Do you call yourself a geek, why/why not?
No, because things like "geek" and "nerd" have lots of different meanings, and I don't like to be categorized as a certain type of person
>>47523456
How do you feel about people that identify as a geek/nerd?
>>47523716
The same way I feel about was majority of people, somewhere between mild disgust and total contempt.
>>47523716
Not him, but those people shove themselves into a stereotype of a human being, in a desperate attempt of trying to fit in within the microsociety.
Honestly, "be yourself" cliche fits here. There is no need to try to categorize yourself.
>>47523406
I recognise that I engage in nerd activities.
I'm not one for labels.
>>47523737
This is not me. (>>47523456)
>>47523716
I don't feel anything big. Depending on how they talk about it and how they talk about their "nerdy" or "geeky" interests I might get the feeling that they feel the need to fit into a certain group or that they want to be different from the average person without being too alien.
I'll sometimes jokingly describe myself as a "huge fucking nerd" or some variation thereof. That said, I really don't go out of my way tto perscribe to a particular culture or clique. My interests are my interests.
>>47523406
I'm a Cheeky Geeky.
I don't describe myself using any of the terms people mocked me with when I was younger. I'm just a normal person with hobbies that I enjoy.
>>47523896
Don't post bad version of pictures.
>>47523406
I consider myself and most people who enjoy the hobbies I enjoy nerds, but if they enjoy normie shit like going out to the pub with some friends and getting smashed, I cancel it out and think of the person as an outsider.
Normies ruined my cliques.
>>47524025
/r9k/ is ruining your life
Nope. I like nerdy things and understand I'm a sperg so I try to conceal my power level as much as possible. Nothing says "I have ridiculous hobbies" like someone walking into magic cards and gunpla strewn about my living room. I usually just talk to strangers about sports or the weather or news, they probably don't care what I do in my free time anyways.
>>47523406
I'm me. I do my shit. If people wanna corner themselves that's their deal but being you is the most fun you'll ever have, I can guarantee it.
>>47523737
also this
>>47523406
Not really. I mean, I enjoy /tg/ hobbies, but I also really like other non-/tg/ shit like watching a game of baseball or soccer. More or less I use it to explain to people my easier to understand hobbies.
>>47524137
>shit like this infests /tg/
No wonder our quality has gone down the drain
>>47524146
How so? When I say easier to understand, I mean easier to understand, for other Americans at least, than how rugby works, or how the hell anything mathematics based at a higher level than calculus works.
>>47523406
The use of labels, in general, is an unfortunate aspect of human nature. It supports narrow/binary definitions of people, or indeed entire peoples, based off of a single aspect of their lives, as opposed to getting to know it/them better and making yourself that much wiser. "Oh, it's just a [label]," "Don't worry about him, he's just a [label]," "It's a [label], who cares?" As such I never call anyone a nerd, weeb, geek, etc, out side of jokes. Obviously the practical aspects of having names ant titles for things is all well and good, and indeed it would be asinine to suggest that we stop categorizing and defining things as a whole, but all too often we assume we understand what something is off of a word and some flimsy hear-say.
> TL;DR
No, because that's also cringey as fuck.
> lol, I'm such a geek
Be at Starbucks, waiting on little sister to get off her shift. Over hear late 40s guy say im a giant nerd... me being the psycho that guy. Ask what makes you a nerd? Looks at me with a puzzled expression. Asks what do you mean? Ask again, what makes you a nerd, do you comic, tg, larp, cartoon, anime, fan fiction, sci~fi what is it that defines you as a nerd?
.... im really into the marvel movies and the new characters there bring to the marvel stories...
That moment when you realize you don't want to live on the same planet as this normie. Sister overheard the conversation. Walks me out the door and informs me thats the local pedo. Proceed to harass pedo at every chance it get.
