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Things That Piss Me Off (Volume IX)
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Kraest 
KraestI am a geek. I am a nerd. I am an egghead. I was doing geometry proofs in sixth grade. In 8th grade science, I passed the year with a 112% grade. My math teacher in tenth grade often sat back and let me teach the class, because I taught many things in ways she told me she would never think to teach them.**
When exactly did being a "geek" or "nerd" suddenly become DURR I PLAY GAMES!?
I never got into base 16 or anything like that, but this picture RIGHT HERE is incredibly easy for me to understand, even though it uses not even base 16 but BASE FUCKING 30. If you don't get it from the link, there, base 30 is pretty much a hypothetical situation where ten is not ten, but thirty and there are 19 extra hypothetical numbers between 9 and 10 wherein letters take the places of said hypothetical numbers.
So many people who claim to be geeks, nerds and so on just don't get it. I don't understand this! If you take the time to read through the comments of that picture, you'll see me having a discussion with someone who pretty much states that he can't stand math and none of his hobbies have any math in them.
Bitch, what?
Everything has math in it whether you realize it or not.
So you like cooking? FRACTIONS.
You're an architect? GEOMETRY.
You're a musician? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK A TIME SIGNATURE IS?!
You work at a cash register at McDonald's? BASIC COUNTING, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION, BITCH!
Everything you ever learned in math class WILL BE applied in your life whether you realize it or not.
So when the fuck did being smart become about playing fucking games? Why do I have to dumb down what I say around self-professed geeks and nerds?
I mean, I play games, too, don't get me wrong. I play games and watch/play the Pokemon show and games, and I even have THIS JOURNAL with the title and subject professing how nerdy I am because I'm watching Pokemon, but you know what? That was just a joke. I don't consider myself a nerd because I like Pokemon, I consider myself a nerd because THIS is something I do for fun. I consider myself a nerd because when I lived with a friend of mine who had a hot tub with a motor that was on the fritz, I sat down with a notebook, a pen and a stopwatch while I was having my morning cigarette and I spent the morning figuring out the average time of how long the motor was on and how long it was off. Why? Because I wanted to know.
I am not a nerd because I have all of the heart in a Zelda game. I am not a nerd because I have all of the relics in Dante's Inferno. I am not a nerd because I've played every Pokemon game.
I AM A NERD, BECAUSE I AM SMART AND I GO OUT OF MY WAY TO LEARN AND BECOME SMARTER.
**-One example of this was teaching complementary and supplementary angles and how to remember them. The CO in complementary becomes 90 and the SU in Supplementary becomes 180 just by drawing a line or two
When exactly did being a "geek" or "nerd" suddenly become DURR I PLAY GAMES!?
I never got into base 16 or anything like that, but this picture RIGHT HERE is incredibly easy for me to understand, even though it uses not even base 16 but BASE FUCKING 30. If you don't get it from the link, there, base 30 is pretty much a hypothetical situation where ten is not ten, but thirty and there are 19 extra hypothetical numbers between 9 and 10 wherein letters take the places of said hypothetical numbers.
So many people who claim to be geeks, nerds and so on just don't get it. I don't understand this! If you take the time to read through the comments of that picture, you'll see me having a discussion with someone who pretty much states that he can't stand math and none of his hobbies have any math in them.
Bitch, what?
Everything has math in it whether you realize it or not.
So you like cooking? FRACTIONS.
You're an architect? GEOMETRY.
You're a musician? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK A TIME SIGNATURE IS?!
You work at a cash register at McDonald's? BASIC COUNTING, ADDITION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION, BITCH!
Everything you ever learned in math class WILL BE applied in your life whether you realize it or not.
So when the fuck did being smart become about playing fucking games? Why do I have to dumb down what I say around self-professed geeks and nerds?
