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Offline 18 Days

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Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« on: May 05, 2006, 12:02:53 AM »
K so at uni I'm studying to be a primary teacher. But cos I like games and stuff I decided to do a few multimedia units. Alot of the otehr students are doing Games Tech as their major.

Anyway the unit has a very active message board to complement the class and I just act like the little bitch I am, upsetting them all. It's the best fun ever. I've found a few things nearly always hit a nerve and get them going. And here I'll share them with you.
Call WoW players losers.
Openly deride Firefox
Claim that opensource software are cheap imitations of better products, placing emphasis on Linux.
Explain that no one could give a damn about flash animation.
Champion iPods.
Show great enthusiam for anything that isn't games, graphics cards or anime.
Suggest that someone mustn't have attended the lecture if they didn't know simple facts.

The last one really get's people going, nerds must be the only demographic that thinks it's cool to rock up to lectures.

So which of these offends any of you? I'll rub it in for you
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2006, 12:35:43 AM »
Openly deride Firefox, but only because it's a dumb thing to do :P

I hate those flash pages with the repetitive music and wallpapered backgrounds, only someone with autism could find them remotely funny.  
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2006, 12:37:53 AM »
oh VITAL for our make a website project. Theres all these whinging nerds crying about how they wont be able to put in all their flash animations because of the 4MB size limit.

Openly deriding Firefox is easy these days too. Basically Opera is better in every way except ease of use. In fact I think Firefox gets worse with every release, Mozilla runs faster than it these days.
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2006, 03:41:20 AM »
>Explain that no one could give a damn about flash animation.

Wait... that's 100% true, right?
Just some random guy on the internet who has a different opinion of games than you.

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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2006, 04:54:33 AM »
I hear Macs suck, can anyone confirm this?  Oh wait, there's actually no need to since it's fact...
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2006, 06:37:38 AM »
I hear some pieces of crap derive fun from trolling. Are you with these guys?

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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #6 on: May 05, 2006, 07:51:13 AM »
lol, I like that GNAA one, i'm gonna use it to piss off some people lol.  

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RE:Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #7 on: May 05, 2006, 07:54:47 AM »
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Originally posted by: 18 Days
Anyway the unit has a very active message board to complement the class and I just act like the little bitch I am, upsetting them all. It's the best fun ever. I've found a few things nearly always hit a nerve and get them going.
So which of these offends any of you? I'll rub it in for you

ok, let's see.....
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Call WoW players losers.
I don't like WoW, so it doesn't bother me ^^
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Openly deride Firefox
it's the one I use, but Opera is better overall. So no, I don't mind
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Claim that opensource software are cheap imitations of better products, placing emphasis on Linux.
oh well, they're free anyways, so.....
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Explain that no one could give a damn about flash animation.
wait, someone does? o.o
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Champion iPods.
honestly, I don't understand what you meant with that....
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Show great enthusiam for anything that isn't games, graphics cards or anime.
I love games and anime, but there are other things out there, like books (so nop, not offended...)
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Suggest that someone mustn't have attended the lecture if they didn't know simple facts.
that's what my professors say
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RE:Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2006, 08:11:09 AM »
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Openly deriding Firefox is easy these days too. Basically Opera is better in every way except ease of use. In fact I think Firefox gets worse with every release, Mozilla runs faster than it these days.


I think 'ease of use' is a big deal, don't you?  But yeah, none of thsoe things are very offensive to me personally.  I only champion Firefox over IE, so no harm, no foul.
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2006, 08:26:50 AM »
How is Firefox easier to use? Just because it's an IE clone?

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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #10 on: May 05, 2006, 08:45:51 AM »
Obviously you're not a nerd Athrun! Seriously you wouldn't think how protective and panicky the nerds get over these. Especially the flash one. I though everyone was in agreement that flash and animated gifs were annoying NOT THESE GUYS! VITAL FOR INTERACTIVE WEBSITES APPARENTLY!
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2006, 09:41:56 AM »
If you want to get nerds upset just do one of two things.

1. Praise Microsoft products.  or
2. Say you prefer the Special Editions of Star Wars.

Though I'd like to point out the irony of a bunch of guys posting on a videogame forum making fun of nerds.

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RE:Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2006, 09:46:59 AM »
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
If you want to get nerds upset just do one of two things.

1. Praise Microsoft products.  or
2. Say you prefer the Special Editions of Star Wars.

Though I'd like to point out the irony of a bunch of guys posting on a videogame forum making fun of nerds.



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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2006, 09:56:26 AM »
Show great enthusiam for anything that isn't games, graphics cards or anime.
>>More suggestions: cars, Lakers/anything sports, current events, harry potter is a ripoff of ___
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RE:Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2006, 10:16:49 AM »
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Though I'd like to point out the irony of a bunch of guys posting on a videogame forum making fun of nerds.

Hahaha, the taste of irony is so bittersweet...
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RE:Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2006, 06:20:26 PM »
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
If you want to get nerds upset just do one of two things.

1. Praise Microsoft products.  or
2. Say you prefer the Special Editions of Star Wars.

Though I'd like to point out the irony of a bunch of guys posting on a videogame forum making fun of nerds.



that was so brilliant!
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RE: Upsetting Nerd Fraternity 101
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2006, 10:33:25 PM »
Ian: 18 Days isn't a guy so it's okay. I mean, Birdos should be allowed to have some fun, too.