>>47524514
dude you forgot your ">"s
>>47524578
Still harassing pedo at the moment im sorry
>>47524514
>>47524598
I'm curious, what did that guy do to be considered a pedo?
he is a class one sex offender in the city im from but the fact his dad is the mayor somehow managed to get him only five years for distribution to minors, sodomy of 3 girls and 2 boys, one of the girls almost died from aspirating while passed out in a tub.
No because life isn't a highschool movie
>>47523406
I'm not really one for labels, I like geeky shit sure and I do have a few traits that some people may consider nerdy but I don't consider myself as part of that particular subculture even though I frequently engage and participate with it. Quite frankly I find the idea of basing your identity soley on something like that to be a bit unhealthy. Labels are useful but I never really understood why some people base their identity solely on whatever group they hang around. It's one of the reasons the LGBTQRAZX community weirds me out, they seem insular to an almost vaguely incestuous point.
I use being a nerd to get me laid. Trendy 20 somethings with thick classes and a half read Chaucer love nerds as long as they look... normal. It's tough to describe but I live in a town with a liberal arts college so I use my casual interest in d&d along with my extreme magic-based autism to wheel ladies rather successfully. My playgroup is diverse and supportive of this, where someone new shows up we slip them a beefed up xenagos deck and play powered down precons with some beers and even the most stuck up Stacy has a good time. I think it's because there are few Grognards and a couple of normal looking girls in the group.
People call me these things, though from a positive standpoint, but I would never call myself a nerd/geek. I find I'm much more likely to call myself an asshole or dickhead.
>>47524002
>>47523406
No, for the same reason I don't call myself a "gamer" for liking vidya or a starfag for liking astronomy.
Anyone who self-assigns and defends some shitty identity label probably doesn't have much else going for them in their lives.
>>47524632
he probably just hits on girls younger then himself but over 18
>>47524514
I personally consider the marvel movies to be hot trash but they're a decent time kill if you can't decide what to actually watch.
>>47523406
No, for the same reasons I don't call myself a furry either. People who call themselves that are cringe-inducing shits who I do not want to be associated with.
>>47527555
>he's a furry
>calls his friends "cringe-inducing shits"
>>47523406
yes - keeps the norm freeks away
>>47523815
This. I wouldn't deny it, but I try to keep it low. No point in bothering people with stuff they wouldn't care about. I even adapted an interest for soccer to take part in uni small talk and bants.
>>47527740
>He's a geek
>Calls other anons "cringe inducing shits"
>>47523833
nice dubs
>>47525000
>>47527555
nice trips
>>47527777
great quads
>>47523456
>23456
str8
>>47525969
You made my computer crash
>>47523406
More like: Why would I?
What does calling myself a "geek" accomplish? It doesn't convey any useful information to whoever I'm talking to, if anything it conveys incorrect generalizations.
>>47527892
it tells them you like traditional gaming or video games a lot
>>47523406
i mean theres no need to go around talking about how much of a geek you are
BUT
if somebody asks you if you're a geek
and you post on /tg/
if you dont say yes you're a fucking pussy bitch liar and you should kill yourself
Honestly I'm more of a hipster.
Like I don't identify as either, but I'd say I have more quote-unquote 'hipster' interests than 'geek'/'nerd' ones.
Fortunately it turns out you can like going to the theatre, reading foreign novels, AND be into D&D and Kamen Rider.
I don't like to use those terms because they usually are used in one of three ways:
1) as an insult, like the stereotypically 80s Jock vs Nerd
2) in the new modern sense where people take pride and exclusivity in what was previously an insult. I.e. I'm a vegan, I'm gay, or "Hi, my name's Richard".
3) a combination of the two where people try to appeal to normally by being ashamed of what they like. The same way people who want to eat the LAST TWO PIECES of cheesecake might say, "I'm being so fat right now"
>>47527912
It might, or it tells them I like comic books, or I like anime/manga, or I'm knowledgable about technology such as computers, or I'm nerdy, etc.
Or any combination of all of those hobbies. Yet I have no interest in most of them. Calling myself a "geek" acts in opposition to the goal of having people understand something about me, so why should I call myself a geek?
