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Finding local geeks
A few days ago I was in the library at college and got talking with a guy about computer games and low and behold he is a computer gamer and a somewhat serious one at that. This came as quite a surprise as I had known him for over a year and would never had realized this.
Since then I have been trying to work out some kind of way of signaling your geekish interests to geeks around you that 1) Was unnoticeable to normal people and 2) Didn't require them to have previous knowledge that such signals exist.
Wearing a counterstrike t-shirt would be easy but wouldn't be practical at all time and would only mean I could let only gamers know. I thought also of adorning my planner cover with various geekish icons such as a drawing of Vash from Trigun. I also thought of those patches punk kids wear which could be pulled off quite stylishly, though something as obvious as this might be a bit much.
Well any ideas?
Since then I have been trying to work out some kind of way of signaling your geekish interests to geeks around you that 1) Was unnoticeable to normal people and 2) Didn't require them to have previous knowledge that such signals exist.
Wearing a counterstrike t-shirt would be easy but wouldn't be practical at all time and would only mean I could let only gamers know. I thought also of adorning my planner cover with various geekish icons such as a drawing of Vash from Trigun. I also thought of those patches punk kids wear which could be pulled off quite stylishly, though something as obvious as this might be a bit much.
Well any ideas?
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Also . . . most twenty-something guys have at least a limited experience in the geekery, you just have to figure out how much. I have only once made a friend with as much geek in him as myself from work.
Just do your best to give off an aura of geek, really. ;-P
In all seriousness, a community Frapper helps.
If you want the prior then go to your local anime/gaming/geekery club. At worst go to the gaming section of borders/B&N. Going to a social event is a lot easier than trying to get people to notice your witty clothing or geek signal.
If it's the latter, then that's a topic for another thread.
Besides the whole wear geek stuff idea why not look up a club and meet through that. You go to a college right? Join an anime or geek related club there.