are you.......??

[Henya]

a nerd ? ?

do you have a life? a girlfriend/boyfriend (who isn't a nerd like you maybe)? friends ? do you play sports ? are you good ? are games a big part of your life ? all of your life ? are parties for you lan parties ? or actual parties ?

yes..time to come out of the closet
vote and discuss

[Darksim]

I wouldn't say I was a nerd, because I have friends and such...more of a gamer.
I played football and wrestling for a couple years and I was good at it...Dont have a girlfriend, but hey im only 14. I go to lan parties as well.

[Squeeky]

I'm a geek, not a nerd.

[Heavygain]

I like to game, but i skate and play guitar more than anything, besides maybe doin stuff with my girlfriend/friends.

[JetRaiden]

Only a couple of my friends know the extent of my nerdiness. girls I go out with, people I party with, all usually have no clue.

I'm not sure how much of a nerd I am. I'm into MMORPGs and stuff, and I know alot about every major game, but Ive done so much to bring down my nerd points. Between gaming less and dating a model (broke up, she was a whore), it might be in the negatives now.

[ViperGTS]

YuSure why not. I skate and have a lot of rl friends so that takes off some points.

[Hezzy]

a nerd ? ?

do you have a life? a girlfriend/boyfriend (who isn't a nerd like you maybe)? friends ? do you play sports ? are you good ? are games a big part of your life ? all of your life ? are parties for you lan parties ? or actual parties ?

yes..time to come out of the closet
vote and discuss

Life? What's that?
No relationships. I've had enough of them.
Ofcourse I have friends. Everyone does.
I used to play rugby, but I can't now due to dual knee injury.
I was [Mr. T]HELLUVA TOUGH.[/Mr. T]
Video games arn't a big part of my life. A big part of my life is spent on the computer, but that's whoring forums and talking to my mates on MSN.
All of my life what?
I don't go to parties; last one I went to, I got drunk off my face and ended up violently regurgitating my food. Several times.
LAN parties are ok for me, but I'd rather go to a party where there will be female interaction and alcohol. At the same time. Shenanigans ensue. (Or hilarity in my case).

[Derfud]

I'm a geek, not a nerd.

Quite Right. I would also define myself as a geek. Usually I call lesser geeks, so to speak, nerds. Especially the ones that know nothing about computers, and replay final fantasy all day.

[OfaLoaf]

I'm a Trekkie.

[Pilgrim]

The prefer to be called Trekers

And yeah, I'm with Squeeky on this... geek not nerd.

My wife would agree with that as well for me.

[OfaLoaf]

The prefer to be called Trekers

And yeah, I'm with Squeeky on this... geek not nerd.

My wife would agree with that as well for me.
The ones who are Trekkers refuse to accept the new Enterprise series as canon, iirc.

[ChewyLSB]

I'm a huge geek/nerd. Probably the biggest in my school... only a select few can rival me. I openly admit it. I mean, come on. I'm a band *** (in Marching Band, Concert Band, and Jazz Band), I'm striving to be a Video Game Developer (Computer Programming 2AP and Physics 2AP), I'm a Star Wars Geek, and, I could go on, but that's all for now.

I don't have any girlfriends but I do have a couple of friends that happen to be female, and they're nerds, too, and most openly admit it. *shrugs* Some stupid jocks in my school push me in the hallway cause they're jocks and therefore idiots, but beyond that, being a nerd is awesome.

[Kam]

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[Baneblade]

Star Trek canon so like real history (as in how inconsistant it is) it's amazing we don't debate the Civil War like some people do the Wrath of Khan.

[firecrackerNC]

I dont consider my self much of a nerd. I party, drink, play sports, had a g/f, do poorly in school, have jock/ghetto friends. Basicly im a middle man, im not a jock, nor am I in the Ghetto group,im not super popular yet everyone knows me and i got a wide group of friends. Alot of my friends are nerds,some are the artistic people, drama club people,football people,soccer people,asian people. And actually the last computer game I got was last Christmas.

