#geekish

[katg12liko]

tsukishima is an internet fucking grunge

He’s in there- oh yeah he’s so in there

He’s so chronically online he’s picked sides in the furry vs gamer war

He cares sm for internet beef he has an army of alt account to crash out with and they have nuanced ways of typing

LMFAOOOOO what a fucking loser I hate him <- is me

[mileenaxyz]

Beautiful reaction video, but did they really not notice Sydluca?

[realmermaid333]

I am captivated by his geekish freakishness

[heliphantie]

Coincidentally, all my favorite animated couples just happened to be that: pairing Embodiment of Powers of Nature with a nerd.

Last one, probably, is a stretch: both Pinkie and Cheese possess magic of Earth ponies, but Pinkie clearly has it in abundance, and Cheese (being Weird Al pony and all) is definitely more geekish out of two.

[thevaultofawesomeedits]

Link: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdDrEnmM/

By: The Geekish Goddess

[strangestcase]

I think nothing exemplifies better the adage that the performative hatred for geeks and nerds and adjacent subcultures (furries, cosplayers, roleplayers, gamers, etc) of the 1980s onwards is actually a thinly veiled hatred for (neuro)divergence is the way The Big Bang Theory, a show I’ve often seen described as “nerds seen from the point of view of the bullies who picked on them”, all but explicitly depicts a blanket experience of geekishness-nerdiness as a form of neurodivergence in and on itself, mostly by want of explicitly calling its (mostly negative) autistic caricatures capital A Autistic. Hence, according to the show’s creator Sheldon isn’t autistic, just rigid and inflexible to the point of comedy. He’s not a negative depiction of autism in adults you guyyyyysssss he’s just too into Spock and Data and trains and shit and a massive stupid piece of shit cunt. Unrelated but he doesn’t get sarcasm or ambiguity. But he’s a fucking piss idiot is the thing. That’s why we laugh whenever he misses a social cue. We laugh because he’s such a fucking nerd. But we all know what nerd actually means here, do we?

[onewomancitadel]

The above image outlines my Hierarchy of Writing Needs, sorting from highest (completed creative works) to lowest (Tumblr).

I feel like I should've made this some sort of alchemical relationship, but that would've also looked crazy. This is just geekish. What you'll notice is that out of these, the higher it places on the hierarchy, the more work is necessary to get there. Original work is an exception because there is absolutely no public voyeur, but it's also a process separate from fannish creation.

It's easy to go for the low-hanging fruit because I want that reward of clarifying or realising an idea - and I think narrativising my life cleanly fits in there; it's the most essential but it's also the most base.

Meanwhile the more effortful the work, the more painful the extinction burst. So it's both more investment but it's also got a much higher risk to finishing it*. The difference though is that I am most psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually fulfilled completing working that takes longer to do. The implicit logic here, however, is that everything feels fast-paced and like it's on a 24 hour cycle - creative work tends to be incompatible with content machine style consumption. It's just not for me - I have to be on my schedule. Which even includes anything regular, really, otherwise I go crazy.

*I think this is exactly why I end up dragging out the drafting/editing process ('Satisfying') because working with a basically finished work is joyful but it's also noncommital until I really feel it's done. It wasn't until I wrote this out that I actually realised it can become a problem. It feels like work - and it is work - but I absolutely think I use it as an excuse not to commit to the Nightmare.

The lesson is to commit to the Nightmare.

[kingpains]

i don’t know where to find other people who were disappointed in Geekish Celibacy Advocates Gotta Go to commiserate with. don’t wanna clog up the main tag with negativity because people just browsing abojt a musical they like don’t need that. but holy shit was this show a letdown for me and i cant find one other comment or review anywhere that acknowledges Any flaws :(

edit: censored the name of the show and didn’t tag @ all w/ the show’s name, but this’ll still pop up in searches for starkid and the effort required to edit tags on tumblr is INSANE, so i’m adding Starkid Negativity to the front of the post for blocking purposes of anypony doesn’t want this in their search!

[ask-paradox-and-friends]

Okay so I've been seeing several videos about the arts of and representation of diffrent fighting styles I decided to throw my hat into the ring about fighters. So I'll set up some fighting game fighter concepts and yall can give me name though asks! Also yes there's a tournament so far all I have is a massively illegal anything goes tournament with a massive cash prize finally becomes public after 50 years and so people from over the world set out to get the money.

