because they're using the word incorrectly

Because they like what /r9k/ likes while also having friends at the same time.

i once considered myself a nerd when i was a shut in and did nothing but play video games, i do neither of those things now

Same reason I hate all other retards.
Because they're retarded.

They also give me a bad name.

>>465585
except they don't like it, they stick labels of it all over themselves but when asked deeper questions they will know nothing about the subject matter

Because they're doing it for nothing but attention and to look "unique"

It's insulting to actual nerds.

Do you like it when someone takes something and shits all over it?

fucking big bang theory

I don't really consider myself a nerd.

Sure, I was awkward in high school.
Sure, I was the kid that screwed around with computers.
Sure, I was the kid that shot down a rave to play vidya.

But you know what? I don't look like a 'nerd' anymore, my shirts are not of popular vidya, but of Death or Sodom, I spend equal time playing music than playing games. And I am a lot more confident.

>Call yourself a nerd
>35 year old virgin with acne asks if you can name all 8 of the Mario 3 Koopas
>Uh... that crazy eyed asshole... the girl...
>"HURRR UR NOT A REAL NERD!"

I don't care because I don't wanna be "that guy".

They talk about my sekrit club ;_;

>>465642
I guess I traded one girlfriendless life for another, eh?

>see person with nintendo shit or something like that
>immediately lose all respect for them

because being a nerd is a mindset, not a ''trendy'' fashion template. most of the people who claim they are nerds are usually doing it to garner attention from other people who also dress and act nerdy to be trendy.

It's just obnoxious to see an attractive girl with a "I <3 dorks" shirt because...no she fucking doesn't! She likes styling trendy popular people, not gross nerds with poor hygiene.

It's not that I care about nerd cred, it's just that it's such transparent bullshit.

>http://www.indiegogo.com/zerocharismamovie

Just watch this movie trailer. Does a decent job of summing it all up.

>>465646
>GreenTrashcan !6mvmNVD6E6

You shit packing faggot.

I'd shoot you just to see if you bleed chocolate milk. Go troll /adv/ and get the fuck out of here.

They pretend to like shit just to look different, when in reality it's just another round of emo/goth/scene bullshit.

>>465636
Shit's like black face for nerds.

Where I live, being a nerd has shit to do with your "look", but rather with what goes on upstairs.

These people barely have anything upstairs, and what is there, I doubt even works.

Saying your average Joe is qualified to join MENSA is a direct insult to actual MENSA members.
Same applies here, to pretty much the same degree, because these people are literally so dumb I wonder how they don't forget to breathe, while a nerd would be someone AT LEAST above the average level of intelligence.

It's not so much that I hate them, as that I'm insulted that these people who can barely tie their own shoelaces call themselves geniuses.

>>465666
>nintendo shit or something like that
Nigger, at least elaborate a little. If you're going to insult someone, just calling them a knee-jerk term won't mean shit. Fucking plebian.

>that person with pins all over his backpack and a small pikachu plushie dangling from it
Kill.

I blame shit like big bang theory and scott pilgrim.

I tried explaining it to my friend just how shallow people like that are, she's still diluted into thinking they're any different then what was the norm before them.

Being aware is suffering.

>>465722
>diluted

I look like the dude on the left. I'm also probably smarter than you, nerdier than you, and generally just better in every way. Deal w/ it, virgins.

I guess it's kind of like being mad because a person calls themselves well-read, despite only having read Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and Twilight. Or because someone calls themselves a manga enthusiast while only ever reading Naruto or Bleach.

>>465740
>He writes poetry about his blackened soul.
>He knows only 3 chords on the guitar.
>His pants make him sing like Justin Beiber, but still pitchy.
>He prefers consoles over PCs.
>He thought that Between Buried and Me is 'Metal'

>>465751
LotR is legitimately my favorite set of books and people just assume I'm just some unread faggot. Feelsbadman.

>>465721
what is scott pilgrim?
I've seen shit posted all over facebook that simply states 'scott pilgrim'
wtf is it?

what pisses me off is 'zelda nerds' the ones that played twilight princess and maybe ALTTP
bitch please, I do speedruns of OOT, yet you don't see me fagging the place up with 'I <3 ISG' or 'HSESS > ESS' and shit like that

Most people who are upfront about the nerdy shit they like are more often than not indulging in the attention they get from it, rather than being really passionate about the things they like.

At least, that's why I rage at faggots like in the OP.

>be well dressed/hygienic
>work out
>be sociable
>watched 200+ anime titles
>play RPGs and several online games semi-competitively
>largest driving force behind my field of study is due to obsession with super robots/mecha
>nobody knows

>>465756
PC and console gaming doesn't belong in this representation.

>>465764
how is this even possible
lord of the rings was boring as hell
even the silmarillion was better

>>465775
You sure? Not knowing how to put together your PC is a big difference.

i feel like they are hijacking my identity and perverting it into some empty style thing

i do not know if that is really the case but it feels like it is

The people that act like nerds piss me off. They wear those huge fucking hipster glasses and say they are a nerd when in fact nobody except hipsters wears them. They also are always stupid, and think that wearing a Nintendo shirt or playing COD makes them a nerd. They are also intraverted

Also, I think a "nerd" is a person with above-average intelligence, not someone who wears glasses or plays vidya.

