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There is more "room" for normal people, but the true devotees I think are still a bit out-there. I have been noticing recently that I fundamentally think differ
by mhh__ 5y ago
There is more "room" for normal people, but the true devotees I think are still a bit out-there. I have been noticing recently that I fundamentally think differently to my peers, but am completely at home with people I have met through common technological ideology.
A "friend" recently told me off for being too nerdy, and I couldn't help but think (maybe it's too self-centered of me, but still) "Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games".
- garmaine 5y agoYou should have told him that.
- mhh__ 5y agoI remember having ~0 friends, not worth the risk. Trite, but that's my thought process.
- memonkey 5y agousually, with friends, you can say "fuck you, i'm a nerd then" and they would be cool with that
- lookalike74 5y agoExactly, and then it gets easier with people that don't really matter
- Thiez 5y ago> "Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games" Did you personally contribute to this great "world building" or are you just being tribal?
- CRConrad 5y agoThey literally wrote "people like me", not "I personally built all those games".
- cjfd 5y ago"Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games". Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....?
- throaway46546 5y agoI know a lot of people who play video games, but need me to help them build a computer or reinstall windows. Despite interacting with tech all the time they have zero desire to understand how it works. Also they didn't say that they don't play video games too. They are just also interested in tech.
- CRConrad 5y ago> Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....? Not the video game players.
- mhh__ 5y agoBy nerdy I really mean following up details and learning things for the sake of it. Video games are not nerdy any more, nerd culture has completely won over the last 15 years or so.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoI’m grateful for having a friend group that’s mostly not in the tech industry but just accepts my nerdiness nonetheless. This kind of technical culture has been around donkey’s years, if you read some of the conversations between early wireless telegraphy operators it sounds a lot like the early internet! Babbage himself basically told a British politician to “STFU noob, garbage in garbage out” when asked whether his difference engine would emit the right results if its operator put in the wrong figures into it.