You know you're a nerd when...

[PianoSavant she/her]

YKYANW your friend asks you what your favorite Star Wars ship is and you very confidently say "Delta 7B Aethersprite" (you know, the Jedi one) and then realize (after she explains it to you) that she meant romantic ship, not spaceship

 couldn't be me.....

[ShatteredDiamond She/Her]

YKYANW you are less worried about your teacher seeing that you are playing games and more worried about your classmates seeing that the games you play are chess and sudoku

[Ookla she/her]

YKYAN when you regularly use D&D terms in relation to everyday life--eg. "I really failed my Charisma check there."

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

7 minutes ago, Ookla said:

YKYAN when you regularly use D&D terms in relation to everyday life--eg. "I really failed my Charisma check there."

I do that all the time

[___ He/Him]

5 hours ago, ShatteredDiamond said:

YKYANW you are less worried about your teacher seeing that you are playing games and more worried about your classmates seeing that the games you play are chess and sudoku

SO REAL

YKYANW you have a strange compulsion to memorize hexadecimal

[THE SEER OF ALL genderfluid]

16 hours ago, Ookla said:

YKYAN when you regularly use D&D terms in relation to everyday life--eg. "I really failed my Charisma check there."

True

15 hours ago, coinshot1 said:

SO REAL

YKYANW you have a strange compulsion to memorize hexadecimal

Yeah

YKYANW you randomly start reciting digits of π

[___ He/Him]

YKYANW you you use the term "Oort Cloud" as the word in hangman

[THE SEER OF ALL genderfluid]

14 hours ago, coinshot1 said:

YKYANW you you use the term "Oort Cloud" as the word in hangman

Haha no one will ever guess that

[___ He/Him]

5 minutes ago, THE DEMON said:

Haha no one will ever guess that

Exactly

[TheUnInvestedCremling he/him....]

You know you're a nerd when you get irrationally excited about a new spreadsheet format or coding language update.

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

On 5/16/2025 at 1:45 AM, THE DEMON said:

YKYANW you randomly start reciting digits of π

... hmph?

[Lord Spirit he/him]

On 5/15/2025 at 11:45 AM, THE DEMON said:

True

Yeah

YKYANW you randomly start reciting digits of π

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

[KaladinsSenseOfHumourSpren He/Him]

10 hours ago, Lord Spirit said:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

Wow have you memorised all all of those?

I only know 3.14159265358979323846264

[___ He/Him]

YKYANW you get really annoyed when cartoon characters use fishbowls over their heads in space.

(this bothers me SO MUCH)

[ChipsAHoid He/Him]

YKYANW ur school is having an author call with Neal Shusterman, and you ask him “excluding the Thunderhead, who in Scythe would do the best at Jeopardy?”

And then he says “I think that’s the best question I’ve even been asked” and said “Probably Scythe Faraday. Scythe Goddard would get mad and glean [whoever runs jeopardy he said a name I just forgot it]”

And then all the teachers and the principal started freaking out and it was wild

[Kansas Stormcursed he/him]

On 8/14/2025 at 1:38 PM, ChipsAHoid said:

YKYANW ur school is having an author call with Neal Shusterman, and you ask him “excluding the Thunderhead, who in Scythe would do the best at Jeopardy?”

And then he says “I think that’s the best question I’ve even been asked” and said “Probably Scythe Faraday. Scythe Goddard would get mad and glean [whoever runs jeopardy he said a name I just forgot it]”

And then all the teachers and the principal started freaking out and it was wild

Interesting. Honestly, I'd have figured Curie as best, but I guess Faraday makes sense

 

This has probably been done here before, but YKYANW you explain everything in terms of D&D stats, scores, skills, and DCs. "That's just a 2 foot jump, that's like a DC 5"

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

YKYANW you reference secret wars to explain why a person who has 9999999999999 infinity stones can only use 6 at a time

[Usseewa ✾ She♡Her ✾]

YKYANW when you chuckle at this XKCD (and them in general)

(https://xkcd.com/3195/)

Spoiler

Edited January 16 by Theory

[Vielence She/Her]

On 8/14/2025 at 1:38 PM, ChipsAHoid said:

YKYANW ur school is having an author call with Neal Shusterman, and you ask him “excluding the Thunderhead, who in Scythe would do the best at Jeopardy?”

And then he says “I think that’s the best question I’ve even been asked” and said “Probably Scythe Faraday. Scythe Goddard would get mad and glean [whoever runs jeopardy he said a name I just forgot it]”

And then all the teachers and the principal started freaking out and it was wild

Thats amazing

On 8/15/2025 at 4:07 PM, Kansas Stormcursed said:

Interesting. Honestly, I'd have figured Curie as best, but I guess Faraday makes sense

 

This has probably been done here before, but YKYANW you explain everything in terms of D&D stats, scores, skills, and DCs. "That's just a 2 foot jump, that's like a DC 5"

I do this.

 

YKYANW you randomly quote obscure lines from books the people you're talking too haven't read and grin to yourself

OR 

when you don't get common pop culture references but can explain IN DETAIL the magic system of a random fantasy book

OR

trying to figure out the god system for your dnd campaign and writing a fairy tale instead