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Geek Culture / What makes you a "Nerd/Geek"?

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Shadowtroid
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Posted: 30th Apr 2010 22:58
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Quote: "When I was younger, I was kinda antisocial. An antisocial nerd/geek"


That's me!...Now.

I had 2 friends in 6th grade, and I liked neither of them.

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Quik
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Posted: 1st May 2010 03:40
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Quote: "I heard the new engine can support like 4 time more polygons!""


and 1million particles at the screen at the same time i believe? will be awesome anyhow

the fact that i enjoy programming, and iam modelling stuff for fun.


and that i play WoW


[Q]uik, Quiker than most
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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 3rd May 2010 21:31 Edited at: 3rd May 2010 21:32
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people call me a geek\nerd because im slightly smarter than most other people in my school and have a huge vocabulary as some people dont even have the word vocabulary in theirs.

Google.com. Nuff Said
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Interplanetary Funk
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Posted: 3rd May 2010 22:03
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Quote: "I talk to my girlfriend about programming. Beat that!"

Mine talks back to me about programming =)

plus, I really like assembly language. And my programming skills seem to be above everyones I know. though on this forum the seem comparatively dreadful =(
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Shadowtroid
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Posted: 3rd May 2010 22:55
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Quote: "as some people dont even have the word vocabulary in theirs. "


...

...In all honesty, I think you are holding yourself to a very, very low bar in that case.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 4th May 2010 01:55
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Whaddaya mean shadow?

Google.com. Nuff Said
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 4th May 2010 02:00
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I'm on the TGC forums?



Most of my friends are geeks. On top of my monitor there are 4 mangas and a book on learning Old Norse. I practice my evil laugh with the intention that some day I'll be an evil overlord. The word 'quasar' excites me and I tend to describe one as, "a totally awesome black-hole that fires laser beams". When I found a nuclear bunker for sale on Ebay, my reaction was to draw up plans for how I'd use it as an advantage to my world domination. I dance to the Pokemon theme tune...perhaps I shouldn't have admitted that.


But of course, I redeem myself, because I'm on a horse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

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Interplanetary Funk
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Posted: 4th May 2010 02:01
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"in the land of the blind, the one eye'd man is king" ring a bell? He's saying that, although you're smarter than those around you, it doesn't mean they're not at the same intellectual level as a sloth.
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Interplanetary Funk
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Posted: 4th May 2010 02:03
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Quote: "When I found a nuclear bunker for sale on Ebay, my reaction was to draw up plans for how I'd use it as an advantage to my world domination."


halves on the bunker? I could do with somewhere to store my stash of thermonuclear death-rays...
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Wolf
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Posted: 4th May 2010 03:45
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Noone ever thought I would be a nerd/geek.

Things that really annoy me a are people that think I' m violent or dangerous



-Wolf

God Helps the Beast in Me!
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Amyrildora
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Posted: 4th May 2010 18:11 Edited at: 4th May 2010 18:13
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My girlfriend tells me she loves me more than I love WoW, I still argue with her about that... I guess thats what makes me a nerd lol.

Your signature has been erased by a mod for being to awesome.
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That Guy John
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Posted: 7th May 2010 11:27
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Quote: "the fact that I get up from my seat for meals. that's all."


You leave your computer for meals?!?!

The fact that I have about 6T worth of HDDs sitting around and thats just in plane sight, not in cases, not counting my closet, and not counting what's inside my desktop. that I built.

Before I throw away anything electronic I have to take it apart and see what I can take out and "use later" which normaly ends up piled up in my junk drawers.

Oh, and the fact I still have army buddies all over the world still calling me or emailing me when they have problems with their computers.

I didn't start out this way.. up until a couple years ago, I hated computers or anything Techy..

ThatGuyJohn.com (personal blog)
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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 8th May 2010 01:20
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You leave your computer for meals?!?!"


that is genuinely surprising!!!


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Non Sequitur M
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Posted: 10th May 2010 07:37
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Haha. When Halo 1 came out, I stood around(in game) and stared at the textures to try and figure out the bump mapping... Haha. My friends would get mad at me for not playing.

If life were like a box of chocolates, I'd know what I would get... The one that got dropped on the floor and put back in the box.

Iye nehvur yoose spehl chehk, ahn mie tippyng izz fiyne.
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Kravenwolf
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Posted: 10th May 2010 07:51
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Quote: "What makes you a "Nerd/Geek"?"