>>47527960
You are a nerd, nerd.
>>47528001
>2) in the new modern sense where people take pride and exclusivity in what was previously an insult. I.e. I'm a vegan, I'm gay, or "Hi, my name's Richard".
what's wrong with that?
>>47527831
nice strawman
>>47528016
wait til u see my skinny jeans
>>47527885
not samefag >>47524002
also, lel
>>47527892
What does calling myself a "gay" accomplish? It doesn't convey any useful information to whoever I'm talking to, if anything it conveys incorrect generalizations.
>>47528140
skinny jeans aren't for hipsters, they are for traps and women
>>47528001
nobody talks like that
>>47523406
No.
It's too much of a watered down bullshit identity thing to even have a culture.
It is now associated with tumblr tier trash. Why would I want to advertise shifty taste in anything.
>>47528061
taking pride and exclusivity in anything is bad
>>47528164
Gay just tells them that you're attracted to the same sex as yourself. Completely different because the definition is clear-cut and simple.
On the other hand, calling yourself a "geek" refers to a MASSIVE variety of hobbies and topics, and you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the world that actually likes and participates in every one of those "geek" activities.
Calling yourself a geek is like saying you like watching TV. It effectively tells the other person nothing about you because it refers to far too broad a number of topics. Examples:
I say I watch TV, so they start talking about Game of Thrones, except I don't like/watch Game of Thrones. I guess it would have been simpler and better to tell them what shows I like.
I say I am a geek, so they start talking about W40k, except I don't like/play W40k, I guess it would have been simpler and better to tell them I like video games and D&D.
>>47523406
I don't like using Geek, but I use Nerd all the time. It's descriptive enough to give people the right idea, but vague enough to mask the details. It's nice for when I don't feel like explaining table-top games to people. When people ask what my friends and I do, we usually just say something to the effect of "just nerd shit."
>>47523406
Having returned from PAX fairly dejected, my DM declared that "nerd was dead" and that we should probably just start calling ourselves losers now, because nobody would try to take being a loser and make it "cool" or "chic." Geek is basically the same way, so we should probably start growing our neckbeards out in every direction and move underground.
>>47523406
I don't bite the heads off chickens, anon.
No.
Probably because my life isn't entirely defined by my hobbies.
I don't no. To me, a geek is someone that skims the surface of the collective nerd reservoir. A Geek might enjoy the Star Wars films and wear T-shirts that are faded OT posters or they used to watch Pokémon as a kid and now they have T-shirts of old 1st generation pokémon saying funny memes. Or they watch Adventure Time or Rick and Morty. A Geek is an Aesthetic, someone from one subculture who superficially dabbles in another in an attempt to differentiate themselves from their friends, so they are 'The geeky one' rather than just a friend.
I spent quite a bit of Uni falling into this trap, going to various societies that were people who loved nothing more than "The cake is a lie!" and "It's a trap!" No actual interest in the subject matter, just the impression that it gave them of being culturally diverse from friends. A lot of these people only showed up to one society meeting and then left when they felt they'd gotten what they need.
If someone asks me about my RPGs I tend to say "It's a fun hobby, bit nerdy yeah", same with boardgames. Sounds defensive sure, but where I live that's the attitude towards these kinds of things, a juvenile waste of time and money instead of a legitimate hobby.>inb4 massive autist
>>47523406
I do, because I define"geek" as anyone with a dominant interest in a field.
As in, music geek, movie geek, vidya geek, tg geek, etc.
The threshold to be called a geek is subjective, but the term remains valid.
Also, I bite the heads off chickens.
>>47523406
i don't call myself anything
i got other people for that
>>47523406
No. Same reason I don't call myself a degenerate despite being one, nobody needs to know about my life or my free time. Also, geek/nerd have a lot of negative connotations I'd rather avoid, and the "positive" connotations people have been trying to apply to it so they can proudly call themselves nerds associates me with them, which is absolutely not something I want
No, because then I don't have to explain just how much of a geek I am, and just pass for normal
>>47524632
>>47524843
This maybe?
