What nerd culture thing makes you happy?

[theSovietConnection]

I'll go with one of my newest reading/viewing pleasures, Gate - Jietai Kare no Chi nite, Kaku Tatakeri. I actually found it courtesy of a video proclaiming the qualities in the first episode showcasing it would be a "bad anime", and I've thoroughly enjoyed what I've seen of it so far.

 

[CrimsonBlack]

Nothing, I dislike "nerd culture".

"Nerd" is a term loaded with negative connotations, as is "geek", I don't get why anyone would want to self-identify as that.

Because the meaning of words change. Today they doesn't carry the same connotations as they did 15 or 20 years ago.

I have a folder of old memes from 10 years ago that still make me laugh. Current memes are shit [/old man voice]

Pepperidge farm remembers.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

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 should probably check that out. Stopped listening to Smodcast regularly when Kev started getting to high to have a coherent conversation from time to time. Still listen every now and then, watch Fatman on Batman occasionally and those two were always my favourite on Comic Book Men so I should check it out.

Sidenote, I felt old the last time I downloaded a smodcast because I can't remember exactly when I got into it but I do remember I was there for episode 37.

OT: At the moment I like that so many people are getting into professional wrestling. My favourite rapper has a wrestling podcast on his label, LRR do a wrestling Podcast, all of my friends are getting into wrestling and people are genuinely interested when I talk about wrestling history and they ask me for matches to watch.

TESD is way different in tone and style than Kevin's pods. Kevs not even on it really, it's just his friends in NJ that do it.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

"Nerd" is a term loaded with negative connotations, as is "geek", I don't get why anyone would want to self-identify as that.

that was true about 10 years ago. Now people realize that there's no shame in liking 'nerdy' things. So, as the 'nerdy things' stopped being negative, the term 'nerd' lost all of its negativity.

Well unless it's MovieBob talking about cause then it's gets weird....

I honestly don't even think "Nerd Culture" is a thing anymore. I think Millenials like me are the just a Peter Pan generation that won't give up the stuff we liked playing as a kid.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Ermmm...errrr...umm...films? Games? Music? Socially socialising with intellectual societums? If I had to narrow it down, I would merely give up in frustration like I do trying to get a sleeping bag back into its' carry case as neatly as it came.

Oh, wait! ...Nope. Lost it again

Err...hmm...

Sorry!

 

[MCerberus]

"Nerd" is a term loaded with negative connotations, as is "geek", I don't get why anyone would want to self-identify as that.

that was true about 10 years ago. Now people realize that there's no shame in liking 'nerdy' things. So, as the 'nerdy things' stopped being negative, the term 'nerd' lost all of its negativity.

Well unless it's MovieBob talking about cause then it's gets weird....

I honestly don't even think "Nerd Culture" is a thing anymore. I think Millenials like me are the just a Peter Pan generation that won't give up the stuff we liked playing as a kid.

Every single generation accuses the next one of being this. In a couple dozen years we'll be complaining that the laser-wave riders on the street need to give it up and get a damn job already.

OT- nothing is funnier than hyperbolic "will destroy us all" talk about things you actually know about. We're talking the "Doom is satanic because you kill devils" stuff. A couple years ago Fox News had a segment about how a Gibli film would turn the nation's youth into "Occu-tots". Currently there are fundies who think that Pok?mon Go is an islamist plot.

 

[Sonmi]

"Nerd" is a term loaded with negative connotations, as is "geek", I don't get why anyone would want to self-identify as that.

that was true about 10 years ago. Now people realize that there's no shame in liking 'nerdy' things. So, as the 'nerdy things' stopped being negative, the term 'nerd' lost all of its negativity.

I don't know, man.

My experience with it sees it still carry a lot of terrible connotations. People enjoy nerdy things, but they don't want to be a "nerd".

 

[DudeistBelieve]

"Nerd" is a term loaded with negative connotations, as is "geek", I don't get why anyone would want to self-identify as that.

that was true about 10 years ago. Now people realize that there's no shame in liking 'nerdy' things. So, as the 'nerdy things' stopped being negative, the term 'nerd' lost all of its negativity.

Well unless it's MovieBob talking about cause then it's gets weird....

I honestly don't even think "Nerd Culture" is a thing anymore. I think Millenials like me are the just a Peter Pan generation that won't give up the stuff we liked playing as a kid.

Every single generation accuses the next one of being this. In a couple dozen years we'll be complaining that the laser-wave riders on the street need to give it up and get a damn job already.

