The Cringe/Beta/Omega Thread

[Fe 26]

Yeller, have you considered professional help? I would like to think trading gay brown people for movie rape was an abvious jest but here I am reading accusations of death spirals.

For someone that loves the laughing emote, you're taking a lot of comments seriously.

[YellerDog]

I'll have you know that is a standard smiley.

[Doc Holliday]

I'll have you know

I'll tell you hwat!

[YellerDog]

Abviously!

[Diff-chan]

Also, the word nerd doesn't mean anything anymore. Back in the day it meant you were shunned for being smarter than others.

Now it means you buy scifi shit. Or you're.a loser.

If you aren't good at a fucking thing, you're a loser that buys toys. You're not a nerd.

I feel like the nerds who are self proclaimed gate keepers actually do base it on scifi purchases or how long you've read comic books or whatever.

[Doc Holliday]

I wonder how the character Pat would be received today?

[Satsuki]

Not well, judging by some friend's tweets.

[Frogacuda]

I feel like the nerds who are self proclaimed gate keepers actually do base it on scifi purchases or how long you've read comic books or whatever.

The fact that nerd-cred means something positive enough that it has gate-keepers at all speaks volumes to how much the word has changed. Now it's more about fandom. But a guy like, say John Carmack, who is the embodiment of what that word used to mean... There's not even really a word for that anymore.

[kedawa]

Successful?

[Diff-chan]

The fact that nerd-cred means something positive enough that it has gate-keepers at all speaks volumes to how much the word has changed. Now it's more about fandom. But a guy like, say John Carmack, who is the embodiment of what that word used to mean... There's not even really a word for that anymore.

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.