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Hexenjagd wrote:
Enjoying big budget Hollywood films, even with comic book characters as the focus of the movies, does NOT make a person a nerd.

You keep telling yourself that….

I have the feeling these superhero movies are going to burn out quickly, sort of like being a hair metal band when Nirvana came along.

Brian

Telling myself what?  that liking a Marvel action movie doesnt make a person a nerd? it doesnt.  The term gets thrown out WAY too much.

"Oh I love video games, I am such a NERD."

No, loving video games doesnt make a person a nerd.  What game, Call of Duty?  No you arent a nerd, you are possibly the same type of person as a frat boy.

Brian_Wallace wrote:

Hexenjagd wrote:
Enjoying big budget Hollywood films, even with comic book characters as the focus of the movies, does NOT make a person a nerd.

You keep telling yourself that….

I have the feeling these superhero movies are going to burn out quickly, sort of like being a hair metal band when Nirvana came along.

Brian

coming from some body, whos work, burned out, months ago.

grateful wrote:
Billy Joel (!)
Nats Park
7/26

I thought he was staying in New York….

Tickets on sale Feb 1st at 10am.

I think there's been a much larger acceptance of nerdy/dorky behavior over the last generation. In the 1970s, sitting around and playing video games, reading comic books, and playing D&D was pretty much de facto nerd/dork behavior. Now, hexenjagd is correct: vapid sorority girls go see Xmen movies, its (for some reason) acceptable for 40 year olds to play video games, and everyone has a fantasy football team which is basically D&D 2.0. The question is has what is nerdy/dorky changed because we discovered these things aren't actually nerdy/dorky or is it because we're more accepting of what actually is nerdy/dorky behavior.

I hate super hero movies.  The only ones I have ever liked were "Super Hero Ex-Girlfriend" some of the Spiderman movies and "Mystery Men".  I don't know they keep making them.  I went to see Captain America because I had never seen a 3-D movie and not only was the movie god awful there was really no 3-D. 

Julian, wrote:
I think there's been a much larger acceptance of nerdy/dorky behavior over the last generation. In the 1970s, sitting around and playing video games, reading comic books, and playing D&D was pretty much de facto nerd/dork behavior. Now, hexenjagd is correct: vapid sorority girls go see Xmen movies, its (for some reason) acceptable for 40 year olds to play video games, and everyone has a fantasy football team which is basically D&D 2.0. The question is has what is nerdy/dorky changed because we discovered these things aren't actually nerdy/dorky or is it because we're more accepting of what actually is nerdy/dorky behavior.

I played fantasy football 2 times and both times in 12 team leagues in which I won the championship.  I think the fact that I knew basically knew nothing about football at the time helped me a lot.  The first time I was 16-0.  Statistics is what helped me as I didn't know any of the players.  I don't think that is anything like Dungeons and Dragon.  Also, I like to trash talk people and tell them how stupid they were for losing to me (Someone who never watched a game all season).  Good fun. 

atomic wrote:
I don't think that is anything like Dungeons and Dragon. 

Its exactly D&D. "My level five running back caused 23 points of damage to your imaginary sports team! Oooooo, time for my acne medication!"

Julian, wrote:

atomic wrote:
I don't think that is anything like Dungeons and Dragon. 

Its exactly D&D. "My level five running back caused 23 points of damage to your imaginary sports team! Oooooo, time for my acne medication!"

I have never played D&D but I thought all the rules were made up as they went along.    While Fantasy Football is based on rules on statistics.  If you are good at statistics and you know nothing about football you will do well.  Probably the more you know about football the worse you will do because you will use your perceptions of players to make your choices. 

atomic wrote:
I have never played D&D but I thought all the rules were made up as they went along.   

I have no idea about that.

I know D&D involves dice and adding up points of damage based on some guidebook and the entire thing being imaginary as warlocks and enchanted swords and imps don't exist the same way fantasy football is all about adding up points based on a yardage/touchdown-to-points conversion system and the entire thing being imaginary since your "fantasy football team" is not a real collection of athletes you pay in a real sports league and you own literally nothing. ("You" being a general you, not you, personally, atomic.)

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Wet Brain, Black Lung (members of the Flying Eyes), Hard Dads, and Dirty Ol' Laz & Big Boy
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You do not make up D & D rules as you play.  You use a rulebook.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons

there are rules in life, just as in there are rules in games.  there are rules to everything, and you follow them, or you die.

its definitely changed..being a nerd used to be a pejorative term…for someone who studied all the time… now its more like nerd is just geek… its kind of endearing actually.. in today's world nerds are kind of cool… after all don't we all use computers?

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This would also explain a 2014 Kraftwerk show selling out in three minutes.

Julian, wrote:
I think there's been a much larger acceptance of nerdy/dorky behavior over the last generation. In the 1970s, sitting around and playing video games, reading comic books, and playing D&D was pretty much de facto nerd/dork behavior. Now, hexenjagd is correct: vapid sorority girls go see Xmen movies, its (for some reason) acceptable for 40 year olds to play video games, and everyone has a fantasy football team which is basically D&D 2.0. The question is has what is nerdy/dorky changed because we discovered these things aren't actually nerdy/dorky or is it because we're more accepting of what actually is nerdy/dorky behavior.

hutch wrote:
its definitely changed..being a nerd used to be a pejorative term…for someone who studied all the time… now its more like nerd is just geek… its kind of endearing actually.. in today's world nerds are kind of cool… after all don't we all use computers?

We should go back to treating them with mockery and disdain.  Any adult who reads comic books or plays video games or obsesses over their cell phone is just a loser.  Someone who is content to watch and criticize and endlessly discuss (thinking they are funny) things instead of actually doing them.  People who spend all day criticizing music without being able to play a note.  What great achievement has been made by ANYONE who thought "The Avengers" was a "great" film?  I'm not even sure if that was a movie.  I think it's because a lot of these geeks/nerds have divorced parents and they are emotionally damaged.

Brian

Ahem!!!!

Person who studies all the time….nerd.

Person who does all those other things…loser.

hutch wrote:
its definitely changed..being a nerd used to be a pejorative term…for someone who studied all the time… now its more like nerd is just geek… its kind of endearing actually.. in today's world nerds are kind of cool… after all don't we all use computers?

Julian, wrote:

atomic wrote:
I have never played D&D but I thought all the rules were made up as they went along.   

I have no idea about that.

I know D&D involves dice and adding up points of damage based on some guidebook and the entire thing being imaginary as warlocks and enchanted swords and imps don't exist the same way fantasy football is all about adding up points based on a yardage/touchdown-to-points conversion system and the entire thing being imaginary since your "fantasy football team" is not a real collection of athletes you pay in a real sports league and you own literally nothing. ("You" being a general you, not you, personally, atomic.)

Have you ever watched "the league" does that seem similar to D&D?

James wrote:
Person who studies all the time….nerd.

Person who does all those other things…loser.

hutch wrote:
its definitely changed..being a nerd used to be a pejorative term…for someone who studied all the time… now its more like nerd is just geek… its kind of endearing actually.. in today's world nerds are kind of cool… after all don't we all use computers?

They could say the same thing about someone who has to drink every beer rated highly by Beer Advocate in micro-servings.  Instead of just drinking what is handy and getting buzzed.