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New comment by traeame in "What happened to nerds?"

traeame — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:55:23 +0000

Seems illogical that you can quantify a subset of people that wouldn't even want to interact with the average joe on the clearweb. We're alive, intelligent and active on our IRC.

New comment by traeame in "What happened to nerds?"

traeame — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:53:53 +0000

The sociopaths tried to abduct my friends to a Discord-Server, but my true friend rebelled against them trying to take over my DnD round and he left, saying that he won't betray me for their cult. In the end the Discord people turned out to be deadbeats without a decent GM willing to do the hard work and their posse crumbled, probably preying on the next group of nerds/geeks/whatever victim they pick.

New comment by traeame in "What happened to nerds?"

traeame — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:51:02 +0000

Nerds never went away, they just migrated to Signal chats or obscure IRC channels. Non-interaction beats bad interaction by miles.

New comment by traeame in "What happened to nerds?"

traeame — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:47:57 +0000

Given your blatant generalisation, I simply believe you didn't pass the vibe check of that person and they would not want to have anything to do with you. Just how bullies detect nerds, nerds detect people who shun them, they just avoid conflict because it's a legit waste of time.

Anyway, I got some important coding to do now.