A large bulky and fat somewhat muscular woman wearing tucked in Jeans thick boots suspenders and a tucked in shirt that says in a mixture of Japanese and American simply says 'if lost please return to SISTER' her story and reason for fighting is simple her sister is a Gajin with a love for Japanese culture and history to the point she's living in Japan as a history teacher and English language tutor in Tosa but she wanted to be a respected wrestler in Japan but due to regulations and traditions combined with her high metabolism she was unable to gain the weight or size needed to succeed in any sport so her simple and rather thick skinned loving younger sister set out to learn Sumo through recordings of national fights and wrestling from her retired uncle in Texas she took her sister's stage name and wandered around participating in all street fights she can to make her sister proud.

A Local drunk one day durning a massive dui gets arrested and loses his license after a year in jail and getting evicted he sold all his possessions to try and drown his sorrows over the fact that while getting into prison riots he was beaten so many times he was suffering severe self confidence issues he one day gets super plastered he gets ran over by a limo and gets dragged to a church and cared for by a nun and her group of children she watches over. After 6 years of recovering growing stronger by showing the children the things he learned in jail to let the children defend themselves he soon hears about the tournament while getting drunk again and getting into a massive bar brawl he in a brilliant move he steals a limo and a passport to get to the tournament. His goal? 'Win the tournament and give all the money to the people who took him in.'

An unknown person wearing a thick metal mask that only showed what seemed to be a flash of yellowed teeth. This individual is wearing white pants stained with mud a white shirt covered in patches of brown and black a large tattered purple cloak and worn gloves that showed scared callous knuckles showing improperly healed fingers. Noone who they are. Noone knows why they're here. All anyone hears from this being is odd rasps and growing snarls.

A high-school boy still wearing his uniform looming too pale and skinny to look threatening with clearly dyed hair that was a deep cyan in color with broken glasses held together by tape bandaid cracked lenses and the arms being replaced with ropes that were mixed with thick and strong steel woven rope. Missing at least 3 teeth this troubled teen who despite his nerdy look is full of aggression and a drive with fire in his eyes. He wants the victory he believes he deserves for a quote 'reason' he seems to have geekish hobbies.

A very tall very skinny elongated geezer wearing a very loose fitting pair of trousers and flowing shirt only held on his body through a series of belts the old man has no lips and always has a smile on his face. Prone to random bouts of laughter he has used face paint to make his face for a reason he says makes sense. His hair is matted and unkempt with his teeth being long and sharp as he also has claw like long fingernails. He is oddly flexible despite his age. He is prone to shrieking if in great pain.

A model who was well loved for their androgynous appearance and the ability to look like any kind of man or woman with the right make up and clothes. After being the poster child of body dysmorphyia after being falsely accused of things they would never do they had gone down a downwards spiral after finding the ones who falsely acused them and got them to confess the world and media that once defended the accuser soon tried to find the accused only to find the years of bullying and ridicule drove them to extreme body modification and large spiraling tattoos. The tattoos looking like a massive Canavas of artwork only boosted by the piercings and their body modifications now taking an oddly unknown and unnatural angle or grace and beauty in their own way. They are in the tournament as one last final PR move to show the world who they created.

[elfwreck]

This article is almost 10 years old.

A kid puts her hand up in my lesson. 'My computer won't switch on,' she says, with the air of desperation that implies she's tried every conceivable way of making the thing work. I reach forward and switch on the monitor, and the screen flickers to life, displaying the Windows login screen.

This one's newer, just over 2 years old.

More broadly, directory structure connotes physical placement — the idea that a file stored on a computer is located somewhere on that computer, in a specific and discrete location. That’s a concept that’s always felt obvious to Garland but seems completely alien to her students. “I tend to think an item lives in a particular folder. It lives in one place, and I have to go to that folder to find it,” Garland says. “They see it like one bucket, and everything’s in the bucket.”

Schools are demanding kids as young as 5 or 6 use computers - and nobody is teaching computer basics. Nobody is teaching the names of the computer components (monitor, hard drive, cpu, ram); nobody is teaching what the parts do; nobody is teaching what "apps" are (...we used to call them "programs") or how files work.

