People.

>>16878509
Goodnight Ladies and Gentlemen

Nobody should call anything "GNU/Linux". That name is just stupid.

Call it "Fedora" or "Ubuntu" or whatever else when you're talking about the distribution. And when you're talking about the standard system, it's just "Linux". The GNU tools are neither the majority nor the most important part, there's no point in pointing them out.

You wouldn't call Windows "GNU/Windows" just because you installed mingw on it, now would you?

Neckbeards.

>>16878520
What the fuck does GNU do anyways?

Heh, the second it becomes cool to be a geek or a nerd, we become something else. Of course.

People is a great term for us now, since, if they want our name so badly, they can have it. We'll just settle into our cozy new denotation...

The kind of social reject that most of 4chan is made of is commonly named neckbeard around these parts.

Also grognard, but that's another thing altogether.

No true geeks or nerds gladly christens themselves geeks or nerds. Hipsters are the ones obsessed with labels.

Besides, nerds or geeks were labels that would have been applied TO us BY other people before they were appropriated for other people's purposes.

We've never cared about what we've been called. We just gather every Saturday night to roll dice, drink beer, and have fun. We don't care about how cool we look. Coolness is secondary to fun. Always has been.

>>16878578
This.

But if you must have a term, Neckbeards is probably the closest.

>>16878578
That's the thing I worry about, though. When we were known as nerds or whatnot, we had a recognized place in society. We might not have cared, and it might have been a shitty place, but fundamentally it was still accepted that that was who we are.

Now it's gone and people who were once just called geeks or nerds are getting diagnosed with autism (and I'm not saying autism isn't a real thing but I don't think of it as a disease) and SPD and whatnot out the ass, and the things that make us who we are are getting treated as abnormalities that ought to be "cured."

That worries me. Better to have a known and accepted place in society than to have society see you as a problem that needs fixing.

>>16878624

FRIEND COMPUTER HAS DEEMED YOUR SOCIAL DESIGNATION OBSOLETE.

PLEASE PROCEED DIRECTLY TO YOUR NEAREST AVAILABLE TERMINATION BOOTH.

>>16878531
It helped to destroy the monopoly of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company.

>>16878520
Are there substitutes for GNU?

>>16878663
try asking Moist Von Lipwig

>>16878624
>Now it's gone and people who were once just called geeks or nerds are getting diagnosed with autism (and I'm not saying autism isn't a real thing but I don't think of it as a disease) and SPD and whatnot out the ass, and the things that make us who we are are getting treated as abnormalities that ought to be "cured."

Well, what better way to destroy a group's identity than to completely co-opt it and turn it into something malleable and marketable?

You might be interested to know that this is in fact a documented phenomenon, and being pissed off about it is very natural. When someone takes something that's close to your heart, skins it, and repurposes it for hip consumption, you feel as if a part of you is being corrupted. It's no longer about the thing itself, but rather a fetishization of it that takes its most superficial elements and rebrands them for easy digestion.

There are those who attempt to copy, accurately copy, or even enjoy legitimately, our hobbies. The obsession of labels is a simply the people's way of making themselves unique. It's not enough to play zelda games, you have to tell people about how you played the ORIGINALS and are thus a TRUE NERD.
Honestly? I couldn't give a fuck what they call themselves.
What's annoying is that they slander what I love, they bend and twist it until it isn't what I love. And the creators of it reach the dilemma of choosing between what is creative and original, and what sells.

When it comes to us, or those of us who enjoy what we do because of what it is, we are just people. People who band together in the common goal of doing what we love, and never letting it go.

We are people who are much alike.
We are bros.

Also neckbeards.

>>16878624
HERPADERP

Autism is more severe than just "liking nerdy things." It involves social and psychological disabilities that are generally just a stereotype.

If you can't tell your general "nerd" from the autistic character in Rain Man, then I don't even know what to say.

>>16878745
>the obsession of labels
>is a simply the people's

I cannot into grammar tonight.

Nonetheless, it's not about what we get called, it's about people pretending they're us.

>>16878624
> I don't think of it as a disease
>Hasn't met any low-functioning autistics, that can barely communicate in words

>>16878787
He might be talking about aspbergers Which is technically related.

Anyone who is obsessed with anime or table top stuff is a geek.

Anyone who plays all types of game and knows how a computer works and builds and understands them is a nerd.

Anyone who thinks they are smart and wears glass while shouting memes, loser fag/hipster

That's how I do it.

>>16878815
Aspbergers is just 'autism-lite'
There is such a thing of varying levels within sickness.
Hell, there are even three types of diabetes, but all people think of is DIABEETUS fat people.

Aspbergers means you suffer from the same symptoms, and likely the same cause, but your symptoms are lighter and you can function in society for the most part.

>>16878815
We refer to those people as 'sperglings.

I guess the difference between hipsters and non-hipsters is that non-hipsters are interested in a subject for its own sake while hipsters are interested in a subject for the sake of how much more socially marketable it makes them to (appear to) embrace that subject.