>>47523406
Yes and no. I don't really like identifying ad any one thing, as that kind of lumps me with a very diverse group of people that some people have pre-conceived notions/biases towards.
But at the same time, I have no qualms saying stuff like "I'm pretty nerdy" because I really am. When I say I'm a dork/nerd/geek I usually preface it with something like History, Math or RPG as shorthand for "I really like and know a lot about X".
At the end of the day, it's a pretty harmless thing to identify with.
>>47523737
You sound like a pleasant person to be around.
>>47523406
Nope.
Labels are for other people to use on me.
I am me. I need no label for myself. I like what I like, dislike what I dislike, fap to my own favourite degen shit, and I need no further clarification than those.
Other labels people often apply to me:
Negative: Troll, Asshole, Autism, 12 year old, Edgy, Bigot.
Positive: Intelligent, Comfortable with himself, Happy, Assertive, Observant, Hard to upset.
No, I do not want to be associated with liberal austinites.
>>47523716
>How do you feel about people that identify as a geek/nerd?
No True Scotsman Fallacy elementals disgused as human beings. Often get really upset really easily at people who be a geek "wrong", or who are a "negative impact" on the hobby.
Some of them probably have an agenda to change "geekdom" to align with their personal views. Fails the 1st rule of war, though, because they fail to know their enemy - i.e. they have no clue what they mean by "geekdom".
>>47524046
Why do people conceal their power levels?
I've asked this multiple times and the only answers I've gotten are that they don't like being judged negatively, but why do you care about being judged negatively?
With that comes also a whole bunch of people who'll judge you positively for sharing their interests. Plus the people who judge you negatively for liking what they don't like tend to be boring no fun allowed faggots anyway.
True I don't introduce myself as Anon the racist pedophile forum troll who plays obscure video games from the late '90s, but if someone asks I never bother hiding it.
>>47524238
>The use of labels, in general, is an unfortunate aspect of human nature.
Aspect of human nature yes.
Unfortunate, false.
It serves the same role as sorting your shitposting & porn folders into subfolders.
> It supports narrow/binary definitions of people, or indeed entire peoples, based off of a single aspect of their lives, as opposed to getting to know it/them better and making yourself that much wiser.
Then you are limiting yourself. Apply more than 1 label to the individual. With 2 labels, the person is a quarternary (4x) distinction. With only 10 labels, you can make over 1000 distinctions between people. With less than 40 labels, you can uniquely identify humankind.
While you're correct in that using 1 label results in accurate measurements, using only 6 will get you damn close to the person's true nature.
> but all too often we assume we understand what something is off of a word and some flimsy hear-say.
Use more than one word to describe things.
>>47531743
>I've asked this multiple times and the only answers I've gotten are that they don't like being judged negatively, but why do you care about being judged negatively?
The fact that you don't understand IS why. People like you.
When a person sees /tg/ shit, or tons of videogames or whatever strewn about your house, they associate you with retarded autists who do similar things and present themselves in a similar way.
By being more reserved about your hobbies, this association is removed, even if you do end up talking about RPGs or comic books or what have you. It's a matter of showing you aren't a spergy manchild
Basing your identity around your consumer interests is despicable faggotry.
>>47524514
As a pedo, I am disgusted to be associated with this Marvel-loving faggot.
>>47524957
LGBTIAMAQTPIAMA labels don't really work well as labels, because most of their labels mean the exact same thing: "I am batshit crazy."
>>47528330
>Gay just tells them that you're attracted to the same sex as yourself. Completely different because the definition is clear-cut and simple.
Then tell me this, if you know so much:
Is Futa gay?
>>47531929
Futa on woman isn't, it's basically just lesbian strapon porn
Futa on dude is
>>47531856
Then let them associate me with being a retard autist. Idgaf. Being a spergy manchild isn't a problem for me, it's a problem for people who can't tolerate spergy manchildren.
