Finance Geeks
You apperceive what makes a algebraic alarmist al of a sudden cool? Authoritative $15 actor a year and alive a Maserati to the grocery store. Sure, you're a douchebag, but you're a douchebag with money. Who's accepting a wedgie afterwards calculus chic now, jocks?
Sports Geeks
There's a appealing huge aberration amid accepting able to douse and alive all of Xavier McDaniel's home bold stats for the 1994 season. The above is alleged an athlete, the closing is alleged a statistics nerd. But back they alarmist out about sports, it's absolutely socially adequate and about accepted in assertive circles. I mean, if there are confined based about a amulet like this, you apperceive you will not get exhausted up for accepting into it.
Car Geeks
Being a car geek, like accepting a sports geek, is all about an attraction with numbers. But because those numbers are apropos to things like torque and ratios and application that appear calm to bear the amusement of traveling absolute fast in a hot car, this is apparent as a appealing blowing hobby. Of course, if the attraction is added with the vroom vroom noises than the mechanics of the engine, you lose out on the above upside of accepting a geek: brains.
Music Geeks
There are absolutely two types of music geeks: austere music appreciators, and musicians. Sadly, authoritative music is beneath air-conditioned than absolutely affection to accept to music if you don't play in a bedrock band. Those bandage affected jokes don't appear from nowhere! So sorry, flautists! You will never be apparent as cool. And there are a lot added flautists out there than there are Sammy Hagars.
Movie Geeks
Being air-conditioned into movies is appealing socially acceptable, although there are absolutely subgenres here. Accepting air-conditioned into art abode films? Very cool. Accepting air-conditioned into abhorrence movies? Beneath cool. Repeatedly accepting your affection torn by George Lucas but continuing to captivate about aggregate he does? Completely unacceptable.
Food Geeks
Liking to eat is one thing, but adequate absolutely accustomed with the exact time and baptize temperature to baker the absolute soft-boiled egg? Alive the names of every hot chef and area they cook? Tracking absolutely how far the basal capacity in your meal travelled to get to you? This elevates ache to a actively aberrant level, one that generally makes humans detestable pricks to eat around. "Oh god, McDonald's? I haven't eaten there in years!"
Gamers
As kids who grew up with Atari abound up into adults purchasing Xboxes and PlayStations, video amateur are searching beneath like toys and added like a huge ball genre. Hell, it's boxy to acquisition a macho in his 20's who isn't a gamer these days, and the video bold citizenry is alone accepting beyond and larger. But still, if you try talking about your admired basal assassin burglarize from Borderlands or your best killstreak in Modern Warfare 2 while at the country club, you are traveling to be looked at like a child.
Gadget Nerds
Here's one that we're appealing accustomed with about these parts. While the acceptance of accessories such as the iPhone and Xbox 360 accept fabricated fetishizing agleam artificial altar abundant added adequate and mainstream, accepting a afire fanboy or a absurd aboriginal adopter will still get you funny looks by added accidental apparatus users and appreciators. Because really, if you get a hard-on for firmware updates, no girls will wish to allocution to you unless you body said girls yourself.
Programmers
Everyone loves their huge alternative of iPhone Apps and the amazing software that allows them to do so abounding altered things on their computers, but the association who in fact accomplish this getting are still apparent as shut-in geeks. That's boring adequate beneath and beneath true, as programmers such as the Google guys and Mark Zuckerberg about-face cipher monkeying into billions of dollars, which absolutely helps abate the stigma. But still, Zuckerberg seems like a huge douche, so it may be a wash.
DIY Computer Geeks
Building your own computer is adequate added and added of a alcove activity, with laptops adequate the computer of best for a lot of humans and video amateur affective to the animate space. But there's still a actively alive accumulation of humans who adulation the achievement that architecture your own rig brings, and the air of ahead it makes them feel for accepting able to cross the about bulletproof apple of PC components. And man, don't acquaint them you "custom ordered" your Dell unless you wish to be faced with a halitosis-tainted beam aimed appropriate at you.
Cosplayers
You see cosplayers a lot of generally at conventions, such as ComicCon. Basically, they dress up like their admired video bold or cine characters, generally with a beauteous bulk of detail. But really, no amount how abundant accomplishment you put into your costume, if you're dressed up as Cloud from Final Fantasy VII, there's a absolute as to how air-conditioned you're traveling to look.
Otaku
These association are absolutely bedeviled with Japan and its anime culture, accession all sorts of figurines of either huge-breasted fantasy girls or shy-looking schoolgirls and accepting bookshelves abounding of manga books and anime DVDs. They alter accustomed amusing interactions with hours spent fantasizing about a apple that doesn't in fact exist. Sad would be the chat for it.
LARPers
Dungeons and Dragons is appealing geeky, but it's a lath game, so it's done in the aloofness of one's home. Not LARPing. LARPing is like demography D&D into the absolute apple by bathrobe up like orcs and knights and such and accepting a big, fake, awkward action in a accessible park. There are no winners in these battles, only losers.
Furries
There's annihilation beneath Furries at the basal of the beatnik barrel. These association dress up like human/animal hybrids, generally for sexual-fantasy reasons. As abundant as I wish to say "go for it!" to anyone with an oft-mocked hobby, well, this proves that even broad-mindedness has its limits.
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