nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

Would like to geek...

Chad_Fantastics

Righty,

Long term lurker/first time poster on this forum and I'm writing with an agenda, I need to find some of my tribe to hang with.

Ya see I married a Douglas princess and even though the job was in Limerick, this was grand, did hubby stuff here (eat, drink, dance, be merry) and geek stuff up there (drink, game, watch footie, shout abuse at each other). But then we had our own Douglas princess and I now work at home full time...

...which means the normal wrapping of geek stuff around those you meet at work isn't an option so now the evening are getting later, the girl is sleeping longer and the beers are getting colder the wife has informed me that I need to find a way to meet those of a similar mind to me and that's where the Cork boardies come in.

Any suggestion on how, what, where, who can let me run in circles where liking (chose any two) gaming, craft beer, indie music, shiny shiny gadgets, comedy, lego deathstars, footie, lego death stars, nice grub, can't wait for Knights of badassdom, fast cars, history channel, boards.ie, big TV's, Sci-fi/Fantasy, butter museum, mutton lane is appreicated, nah, celebrated?

And in return I'll inverse the lurk/post ratio and I'll be at the next meet up.

Thanks much,

Martin.

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

nerwen

Buceph wrote: »

I kind of regret never giving Diablo 2 a go though.

And you should, was (and still is) an amazing game. Gives people the creeps to play something that graphicly old these days though.

But there is D3 in just hours now! I am prepared for a massive session.

120_Minutes

@stevexo

You live in midleton? I live in midleton!

Chad_Fantastics

ive always wanted a viking themed night, big plates piled with food eating with just hands (picture giant legs of chicken and the likes) while having huge jugs of beer to drink and just be messy.... oh and we all wear fake beards (or cultivate a real one) and horned helmets

1) Do we have to sing the Spam song while doing this?
2) And I think even with beards cultivated we must wear the fake over them!!!!

Chad_Fantastics

exactly what i thought as well, tournaments in BF:3, diablo III (soon), team fortress 2, street fighter, or just wander around skyrim like usual could be an idea i guess.!!

Back when the day job was away, I used to have gaming nights with the guys from work, fecking epic they were. 3 teams of 4 playing halo all with separate HD projectors, two guys with a tv each playing the co-op gunship level from MW, the ex acid-head with eyes streaming playing wipeout, several people collapsed from kinetic dehydration despite beer hats...

...and a competition for the rudest profile name ever, good god it got graphic! If you didn't factory reset your xbox after you were at risk of divorce...

So yes, an idea!!!!!

Chad_Fantastics

You're a poet sir, I suspect your geek phase is behind you, though, they say boys never grow out of it, but we don't normally become geeks again until after out little princess and princes have grown up

.

Dude(ette?)!!!!! Don't harsh my buzz so soon!!!!

Guess I've two things on my side against losing my social geek; she'll be raised as a geek so lots of avenues to soothe my geekish brow

and its probably unhealthy to spend the next 18 years only knowing her and the missus in Cork.

gbee

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

. and its probably unhealthy .

I've done 24 years, I think you worry in excess.

120_Minutes

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

1) Do we have to sing the Spam song while doing this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o

serjical_strike

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

Back when the day job was away, I used to have gaming nights with the guys from work, fecking epic they were. 3 teams of 4 playing halo all with separate HD projectors, two guys with a tv each playing the co-op gunship level from MW, the ex acid-head with eyes streaming playing wipeout, several people collapsed from kinetic dehydration despite beer hats...

...and a competition for the rudest profile name ever, good god it got graphic! If you didn't factory reset your xbox after you were at risk of divorce...

So yes, an idea!!!!!

this.. all this minus the acid :P it would be a great laugh. i remember when i was in the navy and we would be at sea for weeks on end, i brought an old router with me and down in the sleeping quarters which is like a long alley with lots doors/rooms on either side we would put the router on the floor in the alley and connect a **** load of xbox's playing MW and Halo 2/3, it was epic and a great way to pass time and relax when off duty with the lads. great memories

Sephiroth_dude

any of ye geeks get diablo 3 and fancy teaming up : )?

serjical_strike

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

any of ye geeks get diablo 3 and fancy teaming up : )?

just bought it for my brothers birthday, ill be getting it myself in about 2 weeks after i have my exhibition stuff ready, ill message you then.?

Coel

Just moved to Ireland recently and I guess I'm a bit too geeky for my new colleagues.

