Try Hard Nerd

Hardworking, Socially awkard Nerd who is not smart but studious. Misses the main point of a conversation 90% of the time but 10% of the time does come in to save the day with their technical nerd knowledge that no one bothered to learn. Typically avg or slightly above average IQ, just annoys normal people with social awkwardness.

Example: Try Hard Nerd: According to book page 7, 2d(e)(iiiv)(1) and also according to previous calculations in the book of revelations noted in footprint 3.666 the answer is 1 plus 68 = 69 which matches the number of bed bugs in room number 96 because I counted each bedbug by hand
- Normal person: Thanks Try Hard Nerd…

by Holy Knight of the Sun God December 16, 2024

Learn the hard way

Experiencing negative consequences for doing something you shouldn't do or are told not to do.

You were warned that if you kept selling drugs, you were going to get busted. Now you're facing a 15 year sentence. Looks like you're gonna learn the hard way.

by TommyNoleBuc September 24, 2025

Hard Problem of Conspiracy Theories

The paradoxical chasm between the social-psychological explanation for why people believe in conspiracies (needing control, pattern-seeking, tribal identity) and the epistemic possibility that some of them could, in principle, be true. The problem is that the very tools we use to debunk false conspiracies (pointing out logistical improbability, lack of evidence, or psychological motives) cannot definitively prove a conspiracy doesn't exist, because a truly successful one would, by design, hide its evidence. This creates an unfalsifiable standoff where rationality feels powerless, and belief becomes a matter of faith in either institutional honesty or institutional omnipotence.

Example: "We laughed at the moon landing hoax theory, citing the sheer number of people needed to stay silent. But the hard problem of conspiracy theories hit when my friend said, 'A perfect conspiracy would look exactly like a perfect truth.' I had no logical reply, just a sudden, cold feeling that evidence itself might be a prank played by a universe with good op-sec."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Hard Problem of Objective Truth

The philosophical nightmare of defining what "objective truth" even means, given that all truth claims are made by subjective beings with limited perspectives. If truth is correspondence to reality, how do we access reality directly to check the correspondence? If truth is coherence within a system, whose system wins? If truth is pragmatic usefulness, useful for whom and for what? The Hard Problem is that every definition of objective truth seems to sneak in subjective assumptions, leaving us wondering whether "objective truth" is a real thing we're approximating or a useful fiction that keeps us honest.

Hard Problem of Objective Truth "You keep saying you want 'objective truth' about politics. But the Hard Problem of Objective Truth is that your 'objectivity' looks suspiciously like your personal opinions with better branding. Maybe start with 'less wrong' and work from there."

by Dumu The Void February 23, 2026

busting a try hard

A person who try's so hard they always get put down or in a bad place.

For example: A female who has been in a relation ship with a male for long time and then he leaves her for a younger girl and after she gets back with him and gets cheated on by him and she still secretly messages him non stop because she still loves him while she is also in love with his friend but neither like her and both use her. Therefore she try's to hard for a man and is busting a try hard. Can be male as well or anyone trying way to hard

by flying sandal December 25, 2012

the 90s hit her hard

When a person's eyebrow are so thin, or even not existent. It is assumed the person plucked their eyebrows so thin, a popular style in the 90s and early 00s, that they can no longer regrow them.

God, her eyebrows are so thin. The 90s hit her hard.

by Rose128 October 28, 2017

That's hard

A compliment; expressing extreme admiration of ones art or character.

A compliment on a person's style, fashion, and skill or form.

Respect,appreciation, something done well by working hard, staying focused, and dedication to ones self.

Recognition of ones talent or gifts

When someone gives having genuine concern and compassion for another person expecting nothing in return but only out of the goodness of their heart.

Rebecca: Hey Rickey listen to this new song I recorded. *hits play on song*
Rickey: Damn baby "that's hard"

Rebecca: I'm cleaning mother earth by picking up trash in my community.

Rickey: damn baby "that's hard".

I'm going to help you clean up too.

Rebecca: You are?

Rickey: yes.

Rebecca: "That's hard" I could really use your help.

by djbexxx October 27, 2022