Ripperjack
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I don't know about my fellow geeks here, but I get insulted when I see stories like this...
http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/741659.html
You see, unlike the wannabe geeks pictured here...
...I have been a geek ALL my life. Including the times when it was a social suicide to be one. I paid for my geekdom with the lifeblood of a teenager... self-esteem and popularity.
I remember back in the 80's, to the geek days of my youth, as an outcast seeking sanctuary in the schools computer labs making my own text adventure games, since in those ways warcraft was something you did with metal miniatures and dice. I was a hardcore geek, who suffered for my badge of honour. I bore the slings and arrows of jeers, insults and social rejection. Spat upon by the girls, who saw me but nothing as an abomination of nature, because I could make text appear on those alien boxes of light ( most of the girls at my high school never saw a computer before 1985. )
So when I see articles like this, where wannabe geeks are proudly walking around in their Star Trek outfits, flaunting Vulcan hand signs without the fear I had to endure when I was a geek... makes me angry at the inequity of it all! Why should they be about to do what I wanted to do back all those years ago, WITHOUT the associated pain I had to endure is blatantly unfair! :mad:
I say, if you see a wannabe geek, hurl your "LOOSER!" insults and make them feel what it REALLY is like to be a geek.
However, the number one thing that REALLY pisses me off. Is chicks strutting around flashing geeky symbols, in latex and leather, trying to be cool geek ( as pictured above ), when you know that they wouldn't bed a geek in a million years. If you don't want to play with the utensils, then FUCK OFF OUT OF THE KITCHEN!
http://www.sacbee.com/107/story/741659.html
You see, unlike the wannabe geeks pictured here...
...I have been a geek ALL my life. Including the times when it was a social suicide to be one. I paid for my geekdom with the lifeblood of a teenager... self-esteem and popularity.
I remember back in the 80's, to the geek days of my youth, as an outcast seeking sanctuary in the schools computer labs making my own text adventure games, since in those ways warcraft was something you did with metal miniatures and dice. I was a hardcore geek, who suffered for my badge of honour. I bore the slings and arrows of jeers, insults and social rejection. Spat upon by the girls, who saw me but nothing as an abomination of nature, because I could make text appear on those alien boxes of light ( most of the girls at my high school never saw a computer before 1985. )
So when I see articles like this, where wannabe geeks are proudly walking around in their Star Trek outfits, flaunting Vulcan hand signs without the fear I had to endure when I was a geek... makes me angry at the inequity of it all! Why should they be about to do what I wanted to do back all those years ago, WITHOUT the associated pain I had to endure is blatantly unfair! :mad:
I say, if you see a wannabe geek, hurl your "LOOSER!" insults and make them feel what it REALLY is like to be a geek.
However, the number one thing that REALLY pisses me off. Is chicks strutting around flashing geeky symbols, in latex and leather, trying to be cool geek ( as pictured above ), when you know that they wouldn't bed a geek in a million years. If you don't want to play with the utensils, then FUCK OFF OUT OF THE KITCHEN!
