4 ms·

> But then 'nerds' go from people who have insight and opinions on esoteric topics, to people that like Marvel universe movies. Basically it gets popular and th

• salmo 5y ago
  Yeah. It was like once things that were 'nerdy' became cool (comic books, sci-fi, video games, etc.) all of a sudden everyone was a nerd. I guess that's good and bad. It does feel weird though. I don't watch comic book movies (or many movies for that matter), because I'm usually teaching myself about something nerdy: history, electronics, math, systems stuff, a new programming language, etc. It kinda goes back to the original idea of someone oblivious to pop culture because they're buried in pursuits most people find boring. I stared using 'geek' because I liked the sound of it better, but realized it's just a 'nerd' synonym to most. I just wish we had a word for folks that get annoyed when people don't use Demorgan's to fix their conditional statements to be more readable, or like to read primary sources, or whatever.
  • chakkepolja 5y ago
    > I stared using 'geek' because I liked the sound of it better, but realized it's just a 'nerd' synonym to most. It seems to refer to video gamer culture even more than "nerd".