Got to agree with you though, a lot of the spergy manchildren in this hobby really have no idea how to handle conflict resolution beyond "IT HURTS MY FEELINGS BAN IT THAT GUY GET OUT REE" or staying absolutely silent about the issue and hoping it goes away on its own.
It's as if being able to dislike something to a moderate degree is an ancient long-lost skill in this hobby.
>>47531966
You have activated my trap... er, I mean, my magic card that can only be activated if it's been face down on the field for at least one turn!
In my opinion, even heterosexual porn is gay, because you're being aroused by a man (other than yourself).
>>47531743
Its not about hiding my powerlevel, its about people not inflating my powerlevel. I might say I enjoy anime, but I really only like a small few, and only really ever watched maybe under 20. I wouldn't want people thinking I'm otaku when I'm not.
>>47531906
not all labels are created equal
>>47532069
[citation needed]
I agree on concept, but not that last sentence
>>47532140
>its about people not inflating my powerlevel
Oh
I see
Yeah that makes sense.
Thanks for clarifying
>>47532140
>not all labels are created equal
You shitlord! Every label is beautiful, and any differences between them are only due to society's bias against certain labels.
>>47531743
>Why do people conceal their power levels?
Define "conceal"
Because
>True I don't introduce myself as Anon the racist pedophile forum troll who plays obscure video games
This could be considered hiding.
I neither hide not broadcast my oddity.
>>47532140
>>47532158
That said, the average person doesn't know what an Otakujin is.
Hell, the average person doesn't fucking know what Dungeon Keeper is. To say nothing of OpenTTD, Spacechem, or Elona++.
>>47532193
>Define "conceal"
Someone asks you a direct question and you lie about it or dodge it.
>>47532140
>[citation needed]
Not that anon, but the subject has been covered in depth by the great sage, Ron "Tater Salad" White.
>>47532218
Oh, okay.
That's cowardly bullshit that I can't begin to understand or explain.
I admit to my degeneracy, and I'll prove it.
I genuinely enjoyTBBT
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>>47532218
>>47532333
I was at a support group fordepressionand the group was playing a game where there were questions written on cards in a pile, and you drew a card and asked someone else the question on the card.
Someone asked "If you could do something that would normally involve risk, such as mountain climbing or scuba diving, and have all the risk involved magically removed, what activity would you do?"
I said "I wanna kill a guy to see how it feels"
Later the event organiser got upset at my answer because it was "inappropriate".
But that is legitimately what I'd do if all the risk could be taken out!
What was I meant to do, lie? Say "I refuse to answer this question"?
Apparently someone also complained because I was asked "what's the strangest date you've ever been on" and I mentioned the time I got with an underage chick.
Admittedly yes that was the ONLY date I've ever been on, but still! It counts as a valid answer to the question.
Makes me wonder why they'd even play the ask-questions-give-answers game if you weren't meant to give honest answers.
>>47532460
>Makes me wonder why they'd even play the ask-questions-give-answers game if you weren't meant to give honest answers
The problem was that you are odd.
People don't want to be confronted with your oddness. They want pleasantness.
>Three best friends are sharing stories about the best sex they ever had.
>Guy 1 says it was with his wife.
>Guy 2 says it was the time, as a teenager, his group of friends decided to take a kid for being a weak little faggot.
>Guy 2 tells this full awful story where he ends up raping the kid's ass last and, whether it was because he had given up or what, but they found a perfect, blissful rythym and it was the most spiritual and amazing sex of Guy 2's life.
>Guy 3 doesn't want to tell his story, but they badger him, and he talents.
>Guy 3's best sex was with Guy 1's wife last week.
>Guy 2 admitted that it was better than his story.
The point is that some stories are never well received.
>>47532784
>The problem was that you are odd.
Everyone's odd tho.
Also can I share guy 2's story with /v/? I think they might enjoy it.
