A difference of opinion, eh?

Man, I was hoping you wouldn't ask such an embarassing question. Well for guilty pleasures...I kind of like collecting posters, games, artbooks and such of a certain type. Whenever I find anything which is "cute" and diabetes inducing I kind of have to have it even if it is part of a bigger collection which I may not entirely like. I hence sometimes pick things up because I like one aspect but the greater corpus it belongs to will make me look like a dirty old pervert in part (Oh those misunderstandings). I may also read a comic or watch an anime on occassion, which is another deathly embarassing guilty pleasure.

NEVER IN PUBLIC.

I as a guy waist so much of my time Reading and Watching A ton of shojo manga and anime like nonstop for days upon days during things like week long breaks from school.

spreadsheets...

I build spreadsheets for calculating and tracking just about anything.

D&D character sheets
Number of round trips in FFXI I need to make to the combo shop to turn a certain profit
tracking sheets on Gau's rages
Countdown timers for release dates.

It's either that, or ,yTV show pausing.

If I'm watching something that flashes up something written, I'll pause, frame by frame if I half to, in order to read it. Also if there are things in a different language like heiroglyphs, klingon, or whatever; I'll try to translate it to see what they actually say (if anything).

Both border more on OCD than guilty pleasure... but I also enjoy doing them. 

Actually... I have one more that my roommate just reminded me of. Random geek physics / theoretical arguments and discussions.

We just spent the last hour talking about things like Black Holes, how can we better study them, could we find a way to get information from a probe. Then what happened to Mars and it's atmosphere (we blamed it on Martian Tesla).

Same kind of things in Sci-Fi movies / tv shows... just the random sci-fi physics arguments and debats... god i love those.

... I had to.

It wasn't General Hospital. They were All My Children and One Life to Live.

And I disliked Earthbound as well. Roo suggested I play through it, and when I did, I didn't like it. But I do respect it.

I'm not a huge anime fan, but I love Sailor Moon. I've got every movie, special and series set released. No posters or figures or anything, because I don't want to get busted in the open. I just freaking love Sailor Moon.

Other than that, most people know everything nerdy I'm into.

Well, except for one thing, which you guys will not get out of me. Borderline fetish.

@Mr. K you are not alone, I happen to love Sailor Moon too ^_^

OH NO YOU DIDN'T COMODORE! EARTHBOUND 4EVAR! XD
lol anyway

Guilty pleasures eh?

hmmm....

1) Rewatching old cartoons...
XD it was funny but the other weekly ringer touched on this, and I had already begun doing this. I grew up in the 2000's, so I have been shamefuly rewatching Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and Digimon...Although thanks to my grandma and her saving habits, I also watched tons and tons of old tapes of Xmen and `TMNT cartoons that were recorded when my cousins were kids. Anyway, since I don't have a lot of geeky/nerdy friends I don't usually talk about them very much, but I do rewatch them for nostalgia.

2) Collecting Old Video Game Print Stuff....
Thanks to the advent of the internet and rabid fans, I have become obscessed with downloading scans of old guides and video game magaiznes...Hell anything really, from adverts to manuals...It's quite expensive and hard to get actual copies so this suffices...Not to say I don't have a lot of old magazines, I do, but digital copies are nicer.

3) Watching B and C movies...
I always kinda enjoyed B and C movies, and thanks to the internet and various critics, I have been able to watch very rare and terrible movies XD they're always good for a laugh

4) My true shame...
I love, and I mean LOVE watching the old shows/movies where they dress up in costume and fight...Gojira, Ultraman, Sentai, Kamen Riders (ok a lot of Japanese stuff XD), and yes...Power Rangers...
*hums Go! Go! Power Rangers!*
It's so bad but so awesome XD! everyone ridicules me for that one, but god how I do love them... So much...I love the corny fight seens, the lame jokes, the terrible acting ^_^

I have a few geeky pleasures. none of them are too weird, (I think) but they are things I wouldn't want most normal people to know about or stumble upon.

