How do you explain your hobby, nerds?

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chibicitiberiu

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This is a question targeted mainly to the computer nerds, but anyone whose hobby is computers can answer it.

Often happened that someone 'outside' of this computer world asks me about my hobby. And I go like "Hmm... I.... ..."., I just don't know how to explain this.

They won't understand if you tell them exactly what you are doing, so you must explain.

How can you explain them?
 
If anyone was to ask id simply say Building PCs and Gaming. If they don't like it they can piss off and leave me be.


Lucky for me every job I have worked was packed full of gamers so good times everyday....arguing/idea building while working to me is worth earning $10 a hour. A job I actually enjoy going to :)

Seems the more you earn the crappier the job is ^-^
 
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yup i say the same as twist, building, upgrading and maintaining computers. It saves me money so they want to have a crack at me f*ck em, i'm keeping money from being able to fix a computer or build a computer myself, who cares what they think. It is my lifea nd my time i am spending anyway.
 
I guess it can be hard to explain, other than just saying computers.

Id probably say programming, or computer systems engineering, something like that.
 
Not to offence anybody, but just tell them what you actually do. If your scared to say it then its that its not your passion/hobby because you are scared to tell people. There is nothing wrong with liking computers, they make the world we live in today. It is impossible to deny.
 
People? What are those? All i know is computers... Tbh though, i say that i build computers and game on computers, and help people out with computers...
 
charles624 said:
Not to offence anybody, but just tell them what you actually do. If your scared to say it then its that its not your passion/hobby because you are scared to tell people. There is nothing wrong with liking computers, they make the world we live in today. It is impossible to deny.
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I think the OP is perhaps asking how to explain it with out sounding like you are going over their heads. I know I have tried to explain what I do to non technical people and I can see their eyes glaze over instantly.

I just keep it simple and to the point, I work in IT. However, that doesn't really apply to the hobby aspect. I would also recommend to just keep it simple, and say like "Oh I like to tinker around with computers." Then just stop right there.
 
i simply tell people i work with computers, or that i like to play and mess with computer. if they ask why i like them so much, i make a point that if anything like terminator/matrix were ever to happen, i would have an advantage over non-tech peoples. at this point, they usually leave me alone or ask me to help them with their computers :)
 
Haha whenever someone asks about my hobbies I just tell them flat out

1. Computers
2. Video Games
3. Building models
4. football?

I am by far the biggest nerd on my university's football team, which is awesome to me
 
HumanMage said:
Haha whenever someone asks about my hobbies I just tell them flat out

1. Computers
2. Video Games
3. Building models
4. football?

I am by far the biggest nerd on my university's football team, which is awesome to me
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Sorry if this is OT, but what university do you attend?
 
HumanMage said:
Haha whenever someone asks about my hobbies I just tell them flat out

1. Computers
2. Video Games
3. Building models
4. football?

I am by far the biggest nerd on my university's football team, which is awesome to me
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I love fiction and science fiction to at T, so much I will read D&D manuals and never once play paper and pen RPGs with people. Knowledge is not nerdom in my opinion it is just knowledge. Sure someone may not want to hear the stories of Odin and Thor, or Horus and Isis, but dammit that stuff is just plain interesting. Furthermore I buy books written by Steven Hawking but I don't tote the notion that I comprehend them.

I mean life is just plain interesting how can you not want to learn what is what from different perspectives or trial and error and scientific fact?

Look man after it is all said and done conversation is the ultimate social barrier you have to cross and if you can't hold a good conversation then what are we communicating about to begin with?

//disclaimer I hung out with my father tonight and he got me drunk. He is in his 60s and I am nearly 30 so take it as you will. I hold not ultimate wisdom's just my humble opinion.
 
Some of you got it wrong, the question is not what is your hobby, but how do explain it?

This happened to me in the past: I was programming the boot sector of a floppy, then someone asks me "What are you doing", I tell him "I'm building an operating system". "What's that?". "Something like Windows, but not like Windows...".
They just make me go crazy 'cause they know nothing and I have to explain them everything, and I'm not very patient.

That's what I'm talking about.
 
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