>>465772
scott pilgrim is a 6-book manga series about this slacker "nerd." Its essentially an egofiction by its creator, a canadian loser who was in an indie band

>imma nerdy gurl gamer who loves retro mario. am i cool yet ;) XDD

pretty much this

>>465804
oh, I forgot how mangafaggot not is synonymous with nerd
shit, this new-wave nerd shit is ridiculous

>>465785
Well, yeah but you said console gaming. I'm a SEGA fanboy. Fuck yeah, Guardian Heroes, fuck yeah NiGHTS, so i'd prefer consoles. I just don't think it adds to the discussion.

Also, what is a nerd? Is it intellect? Passion?

Fuck everyone, if you can't slap together a computer when provided the parts, you have no right to call yourself a nerd.
Or intelligent, for that matter.


>>465764
Tried discussing Lovecraft with someone who says they're a fan?
THAT, my friend, is suffering.
Fuck people.

>>465804
>manga series
Might have commit murder here.

mfw nearly every person in this thread is confusing a nerd with a geek

>>465847
This lingo is killing me. Where do the dorks stand?

>>465847
Tell us the difference then, O Enlightened One.

>>465857
nerd- high intelligence
geek- plays vidya, watches/reads anime
dork- awkward, may appear as a nerd, but is stupid

>>465783
Lord of the rings is fucking awesome! I can't remember how many times I read all three book and the hobbit. The movie made me cringe when tom wasn't in it!

I just wish this shit would end already. It's why we have faggots shitting up some of our favorite places on the internet, its why we have kids going around spouting memes.

It's not just self-proclaimed nerds. It's anyone that grabs a label and decides to live by it. They're denying themselves any chance to be anything unique and just choosing something deemed acceptable and relateable by the masses. It stifles you as a person. It frustrates the people you're imitating. It's lowly and disgusting and the only reason they're doing it is to achieve some semblance of a social standing. It's sad, really.

because I think it's important we call ourself men again and chop some motherfucking wood. nerds are the thing now? srsly? how much more of a pussy can we get? well, we will see... some people never give up.

>>465873
I only like tommy boy b because of his appearance in B4ME2

>>465876
I for one, welcome it. We, as a group, were growing too mature for that me gusta shit anyway. Also, back in high school I fit the comic nerd archetype. By wearing a Batman Beyond shirt and not wearing the normal overworn hero shit everyone else had- - I was sorta being a hipster in my own right. Feels weird looking back.

>>465876
Oh look, yet another neckbeard who wants 4chan to be his secret club.

it's a fed that will end soon.
does anyone remeber emo?

>>465917
Yeah, but at least it didn't piss us off as much.

I get the feeling this fad will only grow into something worse.

I can't even remember when this whole thing started. Had to have been sometime between 2006-2008, right? Maybe even earlier...

>>465922
meh, in the end it's about clothes anyway.

>>465937
>I've seen "I love nerds" shirts all the way back in 2004.

>>465962
>that feel when you greentext without knowing it
Damn you 4chan.

>>465876
you should only worry about that if you go on /b/.

>>465974
Or real life. I know this is /r9k/, but some of us do go out in public for one reason or another.

>Tried discussing Lovecraft with someone who says they're a fan?

Yeah, it can be pretty terrible, especially when they're not even sure what's Lovecraft and what's Derleth

>>465989
Agreed. It feels bad when people use memes without knowing the origin.
Dem mindless sheep.

I hate them for the same reason I hate all of those sorts of subcultures. They're obnoxious whores who label themselves just to try to be cool. Emphasis on obnoxious.

I have to confess I never realy liked nerds. not the real ones, not todays pretenders.

in my book nerds are no fun to talk to, they are smartasses, everybody gets annoyed by them realy quick but they use that as an indicator for "being smart". like in "they don't like me so I guess I'm too smart for them" what's smart anyway? to know all about star trek is not, thats for sure.
A true nerd is not always an introvert btw. I know many nerds who talk all the time. unquestioned, useless, boring stuff from their microcosm of games we all played and books we all seen the movies of... they bore the hell out of whole groups without even recognizing, due to a lack of social sensibility.
fuck nerds, man. they are just bullys and assholes on some other level.

>>465868
>every single 12 year old british kid is a geek

Yeah, naw, you're a cunt.

>you have been muted for 34 minutes
That's it, I'm editing these images every fucking time I'm about to post anything whatsoever from now on.
This system needs to be in /a/, seriously, I'm loving it.

Also, I'm just randomly guessing at what post number the timer will be done here, I'm not actually here anymore right now, went to bed half an hour ago.

,-Yes, I am a wizard.

>>466003
Or when they only know about Cthulu and literally nothing else. I've seriously met people who say they "LURV LOVEcRAFT! <3" and they knew about Cthulu yet hadn't even read "Call of Cthulu".
I mean what the fuck.

yo wassup /r9k/ lol were nerds too, we play oldschool gameboy and shit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVOPP_bKwZE

u mad? we're nerds too deal with it

>>465756
>implying I do any of that gay shit

WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL I HAD TO HIDE TO PLAY YU GI OH. NOW ITS COOL TO BE A NERD. WTF? MOTHERFUCKING ASSHOLES

Gives me the same exact feeling.

