Video Games, Geeks, Nerds, and the lot

[Snickie]

Nerd: Someone who is intelligent but socially awkward.

Geek: Someone who is intelligent and socially adept. Usually very good at one thing. (Band Geek, Car Geek, Computer Geek, etc.)

Dork: Someone who is socially awkward.

Which is why people will never admit to being a dork.

By Jason's definition system, I am a socially awkward band geek. And math geek. And science geek. Yet I'm still heavily a nerd.

Contradiction, much?

[Jason W.]

By Jason's definition system, I am a socially awkward band geek. And math geek. And science geek. Yet I'm still heavily a nerd.

Contradiction, much?

Actually, that just makes you a nerd.

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if(socially_awkward){
  if(intelligent){
    class = "nerd";
  } else {
    class = "dork";
  }
} else {
  // TODO: insert Geek definitions here.
}

[Joshuamonkey]

if(socially_awkward){
if(intelligent){
class = "nerd";
} else {
class = "dork";
} else {
// TODO: insert Geek definitions here.
}

Yay programming!
You don't have to be only one or the other. Everyone different qualities that make them partly something and partly something else. Also, people have differing degrees of social awkwardness, and it also depends on the situation. I like nerds, and I respect not being embarrassed about nerdy/intelligent things, so that's my choice.
I just took a 100 question nerd test and got "65% nerd pure" and the average is 73.8% for those who've taken the test.

[Snickie]

if(socially_awkward){
if(intelligent){
class = "nerd";
} else {
class = "dork";
} else {
// TODO: insert Geek definitions here.
}

Yay programming!

.... -twitch-
I understood the English part of it, but the programming... I know that's super simple programming, but I still don't get it.

You don't have to be only one or the other. Everyone different qualities that make them partly something and partly something else. Also, people have differing degrees of social awkwardness, and it also depends on the situation. I like nerds, and I respect not being embarrassed about nerdy/intelligent things, so that's my choice.
I just took a 100 question nerd test and got "65% nerd pure" and the average is 73.8% for those who've taken the test.

Care to post a link?

[Joshuamonkey]

I understood the English part of it, but the programming... I know that's super simple programming, but I still don't get it.

In programming, the equal sign means that whatever's on the left side is changed to whatever is on the right side. I think it would've been better to use a variable, but I guess class is being used as a variable here?
Anything after "//" is a comment and doesn't affect the program. The if and else stuff is mostly logic, and an if statement can be combined inside another if statement.

Care to post a link?

I was originally planning to, but then I was hesitant because one question is inappropriate.
http://www.armory.com/tests/nerd.html
There was also a 500 question one, but I didn't want to do it.

[Jason W.]

I understood the English part of it, but the programming... I know that's super simple programming, but I still don't get it.

In programming, the equal sign means that whatever's on the left side is changed to whatever is on the right side. I think it would've been better to use a variable, but I guess class is being used a variable here?
Anything after "//" is a comment and doesn't affect the program. The if and else stuff is mostly logic, and an if statement can be combined inside another if statement.

I was originally planning to, but then I was hesitant because one question is inappropriate.
http://www.armory.com/tests/nerd.html
There was also a 500 question one, but I didn't want to do it.

And the curly brackets encapsulate related statements. So it's nested. It might have looked better if I had used the code tag.

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if(something is true){ // if statements are decision statements.
  do this code
  and this code
} else {  // else means "if the above is not true, do this"
  do this other code
  and this one too
  if(something else is true){     // this if is inside the else
    run this third line also
  }
  this is all still in the above section
} // end the if statement

I'm sure that just makes things more confusing.

[Snickie]

I understood the English part of it, but the programming... I know that's super simple programming, but I still don't get it.

In programming, the equal sign means that whatever's on the left side is changed to whatever is on the right side. I think it would've been better to use a variable, but I guess class is being used a variable here?
Anything after "//" is a comment and doesn't affect the program. The if and else stuff is mostly logic, and an if statement can be combined inside another if statement.

I was originally planning to, but then I was hesitant because one question is inappropriate.
http://www.armory.com/tests/nerd.html
There was also a 500 question one, but I didn't want to do it.

-goes to take it-

And the curly brackets encapsulate related statements. So it's nested. It might have looked better if I had used the code tag.

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if(something is true){ // if statements are decision statements.
  do this code
  and this code
} else {  // else means "if the above is not true, do this"
  do this other code
  and this one too
  if(something else is true){     // this if is inside the else
    run this third line also
  }
  this is all still in the above section
} // end the if statement

I'm sure that just makes things more confusing.

Yes, but also clears some things up. Oxymoron much? xD

[Addicted]

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if(socially_awkward){
  if(intelligent){
    class = "nerd";
  } else {
    class = "dork";
  }
} else {
   if(intelligent){
    class = "geek";
  } else {
    class = "jock";
}

[phoenixannwn]

Apparently I'm 80.0% nerd pure. Math and programming make my brain hurt.
I'm really more of an english geek, as well as a reading geek and a game geek. I can fake social adeptness (charm) but when I'm not trying, or trying to be myself, I'm hopeless in social situations.
Improperly spelled words (No instead of Know, there instead of they're) could probably incite me to murder.
I think philosophy and psychology are fun.

[Alladinsane]

Thanks Phoenix!

I was sure this thread was going to die as soon as the programming lingo started to filter in.

[Joshuamonkey]

I was sure this thread was going to die as soon as the programming lingo started to filter in.

Or the multiple programmers on this forum would start speaking up.

[phoenixannwn]

geek/nerd<3

[gejyspa]

I still can't decide my classification under the Jason W. system. I'm intelligent, skilled in many fields (many of them obscure, although definitely NOT musical instruments), and I'm probably very much towards the awkward side of social skills (which is why it's so gosh darn good that I'm married, because finding a girl? No way it could ever happen...).

[Snickie]

I still can't decide my classification under the Jason W. system. I'm intelligent, skilled in many fields (many of them obscure, although definitely NOT musical instruments), and I'm probably very much towards the awkward side of social skills (which is why it's so gosh darn good that I'm married, because finding a girl? No way it could ever happen...).

By the Jason W. system, you are a nerd.

Hooray for nerds!

[Jason W.]

class = "jock";

Nice.

By the Jason W. system, you are a nerd.

Yep.