The Hierarchy of Geeks
Posted on October 10, 2003 @ 2:45 pm
While scouring Best Buy (arch-nemesis of teedz) for a new cordless telephone yesterday, I noticed that the PC game Icewind Dale has recently hit the low, low price of ten bucks. I’ve been searching for a budget-priced computer game as of late to while away the hours, and I think a critically acclaimed CRPG might just do the trick. The fact that Icewind Dale is based on the official Dungeons & Dragons rules, however, raises an important question. Is the fact that I’m playing what amounts to a computer version of a Dungeon & Dragons game less geeky because I’m not playing a pen-and-paper campaign with a group of fellow RPGers, or is it in fact double geeky because it involves not only playing Dungeons & Dragons, but also using a computer to do so?
The dilemma made me think back the what may very well be the funniest thing ever produced by the now-defunct Brunching Shuttlecocks website: the absolutely hilarious Geek Hierarchy. From the looks of that chart, I can rest assured that I’ll remain at least a notch above the furries even if I succumb to the lure of Icewind Dale.
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you are most certainly MORE geeky. on even the most basic level, roleplaying is socializing. its leaving the house, its hanging out with friends, its throwing back a few beers, its making off-color remarks about your best friend’s elf character, etc. i think that playing icewind dale, or evercrack or any other computer-based rpg is inherently geekier because not only is it a notorious geek past time, but its the same thing sans any human contact.
You know, when I was sitting in front of my computer this afternoon and ended up spending the better part of half an hour clicking the “reroll” button in Icewind Dale’s character generator in a vain attempt to achieve that perfect balance of wisdom and constitution for my half-elf cleric, I came to the realization that you hit the nail on the head, batman. CRPGs are, in fact, double geeky.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some sort of ancient evil to thwart.
and in the same respect, since sports are, at least in the majority opinion, a non-geeky endeavor, playing videogame sports cancells each other out and is neutrally geeky.
Hmm… I think you’re onto something here.