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Post by vagsancho on Aug 2, 2015 14:52:30 GMT
I am not a fan of "Big Bang Theory". It does not amuse me. I've never laughed with that. However, pondering, I ask: In your considerations, Is a Fighting Fantasy Adult "fan" a Nerd?
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Post by deadshadowrunner on Aug 2, 2015 15:36:05 GMT
No
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 20:12:59 GMT
No, Vag, because FF people are actually aliens.
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Aug 2, 2015 21:01:04 GMT
Strictly a nerd is someone who excels at education. A geek has obsessional interests. A dork is someone who has problems with social interaction maybe autism territory.
Maybe we suffer from 'geek' a little bit but all hobbies and interests are like that. As long as you have a sense of humour and an ironical understanding then you are unlikely to be a true geek. For instance if you post the same response to just about everything when the subject matter is very different or calls for multiple interpretations then you probably have major deficits to the point where you cannot interpret those deficits and respond accordingly. Such a person does not belong on the board if they spoil it for everybody else.
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 3, 2015 0:17:53 GMT
I don't have much to add, so I'll just post other people's graphics (which chime with John's first definitions). I'd suggest that being on this forum makes us all obsessive. Intelligence and social ineptitude may vary. Alternatively there's this: (Both taken from Great White Snark. You can see where the latter came from originally, dunno about the former.)
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Post by offm on Aug 3, 2015 11:37:15 GMT
I call it rather a revivalism of childhood moments, i prefer that than calling it "a nerd thing" or "childish", a wonderful thing to stimulate the brain and imagination.
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Post by vagsancho on Aug 3, 2015 13:35:42 GMT
Since ever..i never saw FF Books like childish books.. I always saw them as extremely adult books like horror or porn movies. Selling this books in the childish section is like a joke to me.
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Post by hynreck on Aug 3, 2015 15:54:29 GMT
Do you feel guilty masturbating to FF books, Vag?
Also, I like the graph and drawing, MightyMudworm... everybody should get it, now. *cough*
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Post by kieran on Aug 3, 2015 16:25:21 GMT
Eh I'm sure some people would argue it was nerdy/geeky. Don't much care if they do.
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Post by vagsancho on Aug 3, 2015 18:03:26 GMT
Would it be a nerd thing to make born a cult of Fighting Fantasy, with a meeting of the cultists at every each three years in a midnight hour at stonehedge?
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 3, 2015 18:34:09 GMT
Yes indeed.
In general I wouldn't recommend one of those. They'll cost you a fortune in garden shears.
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Post by johnbrawn1972 on Aug 3, 2015 18:35:57 GMT
Do you feel guilty masturbating to FF books? Isn't that normal?
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Post by kieran on Aug 3, 2015 19:05:44 GMT
Start a religion based on genre fiction? Who'd be crazy enough to do that?
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Post by vagsancho on Aug 3, 2015 19:41:16 GMT
Start a religion based on genre fiction? Not a religous cult. An anti religious cult. There are wicca cults, hoodoo cults, yoga cults, voodoo cults, why not a fighting fantasy cult? Not a reality based on fiction, but a fiction transformed into reality. What is real after all? these two seconds of existence?
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Post by kieran on Aug 3, 2015 20:26:52 GMT
What would this cult be called? Livingstonemasons? Seventh Day Adventurers? Yaztromo's Witnesses? Westborri Baptists? Razaakfarians?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 20:37:52 GMT
Do you feel guilty masturbating to FF books, Vag? *cough* heh heh heh heh heh
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Post by thealmightymudworm on Aug 3, 2015 20:46:49 GMT
What would this cult be called? Livingstonemasons? Seventh Day Adventurers? Yaztromo's Witnesses? Westborri Baptists? Razaakfarians? Kharé Krishnas?
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Post by kieran on Aug 3, 2015 22:13:44 GMT
Haha good one!
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Post by hynreck on Aug 4, 2015 12:33:11 GMT
This thread is turning funnier by the minute! No sarcasm.
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Post by lorianprince on Aug 11, 2015 18:19:34 GMT
The definition if nerd is a geek without friends...
A geek is someone with an IQ of 120 or higher...
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Post by lorianprince on Aug 11, 2015 18:21:40 GMT
The definition if nerd is a geek without friends... A geek is someone with an IQ of 120 or higher... Or usehttp://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z167/Great_WhiteSnark/Nerd_Dork_Geek_Venn_Diagram.jpg
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Post by hynreck on Aug 11, 2015 19:02:18 GMT
The definition if nerd is a geek without friends... A geek is someone with an IQ of 120 or higher... Mmm. Someone is getting eliminated from the running.
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Post by champskees on Aug 13, 2015 9:12:41 GMT
I'll bite.
In my own opinion, I think an adult interested in FF is very likely to be introverted, more so than the average bookworm. FF is essentially a solo RPG combined with a fantasy novel, smack bang in introvert territory. Everything else about that person is likely an unknown without more information.
FF was originally aimed at a younger audience, but that doesn't mean it is nerdy to enjoy it. Are Harry Potter fans all nerds for the same reason?
But I suppose you have to define what a nerd is before you can answer that question. Some of the posters above have provided some clues as to what the characteristics are of a "nerd", but I think it is a meaningless term altogether.
So my answer to your original question is that it doesn't matter.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2015 21:27:21 GMT
A geek is someone with an IQ of 120 or higher... Hmm, well that cancels me out.
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Post by champskees on Aug 14, 2015 7:51:41 GMT
A geek is someone with an IQ of 120 or higher... Hmm, well that cancels me out. IQ as a number is meaningless unless you reference the IQ test being used. Different IQ tests = different SD.
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Post by vagsancho on Aug 19, 2015 0:30:36 GMT
In general I wouldn't recommend one of those. They'll cost you a fortune in garden shears. A fortune? I am a Tai Chi Chuan Instructor. I like to train/to feel Tai Chi Chuan in certain charismatic places. Would it be very expensive to do it inside Stonehedge? Would it be possible?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 2:13:07 GMT
Seriously
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Post by kieran on Aug 19, 2015 9:26:15 GMT
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Post by sylas on Aug 19, 2015 13:23:17 GMT
In general I wouldn't recommend one of those. They'll cost you a fortune in garden shears. A fortune? I am a Tai Chi Chuan Instructor. I like to train/to feel Tai Chi Chuan in certain charismatic places. Would it be very expensive to do it inside Stonehedge? Would it be possible?As a fellow Tai chi instructor, if you feel you need a place like Stonehenge to practice the art then you're probably learning it wrong and completely missed the philosophy behind it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2015 19:04:54 GMT
As a fellow Tai chi instructor, if you feel you need a place like Stonehenge to practice the art then you're probably learning it wrong and completely missed the philosophy behind it. Cool. I learn something new every day! : )
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