1) The first is "magical girl" anime series. Part of the reason I get so into them (I think) is because my best friend ever, Sarah W., is a big fan of them and we often suggest each other anime, trade DVDs, or just links and info for shows. A few of the ones that I have (off of the top of my head,) are full moon wo sagashite, sailor moon, card captor sakura, and Magic Knight Rayearth

2) is all of the anime and video game soundtracks on my iPod. Some are passable for normal, such as Howl's moving castle and Final Fantasy: Distant Worlds, but things like the Katamari OST's, Persona 3 & 4, Paprika and the Haruhi Suzumiya Soundtracks.....not so much. I'll never forget that I had my iPod on shuffle at a family event and then, "NANA, NANANA NA NA NA KATAMARI DAMACY!" starts blasting. ugh...embarrassing.

3) the last one isn't that bad. I collect games from translated and released by the now defunct company Working Designs. I do this because they have released some of the truly great, little noticed gems for some of the older systems in my collection, and partly Because I have a sort of respect them for taking the risks for bring these otherwise no name games to the U.S. and in that same way bringing me cool RPG's for my Sega systems and beyond.

some of my favorites from them are the Lunar games, Albert Odyssey, Magic Knight rayearth and Alundra

Hey guys, i just recently found Clan Of The Gray Wolf recently on youtube, just wanted to say. You guys ROCK!

i love the weekly ringer and look forward to it every week, but i never thought until now to actually answer the questions :P. Well to answer your question, theres the usual being a J nerd but you can't have been playing video games for 17 years and not have some aspect of japan permeate your life. Heres a thing i've always thought.. see when your in the middle of a gaming session, or a movie session any kind of session really.. how many of you will be really needing to go to the toilet, and for some reason you can't fathom, you would rather stay there bursting for the toilet than get up and walk maybe two feet. lmao that's just a thing that i've wondered about for a while and any other "geeks" i ask reply with in the affirmitive. yeah so other geeky things... being good with numbers, where i'm from you've got to dumb yourself down a bit so as you don't get beat every day, so i have to hide how good at maths and logic i am, pretty logical, eh? lmao 

Well thanks for taking the time to read this guys. keep up the good work clan... and spread the word you guys could be biiiig.

Well, I have 2 guilty pleasures

One is an almost irrational compulsion to build fan made tabletop RPG's for any book settings or game universes I really like. I've built them for Codex Alera, started one for Dresden Files before I found out about the official one, and have a Fire Emblem one that I'm about to playtest.

The other, like a few other people have mentioned, is shoujo manga/anime. I'm a fan of fruits Basket, Ouran Host club and I enjoyed cardcaptor Sakura. 

Got to love ouran and cardcaptor sakura and just about every thing from clamp expecaily Chobits

The immediate geeky guilty pleasure that comes to mind, while probably not that bad in a community such as this, is that I love listening to video game soundtracks.  Yeah, not too special I suppose, but I find that I don't tend to speak of them to people often if at all, and only listen to them without earbuds (ie - through actual speakers) when no one else is around. 

I normally listen to movie soundtracks as it is, which I have no problem with sharing with others.  I also listen to more modern soundtracks from games that are performed by actual live orchestras, which again I have no problem with sharing.  I seem to find though when the game music goes retro into the 8-, 16-, and 64-bit generations that it becomes a guilty pleasure.  The more bleep-and-bloop-based it gets, the more guilty pleasure it becomes it seems.  Notable tracks on my iPod include pieces from Mario, Legend of Zelda, Castlevania and Mega Man series', mostly from the NES days.

I think this is because to a lot of people it doesn't qualify much as music, which is a shame because I find classic 8-bit tunes can have catchier themes to them than some soundtracks to big-budget Hollywood movies which more often than not are instantly forgettable.  In that respect, I shouldn't keep it as a guilty pleasure but rather share it to make better awareness of just how good some of these tunes can be, but yet I keep silent on my enjoyment of them.