Therefore I hope to meet some nice fellow geeks here

Addiction to D3 started 2 days ago and otherwise I like gaming, Star Craft 2 and BarCrafts(there are some pretty awesome ones here in Cork at Captain Americas, anyone to join me and my bf? ;D) Star Wars Stuff, movies and tv series(recently Game of Thrones) useless but funny stuff, reading, drinking too much coffee and loads of stupid things.

Sephiroth_dude

serjical_strike wrote: »

just bought it for my brothers birthday, ill be getting it myself in about 2 weeks after i have my exhibition stuff ready, ill message you then.?

COOL!

Chad_Fantastics

this.. all this minus the acid it would be a great laugh. i remember when i was in the navy and we would be at sea for weeks on end, i brought an old router with me and down in the sleeping quarters which is like a long alley with lots doors/rooms on either side we would put the router on the floor in the alley and connect a **** load of xbox's playing MW and Halo 2/3, it was epic and a great way to pass time and relax when off duty with the lads. great memories

Well, the acid was the music but if I remember the 90/PS wipeout sessions, there was another drug of choice for them. Not mine which was Devils bit...

Well, all my toys fit in a bag, HD projector included so not beyond the realms of possibility that some similar could happen down here.

Chad_Fantastics

Just moved to Ireland recently and I guess I'm a bit too geeky for my new colleagues.

Therefore I hope to meet some nice fellow geeks here

Hey Coel, welcome to the bestest geek thread in Cork! There is a wider boards meet up in the Old Oak tomorrow, hoping some of those here will make it, you'll see the thread stickied at the top of the cork forum.

BarCrafts(there are some pretty awesome ones here in Cork at Captain Americas, anyone to join me and my bf?

Never heard of this, I'll deffo got to the next one, I'll go to pretty much anything that has any word in it's description substituted for beer...

Chad_Fantastics

any of ye geeks get diablo 3 and fancy teaming up : )?

Never played it, nearly always a console gamer apart from the odd RTS/Sim. Mainly because I've always had a work laptop and I feared upgraditis.

Do have a small form factor desktop, any idea of what card it would need to run? I can only get half hight in...

stevexo

i see sonic 4 spisode 2 just came out, 1200 xbox live points though...bit steep.
any one play episode 1?
it wasnt too bad, good nod at the classic sonic apart from the stupid homing attacks making it too easy to kill enemies

oeb

It's a pity we missed each other Chad, I was living in Douglas till September, and we used to have weekly board gaming nights in Shamrock Park.

serjical_strike

i've made a terrible mistake... i used one of the free codes that came with the diablo III copy i got my brother and IT IS AMAZING.. i can play to level 10 and defeat the skeleton king.. i cant get over how good it is. i did get a bit of lag in a public multiplayer game but thats just the servers being mental since launch!! cant wait to buy the full game. 2 weeks and it shall be mine.!! (if i can hold out)

serjical_strike

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

Never played it, nearly always a console gamer apart from the odd RTS/Sim. Mainly because I've always had a work laptop and I feared upgraditis.

Do have a small form factor desktop, any idea of what card it would need to run? I can only get half hight in...

i highly recommend it

Sephiroth_dude

Chad_Fantastics wrote: »

Never played it, nearly always a console gamer apart from the odd RTS/Sim. Mainly because I've always had a work laptop and I feared upgraditis.

Do have a small form factor desktop, any idea of what card it would need to run? I can only get half hight in...

what rts games do you play?

nerwen

I am playing D3 at the moment as well and I LOVE it, it's so good!

Also, if you haven't been to a barcraft (and you're even remotely interested in starcraft), you should totally try it. Here's a link for the Cork barcrafting peoples.

Chad_Fantastics

what rts games do you play?

Was thinking about this while taken to my sick bed (cough, cough) and I've realised that I'm pretty old skool in my play list, missed a whole generation of RTS when numpty on the team spec'ing the new systems left the graphics card as on board. Now I know Intel where paying for them but that was a step too far :mad: and now most stuff is MMO, I'm a campaign kinda guy...

When I did get a go on stuff like supreme commander, it was way too much about the clicks per minute and didn't suit my turtle tendencies...

Long story longer, anything westwood(Generals prob my fav), the warcrafts (See, oldskool!), never did startcraft (I've a copy in the desk though), loved, loved, loved the Homeworld series, TA of course. The more Civ stuff like settlers and AoE never really grabbed me.

It is interesting (to me) how much that genre has stalled the last few years.