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More important, software companies feared that games written for business computers would not sell. "The general thinking was that the average player was a 17-year-old geek with pimples who wanted to blow up spaceships," says Chris Crawford, a former game designer at Atari who now writes programs independently for both business and home computers. "Publishers are just beginning to realize there is another market out there...
Some winners were quick to discount stereotypes which they said surround the awards. "I think I'm pretty interested in my classes but I'm not a geek by an standards," said Sarah Stroud...
...real pain in the neck to everybody else because I occasionally inject meaningful statements into the discussion, forcing specific and relevant conversation. I am despised by the "arguer" who often gets trapped by my tendency to direct the conversation towards what is important. Some call me a "geek" for my actions...
...TOOK Marcel Marceau, dressed him like a third grade geek and gave him extensive electroshock therapy you'd create a creature very similar to Emo Phillips. Give him an abused childhood and a wretched lovelife and you'd provide most of his comic material...
...created a stage persona more pathetic than Woody Allen, more whiny than The Pathological Liar and about as bizarre as Sid Vicious. He makes it clear from the start that he's a geek, a psycho, a loser, and that we should laugh...