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Things that nerds hate and should shut up about
Metroid: Other M
The Star Wars prequels
Heavy Rain
Seltzer and Friedberg
Comments
All Sonic games made after 1998
Every Final Fantasy game after, and including Final Fantasy X
Michael Bay
Megan Fox especially as compared to Scarlett Johannson.
Monty Python quotes
Discussions on what it constitutes to be a nerd
Yahtzee's legitimacy as a reviewer
Gender topics, especially when they wade into a discussion whether or not popular thing is sexist without having the faintest notion on what feminism actually constitutes
NOT UNPOPULAR
Wait, no
hurr durr Yaoi fangirls are dumb and shipping is stupid
hurr durr Atlas Shrugged was horrible
hurr durr Youtube comments are stupid
hurr durr Nia shouldn't have died at the end of TTGL
hurr durr InuYasha is completely based on Inuyasha and kagome yelling each other's names
hurr durr Dragon Ball Z is people screaming at each other
hurr durr Naruto is just filler
hurr durr Encyclopedia Dramatica is gone imma dance on it's corpse now
hurr durr Cracked isn't a real news source
hurr durr The Starwars prequels were worse than the Christmas special
durr hurr old cartoons were far better than the new ones
Or is it that Gold and Silver are real games, but none of the Pokemon they introduced count
even though most of them are better than the ones from Gen. 1?Don't you mean "after and including VII?" In my experience that's the usual cut-off point for most people.
... Bite me.
Don Zabu, has it ever occured to you that you might be one of those oversensitive nerds and that's why you get so ridiculously pissed off at anything that critiques nerd culture at all?
Except for Revenge of the Fallen.
Discussions on what it constitutes to be a nerd
Yep, I would second that opinion. Frankly, I do not really understand why people would self-label as "nerds" or discuss "nerd culture" like it is actually a monolithic thing. Sure, it might be nice to be part of a group, but given how often it seems (to me) that people criticize "nerd culture" despite labeling themselves as "nerds," I do not really see the point in acting like such a thing as "nerd culture" exists. I mean, I feel like people are individuals and the more we mark them off into neat little groups the more we lose our understanding of each person's sense of individuality.
It might just be that I just have not found a definition of "nerd" that I liked though.
To be fair, I haven't heard from many people who felt Revenge of the Fallen was a step up from the original Transformers, and it has affected their opinion of Michael Bay. I don't think all of those people are nerds.
Here in Texas, I hate the nerds that fanwar over Texas A&M and UT football...
Only nerds hate Seltzer and Friedberg?
>Don Zabu, has it ever occured to you that you might be one of those oversensitive nerds and that's why you get so ridiculously pissed off at anything that critiques nerd culture at all?
Maybe. Or maybe I'm just a guy who thinks this sort of thing is getting old and stale.