How many of you are nerds?

How many of you are nerds?

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Doggerman25

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I am a huge nerd/techy, I like to watch some anime, nerd out on servers and game when I can. Curious on how many other nerds are out there?
 
I'm very nerdy. I love tech, games, comics, anime, scifi and fantasy books and film. I know so much trivial facts, sometimes it surprises even myself. And I love to gather knowledge about so much different things, that I browse the wikipedia more often then porn :ROFLMAO:
But sometimes I wonder what it means to be a nerd these days...I mean, things that made us nerds still nerdy/unusual or did they become kind of mainstream?
Almost everyone owns and uses a computer, comics are now blockbuster movies in cinemas, anime has now a huge fanbase in the western culture, etc. I guess you'll get my point.
So, what do you think: Are we nerds still nerds? Or has the mainstream devoured our subculture, like so many others before?

Or should I create an extra poll on this question? :unsure:
 
Knotlover39 said:
I'm very nerdy. I love tech, games, comics, anime, scifi and fantasy books and film. I know so much trivial facts, sometimes it surprises even myself. And I love to gather knowledge about so much different things, that I browse the wikipedia more often then porn :ROFLMAO:
But sometimes I wonder what it means to be a nerd these days...I mean, things that made us nerds still nerdy/unusual or did they become kind of mainstream?
Almost everyone owns and uses a computer, comics are now blockbuster movies in cinemas, anime has now a huge fanbase in the western culture, etc. I guess you'll get my point.
So, what do you think: Are we nerds still nerds? Or has the mainstream devoured our subculture, like so many others before?

Or should I create an extra poll on this question? :unsure:
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Just watching/partaking of the content doesn't make you a nerd. Devouring and engaging with it, analyzing the minutia, consuming the spinoffs and tie-ins, knowing the backstory and related material, discussing it beyond the "oh yeah I saw that and liked it". That's what defines the nerd.
 
dartel said:
Just watching/partaking of the content doesn't make you a nerd. Devouring and engaging with it, analyzing the minutia, consuming the spinoffs and tie-ins, knowing the backstory and related material, discussing it beyond the "oh yeah I saw that and liked it". That's what defines the nerd.
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Thats so true and, I have to admit, a point I've overlooked when I wrote post. I assume, because thats what "liking" means for me and is anchored so deep in my character, that I don't see anymore how unusual, or indeed nerdy, this is. Often to my girlfriends sadness, because we can't watch any of my favourite movies without me pausing it 50 times and explaining things about chars, backgrounds or why this sentence is important because it refereces to this or that :ROFLMAO:
You are absolute right, nerds are still nerds. And thats great :love:
 
Knotlover39 said:
I'm very nerdy. I love tech, games, comics, anime, scifi and fantasy books and film. I know so much trivial facts, sometimes it surprises even myself. And I love to gather knowledge about so much different things, that I browse the wikipedia more often then porn :ROFLMAO:
But sometimes I wonder what it means to be a nerd these days...I mean, things that made us nerds still nerdy/unusual or did they become kind of mainstream?
Almost everyone owns and uses a computer, comics are now blockbuster movies in cinemas, anime has now a huge fanbase in the western culture, etc. I guess you'll get my point.
So, what do you think: Are we nerds still nerds? Or has the mainstream devoured our subculture, like so many others before?

Or should I create an extra poll on this question? :unsure:
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I believe nerds are still categorized by what they do/watch or even say. Everyone owns a computer for either work/school but many don't actually know how it works or is interested in learning about it. For me I like to learn as much as I can about anything to become the jack of all trades. Knowledge is power in my opinion.
 
I love keyboards the way many love cars/jewelry, and I'm quite the MMO junkie. I think it's safe to say that I'm a nerd.
 
Big nerd, here. Video games, music, history, prehistory, astronomy, cartoons, anime, Star Trek.
 
I'm like a closeted nerd. I play a lot of console games, I adore anime, I'm a bit of a bookworm, I love to write, etc etc. I don't really interact with fandoms though, and I keep a lot of my interests to myself.
 
Depends on your definition of "nerd".
If it is meant as "person who is really into technical stuff and socially awkward", then yes!

My "hobby" (and my job) is electronics. Everything from circuit design to repair and (low level) embedded programming.
But I am not big into the "software" side of things. Too "abstract" for me ...
 
Nope I’m not. Life out there is great. So some time in front of the monitor is ok. But not all the time
 
I'm a huge nerd for sure. Just my creativity and hobbies are all over the place. I love working around computers from the hardware to the software side, gaming has been a key part of my life since I was little and gotten me through so many tough times. Yet I'm also pretty outdoorsy as well, love bows (not hunting, I don't think I could harm an animal like that unless I needed to survive), camping, etc. Then there's the creative side of cooking and decorating a room, I'm so odd 😂 slowly getting back into anime since I've watched every other show due to covid...
 
I claim being a nerd. I love technology, pc gaming but also a weightlifter , love the show How its made and science shows about space and gaming but not afraid to approach a woman and spark up a conversation, before marriage of course. I am a hybrid nerd I guess.
 
Are we talking nerd or geek? Some of the stuff mentioned above covers both. Was always under the impression a nerd was someone more book smart, science, math, tech, etc. A geek is more creative, sci-fi, comic book oriented, "head in the clouds," my Dad would say. I cover a little of both too, but I lean probably more geek. I was a geek before it was cool to be one, was the outcast picked on so today's geeks could be popular. I played Star Trek TOS on the playground shooting monsters with my Lego phaser while the boys beat us up and the girls laughed and avoided us. But enough of college, lol Actually that was elementary, but played D&D when it was considered a demon worshipping cult game. I still consider myself a geek, although I think today's modern geeks might outdo me these days, at least with the modern stuff. But I can still recite some episodes of Star Trek, remember seeing Star Wars in the theater when it was just called Star Wars and Han shot first (damn that Star Destroyer was awesome to see rumble overhead!), a lot of my movie collection involves movies and shows I grew up with watching, Logan's Run, Close Encounters, Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Planet of the Apes, Lost in Space, Space: 1999, etc. I do like tech though, with my love/hate relationship with it working or not working, play some games (Borderlands, Gears of War, Army of Two, etc), and like cars and working on mine and the house when I want to modify both. Old days I'd be painting the latest Doctor Who figures I picked up at the gaming store or building a model (got a box full of them still in the closet with my comic books), these days I could be installing a stereo into the car, dissecting a laptop, or restoring a piece of furnitue...with Star Trek on the TV behind me! :)
 
Yeah, but most people don't know unless it comes up since I look like your typical cowboy trades worker gym goer, then people find out lol
 
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