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Jihadin wrote:LOL I serve in the US Army....retire in Sept 22 years WOOT....its funny seeing 18-19 yrs old get behind the wheel of a tank...even more funnier when you get them behind crew serve weapons with long belts of ammo.....or a MK19 with HE rds....sometimes I wonder....I FETHING JEALOUS because I can no longer do that silly crap anymore

My oldest brother that I play warhams with, is a Marine. And when he was done with boot, went back and did the special weapons training. And to this day, he STILL talks about how badass the MK19 was to shoot

Great White wrote:

JaggyNI wrote:

KingCracker wrote:I admit I play tabletop games all the time. Sometimes, talking about it even gets some new players, which is always good. Im not ashamed of my hobby at all.

I wouldn't say I was ashamed of it, I just can't explain it haha. I know my friends would accept it I just would rather that they didn't know, if that makes any sense at all?

I understand, I'm the same way. Me being a teenager doesn't help either.

Good to see someone here understands haha.

Asherian Command wrote:I am althetic yet I am a massive nerd. Which is why many people like me. I show off the fact I do nerdy things. When people ask me. "Have you played D&D." I say yes and I tell them I had a ton of fun playing it.
I also am a Freerunner and I also do a lot of other things.

I'm in the same boat. I play airsoft, and I'm always at the gym lifting/running after work...but I play D&D at my apartment with my group every week, and play 40k when ever I have the time to actually play it.

I'm not ashamed/hide my nerdiness, but when I'm at the bar or I'm trying to meet single women, I don't tend to bring up 40k or D&D...I'll bring it up casually during a date AFTER getting her number

Orlanth wrote:
4chan is not obscure, anything but. Most kids have heard of 4chan, for youth culture its definitely mainstream.

How many kids do you know outside the internet?

Orlanth wrote:
As far as tech savvy goes, that goes beyond internet. nerds tend to be tech savvy in general. Of course this is a tendency, not a hard rule.

Sure, but not far. If you work with computers, and that's pretty much what "tech savvy" means now, you know the internet.

Orlanth wrote:
So here is a lesson for you. Two points made doesnt mean they are one and the same. Furthermore it doesnt mean they were posted under the same mentality.
where you go really off the rails is by assuming of the spirit in which a post is made. Which doesn't help if hate rather than reason is fueling your thinking.

Obviously if you're making two point they're not the same, otherwise it would be one point. But that doesn't mean they weren't connected (by a thread, perhaps) regardless of "spirit".

Orlanth wrote:
The two highest IQ groups by hobby type are astronomers, with wargamers second. There is something behind it.

Never saw a reliable test indicating that.

Orlanth wrote:
Besides heard of the term dweeb. A dweeb is most commonly defined as someone into nerdy culture but who doesnt have the brain power to be a true nerd, though there is some contention as to the definition.

Of course it is, by nerds that want to feel self-righteous.

Orlanth wrote:
That by the way is hatred, the prejudice seeps through nice and thick.

No, not really. I've hated people before, and seen hatred actualized, this isn't it. I disagree with you about nearly everything, because I disagree with you about nearly everything, but I don't hate you.

As an example, when people say "...the spirit of..." I laugh and die a little inside.

Orlanth wrote:
So by your own admission you dont read the posts to find out what I mean or say, but just try to find isolated sentences to troll. That only makes sense if you are hate fueled.

I read the posts I reply to, but otherwise skip over your work because I suspect it will annoy me.

Orlanth wrote:
It simply isn't the natural implication of my posts, for that to make any sense you would have to know my mind better than myself, which is a somewhat arrogant thing to say at the least.

No, wrong. I read what you said, I don't need to know your mind to do that.

dogma wrote:

Orlanth wrote:
4chan is not obscure, anything but. Most kids have heard of 4chan, for youth culture its definitely mainstream.

How many kids do you know outside the internet?

As few as possible, allowing for my age. Its not healthy in todays paranoid climate to associate with kids outside a club venue or professional capacity.




i will leave this now, for the sake of keeping the peace.

Orlanth wrote:
As few as possible, allowing for my age. Its not healthy in todays paranoid climate to associate with kids outside a club venue or professional capacity.

So you're saying that you're out of touch.

