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Gamer Plays Over 30 Warcraft Characters
If your significant other complains that you play too much World of Warcraft, just show them this article about a user named "Prepared." He plays an amazing 36 World of Warcraft accounts on 11 different computers at the same time. He is his own raid group. "It costs me exactly $5711 in subscription costs per year with 36 accounts on the 6 month pay schedule," he writes. "Not bad considering I'm looking at it like it's a hobby and there are more expensive hobbies out there than World of Warcraft."
It depends partly on whether you're a language descriptionist or a prescriptionist.
However, anecdotally the negative connotation seems stronger with "nerd" than "geek"--which can be seen in things like "Geek Squad" (you can be sure marketing's focus groups tried out "nerd squad") where geeks are helpful, and movies like "Revenge of the Nerds" where the nerds are losers.
In this instance, the person in question is definitely in the "needs to seriously consider getting a life" category.
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No.
Geek means fascinated with technology, knows how it works, has social skills.
Nerd means fascinated with technology, knows how it works, has no social skills.
If you want to see the visible difference, watch Wargames, specifically the part where David goes to Jim and Malvin for help. Jim is a geek, Malvin is a nerd.