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Embrace the nerddom (lemmy.world)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

When I was in highschool I had a girl go on and on about how much she loved Star Wars. I was into Star Trek and thought she was trying to annoy me. After graduation I he friends told me she was into me and wanted to hang out.

I had a different girl ask me to teach her D&D. I invited her and one of my friendliest players over and proceeded to run a simple session. She didn't seem to want to learn the rules but kept asking me questions and listening to me intently. She basically ignored the other player. I finished that session super confused. Later she asked me to come to her house to see her new bikini top and it all clicked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Was it a nice top?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

True love is only possible when you show your true self.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

any guesses on what the hidden word is?

personally, my money is on nerevarine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 minutes ago

Noobs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Stop censoring shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

If it's true, that's pretty sweet.

I've seen girls at locals too so it's not entirely impossible.

It's just uncommon, much like anything else. Especially so for Yu-Gi-Oh because it's simply not as popular as it used to be (especially when compared to Pokemon or Magic).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

I've known plenty of girls that play pokemon TCG and MTG, yugioh not as popular in my area. They're just not as visible about it because guys get fucking weird about it.

I'm thankful I had younger sisters so I (apart from a bit of the usual teenage awkwardness) didn't get creepy about the opposite sex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

And just to throw this out here, for fun.

My ex and I had so much shit in common it was unreal. We were both miserable and living in hell.

My wife and I have very little in common and we get along swimmingly. It’s actually crazy how much we get along.

She laughs at my nerdy interests and can’t relate to them at all, but she admires the things about me that she can’t relate to and I am the same with her.

Our egos don’t get in the way of anything between us. We don’t bump heads about common interests because we don’t have a pile of them. We’ve actually been able to show each other things we wouldn’t have encountered without each other over this last decade (roughly).

We aren’t exactly opposites because we share political and religious (or lack thereof rather) views. We don’t have many common interests though.

Sometimes I wish I could make her understand this or that about me, and she feels the same way. We make it though.

Based on my experience with my ex, if I found myself single and I met a woman with too many of my interests, I’d run.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 14 hours ago

Girls are nerds too. They won't admit it if you make it dangerous to do so. Like say, gatekeeping, calling them not true fans, pretending they don't exist and leaving passive aggressive remarks when someone shares a story involving one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

One of the few games I'm happy to not understand

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

[–] [email protected] 61 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I’ll go along with it because, as a former middle schooler myself, I know that middle schoolers are insane and capable of anything.

Add hormones to the mix, and forget it. I don’t know how any of us survived.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

I'm convinced half the reason school exists is to isolate the poor monsters for the better part of the day, so society can try and function.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact? more like fan fiction

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I 100% believe it could happen.

You see, I, too, was once an awkward nerdy middle school girl and the go-to move for showing a guy you liked him was to get way into one of his hobbies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed. My ex learned how write software for the ti-84 calculator because I was REALLY into it. Girl found her way in. Smart lady, I miss her sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I heard this story from a third party, so I can't prove it's true, but supposedly the head of IT security at a previous job met his wife when she compromised his home network to get his attention.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago

Girl knows how to flirt, damn.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (4 children)

N who wore

Just stop

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Nerd/s is a bad word, I guess

[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

FTFY ❤️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Hmmm I think a "Broseph" would be appropriate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've always been partial to Broseidon, King of the Broceans.

Wouldn't have fit, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Ah, yes, cousin to Brohammstein, the European dictator of Brosterdam.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well it wouldn't make sense without the N there right?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Actually, what the heck is that 'N' for anyway? Nicholas?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"people who annoy you."

And it isn't Naggers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Ninjas, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago

Hammer time!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

"Wait a minute, did you just summon a bunch of monsters in one turn?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

What the hell even if that thing and what game is it supposed to be for? It looks like punched cardboard so I'm guessing it was bought and maybe assembled instead of being scratch-built.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s a DIY cardboard version of this:

Which is a toy based on the Yu Gi Oh anime.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the artiste’s easel, the accoutrement for the thinking man

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Is this not for eating sushi, on the go?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago

It's a cardboard yu-gi-oh duel disk. This is the video the thumbnail is from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHL-vRtIVt8

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 hours ago

fake news. girls aren't into stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I don't know what that is but it's good isn't it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

couple who got together in school really hit the jackpot