Whee.

[silveradept]

It would appear that if you give a FLEET an idea, they take it, run with it, and make it seven-hundred-thousand times more complex than what it was. The really weird part is that they also improve it those seven-hundred thousand times. So, things are looking up for some places and not so up for some others. This appears to be normal, considering it's supposed to be an unexplored place anyway. Are they trying to stop me? No, not really, but they're making it damn difficult. Which, I suppose, was the way it was supposed to be. Once attention was turned to it, well, they fleshed that part out. And there you have it, people.

Spent a lot of money today - a haircut plus manga. Lots of manga. And the .hack//A.I. Buster novel. Hey, neoboy3000, you're going to loan me Genshiken. And I'm going to loan you Genshiken. Got it?

A lesson for all of you: Control Your Extremists! That's everybody, by the way. To do so, perhaps you should learn how they think. Again, learn how they think. Then do it again. Once you've got that down, you can progress to the next part, which may or may not involve training in small arms fire. Anyway. Nevermind that.

I had a Piro moment today. I was in the store looking at the manga, deciding which series I did or didn't want to buy (the ones I looked at, I do want to buy, the ones I didn't end up buying were because they were out of sequence. Next time, Gadget, next time. Hopefully in a three-for-two sale. Then I'll be caught up, mostly. Mostly. It's never complete, and nevermind about the anime, too. I'll need better jobs before I can think about those. Argh. Stupid money. Getting back on track, I was looking at a series (Boys Be, for the curious, although it's got an extra title-esque thing on it), and so I decided to sit down and read at least some of it. Turned out to be very interesting. I think I like it. The back section, though, had advice about the situations that happened in the manga and how they related to real life. So, it turns out, in looking for dating advice, I may have gone to the shojo section and read something. A very Piro moment, indeed. And I still might pick up that series anyway.

Which reminds me that I should probably think about selling off my current collection of Kare Kano - I'm not getting back into it, and I'm now really behind. I liked it, but I didn't, I guess. It's not high on my update priority list, which should be the warning sign. So I've got seven volumes of Kare Kano, 1-7 sequential for anyone looking to pick up the series with a head-start. If not, I can always sell them to JAMS to start a manga library collection. Or something. Anyway, that's today - I'll make some grandiose commentary tomorrow or something. Or maybe I'll wibble a bit about my various insecurities and how I view a disconnection between real and virtual life that may not actually be there. Given nothing else, I can always fall back onto my great standby - whining about my lack of points in my posts. That'll earn me a quick frying pan to the head. Oh, well. Bed, now. Hopefully, zen will descend on me and I will live the rest of my life in perfect harmony.

Ah, yes. I am a geek. The quiz tell me so.

The Deviant Geek You answered 78% of the questions as a geek truly would.

You're a geek and you know it. You've got all sorts of fringe hobbies and socially unacceptable tendencies. Chances are, whenever possible, you hate to be grouped with other people and sometimes go out of your way just to be different. You're smart too. You're more willing to depend on your own brainpower to solve problems, instead of relying on others to pull you through life. You probably read a lot, and generally enjoy learning new things. So what's it all mean? You may be considered by some to be uncool, but you probably don't care either. In social situations you may be either slightly passive or slightly loud (geeks always fall into the extremes). In a nutshell, you answered enough questions correctly supporting a geek philosophy to be considered a more potent geek than 60% of the population.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 69% on geekness

Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred on Ok Cupid

Comments

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

Taking an idea and running with it (usually with the aid of a handful of ramjets and assorted contragrav devices) is, by far, the FLEET Way. <_< Actually, come to think of it, it's pretty much the Way of any group of likeminded individuals.

[uncle-pervy.livejournal.com]

The Deviant Geek You answered 82% of the questions as a geek truly would.

You're a geek and you know it. You've got all sorts of fringe hobbies and socially unacceptable tendencies. Chances are, whenever possible, you hate to be grouped with other people and sometimes go out of your way just to be different. You're smart too. You're more willing to depend on your own brainpower to solve problems, instead of relying on others to pull you through life. You probably read a lot, and generally enjoy learning new things. So what's it all mean? You may be considered by some to be uncool, but you probably don't care either. In social situations you may be either slightly passive or slightly loud (geeks always fall into the extremes). In a nutshell, you answered enough questions correctly supporting a geek philosophy to be considered a more potent geek than 60% of the population.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 83% on geekness

Link: The True Geek Test written by ambientred on Ok Cupid

I'm a slightly bigger geek than you, Silver. In which case this means you're more "normal" than me and that means you have now less reason to be closed off and need to open up just that little bit more.

[silveradept]

Not that simple... remember it tracks due to age and gender. I'm younger than you are, so you're a bigger geek than most, as am I, but you're not necessarily a bigger geek than I am.

[silveradept]

No kidding. When they get going, it's much like the trains of Moloch - they can't be stopped, no matter what you throw at them. Of course, this gives me plenty of material to work with, but... I dunno, I kind of wanted to be a trendsetter, ya know? And now FLEET's busily defining things. It's nothing like unparallelled egotism or any of the other things they get accused of, but I can see where some people might mistake it to be so now. It's because FLEET's so damn good at whatever they do.

[neoboy3000.livejournal.com]

roger that on the genshiken, silver. second disc is out in september, no date on the third and final yet. i might actually pick up the manga too, but i just quit my job, so....^_^ it might be a while...haha

[silveradept]

I have the first two volumes of Genshiken manga. Thus, we'll loan it to each other and be rather happy.

[alfedenzo.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think that it only uses age and gender for the purpose of comparing you to other people. His 82% is higher than your 78% just because of the answers that he gave.

(86% geek here, apparently, and 94% geekier than other people in my age/gender group.)

[silveradept]

I think I'm beaten. But that means he might actually have a point... and that's just scary some days.

[kaura-nighthawk.livejournal.com]

If it's egotism, it's the egotism of a well-established group intimately familiar with how each other's train of thought operates.

Besides, you are the trendsetter. It was your idea of reestablishing Mohab as a Board base again that started the whole thing. =P

[silveradept]

Yeah, I know. "What hath God wrought?" and all that. I gave the idea, and now I should be happy that they've pounced on it like a pack of demons. It just means that I'm going to have to rework things so that I provide the crown jewel of the things, instead of one amongst many. Ego, me? Never.