Title, been a little ragey/sad over the past couple days on these forums, so just post whatever anime, tv, movie, video game thing(s) make you smile when you look at it.
What nerd culture thing makes you happy?
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Just about all of it (well...the happy stuff at least, not the "Holy shit Bro, I don't care what just happened but threatening to murder and rape people is bad mmmm'kay" stuff).
However, to give a specific example right now...
I've always wanted to play drums. I am 30 years old but because of my living arrangements through my life, I have never had the opportunity to really pursue it like I would like. Living in an apartment now, having an actual drum set isn't realistic and electronic drum sets are super expensive (also, I still don't know how to actually play said drums even if I found a cheap set).
I owned Rock Band for my 360 but I was younger and didn't have the money to replace the drum set (I had RB1 set) once the cymbal attachment came out (RB2). Once I got an actual job and the money to spend, finding a Rock Band 2 set with the cymbals was just brutal.
Now though, the Rock Band game came out on my Xbox One and Best Buy had a big deal on it that ultimately dropped the price down to about $140 for the full set. I picked up the cymbal attachment for another $30 on Amazon and I now have the closest I'm going to be able to get to drums that I'm going to until at least a few years when I finally get out of renting. I get to do something I've always wanted to do thanks to them vidja games.
Rock on
However, to give a specific example right now...
I've always wanted to play drums. I am 30 years old but because of my living arrangements through my life, I have never had the opportunity to really pursue it like I would like. Living in an apartment now, having an actual drum set isn't realistic and electronic drum sets are super expensive (also, I still don't know how to actually play said drums even if I found a cheap set).
I owned Rock Band for my 360 but I was younger and didn't have the money to replace the drum set (I had RB1 set) once the cymbal attachment came out (RB2). Once I got an actual job and the money to spend, finding a Rock Band 2 set with the cymbals was just brutal.
Now though, the Rock Band game came out on my Xbox One and Best Buy had a big deal on it that ultimately dropped the price down to about $140 for the full set. I picked up the cymbal attachment for another $30 on Amazon and I now have the closest I'm going to be able to get to drums that I'm going to until at least a few years when I finally get out of renting. I get to do something I've always wanted to do thanks to them vidja games.
Rock on
I'm gonna go with "what makes you smile" and say this guy from Okami. Don't know why but he's become very dear to me.
I listen to this Podcast, Tell Em Steve-Dave... anyway, us die hard fans collected together and we follow each other on Twitter and it's just like... this really weird group of strangers who are friends with me online in the looseless since of the word. Sometimes one of us will be down and will pick each other up.
I like that. When I go on Twitter and I read their tweets. I even have a few people that I've met that are not TESD fans, but I share mutual fandoms with and we can joke around and chitchat. I feel less lonely than I would had I not have had them in my life, I'll tell you what.
I like that. When I go on Twitter and I read their tweets. I even have a few people that I've met that are not TESD fans, but I share mutual fandoms with and we can joke around and chitchat. I feel less lonely than I would had I not have had them in my life, I'll tell you what.
The Gaunt's Ghosts series of Warhammer 40K novels. People here told me to read them, so I did, and I'm glad I did.
Tabletop roleplaying.
Jerks in it aside (there's always jerks everywhere), it makes me so happy seeing the way it connects people, fuels creativity and makes people laugh. It can even pull people out of their shell, help shy people make friends and feel much better about themselves and life in general. It's truly fantastic, and almost unique to 'nerd culture'.
Also, the sheer enthusiasm and unfiltered love for things that swirls around in nerd culture. Despite the rise of toxicity within that the last 5/10 years it's the kind of energy that fuels me and makes me so damn happy. Hype and hope is a glorious thing.
Oh and, honestly? Pokemon Go as well. Yeah, it's silly, but come fight me. It connects people, gets them out and about. Just the other day I saw a group of people sitting on a roof, music and booze a-plenty all playing Pokemon Go. It made me break out in a big ol' grin.
Jerks in it aside (there's always jerks everywhere), it makes me so happy seeing the way it connects people, fuels creativity and makes people laugh. It can even pull people out of their shell, help shy people make friends and feel much better about themselves and life in general. It's truly fantastic, and almost unique to 'nerd culture'.
Also, the sheer enthusiasm and unfiltered love for things that swirls around in nerd culture. Despite the rise of toxicity within that the last 5/10 years it's the kind of energy that fuels me and makes me so damn happy. Hype and hope is a glorious thing.
Oh and, honestly? Pokemon Go as well. Yeah, it's silly, but come fight me. It connects people, gets them out and about. Just the other day I saw a group of people sitting on a roof, music and booze a-plenty all playing Pokemon Go. It made me break out in a big ol' grin.
