Um, the hormones do that for you, if you're actually in love.

After years of abuse from peers and family, why wouldn't we? Gotta have something to brag about

Preferably nude.

She's got a point there. Nerds - although intelligent - are usually shy and insecure. They are insecure because they are worried that the object of their affections will not notice their intelligence because they are shy and end up becoming someone else's girlfriend instead.

There's a saying: If all you have is a hammer, all problems look like nails. Because of the lack of social skills, nerds think the only way they can get girls to notice them is to show off their intelligence. Because of their insecurity, they think that either there won't be an opportunity, or the girls might forget that they are inteligent, so they end up forcing opportunities to appear out of nowhere. From the nerds point of view, they think that if the girl of their affections goes out with someone else, at least they will feel like they tried their best. However, to the girls, this comes accross as insecurity at the best, and obnoxious arrogance at worst.

Nerds should just learn to be comfortable with themselves - this is a pre-requisite for being comfortable with others. Opportunities do crop up from time to time - just don't force them to appear. Just be comfortable with who you are, and then, you will graduate from being a nerd to being a geek.

Not wearing underwear?

Girls you can actually have an interesting conversation with do exist - you gotta find 'em!

AE.

• Lose weight. Started dieting and working out. We'll see how it goes...

• Study Japanese. Read a little out of my "Japanese for Dummies" book.

• Get a job in the game industry. Started building a list of hopeful references for resume

• Improve my web-skillz. Thinking about doing a small website for the Allegro '06 Awards thread I posted. Best way to learn is to just jump into the deep end. :)

• Step into 3D (programming, that is). TBD

• Finish some top-notch freeware games. TBD

• One that I forgot to mention - Improve religious standards (because I've been slacking lately...a lot) Trying to revive my nightly prayers

What, nerds go to jail?

I stopped making new year resolutions a while back. I tend to forget them by 2 Januari...
Anyway

Good luck; if you're attitude is "damnit, I want a girlfriend already" it's not going to happen. Girls have an extra sense for detecting guys who are desperate for a girlfriend (actually, it's called reading body language). My advise: invest in normal friendships with girls (that is, with space). You may find you end up with a girlfriend (without space) anyway and if you don't it'll give you an opportunity to get more comfortable and secure around girls (should you need that).
That said, I'd like to meet someone I could fall in love with and would like to have a relationship with again... it's been a while. Last relationship suffered from me being her social life, which wasn't a good basis for it.
Anyway, invest in being aware of your own body language and interpreting that of others. Can't hurt to be aware of it, and you may learn a useful thing or two.

Can't say for everyone else, you've clearly not met me.

Words of wisdom.

Psychological projection

Yeah, GameCreator totally walked into that one.

Quickly returns wife's new encyclopedia

I wouldn't say those consequences would be unintended...

I believe the word "accurate" would have been more accurate than "accuracies."

D'oh!

The funny part is, I'd originally typed "accurace" instaed of "accuracy," and I was attempting tot correct it.

Huh, the first letters of accuracy are acc. acc == a.cc? Epiphany!

^{I need to get laid...}