The biggest seller for me would probably be having a 'valued member' badge, on a programming forum

Kravenwolf

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Toasty Fresh
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Posted: 10th May 2010 08:10
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I'm not the biggest nerd in my school, but almost. I'm a hardcore nerd but I keep it to myself. This other guy wears braces, looks like a hunchback and paces a lot. Basically, his definition of 'social life' is talking to randoms about internet memes.
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Lucifer
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Posted: 10th May 2010 08:12
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Quote: "Because I'm a programmer\ 3d guy and everyone knows it

{edit} And I LOVVEEE carrots."


I think you're more of a redneck than a nerd.

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Shadowtroid
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Posted: 10th May 2010 14:38
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Quote: "This other guy wears braces, looks like a hunchback and paces a lot. Basically, his definition of 'social life' is talking to randoms about internet memes. "


My social life is worse. I spend all m time on a game dev forum. I know, lame, right?

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General Jackson
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Posted: 11th May 2010 04:37
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Quote: "I think you're more of a redneck than a nerd."

Nope I'm no redneck, thats for sure.

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Kalinka
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Posted: 13th May 2010 10:36 Edited at: 13th May 2010 10:38
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Quote: "I especially hate when people talk about any modern electronics as if they're simple. You need a fair amount of work and brains to design something as simple as, say, one of those cheap handheld throw-in-with-a-kid's-meal game."


uh, tell me about it.

Quote: "My social life is worse. I spend all m time on a game dev forum. I know, lame, right? "


was that wrong?

i started all these stuff when i was in 3th grade. since then i have 3 friends who interested in programming. i dont consider other ones are my friends. and nobody wants to become frineds with a anti-social, freaky, computer nerd

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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 13th May 2010 17:17
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Quote: "I think you're more of a redneck than a nerd"

He's just straight southern. Now I'M a redneck lol. A California redneck that is.

And I really wouldn't call myself a nerd/geek. I used to be that's for sure. I played a lot of WoW in my prime lol. Now I rarely play games and spend most of my time shooting critters and drinking lol.

Signature's are stupid.
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Sid Sinister
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Posted: 13th May 2010 20:47
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I prefer intellectual bada$$

"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants" - Isaac Newton
Current Project: http://strewnfield.wordpress.com/ (Last updated 06/11/09)
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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 13th May 2010 21:08
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Quote: "What makes you a "Nerd/Geek"?"


Frequent all nighters to:
-get/beat that last level
-mindlessly tweak one fractal until I'm satisfied
-continue coding
-debug
-waste away insomnia with random internets
-spend 90% of it on vent with people doing the same thing

Or doing all of the above, even without the frequent all nighters.

Sometimes I'm surprised I have a social life But, unless it's paid work, social life usually comes first, so I guess it's not too terribly surprising.

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Kalinka
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Posted: 14th May 2010 13:31
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Quote: "-get/beat that last level
-mindlessly tweak one fractal until I'm satisfied
-continue coding
-debug
-waste away insomnia with random internets
-spend 90% of it on vent with people doing the same thing"


and talking like I pWnT U HaXoR, l33T ThEm hAx, TriPlE KiLL n00bZ

guns for noobs, knives for pros...
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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 16th May 2010 10:45
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I guess that my biggest would be that I named my second son Terran as I was so darn addicted to Starcraft (would have been Kerrigan if it was a girl). Don't think the wife would have gone for naming him Protoss.

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Jeku
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Posted: 17th May 2010 10:07
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I had Faye Wong's Eyes on Me from FFVIII playing at my wedding. I haven't played the game, so I'm not sure if it directly qualifies me as a geek


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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 17th May 2010 13:56
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Mate, you're a programmer who's worked for EA and Nokia and moderate games programming forum, that's geeky enough.

Regardless, it's a good song.

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Zombie 20
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Posted: 17th May 2010 16:17
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I'm building a wearable version of iron man's extremis armor.... If that doesn't make me a geek then I'll send my penguin army after you.


Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee cappacino, JAVA!
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PAGAN_old
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i am currently building an awesome gaming rig, 3.2gig quad core, dual crossfire cards, 4 gigs of ram, 800w psu and just for kicks i am gonna stuff it all into a pentium 1 case so i can tell people that their computer is so bad, my pentium 1 can run cirsis better than they

dont hate people who rip you off,cheat and get away with it, learn from them
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