Because any person who calls themselves a nerd is either a hipster who thinks it's nerdy to like superhero movies, or they're borderline aspie idiots who think their interests are serious fucking business. Anybody who takes themselves seriously over niche hobbies is doing nothing but sucking the life out of them.

>>466183
>every single 12 year old british kid is a geek
I was probably the only person in my year that had even heard of One Piece.

These "nerds" are pretty, hipster kids that have EVERYTHING. Looks, popularity, monied parents, good upbringings, love lives etc.

All nerds have is being nerds. For these kids to hi-jack it and get it COMPLETELY WRONG just understandably burns.

I guarantee if a "fake" merd gets even a little bit of what being a nerd is about right: they will be shamelessly fawned upon by most "genuine" nerds.

Just look at any girl that actual plays vidya and gives a shit about it. Guys are all over their shit and don't call them fake.

Real nerds, in their awkward way, are inclusive as fuck.

>>465843

Even more painful is discussing it with douchebags who think the work can only be truly appreciated while observing its nihilistic undertones, and take the ball and go home whenever someone is into it for the power level >9001 monsters. Even Cthulhu can't bring about suffering of that magnitude.

Oh, cool, you're nerd? Do you read X comic?
>nope, don't read comics.
Ah, so you read real books then. I've been reading X lately. It's pretty good.
>oh yeh, i love to read! but i haven't read in sooo long lol. too busy.
Oh. What kind of books?
>any.
Like?
>umm. i read 1984 in school. that was cool.
Oh, well. Did you see that X movie?
>uh, no. i like comedies, lol. like seth rogen and shit.
Okay. Did you play that X game?
>No, but I love Halo!!

>>467164
Billy, bring daddy his punchin' gloves.

>>465843
Being a nerd simply means liking one particular area to the point of obsession. It doesn't have to be science/technology, the only real "requirement" is that you're in love with the subject, constantly read about it, etc.

>2004 - back in time
>Nerd was an insult
>2011
>People just call us losers or faggots now

The stench of this idea reeks of women logic.

>>467164
> zomg! i lyk all music! music is my life!
Do you listen to (band)?
> yeah I love (hit single)

>>465881

Agreed. I was with a girl once who did all of this shit-- the "I'm a huge fan of SNES games" shit, the "I FUCKING LOVE METAL \M/" shit, the hipster glasses shit, all of it. No surprise, she was a Tumblr user.

The secret is that girls find nerdy shit effeminate and "edgy" shit quirky. Effeminate and quirky are not sexually desirable traits on guys (like us), but girls think that they really enhance their own sex appeal by copy-pasting these labels onto their t-shirts and online profiles. The sad part is that they're right. Your average r9bot generally crushes on these sorts of whores.

So what did I do with this faux-nerd girl? I told her what she wanted to hear-- that her "love" of SNES games was cute, that the shitty girlcore she listened to was pretty br00tal stuff, and that "there really need to be more interesting girls like you out there." What I didn't tell her about was that I had interests in things she would find unfashionably nerdy on a guy-- professional Starcraft and death metal, that I had worn glasses and braces in high school, that I read fantasy as well as sci fi, etc.

>>467185

thats a geek

the uipites

THAT'S RIGHT BOYS

WE'VE BEEN DEMOTED

NORMALFAGS WHO WEAR GLASSES, SCI-FI/VIDYA SHIRTS AND USE LAPTOPS IN PUBLIC ARE NOW NERDS

THE REST OF US ARE NOW "CREEPERS"

I fantasize about one of these fucks antagonizing me in public so I can re-enact the Doom berserker comic word for word.

HERE IT COMES! HERE COMES THE NIGHT TRAIN!!!! CHOO CHOO CHA BOOGIE!!!

>>467475

Holy shit. We need to take the word CREEPER and make this shit our own. We're never going to get nerd back.

>>467626

I don't hate this.

because they give me false hope that an attractive girl may actually share interests with me

>>467839
Well fucking put.

>>465564
Nerd in name only?
>Lolol POKEMON!
>So... What's the name of that thing on your shirt?
>I dunno, Charmander?

>Queue something mentioned about Cake (Christmas Cake, have you)
>THE CAKE IS A LIE!

Sure, they may play video games but it may just be me thinking it a normal thing: These days what sort of teen/young adult doesn't play video games in some way or form? Developers ensured that they have a game for every market; people are paid for that sort of shit.

In essence; some "nerds" are to nerds as what casual jogger is to being called a sportsman.

>>467924
>Queue something mentioned about Cake (Christmas Cake, have you)
>Queue something mentioned about Cake
>Queue

>mon visage quand.

>>467626

We can take the nerd back...but it may entail more than you are capable of...

>>468510

>/v/irgin
>no cape
>no fedora

Not accurate at all. Sorry.

because those posing faggots suddenly became nerds when it became kewl.
That's like saying you're a shaolin monk because you saw a document on tv and like their neat tricks.

How about you trend-geeks go through the hell of teenage-years being an outcast, left out and ridiculed, even physically harmed on a regular basis because you're interested in stuff that isn't cool?
You assholes just march in here, take our pain and suffering and claim it's yours, that you have a right to it. No you don't. You're fake. You'd kill yourself if you had to live the real nerd-life in mid-90's for example.

