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Your secret geeky desire
« on: 18 Nov 2008, 04:14 »

Mine is currently one of these:

http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=34519

Now if only I could justify the price for a custom-made one plus postage and handling from Norway.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #1 on: 18 Nov 2008, 04:19 »

Haha, I can't stop laughing. I seriously think the guy who made that one is my neighbour back home. He's always working on some Star Wars costumes (and apparently others as well) in his back yard, and the first picture is taken downtown in my hometown. On New Years eve last year, he was walking around in a Darth Vader costume outside, and this is him and his kid, I think.

Awesome.

As for geeky desires, I have a whole goddamn folder of them, but I haven't imported it after a reinstall of OS X. Might get back to the thread.

ETA: Most definitely him. Our house and boat are in one of the photos on page 40 :p
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #2 on: 18 Nov 2008, 04:22 »

Most everything I do has some degree of geekery to it. I could be gettin' blown by three godesses and see, already, how I related this to myth and fantasy?
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #3 on: 18 Nov 2008, 04:27 »



The romanian PSL Dragunov clone. Not exactly like a Dragunov, but very similar. I've seen them in a magazine for $700 and I really think I want one.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #4 on: 18 Nov 2008, 04:47 »

I thought that was a Zastava M76 at first, Troll. I wish EAA would start importing them. I hear the PSLs are nice, though.

I have a lot of them, but I think the biggest one, though the geekiness could be argued, is to get a bunch of land up in the mountains, someplace where it rains and fogs a lot, and have a big house built, gothic architecture mixed with not being horribly drafty like buildings old enough to be original gothic architecture would be. Also would have enough room for a rifle range at least 1000 meters long (not inside, on the property). Making it more geeky, I would store up supplies for the zombie apocalypse. Everyone has a hobby. And yeah, burt gummer is kind of my idol.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #5 on: 18 Nov 2008, 05:06 »

I want to move to California and work at Amoeba. DAMN YOU FOR TAKING ME THERE, PATRICK.


(actually my secret secret dorky desire is to go on a date with Amalie Benjamin, the Sox beat writer for the Boston Globe)
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #6 on: 18 Nov 2008, 06:07 »

http://www.theneocube.com/

Want one now, right now. My ultimate geeky desire.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #7 on: 18 Nov 2008, 07:12 »

You're all being dreadfully boring about this.

Me? I want working webshooters.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #8 on: 18 Nov 2008, 07:14 »

I want the Archimedes.


Wait, what kind of mileage would it get?  Shit, I could be paying a fortune!  Eh, it's worth it.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #9 on: 18 Nov 2008, 07:25 »

I want to understand Timecube.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #10 on: 18 Nov 2008, 07:36 »

I want to have The Force.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #11 on: 18 Nov 2008, 07:47 »

Sex with Kari from Mythbusters.

Although, I think that is one many dudes have.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #12 on: 18 Nov 2008, 08:13 »

Right now just WotLK. It's considered a secret desire because my boyfriend did offer to buy it for me, but I said no because I had just gotten a job and knew  wouldn't have time/energy to play it. And I really don't. Yesterday was my day off and I spent almost all day sleeping. But I've have watched my boyfriend play it and it looks so awesome. >_< They have walrus guys that ride turtles!
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #13 on: 18 Nov 2008, 08:21 »

Have enough money not to travel the world and live in luxury, just enough to have a flat and not need to work so I could spend all day every day playing through all the video games to completion I never did then lost my saves.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #14 on: 18 Nov 2008, 09:31 »

I want to live in the future!
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #15 on: 18 Nov 2008, 09:32 »

Be patient - you'll get there.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #16 on: 18 Nov 2008, 09:34 »

But where are the rocket cars I was promised?
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #17 on: 18 Nov 2008, 09:41 »

I want to live in the future!

And now you do.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #18 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:05 »

A fully working Dalek costume I can terrorise kids in
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #19 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:25 »

I want this complete collection. Sadly I am broke.

I would also enjoy having every issue of X-Men since the 1980s...In particular, complete collections of Xtreme X-Men and Ultimate X-Men, but also Uncanny, since that is where all of the awesomeness stemmed from. (I would say every issue ever, but the original comics were kind of lame and repetative...I also don't like how every sentence ended in either ! or ? and sometimes both...grrrrrr)
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #20 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:32 »

I want to understand Timecube.

ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO POSSESS HARMONIC CUBE WISDOM LIKE DR. GENE RAY, CUBIC, KING OF GENIUS?






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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #21 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:36 »

all i ever want is a thermostat-like dial in my house that adjusts gravity instead of temperture.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #22 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:40 »

That would be so awesome.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #23 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:42 »

It's great until you leave a window open and your dog floats out, only to hit normal gravity and plummet to the ground.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #24 on: 18 Nov 2008, 10:43 »

i'm actually not as geeky as i may seem sometimes. i'm not into sci-fi or fantasy, i don't read comics, and i'm not a serious gamer.

i would want to write/publish a book someday.  yes, i consider this a "secret geeky desire" as opposed to an actual goal, because i'm not actively pursuing it.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #25 on: 18 Nov 2008, 11:39 »

I want to understand Timecube.

ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU WANT TO POSSESS HARMONIC CUBE WISDOM LIKE DR. GENE RAY, CUBIC, KING OF GENIUS?
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ONE OF THESE FOUR SIMULTANEOUS 24-HOUR DAYS, I AND I ALONE WILL BE THE WISEST HUMAN.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #26 on: 18 Nov 2008, 11:48 »

It's great until you leave a window open and your dog floats out, only to hit normal gravity and plummet to the ground.

Or possibly have to re-arrange your entire house every time. :\
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #27 on: 18 Nov 2008, 11:57 »

i just want to be loved...
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #28 on: 18 Nov 2008, 12:00 »

(I am of the mind this thread should be locked, stickied and these last two posts should be deleted. I think it peaked with Matt)
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #29 on: 18 Nov 2008, 12:05 »

Tommy, you make me so sad.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #30 on: 18 Nov 2008, 12:10 »

Yvonne Strahowski.
But that's not a secret.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #31 on: 18 Nov 2008, 13:01 »

Not really a secret desire at all, but when the 160GB version of the Intel x18m drive comes out, I am going to be all over it. Laptop-sized drive that's faster than the fastest desktop hard drive, silent, energy efficient, and shock resistant? Yesplz.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #32 on: 18 Nov 2008, 13:21 »

It's great until you leave a window open and your dog floats out, only to hit normal gravity and plummet to the ground.

Or possibly have to re-arrange your entire house every time. :\

first of all: i have an Australian Shepherd, she'd be fine.

second of all: obviously, i would bolt everything to the floor that i didn't want floating around. also, things would be bolted to ceiling/walls as necessary.

see? it's perfect. also; i could invite people over who didn't know about it, put on some ankle weights or something under my pants, and slowly reduce the gravity when they weren't looking to freak them out.

they'd be all "did i just get lighter?" and i'd be all "naw"
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #33 on: 18 Nov 2008, 14:16 »

You all just wish you were LedHendrix.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #34 on: 18 Nov 2008, 14:25 »

<<< pshh Ledhendrix ain't got shit on me. i just don't take pictures of it because i don't wanna steal his glory.



also i'm pretty lazy and not sure where my camera even is.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #35 on: 18 Nov 2008, 14:56 »



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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #36 on: 18 Nov 2008, 15:15 »

Irradiated inhuman wang?
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #37 on: 18 Nov 2008, 15:21 »

second of all: obviously, i would bolt everything to the floor that i didn't want floating around. also, things would be bolted to ceiling/walls as necessary.
Magnets would be better because then you could move your furniture if you wanted to.

But yeah, my secret geeky desire is to own and run one of the epicest Pokemon RPGs in existance. Yes. That is incredibly sad. I know.
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« Reply #38 on: 18 Nov 2008, 16:03 »

Not really a secret desire at all, but when the 160GB version of the Intel x18m drive comes out, I am going to be all over it. Laptop-sized drive that's faster than the fastest desktop hard drive, silent, energy efficient, and shock resistant? Yesplz.

Your secret geeky desire is to have an MLC SSD?  Intel are releasing superior SLC-based SSDs next year.

Anyway, my secret geeky desire would be to write these books I have in my head, then have a decent development studio approach me about releasing them in game format.  I would advise the initial design process and then oversee QA when it was near completion.  After the games were done the dev company would keep me on to do similar things with other projects because I'd be fucking rad at it.

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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #39 on: 18 Nov 2008, 16:06 »

I guess what I am saying is that I am tops at telling other people what to do and being really judgemental.

Somebody hire me already.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #40 on: 18 Nov 2008, 16:20 »



a suit of this
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #41 on: 18 Nov 2008, 16:27 »

That secondary heart sure would be handy.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #42 on: 18 Nov 2008, 16:40 »

Listen. All I want is this bad boy right here:



I don't care that I'm color blind and need glasses! I don't care that I'm not a Warrant Officer!

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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #43 on: 18 Nov 2008, 17:35 »

Warhammer armor

How hot would one of those get on a summer day?
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« Reply #44 on: 18 Nov 2008, 18:13 »

So hot that you'd pour a cup of McDonald's coffee in your lap to cool off.


Johnny Carson said it.
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« Reply #45 on: 18 Nov 2008, 18:26 »



If you can't tell, that's a camera.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #46 on: 18 Nov 2008, 18:27 »

there are a million films and television shows i adore but i never actually watch television in the literal sense, so one day i'd like to obtain all of the aforementioned films + television shows on disc and then, instead of a tv room, have a room set up to be a little home theatre room with an lcd projector and massive screen and surround sound system and everything. i would sit in that room and watch stuff every day until my eyeballs and eardrums exploded everywhere. it would be so great.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #47 on: 18 Nov 2008, 18:41 »

Ditto what she said, plus all the video games I've got backlogged.  And maybe get my super arthouse zombie movie idea financed.
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #48 on: 18 Nov 2008, 18:42 »

But yeah, my secret geeky desire is to own and run one of the epicest Pokemon RPGs in existance. Yes. That is incredibly sad. I know.

Incredibly sad or incredibly awesome?
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Re: Your secret geeky desire
« Reply #49 on: 18 Nov 2008, 18:45 »

I wouldn't mind owning a giant battle robot. That'd be pretty excellent.

Maybe I'd ride it down to the shops of a Sunday.
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