Being a geek
Running a dungeons and dragons game back home, keep picking up new handbooks when they look useful for what i'll be doing, and bits of software for mapping/campaign planning/character building etc.

Current number of books (at £10-£15 a pop): 7 (PHB 1+2, DMG 1+2, MM 1+2+3),
amount spent on software (including D&D Insider subscription): £55
Amount spent on mapping materials, paper, card, printer ink, foamboard etc: probably at least £100 (mainly due to thirsty printer), and rising.

Splitting the cost of some things with other freinds, but it still adds up to a lot in the end
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:26, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

This is what I saw
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah nerd blah blah blah blah blah geek blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah virgin.

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah £10 pocket money.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Nope, student loan
Plus savings from years of expert parent scrounging
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

NERRRRRRRRRRRRD
I apologise but I couldn't help myself.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:30, Reply)

*flounces*
well, *goes off to revise* anyway
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

We're just playing with you
it's better than playing Dungeons and Dragons!
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:34, Reply)

Pah, I'm a geek and happy with it
General holiday events among my friends are LAN parties, board games days, and the D&D games, keeps me in touch with them, and generally turns into a pub trip or bbq with the less geeky friends afterwards.

At least I'm not a LARPist
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I don't know what a LAN party is or a LARPist, could you enlighten me please?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:37, Reply)

LAN party: bunch of people with computers playing games for a day (or two, or if we can get eveyone free for long enough, a week (with breaks for other things, and at least one day of doing something outside) :P), all connected, in the same room, great fun.


LARP: Live Action Role Playing: dressing up as your character then doing fighting in costume. (to quote Yahtzee) The geeks who are to most geeks what geeks are to normal people. looks fun though
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:43, Reply)

LARPing is fun
There are some astoundingly geeky (and creepy) people who do it, but most are just people out for a laugh, a fight in the woods, and plenty of booze!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:44, Reply)

you bunch of losers.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:46, Reply)

I cannot refute this

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:47, Reply)

How awful to spend days on end staring at a computer screen

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:48, Reply)

Reminds me of this on links last night...
www.prguitarman.com/comics/275_bestdayeverHD.gif
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:51, Reply)

The summer ones tend to involve a lot of frisbee and BBQing during the day
Plus whatever other outdoor stuff the person who's house it's at has.
Most of the gaming is on rubbish weather days or overnight.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:54, Reply)

Don't worry I'm not having a go
each to their own and all that.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:56, Reply)

Dammit, this is why I shouldn't get into conversations on b3ta
Just extended my lunch break from revision by about half an hour, enough that there's not enough time left before my programming class to be worth doing any until this evening...
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 13:00, Reply)

Meh, we enjoy it
And it's with the same bunch of people I'll be going on a walking holiday in the lake district with later in the summer, so it all evens out in the end.
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 15 Jun 2010, 12:52, Reply)