And as always no editing, so I'll throw this down at the bottom.

My obsession with the word "nerd" stems from CounterStrike. It always amused me how mad everyone in a game would get when some random person would call them a nerd, and then they would go off on some hour-long speech about why they aren't a nerd, all while playing online video games.

I actually don't consider it an insult, but I throw it around as one, because that's how everyone always takes it. I'm happy to consider myself a nerd these days.