Of course Adobe is very happy that people will say "I'm using Adobe" because nobody remembers the name "Acrobat Reader." Adobe is thrilled that most people don't know that PDFs are a filetype that can be opened or edited by many different programs.

Typing, as far as I can tell, is taught less than it was when I was in high school - in a country where everyone is expected to spend many hours a week on a keyboard.

(When I applied for college at the for-profit scammy school where I got my paralegal degree, I tested out of their basic typing class. The class's goal was 40wpm; I type at more than double that speed. The counselor assigned to me said she'd never seen typing that fast. I have no idea if she was lying to try to boost my ego or was just really oblivious.) (If she was trying to boost my ego, she failed. I know what secretarial typing speeds are. Mine is mediocre.)

If I were more geekish and had formal education training, I'd try to put together a series of Basic Computer Literacy courses for schoolkids - a set for ages 5-8, another for 9-12 year olds, and a third set for teenagers.

Start with parts of the computer - and how they look different in desktops, laptops, tablets, phones.

Move on to OS: Windows, Mac, IOS, Android, Linux, and a hint of others. (Throw in a mention of game consoles and how their OS is and isn't like a standard computer OS.)

A bit of mention of OS types/versions - WinXP and Win10, and so on. A bit of what commonly changes from one version to the next, and what doesn't.

These are the starting points, not because they're the core of How Computers Work, but because they're the parts everyone interacts with. The 8-year-old doesn't specifically need to know Linux exists... but they need to know there's a DIFFERENCE between a Windows 11 new laptop and a desktop running something else. Needs to know that not all "Android" phones work the same way. Needs to know, when they open a new device, that it has an OS, and there are ways to figure out what that OS is.

Next there is:

Files, folders, internal structure - and how the tablet/phone OS tends to hide this from you

The difference between the app/program and the stuff it opens/edits

That the same file can look different in a different app

Welcome To The Internet: The difference between YOUR COMPUTER and THE CLOUD (aka, "someone else's computer") as a storage place; what a browser is; what a search engine is

Welcome To Metadata I Am So Sorry Kiddo Your Life Is Full Of Keywords Now And Forever

Computer Operations Skills: Typing. Hardware Assembly, aka, how to attach an ethernet cable, is the monitor turned on, what's the battery level and its capacity. Software-Hardware interfaces: how to find the speaker settings, dim or brighten the monitor, sleep vs power off, using keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse.

After alllll that, we get to

Command line: This is what a terminal looks like; this is what you can do with it; no you don't have to program anything (ever) but you really should know how to make it show you your IP address. (See above: Welcome to the Internet should have covered "what is an IP address?")

Internet safety. What is a virus; what's malware. How to avoid (most of) them.

SOCIAL internet safety: DO NOT TELL ANYONE your age, real name, location. Do not tell strangers your sexual identity, medical history, family details, or anything about any crimes you may have committed.

...I'm probably missing some things. (I'm probably missing a lot of things.) Anyway. Something like that. The simple version is a half-day crash-course in overview concepts culminating in a swarm of safety warnings; the long version for teens is probably 30+ hours spread out over a few weeks so they can play with the concepts.

Telling young zoomers to "just switch to linux" is nuts some of these ipad kids have never even heard of a cmd.exe or BIOS you're throwing them to the wolves

[m00nl0v3k1tty]

That tingling male toxic, middle class with street smarts. Low key geekish with prison/ soldier haircut. Tall with hide shoulders and some grey sweatpants. Pleated shirt or a hoodie, and a warm hug.

[beanothegeek]

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[tenaciouspostfun]

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By Robert M Massimi. ( Broadway Bob).Published about 15 hours ago • 3 min read

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"Staff Meal" at Playwrights Horizon is a Dada type of play... think Tom Stoppard type of Dada. The play starts with two characters- Ben (Greg Keller and Mina (Susannah Flood), at a internet cafe, if you will type of scene. The prompter to the right of the stage keeps telling us "the next day" as the scenes touch on the absurd. Both are socially awkward and try to make the best of their meetings each and everyday. Writer Abe Koogler. who is apparently obsessed with restaurants, has written a play about a restaurant in "Staff Meal" (it is what the wait staff get to eat before the restaurant opens for the evening.

