Warhammer 40K: quite glad I don't have the time or money.

[Lokidude]

Maybe they are just cheap geeks.

They just have priorities. Comics and toys are expensive.

[Aesop]

Proving that all good comedy has a strong element of truth.

True... basically why we watch it.

Though one thing that amuses/irritates me...

These guys all make well over $100k a year (according to Cal Tech published scales for their positions). Sheldon makes from $110 to $160k a year according to published pay scales... Raj is a multi-millionaires son, on a huge parental allowance, AND a research fellow on $85-110k a year.

These are not struggling geeks... these are upper middle class geeks...

The show portrays them in a funnier and more relatable economic situation... basically like college roommates; but in reality, they'd all be living in nice houses with university subsidized mortgages.

$150K/yr in Pasadena doesn't go as far as at does in Dallas or Denver.

At less than $300K/yr you can't even afford to look at houses thereabouts except in the 'hood, while the monthly rent on a 2 bedroom in Pasadena would be a mortgage on a nice house in 42 states. Beverly Hills is where movie stars who want to appear rich live, in what are essentially upholstered cabins on postage stamp lots. Pasadena, La Canada, and nearby San Marino are where the actual wealthy folks live now and have lived since the time of railroad barons like Huntington, Stanford, & co. (You may have heard of Leland Stanford, there's a school named after him in San Jose, around the time he was gov. of CA) The houses are what most people think of when actual mansions are described, on much larger parcels. (Huntington's family estate is a square mile or so, 640+ acres, and is a museum that puts Hearst Castle to shame.)

And yes, all those collectible toys get spendy too.

[HTRN]

If you're not rocking [strike]Demolishers[/strike] Schreks, you're just not doing it right.

FIFY.

[MarkD]

The Geek Factor in this thread has exceeded recommended EPA maximal exposure limits.


Any higher and the next alert automatically rings in the writer's room at Big Bang Theory.

Aerospace engineer and computer science by degree... I went to college and was housemates with someone who was essentially sheldon (Walter), someone who was essentially howard (Jeff), someone who was basically Kripky (Chuck), and a white version of Raj (Doug).

Uh huh, comp sci major here, worked in the computer center part time in school. I knew a Chinese Howard (without the inappropriately hot girlfriend/wife), a Kripky and a couple of Sheldons. I was a cross between Leonard (also without the inappropriately hot girlfriend, at least back then) and Raj (pretty women still make me tongue-tied until I get to know them) with a little Sheldon thrown in (I've learned to apply the brain-mouth filter a bit better since then).

Although I never really got into board gaming. D&D was BIG when I was in college, but I never tried it.

To complete the :jacked: , on the topic of nerds with hot women, I was among the early waves of nerds who got out of college and got good jobs, a couple year before I graduated college (1985) if you could reliably find the on/off switch on an IBM PC companies would tie you to a chair and throw money at you until you said "Yes". For once though, women were behind the curve, car dealers figured this out first. If a guy with a short-sleeved dress shirt, chinos, a plastic pocket protector, and horned-rim glasses went into a BMW dealership the salesmen fell over themselves trying to get to him, where a couple years later the security guard would be out there chasing him away.

[Greg]

The Geek Factor in this thread has exceeded recommended EPA maximal exposure limits.


Any higher and the next alert automatically rings in the writer's room at Big Bang Theory.

Aerospace engineer and computer science by degree... I went to college and was housemates with someone who was essentially sheldon (Walter), someone who was essentially howard (Jeff), someone who was basically Kripky (Chuck), and a white version of Raj (Doug).

At one point I was sharing an apartment in more or less a triple-decker (not quite right but fairly similar, anyone from around Boston will know what I'm talking about) where all three apartments were rented by current or former MIT students. That place was AWESOME, though the guys on the third floor (a very handsome Icelander with a GF who managed to be even prettier than he was if that was possible, and a really HUGE happy-puppy-dog Dane) were just a little too close to normal to be ideal. Normal people make things awkward.

I've known female Sheldons. Once even had a friend of mine get a crush on one and try to date her. That was comedy.

[Jericho941]

I don't think Big Bang Theory really "gets" nerds.

[Aesop]

The Nielsen Co. and hundreds of YouTube uploads disagree with that assessment.

[Jericho941]

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comme ... ig/c55qeo3

[MiddleAgedKen]

You want nerd? I'll show you nerd.

[SoupOrMan]

Yep, model-building, model re-building, and repainting are going to fit in nicely with my spare time. I have no desire to start gaming again, but I do realize that I enjoy building the models. They're dead simple for the most part and easy to paint. That'll make it a lot easier than trying to find the right shade of purple for a 1970 Superbird.