The Geek Hierarchy

[Buster's Uncle]

[Unorthodox]

Where's the crazy halloween fans? 

[Green1]

Where's the crazy halloween fans? 

The Halloween folks never did the "con" thing and pretty much keep to themselves (at least most of them). As such, are outside the "geekier than thou" hierachy.

That is, unless your halloween makes you a fan figure. Then you are up there with artists and authors.

[Buster's Uncle]

Where's the crazy halloween fans? 

Look under the furries, and be afraid.

[Unorthodox]

Where's the crazy halloween fans? 

The Halloween folks never did the "con" thing and pretty much keep to themselves (at least most of them).

You're joking, right?
Hauntcon: http://hauntcon.com/
Transworld: http://www.haashow.com/

Plus several smaller regoinal things. 
RMH (I'm technically a member, but never go to the gatherings, good for selling my stuff.): http://www.rockymountainhaunters.com/

As such, are outside the "geekier than thou" hierachy.

That is, unless your halloween makes you a fan figure. Then you are up there with artists and authors.

[Unorthodox]

Where's the crazy halloween fans? 

Look under the furries, and be afraid.

Yeah, we're probably well below on the second page of this thing.

[Zoid]

I'm firmly based in the top tiers, except for a brief stint in the SCA and the swedish splinter group (long story...)

[Rymdolov]

I'm firmly based in the top tiers, except for a brief stint in the SCA and the swedish splinter group (long story...)

Is that the Society for Creative Anachronism? Dressing up has always had lower status among sf fans in Sweden compared to many other countries. Nowadays you get some cosplayers at sf conventions because of the steampunk crowd, but from what I hear it was practically unheard of for a long time. Someone even warned about it in an official progress report, if I remember correctly. "It's ok to come to the con wearing a costume, but you will probably be the only one doing so." Something like that.

I guess I'm also very high in the geek hierarchy. Kinda nice to be at the top for a change. For I am the King of Sheep. 

[JarlWolf]

I am a little confused at his this chart works. As for where I stand...

I am counting reading literature based on sci fi tv shows/movies with novels based on games. I can confirm I've done that. I am a fan of sci fi and fantasy literature... and what else... video gamer... I've done roleplaying games before... probably some other things but the rest are relatively foreign to me. I've never been to any sort of convention like the ones listed and I don't know or even touch the subject of furries or anime. I don't find animals attractive, as I am not that far out in the rural regions and not that desperate. And I don't like the anime art style: I find it's too homogenized and it is lacking in individual approaches: That and the proportion systems, faces and what have you are not too realistic.

An overview is I've played the original DnD a LONG time ago and tried it, I've done roleplaying with certain groups online and in games, I've read literature both on certain sci fi things, fantasy and I don't own many graphic novels/comics, but the ones I do are things like Frank Miller's Sin City, V for Vendetta and I recently got The Walking Dead graphic novel, which has several issues in one book as I liked the television show on the imports channel enough to get it. I've never done sexual roleplay online with anyone as I find it just awkward. Sexual roleplay offline is none of your business. And I have definitely read Tolkien, Stephen King's Dark Tower series (among others), Asimov's works, and I've watched Star Trek with both Kirk and Picard, Star Wars (mainly the originals) and other things; I think you gather the gist.

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, there's not really much to understand; it's mostly just a joke about how nerds look down their noses at each other over matters of opinion.

Mind you, the author got the order of the hierarchy all wrong, and I look down my nose at him for that...

[JarlWolf]

What if he is really tall?

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm above average myself.

[JarlWolf]

Fair enough. I am about 180-184 CM tall Personally. In American measurement, that is maybe about... 6 foot I think?

[Buster's Uncle]

I think that's right - I'm 6' exactly.

[Rymdolov]

We're exactly the same height, then! At least I was exactly 6' last time I checked. That was more than a decade ago, come to think of it, so I'v probably shrunk a cm or so due to age.

Whatever that has to do with anything.