Nerds are neither athletes generally speaking, though I am not so sure.  Nerds are neither so charismatic either except likely among other nerds, or that something of a fictitious social class were derived that hadn't in modern parlance taken the form a specific spectral class of autism, but usually it seems another way of, I generally interface strangely with the rest of society, perhaps, or are arguably could be more of book worm, could be more of something more socially exotic in relation to the rest of society.  The athlete is the athlete, but isn't so much the spectator, as the nerd may neither be so much the spectator, or could be likely the spectator of curling before American rules football.  Lately it seems my sense of the nerd is one being a connoisseur of craft beer, for instance, as to despising Bud light and all of the major large scale distribution of 'beers' although likely the nerd moniker has been replaced here at times and replaced with hipster, or hipster seems to delineate a social ascension of the nerd to another social level.

It is rather offensive in a way, though, however, to the notion that a nerd might be succeeding anymore than a nerd may be more likely to pursue certain forms of occupation over others where likely in others as one might imagine being so conformed as to obtain vertical occupational mobility.

The characterization of 'nerd' makes for ease in social relations...in this case, if it were as much the 'nerd' might be as likely a Star Trek fan, or a fan of Star Wars, or a fan of something much popular to a given social classification thus facilitating inter social functioning.  There may be subsets of 'nerd' populations one of which are either not so inclined to certain types games over others.  For instance, one subset may prefer text based role playing games over games that attract wider audiences.