Hey everyone,

My name is David Di Franco, owner of GearPop.com. User "Urinal_Slam" was nice enough to link my site in the /r/buildapcsales section. I cannot express enough how much I appreciate the nice boost in traffic. GearPop was just recently launched in November, so it's nice to see the website is off to a good start. And yes, I am working on the pricing issues of certain products. A few members pointed this out to me. It's being worked on.

Anyway, I simply wanted to introduce myself. I've known about Reddit for years now, but I have finally decided to create an account and participate. Expect to see future topics from myself soon. I typically like to discuss technology, social media and graphic design.

A fellow geek,

David Di Franco

So this sub seems fucking brutal when it comes to tattoo ideas. I've seen the Δ/t (change over time) tattoo floating around, but it seems pretty clichè, and it kind of frustrates me that it isn't technically correct. So my proposed alternative is this. Loosely translated to English, it's change is inevitable. More specifically the rate of change with respect to time is never 0. Does this make sense? Would you get that if you saw this inked on someone?

One article Marc MacYoung has written that I always read over and over is this.

http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/violence_geeks.htm

Indeed I notice compare to other physically intense hobbies and sports such as football, the martial arts attracts a disproportionate number of geeks as does the RBSD community.

By nerds, I don't mean some random guy who plays Dungeons and Dragons or watches Star Wars but guys big into nerdy stuff such as obsessing over who would win Superman or Batman and knowledge of obscure details of the Star Trek universe alongside often lacking basic social skills. Often also quite obese or really frail and skinny.

What theories do you have?

In addition I notice karate and kung fu attracts the highest proportion of geeks even within the martial artists community? What is it with these two styles that get the level that say Muay Thai doesn't?

Professor Geek is a university professor and Youtuber that talks about the psychological and mythological study of geek culture. He's been against films with political correctness and deconstruction of heroes and believes every hero is a certain archetype and should stay as that archetype. He has made it clear that he dislikes Avengers: Endgame. Do you agree or disagree with his viewpoints?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFgO54pNGQ&t=474s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AO_zkAZW7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTbLZ4c7Ins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-s-9eZ5CpY&t=2s

Geeks are people who found something that interests them more than sex, most of them had no choice.

The geek code essentially a code that geeks can write that identifies themselves. It's horridly outdated, but it's pretty fun nonetheless. You can see it here. Here's mine:

-----START GEEK CODE BLOCK-----

Version 3.12

GCS/M/MU dx() s:- a12 c++(+++)>$ U*+ P>+(++) L+(++) E- W+++ N? o? K? w+@ O?() M++ V? PS+ PE(++) Y? PGP? t 5? X? R+@ tv b++++ DI D- G>++ e-->+++ h! r! !y

------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

I'm open to all ideas!

I'm looking for something as easy as possible just to use for transferring files over LAN