US NERDS XD - People trying so hard to be nerdie™ to be different, and are only faggots

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My main gripe is the comic book movies, which are the only things my friends want to see. It's basically all a formula. It's not a movie, it's an item. It's almost like an assembly line created it. I simply can't do it anymore. I refuse to watch them.
 
GodWarrior said:
My main gripe is the comic book movies, which are the only things my friends want to see. It's basically all a formula. It's not a movie, it's an item. It's almost like an assembly line created it. I simply can't do it anymore. I refuse to watch them.
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I'm trying to remember, what was mainstream before this whole "geek chic" thing took off? And if this is just a fad, where can they go to from here?
 
I would just like to state that if you don't like the thing I like then you are a chad hater who doesn't get smart things like I do and if you do like the thing I like then you are a trendwhore casual only doing it for party cred and you don't get smart things like I do.
 
Medicated said:
I'm trying to remember, what was mainstream before this whole "geek chic" thing took off? And if this is just a fad, where can they go to from here?
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If I remember correctly, the movies more popular with a younger demographic were comedies and teen movies. There wasn't really a defined genre that people flocked to.

Alec Benson Leary said:
I would just like to state that if you don't like the thing I like then you are a chad hater who doesn't get smart things like I do and if you do like the thing I like then you are a trendwhore casual only doing it for party cred and you don't get smart things like I do.
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Well, as long as I am superior to someone in the end.
 
Please don't make me post the REEE NORMIES video again. I might actually get banned for that level of pure shitposting.
 
NIGGO KILLA said:
Fuck
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Bearguys are pretty much universally loathed in the Gundam community. (As well they should be) I swear, the only people that buy those don't know a thing about Gundam. I have not met a single Gundam fan that likes those awful things
 
On the subject of nerds, the real thing is easy to spot. Look for the lack of social skills and gamma-level humanity.
 
Voltekka said:
Also, Star Wars was great. Blame the new trilogy that made it into a geek material.
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Star Wars is one of those things that’s great on its own, but has become utterly unwatchable over the years due to pop-cultural oversaturation. I’d not go as far as to say that I hate the original trilogy, but the fact that everyone and their brother references it makes the classic films very difficult to appreciate.

Having said that, by “new trilogy,” do you mean the prequels, or the Abrams films? If it’s the prequels I’m gonna have to disagree with you. They were blockbusters, yes, but nobody really liked them. People went to see them, but it didn’t really have all that much to do with them being all, “look at me, I’m such a nerd!” I’m not saying nobody did that, but it wasn’t nearly as prevalent as it is now.
 
Darwin Watterson said:
Star Wars is one of those things that’s great on its own, but has become utterly unwatchable over the years due to pop-cultural oversaturation. I’d not go as far as to say that I hate the original trilogy, but the fact that everyone and their brother references it makes the classic films very difficult to appreciate.

Having said that, by “new trilogy,” do you mean the prequels, or the Abrams films? If it’s the prequels I’m gonna have to disagree with you. They were blockbusters, yes, but nobody really liked them. People went to see them, but it didn’t really have all that much to do with them being all, “look at me, I’m such a nerd!” I’m not saying nobody did that, but it wasn’t nearly as prevalent as it is now.
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The Star Wars prequels were almost singularly responsible for the current wave of endless remakes and nerd nostalgia in film, or at least very largely responsible.

Anyone old enough to remember the first tv trailers and teasers for the phantom menace... the entire tone was very much holy shit, new star wars for the first time in 16 years, that sort of thing just isn't done. Hell, the Wing Commander film made way more at the box office than it should've because people bought tickets to it just to see the first theatrical phantom menace trailer and then leave - no youtube for the masses in 1998. And nobody liked them, but we all still kind of assumed we had to keep watching the trainwreck anyway because it was that thing we loved from childhood and that idea wasn't endlessly exploited yet. We weren't yet getting a new batman reboot every 4 years and trilogies were still the big standard instead of never-ending CUs.

But I'm old. Now everything sucks.
 
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Iamthatis said:
The most ironic thing about that comic is that she’s talking about Final Fantasy 3 and holding a copy of Final Fantasy 2. So the fake nerd is whoever wrote the comic.
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Except you're wrong. That's totally the cover to 3. Even the remake uses that pose for the logo. Bunch of autists know what DSP does on a week to week basis, but can't Google.

So nerd girls are fascinating. Because for so many of them it totally is an identity thing. I live in a rural place where just even a generation ago every girl got married off by 18 or 23 depending on college. And so you have all these girls that either grab on to something that other girls don't, the kinds of girls who intend to follow in the path if marrying and housekeeping. Or they hold on to things from childhood in an attempt to not fall into this conformity

Of course then they all begin to realize that nerds are terrible and or sycophants.
 