Are people who are really into literature nerds? Or do you have to just read science fiction and fantasy to be a nerd?

>>468588
>into reading at all
Aspie-levels of nerdiness detected

>>468603
At least you didn't say hipster.

>>465937
>Had to have been sometime between 2006-2008, right?
The seeds of it were planted earlier. When techie people started identifying completely straight faced as geeks/nerds.

>>466175
I like you, and everyone else who is trying to keep "nerd" as an insult.
Which is another massive reason I hate these posers. Why the fuck would you want to be something as terrible as a nerd, stop shitting up my insults.

>>467373
>Your average r9bot generally crushes on these sorts of whores.

That's probably half the cause of the whole trend.
Guys complain that they can't find any girls with similar "nerdy" interests, the few girls who do have those interests complain about all the unwanted attention they get from ronery nerds and all the other girls want a slice of that pie.

>"like omg I read like a sentance of a book today....omg lolololololol im such a nerd XDDDD"

This.

>>465642
It completely escapes me how has music apparently managed to come in this society to be in higher respect than video games.

It can be argued music is a lower form of art than games, because it directly influences your brain. Its route to your brain as a "drug" which makes you attracted to it is shorter than that of games, which REQUIRE putting some effort in, while in music, this isn't obligatory.

>>468902
Maybe it was a book that only had one sentence! There are a surprisingly large amount of those.

>>468510
>9 months

Oh, that is the bit that smarts.

They took "nerd" from us because they have no fucking idea that people like us even exist.

>>468926
You would have to be a pretty big nerd to actively read books that you can chew on.

if a nintendo shirt and a fucking pikachu plush make you instantly hate a person wearing it, you guys are more shallow than those hipster bitches who think links name is zelda.

just saying.

>>468932
Chew on? If you're meaning how tiny they'd be, there are plenty that are 100+ pages. It's a genre in and of itself.

Why would I care about what others say about each other?

It seems like a waste to get angry over such trifles.

>>468939
You can judge people by what they are wearing if they are wearing it to try and send a message about themselves.

>if a swastika shirt and a fucking Hitler plush make you instantly hate a person wearing it, you guys are shallow

>>468944
I was thinking of those large cardboard books for toddlers.

>>468960
Haha, nah. There are lot of amazing authors who have written books like that. Thomas Bernhard, Roberto Bolano, Georges Perec, and Bohumil Hrabal, to name a few.

>>468953

you can't really compare nazi sympathizers to nintendo fans, can you?

what about all those people who just really love nintendo/pokemon/star wars/star trek/marvel? if you like something, you will want to wear their products.

i could point at that guy in this thread who said he wears a shirt of some metal band instead of 'gamer' shirts. how is he any better or worse than a kid with nintendo shirt?

i'm sure he's not the biggest fan who knows every single chord of every single song, etc, so he must be as fake as a supposed nintendo shirt kid. you're all being a bit silly here.

>>468981
Because only insecure nerds feel the need to try and create an identity for themselves for themselves by wearing fancy shirts.

I hate when hipsters pretends to be a nerds when they are not.

>>468981

Someone needs to post that facebook pic of the girl wearing a Justice League shirt and calling it an Avengers shirt. This is what is wrong these people.

I don't get why you people care so much about other people not being as 'hardcore' as you. It mystifies. It's almost hipster-ish.

apparently, a part of my reply isn't allowed to be posted, so i can't really continue this because i have no fucking clue which sentence or word was the problem.

either way, i stand behind what i said thus far.
good day to you, sir.

>>469020
Because for a very long time things such as anime and gaming were shunned for being nerdy which most people here were always interested in, now that people have become interested in them it's annoying to us.

>>469110
It's annoying that what we were shunned for is now considered cool.

>>469110
So it's a bad thing that things you like are becoming more popular.

Still sounds hipster to me.

>>469127
whats bad is that its becoming popular but those who liked all along are still excluded

It's obvious why we hate it. IMO It's not the words "lol im such a nerd" that angers us.
We get angry because these words are a lie and are said only for attention.
So people that say this are attention whores.
And everyone hates attention whores.

>>469134
Excluded from what? If it's something you like, what's to stop you from still liking it? Are you worried about looking cool for it now? This makes no sense to me.

I once overhead some guy making claim of being such a nerd
typical hipster faggot, thick rim glasses ironic vintage t-shirt
so I ejaculated in his coffee
guy didn't seem to notice or if he did not make a ruckus so he wouldn't lose face to the girl he was eating with.

>>469153
the popularity. being a part of the group. they may say they like the same things but the nerds of old are still kept out

Imagine you're a black guy raised in the ghetto.
Now imagine that you're poor as fuck, your dad beat you and your mom every day, both are druggie alcoholics that can barely support a family.
You're black, and poor, so there's racism against you everywhere, this forces you into the drug game just to be able to live another day. you're living a miserable life, You want out, but you can't, 'cause that's just how you've been raised.

