ADJ people that are interested in the things that most mainstream people looked down upon in the past decades of pop culture like D&D, science fiction, fantasy and that also includes like math and science, mythology and folklore
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Get the nerd mug.Someone who lives primarily in darkness. Probably likes warhammer 40k, and uses Henry Cavill as an excuse as to why it's cool. They think the fact that they play Dark Souls makes them cool, but it really just cements the fact that they are a nerd. They might also vape unironically.
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I whipped out my Steam Deck and got a Nerd Nod from the guy across the café.
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I whipped out my Steam Deck and got a Nerd Nod from the guy across the café.
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Get the Nerd mug.When someone who seems fairly mainstream blurts out something really nerdy revealing how nerdy they really are.
OMG! When Joe was talking about that book he really liked and then blurted out that, "if you look in the back of the book, it will tell you what fonts were used", he totally revealed his nerd tell!
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According to WIRED, “As a general group, nerds tend to be highly attentive to and focused on details — an obsessive need to know every last fact about their special interest, regardless of what specifically that is.3” While this article acknowledges the generalization being made a New York Times article claims “We’re All Nerds Now.” In this article, self-proclaimed “nerd”, Wil Wheaton says ““Becoming mainstream is the wrong word; the mainstream is catching up. Tech has become so ubiquitous and seamless in our lives,” he said, “and because tech and personal tech and wearable tech are such a part of our daily existence, we want to know more about them.c
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According to WIRED, “As a general group, nerds tend to be highly attentive to and focused on details — an obsessive need to know every last fact about their special interest, regardless of what specifically that is.3” While this article acknowledges the generalization being made a New York Times article claims “We’re All Nerds Now.” In this article, self-proclaimed “nerd”, Wil Wheaton says ““Becoming mainstream is the wrong word; the mainstream is catching up. Tech has become so ubiquitous and seamless in our lives,” he said, “and because tech and personal tech and wearable tech are such a part of our daily existence, we want to know more about them.c
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