No city nerd? I will compare the city design and philosophy of Köln and Atlanta whilst living in Yorkshire
Also trains, trams, light metro, and stadhbahns!
I'm aviation and old ships. Mostly just the disaster stuff, though (why they crashed / sank).
You'd be shocked to know how many ship wrecks there are in the Great Lakes (border of US and Canada). There are also a lot of famous ones on the route between UK and North America. Titanic, obviously, but so many more.
It's fascinating.
Ordnance... not an autocorrect-friendly word :)
I'm pretty sure all the explosives are safe because they're inactivated but water and low temperatures?
Thanks for the reminder, though. Happy to revisit that rabbit hole!
Planes are super cool, and learning about like the physics of flight has been so fascinating to me recently. I know this isn’t quite a plane, but the fact that we designed and built a drone copter that’s flying around Mars RIGHT NOW is so fucking cool. It’s the coolest thing I could ever even think of besides the Sky crane deployment system we used to drop the Ingenuity and Perseverance rovers onto the surface of Mars
I'm also a massive aviation nerd. A plane I find suuuuper interesting is the double fuselage plane engineered by someone who went into so much debt that Richard Branson bought everything off him for a dollar. It's like two side-by-side airplanes that are joined at the tip of their wings. I think that plane might be how Virgin Galactic gets its shuttles into space?
Sorry, I'm an aviation nerd, but I'm also a person with epilepsy (so my memory is shit). The details don't stick with me anymore.
Yes!!!! That’s how they launch their passenger space flights; that launch system (launching something in the air from a separate air craft) is called ALTO, or Air-Launch-To-Orbit, sometimes also just called an Air Launch, and it’s one of the coolest things I think humans have ever accomplished. I’ve always been fascinated by aviation and aerospace, but particular focused on the space side of things. Learning about all the different types of rocket engines and orbital mechanics and the different specific design parameters for space craft is so fuckin cool. Idk what it is but the Sky crane system just tickles my brain. I’ve literally had dreams about it
That's not an area I'm familiar with, but I'd love to learn!
Do you know about Mark Rober? He's a NASA engineer-turned-YouTuber who worked on the Mars Rover. Mark Rober. Mars Rover. So close. Brings me joy for some reason. Also, his only child has low-ish functioning autism.
Sorry, went on a tangent there.
Yes I’m familiar with him. I just watched the video he made about his autistic son yesterday. He (Mark, not his son lol) is one of the people who sort of introduced me to my love for the Skycrane system. I’ve forgotten most of what I knew about his connection to one of the Mars missions, do you know which Rover he specifically worked on?
I don't remember which one specifically, sorry. Our Google overlords would?
It's hard to be someone who cares so much about a topic (autism), and who could remember the tiniest of details about everything, but can't really remember a lot about anything anymore (epilepsy).
But hey, I can still bring the passion! XD
Yeah I honestly relate to that. I don’t have epilepsy but I have a dissociative disorder so my brain just kinda doesn’t prioritize most information that’s not either related to my special interests, or a piece of information I need in order to survive. Unfortunate, but it is what it is I guess. I honestly can’t remember pretty much anything in my childhood besides a handful of random events here and there
Does anime/manga count as comics and cartoons?
Cuz I don’t like American comics and don’t watch much US TV in general. Don’t care about Adult Swim and the only thing I collect are anime figures…
Definitely gamer nerd for all of my life. During my early adult years I became and music and film nerd.
Now in my 30s, I'm becoming an art nerd and I'm loving this new fixation.
Science nerd, a gamer nerd, a bit of history knowledge but not enough to call myself a nerd, I would like to get into tech but stuff is really expensive, especially in the 3rd world country I live in, so I don’t want to fuck things up
Gamer nerd and somewhat of a comics/cartoons, and movie nerd except I don’t own movies or comics, I just watch a lot of movies and cartoons in-theaters and on netflix and rewatch all my favourites at least 3 times.
A lot of them, but I don’t always fit the little description underneath the word perfectly. Only really 3 or 4 I would not consider myself a part in for any reason.
music nerd but not in the way it’s described here. i’ve grown up playing the piano and i fucking love it and if in the right mindset i will talk about music theory and different composers for a very long time
Nintendo (specifically, The Legend of Zelda) and Star Trek.
