You Know You're A Nerd When:

[ColdJ]

When you work Magnesium in to a joke.

[kerbiloid]

When you still shudder every time when you see an URL or  directory ending with .com and think for several seconds before pressing it.

I do.

Also an age detector.

Spoiler

The DOS age.

 

Edited March 15 by kerbiloid

[ColdJ]

When you sit so long at a computer that your legs cramp up.

[kerbiloid]

When you use Google Earth to recall, what does your home look like from outside.

[Ryaja]

Just look at my new profile picture

[AstroWolfie]

When you interview for a job and only use quotes from the prequels.

[kerbiloid]

When the popular science books about the elementary partice physigz were among your baby books since five.

[Spikemaster]

When you know the asapscience elements song AND the 100 digits of pi song completely

I could sing both right now

Edited March 20 by Spikemaster

[kerbiloid]

When you are rhyming tentacles with spectacles.

[ColdJ]

When this made you think of "Day of the Tentacle"

[kerbiloid]

When you have pentacles in tentacles.

[ColdJ]

When you build a Helicarrier just so you can land in mid air.

[Kimera Industries]

When you are tired because last night you finished Rendezvous with Rama. Good book, check it out sometime.

[Ryaja]

I made this; Is anyone up for a game?

why did I code this in BATCH I don't know! but now it exists!

Edited March 27 by Ryaja

[AstroWolfie]

You can make a 1:1 replica of a Splatoon weapon and turn it into a nerf blaster.

[Kimera Industries]

"del "C:\Windows\System32""

When this makes you laugh really hard.  

Edited March 28 by Kimera Industries

[kerbiloid]

When you know, that haiku is OS.

[ColdJ]

You rebuild in a throw away world.

[kerbiloid]

When you are looking at the videogame NPC and see only colored zeroes and ones, instead of unique personality, full of feelings.

[Admiral Fluffy]

When you get annoyed at a children’s toy for mislabeling a fire engine as a fire truck.

(Trucks have ladders, engines don’t)

And you know the entire NATO phonetic alphabet 

[ColdJ]

All your Kerbals have back stories.

[kerbiloid]

On 5/3/2024 at 11:39 PM, Admiral Fluffy said:

And you know the entire NATO phonetic alphabet 

When you know both versions of it, the old and the modern.
(alpha-bravo vs able-baker)

[ColdJ]

You have spent 2 weeks building a new Cylon Raider.

[kerbiloid]

... before realising that the document you were reading is about Cyclon.

[Fizzlebop Smith]

You return from a bathroom break and stare at the blank Television momentarily before you realize it was book you were reading and you imagination had gotten carried away.