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There is more "room" for normal people, but the true devotees I think are still a bit out-there. I have been noticing recently that I fundamentally think differently to my peers, but am completely at home with people I have met through common technological ideology.

A "friend" recently told me off for being too nerdy, and I couldn't help but think (maybe it's too self-centered of me, but still) "Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games".

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I’m grateful for having a friend group that’s mostly not in the tech industry but just accepts my nerdiness nonetheless.

This kind of technical culture has been around donkey’s years, if you read some of the conversations between early wireless telegraphy operators it sounds a lot like the early internet! Babbage himself basically told a British politician to “STFU noob, garbage in garbage out” when asked whether his difference engine would emit the right results if its operator put in the wrong figures into it.

usually, with friends, you can say "fuck you, i'm a nerd then" and they would be cool with that

Exactly, and then it gets easier with people that don't really matter

You should have told him that.

I remember having ~0 friends, not worth the risk. Trite, but that's my thought process.

"Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games".

Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....?

I know a lot of people who play video games, but need me to help them build a computer or reinstall windows. Despite interacting with tech all the time they have zero desire to understand how it works. Also they didn't say that they don't play video games too. They are just also interested in tech.

> Well, if they spend all day playing video games who exactly is or is not the nerdy one here.....?

Not the video game players.

By nerdy I really mean following up details and learning things for the sake of it. Video games are not nerdy any more, nerd culture has completely won over the last 15 years or so.

> "Fuck you, people like me built the world as it is now so people like you can spend all day playing video games"

Did you personally contribute to this great "world building" or are you just being tribal?

They literally wrote "people like me", not "I personally built all those games".

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