I wouldn't call Elite D a nerd game. But it allows you to do nerdy stuff if you choose so.
Is this a nerd game?
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It's slightly nerdier than being a car mechanic.
Erm... You do know that you have to know quite a lot of things to be a professional car mechanic? it's not only "put this here and screw it onto this" kind of stuff.
Yep, I know quite a few. The joke is that they don't think of themselves as nerds, when they're usually a obsessive about car stuff as trekkies are about Star Trek episodes vs. movies
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Troy_McClure
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Out of my circle of friends only my gf knows that I play Elite (& only because she stays at my house 4-5 days of the week) & I know for certain one of my colleagues plays this game - he has an Empire mug!. Therefore in my view, yes it is absolutely a saddo nerd game! I openly admit to playing Footy Manager & FIFA to my friends, but not this dork-fest!
I've been involved in sports all my life...recently giving up football due to a long term cruciate injury & mainly 15 yr olds 'nutmegging' me on a regular basis (that's not a creepy euphemism) having played semi-professionally, rugby union to a decent level & I still play golf competitively - hence I have a certain amount of peer-pressure to maintain alpha male appearances.
'My name's Troy & I'm a nerd' (on the inside)
Oh & if I see any of you out (some of you do go out occasionally, I presume?) wearing your Elite T-shirts etc with pride, I will not hesitate to do this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
I've been involved in sports all my life...recently giving up football due to a long term cruciate injury & mainly 15 yr olds 'nutmegging' me on a regular basis (that's not a creepy euphemism) having played semi-professionally, rugby union to a decent level & I still play golf competitively - hence I have a certain amount of peer-pressure to maintain alpha male appearances.
'My name's Troy & I'm a nerd' (on the inside)
Oh & if I see any of you out (some of you do go out occasionally, I presume?
) wearing your Elite T-shirts etc with pride, I will not hesitate to do this...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRsPheErBj8
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Let's play spot the Oregonian "Pumping our gas", oh look there he is.
Called me a nerd did he... Somebody git a rope!
Its a Nerd Game for Sure.
No Offense Intended.
But just one look at the overly complicated Controls and the overly complicated limitations. And you realize its a Nerdgame.
This Game is made for People who care more about the World itself than about Playing.
It is a nerd game, but aren't they all? What games do the cool kids play?
FE2 was a nerd's game. FFE, more of the same.
ED..? Not so much.
More neo-geek.
Excuse the neoligism, but it's needed - "geek" used to be pretty much synonymous with "nerd", right up until the dawn of the Wired generation, when the word "geek" became co-opted and re-purposed by the Apple sheeple.
Previously, a "geek" or "nerd" meant someone who understood micro-electronics from the ground up - from photolithography to Boolean logic and logic gate truth tables, at ease counting in binary and hexadecimal, coding in assembler or C.. you get the picture. But now it merely meant someone who had MySpace and iTunes accounts, or latterly, Facebook, Twitter & Spotify et al; sheeple, who think they're geek, but who don't know s***e and would recoil in horror upon meeting a real one.
Meet the neo-geek. Geek, The New Kind.
And this is precisely the kind of "nerd" ED is aimed squarely at - and by all accounts, superbly caters for.
People who can happily sit there dot-tracking for 90 minutes while decrying any need for autopilot, external views or selectable hyperspace targets - because their notions of spaceflight just aren't quite vacuous enough already.
People who can not only cheerily overlook the fact that their 'space craft' has a space speed limit, but actually prefer it that way, and will happily shell out mega-credits to replace their engines just to be able to reach a slightly-higher slow taxiing velocity. Who think that combat would be impossible otherwise, as ships would have to come to a virtual halt with respect to coordinate space in order to interact.
People who think that ED is a 'sim'.
In a nutshell, people who think FE2 / FFE were too difficult, unexciting or just outright impossible to control. That's yer basic neo-geek. And now, it seems, neo-'nerd'.
Not that the real nerds have disappeared - it's just that they're currently abandoned by FD - the only space sims out there, besides FFED3D or Amiga FE2, are Pioneer and Rogue System, both sans decent ships or laser combat, so poor substitutes for a proper Elite sequel. Suffice to say, none of these would appeal in the slightest to a neo-nerd, if they even knew they existed.
ED is Elite with all the fun sucked out of it. If that's "nerd" then i'm too cool to party. Enjoy your enthralling 'sim', poindexters...
ED..? Not so much.
More neo-geek.
Excuse the neoligism, but it's needed - "geek" used to be pretty much synonymous with "nerd", right up until the dawn of the Wired generation, when the word "geek" became co-opted and re-purposed by the Apple sheeple.
Previously, a "geek" or "nerd" meant someone who understood micro-electronics from the ground up - from photolithography to Boolean logic and logic gate truth tables, at ease counting in binary and hexadecimal, coding in assembler or C.. you get the picture. But now it merely meant someone who had MySpace and iTunes accounts, or latterly, Facebook, Twitter & Spotify et al; sheeple, who think they're geek, but who don't know s***e and would recoil in horror upon meeting a real one.
