation between the three.
 
I've never really understood what the three terms mean, but if I go with those definitions, then I'm definitely not a nerd, as I don't really play too many computer games, and I'm not too good with technology.  As for dork, I don't know, because I'm rarely silly, I'm usually very down-to-earth, but I do have odd interests (prog, jazz, yo-yos, cryptozoology).  I do very well at school, but I wouldn't say I'm extremely smart, and I don't read a whole lot, so I don't really know what you'd call me, but I figured I'm close enough to vote yes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 18:29
I'm a dork, moron, idiot, n00b...what else did I miss?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 21:38
D&D is just stupid. Disapprove
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Elder Scrolls is where it's at. Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 24 2006 at 21:40
I don't play D&D, but I am most assuredly a dork.
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