Decade of the Nerd

KingPiccolOwned

New member
Jan 12, 2009
1,039
0
0
gim73 said:
Silly bob, this is not the end of nerds. Other people might start dabbling with our hobbies, but that does not make us less nerdy. They might buy the Warhammer 40k box set and fight us with the set that comes in it, but that doesn't change that we bought each of our pieces of our army seperately and painted them with painstaking detail. They might own Wii sports and Karaoke revolution, but that doesn't change the fact that we still play A Link to the Past on the SNES and have a closet full of old video game systems. Kids like to play Pokemon and YuGiOh? I was playing magic back in beta and all my cards have protective armor sleeves. I can't think of any possible normal person comparison to playing Dungeons and Dragons, but I know I enjoy playing in second edition best. Anyone can dabble in fantasy/science fiction, but a nerd makes it an art. We surround ourselves with it. We build the models, paint the miniatures, read the books, watch the movies, collect the comic books. Our hard drive has a 1 Gb porn folder and a 200 Gb Anime folder, and most of that porn is anime anyways. I personally have never built a computer, but many of my friends have, and none of us own a mac.

What is it that makes you a nerd? It's degree. Anybody can have a hobby, we just make it a lifestyle.
Damn skippy!
 

gim73

New member
Jul 17, 2008
526
0
0
BehattedWanderer said:
The upside: we're not trashed on anymore. The downside: we lose our subculture. But even as our culture is bled into the average happenstances, there are still those of us to whom the moniker still matters. A Nerd among Nerds. They have taken our culture and made it their own, but they still need us to fuel their movies, their games, their books, their memes. Vampires were ours. Giant Robots were ours. Space marines were ours, as were the aliens they fought against. Sure, they can share them. But they will always want more, and we will supply. They want epic stories about superhero vigilantes demolishing their demented baddies? Oh yeah. We've got that in droves. They want Johnny Depp to be a pirate, a mad barber, a demented haberdasher with a fondness of trading places? Guess who had those. They want exciting treasure finds set in historical artifacts and locations of the National Treasure/Nathan Drake variety? Yeah. They can borrow those. But we know, and we keep watching, and we'll be your suppliers. We are the nerds, and we know what you want. But we remember the old days, and soon, sooner than you know, we will return the favor. We don't forget.
Vampires ours? Meh, I don't think so. vampires were always more of a goth thing than a nerd thing. Nerds may have self esteem issues, but most are on the apathetic to revultion side of blood and suffering.

We do claim giant robots, space marine and aliens, but that is because most of us do gaming and models to some extent.

It took me a while to understand exactly what I wanted out of life. I read books, watched anime, played video games. I both played and DMed dungeons and dragons. Eventually I realized I was obsessed with the story rather than the result. That's all that matters to me, just the solid story.
 

reterofish18

New member
Oct 7, 2009
54
0
0
while I agree with most of it, mainstream audiences still don't like comic books (but they o like super heroes
 

CK76

New member
Sep 25, 2009
1,620
0
0
The greatest benefit of the nerd empire, female nerds. We live in the golden age gents. Ask our brethren who remember a time called the 80s.
 

MB202

New member
Sep 14, 2008
1,157
0
0
I can't believe I missed out on this article when it first came out. Now I saw it after reading about how you felt the Decade of the Nerd was dying out.