What Irritating Nerd Habits Do You Have?
I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that I am a huge nerd. I spend a good portion of my time sitting in front of a shiny, light emitting box either playing video games or looking for more shiny, light emitting boxes to buy. No real shocker there, this is a game blog after all. That being said, it becomes apparent that I have a number of nerdy hang-ups that bother me and others around me.
Not everyone is as interested in my new gadgets as I am. The sales clerk at Wal-Mart really does not need to know the awesomeness that is Lucas in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, nor is she interested in how cheap Princess Peach is. Yes, I know full well that the Dreamcast was an excellent system, but the guy commenting on my Mario Bros. messenger bag might not want to know about deferred rendering and how much better Rez looked. I catch myself talking about these things at the slightest prompting and I am helpless to stop myself. The floodgates of logorrhea are wide open can cannot be closed until I've regaled every mundane detail. Maybe this is a bit of an over exaggeration, but I've had my fair share of glassy stares.
I'm sure a good amount of this stems from having too few gamer friends, but I'm sure that I'm not the only one that has caught themselves doing things like this. Do you say acronyms in public? Perhaps you bring your Magic deck with you everywhere you go, just in case. What Irritating Nerd Habits Do You Have?
Asterick
Posted to Video Games on 31 March 2008
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I've done a great deal of study on the ideologies of the religious right, especially their beliefs about the topics they are politically active in protesting, like science, human sexuality, etc.
Sometimes people are really entertained by my rants ("James Dobson really featured on his website the writings of a man who suggests a dad should shower with his son and show him his penis in order to prevent him from becoming homosexual?? Bwa ha ha ha!!!! That's hilarious, tell me more.")
But most of the time my friends are like "Yeah we get it, religious people are crazy. Talk about something else."
So then I move on to talking about Smash Bros.
And I will have you know that Peach is NOT cheap! She is a LADY. And I will have no more of it.
Now Pit, there's a cheap ass for you. Two moves that can reflect projectiles? Practically unlimited recovery abilities? Really Nintendo? Really?
I have a tendency to falcon punch teen pregnancy
I second that Eshto, Peach is an amazing Lady, and only those who fail to see her awesomeness say ridonkulous things like she is cheap! But yeah, my peeps at work have learned to just ignore me if I start talking Nintendo.
I'll launch into a diatribe about the failings of current intellectual property laws to adapt to the increasingly digital society or the singularity predictions of Ray Kurzweil at the drop of a hat.
Also; if anyone is cheap, it's Lucario. His basic attacks are almost as broad as metaknight, do more damage, and he has an overpowered counter.
i have an encyclopedic knowledge of comic books from the mid 80's on and frequently i find myself in conversations where i'm talking about various multi-verses to the faces of those who really couldn't be less interested. this is also painfully true for the Star Trek: Voyager series. its a cross i bear so others don't have to ;)
oh yah, i ROCK at video games and have to tell everyone i know.
BIG.FAT.NERD.
I quote my favorite video-game lines rapid fire whenever applicable, and in many places where they aren't. To the point where some of my less-nerdy friends have threatened mutiny if I use "OH MY GOD! Let's make out!" as an expression of glee any more.
I also have the tendency to point out any time in any medium (game, movie, TV, whatever) whenever two male or two female characters do anything that looks vaguely slashy, to the point where the expression "Ohemgee slash" is a common inside joke. (Of course, only some people find this one annoying... :P)
I have a "as a matter of fact" way of telling ppl they're wrong with grammar (in spanish), math, PC's and software usage... comic books, animes, character development and psychology...
It's not that I know a lot of these things, it's more like ppl always tend to talk about stuff they dont really know about, comprehend or have even studied... I had problems with my teachers in school because of this... they were pretty much so narrowminded that if it wasn't political science they knew abosolutely nothing about anything else.
@ Freezair
I totally hear you on the pointing out anything vaguely slashy in any media. My roommates can attest that I am guilty of that particular sin(?) in abundance.
I also do alot of tabletop gaming, and can attest there is nothing more boring than being told about someones elses level whatever character. I make a slight exception to this if its telling people who were in the same group as the character, because its a bit of a shared experience. On occasion I am sure I have blathered on about my character to someone who had absolutely no interest, but its something I try not to do.
I get really defensive of Silent Hill and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and get waaaay too in-depth when talking about them to people about symbolism and meanings behind things.
I get that way about Buffy too. I end up quoting it and then having to explain to people the context and how awesome that episode was and by that time the room gets pretty empty.
Don't get me talking about Buffy, Harry Potter, any of the anime/mangas that i really like, ff6+7 or Chrono Trigger. It'll just set off a tangent of glee... you'll learn more things than you ever would want to know about these subjects in rapid fire and probably never ask me anything else again.
I often have a tendency to translate whatever I'm viewing into a tabletop rules set of some sort. Usually whatever I'm playing the most recently. But I really only do it to my boyfriend who is also a tabletop player and is just amused by it.
And I often quip "Make out!" at the same points that Freezair says "Ohemgee slash." Like in Legion of Superheroes when Superman woke up from Kryptonite poisoning and looked at his future-emo-clone (whose blood contains an immunity to Kryptonite) and said "I suppose I have you to thank." And then future-emo-clone-superman got all blush-y.