I have a very good friend. We’re both writers, both geeks, and both talkers, so much so that we’ve developed a number of inside jokes that serve us as conversational shorthand. I would like to share one of them with the greater geek community. It refers to a certain sort of social situation, and we call it:

Flashing Your Geek

via ChartPorn: someone over at Rev3 comics site iFanboy has dredged up a copy of beloved, defunct Early Internet comedy site Brunching Shuttlecocks’ geek hierarchy flowchart.

A sample branch: sci-fi fans > video gamers > roleplaying gamers > LARPers > 13-year-old gamers of any sort.