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So what's up with nerd dating/freinds?

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    Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Please tell me you don't walk round wearing a fedora/ top hat...

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    The only reason I have a girlfriend is so that whenever I'm talking online I can mention that I have a girlfriend every chance I get.

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    KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TLB I'm prettysure my parents have been on webcam in tinychat with me more than you have. That could be because you're a coward, though. So. Y'know. Shrug.

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    as a young earth creationist anti-vaxxer otaku furry juggalo gamer

    it is hard for me to meet people

    Tasteticle on

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    AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    redhead wrote: »
    im socially awkward and blame it on literally my entire city

    help me, forum on a website about a webcomic about videogames!

    :^:

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    The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    i actually went through a period in my early 20's where i realized that i had a lot of "friends" who i actually really disliked as people

    they played warhammer or D&D or liked comic books or otherwise shared hobbies with me

    but outside of those shared hobbies they were fucking losers and i actually didn't enjoy doing anything with them except playing those games with them or whatever

    i realized that these people are best defined as acquaintances and are not worth my time trying to invest a great deal of effort into being close with

    because the truth is, i don't really like them very much

    in some cases, they felt the same way about me but were too polite to really broach the subject

    I honestly could not do this

    I ain't hanging out with no one I can't drink a beer and shoot the shit with

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    as a young earth creationist anti-vaxxer otaku furry juggalo gamer

    it is hard for me to meet people

    It must be hard for you to find time to be a moon landing hoax enthusiast as well.

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    LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I once went into a place where the were playing some tabletop game (it was a shop too, I wasn't invading someone's house) because I thought that it'd be interesting to see what was going on and maybe I could get involved. But then it went really quiet and was given a funny look so I quickly left.

    Have that anecdote on me.

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    there's actually a tabletop/comic book store right by my apartment but I'm hesitant to scout it out because man I've been in comic book stores before they are usually filled with pretty terrible people


    what I'm saying is that I'm wary around people who strongly identify as "nerds" because chances are they are loud and awkward and make bad jokes about NERD THINGS and probably possess poor hygiene and ugly faces and smelly butts too

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    LexxyLexxy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    as a young earth creationist anti-vaxxer otaku furry juggalo gamer

    it is hard for me to meet people

    This is a wonderful post in conjunction with your avatar.

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Hunter wrote: »
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    as a young earth creationist anti-vaxxer otaku furry juggalo gamer

    it is hard for me to meet people

    It must be hard for you to find time to be a moon landing hoax enthusiast as well.

    oh now that is just ridiculous

    Tasteticle on

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    The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    TLB I'm prettysure my parents have been on webcam in tinychat with me more than you have. That could be because you're a coward, though. So. Y'know. Shrug.

    Nah I just got more important things to do

    Like throw this ball against this brick wall for hours at a time

    It is more intellectually stimulating than talking to you

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    HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Liiya wrote: »
    I once went into a place where the were playing some tabletop game (it was a shop too, I wasn't invading someone's house) because I thought that it'd be interesting to see what was going on and maybe I could get involved. But then it went really quiet and was given a funny look so I quickly left.

    Have that anecdote on me.

    Your girl cooties irritated their acne.

    Hunter on
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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Tasteticle wrote: »
    as a young earth creationist anti-vaxxer otaku furry juggalo gamer

    it is hard for me to meet people

    i am not sure why but this made me burst out laughing + spray spit all over my monitor

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    UlisesUlises Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    i dig being alone

    i'm worried i dig it too much though

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    KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    TLB you appear to be talking to me


    right


    Now.

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    Please tell me you don't walk round wearing a fedora/ top hat...

    oh god
    dude in one of my classes comes in every day wearing shorts, a t-shirt, sandals with socks, and a fedora


    wanna steal his lunch money

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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    One comic store I go to doubles as a record store (it's called The Record Store oddly enough)

    I guess that's how they make their money because I can't see a store that gets by just selling comics these days

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    Do not have a cow, mortal.

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    The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Liiya wrote: »
    I once went into a place where the were playing some tabletop game (it was a shop too, I wasn't invading someone's house) because I thought that it'd be interesting to see what was going on and maybe I could get involved. But then it went really quiet and was given a funny look so I quickly left.

    Have that anecdote on me.


    this is probably the best mental image ever for me

    80% of this being because I picture all british ladies as mary poppins

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    Mr. ClarkMr. Clark Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Maybe i should be more specific

    I live on Long Island, which is like new jersey with poorer air quality.

    In my defense this is my first topic, and was proabably a bad idea. Total flamebait.

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Also what the fuck is this OP talking about? NY has like the biggest fighting games scene in the US.

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    LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Hunter wrote: »
    Liiya wrote: »
    I once went into a place where the were playing some tabletop game (it was a shop too, I wasn't invading someone's house) because I thought that it'd be interesting to see what was going on and maybe I could get involved. But then it went really quiet and was given a funny look so I quickly left.

    Have that anecdote on me.

    Your girl cooties irritated their acne.

    Probably a good job, I would have been trying to hand out Clearasil.

