Xann Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 If you want to out a geek, confess to being a geek, have geek sympathies or any wish to air products of geekdom or utterly unprovable geek theories? Roll on. https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/costumes/original-screen-matched-complete-hero-imperial-stormtrooper-costume-from-star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope/a/7278-89463.s#auction-description 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 17 minutes ago, Xann said: If you want to out a geek, confess to being a geek, have geek sympathies or any wish to air products of geekdom or utterly unprovable geek theories? Roll on. https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/costumes/original-screen-matched-complete-hero-imperial-stormtrooper-costume-from-star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope/a/7278-89463.s#auction-description Only the one for sale? You must be disappointed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 1 minute ago, Anthony said: Only the one for sale? You must be disappointed. Heh. Someone I knew in a previous life as a Rock drummer is now a painter and decorator, and a stormtrooper in his spare time, He's in the 501st (the dressy up bunch). He accompanies Darth Vader to children's hospitals. Sadly, one of his friends died recently. The cortege was something else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 Warhammer geekery in possibly the most intense combat zone in Ukraine of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted September 8 Moderator Share Posted September 8 2 hours ago, Xann said: If you want to out a geek, confess to being a geek, have geek sympathies or any wish to air products of geekdom or utterly unprovable geek theories? Roll on. This seems like a thread for nerds, rather than geeks. Star Wars and war hammer and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 (edited) 3 hours ago, blandy said: This seems like a thread for nerds, rather than geeks. Star Wars and war hammer and stuff. All inclusive. Hoping for an Agent Provocateur fan, or someone that makes boutique guitar pedals? Edited September 8 by Xann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 I had to stop myself preordering this recently. (I have the Moon Knight already >_>. It's awesome). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandy Lifeboats Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 I love Star Wars. Dr Spock and Professor Snape are the best characters. Revenge of the Jedi was definitely the best film of the 1990s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 Deliberately wrong is a thing. 30 minutes ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Star Wars. Dr Spock and Professor Snape are the best characters. Revenge of the Jedi You'd get a pic for your mug/shirt from that line of text. Here's "GWAR at the childrens' hospital". The mods may have taken down Charles Manson doing a lingerie catwalk show last night? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 1 hour ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: I love Star Wars. Dr Spock and Professor Snape are the best characters. Revenge of the Jedi was definitely the best film of the 1990s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 2 hours ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: I love Star Wars. Dr Spock and Professor Snape are the best characters. Revenge of the Jedi was definitely the best film of the 1990s. Don't forget this fella was brilliant in Revenge 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 (edited) I guess it's probably kind of geekish to do this, but I think it's helpful to pass along the latest Wikipedia intro on the term. I feel like nerds are often more pretentious towards other nerds than geeks are towards other geeks and non-geeks. Geeks don't flaunt it -- they're just that way. Quote The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. In the past, it had a generally pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".[1] In the 21st century, it was reclaimed and used by many people, especially members of some fandoms, as a positive term.[2][3][4] Some use the term self-referentially without malice or as a source of pride,[5] often referring simply to "someone who is interested in a subject (usually intellectual or complex) for its own sake". Edited September 8 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 My nipper lives just down the hill from Russell T Davies, the screenwriter. Out the garden catching the last of the evening sun, Russell walked past, he said hello, remarked on the wearing of pyjamas outdoors. My nipper said hello, said it was the end of a long day and they were cooling. Russell, at that point invited himself in to the garden and introduced himself, they got chatting exchanged names and how long they’d lived in the area and general neighbourly chitter chatter about local shops n stuff, with my nipper trying to keep up an air of coolness and feigning no knowledge of who this guy was. With that, nipper’s partner walks out, sees Russell T Davies in their garden and squeals ‘oh Russell, we were wondering when we’d see you, we’ve been admiring the mural on the side of your house, are you writing upstairs with that big screen that’s in the window?’ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 (edited) Do I win? Edited September 8 by Lichfield Dean 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 8 Author Share Posted September 8 45 minutes ago, Lichfield Dean said: Do I win? No, I think in the current mood the Ukrainian Warhammer fans in combat are in pole position Second is the boy that schooled Games Workshop on their own franchise. This is really my interest with the geek thing. They're killing it creatively. Muso geek Look No Computer made the monster Megadrone, but it's not all so grand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted September 8 VT Supporter Share Posted September 8 7 minutes ago, Xann said: No, I think in the current mood the Ukrainian Warhammer fans in combat are in pole position Second is the boy that schooled Games Workshop on their own franchise. This is really my interest with the geek thing. They're killing it creatively. Muso geek Look No Computer made the monster Megadrone, but it's not all so grand. If you're going down that route then I'd vote for Hainbach 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 11 Author Share Posted September 11 Didn't realise how much stuff was in the above auction. The X-Wing is Red Leader from screen. $400,000 starting bid. Shatner Kirk hairpiece! A skin tight suit Jeri Ryan poured herself into. Buck Rogers, V, Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Battlestar Galactica, Logan's Run, Space 1999, Batteries Not Included and Adam West's silly Batman kit. Bit of shame it's not all staying together in a museum.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted September 11 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11 1 minute ago, Xann said: Adam West's definitive Batman kit. FTFY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted September 11 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11 There isn't a definitive live action Batman anything. Some are better than others but none quite nail the comic take (although in some cases the comics changed so much it's arguably impossible for there to be a definitive one - the Batmobile for instance has been everything from a pretty standard 40s US car to exotic supercar with bat motifs bolted on to a tank to a completely bespoke vehicle). The Adam West take basically isn't at the top on anything though, to the extent that it lives in its own bubble for Batman fans now as it's own little thing - there are completely separate toy lines focused on the 60s TV series for instance, there's collectors that only collect 60s Batman stuff, or separate it out as it's too different to other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chindie Posted September 11 VT Supporter Share Posted September 11 If you were to try to do a definitive list of the live action stuff, IMV, it's surprising how much Batfleck you end up with, and how little Nolan. Batman - nobody is perfect but Affleck is closest (if too angry) Batsuit - Affleck, BvS. Two tone, no tacticool, bulky but can move. Batmobile - Burton. Wayne - Bale. Action - Affleck. He wins this for the warehouse scene alone tbh. But none are perfect. The best Batman adaptation is the 90s cartoon and by extension the Arkham games. But nobody has ever translated that to live action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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