I'm ashamed to be called a Geek

[Lullabye]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but good luck with needing to label yourself...

I assume you have a name, no? Oh, and look at that, you have an escapist profile! with a picture and everything!

OT: fuck the hipsters(no matter how bad I want to be one), we geeks rule the ironic and unordinary!

 

[Artina89]

People will dress how they want to dress. As long as they don't bother me I really couldn't care less. I mean, a lot of people I know wear videogame t-shirts and have never played the game, but its just the same as someone who wears a Led zeppelin t-shirt and doesn't like Led zeppelin for instance. It's something you just have to live with.

 

[Gunner_Guardian]

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care.

But now it seems the term "geek" has been hijacked by hipsters wanting to break away from the old archetypes. Everywhere now I see "ironic" retro gaming t-shirts, jewelry made from video game cartridges,store bought steampunk gear and worse, being worn by the kind of people I spent my childhood years playing videogames to get AWAY from. You know, the fucking Beautiful People.

So I propose a new word for the socially malnourished outcasts I associate with. Let's have some suggestions!

(/angry old man rant)

So, to you, "geeks" are socially inept functionally retarded uglier than sin virgins with all the tact and charm of down's syndrome? And this was the group you chose to associate yourself with? My god, that's a group I'd RUN from. Even if I was the ugliest person on this planet.

First and foremost let me front the idea that social labels are always a negative point to your character (or, more specifically, lack there of). You identify yourself with a certain "label" ("geeks", "jocks", "goths", "metalheads", whatever) because you're either too simple, or too incompetent, or too scared, to simple accept yourself as whatever you are. It IS easier to follow. It is easier to simply look at a set of predetermined standards and just blindly follow those than be who you are. First because no matter how shitty things get with everyone else, you have bought yourself a support group through your subservience. "You join us, we'll back you up!" is the unspoken contract of these things. Second because you just don't have to think... Thinking is such a tiresome thing. You have to decide what you stand up for, what you like, what you dislike, what you want, what you feel... Every bloody minute of every day... Over everything... Isn't that tiresome? So much easier if someone else just does it for you, and you just subscribe to their newsletter.


Why? Why must we bear this crux of penance, this sword of damocles, that if we happen to enjoy something we must immediately adhere to whatever other tastes the loudest group of fanatics happen to advocate? Can't I not enjoy a game without being a socially maladjusted 300 lb piece of ugly who instantly ejaculates the moments he comes within 5 ft of a female? Am I forced to lobotomise myself, say "bro" five times per sentence, and become incapable of tackling any situation that isn't solved by punching if I enjoy playing sports?

Can't you be healthy, socially adjusted AND enjoy gaming? Are we so pathetically shallow that we can't enjoy the things we enjoy? That we need to constantly evaluate whom else shares tastes with us, so we can better fit this ridiculous notion we created for ourselves based on a pre-determined model?

If you enjoy games, enjoy your fucking game. Why does it matter who else enjoys it? If you suddenly discovered the worst person in the world enjoyed your favourite activity, would you stop?

/rant.

Thank you sir, I enjoyed that rant

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care.

But now it seems the term "geek" has been hijacked by hipsters wanting to break away from the old archetypes. Everywhere now I see "ironic" retro gaming t-shirts, jewelry made from video game cartridges,store bought steampunk gear and worse, being worn by the kind of people I spent my childhood years playing videogames to get AWAY from. You know, the fucking Beautiful People.

So I propose a new word for the socially malnourished outcasts I associate with. Let's have some suggestions!

(/angry old man rant)

So, to you, "geeks" are socially inept functionally retarded uglier than sin virgins with all the tact and charm of down's syndrome? And this was the group you chose to associate yourself with? My god, that's a group I'd RUN from. Even if I was the ugliest person on this planet.

