Nocturnal Nerds

Tirabaralla · 21-05-2009 01:24PM

Galvasean wrote: »

Now THAT is nerdy.

I am nerdy conscious, no worries ^_^

Galvasean · 21-05-2009 01:27PM

Tirabaralla wrote: »

I am nerdy conscious, no worries ^_^

Nerdy conscious... is that like nerd awareness? We should make a World Nerds Awareness Day and do a big parade where everyone is dressed as Warhammer men and/or computer chips.

Tirabaralla · 21-05-2009 01:28PM

Galvasean wrote: »

Nerdy conscious... is that like nerd awareness? We should make a World Nerds Awareness Day and do a big parade where everyone is dressed as Warhammer men and/or computer chips.

I'll dress like meself.
I have 3 pairs of glasses.
Maybe I can wear them altogether.

Cunning Alias · 21-05-2009 02:00PM

Just finished a Programming and web engineering hons degree.
I understand all of these and find them funny. http://slashweb.org/programming/25-best-programmer-comics.html
I have had every console back to the SNES except for the Wii, Jaguar and 3DO.
I have 2 ps2's (one american) cause I wanted to get games not released here (xenogears, xenosaga, FFT etc)
I have all of Farscape and Babylon 5 on DVD.
My goal in life is to earn loads of money and develop open source software.
Have read 42 of the Battletech books.

Im more of a geek.......nerds are smart.
This should show some differences http://www.wikihow.com/Tell-the-Difference-Between-Nerds-and-Geeks

Nearg!!

cyberwolf77 · 21-05-2009 02:03PM

Apparently I'm actually not a nerd. I'm a geek, albeit one with some very interesting skills with potentially lethal applications.

Handsome Bob · 21-05-2009 02:06PM

Yeah geek here too. I'm more of a C/B student than an A student.:p:pac:

Tirabaralla · 21-05-2009 02:07PM

I am a geek too, so...

cyberwolf77 · 21-05-2009 02:08PM

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Yeah geek here too. I'm more of a C/B student than an A student.:p:pac:

Tirabaralla wrote: »

I am a geek too, so...

Maybe the three of us should just leave the nerds in peace.

Handsome Bob · 21-05-2009 02:31PM

Originally posted by Tirabaralla
I am a geek too, so...

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Maybe the three of us should just leave the nerds in peace.

Shall we branch off with a Nocturnal Geeks thread?:pac:

cyberwolf77 · 21-05-2009 02:33PM

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Shall we branch off with a Nocturnal Geeks thread?:pac:

Maybe we shlould calli the the Goths & Geeks thread to keep the whole alliteraiton thing going.

rainbow kirby · 21-05-2009 03:58PM

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Maybe the three of us should just leave the nerds in peace.

/me ponders whether I'm a nerd or a geek under this classification...

SmileyPaul · 21-05-2009 06:45PM

rainbow kirby wrote: »

/me ponders whether I'm a nerd or a geek under this classification...

why do you think your either?
maths? geek
games? nerd

and there's your index by smiley XD

Doctor DooM · 22-05-2009 07:05AM

The nerd geek divide is not that simple.

I go under the impression that a nerd is someone who is techologically able or interested in sci fi et al.

Whereas a geek is someone who is obsessed with something to the point where it interferes with their ability to engage socially (like, a Star Trek nerd is someone who watches a good bit, know alot, whereas a ST geek is someone who spends 8 hours a day on it and spends all their hard earned on it).

Everyone has different definitions.

Don't anyone dare quote the urban dictionary at me. That things more untrustworthy than wiki

shellyboo · 22-05-2009 12:09PM

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Why are you not a nerd?

Cos Kharn says so? :pac:

Nah, I'm a bit too eclectic I suppose. I like elements of sci-fi and fantasy - I read Terry Pratchett and love fantasy books, I like selected sci-fi programmes, but don't really follow them religiously. I'm really into the internet and forums and chatting and blogs and twitter and things...

But then I also like doing quote-unquote normal things like going out dancing and eating in restaurants and pop music and friends and getting involved in community things and family... Basically, I just come off as a 'normal' person until you see my bookcase or the contents of my hard drive!

I do find it hard to reconcile the two, because "mainstream" people will never really get the nerdy parts, and nerdy people tend to dismiss me as not a nerd because of my mainstream interests - I find they tend to presume that I like the mainstream stuff because I'm a sheep or I'm not intelligent enough to know that it's mostly crap or I haven't been exposed to other things, but that's not true. I've been exposed to all sorts of music, films, literature - I just happen to appreciate the mainstream stuff and take it at face value as good silly fun.

I take all things at face value, actually. Either I like it or I don't. Some of the things I like are "nerdy", some are mainstream *shrug*

SDooM wrote: »

You'll always be a sword fondling nerd to me.

Woohoo!

