Pop Culture rules the world now, the stuff I got made fun of for loving in high school is the same stuff everyone loves now. I think being a geek is mostly normal in today's world.
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I have never really liked the Big Bang Theory, but that tv show has increased the reputation of "geeks".
I don't know. I loved to go to the school and guess what even to attend to my classes. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't like loud music (especially with light show even if I am not epileptic). I was always overweight and I am a bit too clumsy for complicated tasks and I have got vertigo after quick head movements, so I was not really good at sports. These habits and skills already disqualified me from the "cool guys" group, but only a few people have asked me why. I don't want to pretend something what I don't like, so the social pressure hasn't really worked on me. Later I have considered myself as a "rebel" against the trends. I have never been drunk in my life as I believe it is pathetic to humiliate yourself in public to be seen as drunk. And I have promised to myself, I will never ever be seen in such condition. I have never smoked as I was a passive smoker next to my father while I had to watch how his physical and mental health was completly ruined by smoking. I was humiliated so many ways because of my stuttering that I have escaped into my fantasy and scifi worlds, so that is the short story how I have become a "geek"."I was hoping for another day. Looks like we just got a whole lot more than that. Let's not waste it."
"Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment."
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all."
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Originally posted by Who Knows View PostThe first 'sifi' I can remember watching is Flash Gordon at the Saturday matinees.
Larry Buster Crabbe if memory serves.
I will hit 74 in December.
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Originally posted by jelgate View PostSometimes it takes time to move with that walker and bionic hip
*doesn't run*
I meant what I said
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Pff... I'm half your age... give or take...and if I don't pay attention to how I sit, I end up flat on my face getting up because my joints fall apart at every ******* turn...
Also... I would like to proudly reaffirm my geekiness by saying I am TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH MY CRYTEX REPLICA from The Da Vinci Code. ...and my colleagues at work are jealous.
Yes, the film is 13 years old but I only just now bought a replica of the cryptex (and the book but I already read it before the film, just borrowed it then).Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
Proper Stargate Rewatch -- season 10 of SG-1
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Originally posted by thekillman View PostI've never met a person in the flesh who liked Stargate...Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
Proper Stargate Rewatch -- season 10 of SG-1
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I've met quite a few people who know Stargate and have seen it. And a lot of them say they "like" it, but whenever I go deeper and start talking about it, they back away. Some of them started, well, "bullying" me about me being "obsessed" and when I complained to my mentor about that they all said I never shut up about it. Not like they ever shut up about World of Warcraft, or whatever the trend was at that time...
And people wonder why I'm shy, socially awkward, and have a short temper.
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Sounds familiar too.Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
Proper Stargate Rewatch -- season 10 of SG-1
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Originally posted by NickEast View PostI've met quite a few people who know Stargate and have seen it. And a lot of them say they "like" it, but whenever I go deeper and start talking about it, they back away. Some of them started, well, "bullying" me about me being "obsessed" and when I complained to my mentor about that they all said I never shut up about it. Not like they ever shut up about World of Warcraft, or whatever the trend was at that time...
And people wonder why I'm shy, socially awkward, and have a short temper.
Honestly though you just met the wrong people. I'm the living proof being a geek and a bum is possible simultaneously, and so are all my friends to different degrees. People that think it's cool to fake not knowing about something, in this case SG, are just hypocrite douche-bags. Literally anybody that does that are fakes, pretentious baloneys.
If they don't respect you, they don't deserve your respect simple as bacon. Next time perhaps you could try establishing dominance by marking your territory in front of them, the smell isn't nice but that usually does it for me.Spoiler:I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to—I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more.
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Originally posted by Chaka-Z0 View PostKindly point me towards those heretics and I will raise the middle finger up their collectives bums.
Honestly though you just met the wrong people. I'm the living proof being a geek and a bum is possible simultaneously, and so are all my friends to different degrees. People that think it's cool to fake not knowing about something, in this case SG, are just hypocrite douche-bags. Literally anybody that does that are fakes, pretentious baloneys.
If they don't respect you, they don't deserve your respect simple as bacon. Next time perhaps you could try establishing dominance by marking your territory in front of them, the smell isn't nice but that usually does it for me.
It got better later on, also after I managed to "contain" myself a little better and open up a bit more. I mean, trust me, even I think at times I'm too obsessed with certain things and have to dial it down. I do now have a few people I can call friends, some of whom also love Stargate. Maybe not as much as I do, but enough that we can frequently talk about and discuss it. One of them even went with me to Dutch Comic Con to meet RDA.
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