What nerd crime are you guilty of?

[Legion]

Slight question on this thread; The Fuck is a nerd crime?

Even having read some replies, I am still in the dark as well. Most people seem to be listing things that non-nerds would criticise nerds for.

 

[MiskWisk]

Well, even a quick google search couldn't answer the question of nerd crimes, instead bringing up a case of a man attacking people with a toy lightsaber and this site.

I'll just go with yes, I do not think the star wars prequels are as bad as people say (just mediocre).

 

[Orks da best]

1. I love the Star Wars Prequels.
2. I love Swtor.
3. I loathe Valve.

Come at me and fireproof bunker, with laser gatling cannons.

 

[JEBWrench]

There are nerd-crimes now?

Does is matter if someone likes Gunstringer AND Dwarf Fortress? What's so bad about liking what we like? If I don't like Firefly or Star Trek, does that honestly affect anyone's enjoyment of the brands?

Does eating Doritos and drinking Mountain Dew while I play Halo count? Does that make me one of the shit-throwing-dudebro-fratboy-ape-jocks?

The moment I realized I enjoy playing local multiplayer broshooters was the moment I realized there's nothing wrong with the word bro, regardless of who it's used toward.

(Also, I use it in memorial of Lance.)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/comics/critical-miss/8596-Children-of-Steam-6-Carrying-the-Light

(EDIT: To make one of the sentences make sense)

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Up until the this gen (ps3, xbox 360, wii) I wouldn't play a single FPS.
Borderlands and Dues Ex: HR changed that for me.

What about Fallout 3 and Vegas? Do you consider them more RPG than FPS, or did you just not like them? Or did you not play them?

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Slight question on this thread; The Fuck is a nerd crime?

Even having read some replies, I am still in the dark as well. Most people seem to be listing things that non-nerds would criticise nerds for.

I assumed he meant a nerd doing something that his nerds peers would seem as...uncool. A crime against nerd-dome. Like having the choice between a Wolverine blanket *Marvel* or a Hannah Montana blanket, and choosing Montana.

Or perhapes making a mistake in nerd/geek culture, like asking a fellow nerd how Han Solo made it out of the Sarlacc Pitt.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

Up until the this gen (ps3, xbox 360, wii) I wouldn't play a single FPS.
Borderlands and Dues Ex: HR changed that for me.

What about Fallout 3 and Vegas? Do you consider them more RPG than FPS, or did you just not like them? Or did you not play them?

I didn't play Vegas (or Skyrim), but I consider Fallout 3 (and Oblivion) rpgs, although they are in First Person, they give the option to use third person if you choose. I didn't actually play much of them. In Fallout 3, I got out of Vault 101 and thought "Where am I!", I went the wrong direction and ended up running through the wasteland for a few hours, got murdered by random wondering creatures and stopped playing.

But it's the rpg characteristics of Borderlands and Deus Ex that made me play the games, I love how the line is getting so blurred these days.

 

[HobbyJim]

Here's a bombshell: I liked Indy 4.

BAM!!! Whatcha gonna do now, BITCHES!

In all seriousness, I can debate this thing all day. Not that you have to like it, but dislike it for the right reasons. Yes there were stupid moments in the film but that's what Indy movies are: fun-filled, action packed adventures with some silliness and willing suspension of disbelief.

Get over it.

 

[Legion]

Slight question on this thread; The Fuck is a nerd crime?

Even having read some replies, I am still in the dark as well. Most people seem to be listing things that non-nerds would criticise nerds for.

I assumed he meant a nerd doing something that his nerds peers would seem as...uncool. A crime against nerd-dome. Like having the choice between a Wolverine blanket *Marvel* or a Hannah Montana blanket, and choosing Montana.

Or perhapes making a mistake in nerd/geek culture, like asking a fellow nerd how Han Solo made it out of the Sarlacc Pitt.

If we are going by that idea then my "crimes" would be having no interest in Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who, Marvel, DC or superheroes in general.

Not that I actually care if people are bothered by it.

 

[Sheo_Dagana]

My Nerd Crime, I guess, would be that the things I love are so incredibly obscure that most of my friends don't know what I'm talking about. So I pretend to like Star Trek just to fit in.

Also, I liked the first Transformers movie. And yes, I grew up with G-1 Transformers...

 

[fenrizz]

1. I never liked Star Wars, but I consider the prequels to be better than the originals.
2. I never like the Half-Life franchise either. I'd rather have Valve develop another Portal than another Half-Life.

I reckon those are the sort of things OP meant?

