it aint just the geeks...
Apr. 9th, 2003 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aumentouour shower is broken. Our shower room may be infested with fungus. My head hurts. Our neighbors are twats. I'm tired and fed up.
meanwhile, my insightful thought for the day:
We criticise the geeks for having geeky conversations consisting of one-upmanship in a geeky field, like:
"well MY character had killing blow, and a +4 pork sword, and parry and dodge, so he could basically twat anything he was going to come up against at battle level 1"
"yeah, but my level 1 wizard could've wasted him with one poky nasty spell"
"yeah, but I could get magic res 58.5 by taking some minor flaws"
"yeah but....
and you get the drift. Anyway, I have been perceiving this as an unpleasant geeky personality trait, but today I realised that it isnt. The roleplaying/wargaming/CCG aspect is, but the mines-better-than-yours is not. Its an immature little boy trait.
and even non-geeky blokes can keep it all the way through life.
meanwhile, my insightful thought for the day:
We criticise the geeks for having geeky conversations consisting of one-upmanship in a geeky field, like:
"well MY character had killing blow, and a +4 pork sword, and parry and dodge, so he could basically twat anything he was going to come up against at battle level 1"
"yeah, but my level 1 wizard could've wasted him with one poky nasty spell"
"yeah, but I could get magic res 58.5 by taking some minor flaws"
"yeah but....
and you get the drift. Anyway, I have been perceiving this as an unpleasant geeky personality trait, but today I realised that it isnt. The roleplaying/wargaming/CCG aspect is, but the mines-better-than-yours is not. Its an immature little boy trait.
and even non-geeky blokes can keep it all the way through life.