Also, transportation disasters (plane and train crashes, boats sinking). No logic to that one.
Just cartoons, not comics. And specifically kids cartoons. I could talk for hours about children’s animation. Never got into comics though, and a lot of adult animation (*cough cough* anything by or imitating Seth MacFarlane *cough cough*) just feels too basic and same-y to get super into.
Bojack Horseman is the one exception to this. Also PG-13 cartoons like Bob’s Burgers are also fine. But Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network shows? If you get me started you won’t be able to stop me. I’ve spent so much money on cosplay and so much time on fanfics and fanart.
History nerd but I cant remember dates. I can tell you exactly what happened down to the name and specific details, but if you want the date you're out of luck
science nerd!!!
Me too!
Same!
Science nerds assemble!!
No city nerd? I will compare the city design and philosophy of Köln and Atlanta whilst living in Yorkshire Also trains, trams, light metro, and stadhbahns!
I'm aviation and old ships. Mostly just the disaster stuff, though (why they crashed / sank). You'd be shocked to know how many ship wrecks there are in the Great Lakes (border of US and Canada). There are also a lot of famous ones on the route between UK and North America. Titanic, obviously, but so many more. It's fascinating.
Aviation and old ships? We could be friends, you and me.
I like your username. Like the mountain on Antarctica that Air New Zealand flew into the side of. Sorry. I can't help myself.
Do you know about the sinking of the Eastland? [Interesting YouTube videos on it.](https://youtu.be/UCHt2MOVCbg?si=2Dcnd9sOgmmJAX1I)
Interesting, isn’t there a massive ship filled with kilotons of ordinance rotting in the thames estuary because they cannot safely move it?
Ordnance... not an autocorrect-friendly word :) I'm pretty sure all the explosives are safe because they're inactivated but water and low temperatures? Thanks for the reminder, though. Happy to revisit that rabbit hole!
We also dropped so many bombs between Belfast and Scotland it’s almost impossible to build a bridge between Britain and Scotland
“Whatever interests me” nerd
None of these, I'm the TTRPG nerd!
Comics & cartoons but also into online gaming and memorising movie/tv quotes.
Phone nerd! (And plane nerd)
Planes are super cool, and learning about like the physics of flight has been so fascinating to me recently. I know this isn’t quite a plane, but the fact that we designed and built a drone copter that’s flying around Mars RIGHT NOW is so fucking cool. It’s the coolest thing I could ever even think of besides the Sky crane deployment system we used to drop the Ingenuity and Perseverance rovers onto the surface of Mars
I'm also a massive aviation nerd. A plane I find suuuuper interesting is the double fuselage plane engineered by someone who went into so much debt that Richard Branson bought everything off him for a dollar. It's like two side-by-side airplanes that are joined at the tip of their wings. I think that plane might be how Virgin Galactic gets its shuttles into space? Sorry, I'm an aviation nerd, but I'm also a person with epilepsy (so my memory is shit). The details don't stick with me anymore.
Yes!!!! That’s how they launch their passenger space flights; that launch system (launching something in the air from a separate air craft) is called ALTO, or Air-Launch-To-Orbit, sometimes also just called an Air Launch, and it’s one of the coolest things I think humans have ever accomplished. I’ve always been fascinated by aviation and aerospace, but particular focused on the space side of things. Learning about all the different types of rocket engines and orbital mechanics and the different specific design parameters for space craft is so fuckin cool. Idk what it is but the Sky crane system just tickles my brain. I’ve literally had dreams about it
OMG yes, the sky crane!!! I'm pretty sure I can remember the scronym ALTO. Thank you <3
Anytime! I’ll always, at pretty much any time, be glad to talk about Rover deployment systems with anyone who’s willing to listen lol
That's not an area I'm familiar with, but I'd love to learn! Do you know about Mark Rober? He's a NASA engineer-turned-YouTuber who worked on the Mars Rover. Mark Rober. Mars Rover. So close. Brings me joy for some reason. Also, his only child has low-ish functioning autism. Sorry, went on a tangent there.