 

[eternal-chaplain]

Growing up, I had only seen the three, canon Star Wars films on the television; Return of the Jedi I had on VHS, as did I have The Phantom Menace. Even today I don't care for Episode III (VI) much due largely in part to its choppy ending and rushed second act, and that was still the case as a kid. So I resolved to just watch Menace all the time. Naturally, as an impressionable kid, I grew a little too attached to it, and it wasn't until I owned the entire canon trilogy on VHS that I realised the error of my ways.

 

[babinro]

Defending games I like against random people online. Games like Diablo 3 and Dragon Age 2.

I assume this is a nerd crime because it's as productive as trying to convert a sports fan to join your favorite team...or convert a liberal to become a conservative.

 

[axlryder]

fun-filled

I had about as much fun with that movie as I'd have with sticking razor blades in my ass. That said, to each his own.

As to the OP: I've never seen Firefly. I didn't really enjoy half-life. I got bored with Portal. I still find some old memes funny. Go ahead. Poke me with your pitchforks.

 

[Racecarlock]

I like COD and Madden Football Games.

Please don't kill me.

 

[Frezzato]

These are mostly crimes for the Thought Police, as they're mainly me disagreeing with the rants I find on the intertubes. Also, they're in ascending order in severity based on the ferocity I've seen in said rants.

Spoiler: 1

I buy consoles based on the availability of the games I like instead of zealous loyalty.

I bought all three consoles so I could just buy whatever game I want.


I'm guilty of having bought Mass Effect 2 twice, the same for Mass Effect 3. I already own ME1 for 360 and will buy it on PSN when it becomes available.

I'm guilty of believing that you effectively vote with your dollars. I didn't like the ending to ME3 but I believe in supporting Bioware for having a damn good track record like KOTOR, Jade Empire, Dragon Age (I never played #2).

My worst crime: I keep an Excel sheet of all my games from this and last generation, recording prices paid and personal ratings, contrasted by a rating pulled from popular consensus. I also record which games I sold and kept.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

I don't think I'm guilty of any of those...
Unless not giving a shit about the whole console war, having a life that is just a life, with nerdy/geeky things in it, rather than being obsessed with, well, anything, counts.

Still, I guess if I were given a ton more examples maybe I could find something I'm "guilty" of.

 

[Something Amyss]

I've noticed recently, that certain things in nerd culture, on the internet, come up repeatedly. There's certain things that annoy people. Entitlement. Judging another's "nerd status". Complaining about the friendzone. That kind of thing. And we're all guilty of at least one.

These are nerd things? They seem like "human" things. Even "nerd status" checks.

Going based on what most people seem to be doing:

I dislike almost the entirety of Star Trek: TNG. I also like the 2009 movie. And while I don't like the series, I waited for an episode of Enterprise to actually AIR before I judged it.

I think Gabe Newell and Tim Schaffer CAN do wrong.

I dislike the 3D Zelda games.

I dislike FPS, even the ones that aren't "dudebro" shooters.

Once I got the original editions of Star Wars on DVD, I stopped caring about the new editions and what Lucas was changing this time. He could have a new edition where Darth Vader unmasks to reveal he was Luke's doppleganger from a parallel dimension and he orchestrated the whole deal so he could steal Luke's kidneys and the Death Star was actually a giant smoothie machine, and I'd be okay.

My sense of "entitlement" only applies to actual rights I am entitled to. I will, for example, rant about anything I damn well please. I don't, however, feel "entitled" to a changed Mass Effect ending, a BD Star Wars release with the original versions, or free games. I will voice my opinions, and people are free to listen to or ignore them as they see fit.

Also, the "friend zone" is bullcrap that ignores that there are more social nuances to elationships than just "me want put dick in you."

I don't give a damn what people think of my "nerd cred." I will say what I want about what I want. I like what I like. I don't like what I don't like. And people should just deal with the fact that we as humans are deeper than two dimensional cardboard cut-outs.

 

[JEBWrench]

I don't think I'm guilty of any of those...
Unless not giving a shit about the whole console war, having a life that is just a life, with nerdy/geeky things in it, rather than being obsessed with, well, anything, counts.

Still, I guess if I were given a ton more examples maybe I could find something I'm "guilty" of.

You monster! Get off the internet!

I don't give a damn what people think of my "nerd cred." I will say what I want about what I want. I like what I like. I don't like what I don't like. And people should just deal with the fact that we as humans are deeper than two dimensional cardboard cut-outs.

But the cut-outs are so much easier to arrange and manage.