As the play unfolds, the awkward couple makes its way to a hot new establishment that is owned by a renowned restaurant owner. As the service languishes, the couple pours on the humor through their comfortableness with each other and society in general. Geekish in nature, we get maybe the funniest dialogue in the play. The couple breaks down their ideas about movies ranging from"Titanic" to "Ratatouille". This scene is so bizarre by way of farce that it leaves the audience in stitches.

Morgan Green directs this show; as far as the acting goes, Green does an admirable job in that the actors move about well, "the business" and expression are all entertaining. The sets too are done well in a very economical way. The slide stage allows the story to move from the cafe into the restaurant. Getting a firm view of the restaurant as well as the kitchen, Jian Jung gives us a glimpse of the inner workings of the establishment where some really weird stuff goes on. Kaye Voyce gives us some creative costumes, after all, what is farce without a whacked out costume now and then!

As the show progresses, it is the sound that takes this show by its horns; Tei Blow's efforts are maybe the best thing in this show. It is almost as if Blow had the pulse of this play by way of mood and the feeling toward it. In the lighting, Masha Tsimring too captures the pulse in a timely fashion. First with subtle off whites, as the play progresses, so does the in-depth lighting. With a plethora of colors, Tsimring is creative throughout the 95 minutes of this play and captures the play's essence.

While all the actors are good in this play, the plot gets really foolish in the last 12 minutes or so at the ending. With a stronger finish, this play could have been so much more. Instead, it was almost as if Koogler ran out of ideas as to how to finish this plot( thankfully the waiter Hampton Fluker told us the show is almost over). Up until this point in the play, the audience was engaged in what the author had to say. The ending was sophomoric at best and left us disappointed and confused!

"Staff Meal" is a unusual play as are most farce play's . In the Dada realm, "Staff" has pockets of greatness; at other times it's weak. The writing is too inconsistent at the end to be taken too seriously as a noteworthy play. But even when the play languishes at times at the center, the jokes are able to carry the various weaknesses. Unfortunately at the end of the show there are no jokes to wash out the terrible writing and as such, dramatically weakens the other 80 minutes that was enjoyable and fun.

#Broadway Bob, www.nimbusmagazine.com, www.triviscompany.com, Broadway, Tony Awards, "Lion King, Wicked, Harry Potter, Alladin, Rachel McAdams, Oscars, Hollywood.

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I have been writing on theater since 1982. A graduate from Manhattan College B.S. A member of Alpha Sigma Lambda, which recognizes excellence in both English and Science. I have produced 14 shows on and off Broadway. I've seen over700 shows

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[leanderqueenie]

In 2015 I wore an 'obey' cap, rainbow-tinted hipster sunglasses and white oversized minion tee shirts. Geekish or whatever. But before then I wore black and pink stockings with a Hello Kitty tee, black skirt, leather jacket and skull hair clips. I think I looked fine in the geek wear, but I did look terrible when after that style I tried to be myself but my eccentric fashion did not mix with my previous fashion sense. It was a bumpy transition to where I am today

[day-poems]

11/11

Singles Day, a big day in the orient…

I only know because of my interest

in iems and chifi in general…an

outgrowth of my life-long interest

in music…and I suppose my totally

geekish, and equally life-long,

fascination with technology.

11.11 is a huge day for conspicuous

consumption in China…

kind of China’s black-friday…

the beginning of the seasonal sales

frenzy. The chifi dealers have

been building up to it for weeks,

teasing huge discounts and special

deals. I took a peek this morning

and so far have not found anything

to tempt me. I guess huge is

a relative thing…discounts of 10-

15% on anything I can afford

are not moving my needle,

or at least not opening my wallet.

One of the big on-line chifi dealers

is stretching 11.11 out to 7 days.

Sorry, much ado about nothing.

[roshiwatches]

Pastimes of past times

I did geekish things back in my younger ddays. I played Magic the Gathering around the time Tempest came out and started playing DnD around the same time.

If it was a TCG, CCG or TTRPG and I had acess to I would try it. I had some awesome people to hang with back in the day, but those times are long gone.