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Nerd vs. Geek

Nerd vs. Geek

Everyone knows that we have to come to call each other nerds and have excepted this title. Though how nerdy we may think we are the term nerd is used inappropriately and we are indeed not nerds. Well most of us anyway.

"Our cultural definition of a nerd assumes nerds are smarter than average, have no clue how to dress attractively, and lack even the most basic social skills."

"A nerd is an intelligent person fascinated by knowledge and learning."

These are two definitions for nerds. Nerd are people who pursue knowledge and want to be as intelligent as possible. I strongly believe that we do not fall into this category with our pursuit of halo skill building. Nerds are often described as socially inept, and i know not one stereotype can describe everyone, for the most part this is probably true. I believe that we have great social skills even away from the online forum

So if we are not nerds what are we?

The answer is geeks.

"In contrast to a nerd, a geek is a person merely fascinated by technology. Not only that, but many geeks also watch cinema movies or read fiction books.(Such as Halo novels) A typical geek's brain probably has active both its logic and imagination centers, while the brain of a nerd may have an extremely active logic centre and an underperforming imagination centre."

We are halo geeks. Some of us are true halo geeks collecting, reading, watching, playing anything related to halo. But we are not nerds because knowledge about halo is not like knowledge about physics and Calc. We are not nerds we are Halo Geeks.

"You take a nerd, add a big dose of cool, and you have a geek. "

Here has been my opinion about halo ever since I started playing. I don’t know about everyone else but In Sand Town were Halo was a way of life it was a social game. Someone would have 10 -18 people at their house and we would all scream at each other and then eat some pizza and talk about all the cool shit and bullshit that happened in the game. Halo was the first social game that a large number of people could play in the same room without 20 different computers. So that is the biggest difference between a nerd and a geek, a nerd plays RPG's in the darkness of his room for hours on end with no human contact. A geeks hang out amongst ridiculous amounts of wires and hardware just to kill each other in a virtual environment.

"Geeks enjoy interacting with people, particularly other geeks. They share the nerd's involvement in science and science fiction, and may even be a "Star Wars geek" or a "Tolkein geek." But they also maintain a social life beyond their geek interests."

These are just my opinions, but I never ever felt smart enough to be called a nerd, but I have always felt nerdy enough to be called a Geek. So when someone calls you a nerd for playing too much halo say "I’m not a nerd I’m a geek" and then you will have proved their point for saying something so nerdy.