That's really the shortest and most accurate way I can put it. If anyone else wants to try, go ahead.

>>16878851
>Hell, there are even three types of diabetes
what?
Type 1: You're fucked, your body just doesn't produce insulin, enjoy your shortened lifespan
Type 2: Diabeetus fatus, hey, go for a fucking walk and lose some weight you fat fuck


enlighten me on this 3rd type anon, because i think you're talking shit

>>16878835
But the faggots in question call themselves by these names of ours. Seeing how their associates are mostly as dumb as they, they'll be able to convince them that they are 'smarticle nerds' with some random, useless fact about the nth digit of Pi or how many dollars of damage their fermi housefire did to them.

Thus, the proper use of the names in question are losing their true meaning. Thus, we require a new name.

Neckbear it is, then.

Dorkwads.

>>16878663

Yes, but I've never seen any good ones. The BSD/MacOSX coreutils are retarded in some pretty trivial-to-fix ways, and some other less-trivial ways. Their grep seems more limited (some stuff I've tried just doesn't work on osx, but does if I use GNU grep), and there's a bunch of other problems

>>16878908
I hate being called a neckbeard, since i think neckbeards look retarded.

>>16878893
There's a medical term called 'pre-diabetic'
Although technically they are not diabetic, they're people who are halfway between healthy and type 2.

All type 2 diabetics were pre-diabetic, which developed into full-blown diabetes. A pre-diabetic can live fine without insulin, but they'd be healthier if they took a little bit. It's a growing concern in American due to shittier and shittier diets, with lots of sugar and crazy chemicals in our food.

Last number I read was some 30 million americans were considered pre-diabetic.

Also: Type 1, pancreas doesn't produce insulin. Treatment has advanced a ton in the past ten years. Due to the above reasons, and so many type 1s getting diagnosed early in life, they may very well live longer than average.

Type 2: You ate a ton of shitty food and fucked your pancreas over. You produce little to no insulin anymore. Try taking your insulin you stupid fuck.

Pre-diabetic: Eat healthier, you dumb fuck. You're going to be type 2 if you keep this up.

1337 h4x0r5, obviously

>>16878908

On the other hand, "neckbear" is kind of awesome.

>>16878730
>When someone takes something that's close to your heart, skins it, and repurposes it for hip consumption, you feel as if a part of you is being corrupted. It's no longer about the thing itself, but rather a fetishization of it that takes its most superficial elements and rebrands them for easy digestion.

Thank you for perfectly describing my feelings on Steampunk, among other things.

Still though, what can you do? Absolutely nothing, save distancing yourself from the idiots and continuing to do what you love regardless.

The geek is dead -- Long live the geek.

>>16878931
It also occurs to me that some hipster faggots have physical neckbeards.

I still like Neckbear, though. It's like having a fist in your chin, but only with words.

>Pic unrelated, but it'll draw attention to the thread.

I kinda self-identify as a dorky-ass hipster. I typically dress like a hipster and listen to "obscure" music. At the same time I'm heavily into mecha anime and /tg/-stuff. I'm not into these things for irony's sake, but because I actually like them as hobbies.

>modern society is changing, what used to be somewhat normal is now seen as a disease that must be corrected

You know what must be done. Marxists destroy Western society, it doesn't matter what part of Western society you belong to, the Marxists want to destroy your part of it, along with the rest of what has made our society great.

dwarves

>>16879173
This is what confuses me so, with all the people saying "lol im such a nerd"

Who are all of the non-nerdy people, then?
Old folks? Even though old folks often dress stylishly due to the fashion backlash.

>>16879173
That's who he reminds me of.

>>16878520

Pic related

Neckbeard has been deemed the ultimate insult to ones social prowess.

God speed modern-dwarves.

techpriests?
Machine cult?

Outcasts
Pariahs
Untouchables (I like this one for the Sean Connery implications)
Untermenschen (if you want to be edgy)
Morlocks
Wombles

>>16878730
>When someone takes something that's close to your heart, skins it, and repurposes it for hip consumption, you feel as if a part of you is being corrupted. It's no longer about the thing itself, but rather a fetishization of it that takes its most superficial elements and rebrands them for easy digestion.

I could not have said it better myself; this entirely.
>i HATE that feel .jpg

Have a bump. The word must be spread.

>>16878751
>It involves social and psychological disabilities that are generally just a stereotype.
Yes, but there was a time when these disabilities and/or limitations were just seen as something a lot of nerds did; for example, talking incessantly about a subject that everyone else has long since lost interest in, or never had any interest in. Or being utterly oblivious to body language / unable to read between the lines. They weren't liked by society by any means, but there was a certain resigned acceptance - "that's just what a lot of nerds are like". Now people attempt to change this, try to come up with drugs or treatments to make high functioning autistics into something that they aren't.

There are some autistics (low functioning) who are literally retarded; I don't think they're worth talking about here because they simply fall under the category of actual retards. Some retards are otherwise neurotypical, should we say all neurotypical people are thus retards, or judge them by that group? No.

SOA

Sons of Assholetep