I'm American and I couldn't give a rat's backside about sports statsYanks are the best sports nerds. More stats than actuall playing.
They do it well to. Easy to get sucked in.
Is this a nerd game?
- Thread starter Stonn Mrogg
- Start date
Do we get extra nerd points for wearing a VR headset?
Yes SuperNerds us VR players.
Yup, nerd here.
It's impossible to explain ED to a non nerd / sci fi fan, with making yourself sound like even more of a nerd.
I tried it once, we don't speak anymore.
Because they preferred Pokémon.
CMDR Cosmic Spacehead
Ha lol yep I don't even try and explain the game to anyone such nerd talk
Proud nerd here, model railways, craft brewing, elite dangerous, horrible attitude to other people's music and ache from the pain on the mat at jutsu/karate. Heh heh heh heh (maniacal nerdy cackling). It's all nerdy mate. I even do cricket averages in my head, for fun. Silly really....but average life is just not for the likes of us is it?
The cool aspect of this game is not what it is, but what it isn't, and that's just about anything you don't want it to be.
1. It's a grind: Not if you don't want it to be. You can spend a 1000 hours just flying around doing enough to just keep your belly button from growing to your backbone.
2. It's RISK style game: Not if you don't want it to be. You can ignore Powerplay for your entire time in the game. No one will care, except those few Aisling Duval ships that scan me and shake their heads.
3. It's a space sim: Not really. You can treat it like an arcade game, especially if you just want to fly sidewinders into the side of the station at full speed. Ever notice the big blue lettering when missions change? Ever see that in a space movie?
4. It's an arcade game: Good luck finding a game in an arcade that lets you spend 3 weeks getting from point A to point B with brief interludes where you can actually just land on a planet no one ever even saw, before arriving 25KLY away, again in inhabited space.
5. It's PvP deathmatch: Not in Solo or PG
6. It's just a bunch of carebears mining and o7ing each other: Not if you enter Open and try to haul to a CG... try it. Just try it.
7. It's a mission board where you basically grind for rank: Not if you want to just bounty hunt, mine, explore, trade, etc...
8. It's about aliens: Most of us never saw one, many of us don't care to. You don't really have to, for now.
9. It funnels you to a meta: Sure, if a meta is the fastest iEagle you can create so you can slam it against a station or a canyon wall. You never need to chase the carrot, not really.
It's all those things and none of them, but it's the "none of them" that makes it not a nerd game. But it can be if you like.
1. It's a grind: Not if you don't want it to be. You can spend a 1000 hours just flying around doing enough to just keep your belly button from growing to your backbone.
2. It's RISK style game: Not if you don't want it to be. You can ignore Powerplay for your entire time in the game. No one will care, except those few Aisling Duval ships that scan me and shake their heads.
3. It's a space sim: Not really. You can treat it like an arcade game, especially if you just want to fly sidewinders into the side of the station at full speed. Ever notice the big blue lettering when missions change? Ever see that in a space movie?
4. It's an arcade game: Good luck finding a game in an arcade that lets you spend 3 weeks getting from point A to point B with brief interludes where you can actually just land on a planet no one ever even saw, before arriving 25KLY away, again in inhabited space.
5. It's PvP deathmatch: Not in Solo or PG
6. It's just a bunch of carebears mining and o7ing each other: Not if you enter Open and try to haul to a CG... try it. Just try it.
7. It's a mission board where you basically grind for rank: Not if you want to just bounty hunt, mine, explore, trade, etc...
8. It's about aliens: Most of us never saw one, many of us don't care to. You don't really have to, for now.
9. It funnels you to a meta: Sure, if a meta is the fastest iEagle you can create so you can slam it against a station or a canyon wall. You never need to chase the carrot, not really.
It's all those things and none of them, but it's the "none of them" that makes it not a nerd game. But it can be if you like.
I'm American and I couldn't give a rat's backside about sports stats
YEAH All team sports that only need 1 ball. LAME I loved wrestling, competition shooting, motorcycle and car racing. The sports I did growing up. Those take two balls. Ernest Hemingway dinna have it all right, but was close.
,
Last edited:
Well, only nerds grind.
Think about it. Grinding is working for some kind of virtual reward. It's spending real hours and time for virtual stuff.
That's different from gaming. Gaming is about having fun.
if( grind > fun) (
game.type = nerd_game;
}
Think about it. Grinding is working for some kind of virtual reward. It's spending real hours and time for virtual stuff.
That's different from gaming. Gaming is about having fun.
if( grind > fun) (
game.type = nerd_game;
}
That reply could not be any nerdier.
It seems then, scanning this thread that Elite is, indeed, a nerd game.
I play football. At work I use spanners and drills and I sometimes weld big stuff together. I think about my attire.
I have been told that I am "really cool". I have spent my life cultivating coolness, even down to the way I flick my cigarettes away.
I play Elite in my spare time.
Was my entire history in vain?
Am I now.... a nerd?
I play football. At work I use spanners and drills and I sometimes weld big stuff together. I think about my attire.
I have been told that I am "really cool". I have spent my life cultivating coolness, even down to the way I flick my cigarettes away.
I play Elite in my spare time.
Was my entire history in vain?
Am I now.... a nerd?