Then comes along some faggot from a rich family that raps about bitches and parties, and suddenly every suburban whiteboy in the country starts acting 'gangsta' wearing baggy clothes listening to that fake rap shit thinking it's cool, who's loving parents can support them, who can get any job they want, living a privileged and easy life.

That's pretty much why actual nerds hate hipsters who call themselves nerds.

>What guys think girls mean when they say "nerd"
Some pasty white dork with bad hygiene and baby face
>What they really mean
Handsome alpha as fuck guys who aren't really nerds, they just wear glasses and maybe know from which planet Luke Skywalker originates.

>Play Gameboy Color for the hell of it, so I don't get my DS stolen.
>Read this thread
>Feel bad even though I know my pokemans.

>>469152
Attention whoring is a horrible thing. But just because a person didn't like something before it was popular doesn't make them bad, or an attention whore.

>>469171
The same people will have been attention whores that just follow trends regardless.
So why do you want to associate with those people?

>>469175
Actually, I know that pretty well. Though my dad was a good guy but mostly absent. I'm not even mad. Those people just make themselves look stupid, it's no skin off my nose.

> omg, I love Pokemon so much
Sweet, who's your favourite 'mon
> Pikachu, CAUSE HE'S SO CUTE :3
uh, okay sure. So what EV's do you usually put on him?
> lol, why would I put an Eevee on him?


Every. Fucking. Time.

http://youropenbook.org/?q=im+such+a+nerd&gender=any

Obligatory. With love.
-/g/

>working on my home work for class, I'm such a Nerd :D
>I know I'm such a nerd but....I LOVE the Pizza Hut app!!! It was actually fun ordering dinner ;)
>I find it weird that I can spell the word veterinarian right without even thinking bout it............. I'm such a nerd -:D

>>469203
I play Pokemon, always have since Gen I.

I don't EV train because I don't care about the metagame. Doesn't stop me from liking Pokemon.

>>469207
Okay, those kind of people are retards.

That's why I prefer the word aspie
doesn't necessarily mean the same things
but at the least no one would be dumb enough to not notice it has a negative connotation.
i won't be seeing that many "I love aspies" shirts any time soon.

Unless you excel at at least one particular field of study, you aren't a nerd.
Anything involving art or music doesn't count.

>>469216
wait a damn fucking minute!
why is those people are retards but the people we are talking about in this thread arn't!?

>>469232
There's a difference between being a new fan of something and claiming to be nerdy because you ordered a pizza.

>>469228
I didn't think excelling in a field made one a a nerd
I thought it was having a socially crippling obsession with a field that made one a nerd.

>>469216
...and that's why we hate people who call themselves nerds.

Hot topic needs are to real nerds as wiggers are to black people

>>469236
I think the whole point of her calling herself nerdy is bacause she did it over the internet. And this is why we hate them even more.

>>469239
But that's not quite what I was asking.

>I don't get why you people care so much about other people not being as 'hardcore' as you. It mystifies. It's almost hipster-ish.

Like the person who was talking about Pokemon EV's. Is there really anything wrong with liking Pokemon for cute critters as opposed to 'This is my team that will rip Arceus himself a new asshole!'

Both like the games, just for different reasons.

>>469228
So I can't be a nerd even if I know everything there is to know about bunraku theater?

>>465564
>Why do you hate people who call themselves nerds so much, /r9k/?

Repressed lust.

Pic related, OP.

I fucking hate those fucking faggots. They're also fucking cancerous.

>>469283
>lusting after people with braindamage
Listen here, son, I know you may have some fucked up fetishes, and that's allright and fine, but that doesn't mean everyone shares them.

>>469236
to
but you still get the weeaboo title
thats a fair exchange

>>469274
/v/ here, do you know why we hate them that much? Because they're attention whoring GRRL GAMUR types.

Also, because wannabe nerds outnumber us 10:1 and supply/demand forces developers to release casualised games. (vidya equivalent of selling out for you normal people).

>>469306
Hasn't the majority of people who buy video games always been what you'd call 'casuals' pretty much since Pong consoles were popular?
If a game doesn't suit your tastes because you find it to be too casual, don't buy it. But you don't have to hate other people for liking it. It makes you look like an elitist asshole. Maybe there's something I'm missing.

>>469340
games have pretty much been a market for children and manchildren all the way up till i think the late 90s'
as such they were actually fun.

I don't know why anyone would call themselves a nerd. It's a fucking insult.
You fucks are worst ones.

OH NO WE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON WITH ATTRACTIVE PEOPL

>>469340
Yes, most of the people have always been casuals. Hoowever they've usually played things like platformers and arcade games. But as of late they dragged down nearly the entire FPS industry with them.

>>469340

Back in the SNES days PC games were usually quite different to console games.

There are things that they could do then that they will not do now.

>>469361
frankly i never liked FPS

>>469340
>If a game doesn't suit your tastes because you find it to be too casual, don't buy it.
But the market is resistant to making "non-casual" games, esspically in genres the causals like.
Why make a old school twitch FPS when a slow console one like CoD will sell better? Why make a Turn Based Strategy game when casuals are more likely to pick up a real time one? Why make a hardcore number crunching RPG when an action game with the RPG parts tacked on sells better?

>>469364
>Back in the SNES days PC games were usually quite different to console games.