>>47523406
I'm kind of bummed at this whole 'geek-chic' thing.
It's ruined a few DnD games and kind of fucked up a few of my interests.
On the other hand, stuff like Dawn of War or Vermintide probably wouldn't have come out if there wasn't more mainstream traction and being 'nerdy' wasn't more accepted.
I'm fairly good looking and appear well adjusted while never having trouble finding women, so everyone sort of thinks of me as just different.
>>47532876
>Everyone's odd tho.
No, no they're not.
Some people are normal, mundane, unremarkable, and pleasant.
They have happy stories of picnics and noodle salad, nobody on this site, but some people?
That's their story, normalcy and noodle salad.
>Also can I share guy 2's story with /v/? I think they might enjoy it.
No, fuck them.
If they want to hear it they have to sit through the most mediocre Ben Stiller movie ever, just like I did.
>>47533058
>Some people are normal, mundane, unremarkable, and pleasant.
Huh, so they managed to go through life without picking up ANY niche degen shit?
Oh well. I suppose I'll take your word for it.
After all there are people who bought Skyrim and Fallout 4 and unironically enjoyed playing both unmodded.
> they have to sit through the most mediocre Ben Stiller movie
Dude it's /v/. you cannot threaten them with mediocrity. They were born in the mediocrity. Molded by it. Ben Stiller merely adopted it.
>>47523406
>Do you call yourself a geek, why/why not?
I am both a geek and a nerd. And possibly a bit of a dork as well.
Geeks are people who are super passionate about something. Science fiction, fantasy, comic books, gaming,history, etc. I am most certainly a geek.
Nerds are people who are academically inclined. I may not have received a perfect SAT score, but I do think of myself as somebody who enjoys learning. There is always some scientific or historical subject that I'm interested in learning more about. I am certainly a nerd.
And dorks? Dorks are people who don't really have much in the way of social skills. They're the awkward oddballs that are common in both nerdy and geeky interests. I tend to be a bit of an awkward outsider. I prefer meeting new people when I'm at least in the company of a few other people who are already my friends. I guess you can call me a bit of a dork.
>>47524514
>ITT: Lots of edgy faggots hating on the only good movies that come out most summers
>>47533275
Edgy faggot here.
I avoid spreading STDs and promote safe sex ON PURPOSE.
>>47533275
>Liking cape movies.
I though 4chan was 18+
>>47533302
DSFARGEG YOLO SHOOP DA WOOP GIRUGAMESH KAPPA DAE LE EBIN PRESS L OR R TWICE HELLO FELLOW POSTERS >:3 JESUS CHRIST GET IN THE CAR WHITECAT IS WHITE KIKKOMAN LORD INGLIP WHEN I WAS WACKITY SMACKITY DOO FROM THE PIXELS AND FROM SHOOPING QUITE A FEW WHOOPS IN MY TIME FSJAL MUDDY DICKS FROSTED BUTTS ROODYPOO EBIN PROMOTIONS
... Though I suppose all that proves is that I was below the age of 18 in 2005.
>>47533354
>No jim profit
>No Snacks
>No flare
Nice try I guess.
>>47533381
m8 flare is a fucking newfag meme.
/tg/ itself is a newfag meme.
>>47523406
No. I'm just someone who enjoys tabletop gaming, sci-fi and fantasy.
>>47523406
>Do you call yourself a geek, why/why not?
I'll admit to engaging in nerdy hobbies and having a nerdy job but I wouldn't call myself a nerd because that doesn't make up the whole of my personality
>>47523406
Yes. Because my adoration of Lovecraft, time invested in videogaming, games I'm designing/worlds I'm building, my D&D campaign on sundays, and the retro game review channel I put on Youtube for shits and giggles, it all needs a nice umbrella term for me to easily call it.
nah, other guys on grindr who call themselves "geeks" are usually unattractive and insufferable as shit
>>47523406
No
it's like saying I'm a "square" it just sounds outdated and out of touch to begin with
