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post #51 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:52pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
I'd like to see the definition from some of you guys for the following terms:

* nerd
* geek
* dork

Unclear what most people here mean by nerd/geek. In my mind, the first 2 are kind of technical, but I understand people use phrases like "film geek", but nerd seem to be to encompass more than that.
Good question. I'm thinking in terms of Chewers I'd say Phil is a geek, Dickson* is a nerd and fleed is a dork.

*I mean this in the best way.
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post #52 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:53pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
Damn it, Phil, now I want that!
Go for it!
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post #53 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:53pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Whoa whoa whoa, that's not an accurate likeness of Lucas. That doll has a neck.
"George Lucas action figure, now with kung-fu goiter"
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post #54 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:54pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
I have a tough enough time justifying spending 6.99 on a Bone figure. I can't imagine explaining 600 dollars for a George Lucas action figure to my wife.
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post #55 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:54pm
Please tell me the goiter comes in two modes: Faster and more intense.
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post #56 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:56pm
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Originally Posted by dreary louse View Post
No. It's revealing that my own friends have loathed who I am on the internet. Perhaps I should leave it alone communication-wise, except for when it's helpful to get in touch with those I've actually met.
Maybe I'm the idiot then because I can't make heads or tails of what you have written here.
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post #57 of 76
5/8/09 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by EdHocken View Post
Please tell me the goiter comes in two modes: Faster and more intense.
"Damn it, goiter, you can write these lines but you sure as hell can't act them"
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post #58 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:13pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
I have a tough enough time justifying spending 6.99 on a Bone figure. I can't imagine explaining 600 dollars for a George Lucas action figure to my wife.
Lie. If you get caught, tell her you have Impulse Control Disorder, like most geeks. (ON TOPIC!)
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post #59 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:13pm


'Nuff said.
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post #60 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:15pm
Mine started in Little China. Apparently there was some Big Trouble over there. Also flying eyeball creatures.
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post #61 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:19pm
For me it would also have to be Star Wars, which fits, since I was born in good 'ol 1977. The movies fascinated me in my youth and I had all the trimmings over the years... action figures, lunch boxes, bed sheets, and more. Awesome, awesome stuff. It was a good time to be a kid. I remember seeing Empire at a drive in with my folks, and I had relatives that had soundtrack records and man oh man, that music never got old. I'm still with the program today, for the most part, but sad to say as much as I enjoy them on the whole, the prequels did manage to tarnish some of the luster of what once was. (ETA: There was magic there in those old films, mixed with the luck of the draw and things just all falling into place in the right ways. Jackson's LOTR films had that magic as well. The prequels did not. The Matrix films did not (and I love the Matrix stuff, as my groovy avatar would show).)

Sort of unrelated, but you'd have thought I was the right young age for E.T., but noooooooooo... that movie damaged me (for one reason or another) and I still don't want to ever see it again.
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post #62 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:21pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
I'd like to see the definition from some of you guys for the following terms:

* nerd
* geek
* dork

Unclear what most people here mean by nerd/geek. In my mind, the first 2 are kind of technical, but I understand people use phrases like "film geek", but nerd seem to be to encompass more than that.
A nerd is a science/math/history buff. They can be a geek about science fiction, and probably are, but nerds are mostly identifiable by their skills in those areas. The key factor in nerddom is intelligence. Out of the three here, the nerd is the most valuable in the workplace.

A geek is an enthusiast about art genres, whether it's film, music, books, and yes, even video games (I'm not making any kind of argument about anything here, just for purposes of definition).

A dork is someone who completely has difficulty in social situations. They can have friends, but normally they're fellow dorks. They cannot interact well with people, and it accentuates their nerd/geek status, since they dive right into those subsets because of their failure to socially interact with most people.

It's possible to be one, two, or all three. Geek is more of a universal solvent between the two - most nerds and dorks are probably geeks. It's rare to find someone who falls into only one subset.

And yes, I've thought about this way too much.
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post #63 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:32pm
Excellent answer!
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post #64 of 76
5/8/09 at 5:44pm
Cap, people who only talk about politics are called blowhards.

Thinking on it in the car, 80's Spielberg geeked me out more than Lucas. After Jedi, put away Star Wars untill 99. It was Steve's suburbia stuff that hit home.

There was this used bookstore/comicbook shop on Canton Road in Marietta that was like Mecca when I was a kid. Shit. What was the name of that place? Merlin's?
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post #65 of 76
5/8/09 at 7:43pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
Maybe I'm the idiot then because I can't make heads or tails of what you have written here.
No, this is a conversation between two internet-borne autistics.

I was attempting to say that, while I have friends and therefore am not necessarily so insufferable in the real world (note the sarcasm could be missed in this format), there is a disconnect between who they know, and my online douche~y equivalent, which has occasionally been discovered and loathed by those with whom I associate. As in, you are not really who you are on the net; much of what anyone says is misunderstood. I don't identify so closely with this "persona" anymore, which is pretty phony. If this is really who I am, then I'm fucked, but it isn't. And thereby I don't know why I'm coming here anymore.

^And that sentence can easily be interpreted as me saying "Fuck CHUD!" which is not what I'm trying to say at all.
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post #66 of 76
5/8/09 at 8:01pm
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Originally Posted by Eyeball Kid View Post
It's probably a combination of environment and genetics for me as well. I lived in the 'burbs of Detroit until I was 7, and one of the stations played the following stuff at varying times on Saturdays:

-Godzilla movies
-Ultraman
-Jonny Socko and his Flying Robot
Holy crap! Are you me? Everything you just described here fits me. Just throw in the 60's Marvel and DC cartoons, comics, Sir Graves Ghastley, Twilight Zone re-runs, and my dad's record collection.