I mean, I play games, too, don't get me wrong. I play games and watch/play the Pokemon show and games, and I even have THIS JOURNAL with the title and subject professing how nerdy I am because I'm watching Pokemon, but you know what? That was just a joke. I don't consider myself a nerd because I like Pokemon, I consider myself a nerd because THIS is something I do for fun. I consider myself a nerd because when I lived with a friend of mine who had a hot tub with a motor that was on the fritz, I sat down with a notebook, a pen and a stopwatch while I was having my morning cigarette and I spent the morning figuring out the average time of how long the motor was on and how long it was off. Why? Because I wanted to know.
I am not a nerd because I have all of the heart in a Zelda game. I am not a nerd because I have all of the relics in Dante's Inferno. I am not a nerd because I've played every Pokemon game.
I AM A NERD, BECAUSE I AM SMART AND I GO OUT OF MY WAY TO LEARN AND BECOME SMARTER.
**-One example of this was teaching complementary and supplementary angles and how to remember them. The CO in complementary becomes 90 and the SU in Supplementary becomes 180 just by drawing a line or two
Now get the hell out.
<3<3<3: 
kdbolitho
The Things That Piss Me Off
Things That Piss Me Off Volume I
Things That Piss Me Off Volume II
Things That Piss Me Off Volume III
Things That Piss Me Off Volume IV
Things That Piss Me Off Volume V
Things That Piss Me Off Volume VI
Things That Piss Me Off Volume VII
Things That Piss Me Off Volume VIII
Things That Piss Me Off Volume IX
Things That Piss Me Off Volume X
Things That Piss Me Off Volume XI
Things That Piss Me Off Volume XII
Things That Piss Me Off Volume XIII
Story Time!
Story Time Volume I
Story Time Volume II
Story Time Volume III
Story Time Volume IV
Story Time Volume V
Story Time Volume VI
Story Time Volume VII 
kdbolitho
but yeah no I think the definition changed somewhere down the line so that absolute morons could call themselves nerds.
/nerd
;P
"Won't somebody help me?" the teen cried out petulantly. His voice wavered, sounding tired from yelling too long.
Out from the gloom, stepped three other teenagers. All were thin and scrawny and wore a variety of scifi themed Tshirts. The two taller ones in the back cracked their knuckles into their palms in front of their "Babylon 5" shirts, and followed the third kid out of the gloom and into the light.
"I told you before that you're wasting your time," the apparent leader flatly said. He removed his mirror shade Raybans, holding them over his Dr. Who shirt. "Until basketball season is over, nobody can hear you down here. Nobody at all. And basketball season lasts a long time." He turned to the tall geek to his right. "Hey Jimmy! How long does basketball season last? Huh?"
The kid in the chair spat blood at the leader's feet.
"Yeah, like any of us would know a thing about that..." he said.
The leader ignored the insult and took another step forward toward his prisoner.
"Now, now Billy," he calmly told his victim. "Be rational. You can tell us now, or you can tell us later. And you really would rather tell us now than later."
"Never!"
"You don't think you'll talk?" He smiled and tapped the raybans against his chest. "We have ways of making you talk. Don't we boys?" The two other teens nodded, and cracked their knuckles yet once more.
"How can you do this to me!" the kid in the chair screamed. "We are all in the same chess club!"
"Billy, all you have to do to be let loose and walk out that door is simply tell us what we want to know. That's all. Is that so hard?" He stopped grinning and leaned forward, resting his free hand on Billy's shoulder as he loomed over him. "All we want is some... information. You give it to us, and we let you go. You don't, and you'll be in considerable pain for quite a long period of time."
His eyes narrowed and his face began to frown as Billy looked up and met his gaze.
"So tell us Billy," he asked threateningly. "What exactly are the combo codes to defeat the boss monster in level 64?"
1.A foolish or contemptible person who lacks social skills or is boringly studious: "one of those nerds who never asked a girl to dance".
2.An intelligent, single-minded expert in a particular technical discipline or profession.
I think gamers are trying to operate under the idea that they're single-minded and "experts" in that particular field. However, I think they're ignoring the "intelligent" part. I'm sure many gamers are intelligent, but the act of playing a game, or being obsessed with games, is not intellectually stimulating.
...Right?