First and foremost let me front the idea that social labels are always a negative point to your character (or, more specifically, lack there of). You identify yourself with a certain "label" ("geeks", "jocks", "goths", "metalheads", whatever) because you're either too simple, or too incompetent, or too scared, to simple accept yourself as whatever you are. It IS easier to follow. It is easier to simply look at a set of predetermined standards and just blindly follow those than be who you are. First because no matter how shitty things get with everyone else, you have bought yourself a support group through your subservience. "You join us, we'll back you up!" is the unspoken contract of these things. Second because you just don't have to think... Thinking is such a tiresome thing. You have to decide what you stand up for, what you like, what you dislike, what you want, what you feel... Every bloody minute of every day... Over everything... Isn't that tiresome? So much easier if someone else just does it for you, and you just subscribe to their newsletter.


Why? Why must we bear this crux of penance, this sword of damocles, that if we happen to enjoy something we must immediately adhere to whatever other tastes the loudest group of fanatics happen to advocate? Can't I not enjoy a game without being a socially maladjusted 300 lb piece of ugly who instantly ejaculates the moments he comes within 5 ft of a female? Am I forced to lobotomise myself, say "bro" five times per sentence, and become incapable of tackling any situation that isn't solved by punching if I enjoy playing sports?

Can't you be healthy, socially adjusted AND enjoy gaming? Are we so pathetically shallow that we can't enjoy the things we enjoy? That we need to constantly evaluate whom else shares tastes with us, so we can better fit this ridiculous notion we created for ourselves based on a pre-determined model?

If you enjoy games, enjoy your fucking game. Why does it matter who else enjoys it? If you suddenly discovered the worst person in the world enjoyed your favourite activity, would you stop?

/rant.

Thank you sir, I enjoyed that rant

It used to be that the few of us who were known as nerds or geeks were fashionably unconscious, smart, and social outcasts. And we didn't care

I agree but at the same time, appalled by your stereotype of geeks. The description you make is how geeks are shown in any Hollywood movie you care to mention. Not how [most] geeks are today.
I am not a social outcast. I am smart, yes (more than anybody else in my social circle at least).

But fashionably unconscious?

Never!

Nice suit man

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but good luck with needing to label yourself...

I assume you have a name, no? Oh, and look at that, you have an escapist profile! with a picture and everything!

OT: fuck the hipsters(no matter how bad I want to be one), we geeks rule the ironic and unordinary!

I have no idea what you're talking about either, so I'll just assume I should be offended.

You cad! I'd beat you within an inch of your life, if I had a tape measure.

 

[Oscar Bjorklund]

I agree but at the same time, appalled by your stereotype of geeks. The description you make is how geeks are shown in any Hollywood movie you care to mention. Not how [most] geeks are today.
I am not a social outcast. I am smart, yes (more than anybody else in my social circle at least).

But fashionably unconscious?

Never!

Wow, those clothes are awesome. But why those shoes? Use black or brown ones <_<.

On topic, so what if someone uses videogames as a fashion statement? Isn't it better if nerdiness becomes more mainstream? I thought that's what geeks have been trying to do all the time.

 

[Wolfram23]

What's wrong with hipsters? I'm friends with a few. They're nice people.

 

[TimeLord]

Wow, those clothes are awesome. But why those shoes? Use black or brown ones <_<.

I didn't have black or brown ones at the time
I do now. And I hope it will snow this year so I can get a better picture

 

[Oscar Bjorklund]

I didn't have black or brown ones at the time
I do now. And I hope it will snow this year so I can get a better picture

Good ^^
Well, it's just started to snow here in Sweden today, so it shouldn't be too long

 

[Lord Thodin]

I smell an awful lotta hipsters in this thread. I, for one, agree with OP. I hate hipsters who dress in our garb ironically.

 

[DaedalusIcarus]

Contrary to what most seem to say - yea, I agree with you OP - it's annoying as hell to see what we originally loved and had to ourselves get invaded by a bunch of mediocre narrow-minded fucking cattle.

Reflecting on that, it's probably what drove me away from certain genres of gaming until I've stopped gaming on-line at all simply because the average gamer pisses me off something awful.

If you want to be left alone, pick a new hobby to supplement it. My suggestion is to go with something sufficiently geeky which *also* requires brains. There's one thing you can be damned sure of and that's that these stupid pretencious brats can't write a decent program in C - construct their own hardware etc.