As for being passionate about it? Music, yes. Film, yes. Comics, yes though not so much as a collector more as a love of the medium. I buy mostly indies and strip collections now but am a trade waiter for select Marvel and DC titles. As much as I was into Johnny Socko, Ultraman, and Godzilla it's a miracle I didn't become an anime fan. But when I was 5 I went as Johnny Socko for Halloween and everybody thought I was Evel Kneivel.
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post #67 of 76
5/8/09 at 8:06pm
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Originally Posted by dreary louse View Post
No, this is a conversation between two internet-borne autistics.

I was attempting to say that, while I have friends and therefore am not necessarily so insufferable in the real world (note the sarcasm could be missed in this format), there is a disconnect between who they know, and my online douche~y equivalent, which has occasionally been discovered and loathed by those with whom I associate. As in, you are not really who you are on the net; much of what anyone says is misunderstood. I don't identify so closely with this "persona" anymore, which is pretty phony. If this is really who I am, then I'm fucked, but it isn't. And thereby I don't know why I'm coming here anymore.

^And that sentence can easily be interpreted as me saying "Fuck CHUD!" which is not what I'm trying to say at all.
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post #68 of 76
5/8/09 at 8:15pm
Yeah, I really don't like explaining myself either.
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post #69 of 76
5/8/09 at 8:22pm
Just put'em on ignore, folks. It's the only way.
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post #70 of 76
5/8/09 at 10:48pm
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Originally Posted by Timothy225 View Post
Batman, specifically the '60s TV series, and the comics that my dad picked up and read to me when I was a kid (early '70s). That spiraled into discovering other superheroes (Spider-Man being my favorite) almost immediately after, beginning a life-long love of comics that spread out into adoration of sci-fi (Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who which were gateways to discovering Ellison, Bradbury, Asimov, etc.), fantasy (Moorcock, Tolkein, etc.), horror (from the Universal and Hammer flicks right up to today), mythology, history (love me some Old West stuff!), science in general, and so on.
Oh. My. God. This was almost EXACTLY the path I took. Either there's something in the water in Jersey, or Tim & I were really seperated at birth.

As for whether i'm still into it or not, I still watch horror movies & read horror novels like they're going out of style. Except for my quest to own every issue of Creepy, however, I've pretty much given up on the comics thing (although I'll buy something on the recommendation of friends who still indulge), and I pull out & re-read the old stuff from time to time, even if I don't buy anything new.
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post #71 of 76
5/8/09 at 11:39pm
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Originally Posted by dreary louse View Post
Yeah, I really don't like explaining myself either.
That's because you're really, really, really bad at it. Or you're an idiot. One of the two.
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post #72 of 76
5/9/09 at 12:20pm
I'm from a board game playing family. Excessive amounts of RISK playing is pretty geeky! (My high school age uncles and friends were always having tournaments; i was like Henry Thomas at the beginning of E.T., always trying to get in the game)

Axis & Allies hit when i was about ten. Getting into that, took the geekiness up another level. Fortress America, Broadside, Shogun, and the best..Conquest of the Empire. So fun.
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post #73 of 76
5/9/09 at 12:39pm
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Originally Posted by Greg Clark View Post


'Nuff said.
agree!

Playing with my brothers old Star Wars figures got it going for me, match made in heaven.

Given your age Greg, was it the Cartoon that got you going for Ghostbusters? I was born in 81' so it was the combination of both for me.
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post #74 of 76
5/10/09 at 2:43am
My memory is absolutely terrible but I think the what really set me on the path to nerdness was when I learned to read. I seem to remember Redwall and The Neverending Story were my favorite books when I was in the second grade or so. I was such a nonstop reader growing up, I knew the librarians at my local public library by name for years, well into my teens.
So that of course led me to comic books.
I was always obsessed with movies (Jurassic Park, The Lion King, Wizard of Oz) but books really started it all.

As for the nerd, geek or dork debate, I think Nordling summarized it well. A fairly accurate quiz: http://www.okcupid.com/tests/take?te...30990046738815
My rating: 74% Nerd, 43% Geek, 57% Dork
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post #75 of 76
5/10/09 at 2:27pm
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Originally Posted by Ryan S~ View Post
Star Wars, definitely. My problem was that while all my friends wanted to be Luke or Han I wanted to be George Lucas. I fell in love with all aspects of movies after seeing it at seven years old. I devoured matinees, Saturday morning genre fests, late night horror-thons and any movie my parents would drag me to at night. I wanted to know everything I could about movies and how to make them. Books, magazine, making of docs were my bread and butter for years (I still love the extras on DVDs and will often watch those more then I watch the movies).
I'm right there with you, I find the the "development and making of" aspects of a film sometimes being far more interesting then the actual film!

The advent of CGI made me even more of a film freak. I even majored in CGI unstill I found out that CGI was not the road for me.
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post #76 of 76
5/13/09 at 8:25pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post
I'd like to see the definition from some of you guys for the following terms:

* nerd
* geek
* dork

Unclear what most people here mean by nerd/geek. In my mind, the first 2 are kind of technical, but I understand people use phrases like "film geek", but nerd seem to be to encompass more than that.
Here's what a waiter at the Star Trek Experience in Vegas once told me about the difference between geek and nerd:

A geek is someone who camps out to see the latest Star Wars film.

A nerd is someone who camps out to see the latest Star Wars film dressed as Chewbacca.
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