Where have all the true geeks gone? :)

[der_kluge]

Sports are far too mainstream for a real geek to enjoy them.

I hate sports.

For that matter, I hate pretty much every mainstream thing there is.

Except Reality TV. I loves my reality TV.

 

[francisca]

According to many of my sports-loving co-workers, the liking or not liking of sports is THE thing that makes one a geek (or not a geek).

Show me a guy who can recite every baseball record since Doubleday invented the game, and I'll show you a baseball geek.

Show me a guy who has teams is 5 fantasy football leagues, and can tell you the passer ratings of all of QB's along with their 3rd down efficiency rating, and I'll show you a football geek.

Show me a guy who can tell you what kind of strings Eric Clapton uses on his guitars and what kind of amps he has used on the past five tours, and I'll show you a music geek.

Show me a guy who can identify about 10 different kinds of depression era glassware on sight, and I'll show you an antique geek.

Show me a guy who can identify the year a Fender Stratocaster was manufactured by the number and placement of screws on the pickguard, and I'll show you a guitar geek.

Geeks come in all kinds of flavors.

 

[Crothian]

Sports are far too mainstream for a real geek to enjoy them.

So, geeks are not supposed to like anything mainstream? Becasue many things considered geek like TRek and Star Wars are very mainstream.

 

[der_kluge]

So, geeks are not supposed to like anything mainstream? Becasue many things considered geek like TRek and Star Wars are very mainstream.

I'm not sure I would consider Star Trek all that mainstream. Although Star Wars is admittedly mainstream.

But there are casual fans of these genres, and then you have us.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Geeks come in all styles and flavors...I am more of a nerd...we tried to become 'clerks' but that just did not catch on (even with a cool movie), technician and analysis worked for a while but then software got easier and our jobs moved to interns and we have been pushed back into support personel but we are still nerds.

 

[fusangite]

I'm very much cut from the original geek cloth. The gaming group I started in 1985 was based around me and the other kids who brought their computers to the fair. It is weird to have a hobby filling up with people who play sports, go clubbing and do other strange things out of our social reach.

Look at it as your hobby being gentrified.

 

[Gentlegamer]

Look at it as your hobby being gentrified.

Very fitting, especially for me and my choice of handle . . .

 

[EricNoah]

For that matter, I hate pretty much every mainstream thing there is.

Except Reality TV. I loves my reality TV.

Whew! For a second I thought I'd have nothing to lord over you!

 

[Arnwyn]

According to many of my sports-loving co-workers, the liking or not liking of sports is THE thing that makes one a geek (or not a geek).

Playing or watching?

 

[Desdichado]

Now adays, gamers are all over the map, they even like sports! A big chunk of diversity has hit the scene. The only problem is most of this crowd is in their early twenties, while I'm hitting 36. Makes me wish I could shave 10 years off and not be the old man in the group.

Which crowd? Surely you don't mean the crowd at ENWorld, where the median and mean ages both seem to be somewhere north of 30 most of the time when that good ole age poll gets revisited.

Where did all these more rounded people come from? LOL!

Maybe we just grew up a bit?