I'm pretty openly a Nerd. I let people know about all the crazy gak I know a bit about like comic books, B-movies, crappy sci-fi and fantasy novels, knowledge of toys and cartoons, computer games, anime, etc.

However, my RPG and Wargaming habits I keep pretty close to the chest. For some reason, I still see RPG and Wargaming as fringe nerd-dom even in this mainstream Nerd-culture we have today.

The other stuff has become accepted and even cool. Wargaming and RPG is still seen as fringe and wierd.

Where I work, perception is still critically important; kind of like High School.

If you're tall, good looking and muscular, it really doesn't matter if you're a "nerd" or not.

I don't hide my nerdiness at all. If people like it, fine. If they don't, well. . . I'm pretty handy with a knife. /GES

I always represent the term "nerd" with a lack of a social life... I prefer to be called a geek...

I loled @GoldenEyedScout comment.


I usually just keep my hobbies hush in public because they put people off for some reason. Not just little plastic men, mind you. I mess around with robotics, and the other day I was talking to someone who thought that messing with robots was lame... go figure...

Joey wrote:If you're tall, good looking and muscular, it really doesn't matter if you're a "nerd" or not.

Don't forget loaded with money, too.

Cheesecat wrote:

Joey wrote:If you're tall, good looking and muscular, it really doesn't matter if you're a "nerd" or not.

Don't forget loaded with money, too.

And a cock like an Italian waiters pepper pot. Don't forget that.

Sorry, you lads ARE talking about me, right?

mattyrm wrote: Sorry, you lads ARE talking about me, right?

When aren't we talking about you?

Well I don't really tell any people I newly meet but after like a month or two yeah... but I don't deny it if I am asked.

rubiksnoob wrote:I don't hide my nerdiness at all. If people like it, fine. If they don't, well. . . I'm pretty handy with a knife. /GES

I think in GES's own thread, he proved how full of the BS he was. I wouldnt go using his quotes to sound like a badass

KingCracker wrote:

rubiksnoob wrote:I don't hide my nerdiness at all. If people like it, fine. If they don't, well. . . I'm pretty handy with a knife. /GES

I think in GES's own thread, he proved how full of the BS he was. I wouldnt go using his quotes to sound like a badass

I think you missed the joke.

I'm old. If you don't like my hobbies I could give a gak. In fact most of the time I have to be convinced you're not a waste of skin before I even acknowledge your opinion.

dogma wrote:
Sure, but not far. If you work with computers, and that's pretty much what "tech savvy" means now, you know the internet.

The Internet has a low IQ base generally, and internet usage is not definitively nerdy. Non nerds use the internet too.
Now making a computer internet ready, or building one etc thats nerdy, its also tech savvy. However tech savvy doesnt necessary mean computers, it means technologically able

dogma wrote:

Orlanth wrote:
The two highest IQ groups by hobby type are astronomers, with wargamers second. There is something behind it.

Never saw a reliable test indicating that.

Not difficult, take a set number of people from different hobby groups and give therm an IQ test. It has the same limitations as others methods of polling but that doesnt dismiss the findings.

dogma wrote:

Orlanth wrote:
Besides heard of the term dweeb. A dweeb is most commonly defined as someone into nerdy culture but who doesnt have the brain power to be a true nerd, though there is some contention as to the definition.

Of course it is, by nerds that want to feel self-righteous.

Who said nerds invented the term, let alone they did so to feel self-righteous.

dogma wrote:
No, wrong. I misread what you said, I don't need to know your mind to do that.

Fixed it for you. The only way you could imply personal qualities just by reading my posts with so little accuracy is by misreading them combined with a huge measure of assumption based on prejudice.
Business as usual eh.

I also know some nerdy girls. Everytime I ask them questions about LOTR they give me good answers and even bring up Galdriel or Gloin or Tom Bomdbil. Nerds FTW
Plus its awesome being a nerd. You can talk about any universe and nerds will listen and share their input!

dogma wrote:

Orlanth wrote:
As few as possible, allowing for my age. Its not healthy in todays paranoid climate to associate with kids outside a club venue or professional capacity.

So you're saying that you're out of touch.

How close do you need to get to remain aware? Not very.

Its easy enough to find out what are kids activities and which are not by observation, it need not be close observation or direct observation, also knowing parents teachers and others with closer contact with children helps.