Bicycle Disaster said:
Don't forget the fandom pissing contest going on. God forbid you like Miku and get called out as a fake/dumb/basic Vocaloid fan. You gotta be a fan of a Vocaloid no one cares about, like Piko.

and then, there's the UTAU fandom
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JFC don't get me started. There is truly a pissing party on both sides with gatekeeping 'superiors' and literal children. I'm suprised there's not a thread on the vocaloid fandom yet tbh
 
Darwin Watterson said:
Having said that, by “new trilogy,” do you mean the prequels, or the Abrams films? If it’s the prequels I’m gonna have to disagree with you. They were blockbusters, yes, but nobody really liked them. People went to see them, but it didn’t really have all that much to do with them being all, “look at me, I’m such a nerd!” I’m not saying nobody did that, but it wasn’t nearly as prevalent as it is now.
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Fans of old Star Wars didn't like the prequels, yes, but there's a half of generation of kids who watched it, either in cinemas, DVDs or TV, liked it and now they're either in college or recently graduated.
Prequels were a giant excuse to peddle tons of Star Wars merchandise. Shiny new toys and games have always been interesting to children. Those young impressionable minds made a connection between being a fan and owning merchandise and here we are today, when the Jar-Jar kids are adults and have their own income to spend on tat.
Everything has an effect, it's simply not as immediate. Abrams' trilogy and the craze around it are just an effect of the success of imprinting the Star Wars brand in kids' minds by the prequels.
 
Jaracainofthewind said:
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Except you're wrong. That's totally the cover to 3. Even the remake uses that pose for the logo. Bunch of autists know what DSP does on a week to week basis, but can't Google.

So nerd girls are fascinating. Because for so many of them it totally is an identity thing. I live in a rural place where just even a generation ago every girl got married off by 18 or 23 depending on college. And so you have all these girls that either grab on to something that other girls don't, the kinds of girls who intend to follow in the path if marrying and housekeeping. Or they hold on to things from childhood in an attempt to not fall into this conformity

Of course then they all begin to realize that nerds are terrible and or sycophants.
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Both of you need to be shoved in a locker.

 
Darwin Watterson said:
Star Wars is one of those things that’s great on its own, but has become utterly unwatchable over the years due to pop-cultural oversaturation. I’d not go as far as to say that I hate the original trilogy, but the fact that everyone and their brother references it makes the classic films very difficult to appreciate.

Having said that, by “new trilogy,” do you mean the prequels, or the Abrams films? If it’s the prequels I’m gonna have to disagree with you. They were blockbusters, yes, but nobody really liked them. People went to see them, but it didn’t really have all that much to do with them being all, “look at me, I’m such a nerd!” I’m not saying nobody did that, but it wasn’t nearly as prevalent as it is now.
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Episode III is unironically a decent film, not good or great just decent. I always appreciate the amount of work that went into the world-building and special effects of the prequel trilogy.

The prequel trilogy at least gave us the Clone Wars cartoons and a shedload of good Star Wars games.
 
Oh yeah? Well I was a untreatable psycho before it was fashionable.
There isn't a drug on Earth that could make me normal and y'all jelly.
 
Olhelm said:
Yeah, sure, fine. I'll start.

For those wondering, the "GEEK Club" (spelled in caps) was little more than an excuse for the chemistry teachers to circlejerk about Doctor Who with the students who were fans of the show. But, since that doesn't sound good to the school board, it was turned into an all-around "nerd subculture" group. How it worked was, the club had full access to an entire hall of rooms, with each room having a different "activity". Movies and TV, Games, Tabletop RPGs, and Books. Now, guess which one was the first to close? If you guessed books, you'd be correct. Nobody there had actually read anything, it was all regurgitated Tumblr and Reddit nonsense. Movies and TV was so they could constantly play Doctor Who, and "Tabletop RPGs" was just for GURPS and Munchkin. Also they sold snacks, because reasons.

Now, the main event, and the reason why 90% of the people in the club attended, was the Gaming room. Most of the time it was Smash Bros, but one day it was mixed up and someone brought an NES. Most of the people there didn't know what an NES was and wanted to play Call of Duty instead. Ended up playing Zelda. Fun stuff.

Anyway, they tried to force group activities once in a while. The most prevalent one was the "costume party". I went as Mike Hammer, which no one recognized. Oglooger went as a personification of Nazi Germany. Or Italy, one of the two, and won third place because people thought it was Hetalia. In any case, the reason it sticks out for me is how many Homestuck cosplayers were there. My God, I had no idea how infected my high school was before that point. I was just in awe of all the autism in the room. I eventually decided to get away from it all and just play Rock Band. I was the only one that liked Rock, so I ended up being made to play terrible pop nonsense.

Fun times.
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I know this is a bit late, like 8 pages late, but we had an actual Doctor Who club. I only went once and there were maybe like 4-5 people there, max.
Also, I remember at one point, a bunch of guys (at least 15....) tried setting up a brony club, but it didn't work out lmfao
 
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