Hello lovelies, I am back with a few replies.

It's too bad you had to go through abuse because of your nerdiness. However, it still doesn't mean that bragging about all your knowledge will make you look cooler. If you (general you) really are intelligent, why do you have to work so hard at proving it?

Yes. Plenty actually.8-)

There's nothing wrong with being intelligent. As a matter of fact, I think it's great! My point is, going out of your way to PROVE your intelligence is just plain dumb. I know I am repeating myself here, but your intelligence should shine through naturally, just like any other personality trait.

I'm dumb!

Okay, that's cool too. Anyway, it's good information for any future nerd who wants girl advice.

Showing people you're intelligent only brings trouble.
They're gonna ask you about everything thinking you always got an answer.
They will dislike you for being better than them.
You will be given more work than others.

If people know you're smart, they will treat you unfair.

I call them normos.

Nerdiness/geekiness is clearly a matter of subject area. Nobody calls the jocks who are obsessed with and argue about baseball (or sport x) in a bar nerds or geeks although they are just as annoying and socially inept.

You're only a nerd or a geek if your interests are technology related. Hopefully, if this article is accurate our pay scale will grow even more to compensate for our social exclusion.

And I add to Andrei Ellman's definitions that nerds often totally lack any sense of humour about themself. While geeks are a bit more human and can take a joke about them or joke about them selfs sometimes (not all the time of course).

Or an old man out of his retirement savings. About 8 out of 10 players at the local casino are old retired folks who think they're professionals.

I don't consider it to be stealing in any way. When they sit down at that table they are doing it for one of 3 reasons: They need an ego boost, they are having fun, or they are trying to make money.

A significant portion of the people who play are playing for fun. These people have no problem with losses and it happens a lot. Some of them expect it before hand because they know they're playing against people who are much better than them, but they enjoy the game.

The "ego players" lose a lot because they chase, always trying to make the best hand. They want to make a hand and show it to the table. They are controlled by their emotions and often lose more because of it. The ego player is where the big money is because he'll run back to the bank machine to show you up after you beat him.

Last and certainly not least are the people who play for money. This is me These players understand the game (or should understand) considerably more than the other types of players. Not all of them are good players, but they all think they are good players. Most of these players break even in the long run.

Anyway, I consider myself to be a geek and not a nerd. I consider myself to be intelligent, but there is certainly room for improvement.

As for my new years resolutions in no particular order (as someone did ask!)

1) Complete God of War.
2) Get a big planet crushing car. With nitros!
3) Continue down the path towards harmonica mastery.
4) Actually program some kind of game.
5) Get round to playing Metroid Zero mission.
6) Draw more regularly.
7) Cook a lasagna.
8) Be most excellent to people.
9) Try and make some DS homebrew.
10) Keep my new years resolutions.

Peace out y'all

God of War is a commercial game. He probably means "beat", not "complete".

It's occured to me of late I need to draw more regularily too ....