The Torsion wrote:Wang Mandu wrote:They're all harmless. How can you not root for them?
Of course they're harmless. Hell, they aren't even nerds. Nerds ran the space program in the 60s. Nerds invented the television and the personal computer. Nerds are smart, capable, even accomplished people. These are self-absorbed assholes who let frivolous hobbies consume them. I even bet that cute blonde girl is annoying as fuck to talk to.
This is ridiculous, dude. I like you, and generally I find your reflexive outrage a bit refreshing. This thing that you've said is inaccurate and stupid, though.
All I can say is that as a gigantic geek, I have no reason not to support and defend this Occupy Normality stuff that's been happening to the rest of the world over the past decade. The entire planet has mysteriously tailored itself to my liking; hobbits and batmans are the billion dollar pictures, the zombie movies I loved so much in middle school have become familiar to the point of saturation, and most importantly everyone in the civilized world has begun using the internet to communicate with one another, which used to be this incredibly weird geeky thing I couldn't even really explain to other people without sounding like some sort of absolute mutant pedophile. When I started posting on this board in high school I wouldn't have felt comfortable discussing it with my friends. Now they've all got Farmville plots and talk to each other obsessively with pocket computers that used to be cellphones. Filesharing has destroyed the shitty record industry and kids who grew up blasting through Megaman tunes on their gameboys are winning Grammy awards with computer-generated music they made at home on their laptops with pirated software.
Everything that was once mysteriously detested about my interests and personality is now accepted and infecting the exterior universe like an awesome rape virus.
We're here, we're queer, and I think we successfully took over everything in the entire Western world so fuck you get used to it.