6'2, 200 lbs with a black belt.

Come at me bro.

Seriously though, I'm pretty nerdy. Me and my girlfriend sit around watching movies and playing CoD and I spend endless hours playing Minecraft when she's away.

And of course I built my computer yadayada stuff everyone else here has said.

I can speak some Sindarin and write in Tengwar.... I am definitely a nerd.

Well? Can you?

I jest, I jest. Also, I can't believe I forgot DnD/tabletop RPGs.

I feel like I'm in an odd position of where I stand, but I do consider myself, undoubtably, a nerd.

Example, I love to do physical activities (work out, bike, hike, rock climb, tennis, running (if I could run again, stupid knee), etc), bro out with my fraternity brothers, and such. I do not like anime, I am adverse to PnP games, I'm not a genius with computers and know only how to fiddle around, I don't really like to hang out with other nerds as they tend to be at a much different level than I am, I don't really read comics (unless web comics count), I don't have action figures (save for a GI Joe when I was 6 and a LOT of Legos), the only fantasy books I have are Tolkein books and the TES novel, I'm not fond of the idea of cosplay (unless it's Halloween), I don't like techno, and I don't blog.

Yet, I love videogames (especially TES lore), I love ancient Greek mythology and have plenty of Greek epics, plays and poems, I am the go-to person for beer in my fraternity (I am the only somewhat expert at home and at the house), I love science (especially Chemistry), I love Warhammer and even have the huge Chaos book that I've read multiple times, Liber Chaotica, I love Pokemon to Gen II, I have an odd interest in classical European authors like Balzac, Kefka, and Kleist, I love to cook (goes with the Chemistry), and there's more but I can't remember it on the spot right now.

For a guy of my age I just use a lot of difficult words... That's considered as a nerd by my friends

Things that used to be considered nerdy or anti-social are considered normal now. I feel nerdy when I go outside and engage in physical activity or talk to real people.

One of my best friends and pledge brothers was a complete wordsmith. Eccentric, but his knowledge and use of words not commonly uttered was quite amazing. Keep at it, it's always amazing when someone can use such words with enthusiasm.

Neither a nerd nor a dork and whatnot. I consider myself an intellectual. I watch and read sci-fi through the eyes of anthropology. I like poetry and prose for the beauty of words and meaning. I like building my own computer for the principle that I can be skilled in many things, and so I like repairing stuff like furniture and clothes. I don't like boundaries in things I can or cannot do.
I'm not a specialist at anything but I know a bit of everything, therefore I'm not a snob or know-it-all either... I'm willing to learn almost everything. :read:

Same with me. When I am home, it is nothing but games of all types, internet, and reading geeky, usually game related books. When I am out, it is usually hanging out with friends, going to parties, playing music, stuff that almost goes against the person I am at home. If I told most of the people I know the way I act at home, they would probably think it was a joke. Only the people I have known for a long time are aware of my true geekness, and I don't think they truly understand it. Oh well, such is the breaking down of stereotype I guess. I am a geek who doesn't exactly fit the description I guess.

I would consider myself a Nerd for reasons such as but not limited to:

*Very much into roleplaying and RPG's along with games with strategy like Civilization 4 or Supreme Commander.
*With the above said I'm quite the gamer playing on both XBOX or the PC if the computer can handle it.
*I'm also quite the 40k fan finding the mythopoeia to be fascinating.
*I am a avid reader with interests from science fiction, fantasy, history, and some science and philosophy.
*For a multitude of reasons very socialy awkward and very much a loner (though this has a lot to do with sterotypes regarding 'Nerds').
*Also into music that is not considered main stream (here if you listen to metal unlike say rap you are considered very much atypical and often nerdish as a result).

So yes among other things I would consider myself a if still pretty fit nerd.

Yes. I play DnD play games. And do other kid stuff. People dont even know I play dnd.

There's no such thing as a "cool nerd". However, the term "nerd" gotten a bit cool lately for whatever reason, so people try to enhance themselves by calling them "sport nerd", "guitar nerd" or whatever, even though they aren't really nerds at all.

