Fake Geek Girls

[BrainWalker]

Wait, what's wrong with Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel? I'm not familiar with anything he's done outside of his creative work.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

People go to cons for the strange cosplay sex-larping at the hotel, don't they? Right? This fake nerd thing, if it even is a thing, only increases your chances of success. Bonus points if you don't sit up at the hotel, stare at the tele, and wonder if maybe you're a little too much into video games.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Well that escalated quickly.

 

[eternal-chaplain]

Yay, Mami saved the day.

 

[SecondPrize]

Did I hallucinate the brony comic and megathread that spawned from it bases on the same topic, months ago?

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Nerds are nerds, and geeks are geeks. We all nerd out or geek out over different things. Anyone who would dare to trace and limit awesome of any kind of gender lines has no weight of opinion on the matter. Who are you to say what people like, and to what degree they're allowed to like it?

Besides, I'd quite like to see phase 2 play out. I imagine it involves pennies, electrodes, and inflatable cows.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Do one of you guys know the origins to this whole "fake geek girl" thing? It just sounds like a big non-issue to me. As geeks, should we not preach the gospels of the things we like to the nonbelievers?

Some people still want gaming and general geek stuff to be an elite circle that's hard to get into so they can feel superior. Instead of it being an interest, being a geek is a special club, and only the people who have suffered through being bullied and shunned are allowed in.

Just look in the jimquisiton comments... ugh. Plenty of people saying you're not a geek because you weren't bullied every day for it in the 90's.

 

[Akisa]

What sucks, is that I would probably not get in. And seriously it's an anime convention why do they have to answer a comic book question. Do all nerds have to read comic book? Why can't I stick to my PC games and anime?

 

[hazabaza1]

The pointless discussions will stop when the screaming assholes learn to shut their mouths at everywhere ever

Fixed that for you.

I dunno, I can see how it could be annoying that someone tries to get into "your thing" without doing their research, but god damn does this stuff get out of hand quick.

 

[2xDouble]

Well there's the rub, isn't it? What exactly do "we" have that these so-called "fake gamer girls" want? Certainly nothing they couldn't get significantly easier elsewhere...

I suspect it may have something to do with cookies... or part of a larger conspiracy to cover up, I don't know, the "second shooter" using a "magic bullet" from the fake moon landing site actually built on the moon (because why the hell else send people up there?), where they buried Jimmy Hoffa to appease the aliens, wizards and/or vampires who spread a secret zombie plague so the religious...
oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.

/tinfoilhat


FUTURE EDIT: ...time travel existed. They had that too.

 

[OtherSideofSky]

Fuck comic book trivia.

Ask people questions about Soviet-era Russian science fiction novels. That's how you weed out the people worth talking to.

 

[Booke55555]

Didn't it turn out that Ben Reilly was the real Peter Parker and the person who we always thought was Peter Parker was the clone? So I'm going with Peter Parker

 

[Cory Rydell]

That's a common thing though Cory, I mean honestly I doubt George Lucas would have predicted an entire religion in THIS world would spring up from the Star Wars movies.

Consumers always put more thought into the products and media they consume than those who make them, especially now as people are assuming everything has hidden meanings. I do it myself, we try to find something else beneath the surface even in the most bizzarre places. I guarantee if you were to be with myself and my friends any given night that we are together we're arguing about the bigger moral meaning of Tyler Durden creating a male split personality that cares more about women than he does, or the eventual karmatic concequences of the Jedi having copied their lightsabers off of old Rakkatan Technology that was so deeply based in the Dark Side that use of one could end up killing it's weilder.

Hell, I've spent hours arguing with people online and in person about the weight of Leto Atredies II's "golden path" and whether or not it actually helped.

Most of that is essentially pointless when you consider that Star Wars was originally intended as a sort of sci-fi soap opera, being all about the people and less about the larger universe it takes place in, that Fight Club was a man writting a book to tell people to not be sheep and essentially nothing else, and that Dune was actually more about the domineering human spirit rather than anything akin to despotic dictatorships versus peaceful republics.

We love the media we consume however, and thus we look for more meaning than it may actually be intended to have.

I don't know if I agree that consumers ALWAYS put more thought into the products they consume(creators know how to make them some layers too), but I kinda agree about it in this instance. We've dealt with this topic before and this time I don't think Grey intended to push past any topics as much as he wanted to do a silly tangential joke. The brony strip dealt more with objectification whereas this strip was more of a joke on the concept of fake geeks infiltrating geek culture, and the relativity of geek culture.

The beauty of creating something is in the limitless interpretations that can spring forth based on the individuals and how they experience that something. It's probably the reason we're all even on this site.

but srsly, look at panel 1, dat background, dem clouds... I'm just really happy with how the strip came out.

 

[Paragon Fury]

Sure but can you name all the characters the girls are cosplaying as?

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Mai Shiranui, a bad copy of Catherine and Catwoman.

 

[Icehearted]

Between this and Jim I feel I've missed a whole "thing" here. Weren't women faking it for years at game expos? I posted elsewhere that i got where some of the resentment might hypothetically come from, but this is reminding me a lot of what it was like when I was a kid and goth wasn't "goth" until it became popular. I didn't care then, I did my thing anyway, and I outgrew it and moved on.

I guess where I lose my grasp on this is when did being a "geek" become an elitist badge of honor to be hoarded and lorded?

 

[Danceofmasks]

Fake geek girls dragging a guy back to their queen for egg implantation.
...
Sounds like a fic I read some time back.

 

[I.Muir]

Implanted with aliems for the ultimate emancipation of those oh so manly neck beard nerd types
but hey guys says the overwhelming number of white knights, this must be a good thing

Still don't know why people take issue with girls holding controllers
They might take issue with 'hey I'm a gamer girl hurrr give me stuff, lol omg you got pwned by a girl you noob' but that's only happened once or twice right? Right?!

 

[Sonofadiddly]

I resent the idea that just because I don't know some trivial Spiderman detail, I'm not a real geek. Spiderman being the lamest of all superheroes. YES THAT INCLUDES AQUAMAN. Probably. I'm a gamer, not a comic book geek.

Why in god's name is anyone surprised that some girls pretend to be geeks to get male attention? Like I've been trying to tell people for ages, women and men are essentially the same. Women pretend to be interested in things they don't really like to get male attention the same way men pretend to be interested in things they don't really like to get female attention. So the fuck what? The majority of women who appear to be geeks still are. Unbunch your boxer briefs, guys.

 

[MorganL4]

I just want to say, that at the point when you know who Mami Tomoe is enough to know that you CAN cosplay as her, you have enough geek cred no matter what.

 

[Mister K]

Why bring up the clone saga!? It was such a dark time in comic book history

Well, It was nice in a cartoon:
"Hey, Spidey! Do you know, that in one of the parallel universes exist two of you? Yes, the real and the clone. And one of them is pissed, because at first he thought that he is real, but he is not sure now, so he went crazy. Oh, yeah, he also merged with Carnage, so now he is crazy-powerful, bat-sh1t insane monster, that used a few devices to destroy both his AND all parallel universes. Have fun!"
You must agree, as a side story, that happened in a parallel universe, it is pretty darn neat.

EDIT: to destroy both his AND all OTHER parallel universes.