So, while it may not be that shocking of a guilty pleasure to people here, I still find it's probably the geekiest thing I take part in that I oddly don't share with anyone. 

The only other thing that came to mind, but it's not a regular event is buying the seasons of Captain N the Game Master and the Legend of Zelda cartoon.  I would call that a guilty pleasure at the time of watching them because I did so late at night as if it were something to be ashamed of watching.  And yet, I devoured both sets completely in a short span of time, watching each episode with a stupid childlike grin on my face.  I would only consider this a mild guilty pleasure though since it's not ongoing, and only lasted for the duration of the playthrough of the discs.  I'm sure I will watch them again some day though...

I watch Nintendo Week every week on my Wii (not necessarily the day it comes out).

I also watch WWE Monday Night Raw every week, usually on Monday night, and have been to two of the shows with my 8-year-old daughter since this past November.

If you haven't been, GO!

It's a good time.

And, yes, I know it is scripted. 

But every one of those performers put everything they out on the line every week (sometimes 3-4 times a week) and suffer actual injuries.  Whether you like the "sport" or not, you have to respect their dedication to the fans.

The number one geeky thing about myself is that I find videogame and animated women more attractive than real ones and have actually even kind of "fallen" for characters that aren't even real. That's pretty lame but I don't know if it counts as a "guilty pleasure" more than just a weird personality trait.

Guess my number one guilty pleasure, if that aforementioned is not enough, is watching the weekly ringer.

:P

Before the Wringer a few thing first,

"I'm a Mac guy, not an Apple guy. There's a different..." I think I know what this means since I have tired an iMac (OS 8.6) and liked it but Apple themselves I avoid their products but would buy a computer if it didn't cost $1299.

Earthbound - Everyone is different, like it hate it, it's up to you. Myself Roo's video on it I watched twice (both of them) but am not going to go out of my way to play it legally or not.

This weeks Wringer I had to think about it, but can not think of anything that would be classified as "What is your Greatest Geek Guilty Pleasure?" I wish I could say I wear a White Mage's robe around the house especially so if playing Final Fantasy NES but I suck at sewing (and don't have a sew machine) so haven't made one. Reading the comments above something came to mind, I try to lip-sync to Anime theme songs even though I don't speak Japanese so it's more like trying to follow the feeling of the song, and when on a city bus this is annoying since I want to sing along but can't.

@Goveynetcom - do you know about http://www.retromags.com/forums/files/

The most obvious guilty pleasure that I can think of would happen to be enjoying fairly girly manga and anime, but I'm certain there's far far worse.

MUDDs you know those text only role-playing games? Every so often I'll get this itch for playing one and waste a month of my life typing archaic control commands to make virtual people do mundane rpg things. I don't know why I'm so compelled to play because I don't even like them when I think about it. To sum up my MUDD playing it's a tad like this...

-yeah, that'll work.

Actually speaking of General Hospital, when I was younger and my parents first split up I lived with my grand parents for a while and every afternoon my grand mother and I would watch it. In fact when ever I come down to visit my grand mother still asks if I've been keeping up.

I'm not sure if this one is truly a geeky guilty pleasure, a few friends said it counted and a few didn't, but I am a fan of musicals.

Most kids have family favorite movies growing up like indiana jones or something, but a lot of the family movies i grew up with a as a kid were musicals. Sound of Music, Carousel, My fair Lady, and others were the movies we'd watch. My mom sings and was in a band for years and all of her sisters love musicals, so it's no surprise i grew up with them. and although I hate to admit it, I really like them and I listen to them when I need a pick me up or ina more angsty mood. They've had a major impact on my sister's life: shes in college now as a vocal performance major studying opera.

Some of my favorites are Spring Awakening, Rent, Company, and Into The Woods.

