The Cringe/Beta/Omega Thread

[Dunlap]

At least nerds are still gate-keeping the females.

[YellerDog]

Are people still trying to put a line between Nerd and Geek?

[Fe 26]

The uncool stuff is now cool. What's uncool now?

My point was just that IP defined a nerd as someone with a skill of some sort but it seems even the self proclaimed nerds seem to define it based on their choice of consumption. Maybe there is a group of a Carmack types scoffing at those people I don't know.

Marketing redefined it by consumer goods to create a market. Why let resellers make all the money when the orginal IP holder can make its own "collectables" ?

Nerd died the same way every other sub culture did: someone figured out how to make it a product.

[Fe 26]

Are people still trying to put a line between Nerd and Geek?

Geeks do.

[YellerDog]

Big Bang Theory is the Will and Grace of nerd consumerism.

[Dunlap]

If you're a Loot Crate nerd then you're not a real nerd.

[Fe 26]

Big Bang Theory is the Will and Grace of nerd consumerism.

More like nerdface.

[YellerDog]

Well I mean that's what W&G was for "The Gays". It was a national image softening through caricature.

[Dunlap]

Nah, man, caricatures are damaging and only perpetuate stereotypes.

[YellerDog]

Yet they sell like goddamn hotcakes at the fair.