So, pick something which requires brains and persistence - you'll see

 

[Triop]

Hey ! i'm a bitter old man, can i join the party ?

FUCKING HIPSTER FAGGOTS, I JUST WENT TO THE LIBRARY TODAY FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 5 YEARS TO FIND OUY IT WAS OVERRUN !

/cruisecontrol

 

[everfreeDragon]

So do tell me OP, how does one tell the difference between a geek wearing these clothes and a hipster wearing these clothes?

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but good luck with needing to label yourself...

I assume you have a name, no? Oh, and look at that, you have an escapist profile! with a picture and everything!

OT: fuck the hipsters(no matter how bad I want to be one), we geeks rule the ironic and unordinary!

I have no idea what you're talking about either, so I'll just assume I should be offended.

You cad! I'd beat you within an inch of your life, if I had a tape measure.

They were pointing out that you have a name and a profile, therefore you have been labelled.

A completely unrelated statement masquerading as wit. Since the point you were making is not that you hate labels of any kind. Rather you don't see the need to create superficial identities that the world can categorise you with.

I'd tell them this... but it's not really my argument.

Just keeping you up to speed.

That was my initial reading, but I wished it not to be so. My mother taught me never to judge a book by it's cover, evidently that was too absolute a lesson for this world or this forum(she was a drinker). It lead me to assume that their was depth that wasn't truly there, thus I became the slayer of truth, twas I who tied the noose around it's neck!

Hand me Occam's razor so that I might slit my throat with it...

/scene/

 

[Andrew Bohan]

So do tell me OP, how does one tell the difference between a geek wearing these clothes and a hipster wearing these clothes?

Does it not bother you when you see these clothes being worn by people who have no appreciation for what they represent? Wearing it "ironically" is tantamount to just wearing a tshirt that says "I have no clue". It'd be different if it actually resonated with these people but it's like kids who wear Iron Maiden tshirts out of hot topic who listen to brokNcyde and have never heard a maiden song in their life. It's just fakery and it's sad. I mean these kids would pick up a General Custer's Revenge shirt if it looked faded the right way. That doesn't bother anyone else?

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Being both a hipster and a geek, I have no problems with this. In fact, I like it.

However, I propose 'Sparkle Fnark' as a new term for the basement dwelling pallid ones. Because it sounds funny.

 

[everfreeDragon]

So do tell me OP, how does one tell the difference between a geek wearing these clothes and a hipster wearing these clothes?

Does it not bother you when you see these clothes being worn by people who have no appreciation for what they represent? Wearing it "ironically" is tantamount to just wearing a tshirt that says "I have no clue". It'd be different if it actually resonated with these people but it's like kids who wear Iron Maiden tshirts out of hot topic who listen to brokNcyde and have never heard a maiden song in their life. It's just fakery and it's sad. I mean these kids would pick up a General Custer's Revenge shirt if it looked faded the right way. That doesn't bother anyone else?

But again, how do I tell the difference between the fakers and the real deal? Explain what differences there are between these two groups. I wear game reference shirts practically every other day, what's to stop someone assuming I'm wearing them to be ironic rather than for my enjoyment of the industry?

 

[Andrew Bohan]

So do tell me OP, how does one tell the difference between a geek wearing these clothes and a hipster wearing these clothes?

As horrible as it sounds...I think it may be the proximity of friends/women that gives it away.

Basically the only functional difference between a gamer and a 'hipster' who likes games is that the hipster has other hobbies.

I'd disagree entirely with that statement. Most hipsters I know like something as long as it's cool, soon as it's not, no big, off to pretend to care about something else, I mean it's part of what defines a fad, it's in, then suddenly, it's not. When you look at the fact that from what I can see most "hipster" gamers are playing the odd AAA title and have no real interest in games outside of sport games or the odd big FPS franchise(Halo, CoD et al) I'd say the difference is doing it because you want to and doing it because your friends think you should. Now that's not to tar all casual gamers and sometimes-console-players with the same brush but I'd say a fair portion of the "hipster" crowd, at least where I am, has no real interest in the things they do, so to call them hobbies seems a bit of a stretch.