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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 1728716" data-attributes="member: 19998">I have to wonder if the word nerd or dork is realy insulting today. There are nerds out there richerer than any sports star or team owner.For example Kobe Bryant makes about 15 Million a year, Bill Gates is worth 52 billion. Gee, who would you rather be? This actually reminds me of a mini-series I saw on PBS once. (Back when people watched PBS for documenturies rather than the Discovery Channel or the History Channel.) Microsoft used to be in the business of writing computer languages, and IBM originally came to them because they wanted to include BASIC with the OS they were going to use, CP/M. When IBM first approched Gates he was at some kind of coding convention, and was badly in need of a shower. (The stigma used to be attached to programers too, I guess they haven't realized they need to be over taken with alterintive and anti-social lifestyles yet.)Dork Tower has a substantial non-gaming readership. When I sign up for a new screen name on websites, fanboy is often already taken. Obviously some people think words like dork, nerd, and fanboy are neutral now. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't get my values from TV or the movies. I know gaming doesn't have the stigma it once had because of the people around me, I've given plenty examples of that.</blockquote>