Kthx.
To back up Orangelink's statements, I've played Halo at a relative's house, and I thought it was all bark and no bite. Everyone was saying at my school, "OMG, LeIK, iyts teh uLtImAtE. Graphics an bxart are evrythin!!1!!!111111!!!!!!!!111111!!!1 Gameplay controls r teh suxors an r nt neded in gams." Well, not really, but you get the point. I really didn't like the way Halo's control scheme was set, ot an X-Box controller, for that matter. The gameplay... It was bad. Just... no. Remember the Flood level. Turn your light on, your dead. Keep it off, wander aimlessly through a big base or something, and you have a chance of almost reaching the end, dying, and having to start at the begining because you missed a checkpoint.
Theres my 2 cents.
Edit: Ice, here are a few definitions of the word "nerd"
A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
a stupid, irritating, ineffectual, or unattractive person.
an intelligent but single-minded person obsessed with a nonsocial hobby or pursuit: a computer nerd.
1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of computer geek.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and `gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant roughly "annoying misfit" without the connotation of intelligence).
An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this bears all the hallmarks of a bogus folk etymology.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.
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