Nerd Boyfriends

[Thaius]

Well I met my girlfriend on a chat room for Avatar: The Last Airbender (yes, one of the nerdier love stories ever), and she lives 4 hours away from me. Long-distance relationships are hard, but we've been going strong for about a year and a half now.

There was one time that I realized that I had kind of been neglecting her. I felt horrible about it and dedicated myself to paying more attention to her. The first step in that plan? Plot with her mother (her family likes me, so I can do stuff like that) to have two dozen roses bought and scattered around my girlfriend's room while she was at work. I also mailed a handwritten apology/love letter to her mother, who put it on her desk for her to read when she got back. Since then I've had her mom put one of her favorite candies in her room every time she's at work.

A bit on the nerdier side, for Valentine's Day last year I was learning to code visual novels (very basic video games), and I created kind of an interactive love letter for her, with some questions for her to answer and everything. She loved that.

Go nerds!

This is my favourite so far I really like that. The roses were a nice touch but what got me was the interactive love letter thing. thats so sweet.

It's tough with the distance, so I try to do stuff like that now and again. I also surprised her once by taking her to the Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy concert, which she retaliated by taking me to Star Wars in Concert. Ah, nerd love.

My friends make fun of me because my "dates" mostly consist of syncing up a movie and chatting online while we watch it. It works, though.

Also,

I asked out my EX-girlfriend through a Haiku.

Makes me sick thinking about it now though.

That's awesome. I don't know what she thought, but Haiku is the best kind of poetry (short, to the point, and easy to write ).

 

[LiteraryLitany]

OT: I don’t have a girlfriend buy I know someone who got his girlfriend a gameing PC as a birthday gift.
they cosplay play together.

Now THAT is romance. ^_^ Yes, come to me with a proper monster desktop dressed up as Mal or Indy or Dresden and you will receive fangirlish delight. Never underestimate the power of fangirlish delight.

That's it...I'm maxing out the credit card on Newegg and booking a trip to Portland

Aw, but I already have one new compy for Christmas... I don't want to be spoiled... (*huggles Tardy, who is the mini-me for TARDIS, her main compy*)

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I still need myself a nerd girlfriend. Games, computers, intellect, and girl at the same time!?

Win.

With teh Bewbies! :O

 

[SimuLord]

I don't want to be spoiled...

How are you not taken, exactly?

 

[savandicus]

i can't say i'm a great fan of nerd boyfriends, my ex's last was a real nerd and he broke down in tears repeatedly every time she walked past him. he's spent the last 8 months threatening suicide and texting her say "your all i had to live for" etc etc etc. its sad, pathetic and totally fucking pointless. all its done is driven her to block his number.

Nerd doesn't equal a complete wimp, mind you. It's technically just a certain set of interests. A co-worker of mine had a guy like that, and he was far from a nerd. Doesn't matter if guys like that are nerds or not, they're always awful.

[small]*moaps* I still like my romantic idea though...[/small]

no, this bloke was 18, about 8 stone, had every console ever made, literally, and didn't feel like the day was complete without spending 4 hours of it on WoW...

and there there, everyone still likes your romantic idea... ;-)

Stone? Please use a modern unit of measurement.

Oh, and nerd != broken mess of a male, this guy sounds like he just happened to be emotionally sensitive.

Stone is a perefectly acceptable weight of measurement for people, Alot more people know their way in stone than in kilograms.

Also on topic best i've done is a candle lit dinner where desert is a cake i've made with L heart G on the top.

Then she dumped me because her name didnt begin with L. (Last part of this story for comedy value only and may lack truth)

 

[Thaius]

I think I'd try to keep my girlfriend and my geek life seperate, as in my life I have only ever experienced the latter. To quote Strong bad playing first person shooters with your girlfriend kind of ruins them both.

On the contrary, a good relationship requires that both of you share, or at the very least understand, each others' interests. Dating involves consideration of marriage, and I could never spend the rest of my life with someone who couldn't be involved in my nerdism. You've got to find a girl you can be nerdy with: I just got lucky because I met her on an Avatar: The Last Airbender fansite.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I'm not really a nerd, and neither are any of my ex-girlfriends. Most of my relationships have been 'normal', so to speak.

 

[wynnsora]

Well I met my girlfriend on a chat room for Avatar: The Last Airbender (yes, one of the nerdier love stories ever)

Think that's nerdy? Try a Yu-Gi-Oh forum for my boyfriend!

 

[LiteraryLitany]

I don't want to be spoiled...

How are you not taken, exactly?

I'd say my exacting standards(which is true to an extent, I've turned down plenty of immature or incompatible guys), but to be honest I'm told I'm a bit intimidating in RL.

 

[Snork Maiden]

no, this bloke was 18, about 8 stone, had every console ever made, literally, and didn't feel like the day was complete without spending 4 hours of it on WoW...

and there there, everyone still likes your romantic idea... ;-)

Like someone said above me (and what I ment in the first place), a nerd =! broken mess of a man. Some of us are quite balanced really. Sure I'm a proper nerd (Ezio and Cylon figurine, 3 consoles and a decent PC, a nice collection of pretty nerdy books, think Terry Pratchett, Dresden Files, Dune, etc, big fan of loads of sci-fi, decent collection of games, DVD set of Battlestar Galactica, and I can go on like that) but I also go the gym once a week and take care of my looks and clothing. Sucks to date a broken nerd like that though, they are indeed awful.