[OfaLoaf]

Star Trek canon so like real history (as in how inconsistant it is) it's amazing we don't debate the Civil War like some people do the Wrath of Khan.
Yeah, wtf? How did Chekov manage to survive the alien coming out of his head when it killed the other guy?

[Kaltagesta]

You ever do any kind of modding or anything, Chewy?

[ChewyLSB]

I, personally, have never actually tried modding a game, although I understand the concepts of modding. I've never been compelled enough to actually TRY to modify a game, outside of very simple mods (like making damage more realistic or swapping sound files, simple stuff).

[JetRaiden]

Alot of my friends are nerds,some are the artistic people, drama club people,football people,soccer people,asian people. And actually the last computer game I got was last Christmas.


:rofl: :rofl: sorry that just cracks me up.

[EineBeBoP]

I'm a geek, not a nerd.


^^^^^

There is a differance.

[Infernus]

Kinda... sorta...

I mean. I barely have a life, do have a boyfriend, do play goalie and am good at it.

But, my life revolves around LAN parties, my boyfriend plays just as many games as I do, and games play a big roll in my life.

[TotalBiscuit]

Nah, a geek yes, a nerd no. Too much social activity to qualify :(

TB.

[Firegod1a]

im a game player, but i have many friends in a band (gutair) and i well just rock

[Firegod1a]

many friends, in a band***

[Baneblade]

Yeah, wtf? How did Chekov manage to survive the alien coming out of his head when it killed the other guy?
Well they were both wearinf red shirts, but only one was an extra, so it happened according to the Prime Directive. :p

[BUGGER]

I was a nerd as you can say back in like 6th/7th grade, but 7th grade my best friend left and since my school then only had like 300 kids (76 in my grade), there wasn't any other group that matched mine but i had a friend that was in the "ghetto" group so i kinda glided over there and now i hang out with them as the "bouncer" since i'm so huge.


I play football, i'm starting line next year, i'm gangster, i say foo, dawg, then i talk southerner. You can call me a geek for I play videogames a lot, but then all the sophmors on the football team had Halo Lan parties before games (serious, they had pasta too, big win....well all our games were big wins....40+ - 14-). Call me what you want, i know what "nerds" mean when they talk, I know what jocks say when they talk. i'm an all around guy.

[Angel_of_Death]

Someone explain the difference between a nerd and a geek, please. Tres confused.

Well either way I don't consider myself any of the above, although I do spend quite alot of time on the computer chatting on MSN, forums, or games. I'm a gamer, like most of you, no shame in that. I always go out on weekends, go to parties and their are no lack of, for the most part. I drink with girls, smoke with girls, do things with girls all the time. So I'm not a geek or nerd. I guess.I'm a huge geek/nerd. Probably the biggest in my school... only a select few can rival me. I openly admit it. I mean, come on. I'm a band *** (in Marching Band, Concert Band, and Jazz Band), I'm striving to be a Video Game Developer (Computer Programming 2AP and Physics 2AP), I'm a Star Wars Geek, and, I could go on, but that's all for now.

I don't have any girlfriends but I do have a couple of friends that happen to be female, and they're nerds, too, and most openly admit it. *shrugs* Some stupid jocks in my school push me in the hallway cause they're jocks and therefore idiots, but beyond that, being a nerd is awesome.
Sorry, but I can't stand things like: jocks are idiots, or people in band are losers, etc. That pisses me off to no end.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

I am a dork, which means that I have a most excellent comprehension and pretense of certain things, namely inane eccentric music and thrift storing it. Also true elitist dorks have a deep self loathing for both those of thier ilk and of what they are dorks for.

[ChewyLSB]

Sorry, but I can't stand things like: jocks are idiots, or people in band are losers, etc. That pisses me off to no end.