Meet the neo-geek. Geek, The New Kind.
And this is precisely the kind of "nerd" ED is aimed squarely at - and by all accounts, superbly caters for.
People who can happily sit there dot-tracking for 90 minutes while decrying any need for autopilot, external views or selectable hyperspace targets - because their notions of spaceflight just aren't quite vacuous enough already.
People who can not only cheerily overlook the fact that their 'space craft' has a space speed limit, but actually prefer it that way, and will happily shell out mega-credits to replace their engines just to be able to reach a slightly-higher slow taxiing velocity. Who think that combat would be impossible otherwise, as ships would have to come to a virtual halt with respect to coordinate space in order to interact.
People who think that ED is a 'sim'.
In a nutshell, people who think FE2 / FFE were too difficult, unexciting or just outright impossible to control. That's yer basic neo-geek. And now, it seems, neo-'nerd'.
Not that the real nerds have disappeared - it's just that they're currently abandoned by FD - the only space sims out there, besides FFED3D or Amiga FE2, are Pioneer and Rogue System, both sans decent ships or laser combat, so poor substitutes for a proper Elite sequel. Suffice to say, none of these would appeal in the slightest to a neo-nerd, if they even knew they existed.
ED is Elite with all the fun sucked out of it. If that's "nerd" then i'm too cool to party. Enjoy your enthralling 'sim', poindexters...
Just because I can recite pi to 30 decimal places, program in 7 languages, read 10+ books a week and live for gadgets - oh wait.... yes, yes this is game for nerds
Only 10 a week, you need to pick up the pace or your nerd card will be revoked.
Cool kids pretend that playing certain video games has nothing to do with nerdery. Meanwhile if they were lastgen the very act of touching a video game had already sealed your doom.
I've seen someone use "nerd" as a serious insult before. On an internet video game forum of which they were also part. The irony was thick enough to need a laser cutter.
Sounds more like a definition of monomania than as a definition of a nerd.
Some nerds may of course be monomaniacs, but I do not believe that this is a necessary or even prevalent condition.
I guess I am a "nerd" (as a way of being/thinking, opposed to a "geek" which I consider a fashion statement). My interests vary from programming and electronics via mathematics, physics, logic and philosophy to avant-garde classical music, jazz and science fiction (I mostly despise "fantasy" and "comics", but there are some exceptions: if something is good it does not matter into which category/genre it fits) literature and a lot of other things about which I know a lot more and have a more profound understanding than the "average" person. There are of course a lot of things about which I know/understand a lot less than the average person, such as money, sports, movies and pop music...
Playing video games does not make a nerd. Being socially awkward is also not defining a nerd (that is what the word "dork" is for). I believe it is more about how one thinks and how one understands the world.
To the original question: yes, I believe ELITE is a nerd game in the sense that it will mostly appeal to them/us.
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FE2 was a nerd's game. FFE, more of the same.
ED..? Not so much.
More neo-geek.
Excuse the neoligism, but it's needed - "geek" used to be pretty much synonymous with "nerd", right up until the dawn of the Wired generation, when the word "geek" became co-opted and re-purposed by the Apple sheeple.
Previously, a "geek" or "nerd" meant someone who understood micro-electronics from the ground up - from photolithography to Boolean logic and logic gate truth tables, at ease counting in binary and hexadecimal, coding in assembler or C.. you get the picture. But now it merely meant someone who had MySpace and iTunes accounts, or latterly, Facebook, Twitter & Spotify et al; sheeple, who think they're geek, but who don't know s***e and would recoil in horror upon meeting a real one.
Meet the neo-geek. Geek, The New Kind.
And this is precisely the kind of "nerd" ED is aimed squarely at - and by all accounts, superbly caters for.
People who can happily sit there dot-tracking for 90 minutes while decrying any need for autopilot, external views or selectable hyperspace targets - because their notions of spaceflight just aren't quite vacuous enough already.
People who can not only cheerily overlook the fact that their 'space craft' has a space speed limit, but actually prefer it that way, and will happily shell out mega-credits to replace their engines just to be able to reach a slightly-higher slow taxiing velocity. Who think that combat would be impossible otherwise, as ships would have to come to a virtual halt with respect to coordinate space in order to interact.
People who think that ED is a 'sim'.
In a nutshell, people who think FE2 / FFE were too difficult, unexciting or just outright impossible to control. That's yer basic neo-geek. And now, it seems, neo-'nerd'.
Not that the real nerds have disappeared - it's just that they're currently abandoned by FD - the only space sims out there, besides FFED3D or Amiga FE2, are Pioneer and Rogue System, both sans decent ships or laser combat, so poor substitutes for a proper Elite sequel. Suffice to say, none of these would appeal in the slightest to a neo-nerd, if they even knew they existed.
ED is Elite with all the fun sucked out of it. If that's "nerd" then i'm too cool to party. Enjoy your enthralling 'sim', poindexters...
Oh God. Next time just say "Braben killed my dog."
