Why are you not a Geek?

[StrangerQ]

well.... i cut myself out from geeks as im terrible when it comes to understanding how this extremely nice machine that lets me be here writing this works... ask me definition of RAM and i give you funny look...

but in otherways...
yes i spend a lot of time front of computer playing and voice chatting in vent but... i consider it better to play DoTa with friends for time killing than hanging evenings at the city central getting drunk...

 

[Songbird-O]

I spend my life like any other person would. I don't watch TV anymore, so I spend that time gaming and such. In addition to being a video and table top gamer, I am a college student, artist, and aspiring Kindergarten teacher and Children's book author and illustrator.

What makes me not a geek is that I am secure enough about my choice of lifestyle to just call it business as usual.

 

[Dr. Gorgenflex]

I do sports and socialize with non geek people.

 

[Sir Kemper]

Why wouden't i want to be a geek?

 

[SturmDolch]

I like to think I dress well, I go out and do things, and I have a girlfriend, although geeks these days have those, too. Also, I think Star Trek is retarded and not comparable in the slightest to Star Wars.

Apart from that, I'm pretty geeky. Video Game geek? Check. Up-and-coming film buff? Check. Spend more time on computer than anything else? Check. Computer Science Major? Check. Yup.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Play bass? And sometimes hand out with my friends, but not so much recently due to losing my license for a little bit. >_>

 

[TurkeyProphet]

I'm afraid to leave the house and enjoy challenging poetry.

 

[gim73]

I go clubbing, I like the kind of music that geeks really don't, love to dance, love to go out with friends, love to experience new things, try to be sociable when I can (but often enjoy my solitude as well), I'm not academically intelligent, I would rather gouge my own eyes out than play any kind of tabletop game, I'm not awkward talking to girls (actually almost all of my friends are girls), I think the Star Wars and LOTR movies are fucking boring, I'm rather vain and metrosexual (I suppose); the list goes on.

To be honest my only real geeky qualities are my love for video games and the internet, and how I understand meme's and the occasional geeky reference.

Ack! Kill it with FIRE! Seriously, are all your video games like sports games and fps also?

Some of you guys...

I work out? Do you seriously think that all geeks are fat? Of course some of us are gonna exercise regularly, otherwise we are gonna have some serious health problems.

I have a girlfriend? I'm happy to say that this old stereotype has been debunked years ago. There are female geeks out there who enjoy dating male geeks. Hell, there are REGULAR girls out there that don't mind your geeky habits and are willing to date you.

I'm not smart? Only nerds are all smart, geeks have average int just like the rest of us. While some nerds might be geeks, not all geeks need be nerds.

Let's see some others... 'I smoke and read real books, not comics' or something like that. Well, smoking is an addiction. Most geeks don't smoke because they already have an addiction. Being a geek is just having a hobby that is bordering on addiction. Anime, video games, RC cars, model airplanes, comics, trading cards, science fiction, fantasy, books and table top gaming are all areas that you can 'geek out' on. If you smoke, drink or do other drugs it just takes away from the income that you would be spending on your primary passion. Also geeks read more than just comic books. Guess what? There are Drama geeks out there that enjoy shakespeare. You also find that most geeks have some non-fiction books about their personal hobbies.

Sports is also another funny one. What defines a geek is their level of devotion to their addictions, and with the american insanity called football many would qualify that addiction as being a geek. If somebody can tell you exactly who had the most yards run in 1963 and other useless trivia like that, it parallels a geek being able to tell you which issue of a comic that a certain super villian first made an appearance.

 

[Acaroid]

Ok there's a good chance that >90% (see geeks use percentages) of the posters here are 'gamer geeks' a niche group of geeks that enjoy videogames and probably adept or at least comfortable with technology, pop culture references and other geeky stuff.

But people are complicated and have diverse personalities and lives.

So what do you do in your non-geek time that makes you different? Do you Muay Thai, volunteer, own your own business, have an awesome social life, travel around the world?

Share with your fellow escapists on the diversity of geek life.

Easy, i dont eat the heads of chickens. Im a nerd not a geek

dr seuss ftw

But on track of what you meant not what you said
I have a steady girlfriend and have more female friends than male, get regular excersie and am very good at sports, am an awsome cook and I hate startrek...

 

[YoUnG205]

Ye I think I am a closet geek. I live a normal social life until I get onto the internet then I is just a normal geek.

 

[CK76]

I have interests of "geeks" from video games, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.

But I'm fine socially, traveled, worked, had friends, dated, etc.

I think line of what being a "geek" is has been blurred. How many people saw Lord of the Rings films? The biggest film of 2009 was a sci-fi action film. People now get hyped over technology and even play game on their iPhones.

So, I like the all the geek stuff, but I am always put to shame at conventions (gaming, sci-fi, anime, etc.) by the commitment of geekiness of others. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd be 6 or 7 geek I guess depending on frame of reference.

 

[A random person]

At my school I supposedly have a degree of memetic badass [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MemeticBadass] status and get along well with a good bit of more jock-like students, partly because of an incident that led to the former. I'll say two things about that incident: it ironically got me posting here a lot more for a period, and my school's cross country team supposedly loves me for it.

 

[SpiderHam666]

I'm not a geek cause i don't bite the heads off chickens and work in a circus freak show.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

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Er, mate? I was just replying to the question, you act like I personally insulted you, when I was just stating why I don't think I fit under the description of a geek. I have nothing against geeks, I just don't qualify as one. I don't have any geeky hobbies except for gaming, and I don't fit under the general stereotype of a geek either. Chill the hell out.

and no, as a matter of fact I play a variety of different games. I actually have decent taste and love games with good stories and art direction. I do like FPS games but I find sports just as boring as LOTR and Star Wars are. See how you jumped to a conclusion about me just because I don't think I fit into your little clique? Not being a geek doesn't make me a frat boy.

If anything I guess I'm a "PC gamer geek" but my geekness just stops at gaming, if you see what I'm saying...

Edit: Oh, here's another thing about me that might fit under the stereotype of a geek apart from my love of games: I'm very skinny and have no strength in me at all, and I frankly don't give a shit. Am I more of a geek now?