Well, I didn't see everyone in the band is a loser, I said I, myself, happen to be a band ***. And I didn't mean all jocks are idiots, even though that's pretty much exactly what I said, I meant the jocks that I encounter happen to be idiots.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

It's not that jocks are idiots, its just that a lot of them are hypocrits who use the model citizen stereotype propogated by 1956 film and end up, at least in the case of my school, raping a retarded girl in the ass behind the bleachers during the football game. That's why I hate jocks.


"Cuz you're a jock who was too stupid and too greedy
And too unmotivated to do anything else but still be
The biggest and still do what other people tell you to do
You did it to still be a winner"

-Xiu Xiu, "Support our Troops (Black Angels OH!)"

[FlamingPotato-J]

I am a geek not really a nerd, though one may use the two interchangeably if they are not on the..."inside".

I can build computers, and i forum/game whore, but i am NOT a programmer.

[Spee]

Geek. I have quite a social life, and play sports. However, a lot of my social life is derived from geek-related activites - LAN Parties, D&D, etc. However, I do hang out with my friends quite a bit.

Im a geek, but I also retain some normal-person qualities. Have had some relationships, one lasted 6 months, the others, 2 or 3 weeks. Wangface.

[Kikinchikin]

It's all relative. If I went to a school somewhere in Oklahoma where sports and football are the most important things in the world, then I would be a huge geek. But living in Virginia and going to the school I go to, I would say no. If anything I consider myself eccentric. I'm not a jock, gangster, stoner, drama kid, band kid, goth, science kid or anything else. I don't fit in any cliques or groups, I associate with a large, diverse group of people, although only a few I actually consider "good friends." I consider myself much more open minded and intellectual than most of the people I know and thus am sometimes annoyed by them (IE idiot racists, girls that act like ditzs, people that consider any conversation that goes beyond what they drank/smoked/banged on Friday a deep one).

As for games being important in my life, yes I consider them very important. I take them seriously and they are one of my major hobbies. However, I also race gokarts, am a professional comedian in a comedy troupe, bowl, love auto racing, enjoy photography, used to run cross country before my knees fucked up, spend time with friends, work hard in school, and more. But, as I stated, it's all relative. What someone thinks a nerd is another may think isn't.

[Triggar]

I have a boyfriend who is a geek, but a very social, clean, loveable geek.

I have friends in many different countries who go out and drink and go out and see movies and throw dinner parties.

I do yoga and pilates. I used to play soccer, lacrosse, and softball. I quit playing softball when I realised my teammates were hitting on me (that was 7th grade).

[JetRaiden]

I have a boyfriend who is a geek, but a very social, clean, loveable geek.

I have friends in many different countries who go out and drink and go out and see movies and throw dinner parties.

I do yoga and pilates. I used to play soccer, lacrosse, and softball. I quit playing softball when I realised my teammates were hitting on me (that was 7th grade).

z0mg lacrosse=win

[Kikinchikin]

I quit playing softball when I realised my teammates were hitting on me (that was 7th grade).
:huh:

[Triggar]

z0mg lacrosse=win

Agreed. I used to get into a lot of trouble, because in girls lacrosse, you're not supposed to hit eachother (since all you wear are shin guards). But we always played this one team that played dirty, and after three games worth of taking their shit, we lost it, and those girls got bruised and muddy.

[MrPaul]

I don't think I qualify for either. I'm one of the "subtley cool" people. I say this because my school is full of people like this (http://chavscum.co.uk/4images/data/media/1/xtremeburbery_fetish_man.jpg) so it's not hard to be cool. Personally I'm rarely around people my age, and much prefer to hang out with people from the sixth form, or one of the local Universities. I go to parties (well, a lot less recently, as I've been putting aside time to study, shame I never actually do it :(), have had more than my share of girlfriends, and quite a lot of friends. I'm very smart (apparently) yet no-one calls me a nerd, so I guess I must be doing some things right!

