You're a Nerd

[darthsmily]

I just read this thread from top till bottom and it is 5:31 AM in Australia.
I actually spend more time browsing game and other such forums more than actually playing videogames unless I have just gotten a new game.
And the votes are in... NERD!!

 

[Cpt. Red]

I can program in varius languages(AS3, PHP, etc.) but im best at C++;
I got better at a program, that my two year younger cusin have used for 4 years, in just two days.
I frekkin love math.
Me and my friends were called 'Space Crew' in whats equilent with the US highschool.
I NEVER do homework but still get a pretty good grade.
I flame people that say lasersword instead of lightsaber.
Im going to study gameprogramming.
I dislike DnD becuase it beaing too mutch of a hack n slahs (with other words: too little roleplaying) and prefer WOD: vampire the requim.
I like StarTrek, Stargate SG-1 and most of the other sci-fi series.
I like being called nerd.
I never went to prom.(I was trying to complete 'Little Roket Man' in HL2:Ep2 instead)
I have made varius goths jealousy of my non existent tan.
I have never been drunk.
I too bring along retro games on my flash drive(I love X-COM and at times Transport Tychoon can be really fun).
And I game, ALOT.

But there is alot more that I dont got time to write.
EDIT: I was better at C++ then my programming teacher in higschool.

 

[Haliwali]

I have a set plan for when the Zombies come. Operation Velociraptor and Robot Uprising are currently under development.

 

[dreamofobscurity]

I watch too much anime.
I play too many video games.
I refer to too many movies all the time.


.............. and The Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies EVAR!

 

[Logan Westbrook]

I had a thought of this topic earlier.

You're not a nerd for liking Star Trek, you're a nerd for having an opinion on whether Kirk was better than Picard.

It's like a litmus test for nerds.

 

[werepossum]

I had a thought of this topic earlier.

You're not a nerd for liking Star Trek, you're a nerd for having an opinion on whether Kirk was better than Picard.

It's like a litmus test for nerds.

I like that. We once hit a huge beetle with our mirror and later it crawled up over the seat back. I commented that it was scary to hit a bug at 70 mph and see it retain its structural integrity. My wife related that story to a friend, who got a strange look and said she couldn't imagine dating a man who would ever use the term "structural integrity." I realized then that I was a nerd.

But there have to be levels of nerd-dom, and I think I fall fairly low. For instance:
I love science fiction and fantasy books but no interest in zombies, manga, or "graphic novels."
I played D&D in the 70's and 80's but don't play RPGs.
I read voraciously but played sports (albeit usually badly) rather than a musical instrument.
I watch cartoons (Squidbillies, South Park, Oblongs) but hate anime with a burning passion.
I need glasses but wear hard contacts.
I carry several pens (most erasable) but have never worm a pocket protector.
I used to use a slide rule but immediately gave it up when I could afford a calculator.
I know the scientific names of many fish but I also fish for sport.
I liked The X Files and The Twilight Zone but thought both Star Treks and Lost were no better than fair.
I have built PCs since 1985 but don't upgrade until dragged kicking and screaming by a particular game or program.
I have studied, and programmed in, Fortran and AutoLISP but have never played with Garry's Mod.
I know that Swahili is a Bantu group language but don't know a single word of Klingon.
I game with a joystick and trackball but use an honest-to-goodness digitizer for AutoCAD at work.
I'm an avid PC gamer at almost 50 years of age but don't play online.

So am I a nerdling, an old obsolete nerd, a broken nerd, a wannabe nerd, a half nerd, or what? For every nerd behavior it seems like I have one that would get me exiled from Nerdia, to make my way alone in the cold, stony, windswept wasteland of Geezerland. I think I'm a failure at nerding!

 

[scoHish]

Read a bunch of unnecessarily confusing EU Star Wars novels, not because I was deeply immersed in the story of a couple new characters with too many vowels in their names, but just so I could chalk it up as "More useless knowledge about Star Wars". Don't think that gives me total nerdom... but it's somthin'.

 

[scoHish]

And to dreamofobscurity:

You remind me of the babe...

 

[AlphaWolf13]

"Nerd - A nerd is very similar to a geek, but with more RAM and a faster modem."

- I think that describes the basic nerd, pretty damn well!

 

[dreamofobscurity]

You remind me of the babe...

What babe?
The babe with the power.

^_^

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

...
I have studied, and programmed in, Fortran and AutoLISP but have never played with Garry's Mod.
...
I game with a joystick and trackball but use an honest-to-goodness digitizer for AutoCAD at work.
...

Egads man, a digitizer! You're not a nerd, your a masochist!

Ha, ha, I thought that was funny because I'm the AutoCAD nerd at work. I was actually pretty good at lisp there for a while too. I could use mapcar with the lambda function even. ooooh. I wish I had more fully committed my nerdom for the IT side of things now. But, I am rapidly passing many nerd milestones.

