Subtle Nerd Cues

[La Dispute]

• Attends the midnight screening of Star Wars
• Works in IT
• Always mentions they've read the original book when it's made into a movie
• Gets jacked post high school
• Posts pictures on Facebook after getting jacked with captions like 'this isn't even my final form'
• High school shooter
• Competitive kill death ratio on COD
• Watches anime (and hentai)
• Quotes Monty Python regularly ("I fart in your general direction")/ho ho ho
• Uses the the phrase 'the friend zone'

What else?

 

[Nothing]

Starts threads in GD on BF.

 

[edgie]

Username edgie

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[ioppolo]

What even is a nerd in 2020s world?
What was once nerdy is now mainstream and all the cool kids do it too.

 

[Caesar]

So what are the unsubtle cues?

I was expecting things like

• name drops Arch
• understands previous reference

 

[Gough]

I have strong opinions on which incarnation of the Grateful Dead is better and could write a decent length well referenced essay on the topic.

 

[Poetic Justice]

The person responding to the above message

 

[the_interloper]

When I used to watch Big Bang theory I'd try to read and understand the maths on the whiteboards behind them.

 

[Caesar]

When I used to watch Big Bang theory I'd try to read and understand the maths on the whiteboards behind them.

Reminds me of the Futurama Theorem

 

[Roobs321]

I've always distinguished betweens nerds and geeks, and a lot of the OP clues read more as classic geek to me with a spritz of dork.

 

[Caesar]

I've always distinguished betweens nerds and geeks, and a lot of the OP reads more geek to me.

Subtle nerd clue right there

 

[Roobs321]

Subtle nerd clue right there

Yes very true

 

[Roobs321]

Pretty much everyone in this thread has an old join date as well. 2000s hobbyist forum use is definitely on that spectrum.

 

[Andre]

I've always distinguished betweens nerds and geeks, and a lot of the OP clues read more as classic geek to me with a spritz of dork.

The easy way to distinguish between nerds and geeks is ask them what is the force.