[Octavian]

nerd ? ? That term has always made me feel bad.

do you have a life? Sort of
a girlfriend/boyfriend (who isn't a nerd like you maybe)? Never had one.
friends ? Well obviously
do you play sports ? Hell no
are you good ? As in I've never gotten a detention in my life at school? Then yes.
are games a big part of your life ? Yes
all of your life ? Except for when I was a little baby.
are parties for you lan parties ? My friends think it's too geeky to do that.
or actual parties ? I haven't been to an actual party since April and even then I just played MP2 all night on my friend's PC.

[Doop]

It's not that jocks are idiots, its just that a lot of them are hypocrits who use the model citizen stereotype propogated by 1956 film and end up, at least in the case of my school, raping a retarded girl in the ass behind the bleachers during the football game. That's why I hate jocks.


"Cuz you're a jock who was too stupid and too greedy
And too unmotivated to do anything else but still be
The biggest and still do what other people tell you to do
You did it to still be a winner"

-Xiu Xiu, "Support our Troops (Black Angels OH!)"

Damn you all. My first name is Jock.
The memories, the memories ;_;

(which is kinda ironic seeing as how I'm a guy who doesn't leave my chair by any means)

[martyr]

Quite Right. I would also define myself as a geek. Usually I call lesser geeks, so to speak, nerds. Especially the ones that know nothing about computers, and replay final fantasy all day.

yes.
geek not nerd.

i have friends. i don't go to otakon. i have a girlfriend. i don't play magic: the gathering.

however, other cliques (meaning the ignorant) don't realize that there's a difference; they just think i'm not a nerd/geek or that i am, depending on whether they meet me when i'm working or not.

[Triggar]

Doop, seriously I have to ask - why in hell did your parents name you "Jock"? Did they lose a bet?

And yes, Martyr is a class-act geek. The first time he told me he loved me was in a card, in a bouquet of tulips, spelled out in ASCII binary.

[Infernus]

Jock is supposedly a different version of the name Jack... but still its rofflelicious.


Now elaborate on the difference between a geek and a nerd for me... I'm not so sure about my answer. YOU PEOPLE ARE HINDERING MY SEARCH FOR MY INNER SELF!

[Doop]

Doop, seriously I have to ask - why in hell did your parents name you "Jock"? Did they lose a bet?


I'm named after a dude named Jock who is like my great great granddad or something. But he sucks. My name sucks. I'm not a Jock, I should be DOOP.

MY NAME ISN'T JOCK
IT'S DOOP!

DOOP!

[ChewyLSB]

I think a nerd is basically a worse form of Geek. If that's so, I'm a nerd.

[Triggar]

Geek = Lead normal life, have good social skills, shower, play computer games a lot and have a knack for fixing computers.

Nerd = Dungeons and Dragons, LARP's, smelly, no friends or social skills.

[ChewyLSB]

Never mind then, I'm borderline. I go to anime conventions and the like, and I don't think I smell... although I have friends, they're all geeks as well (most of them, at least)...

[Infernus]

OOOO Ok then, yeah... I'm a geek.

[Triggar]

I think we'd have to rule out "going to conventions" as one of the factors of being a nerd. I say this because I coordinate a Planetside "convention" and am making it an annual thing.

SO WE'RE NOT NERDS

WE'RE NORMAL PEOPLE!

Sony, give me a job :cool:

[Doop]

On topic, I'm a Doop.

Doop - Interested in games, not as much computer hardware. Has a fucking stupid name. Likes shooters, has semi-good social skills, has a big bushy moustache.

[Triggar]

Yeahhh. About that.

Going to need you to go ahead and shave the mustache. Mustaches only work on Tom Selleck, and bad teenage mustaches are on par with a wart on the bottom of your foot.

[Doop]

http://img73.exs.cx/img73/5509/Picture1075.jpg

Would you not hit that?
Shaving my moustache is like shaving my pride.