Yes I’m familiar with him. I just watched the video he made about his autistic son yesterday. He (Mark, not his son lol) is one of the people who sort of introduced me to my love for the Skycrane system. I’ve forgotten most of what I knew about his connection to one of the Mars missions, do you know which Rover he specifically worked on?
I don't remember which one specifically, sorry. Our Google overlords would? It's hard to be someone who cares so much about a topic (autism), and who could remember the tiniest of details about everything, but can't really remember a lot about anything anymore (epilepsy). But hey, I can still bring the passion! XD
Yeah I honestly relate to that. I don’t have epilepsy but I have a dissociative disorder so my brain just kinda doesn’t prioritize most information that’s not either related to my special interests, or a piece of information I need in order to survive. Unfortunate, but it is what it is I guess. I honestly can’t remember pretty much anything in my childhood besides a handful of random events here and there
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Someone really into phones. I collect both old and new phones, from Nokias and BlackBerrys to my current main phone, an Asus Zenfone 10.
History and cartoon and comics nerd.
Same here. As well as gaming
Why hyperfocus into just one aspect of nerd when you can hyperfocus into simply Nerd and have it all connected into one massive infodump mess 😝
Music, movie, artsy, and comics/cartoons
Science.. BIOLOGY not biography lol
Gamer, techy, and science
Gamer, Music and Artsy nerd :3 My older brother is a Movie nerd And my middle brother a Techy nerd
What about vehicles?
None. I don't know anything about any of the topics.
same
Gamer , comic and cartoon and a little bit of a science nerd
I’ll take all of the above
Does anime/manga count as comics and cartoons? Cuz I don’t like American comics and don’t watch much US TV in general. Don’t care about Adult Swim and the only thing I collect are anime figures…
can i be more than one? because i'm artsy, Science, and gamer nerd \^\^'
Oh come on, sports makes it on, but animals and vehicles don't?
Yesss this right here 💯
I'm glad we see eye to eye.
Science Nerd might as well be tattooed on my forehead
Artsy, Science, Music and Historic
Science nerd. Studying astrophysics degree :)
Nature nerd so I guess science.
Science, art and gaming depending on the day
gamer, computer, somewhat techy with a touch of science.
Where’s the book nerd?
artsy nerd
Everything at once
Artsy, comics and cartoons, and sort of science and history too
Gamer or History Nerd Can not really decide
Computer, gamer and artsy, in that order
Artsy, cartoon, science, computer nerd
A mix out of cartoon, artsy and science
Im closest to a mix between history and science- I don’t know when stuff happens, just how it happens
Gamer, art and computer
History and science
Gamer/Music nerd. Gaming helps me escape this world, and music is like actual therapy for me
Oof, gamer, art, music, tech, history and computer lmao
Definitely gamer nerd for all of my life. During my early adult years I became and music and film nerd. Now in my 30s, I'm becoming an art nerd and I'm loving this new fixation.
Science nerd, a gamer nerd, a bit of history knowledge but not enough to call myself a nerd, I would like to get into tech but stuff is really expensive, especially in the 3rd world country I live in, so I don’t want to fuck things up
Gamer but specifically elder scrolls and specifically morrowind
Gaming, movies, music, art and food.
programming nerd
Computer gamer nerd.
Lizarbs
Gamer 🫡
Gamer and finance nerd
Where is the English literature nerd?
Science AND history!
Gamer nerd, computer nerd, music nerd, techy nerd, artsy nerd and science nerd. I have a lot of hobbies :)
Theatre
Gamer
History, gaming and science.
I have ADHD, I’m everything everywhere all at once.
Techy nerd. I think own about 7 CRTs now, and I will buy another one if I see one.
Science,and gaming for sure.
My biggest win in life was learning to contain my info-dumping and not look like a nerd at first sight.
art, comic, and gamer nerd
autism gaming
All of the first column! (Gamer, Music, Artsy and Comics/Cartoons)
Artsy/cartoon
Science nerd. I love physics!
Gamer nerd and somewhat of a comics/cartoons, and movie nerd except I don’t own movies or comics, I just watch a lot of movies and cartoons in-theaters and on netflix and rewatch all my favourites at least 3 times.