Modern console gaming is a cancerous mess because it's trying too hard to be like PCs while not doing even close to as well as an actual PC. Which is why FPS suck these days

>>469375
>Why make a hardcore number crunching RPG
Japan still makes a fuck ton of those

>>469274

That guy that was talking about Pokemon EV's is here (well I hope I'm that guy)

I don't mind it when people like Pokemon for the cuteness or for whatever reason it may be but when people claim to 'love' it and show that love in an obsessive way without even knowing basic stuff such as EV's really pisses me off.

Just wanted to point that out.

>>469378
But hey, at least we have Ace of S- oh wait, they ruined that, too

>>469378

I wasn't even thinking about FPS. I was thinking more, ah...

4x games.
Adventure games.
Isometric anything.
Turn-based anything.

>>469391
>4x games.
I don't think there's been any big attempt to move 4X games to the consoles. And we're still seeing a few being made for PCs.

>>469391
the most recent civilization game wasn't that great I admit.

I think your picture should sum it up OP

>>469397
I never got round to playing it, what happened?

>>469391
For the record. Stack-of-death was a flaming bag of shit. Even if everything else in Civilization V sucked ass. Y'know, when I think about it. We're lucky Civilization V even got released. Look at that abortion-of-a-sequel FPS that X-COM is being turned into.

I kind of understand what you're getting at now. But it seems like even if more people got into the deeper levels of gaming not much would change.

>See friends wearing video game shirts
>"Oh hey you like those games too?"
>"What? No, we're just pretending dude, we're not actually nerds even though we say we are."

>>469421
Again. There's a difference between a person being a new or even just a passing fan of something and only pretending to.

>>469415
>Look at that abortion-of-a-sequel FPS that X-COM is being turned into.
And Syndicate. Though Paradox are making up that apparently.

>>469430
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate_(2012_video_game)

LOL, nope. it's real and EA's publishing. This isn't the first strategy game EA ruined either.

>>469446
How can you say it's ruined when it's not en out yet?

>>469451
thats what /a/ does with anything from JC staff and more often then not they are right.

>>469451
Second sentence in the article seems to be good enough to draw that conclusion

>>469451
It's being turned into an FPS. It was originally an Isometric Tactics game.

>>469475
But it still might be fun. You never know.
Then again, it's EA.

Because when you're labeled a nerd/geek/dork by others, you catch shit upon shit for being who you are. The common painful experienced shared by those with the title becomes a point of pride almost. (Like working class shit.)

When someone comes along, grabs the title for themselves, gets praise upon praise for it, and has to endure none of the turmoil for it, it's a bit maddening.

>Like if someone get got to be a Marine and didn't have to do bootcamp or active duty
>If someone just got their diploma and didn't have to pay, study, or write papers
>When some asshole spoiled kid gets a brandnew car the day he turns seventeen, then wreaks it and thinks nothing of it

See what I'm getting at?

>>469480

Bro, if it was a good game it would still be a "ruin" in that it isn't a sequel as much as another game stealing a label.

>>469494
Kinda like how we were discussing fake Nerds stealing the title of Nerds from before?

>>467217
>be 2005
>be in school talking to only two friends about E3 and the new shit that was coming out
>girl over herd me
>why don't you get a life and go out more nerd!
>2009
>talking to friend about or crappy band we had in high school
>see same girl with a 8-bit shirt
whatthefuckiswrongwiththesepeople

>>469502
letts not derail the thread

>>469494
I suppose you're right in that regard. But just because they changed it, it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to suck.

>>469504
That bitch is a hypocrite. Which are bad people no matter what you're talking about.

>>469502

Dunno. But one way you could look at it:

>how many recent fps games can you play?
>how many recent games can you play that are like first two Syndicate games?
>how many recent games can you play that are like UFO: enemy unknown?

It's like when the real veterans who got pretty big scars on their backs and lost some friends out there get pissed off when the guys who've been sitting around in front of a laptop for the whole time in an air-conditioned room calls themselves a 'veteran'.

The uniqueness of the social group and the perceived intellectualism comes with the years of social ostracism and prejudice from the peers. If you haven't dealt with it, you're not a nerd.

>>469446
>it's real and EA's publishing
I'm an idiot. Meant to say
>Paradox are making up for that
by making a spiritual successor.

>This isn't the first strategy game EA ruined either.
Remember a few months ago when they renewed their Copy Right on Alpha Centauri? Wonder if they'll do anything with it.

My girlfriend is a nerd.

>>469589
>>This isn't the first strategy game EA ruined either.
> a few months ago when they renewed their Copy Right on Alpha Centauri? Wonder if they'll do anything with it.
When I said "This isn't the first strategy game EA ruined either." I was reffering to the Command & Conquer games. But no, I don't feel safe with the rights to Alpha Centauri in EA's hands either.

>Be not fat reasonably attractive female
>read and watched too many anime/manga to count
>Play a couple Capcom, Valve, and Atlus games.
>In love with Ms. Marvel's entire 2006 solo series, and the civil war arc, my Christmas present is a 12 month subscription to Marvel digital comics.
>go to anime conventions, volunteer at tabletop gaming conventions
>have casual all-female DnD group.
Why an all female group? CAUSE YOU FUCKERS ARE CRAZY.

