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An interpretation of Geeks, Dorks, Nerds and their sub-divisions (gamers)

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FnordChan

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etiolate

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I'm a little bit of all those categories, except dweeb. =/

Sci-fi, comics, videogames, books.. I never played much pen & paper games though. So I'm saved there. They got their music section a little off. Dorks love ze indie music.
 

Borys

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Something for the fanboys:

Though these are primarily the interest of gamers, practically everyone has played a videogame at some point in their lives. However, dorks, and especially nerds, are nowadays constantly bemoaning the loss of innovation and the business failure of Nintendo and Sega. The nerdiest gamers of all generally consider the SNK Neo Geo to be the best games console ever, citing power and gameplay as their reasons. Since this cost in the region of £200, most gamers consider the best console to be either Nintendo's SNES or Sega's Saturn (or occasionally Dreamcast). Nowadays, dorks are almost (though not completely) unanimous in their verdict that Nintendo is the best videogame and console developer, and that it is unfairly failing due to Sony and Microsoft appealing directly to pop culture with generic, technically impressive games, which catch the attention of dweebs as well. (Some say that the PlayStation never truly became mainstream, though this ignores studies which show the people actually spend more time on average playing games than watching TV). The result of this is that more games are made for Sony/Microsoft, so game developers pay less attention to Nintendo, resulting in a cycle of less games for Nintendo causing popularity to drop and more games developed for Sony and Microsoft... and the cycle keeps on going. Fortunately for Nintendo fans, the GameCube/Xbox situation in Japan is inverted and Nintendo is profiting, while Microsoft is losing money on the videogame market
 

border

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There really is no common consensus on what the difference is between dorks, geeks, nerds, and dweebs. The authoritative tone makes it seem kind of stupid.
 

Diablos

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Dweebs - they can belong to any category of dork, but do not want to be. They are generally people who have been ostracised for some supposed reason or other by mainstream society and taken in by the dorks. However, for some reason they want to be cool, even (perhaps especially) if a passionate desire to be so was what made them a dweeb in the first place. Dweebs are generally looked down on by both jocks and dorks, but dorks are more willing to accept them.
:lol My best friend.
 
Dweebs - they can belong to any category of dork, but do not want to be. They are generally people who have been ostracised for some supposed reason or other by mainstream society and taken in by the dorks. However, for some reason they want to be cool, even (perhaps especially) if a passionate desire to be so was what made them a dweeb in the first place. Dweebs are generally looked down on by both jocks and dorks, but dorks are more willing to accept them.

Me :(
 

Liono

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"Nerds can generally be located in videogame shops and computer shops, although it is not unknown for them to be seen in comic book shops."

That part cracks me up-- it's like a documentary on the Discovery channel :lol
 

maharg

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Divisions and subdivisions of geekiness are only created by people who are so nerdy they're insecure enough to try and jump a higherarchy that doesn't exist so they can feel superior to people they've never met.
 
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