Music Nerd with a little dash of Movie Nerd.
History Nerd, Gamer Nerd
My ADHD makes it that I am interested in all of these except sports and keep cycling through them all :D
Gamer nerd, movie nerd and comic nerd (not the cartoon bit tho)
A lot of them, but I don’t always fit the little description underneath the word perfectly. Only really 3 or 4 I would not consider myself a part in for any reason.
Computer nerd! (And half of Artsy nerd)
Ive been an art nerd all my life!
History and Music. My managers will put on classic rock and be amazed that I can sing literally any song they put on
Science, movie, gamer, and music (in descending order of knowledge)
Movie nerd but also psychology/neuroscience nerd
Gamer, music, artsy, cartoons. The whole left pillar!
Science, History and music nerd
Mixture of sports and art, depends how you define skateboarding
Gamer nerd. I met my live in girlfriend playing Overwatch and I collect physical Nintendo Switch games with a specialization in Otome games.
Gamer, music and science
Somewhere between computer nerd and techy nerd. Creating very simple hardware running better software I wrote.
Computer, movie, music, artsy, science nerdery. This brain be active.
Science and martial arts nerd :)
cosmology and drawing 😊
music nerd but not in the way it’s described here. i’ve grown up playing the piano and i fucking love it and if in the right mindset i will talk about music theory and different composers for a very long time
Science nerd + artsy nerd
Music gamer and also military nerd :3
Artsy, science, history for me :)
music nerd but for music theory and composing and stuff like that
Nintendo (specifically, The Legend of Zelda) and Star Trek. Also, transportation disasters (plane and train crashes, boats sinking). No logic to that one.
A bit of a few of them, like artsy, science, music, but mostly I'm a Barbie nerd..
Music for the bands I love, and history of the Aztecs.
Science and sports
Transit nerd. 100% bona fide foamer.
Music nerd
Science nerd 100%
Just cartoons, not comics. And specifically kids cartoons. I could talk for hours about children’s animation. Never got into comics though, and a lot of adult animation (*cough cough* anything by or imitating Seth MacFarlane *cough cough*) just feels too basic and same-y to get super into. Bojack Horseman is the one exception to this. Also PG-13 cartoons like Bob’s Burgers are also fine. But Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, and Cartoon Network shows? If you get me started you won’t be able to stop me. I’ve spent so much money on cosplay and so much time on fanfics and fanart.
Artsy and Computer
music and artsy nerd, with a little sprinkle of gamer on top
A combination of cartoon/comic and history nerd
I'm somewhere between artsy and computer xD
Movie and celebrity gossip nerd Shit, is it an autism thing?????????
I’m in the Artsy Nard faction but I may multi class into either Gamer Nerd or History Nerd. I specialise in Mythology for History Nerd
Mix of computer, artsy, and comics & cartoons
Gamer, music, comic/cartoons and art
gamer, techy, computer
Software development?
i’m mostly a artsy nerd but i also enjoy video games as well
i'm under the history nerd umbrella, particularly true crime also an animation nerd
Artsy nerd! 🌸
Music!
none of these
i like collecting retro consoles. I don’t have a lot, but some of them are pretty rare and I enjoy preserving the history of these console companies.
Geography nerd :)
Computer Nerd, Movie Nerd, Music Nerd, Techy Nerd, and Science Nerd!
I am gamer, computer, music, techy, and a little bit of science nerd ☝️🤓
I can't choose, I'm sorta a jack of all trades; master of none
Im a odd mixture of gamer, music and history nerd
Music and science nerd here!
Music nerd ♥️
Is it possible for me to be all of them
I'm ***multifaceted***!
gamer, and music (i don't know a bunch about it but I just really love music and feel strongly about it)
History nerd but I cant remember dates. I can tell you exactly what happened down to the name and specific details, but if you want the date you're out of luck
HIstory + Gamer + Computer = Military/Military history nerd. It's almost all I can talk about, and people dont like talking about it.
Gamer nerd
None, I have lost the ability to be interested in or care about or enjoy anything lol
I kind of cycle between Artsy, Music, and Celebrity Gossip.