Does anyone else differentiate betweena nerd and a geek? Because to me a geek is basically what is described here (and everyone is a geek for something or other) - someone with a keen interest in something that perhaps might not be considered cool by the mainstream. A nerd is socially inept by its very definition (at least colloquially that's how I use the word and have come across the word being used).

 

[SimuLord]

I don't want to be spoiled...

How are you not taken, exactly?

I'd say my exacting standards(which is true to an extent, I've turned down plenty of immature or incompatible guys), but to be honest I'm told I'm a bit intimidating in RL.

Heh heh...why do I get a funny feeling that 90% of this board just thought "a challenge!"

 

[Thaius]

Does anyone else differentiate betweena nerd and a geek? Because to me a geek is basically what is described here (and everyone is a geek for something or other) - someone with a keen interest in something that perhaps might not be considered cool by the mainstream. A nerd is socially inept by its very definition (at least colloquially that's how I use the word and have come across the word being used).

There is a huge difference, but its not in social ability. A geek is into the technical stuff of subjects that may not be that popular: geeks are the ones that like math, science, and build their own computers. Nerds, on the other hand, are similar in many ways: the difference is that nerds are on the more artistic side of technology.

See? Geeks build computers, nerds know their way around an OS. Geeks program the video games, nerds play them and appreciate them. Geeks tend to prefer the sciences, nerds tend to prefer the arts. It's artistic vs. technical.

Well I met my girlfriend on a chat room for Avatar: The Last Airbender (yes, one of the nerdier love stories ever)

Think that's nerdy? Try a Yu-Gi-Oh forum for my boyfriend!

And... well... okay, I cede to that being almost as nerdy, if only because I don't want to admit defeat. >.<

 

[LiteraryLitany]

no, this bloke was 18, about 8 stone, had every console ever made, literally, and didn't feel like the day was complete without spending 4 hours of it on WoW...

and there there, everyone still likes your romantic idea... ;-)

Like someone said above me (and what I ment in the first place), a nerd =! broken mess of a man. Some of us are quite balanced really. Sure I'm a proper nerd (Ezio and Cylon figurine, 3 consoles and a decent PC, a nice collection of pretty nerdy books, think Terry Pratchett, Dresden Files, Dune, etc, big fan of loads of sci-fi, decent collection of games, DVD set of Battlestar Galactica, and I can go on like that) but I also go the gym once a week and take care of my looks and clothing. Sucks to date a broken nerd like that though, they are indeed awful.

Does anyone else differentiate betweena nerd and a geek? Because to me a geek is basically what is described here (and everyone is a geek for something or other) - someone with a keen interest in something that perhaps might not be considered cool by the mainstream. A nerd is socially inept by its very definition (at least colloquially that's how I use the word and have come across the word being used).

Yeah, that's more my definition of Nerd. I usually go for the Geek boys myself. (I think in this thread they're meant to be one big mesh though) Although there was one Nerd-boy who stole my heart in HS... I found out after he graduated that he ALMOST asked me to prom, but backed out at the last second. >.<

 

[DANGERECTION]

I don't want to be spoiled...

How are you not taken, exactly?

I'd say my exacting standards(which is true to an extent, I've turned down plenty of immature or incompatible guys), but to be honest I'm told I'm a bit intimidating in RL.

Heh heh...why do I get a funny feeling that 90% of this board just thought "a challenge!"

Probably because you're creepy.

 

[S4rdonyx]

I think I'd try to keep my girlfriend and my geek life seperate, as in my life I have only ever experienced the latter. To quote Strong bad playing first person shooters with your girlfriend kind of ruins them both.

Really? Me and my guy are both real competitive... esp when it comes to gh. completely outclasses me when it comes to halo, but its awesome playing co-op

 

[coldshadow]

nerd? I perfer the term imagineer!

cookie for anyone who gets the refrence.

 

[SimuLord]

Probably because you're creepy.

...and? What's your point?

 

[DANGERECTION]

Probably because you're creepy.

...and?

Thats nothing to be pleased about, dude.

 

[Cowabungaa]

You won't dump water on me if I drag out my Molly cosplay, will you?

Of course not, sadly I haven't read the book in which she appears yet (I just read Storm Front actually, but I loved it so much that I ordered both Fool Moon and Grave Peril quickly afterwards) so I have no idea how she looks, only that she becomes Harry's apprentice... but I like surprises.

Does anyone else differentiate betweena nerd and a geek? Because to me a geek is basically what is described here (and everyone is a geek for something or other) - someone with a keen interest in something that perhaps might not be considered cool by the mainstream. A nerd is socially inept by its very definition (at least colloquially that's how I use the word and have come across the word being used).

I try to differentiate between a geek and a nerd, but it's pretty hard, definitions of both words are almost fluid.

 

[soundoflights]

Also, the nerdy guys that have liked me have all just been stalkery and creepy.

yes we are WAHAHAhahaha&#8230;.

OT: I don&#8217;t have a girlfriend buy I know someone who got his girlfriend a gameing PC as a birthday gift.
they cosplay play together.

Lol, if you play GTA too much you'll get this:

Who does this ***** think she is? The internet is for skinny white guys only! Thats why I've never spoken to one! WOOT!

What about the fat white guys =(