And if you happen to ever be called one... please take a deep breath and don't freak out.  "Empy, what are you talking about!"  Check out this news article....

 

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/27/guy_who_lost_online_.html

 

 

Guy who lost online trollfight drives 1300 miles, burns dude's trailer

 

 

A dude on the internet referred to Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Petty Officer Russell Tavares as "a nerd" in an online trollfight. In one of the more dramatic tales of internet rage we've seen lately, the 27-year-old Tavares, who believed himself to not be a nerd, hopped in his car and sped off 1,300 miles from Virginia to Texas, where the name-caller lived.

 

Tavares photographed road snapshots along his route, and posted the images online, as if to prove to his internet peers that he was not a luzer. When he got to there, he burned the dude's trailer down. Tavares has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for arson. Snip:

 

    The feud started when Anderson, who runs a haunted house near Waco, joined a picture-sharing Web site and posted his artwork and political views. After he blocked some people from his page because of insults and foul language, they retaliated by making obscene digitally altered pictures of him, he said.

 

    Anderson, who went by the screen name "Johnny Darkness," traded barbs with Tavares, aka "PyroDice." Investigators say Tavares boiled over when Anderson called him a nerd and posted a digitally altered photo making Tavares look like a skinny boy in high-water pants, holding a gun and a laptop under a "Revenge of the Nerds" sign.

 

    Tavares obtained Anderson's real name and hometown from Anderson's Web page about his Museum of Horrors Haunted House.

This is the best way to scare people off the D&D boards...  *looks over his shoulder*

djeeeeeeeeez...... *rolls eyes* Don't these people have anything better to do?  :-\

The irony? After going through so much work, and driving, and setting of fires, The guy ironically, proved himself to be a nerd more then the guys photo-shopped pictures did. >_>

there's nothing wrong with being a nerd... but i don't think i am one,  i'm more of a geek

You know what?!?!  I'm a nerd and proud of it....

 

Wait, I'm NOT a nerd and how dare I call myself a nerd!

 

I am too a nerd!

 

Nu-uh.

 

Yeah-huh!  Watch I'll drive home and burn my own trailer down and THEN you'll see!!!

 

I wouldn't dare.

 

Oh, yes I would!  *hops in my car*

 

[/insanity]

... I never really got the difference between a nerd and a geek.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dork

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek

 

I think the basic difference is Nerd = ubersmart in general, Geek = uberknowledgeable about something random, even if they are not exceptionally intelligent.

I am a movie geek... but not a nerd....

 

 

Heh I got you all beat^^

 

I'm an Otaku^^

 

skip down to this part of it: In English/Internationally

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku

pppttthth  but have you been to Ota-con?

 

;)  Oh what was the geeky guy's name from MGS, the one in the locker that peed himself?

No to Ota-kon though I've been dying to go for years I can't afford to travel for justsomethign like that atm (poor college student /sigh)

 

As to MGS is that its name? if so I haven't heard of it

 

it that an accronym then I can't think of what it stands for. Closest I have Is Metal Suit Gundam or Mahou Sensei Neigima

Metal Gear Solid.  There was a mecha obsessed scientist who went by the nickname Otacon or Otakon, something like that.  Shame about the con business, if I get to make the road trip next year, I will let you know.  Its a kick in the pants.  Are you a manga or anime Otaku?  If so lets trade notes.

If you want to know the name, check out the msg4 trailer I posted awhile ago. ^_^

oh! Metel gear solid!

 

yeah I never became a hardcore fan of that. My cousin played the 2nd game up till you meet the lady that has the bullets dodge her and thats about all i've ever seen.

 

I'm a major Manga otaku but I started out as an anime fan (never really became an otaku for anime, I'm a big fan but not an otaku)

This made me laugh. A LOT.

 

And as its Simpsons Week, I'm going to say what Homer said when he went to Bi-Mon Sc-Fi Con.

 

"NNNNNNEEEERRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSS"  ;)

Vem, have you seen "Death Note"?

Vem, have you seen "Death Note"?

 

<-- Has.

http://forums.dragonmount.com/index.php/topic,18750.12.html

Also made a /mafia/detective game based on it, and need like, 15 more people :P

Vem, have you seen "Death Note"?

 

I own all 12 volumes and both the live actions movies^^

 

and before the 12 volumes were out in America I had already read and *LOVED* it online^^

 

actually...thinking back on it I made a joke about "I feel like L" in the Seanchan murderer game we played and BenT said 'Your more of a Misa Misa" and I got mad XD

 

Over all Death Note is my 3rd favorite manga^^. Full metal alchemist taking first place^^

I felt like Mello, going down in flames to try and flush Kira.

lmao, sadly we screwed up and you ended up being more like Misa Misa's Shinagami

 

 

When did we stop speaking English in this thread??  ;D

 

;)

I got lost as well......

Umm yeah, that.  The problem is I like apples better than chocolate.

 

Cads, the moment we broke into Otaku regions from just plain geekdom, Vemy and I transformed into our 2nd stage evolutions that all heroes and most villains have.

*smiles and nods*

 

Yes, dear. ^_~