I have flashed a bios or two.

I have built a virtual machine. (tonight actually)

Installed software remotely.

Now if I could only learn VB.net... I could...build apps that no one will appreciate and nag me to have changed or fixed.

Maybe I'm a masochist too.

 

[theklng]

i use a data structure outlook whenever packing so i can fit in another 25% luggage. whenever i walk around in a city, i ponder how long the level designer took to make it. i build my own machines. i know 6 languages, one of them being code language.

 

[Aries_Split]

I am a strange geek because
-I automatically try to judge any PC i see by it's gaming performance.
-I have been to a Gaming Orchestra
-I have been to Gigantour
-I attended PAX last year and am planning on attending this year.
-I attended the san diego comic con. (and I am based in georgia.)
-I travelled across the country (from oregon) to attend SCAD.
-I travelled across the country to attend SCAD to get a degree in "GAME DESIGN"
-I play guitar
-I love rush
-When anyone starts a sentence with "Look at" I instantly interrupt and finish the sentence with "you hacker"
-I know the Von Bruan better than my neighbourhood
-I put together dream gaming rigs on newegg in my spare time
-I refer to pc's as rigs.
-I have an excellent grasp of linux
It goes on and on and on

 

[werepossum]

...
I have studied, and programmed in, Fortran and AutoLISP but have never played with Garry's Mod.
...
I game with a joystick and trackball but use an honest-to-goodness digitizer for AutoCAD at work.
...

Egads man, a digitizer! You're not a nerd, your a masochist!

Ha, ha, I thought that was funny because I'm the AutoCAD nerd at work. I was actually pretty good at lisp there for a while too. I could use mapcar with the lambda function even. ooooh. I wish I had more fully committed my nerdom for the IT side of things now. But, I am rapidly passing many nerd milestones.

I have flashed a bios or two.

I have built a virtual machine. (tonight actually)

Installed software remotely.

Now if I could only learn VB.net... I could...build apps that no one will appreciate and nag me to have changed or fixed.

Maybe I'm a masochist too.

But with a sixteen-button digitizer I get fifty-two commands at my fingertips, even with the top row set the same in all four menus!

I have to admit I've never used mapcar with the lamba function. Actually, it's been years since I've written anything even mildly interesting. I've almost always been a hack, writing something quick and dirty for the moment's need, only writing something interesting when someone's paying me to do so. So I'm a masochist, but a lazy, greedy one.

 

[ideitbawx]

I'm a nerd because I make references to everything I've seen/watched and NOBODY gets them. It makes me look wierd. I still do it. Maybe one day someone will get it. I do hang around internet forums too much. Don't seem to post too often though.

next time, rub it in their faces a little that they haven't seen such a CLASSIC film as "insert title here" with so and so & some blonde before she made it big. doubt me? try it.

just don't overdo it. if you already know the reference makes you look weird, i'm sure you can tell when the joke's over. BUT DON"T GIVE IN!!

 

[Spacelord]

I am a nerd because I use words not usually found in a vocabulary of someone my age.

I am a nerd because no matter how many times my Sega Megadrive breaks down, I replace it with a new one and still claim it's a better console than the SNES (IT BLOODY IS, SHUT UP)

I am a nerd because I like the newest Weezer clip Pork And Beans just for the internet meme references.

I am a nerd because I find fallacies in most 'scientific' literature at school (I study human resource management) and get really really angry about it.

 

[Souplex]

People seem to be confusing nerds geeks and dorks lately so let me lay it out for ya. A geek is a person who wears pointy ears to sci-fi conventions. A dork is basically Urkel from family matters. Your average nerd would specify the difference between nerds geeks and dorks.

 

[ideitbawx]

i used to love computers, and even did a bit of programming in high school, but i'm more interested in what the compy can do for me, instead of vise versa.

i'm a music nerd/geek for sure, though. over 11000 songs on my laptop, plus vinyl from one to sixty years old, and i love bands like rush, the mars volta, king krimson, mudvayne, nine inch nails, schpongle, at the drive-in, massive attack, modest mouse ... always seemed pretty mainstream to me, but i always get people asking me "WHAT band? who is that?" to which i laugh and tell them to check their toilets cuz they shit their brains out.

 

[funguy2121]

Esoteric references, willful disdain for watered-down pop culture stupidity, interest in weird music and use of theme in movies, status as self-described Nintendo whore, status as atheist and staunch supporter of reason and logic over mysticism, tendency to mismatch socks just because it amuses me...

 

[XJ-0461]

I'm more of a geek than a nerd.

I like comic books, video games and spend time on the internet, and while I'm clever, it's not like I'm able to programme(yes, I'm English) a computer or piece of software.