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Originally Posted by IronPlant
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Originally Posted by IronPlant
Yep. I'm a dumbass with out my Microsoft word :(
Yea... there was a great comic in PA last year when they went to talk to a high school. It had Tyco telling a bunch of nerds, "outside of here... we run shit". Nerds get the good jobs, the high salaries, and women that would've scoffed at them in HS.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
That is why I say that this type of stuff doesn't matter... it's all labels, fuck it.
But they were there for a metal show, right? That trumps everything.Quote:
We saw history nerds, vehical nerds, music nerds, anime nerds and a few others. We saw two guys that could tell the difference between the 1945 and 1946 run of a truck baised on the lower part of it's tailgate. They found great joy in talking about it too.
NERD TEST PASSED!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
What do you think japan calls their nerds who are into Halo and Half-Life?
No, there's a difference between fan and nerd. A fan watches the game and gets excited about it. Just like it's not nerdy to play videogames (anymore), but it is nerdy to know entirely too much about them and post about them on the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Punky Skunk
People with better taste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
This is a good thread. I think the advent of game companies catering to the mainstream helped Gaming going from nerdy to even jocks getting excited over Madden or any sports title. The Western titles also helped in catering to the American male; violence, women, political upheaval, etc. And these games attracted not the game nerds, but people who used to make fun of them. Once gaming became socially acceptable to parents. They realized its not so nerdy to like gaming, because they would start playing too. Its like the way to a woman is through the parents. When the mother/father likes you they will try and influence their child to liking you.
The rise of the internet helped as well, because of what everyone said it gathered all the people who have the same likes into one place. From there people realized that they are in all walks of life; lawyers, accountants, comp programmers, cooks, jocks, musicians, etc. At this point, people in general started to realize its not so geeky to like games, comics, anime, etc. Because you may at one time liked comics, but you didn't want everyone to know how much you liked it; due to the stigma attached. But with the 'Net it was okay to say anything, because your hiding behind a persona. The name listed on the screen is a persona, Subconciously its NOT you. When people started to use AIM and started to use avatar names like; Advocate005, or Maverick, etc. It was okay to let loose and tell everyone how much you like "such and such" and how much you hated "f-chan title". Its not just one thing that cause Nerds to be acceptable. It was a combination of things. IMO.
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Teaching and coaching with a college degree sounds fine to me, unless being a teacher in the south is somehow a bad thing. The fatness is lol though, I've heard similar things about the guys who were jocks in my high school.Quote:
Originally Posted by IronPlant
I've got my 10 year HS reunion next month - it will be interesting to see how everyone held up and if the nerds did end up ruling the world as we're predicting.
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Originally Posted by Frogacuda