Never got into this game, but still this Otacon dude is the typical nerdy/geeky tech side kick. And last but not least, one of the most famous game nerds ever, Bernard Bernoulli from "Day of the Tentacle!
(Mark, if you know more of these, please feel free to add!)
And couldn't keep this from you guys. Call me childish or perverted, but this absolutely rocks;
"For centuries the female bosom has been wrongfully held in the prison of maternal duty and frat boy motor-boating. The time has come to blow the cell doors open for breasts! Howl for hooters! Terrorize for tits! Bomb for boobs! LAZERTITS looks into the past and changes the future one broad at a time. What will YOU say when your kids ask where you were during the revolution? Don't burn your bra, BLAST IT!!!"
Here are some screencaps of some old adventure games. Some bring back great memories, but above all show the amount of work done for these kind of games (no 3D! all handdrawn characters and BG's! Wow! :D ).
Games featured above are Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Broken Sword and Monkey Island 3.
Here is the raw collected data of this afternoon. Especially the Joker gave us so much information, I couldn't process it all :P So if there's something wrong or missing, hit me up (again!).
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Store: Subcultures
Name: Mark Brummel
1. Hobbies:
- Capoeira
- Squash
- Japanese Bow and Arrow
- Cardgames (Magic)
- Warhammer / War Machine
2. Favourite books/movies/etc: - Anne Rising
- About Martial Arts and Japanese mythology
- Boondock Saints
- Memory of a Geisha
- District 9
3. What kinds of people enter this store?
- Larpers
- “Normal”/average people
- Roleplayers
- Boardgames become more popular (thanks to WoW)
4. How do you see yourself and the people who enter here?
We play in a group, that’s our strength. With our store we try to create a niche market, focus on different stuff than the other stores. That’s how we keep the advantage.
5. Are there any movie, books or other media where in your opinion geeks/nerd/dorks are portrayed incorrectly?
Not that I know of. You will always have extremities in every group or culture. Once I got bashed in the head for touching someone’s Magic dice. True story.
Shop: Never Never Land
1. Hobbies:
- Martial Arts (4 to 5 different ones)
- Books and music
- Roleplaying, especially tabletop
- Boardgames
2. Favourite books/movies/etc:
- Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay - Labyrinth (movie) - Firefly (Sci-Fi series)
3. What kinds of people enter this store?
Varies enormously. - Young couples, begin 30. They come for the boardgames. (something like 40% of all customers)
- Roleplayers
- Students, for games like Munchkin.
Shop: The Joker
This shop deserves some extra special credit, because we literally stumbled on a geekish gold mine here. When we entered we noticed there were a couple of people sitting around a table having a conversation. They turned out to be employees. Like the other shops we asked them if we could ask some questions, and they gladly accepted. We sat down and the information stream just didn’t stop, before we knew it a full hour had passed. I just couldn’t keep up writing!
1. Hobbies:
- Roleplayer > pen & paper > Computer is too limited.
- Stitching, embroiding (I like fiddling around)
- Castlefest, that’s how I spend my holiday!
- Collecting fully customizable asian puppets (something like action figures, but they are most of the time prefab).
--Maybe not a hobby, but a former line of work I was involved in, namely stuffing customizable cuddly dolls for little kids. Insert tons of perverted jokes here.
2. Favourite books/movies/etc: - Anime, and lots of it! > More the Shoujo variant > dramas/comedy.
- Fantasy books from the likes of Robert Jordan, C.S. Lewis, David Addings, Cunningham, Heynes.
- Princess Bride (movie)
- The Gamers 1 & 2
- The Guild – Felicia Day!
- Mega Tokyo > webcomic
3. What kinds of people enter this store?*
Varies enormously, again.
- The general public, coming for the occasional boardgame.
- Diehard boardgamers playing more mature big wargames (Warhammer etc.)
- Cardgamers (Magic, Legend of the 5 rings)
- Students, for games like Munchkin.
- And interestingly almost no WoW players. Too busy playing WoW, I guess.
* The Joker employees said that between team
4. How do you see yourself and the people who enter here?
See other blogpost about Geek? Nerd? Dork? System.
5. Are there any movie, books or other media where in your opinion geeks/nerd/dorks are portrayed incorrectly?
Well, most of the time it’s negative if not made by nerds, geeks or dorks.
It takes some time for people from the outside to realise that we’re just different, but not in a weird of wrong way. We’re just a bunch of friendly idiots; within our culture everybody accepts each other just fine.
Some helpful tips: - ohcupid.com - Watch the Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising! - The Joker personnel are very willingly to help playtest the game.
- Explorers of Catan is considered a bit of a dull boardgame ;)
- Alles is Liefde first 10 minutes LARP section for a good, outsiders look on LARP in general.
- Reanactment is something completely different than LARP. Reanactment is about playing out a historical correct scenario, where LARP is more focused on (high) fantasy.
Today we held some interviews with some very nice and helpful people in the centre of Utrecht. They all had one thing in common: they worked in gameshops (Warhammer, boardgames stuff, you know ;-)).
One of them immediately told us the differences between dorks, nerds and geeks. That was so cool and informative! It goes a little bit like this (and hit me up when I got something wrong!);
Geeks are the ones with very specialized knowledge, mainly focusing on one thing, for example Trekkers.
Nerds are the ones about collecting as much information as possible about all kinds of stuff. It doesn't really matter. For example they read complete manuals and speak fluent Klingon.
Dorks are the ones with a little social deficit. They can't come up with the right words, stumble, can't handle themselves around girls and so forth.
The whole idea behind this "system" of three is that no one is solely a nerd or a geek. Everybody (within this circle) has some traits from the three categories. Hence terms as "nerdish geeks" or "geekish nerds".
Can't get around this guy, the mofo AVGN!
Never got into this game, but still this Otacon dude is the typical nerdy/geeky tech side kick.
And last but not least, one of the most famous game nerds ever, Bernard Bernoulli from "Day of the Tentacle!