    Liiya on
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    The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    TLB you appear to be talking to me


    right


    Now.

    well it's raining

    and I hate myself

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    skettiosskettios Enchanted ForestRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Usagi wrote: »
    Go outside, do stuff, meet people, have fun

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    KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    TLB you appear to be talking to me


    right


    Now.

    well it's raining

    and I hate myself

    I don't blame ya

    have you seen Red yet

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    i love nerds though. like a lot of the nerds here and other actually tolerable places on the internet seem to take the "i'm a pretty huge nerd myself, but most other nerds are too smelly/awkward/obnoxious to hang out with" attitude

    i love almost every nerd i've ever met, even the super awkward ones

    i'm pretty easy to please when it comes to meeting new people, i guess, but seriously nerds own.

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    The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I actually had a brief period where I wore fedoras

    But then I kept sleeping with this one broad when I wore them and she stole my fedoras afterwards

    and now I have no fedoras

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    CorporateLogoCorporateLogo The toilet knows how I feelRegistered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Liiya I think they were just shocked to see a lady

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    LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited October 2010

    this is probably the best mental image ever for me

    80% of this being because I picture all british ladies as mary poppins

    "Oh, ah... this is not the teacups and umbrellas shop! Deary me, spit spot!"

    Liiya on
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    Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Ulises wrote: »
    i dig being alone

    i'm worried i dig it too much though

    Then clearly you don't dig it enough and you are a lier!

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    Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I was watching 'pointless' today on BBC Two. My first thought when I saw the winning contestants: wouldn't be surprised if they posted on the Penny Arcade forums.

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    TasteticleTasteticle Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I also have a pink shirt with a picture of a pug on it that says

    "Pug Life"

    why don't people like to talk to me

    Tasteticle on

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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    redhead wrote: »
    i love nerds though. like a lot of the nerds here and other actually tolerable places on the internet seem to take the "i'm a pretty huge nerd myself, but most other nerds are too smelly/awkward/obnoxious to hang out with" attitude

    i love almost every nerd i've ever met, even the super awkward ones

    i'm pretty easy to please when it comes to meeting new people, i guess, but seriously nerds own.

    you are

    the king of the nerds

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    The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    TLB you appear to be talking to me


    right


    Now.

    well it's raining

    and I hate myself

    I don't blame ya

    have you seen Red yet

    not yet

    I been busy with apartment hunting

    and learning to drive

    and working too much

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    KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    TLB you appear to be talking to me


    right


    Now.

    well it's raining

    and I hate myself

    I don't blame ya

    have you seen Red yet

    not yet

    I been busy with apartment hunting

    and learning to drive

    and working too much


    oh
    I have an apartment
    and can drive
    and work too much
    and still saw Red.


    I am disappointed in you TLB

    Kochikens on
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    PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    i actually went through a period in my early 20's where i realized that i had a lot of "friends" who i actually really disliked as people

    they played warhammer or D&D or liked comic books or otherwise shared hobbies with me

    but outside of those shared hobbies they were fucking losers and i actually didn't enjoy doing anything with them except playing those games with them or whatever

    i realized that these people are best defined as acquaintances and are not worth my time trying to invest a great deal of effort into being close with

    because the truth is, i don't really like them very much

    in some cases, they felt the same way about me but were too polite to really broach the subject

    I honestly could not do this

    I ain't hanging out with no one I can't drink a beer and shoot the shit with

    this is more or less where i am at now

    there was a time in my life, mostly when i was transitioning from one vaaaaastly different social crowd to another

    where i was just happy to find people to spend a little bit of time with doing something wholesome

    nowadays, i don't bother with folks like that

    i tried doing D&D Encounters earlier this year (which is like a pick-up group D&D thing that gaming stores run for Wizards of the Coast) and i just couldn't do it after a couple weeks

    i couldn't hang out in the basement of a gaming store with a bunch of people who are fucking losers and pretend to enjoy their company just because we all play dungeons & dragons

    i kept thinking "i have friends who play D&D, and even though we can't play on a regular basis because of work/kids and other real life commitments, i still don't need to slumming with you troglodytes"

    i mean not everyone there was an awful cretin, some of them seemed like decent chaps i'd go to the pub with after a game

    but most of them?

    yeeeeurgh

    no thank you sir

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    redhead wrote: »
    i love nerds though. like a lot of the nerds here and other actually tolerable places on the internet seem to take the "i'm a pretty huge nerd myself, but most other nerds are too smelly/awkward/obnoxious to hang out with" attitude

    i love almost every nerd i've ever met, even the super awkward ones

    i'm pretty easy to please when it comes to meeting new people, i guess, but seriously nerds own.

    you are

    the king of the nerds

    let me tell you about competitive super smash brothers.

    redhead on
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    Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    TLB you appear to be talking to me


    right


    Now.

    well it's raining

    and I hate myself

    I don't blame ya

    have you seen Red yet

    not yet

    I been busy with apartment hunting

    and learning to drive

    and working too much


    oh
    I have an apartment
    and can drive
    and work too much
    and still saw Red.


    I am disappointed in you TLB

    That one doesn't work

    you can drive

    he has to take time out to have lessons

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    LiiyaLiiya Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    I was watching 'pointless' today on BBC Two. My first thought when I saw the winning contestants: wouldn't be surprised if they posted on the Penny Arcade forums.

    I am watching the opening bit. Let me guess, the tall skinny awkward ones and then one with a stupid hat a beard?

    Liiya on
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    DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    redhead wrote: »
    let me tell you about competitive super smash brothers.

    yes, my liege

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