>attempt to join school gaming club
>"Oh, you want to try gaming? Okay, well FIRST, you should know that the dice we use are reaally different, see, this one is called a-"
>"D20 Right? you use it for skill checks and to roll initiati-"
>"Shhh, It's called a DEE TWENTY. LIKE THE NUMBER. BECAUSE IT HAS TWENTY SIDES."
>"... I know."
>"Look, see how big and shiny it is?"
>youbestbetrollinme
(cont)

>>469808
(cont)
.

Later
>Have to run to a gaming fair as soon as I get out of class to help out one of the games
>decide to wear my elf ears to school, saves time, plus everyone loves them.
>Someone says "Wow, you're a REAL NERD GIRL ANON."
>"Well, I mean, I guess I am, but I'm really mostly just a weeaboo.. I'm pretty new to gaming, I'm just helping out by sending people on quests and being a wood elf-"
>"YOU'RE NOT A REAL NERD GIRL. IF YOU FOLLOW NORSE MYTHOLOGY THOSE EARS ARE SNOW ELF EARS BECAUSE THEY GO BACK. NOT WOOD ELF. HOW CAN YOU CALL YOURSELF A NERD"
>Woah bro. Okay. Whatever you say. If it means that much to you, just calm the fuck down.

I don't really care whether I'm a 'nerd' or not, but fucking let me play my goddamn games, and read my goddamn comics without someone fucking spitting fire at me every time I make a mistake, or treating me like I'm three years old and don't even know about goddamn dice, or treating me like I'm a fucking fairy unicorn from mars come to bless the new generation with hope, fan service, and sex.
NO. I'M JUST A FUCKING NORMAL PERSON. I don't do it for posting about how 'nerdy lol' I am on facebook, or brag about all of the neckbeards who want to fuck me to my friends, or to be a 'GAMURGIRLLOLOLOLOL'. I just want to do shit I like to do and get treated like a person by other people who do the same things I do.
FUCK THIS WAR ON HIPSTER NERDS.
IMAD.

>>469808
Protip: The sane guys who enjoy nerdy stuff keep it to themselves.

Do you think I went to fucking anime clubs? Hell no, it's filled with Narutards and landwhales obsessed with yaoi.

>>465646
Morton, Wendy, Lemmy, Ludwig, Roy... And... Uh.... I guess I'm not a nerd...

>>469808
>>469818
I can't substantiate this in any way but you can practically hear her vagina dripping at the opportunity to type a sixteen page wall of text about how she's a REEEAL nerd despite being a GURRRRLL, don't hit on me you silly boys!

Yeah yeah, it was a valid opportunity, but that's what makes it so juicy, and that's why REAL GAMER GRRRRLS suck the most ass, because deep within their bosom they too are attention whoring pieces of shit.

>>469818
>>"YOU'RE NOT A REAL NERD GIRL. IF YOU FOLLOW NORSE MYTHOLOGY THOSE EARS ARE SNOW ELF EARS BECAUSE THEY GO BACK. NOT WOOD ELF. HOW CAN YOU CALL YOURSELF A NERD"
Congratulations, you've discovered that nerds are anal and pedantic.

>FUCK THIS WAR ON HIPSTER NERDS.
I'm not sure why it bothers you. if you're not such-a-nerding then you won't get targeted for being a "hipster nerd"

>>465682
Holy shat that was hilarious

A good test to see if someone is really a nerd is to get them to watch any high-fantasy movie or tv show for the first time. If they ask a question about it which ends in "...back then?", they are definitely NOT a nerd. A nerd can discern fantasy from history.

At least those "hipster" nerds are fun to be around, real nerds in my experience are know it all assholes who think they're better then you.

>>469906
You know there's people in between these people and neckbeards, right?

BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING HIPSTER FAGGOTS AND NOT GOD DAMNED NERDS THEY KNOW NOTHING OF ANYTHING NERD LIKE EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST 2 EPISODES OF POKEMON AND MOTHER FUCKING STAR WARS. You don't understand my extreme hatred towards some people like this.

The only thing nerds had that it was special was their distinctive sub-culture. Now hipsters took it from them. I would be mad.

I guess I'll tell my story...
>never really be truly nerdy
>really into computer programming, read a few webcomics, love ren fest, play vidya causally
>senior year of high school just now figuring how to fit in
>being a 'nerd' is 'cool' now
>girls tell me that I'm not pretty enough to be a nerd
>wtf?? nerds != pretty
>hate people calling themselves nerds ever since

>>465564
Because they aren't actual nerds, they are just poser hipster faggots pretending to be nerds because LOL SO NOT MAINSTREAM

>>470003
Somehow, I see the two bottom ones as the sadder of the three people depicted.

At least he doesn't look like he'll forget how to breathe anytime soon.

