Cool Nerds? : Othor Games

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:36 am

When you start going to post secondary there will be plenty of kids who don't look like a jock and have glasses, so you'll fit right in

Hell, I started wearing glasses at Uni and I fit in more. Of course I was going blinder too...

This thread is full of hipsters...

We were nerds before it was cool.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:24 am

Yeah they'll just say they are friends with you because you own the latest video game console, then ditch you when they get one of their own. :wink:

haha so true. thats when you steal their 12 sided dice.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:34 pm

Hi. My name is Jerhicco and I'm a nerd.

However, this doesn't define me as a person. It's one aspect to my personality. Sure, I love playing video games, messing with mods and tinkering with my hardware, but I also love to party, hit on chicks, play sports (Or watch them) etc etc. I'm not a jerk because I like Yeager bombs and hitting on girls. I'm not a jock because I play sports.

I'm a fully functional member of society. A deep, thoughtful person. I'm real. And real people are hard to put into boxes with shiny labels.

Be careful tinkering with your hardware too much. I've heard you can go blind...

:P

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 9:24 am

I play video games alot, and am considered a nerd by many people, myself included. But I bike around alot, and write alot of stories. I dont even play video games that often anymore. I think my anti-social nature really makes it seem like Im a nerd. I usually stick to my friends around other people.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:33 pm

I am not a nerd. I am a man who enjoys partaking in activities such as playing video games (especially fantasy-rpgs), watching the LoTR trilogy in a day, watching cartoons, reading fantasy/sci-fi novels, and occasionaly playing DnD.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:19 am

I am not a nerd. I am a man who enjoys partaking in activities such as playing video games (especially fantasy-rpgs), watching the LoTR trilogy in a day, watching cartoons, reading fantasy/sci-fi novels, and occasionaly playing DnD.

Smells suspiciously like a "stereotypical" nerd to me, but whatever helps you sleep at night

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:21 pm

Let's Begin,

In today's society, it reasonable to say that stereotypical nerds aren't really associated with anything outside gaming (and watching nerdy television programs like star trek), by the wider community. Personally, I love being a nerd, and have a lot of fun doing all the typical nerdy hobbies (reading magic adventure novels, watching Merlin and Pillars of the Earth, playing games that aren't Call of Duty or Gears of War, although I like them too). Now I don't want to toot my own horn, but to take a look at me, you wouldn't think that I engage in that kind of stuff. It would be half true, to say the least; because not only do I enjoy being nerd, I also enjoy doing other activities such as fitness training, drumming and going out and getting [censored] faced.
My question to you, the community of Bethesda Gamers, is: Do you consider yourself a nerd, and what extra-nerd-icular (it's a word :glare:) do you engage in? (activities outside of gaming etcetera)

The part I bolded? Hi-5 for sames!

Yeah, seriously. I'm a complete nerd. Roleplaying excessively in just about any game I get hold of (I'm looking at you, Forza), writing fan-fiction and various fantasy and sci-fi things, reading fantasy and sci-fi etc. I'm a nerd and proud though. I don't see the problem with it. So what if I enjoy intellectually challenging pastimes? Or completely losing myself in my imagination? Is that a bad thing? Seems enough for most people to instantly assume "Weird, unpopular, boring".

I don't think so. I also mountain bike, run, train three times a week, go to college, go out with friends and get absolutely mashed, listening to music, meeting new people etc.

People label me a nerd all the time, I say "Yeah, and I love living my life this way".

» Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:38 am

I have intonations that reveal my more dorky character, as it feeds the non-void of geeky nerdisms within me.

I'm also a former Marine scout sniper who likes to work on motorcycles :shrug:

I also do a helleva Dame Edna Average impersonation -and some say I look better than her in a frock, but that's another story..... :whistling:

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:49 pm

I class my self as a nerd/geek/dork, but you'd never think it (unless I'm wearing my Halo T-shirt, but even then).

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:52 pm

Last night's nightmare consisted of all the fans on my computer failing and finding plastic bags of stainless steel screws, washers, nuts and spacers inside blocking air flow.

» Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:26 pm

I class my self as a nerd/geek/dork, but you'd never think it (unless I'm wearing my Halo T-shirt, but even then).

I'd never wear a halo t-shirt in public...but I absolutely love the halo series.

This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXeST0NMtic gets me every time!

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If its one good thing hipsters have done, its radically shift the appearance of your cliche nerd to a sophisticated vintage patron of the arts.

It may not be what "nerds" want, but its generally more accepted by society. Theres something about a hipster thats just...very arrogant.