I'm ashamed to be called a Geek

[eljawa]

I strongly dislike Hipsters who think they are geeks.

 

[bloctiger]

Mr.Timelord. Ding Dong!

Yeah and clearly OP does care. Things evolve. I mean, maybe you don't like hipsters but they change and move on. The geek as we once saw it is dead and I think it's about time.

I for one HATE being called a geek because I just think people are punishing me for being intelligent, curious and open to new ideas and experiences really. And to me, that is what being a geek is. It's important to make a differentiation between not wanting to socialise and being a geek.

I'm a 'geek' because I'm interested and knowledgeable about various niche ideas and things going on in my world but at the same time I can make conversation and consider myself to be well rounded and actually pretty popular person.

If you wanna make a statement, be unashamedly proud of what you do and are good at and enjoy life. Those who respect that will follow and in the end the trends will change and it won't matter anymore what they're called or how they dress.

I also believe it's great more people are talking about and engaging in games; finally we might actually get to the stage where studios hard work might even be given the recognition it deserves in the lay community. I think it's pretty hard for those who are not massively tecchy to appreciate just how much sweat goes into a game and I think the sooner games become more mainstream, the more it will be appreciated. I'd say it's all good really. Being a games geek doesn't make you unique just as much as hearing some band's songs before they got mainstream makes u a 'proper music fan'.

I guess I'm just saying what everyone else is which is that labels are pretty meaningless and will weigh you down more then they will help or define you as a person.

 

[Caliostro]

Of course I'm upset, I set up a perfectly good "think up of some silly words to call ourselves" thread, and people think I'm being serious.

Didn't realize this was sarcasm to be honest. To give you some credit, it SHOULD have been obvious, except there's 20 million of these every other week that are dead serious... so it makes a bit hard to tell when people are being serious or sarcastic.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what I am. Grotesquely ugly, absolutely incapable of the slightest semblance of social interaction, incredibly single-minded about the acquisition of knowledge. So, I fall by default into that category.

I'm not entirely sure whether you're being sarcastic or not anymore, because, again, this is something not unlike what I've read as absolutely straight faced before, but if you ARE serious: All of those can be changed. And even if you don't want to change them, I'm guessing you're smart enough to realize these aren't "genre limitations".

If you ARE being sarcastic... Carry on.

 

[Twilight_guy]

How about you ignore them and wait for the fad to pass. Beautiful people are notoriously shallow and follow trends like cattle.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

I don't wanna let hipsters win by having us change our geek, gamer, or nerd status to some other word just because hipsters copy us. Hipsters are still hipsters and are never gonna break away from their "old archetypes" no matter what they do. I'm happy with being a gamer.

 

[Creator002]

And the Lord said, "Every true Geek shall become fluent in a high-level programming language."
And He knew this new commandment was the only way to know the true followers of Geek from the Hipsters.

 

[TheWwwizard]

If we keep the word geek to ourselves and just keep calling them hipsters that's fine by me... But otherwise I'm down for the option of 1337

 

[TheWwwizard]

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care

I agree but at the same time, appalled by your stereotype of geeks. The description you make is how geeks are shown in any Hollywood movie you care to mention. Not how [most] geeks are today.
I am not a social outcast. I am smart, yes (more than anybody else in my social circle at least).

But fashionably unconscious?

Never!

Ahem... that there is a pretty man. And I'm into women.

 

[BioHazardMan]

Don't be ashamed, we real geeks are still in charge (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc. etc. etc.)

 

[TimeLord]

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Well myself dressed as David Tennant seems to have that effect on this site it would seem.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I
(/angry old man rant)

Born March 29, 1991

Son, I am disappoint.

 

[Lullabye]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but good luck with needing to label yourself...

I assume you have a name, no? Oh, and look at that, you have an escapist profile! with a picture and everything!

OT: fuck the hipsters(no matter how bad I want to be one), we geeks rule the ironic and unordinary!

 

[Artina89]

People will dress how they want to dress. As long as they don't bother me I really couldn't care less. I mean, a lot of people I know wear videogame t-shirts and have never played the game, but its just the same as someone who wears a Led zeppelin t-shirt and doesn't like Led zeppelin for instance. It's something you just have to live with.

 

[Gunner_Guardian]

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care.

But now it seems the term "geek" has been hijacked by hipsters wanting to break away from the old archetypes. Everywhere now I see "ironic" retro gaming t-shirts, jewelry made from video game cartridges,store bought steampunk gear and worse, being worn by the kind of people I spent my childhood years playing videogames to get AWAY from. You know, the fucking Beautiful People.

So I propose a new word for the socially malnourished outcasts I associate with. Let's have some suggestions!

(/angry old man rant)

So, to you, "geeks" are socially inept functionally retarded uglier than sin virgins with all the tact and charm of down's syndrome? And this was the group you chose to associate yourself with? My god, that's a group I'd RUN from. Even if I was the ugliest person on this planet.

First and foremost let me front the idea that social labels are always a negative point to your character (or, more specifically, lack there of). You identify yourself with a certain "label" ("geeks", "jocks", "goths", "metalheads", whatever) because you're either too simple, or too incompetent, or too scared, to simple accept yourself as whatever you are. It IS easier to follow. It is easier to simply look at a set of predetermined standards and just blindly follow those than be who you are. First because no matter how shitty things get with everyone else, you have bought yourself a support group through your subservience. "You join us, we'll back you up!" is the unspoken contract of these things. Second because you just don't have to think... Thinking is such a tiresome thing. You have to decide what you stand up for, what you like, what you dislike, what you want, what you feel... Every bloody minute of every day... Over everything... Isn't that tiresome? So much easier if someone else just does it for you, and you just subscribe to their newsletter.