>>465564
But those are Hipsters

>>470037
The truly 'ironic' thing is that nerds are mainstream, wait...
>inception

oh fuck. yeah, real nerds scare me. I have insanely nerdy tastes, but the stereotypical nerd is painful to be around. there's an assortment of neckbeards and nasally mandark fucks playing MtG across the quad and hearing their random squealing is wtf. sadly if I had a deck I'd probably join anyway lol

>>470081
oh and I forgot to mention, i would 9/10 rather chill with said nerd nerds then those fab hipsters

Its like a scam artist calling himself a doctor, and people believing that he is one. He still gets respect, he still gets patients, he still gets high pay. Does it not make you mad?

i've been playing tabletop DnD since i was 13, diablo, baldurs' gate, warcraft, WoW (quit 2 years ago), dragon age, warhammer and a bunch of other games, mostly RPGs.

i am very well-adjusted, i have good friends, a girlfriend and i'm going to uni and getting decent grades

i have never in my life said that i was a nerd. people who call themselves nerds are pretty much the people everybody hates. and people who give attention to stupid, vapid, hipster "nerds", well.. its not really their fault. people are stupid, they do stupid shit

>>470175
Not really. It's like a poser calling themselves a neo-nazi. And he still gets respect and everyone thinks he's unique and interesting.

You want to know why I mad? Sit the fuck down, shitbags, it's motherfucking goddamn story time.

Being a nerd or a geek or a whatever isn't a fashion statement. We didn't wake up one day and just decide we were in a "nerd" mood and put on that shirt for the day, it was our lives. When all the little boys started playing sports we were playing Legend of Zelda, when everyone was starting to socialize and learn to talk to girls, we were getting laughed out the door before we could even start trying because we played Legend of Zelda.

We didn't form some subculture to make friends and be cool, we became friends from necessity because we had nothing else. We formed that subculture because while everyone else was learning how to socialize normally we had nothing else. We obsessed over worthless tiny details in irrelevant shit because if we weren't going to have sex in high school anyway, then goddammit we were at least going to enjoy it.

And then, after 20 years of being on that island, after finally coming to terms and embracing our "antisocial" behaviors because we finally learned that there were others like us, that we could bond over the very thins we used to be ostracized for, we weren't so ALONE, after all that, that same fucking girl that laughed at you because you liked Nintendo instead of football and giggled behind her hand with her friends whenever they saw you, now her new fake glasses and triforce tattoo are like so totally chic and the very things that made it impossible for you to be social are props for those other people to socialize with. They use the only things you ever had to get what you could never have

Thanks to these faggots, I feel like a gigantic douche whenever I want to watch Star Wars.

>>470401
Nicely said.

>>470401

Son, I'm proud.

Because this OP
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

>help this chick who wants to play Legend of Zelda Link to the Past download an SNES emulator on her Android tablet
>also download Earthbound because Earthbound is a legitimately kickass game
>show her a website to download more ROMS
>a few minutes later
>"hey anon this rom isn't working"
>go check it out
>she tried to download an N64 rom
>she tried to download an N64 rom and play it on a SNES emulator
>the game was Bug's Life

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS PLAYOFF OF A SUBCULTURE

>>467373
>mfw pretty much all of 4chan has a crush on this gurrl for playing hon, minecraft etc.
>mfw they pretend its solely because she plays those

>>470583
Here's a tip:

Always assume women are as retarded as a bag of rocks when it comes to technical things.

Don't hate, correct them. You'll be surprised how well women can like you when you're not "OMG U R SO DUM"

>>470634

I was polite about it.

BUT HOW THE HELL DO SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM AND NINTENDO 64-BIT SOUND ANYTHING ALIKE?

Beautiful people pretending to be nerds. Especially tall blonde girls wearing fake glasses and scarfs.

I am one of those handsome dudes who grew up as a nerd but cant dress like that anymore because I looked like newage hipster. Even though I grew up during the 90's and did the whole grunge thing, this time around people are doing it for all the wrong reasons. Dont get me started on hipster movies and music. They need to shut the hell up.

>>470659
What about hipster literature?

>>470647
>NINTENDO 64-BIT
I fucking hate you so much right now. How dare you talk about other people being ignorant. I am going back to /g/.

>>470647
Because they have Nintendo in the name

There are things you don't know, too, brah.

>>470684
But..it's a 64-Bit console..
W..wow..

>>470634

That's generally a good way to treat all people, not just women. If you know something that they don't, then help them out and show them what to do. If they ignore your advice, then you get to call them dumb.

>>470699
but it's not called "Nintendo 64-bit"

>>470730
Cry more. It's a 64-bit console. He called it a Nintendo 64. Obviously the "bit" part at the end was a joke.

Calm your tits, faggot bitch.

>>470730
I know it's not called the Nintendo 64-bit. It's called the Nintendo 64.

However, I am pulling attention to the fact that the number '64' in the name 'Nintendo 64' has a meaning, and was chosen to represent a specific purpose. Also, to the fact that the SNES is a 16 bit system, and is physically unable to support an N64 game at any capacity.

Somehow this confuses hipster 'nerdy' chick though.

>>470784
here's the thing

when you're telling a story about how someone is omgsodum for fucking up he name of a toy, it does you well to not also fuck up the name of that toy

also jokes are supposed to be funny

>>470806
you're allowed to like video games without knowing all that shit though. I'm sure you do lots of stuff without knowing even basic details about them. it's the beauty of specialized post industrial society.

for example, you don't even know what 16 bit and 64 bit mean without going to wikipedia and copy pasting a few sentences here to pretend like you do.