EDIT: Actually, do you know what I think it is that disqualifies me from nerd-dom? It's that I'm not passionate about anything. I don't have a passion for anything like film or TV or comics or gaming or computers or – my passion is for the people in my life. Closest thing to that would be the written language, and I don't think that makes me a nerd - just a bookworm/grammar nazi!

cyberwolf77 · 22-05-2009 12:11PM

shellyboo wrote: »

Nah, I'm a bit too eclectic I suppose. I like elements of sci-fi and fantasy - I read Terry Pratchett and love fantasy books, I like selected sci-fi programmes, but don't really follow them religiously. I'm really into the internet and forums and chatting and blogs and twitter and things...

But then I also like doing quote-unquote normal things like going out dancing and eating in restaurants and pop music and friends and getting involved in community things and family... Basically, I just come off as a 'normal' person until you see my bookcase or the contents of my hard drive!

I do find it hard to reconcile the two, because "mainstream" people will never really get the nerdy parts, and nerdy people tend to dismiss me as not a nerd because of my mainstream interests - I find they tend to presume that I like the mainstream stuff because I'm a sheep or I'm not intelligent enough to know that it's mostly crap or I haven't been exposed to other things, but that's not true. I've been exposed to all sorts of music, films, literature - I just happen to appreciate the mainstream stuff and take it at face value as good silly fun.

I take all things at face value, actually. Either I like it or I don't. Some of the things I like are "nerdy", some are mainstream *shrug*

Basically, you just described me. Except for the whole Twitter thing.

Galvasean · 22-05-2009 01:50PM

shellyboo wrote: »

EDIT: Actually, do you know what I think it is that disqualifies me from nerd-doom?

FYP

entropi · 23-05-2009 01:53AM

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Basically, you just described me. Except for the whole Twitter thing.

And me nowadays, yet i dont twitter, blog or use chat programs...

I've felt that over the last 2 years i have become less of a stereotype nerd (long red hair, glasses, goatee who stayed indoors alot) to a more generally accepted one, who is just smart, likes to go out dancing/drinking etc plays a rough sport (hurling) yet has interest in stuff non nerds would relate to.

Lets put it this way, i was an MMO player for 8 years and was very very knowledgeable about the ingame content when i played, became recluse for many of those and that WAS my life haha!! man this is starting to look like a PI post lol:P

Doctor DooM · 23-05-2009 02:07AM

Seriously Shelly, if you're a Pratchett buff you're a nerd. Dav's just going to have to get over it.

Millenium hand and shrimp!

entropi · 23-05-2009 02:12AM

SDooM wrote: »

Seriously Shelly, if you're a Pratchett buff you're a nerd. Dav's just going to have to get over it.

Aye its true, you can be one of us now...:pac:

SmileyPaul · 23-05-2009 10:09AM

cyberwolf77 wrote: »

Basically, you just described me. Except for the whole Twitter thing.

and me, just take out pratchett for tite kubo and other manga as well as garth nix

I've earned myself the name of the "otaku" in my school and damn I'm proud

I'm a little more nerdy than main stream so peoples first impression is... "why is he doing that in public?" (not in any sexual way or anything, other strange people will understand how I mean it

) and then once they talk to me I whip in the fact that I'm a jazz player of 7 years and then I'm "accepted" :P

Tirabaralla · 23-05-2009 10:17AM

SmileyPaul wrote: »

I've earned myself the name of the "otaku" in my school and damn I'm proud

Another otaku here...reading manga for years and years on the busses going to school and work...back in the years when it was a bit of a taboo, but I never realised it lol

SmileyPaul · 23-05-2009 10:21AM

Tirabaralla wrote: »

Another otaku here...reading manga for years and years on the busses going to school and work...back in the years when it was a bit of a taboo, but I never realised it lol

this is going to sound terrible but I actually got into it through watching Pokémon and Medabots (note: I was watching pokémon in '97 two years before it became cool) :P

yeah i never have time to read it or even buy it anymore, I still haven't even finished battle royale

(I went in sometime last year to get volume 8 and because I was still 17 they asked me for id

)
at the moment I'm concentrating on the auld leaving cert but I love bleach

Tirabaralla · 23-05-2009 10:31AM

SmileyPaul wrote: »

this is going to sound terrible but I actually got into it through watching Pokémon and Medabots (note: I was watching pokémon in '97 two years before it became cool) :P

yeah i never have time to read it or even buy it anymore, I still haven't even finished battle royale (I went in sometime last year to get volume 8 and because I was still 17 they asked me for id )
at the moment I'm concentrating on the auld leaving cert but I love bleach

Awwww...I got into Pokemons when I was 20 and I went to the States and we didn't have Pokemons yet in Italy but I saw these little stuffs so cute and...bought a small plastic Pikachu...lol
When back in Italy they started to become famous after a while and I brought my that days bf to the cinema to watch the movie lol
We are still good friends LOL

Battle Royale...so sad but I loved it.
I know how it ends, but u can know that from the interweb as well...but I know it's not at all the same thing.
I don't read manga in Ireland cause they are SO expensive

And my huge collection is in my parents garage back home.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww....want them now.

