Geeky Things I’ve Never Done

I’ve never seen The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I hear about this as some kind of rite of passage among some folks — I heard more about it in the 80s and 90s — but I’ve never been even remotely interested in it.

I’ve never been to a Star Wars convention; dress up as a Star Wars character. Although I’ve had some slight interest in visiting a Star Wars convention (mostly to see the fans dressed up as characters), I’ve just never put forward the effort to even look up a convention.  As for dressing up as a character myself (for Halloween or a convention), I’d want to go as Boba Fett, and sadly I just don’t have the knowledge or skill to build a good suit.

I’ve never been to the Gen Con gaming convention. This I have wanted to do for a couple or three decades. I would love to have gone to this convention back in the 80s, with AD&D1, or in the 00s, with D&D3, but now I’m not as interested. I’d still like go just to mark it off the list of things I want to do before I die, but I’m not as excited about it now that D&D4 is the current main fair. I would love to have met Gary Gygax and shook his hand, but sadly he’s passed now.

I’ve never been to a computer gaming convention. The idea of seeing and getting to play a bunch of new (or old) computer games sounds fun, but really, if I can’t take the best of the games home with me (purchasing), it would feel too much like a big tease. And computers games (at least the ones I tend to play) are usually very lone activities. Playing table-top games are social activities with people around you, but playing a computer game doesn’t require anyone else at all. So going to a convention to play such seems kind of unnecessary.

I’ve never LARPed. I’ve met and played table-top games with a few people who are LARPers, and they sometimes tell interesting stories about their experiences LARPing. But actually going through with the live-action role playing just sounds too weird for my tastes. I’m not an actor, I’m not a performer, I don’t like acting or performing for an audience of any type — even an audience that is also part of the theater. Of all geeky activities I haven’t done, this is the only one that I’m actually repulsed by (would be totally uncomfortable trying).

Bullgrit