A nerd is someone who is so absorbed into whatever interest he have, so he always been an outcast and developed zero social skills. They are basically only someone together with other faceless people they met online with similiar interests, and thus only spend time home.

A nerd with social skills would be a geek. Same with a "cool nerd", that would be a geek. If you didn't spend high school alone, you're not a nerd, simple as that.

The absence of a second wing on your avatar owl has always freaked me out. I just wanted to say that.

Back on topic, I'm a nerd, I guess. I have other areas of interest than "nerdy" ones, but I enjoy them in a nerd-like fashion, I guess.

But yeah, I'm certainly into enough nerd stuff like fantasy, cyberpunk, steampunk media. Extremely into oldschool RPGs; I actually enjoy thinking about the game mechanics and whatnot. I also love reading. The things I'm into, I'm REALLY into, which makes me a nerd, I guess.

If we go by strict definitions, I don't fit into nerd or geek category. I'm some outcast, it's funny. Go to the geeks list traits, the angry buzzer goes off and I get told to head to the nerd group. Repeat process. I've given up trying to relate to any one group. I'm a gerd, some protosapien that's failed to really evolve or adapt into one group or another. Though by the definition in the original post, yea sure I'm a nerd.

I'm definitely an X because I Y and Z.

Isn't that's how it's always been? I could be a Grey because I like to study humans and am a loner with a knowledge of computers and a love of space.

Negative, I am a meat popsicle.

Are you positive? Sure...sure....and I'm a bubble gum flavored slice of baloney.
[edit] Oops..forgot the smiley.. :biggrin:

This.

My best friend used to smack the living [censored] out of me when we were younger because I was always using large, or strange words that he had no idea what they meant. Now-a-days he's nearly as bad as I am(though he tries to hide it when we are around anyone else). Guess I rubbed off on him. My English teacher in high school once made a speech in front of our entire class about what the average persons vocabulary was, how many different words were in the bible, how many different words Shakespeare used, and then he ended up putting me in between the Bible and Shakespeare. I swear, it's no wonder I had issues in high school. Keep in mind, that by that time, I was trying my hardest to fail most of my classes in an effort to not look smart >< Didn't work, obviously.

Hahahah this comes off as lol. I completely don't believe you when you said you were trying to fail to look less smart. All it takes is not showing up and doing any work. Hahahahaha. If you wanted to fail you would have done it.

I graduated with a 1.6 GPA. I [censored] you not. In 9th grade, I failed 1 class, in 10th grade I failed 3, in 11th Grade I failed 5. I graduated only because I got a 95% or higher on every last final exam in 12th grade. I guess I shouldn't have said "Tried to fail", I did fail my classes. And you're absolutely right, all it took was not handing in a lick of homework. Surprisingly, I still put effort into the tests, which means most of the classes I failed(since the majority of them were weighted more by tests then homework), I failed by only a few percent(65-69, 70% is passing).

I guess I'll just have to take your word for it.

Lol, you don't have to. It's the internet, everyone expects other people to be lying or not. I just threw my story out there because I connected with hellmouths story of a guy who had a large vocab. It's rare to really find people like that in this day and age. Hell, my wife is 4 years younger then me, and a good many words I consider common she doesn't know the definition for. Probably because there is less of an emphasis on it in schools now-a-days I guess. I've been trying to instill a love for words and reading in my two daughters, and I'm finally starting to get through to my 7 year old(2nd grade). At the start of the year, she was slightly under-par for reading and vocab, now she is just about up to a 3rd grade reading level, and the majority of the improvement has been made in the last marking period. It's like a light clicked on in her brain, and now she wants to read all the time. Makes me proud ^^

On a side-note: If I could re-do high school again, I'd do things a lot differently. One of my biggest regrets in life are how I handled being bullied and tormented for being the smart kid. A lot of missed opportunities in my life that I spend a good deal of time ruminating on.

Are RPG players still considered nerds? Strategy game players?

I like learning about certain sciences and history in my free time (favorite channel is National Geographic), I don't have a social life (truly, I spend my free time at home or out somewhere with my family and just lack social skills, it seems), I like collecting books, and I play RPGs, strategy games, and building simulators. Am I a nerd?