SmileyPaul · 23-05-2009 10:44AM

Tirabaralla wrote: »

Awwww...I got into Pokemons when I was 20 and I went to the States and we didn't have Pokemons yet in Italy but I saw these little stuffs so cute and...bought a small plastic Pikachu...lol
When back in Italy they started to become famous after a while and I brought my that days bf to the cinema to watch the movie lol
We are still good friends LOL

Battle Royale...so sad but I loved it.
I know how it ends, but u can know that from the interweb as well...but I know it's not at all the same thing.
I don't read manga in Ireland cause they are SO expensive
And my huge collection is in my parents garage back home.
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww....want them now.

haha basically the same as my older brother then, I remember I walked into tescos one day and this really generically popular lookin dude was standing behind the counter fidgeting with something, I put my playstation magazine on the counter and he looks at me (Im about 10 at the time) and asks me, with the most serious voice I've ever heard "is this ninetales rare?" lookin back it was hilarious, speaking of pokemon when it came to my junior cert we all started playing it again, now its our leaving, I recently found the game boy again... lethal game :P

I've seen the movie of battle royale hundreds of times but I have a feeling the mangas just a wee bit better haha.

I'm taking it your originally from italy then? and I know the manga here is so expensive, I was thinking about taking japanese (and probably will in college) because it will end up paying for itself with the manga I can get online

Tirabaralla · 23-05-2009 10:54AM

SmileyPaul wrote: »

haha basically the same as my older brother then, I remember I walked into tescos one day and this really generically popular lookin dude was standing behind the counter fidgeting with something, I put my playstation magazine on the counter and he looks at me (Im about 10 at the time) and asks me, with the most serious voice I've ever heard "is this ninetales rare?" lookin back it was hilarious, speaking of pokemon when it came to my junior cert we all started playing it again, now its our leaving, I recently found the game boy again... lethal game :P

I've seen the movie of battle royale hundreds of times but I have a feeling the mangas just a wee bit better haha.

I'm taking it your originally from italy then? and I know the manga here is so expensive, I was thinking about taking japanese (and probably will in college) because it will end up paying for itself with the manga I can get online

Awww...ninetales...lovely!!! (sorry ^_^)
I didn't play the game for so long, but I knew all the evolutions of the first serie lol

I never saw the BR movie, i wanna watch it but can't watch by myself, woudl be a lil too much. The manga also, i was reading it sharing it with someome else, made it easier to digest it :P

LOL about the college stuff. I so understand you, I was even thinking about going back to college to study japanese...I went 2 Japan 2 years ago and I am totally in love with it.

Did u read this book, maybe? (book of general geek interest, btw lol)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Train-Man-Nakano-Hitori/dp/1845293517

cyberwolf77 · 23-05-2009 11:29AM

SDooM wrote: »

Seriously Shelly, if you're a Pratchett buff you're a nerd. Dav's just going to have to get over it.

Millenium hand and shrimp!

Well, then I guess I am a nerd after all.

SmileyPaul · 23-05-2009 08:39PM

Tirabaralla wrote: »

Awww...ninetales...lovely!!! (sorry ^_^)
I didn't play the game for so long, but I knew all the evolutions of the first serie lol

I never saw the BR movie, i wanna watch it but can't watch by myself, woudl be a lil too much. The manga also, i was reading it sharing it with someome else, made it easier to digest it :P

LOL about the college stuff. I so understand you, I was even thinking about going back to college to study japanese...I went 2 Japan 2 years ago and I am totally in love with it.

Did u read this book, maybe? (book of general geek interest, btw lol)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Train-Man-Nakano-Hitori/dp/1845293517

I know I was like "no.....? I'll give you a charmeleon for it" XD
I played silver too, was quite the epic :P

oh its such a good movie, you'd be able to stick it by yourself its quite watered down compared to the manga. I watched it when I was 12 and wasn't sickened, they dont really give you a huge background to any of the characters either, still nice though

I think I'd just take an extra class not like study it properly if ya get me, and no I haven't read it... may be getting added to my next shopping list along with bleach 26 battle royale 8 and several zombie books

shellyboo · 25-05-2009 09:16AM

SDooM wrote: »

Seriously Shelly, if you're a Pratchett buff you're a nerd. Dav's just going to have to get over it.

Millenium hand and shrimp!

Oawwww

Thanks Doomy, I feel all special now! And lest the boy be made out to be a baddie, he was only teasing really

As an aside, I *loved* Pokemon. I used to watch it under the pretence that my baby bro - who would have been the right age to like it at the time - loved it, when in fact he probably couldn't have given a monkey's!

Nerin · 25-05-2009 09:24AM

I had six mewtwos.

/Thread

Tirabaralla · 25-05-2009 09:52AM

Nerin wrote: »

I had six mewtwos.

/Thread

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