Company is awesome. I played Bobby in a university production about eight years ago.

hate to comment twice but if enjoying musicals is a guilty pleasure than I too, am in on that.

If done properly musicals are absolutely wonderful:

Disney films (which aren't "musicals" but do have great songs)

My fair Lady

The sound of Music

Funny Girl

Little Shop of Horrors

Phantom of the Opera

Man, I wish I could remember more but I do generally like the genre alot.

Musicals, I like them too and I don't call them a guilty pleasure.

I bought Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure (Nintendo DS version) because it was a musical and a RPG.

Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Film version with Donny Osmond, Joan Collins) is my favourite.

If done properly musicals are absolutely wonderful:

True, how some I watched were boring.

Dude, Westside Story is awesome, so's Wicked.

Musicals rock.

I never did like West Side Story. Anything related to Romeo and Juliet pisses me off. And I think a lot of Sondheim's stuff is hit or miss, where most people generally like everything he's made.

I've, personally, seen Stomp, Movin' Out, The Lion King, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, the original Grease (not the watered down movie version), Wicked, Rent, The Phantom of the Opera (in NYC) and Funny Girl. And a lot of other lower end musicals.

I also saw Mama Mia, but I hated every moment of it.

1st, Video Game Music:  My IPod has 500 songs on it, 480 of which are vgms.

2nd, Let's Play's:  I spend a ridiculas amount of time watching let's plays.

I wouldn't consider musicals a guilty pleasure. unless you feel a bit embarrased about liking them the ammount you do.

I love musicals myself, but they're a completely guilt-free pleasure for me. Among my favourites are: Phantom, Cats, Repo!, Sweeny Todd (yeah I like darker stuff), and Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds. Though the last one I don't know if it can fully be considered a musical. Far as I know there's no stage or screen presentation of it, just a completely musical rendition of it.

It's a weird question because you ask us to talk about something we don't talk about.
Why would anyone answer that? Humans are strange...

My guilte pleasures are video game music and watching some series over and over again.

Video game music: I have two playlists, in case you are interested. Some tracks are not excellent, but most of them are pretty damn good:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F4ADE5CEF2FCDAE6

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EA4033EFE28CBCAA

The latter contains music made with Mario Paint Composer, which I know is inferior in quality to any other kind of music. I still like these songs because of the nostalgia.

Series: This applies to Futurama, AVGN and the big bang theory mostly. I would never tell anyone how often I watched each episode of each series. It would be too embarrassing.

3rd guilty pleasure: I wrote a shell script to wake me up by playing a random futurama episode at a specified time. It works quite well.

My guilty pleasure are all kinds of monster collection and training games... I really can lose my mind playing over them, and most of them are for quite young kids.

Examples: Pokemon the whole series, Dragon Quest Monsters the whole series, Fossil Fighter for the DS, Lufia 2 to an extent (capsule monsters) and so on...

It's a weird question because you ask us to talk about something we don't talk about.
Why would anyone answer that?

Refer to http://www.clanofthegraywolf.com/weekly-wringer-8 starting at 2:30 in to the 4:20 mark.

You wanna talk about guilty pleasures?

Cheers, no not just Cheers. I'm talking about any sitcom from the 80's or 90's

Remember Small Wonder? I do.

Remember when the other bailiff on Night Court was Florence Kleiner (Season 3)? I do.

Remember that one show where the girl was the half alien and could stop time when she touched her hands together, I do... just not the name.

Wanna know how i spent most of Friday nights as a kid? watching TGIF on ABC.

Oh, it's not an App, but it is a pretty large collection of tv shows on the internetL
www.surfthechannel.com

I love looking at gaming websites but if that was not enough i always play Oregon trail on my apple II (original platform of the game)
While watching videos AND organizing my friends d&d games on iChat and skype

I also love to go on to the capcom forums and discuss all things megaman and ONLY MEGA MAN

(btw commodore screw the contacts the glasses look cooler and I know how you feel my eyes were burning for 3 days)