>>4242819You can always identify a gearfag by their trappings
Manual transmissions, exclusively, even for commuting in the SF bay area
Naturally aspirated sportscars - with carburetors, never EFI or even MFI. Supercharged if they're feeling frisky.
Mechanical watches, never high end quartz
Fountain pens, never fineliners
Gibson guitars, never PRS
Mechanical film cameras, never a canon EOS
The list goes on. Some say, it never ends. It will not be too long until they are out on their apartment balcony chopping boutique wood with a miniature axe to put in their smokeless fire pit and fancying themselves an outdoorsman.
Somebody who is a genuine gearfag will only appreciate mechanical things and never give a single FUCK about "art" or the end result of using those things. Only the process of using those things, and the process by which they were manufactured, which they will tell you about at every opportunity.
This is not a rich man's game either. In fact, most of them buy everything used and write with a twsbi eco or lamy safari and wear a seiko 5.