Games, books, comics, movies... just about everything nerdy/geeky makes me smile. I'm of the mentality that while a portion of nerd culture is vocally and virulently ignorant twats, there's far far more decent folks out there and my theory in experience holds up quite well as I've only met a handful of nerdy/geeky folk I wouldn't waste toilet paper on to wipe up the shitty people they are. Even when I'm not a fan of a nerdy/geeky culture thing, I still appreciate that there are people it brings happiness to.
The only thing I ever want in terms of the culture is for certain folks of any persuasion/sub-culture to stop playing fucking gate-keeper. If that would happen, I'd be super-duper happy.
But as for specific culture things? The 501st Legion and Mando-Mercs cosplay groups. Those folks are just a wonderful group of Star Wars fans with excellent taste and wonderfully charitable. There's more of course but I'd be here all day.
The only thing I ever want in terms of the culture is for certain folks of any persuasion/sub-culture to stop playing fucking gate-keeper. If that would happen, I'd be super-duper happy.
But as for specific culture things? The 501st Legion and Mando-Mercs cosplay groups. Those folks are just a wonderful group of Star Wars fans with excellent taste and wonderfully charitable. There's more of course but I'd be here all day.
So are the terms "queer," "*****" and "******," and lots of people choose to identify with those labels.Sonmi said:
Because the meaning of words change. Today they doesn't carry the same connotations as they did 15 or 20 years ago.Sonmi said:
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Queen Michael said:
Good for the people using the new meaning, but the word never had a positive connotation for me, and whenever it was used towards me it was in the intent to mock and derive. Excuse me if I don't see anything positive in people using that label.Cowabungaa said:
To put it in the words of Tyrion: Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.Sonmi said:
I'm proud to be as unapologetically enthusiastic about all kinds of weird genre shit. I love loving the shit I love, and anyone who gives me shit for it can fuck right off. And all that shit I love? I can't really find any other word for it than geeky shit. And y'know what? Fuckin' A. Don't see what's so bad about that.
I mean, you say you like nothing of it. So what, you secretly dislike Game of Thrones? Or you hate liking it?
I like how you can meet a total stranger and then when you find out you're both into nerdy stuff suddenly they're your new best friend. It's nice how it brings people together like that. I met my boyfriend on a game, and my best friend through finding out that we both liked the same stuff when we were working together.
Oh, and I like achievements. It's superficial, I know. But I like having something that says how far I've gotten at something and is sort of a proof of skill. That's nice, when you can look at your achievements be like "Yeah I did all that, I'm the best".
I also like the stuff. I know. It's terrible and consumerist and all that but if I see a shirt with something I like on it I automatically want to have it. And my nerd cabinet is really coming together. I need some more stuff, though. And maybe another cabinet, or better system of organising it. My anime stuff is right next to my game stuff and now I just bought a dragon figurine and a fairy figurine and I don't know where to put them all so it's kind of haphazardly put together.
Oh, and I like achievements. It's superficial, I know. But I like having something that says how far I've gotten at something and is sort of a proof of skill. That's nice, when you can look at your achievements be like "Yeah I did all that, I'm the best".
I also like the stuff. I know. It's terrible and consumerist and all that but if I see a shirt with something I like on it I automatically want to have it. And my nerd cabinet is really coming together. I need some more stuff, though. And maybe another cabinet, or better system of organising it. My anime stuff is right next to my game stuff and now I just bought a dragon figurine and a fairy figurine and I don't know where to put them all so it's kind of haphazardly put together.
This right here and furthermore, when you meet a large community through nerdy stuff. It's happened for me and so many others with Pokemon Go and I'm so glad that it's happening, even with the occasional bad things.Phasmal said:
Does current/ modern ned culture count?
Ok technically yes I did say it has too much power these days, maybe I mean before it become arrogant. I just remember the olden days when it was perfectly fine for people to shaun the nerds and intelligical especially jocks. I mean back then D&D was supposely the work of the devil or some kind of a drug! ?ook where we are now, some of the most brightest and smart people are geeks!
Ok technically yes I did say it has too much power these days, maybe I mean before it become arrogant. I just remember the olden days when it was perfectly fine for people to shaun the nerds and intelligical especially jocks. I mean back then D&D was supposely the work of the devil or some kind of a drug! ?ook where we are now, some of the most brightest and smart people are geeks!
I find it irritating that anything I ever liked gets roped into being called nerd culture, as though nobody else likes the thing or that it was always considered so when it may not have been.
Dicks of the animated variety... I blame e621 while also thanking e621... Basically, the e621 "nerd culture" makes me happy...
Other than that, anime/hentai, Kingdom Hearts, Hideyoshi Kinoshita, FiM, video games, Youtube, and this site...
Other than that, anime/hentai, Kingdom Hearts, Hideyoshi Kinoshita, FiM, video games, Youtube, and this site...