Why? Why must we bear this crux of penance, this sword of damocles, that if we happen to enjoy something we must immediately adhere to whatever other tastes the loudest group of fanatics happen to advocate? Can't I not enjoy a game without being a socially maladjusted 300 lb piece of ugly who instantly ejaculates the moments he comes within 5 ft of a female? Am I forced to lobotomise myself, say "bro" five times per sentence, and become incapable of tackling any situation that isn't solved by punching if I enjoy playing sports?

Can't you be healthy, socially adjusted AND enjoy gaming? Are we so pathetically shallow that we can't enjoy the things we enjoy? That we need to constantly evaluate whom else shares tastes with us, so we can better fit this ridiculous notion we created for ourselves based on a pre-determined model?

If you enjoy games, enjoy your fucking game. Why does it matter who else enjoys it? If you suddenly discovered the worst person in the world enjoyed your favourite activity, would you stop?

/rant.

Thank you sir, I enjoyed that rant

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care.

But now it seems the term "geek" has been hijacked by hipsters wanting to break away from the old archetypes. Everywhere now I see "ironic" retro gaming t-shirts, jewelry made from video game cartridges,store bought steampunk gear and worse, being worn by the kind of people I spent my childhood years playing videogames to get AWAY from. You know, the fucking Beautiful People.

So I propose a new word for the socially malnourished outcasts I associate with. Let's have some suggestions!

(/angry old man rant)

So, to you, "geeks" are socially inept functionally retarded uglier than sin virgins with all the tact and charm of down's syndrome? And this was the group you chose to associate yourself with? My god, that's a group I'd RUN from. Even if I was the ugliest person on this planet.

First and foremost let me front the idea that social labels are always a negative point to your character (or, more specifically, lack there of). You identify yourself with a certain "label" ("geeks", "jocks", "goths", "metalheads", whatever) because you're either too simple, or too incompetent, or too scared, to simple accept yourself as whatever you are. It IS easier to follow. It is easier to simply look at a set of predetermined standards and just blindly follow those than be who you are. First because no matter how shitty things get with everyone else, you have bought yourself a support group through your subservience. "You join us, we'll back you up!" is the unspoken contract of these things. Second because you just don't have to think... Thinking is such a tiresome thing. You have to decide what you stand up for, what you like, what you dislike, what you want, what you feel... Every bloody minute of every day... Over everything... Isn't that tiresome? So much easier if someone else just does it for you, and you just subscribe to their newsletter.


Why? Why must we bear this crux of penance, this sword of damocles, that if we happen to enjoy something we must immediately adhere to whatever other tastes the loudest group of fanatics happen to advocate? Can't I not enjoy a game without being a socially maladjusted 300 lb piece of ugly who instantly ejaculates the moments he comes within 5 ft of a female? Am I forced to lobotomise myself, say "bro" five times per sentence, and become incapable of tackling any situation that isn't solved by punching if I enjoy playing sports?

Can't you be healthy, socially adjusted AND enjoy gaming? Are we so pathetically shallow that we can't enjoy the things we enjoy? That we need to constantly evaluate whom else shares tastes with us, so we can better fit this ridiculous notion we created for ourselves based on a pre-determined model?

If you enjoy games, enjoy your fucking game. Why does it matter who else enjoys it? If you suddenly discovered the worst person in the world enjoyed your favourite activity, would you stop?

/rant.

Thank you sir, I enjoyed that rant

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care

I agree but at the same time, appalled by your stereotype of geeks. The description you make is how geeks are shown in any Hollywood movie you care to mention. Not how [most] geeks are today.
I am not a social outcast. I am smart, yes (more than anybody else in my social circle at least).

But fashionably unconscious?

Never!

Nice suit man

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but good luck with needing to label yourself...

I assume you have a name, no? Oh, and look at that, you have an escapist profile! with a picture and everything!

OT: fuck the hipsters(no matter how bad I want to be one), we geeks rule the ironic and unordinary!

I have no idea what you're talking about either, so I'll just assume I should be offended.

You cad! I'd beat you within an inch of your life, if I had a tape measure.

 

[Oscar Bjorklund]

I agree but at the same time, appalled by your stereotype of geeks. The description you make is how geeks are shown in any Hollywood movie you care to mention. Not how [most] geeks are today.
I am not a social outcast. I am smart, yes (more than anybody else in my social circle at least).

But fashionably unconscious?

Never!

Wow, those clothes are awesome. But why those shoes? Use black or brown ones <_<.

On topic, so what if someone uses videogames as a fashion statement? Isn't it better if nerdiness becomes more mainstream? I thought that's what geeks have been trying to do all the time.

 

[Wolfram23]

What's wrong with hipsters? I'm friends with a few. They're nice people.

 

[TimeLord]

Wow, those clothes are awesome. But why those shoes? Use black or brown ones <_<.

I didn't have black or brown ones at the time
I do now. And I hope it will snow this year so I can get a better picture

 

[Oscar Bjorklund]

I didn't have black or brown ones at the time
I do now. And I hope it will snow this year so I can get a better picture

Good ^^
Well, it's just started to snow here in Sweden today, so it shouldn't be too long

 

[Lord Thodin]

I smell an awful lotta hipsters in this thread. I, for one, agree with OP. I hate hipsters who dress in our garb ironically.