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tech geek

culture/language geek

fandom geek

otaku

art geek

music/acoustic geek

medical geek

physics geek

psychological geek

mathematical/programming geek

mechanical geek/"petrol/gearhead"

gaming nerd

omni geek (broad interest of knowledge, poor depth)

I am in denial about my geekhood.

I am a poll geek, I live to vote on these polls

oh yeah, and science geek

... and theatre geek

[RedKing]

Oh. Yeah, that would be one of my friends. It's similar to cosplay, but without the anime/otaku weirdness. Steampunk/Victorian costumes seem to be very big among that group. His two favorite costumes are the 4th Doctor (which, while he looks utterly unlike Tom Baker, the costume is spot-on) and Nikolai Tesla...or at least a steampunk superhero version thereof.

You never know when you're going to encounter a rare and fascinating specimen of humanity on the forums :3

Maybe it's just me, but I'd describe most of the forum regulars as rare and fascinating specimens of humanity. That's what keeps me hanging around this place. 

[Pnx]

I just call him Rob, cos thats his name... or BeetlJuice, cos thats his nickname.

Anyway. Is there a name for this kind of geek?

Yes.
And it is "awesome".

I dated one of these people in high school

I'm not really sure if there's a name for it. I know some people who fall into that category though. It's like they have their own genre of geek since they seem so disenchanted from the mainstream, though they often fit right in with the rest of us (unless the conversation goes to some game everyone but them play). They seem pretty rare to me though.

Pleased to meetcha!

You never know when you're going to encounter a rare and fascinating specimen of humanity on the forums :3

Thread mission accomplished, you may all celebrate now, but don't stop here!
I'm thinking I might turn this into a "what kind of geek are you?" Maybe make one of those custom personality quizes. Or just figure out all the types and do a poll.

Hmmm, we have tech geek, culture/language geek, otaku, fan geek, art geek, music/acoustical geek, medical geek, psychological geek, science geek, mathematical/programming geek, mechanical geek, plain old gaming nerd, and "in denial about my geekhood."
Anything else to add that I missed?

[RedKing]

History geek. I'm steadily becoming the sort of absent-minded person who goes off into long, fascinating but utterly irrelevant tangents when trying to explain something, exactly as many of my history professors were.


The problem is that if you want to give a full and thoroughly informative explanation for why something is the way it is, you want to give some backstory for certain elements. But then you find that you want to give the backstory for parts of the backstory. And then it just never stops.

From the history geek perspective, this is the awesomeness that is history. Everything is linked.
From the "normal" perspective, this is why you don't ask history geeks an open-ended question. 

[Kay12]

I was on the road for several hours last weekend, and I read the book More What If... which is basically speculating what would've happened if Alan Turing and company hadn't managed to crack Enigma codes, if Pope Pius XII had publicly criticized the Final Solution, if Socrates had died in war against Sparta etc...

Of course, the further away in the past the event is and the longer-term stuff you want to analyze, the harder and more inaccurat it gets.

[MonkeyHead]

I suppose I am your classic Physics Geek - as well as the usual academic and work related stuff which identifies me, gaming is a big part (RPG of most types, stragegy of most types, simulation), I can code in a number of languages (currently getting a kick out of developing augmented reality simulation tools) and love to make mechanical and electronic things - my makes include fighting robots, medieval siege weaponry, and typical physics things like tesla coils and rail guns. Also a petrol head. Politically a liberal socialist with nationalistic elements. I play a number of minority sports at a respectibly impressive level and am a massive extrovert, filling the crazy yet offensive nerd gap in my social circles. Pretty much all the other Physics Geeks I know seem to match these criteria really well.

[Pnx]

This thread now has a poll.

...

Vote.

[Miggy]

I'm disappointed of the lack of science geek option in the poll.

[Pnx]

I'm disappointed of the lack of science geek option in the poll.

Added!

[anzki4]

I'm in denial about my geekdom, but if I completely hypothetically would be some sort of geek, I'd say it would be mix containing few chunks of history/culture geek, psychology geek and gaming geek with a pinch of omni geek 

[counting]

I suppose I am your classic Physics Geek - as well as the usual academic and work related stuff which identifies me, gaming is a big part (RPG of most types, stragegy of most types, simulation), I can code in a number of languages (currently getting a kick out of developing augmented reality simulation tools) and love to make mechanical and electronic things - my makes include fighting robots, medieval siege weaponry, and typical physics things like tesla coils and rail guns. Also a petrol head. Politically a liberal socialist with nationalistic elements. I play a number of minority sports at a respectibly impressive level and am a massive extrovert, filling the crazy yet offensive nerd gap in my social circles. Pretty much all the other Physics Geeks I know seem to match these criteria really well.

AR + social network on smart phone. (With ad-hoc network). What do you think?

[Miggy]

I'm disappointed of the lack of science geek option in the poll.

Added!

Thank you.

I have definitely been a gaming geek, but always a science geek as well. Who cares about practical applications of technology: It's about inventing the technologies that's the fun stuff.

[GlyphGryph]

Why is poll discrete poll, damn it.

This is exactly the sort of thing where a single vote is not enough.

And isn't an omni-geek, like, not a geek? It's sort of... antithetical to the definition. It's more intellectual than geek.

[RedKing]

I have to go with omni-geek, except that I actually do have depth in certain places (history, language, culture, gaming, astronomy, some tech and some literature)

There are more things in my geekery than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

[Vector]

I'm a sarcastic asshole.

I am also probably a culture/language geek.

[Pnx]

Why is poll discrete poll, damn it.

This is exactly the sort of thing where a single vote is not enough.

And isn't an omni-geek, like, not a geek? It's sort of... antithetical to the definition. It's more intellectual than geek.

This is a good point, I think I might redo the pole and give you five votes to dump in different subjects.