[salmo]

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]

> 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".