VirusHead » Geek http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom Contagious Thoughts, Mutating as Needed Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:23:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 My Ninja Army http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/12/10/my-ninja-army http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/12/10/my-ninja-army#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:40:40 +0000 VirusHead http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2007/12/10/my-ninja-army/ I have a new “zone-out” activity. I crank my iPod and play Pirates vs. Ninjas on Facebook. It’s a simple virtual dice game, on which you wager a specific amount of “gold” per play. You can attack individuals on the other side, and you defend against them too.

After accumulating over a thousand plays as a Pirate (I told you I used it to zone out), I had gained and lost an enormous amount of gold. Someone with a lot more gold can wager up to half my amount, and take it all in a couple of big bites – and this happens a lot.

I had no idea about the background story when I accepted the invitation to play. When you attack, you can send a brief message, and after a few volleys of this sort with a very sweet woman, I decided that I was really more of a Ninja than a Pirate. You can only switch once (and I didn’t realize that you lose your experience points when you do) but evidently the new affiliation agrees with me. Since I switched sides two days ago, I’ve accumulated almost 4000 pieces of gold and only dropped by a couple of hundred points a couple of times.

If you add me as a friend, be prepared to get invitations to vampires, zombies, werewolves and slayers too. I love these little games, and I get points just for inviting you. No worries if you don’t feel like playing.

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Weekly Unconscious Mutterings Meme – Week 174

  1. Fraud :: Cheat
  2. Cure :: Disease
  3. Slate :: Schedule
  4. Pretentious :: Vain
  5. Splendid :: Brilliant
  6. Geek :: Nerd
  7. Blister :: Friction
  8. Pizza :: Cider
  9. Revive :: Resuscitate
  10. Visionary :: Transformative

You are 40% geek
You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.

Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.

You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!

Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!

You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

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01:02:03 04/05/06

This won’t happen again for a 100 years.

(Thanks Bob N)

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