OT- nothing is funnier than hyperbolic "will destroy us all" talk about things you actually know about. We're talking the "Doom is satanic because you kill devils" stuff. A couple years ago Fox News had a segment about how a Gibli film would turn the nation's youth into "Occu-tots". Currently there are fundies who think that Pok?mon Go is an islamist plot.

I disagree... I mean I can only speak for myself but I can't imagine I'll ever look down at the younger generation for liking and sticking by their generation's toys or what have you.

Because I'm 27 and I still have toys. Maybe they're smaller amount, and I don't play with them as much as keep them for decoration but, you know what I mean.

 

[MCerberus]

"Nerd" is a term loaded with negative connotations, as is "geek", I don't get why anyone would want to self-identify as that.

that was true about 10 years ago. Now people realize that there's no shame in liking 'nerdy' things. So, as the 'nerdy things' stopped being negative, the term 'nerd' lost all of its negativity.

Well unless it's MovieBob talking about cause then it's gets weird....

I honestly don't even think "Nerd Culture" is a thing anymore. I think Millenials like me are the just a Peter Pan generation that won't give up the stuff we liked playing as a kid.

Every single generation accuses the next one of being this. In a couple dozen years we'll be complaining that the laser-wave riders on the street need to give it up and get a damn job already.

OT- nothing is funnier than hyperbolic "will destroy us all" talk about things you actually know about. We're talking the "Doom is satanic because you kill devils" stuff. A couple years ago Fox News had a segment about how a Gibli film would turn the nation's youth into "Occu-tots". Currently there are fundies who think that Pok?mon Go is an islamist plot.

I disagree... I mean I can only speak for myself but I can't imagine I'll ever look down at the younger generation for liking and sticking by their generation's toys or what have you.

Because I'm 27 and I still have toys. Maybe they're smaller amount, and I don't play with them as much as keep them for decoration but, you know what I mean.

"I won't be like that when I'm old"
While yes, you can be the cool elder of whatever variety you interact with younger generations, the odds are sort of long. Unless we're actually seeing a culture-wide shift in accepting youth, which probably isn't happening but would be nice. I mean, what's your opinion on Beiber?

And it would be weird to assume that older generations didn't keep their toys at reduced numbers from what was popular in their youth. It could be craft-related like wood carvings or art tools, fancy tech from phonographs to retro-gaming, popular collectables like plates or old-timey lead figurines (huge during the 1800s), or just general hobbyist stuff like model trains or board games.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I can't imagine I'll ever look down at the younger generation for liking and sticking by their generation's toys or what have you.

What did you think 20-something hippies of the early 70's thought of themselves? Yeah, no, the majority of us will grumble against the new generation in a few decades.

 

[sageoftruth]

I love how it often opens me up to the impossible. I'm a big imagination guy and this is a great place to stoke the ol' imagination. No pesky limitations of reality to bog down on a good idea or an interesting idea. Actually, that would be a lie. It sucks when reality does come along via publishers and production Hell to ruin everyone's fun. However, when everything goes right, I love the nonsensical brilliance that it creates.

My sister tried teaching in a poor village in Honduras once. She told children to draw a picture of a flying chair and they all stared at her blanky, and one of them said, "But, chairs don't fly". Looks like they could use a heaping dose of nerd culture to help their minds escape the bounds of reality.

 

[Too Many Secrets]

LHC fandom and really good amateur astronomy.

 

[TakerFoxx]

Vampires.

Pirates.

And dinosaurs. Those things always make me happy.

 

[FalloutJack]

Snip

I know that, which makes it kind of unfair to anybody else. How dare you steal all our stuff!

 

[McElroy]

Rick & Morty. I also like referential humour especially the super mean kind (Twitch chat) and memes that born and die quickly. Then again liking things is different from the things that make you happy, isn't it? Anyway, I'm happy for Rick & Morty existing. I guess I'm kinda happy for StepMania, even though I haven't played it in a while (I should get back to it, I even have a hard pad now).

I dunno about the label (nerd is definitely an insult in my vocabulary), really, but that's something.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Perhaps the fact that it's ultimately a culture of unity, not division. No violent riots ever spawned from feuds between star wars and star trek fans. Xbox players don't do drive-bys of Sony supporters. I don't have to worry about my choice of clothing in certain parts of town because I think A Feast for Crows is crap. Instead I can just talk to random people for hours on end about WH40k, comics, video games and so on. Just look at how pokemon go is bringing people together.