All the cool people have moustaches.

http://www.computerclubhouse.org/flagship/people/Mushen/images/Super-Mario-Sunshine_65154a.jpg
http://www.collectors-network.com/simpsons/images/luigi.jpg
http://esperantonord.free.fr/cdrom/allemagne/allemagne/hitler.jpg
Maybe not that last one...

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Well I lack real social skills, but I'm funny enough to get by with it. So I classify myself as a dork, because I focus heavily on things outside of computers (music is a specific one), I clean myself, SHAVE, do my hair, and actually care about my clothes...

Wait, maybe this makes me a ***.

[JetRaiden]

this is the first time Ive understood the difference between nerds and dorks.

I'm a dork.

[Hezzy]

Going to need you to go ahead and shave the mustache.

Bumfluff much?

[ViperGTS]

Geek.
I have friends.
I can fix a coputer.
Ive had a couple of girlfriends. Plus I rule at skating...
:D

[eXoSloth]

Geek.

For god's sake, SHAVE YOUR MUSTACHE.

[Infernus]

Geek.

For god's sake, SHAVE YOUR MUSTACHE.

Yeah, shave it...

Be metro like me, most of my body is shaved...

[Breed]

Ok im confused; What constitutes a geek and a nerd and what differentiates them?
Or is it as simple as trig said?

[Doop]

My moustache and my intelligence (lack thereof) makes me special, though. I wanna stay special!

[Henya]

reason i started this thread was because i recently deleted every video game on my computer, declined going to a halo 2 lan party, and stopped playing the campaign because it was depressing - i've just come to realize there are more things to life than sitting at a computer screen living in a virtual reality

and my girlfriend and i had our one month anniversary so - yeh ive come to realize spending time with her is definitely more rewarding than games

[Triggar]

Awwww, one month anniversary :)

/me doesn't even know how long I've been with John, has to count, but is too lazy

[Derfud]

Trig, I will have you know that D&D is a geeky thing to do, not nerdy.

[JetRaiden]

Trig, I will have you know that D&D is a geeky thing to do, not nerdy.

if D&D isnt nerdy, then what is?

[Ivan]

if D&D isnt nerdy, then what is?
Posting on a game fan site of a game you don't play anymore nor a fan of. :)

[Henya]

Awwww, one month anniversary :)

:brow: :D

[Everay]

OWNED dude you got fucking owned i saw that dude!


im a nerd/geek/dork, i mean, i just quoted RvB for christs sake, i know about computers, i can build one, i know about all the major games and usualy play many of em, never had a GF, though, im pretty sure ive had the chance several times. but im pretty good at hiding it, im pretty sure i scare at least one kid in my A+ class, by watching that video of the Marine shooting that iraqi in the head during class( one that was playing dead, and im all behind that Marine BTW)

[Lartnev]

I don't know enough about computers to be classified as a nerd :P~

[Derfud]

BS.

Back on the topic of D&D, let me put it into perspective. Being a nerd means you need to be unoriginal, and probably obsessed with some random unknown japanese SNES game that is apparently the greatest game in the world. Along with this comes being anti-social.

D&D is very much a social activity. As some people get together to watch a football game, my friends and I get together and play D&D. It has only really adopted that nerd thing since all those kids back in the 70s who hated everything played D&D and killed their families.

[JetRaiden]

BS.

Back on the topic of D&D, let me put it into perspective. Being a nerd means you need to be unoriginal, and probably obsessed with some random unknown japanese SNES game that is apparently the greatest game in the world. Along with this comes being anti-social.

D&D is very much a social activity. As some people get together to watch a football game, my friends and I get together and play D&D. It has only really adopted that nerd thing since all those kids back in the 70s who hated everything played D&D and killed their families.

thats a bit outrageous. Nerds arent always sociopaths, they often are in groups. There are Star Ward nerds, Star Terk nerds, D&D nerds, EQ nerds, anime nerds, theres just so many diferent kinds. you cant be so specific when defining it.