All of which apply to me.
- Everything connects back to some basic element of gaming. Everything.
- You've ever named anything after an amino acid.
- Or an organ or similar.
- Or a flash video.
- You memorized Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" so you can blank out "Riding Dirty" when it comes on.
- You play Pokemon, and you're a legal adult.
- You get really excited when you find other people who play the same games.
- Few things are more beautiful than Hyrule at sundown.
- You own an ocarina.
- You get really turned on by big pixels.
- If anyone playing the Mario theme song misses a note, you'll know, and you'll tell them.
- Your idea of romance is gazing at Antarctica on the Wii Weather Globe with your partner.
- Love notes are better if written in l337, and even more so if it's binary.
- You write a single poem which encompasses not only l337 and binary, but also Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, Tetris, Mario, chemical balances within the body, magnets, computers, CSS, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Schrődingers cat, D&D, Snake, giant robots, HP, MP AND LP (Love Points).
- You make really nerdy references and don't see how they're nerdy.
- You make really nerdy references just because they're nerdy.
- You have an official "Nerd Buddy" with whom you share all your nerdy endeavours.
- You accidentally slip into DDR steps when trying to dance normally.
- You've ever taken pause to muse in awe at just how important the properties of water are to our entire civization and world.
- You're still ready this. Seriously.
- Being nerdy and perverted at the same time is not only possible, but preferable.
- You know what hyppopotomonstrosousquipedaliophobia is. (That's the fear of long words, for those of you who didn't. I kid you not.)
- Biology class was one of your favorites, and Chemistry wasn't far behind.
- You actually take interest in at least some of your academic classes.
- You try and figure out which words the "change 'us+es' to 'ii'" rule applies to and which it doesn't.
- You know the proper times to use "fish" and "fishes" as the plural form.
- Your room contains anything from Studio Ghibli, Sanrio or similar.
- The ninja vs. pirates debate is highly significant.
- You've ever read the dictionary for fun.
- You've ever taken a programming class.
- You have your own website or domain.
- That domain is your own name.
- You've ever dressed up as a cat or a schoolgirl (or both at the same time) for non-sexual purposes.
- Or even for sexual purposes.
- The line for vegetarianism is drawn not bu what is and isn't an animal, but what does and doesn't have a nervous system of some sort.
- You're fluent in one or more coding languages.
- D&D always has been and always will be way cooler than any sport in the world.
- DDR counts as a sport.
- You wrote that on a college application.
- You share science magazines in the waiting room, and discuss your different pages with your co-reader.
- You were raised on Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and an SNES.
- You bitch that it's always TMNT now, and refuse to call it such.
- Things like the ratio of T-Rexes that made it to adulthood are exciting facts.
- Your entire family is comprised of nerds, too.
- You make lists compulsively.
I'm sure it will continue to grow as I come up with more stuff.