Ultimate Geek Evening
Dec. 13th, 2005 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThankfully I'm no where near this level (yet). This is a rant from Dom, one of the people behind the web comic Mega Tokyo.
"See, on Thursday night I was idly browsing the Wikipedia looking up random subjects for kicks while playing some To Heart 2, which finally got to me from my bud Seiya. Then, I got an AIM message from Suberunker, who told me to fire up Animal Crossing DS so he could visit my town and give me apples to plant.
After I opened my gates, Hodge-Podge sent me a panicked message, since he was at work late, and had been planning to play some Magic during his break. But he'd accidentally joined a timed tournament instead of a leisurely league, so he asked that I take over for him, which I gladly did, eventually going 3-0-2 and making top 8. Around then, Fred and I started discussing MT a bit, too...
And that's when it hit me. I was playing Magic Online. While browsing an encyclopedia purely for fun. While "playing" a Japanese visual novel. While friends were running around my Nintendo DS town. While talking about online comics.
I almost wept at the horror of it.
I truly am a prince among nerds. All hail!
Thankfully, the next night I went to a hockey game, so that bucked up my pride a bit.
But still. I think I need to go crush a beer can against my forehead or something, I'll talk to you guys again when I regain consciousness and lose the self-consciousness.
Well, okay, when I regain consciousness, at least."
"See, on Thursday night I was idly browsing the Wikipedia looking up random subjects for kicks while playing some To Heart 2, which finally got to me from my bud Seiya. Then, I got an AIM message from Suberunker, who told me to fire up Animal Crossing DS so he could visit my town and give me apples to plant.
After I opened my gates, Hodge-Podge sent me a panicked message, since he was at work late, and had been planning to play some Magic during his break. But he'd accidentally joined a timed tournament instead of a leisurely league, so he asked that I take over for him, which I gladly did, eventually going 3-0-2 and making top 8. Around then, Fred and I started discussing MT a bit, too...
And that's when it hit me. I was playing Magic Online. While browsing an encyclopedia purely for fun. While "playing" a Japanese visual novel. While friends were running around my Nintendo DS town. While talking about online comics.
I almost wept at the horror of it.
I truly am a prince among nerds. All hail!
Thankfully, the next night I went to a hockey game, so that bucked up my pride a bit.
But still. I think I need to go crush a beer can against my forehead or something, I'll talk to you guys again when I regain consciousness and lose the self-consciousness.
Well, okay, when I regain consciousness, at least."
