NERD 201: A Cheat Sheet
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 5:03PM The Reviews team here at Porter Novelli is a pretty diverse bunch. We have varied interests and wildly different personalities and backgrounds. However, for some time now, there’s been one constant among the team: we were all geeks or nerds.
We read the same blogs, referenced the same books, quoted from the same movies… Basically, we geeked out on the same stuff. For awhile, this was our ‘normal’ state of being. Geek/Nerd was our lingua franca, our common ground, and we didn’t think ourselves to be any different from other young professionals in our line of work.
With the arrival of new team members though, we soon discovered that this was not the case. Things we regularly discussed weren’t the average topics of conversation apparently <insert sarcasm here>. So, to help our fellow team members who weren’t conversant in Nerdese or Geekspeak, the team developed a primer.
There may be more versions of this to come but in the meantime, here’s your guide to “fitting in” with our team. Of course, you may see this and vehemently disagree but in that case… go make your own list.
Star Wars or Star Trek: Choose a side (just not the dark side):
Basically your choice comes down to:
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Read a geek blog… for fun. Appropriate choices include:
Know the basic plot of video games. Some cool ones include:
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Dead Space
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Silent Hill |
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Halo |
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BioShock |
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Mortal Kombat (old school only) |
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Street Fighter (old school only) |
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Have a strong opinion on Apple or Android (Bonus points for knowing why each one sucks)
LOLcats and other internet memes
… another great resource is Know Your Meme
Know the big fantasy fiction staples
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LotR |
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Awareness of cool summer blockbusters- anything involving:
- Robots and nanotechnology
- Aliens (invasions)
- Time travel
- Wizards
- Mutants
- Super Heroes
- The Undead (Vampires, Zombies)
- and the people that hunt them:
Movies by:
- Christopher Nolan
- Sam Raimi
- Guillermo del Toro
- J.J. Abrams
- Peter Jackson
- George Lucas
- Steven Spielberg
- James Cameron
- Jon Favreau
RPG/board games:
General terminology and acronyms:
- RPG: Role Playing Game
- LARP: Live Action Role Playing
- Furries: Freaks who dress up as animals. (Google/Bing CSI or Entourage episode)
- LotR: Lord of the Rings
- MMORPG: Massively multiplayer online role-playing game
- …urbandictionary.com
Got anything you think we need to add to this? Let us know?
…and bad SyFy movies are coming up in Nerd 301…
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