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

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kcbbq said:
Elaborate on this silliness, please. It's pop culture schlock for kids and/or shut-ins, depicting absurdly jiggling tits.

Not once in the mearly 40 years I've been exposed to it have I felt intellectually overwhelmed in any way, shape, or form.

Blah blah Shinji jerking off in End of Evangelion blah blah blah.
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Well, I'm not an anime fan myself, and it's a long time since I've tried watching any, but I recall one in which it was a plot point that a character was standing in a school corridor with buckets of water, which apparently is a thing in Japan. Also erections cause nosebleeds. I do not know who Shinji is or why his masturbation is intellectually underwhelming.
 
I got this on the suggested groups list on my Facebook for some reason...
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Why the fuck are people going crazy with the porgs when the movie hasn't even come out yet?
 
ducktales4gameboy said:
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I had a roommate who subbed to that for some reason and was consistently amazed at the amount of pure shit that came out of those boxes. Every sort-of-okay nerd tshirt or bumpersticker would inevitably be accompanied by a handful of garbage vinyl figures and bits of nonsensical nerd memorabilia like dollar-store quality kitchen utensils with the Batman logo on them. His half of the room wound up filling up with this shit over the course of two semesters.

I gotta give Loot Crate credit though for figuring out a way to get nerds to actually buy the sort of shit en masse that they wouldn't pay a dollar for in the Gamestop clearance section.
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The only good thing that came out of LootCrate and other boxes of random shit is Ashen's unboxing videos. His whole shtick is mocking the shit out of cheap tat and LootCrate is perfect for that.
I was always too afraid to look up videos of LootCrate unboxings by people who are either excited or even just pretend to be.
L desu said:
I noticed that many of the people the thread makes fun dont go into anime too much, focusing on gaming and star wars. That seems to be a common thing where "geek culture" spreads across all sorts of sci fi movies and games and franchises except for anime, and its treated as a separate thing. Looks like it may just be too weird or out there for them, i guess.
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  • it's from Japan and in Japanese (Muricans are allergic to anything outside of the Anglosphere, and reading subtitles is too complicated for them)
  • it features screaming teenagers charging up their attacks or squealing girls that appear suspiciously young
  • hentai exists
  • "fake nerds" like to be socially progressive, but anime, apart from not shying from sexual topics, is actually slightly conservative compared to an average Millennial "nerd"
 
DieselBoogaloo said:
The only good thing that came out of LootCrate and other boxes of random shit is Ashen's unboxing videos
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I had no idea he had videos for these. They're amazing.

UnderwaterUnderworld said:
I'd like it if vocaloid wasn't seen as a nerdy thing, but it probably always will be.
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Saddest thing is that all the other voices that used the tech got dropped in favor of more anime pop voices along the lines of Miku because that's where the demand was.

Before Miku there was Prima, which was a fairly realistic female opera singer voice that you could make all sorts of crazy distorted vocals with. Youtube musicians were pitching it down a dozen octaves and getting realistic death metal growling out of it. It was super neat but isn't supported anymore because anime ruins everything.
 
kcbbq said:
Elaborate on this silliness, please. It's pop culture schlock for kids and/or shut-ins, depicting absurdly jiggling tits.

Not once in the mearly 40 years I've been exposed to it have I felt intellectually overwhelmed in any way, shape, or form.

Blah blah Shinji jerking off in End of Evangelion blah blah blah.
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I think they mean japan specific historical and cultural jokes/references, sometimes they do not translate well.
 
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I'm torn, because as annoying as people defining themselves on what they consume is, it's even worse when they act so fucking aloof and above it all about EVERYTHING they like.

Squealer the Animalist said:
You see a lot of people trying to defend their status as nerds by strawmanning all people who see them as "posers", which comes across as even more sad than being a poser in the first place.
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Who the hell invites people over to play Final Fantasy III?
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Well I think it sounds romantic! :feels:
 
magikarp said:
I can agree though that Funko Pops are hideous. I only have one because it was gifted to me, otherwise, you couldn't pay me to buy one of these ugly fuckers.
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I think a Funko Pop is the only gift I've received from an ex-boyfriend that I didn't even bother to give away, simply because if anyone I'm even slightly close to has bad enough taste to like those horrible things, I'll be happier not knowing.
 
Varg Did Nothing Wrong said:
Is Judge Dredd super popular within the UK?

I doubt it.

It's probably known but that's about it. The same as something like The Punisher is in the US.
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It's pretty well known. Put it this way, it's well known enough that when newspapers want to talk about policing or authoritarianism, they'll often allude to Dredd.

IDK, I suppose the thing about the British properties that make it big in US fandoms is that they tend to be the ones that reinforce the "cute Brits" stereotype, where the British are clever/nervous/eccentric. There are no soccer hooligans in Harry Potter, for instance. Doctor Who never deals with inner city deprivation. Sherlock's clients are always middle or upper class people. Ideally there should be a slightly retro aesthetic.
 
It's like a shit test. Liking Han Solo may be slightly more socially acceptable, but if you are dumb enough to admit you want :deviant: to bone Quark, you're still a fucking deviant nerd, into the trash bin you go.
 
Tragi-Chan said:
I think it's because culturally, Japan is quite different from the US, so there are a lot of aspects of anime that make it difficult to follow unless you're willing to work at it.

What I find quite interesting as a Britfag is that something like Doctor Who or Sherlock will enter the normie-nerddom pantheon, while something like Judge Dredd still remains niche outside the UK.
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Yes, Britain is quite lucky in that respect. Only really the lowest, garbage or 'eh' shows become popular. I don't know what I would do if something like Father Ted became apart of the 'nerd' mainstream.
 
Ach, christ. Whole thread makes me think of every mainstream shop near me. I've definitely mentioned on the "tacky fashion of tumblr" thread that very popular/budget-friendly shops like Primark are really honing in on this trend. It's a cash cow they can constantly mil.k for profit. It's smart, I'll admit. They've been selling Harry Potter and Star Wars shit for years.

The whole "geek chic" trend is on par with people who wear band shirts without knowing anything about the band, or even knowing that their shirt is about a band. It's a fad. Fads will leave, and then their "obsession" will be put on the back burner because it's not cool anymore.

I remember @swingbatta posted about being pissed that people who made fun of her(or him idk dude) for being into spooky shit were posting out the ass about halloween and loving scary shit. I can understand someone being salty that something they got picked on for is now suddenly cool enough for the people that were against it to the point of giving the people who liked it some form of hell.

But for real though, fuck funko pops. They're at every DVD store near me. I don't get the hype over the tacky ass things.
 
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