Yeah, I know that, shit like that drives me nuts. I've got a wedding to go to, and I hate events like that. I feel like I've got to be an actor for six hours, so I can prance around and deal with people I don't care about and present an image of myself to them that's family friendly.
Yeah, not surprised that the person in that video rags on Big Bang Theory, you'd think that program was the modern equivalent of the racist sitcoms from the 70's by the way some people whinge about it, it's a comedy, get the fuck over yourselves.
The current thing that really pisses me off is the level of exclusion displayed in the gaming community, and self identified "hardcore" gamers who sneer derisively at anybody who dares to enjoy games that don't fall within their narrow tastes and arbitrarily defined borders of what a "hardcore" game is. How dare they enjoy Candy Crush! Nintendo? That's for kids! etc.
The way some of these people go on is almost like Chris' reactions to when folk like Alec started fucking around with his Sonichu universe. It's like they see outsiders as people who are polluting their chosen hugbox and are ruining it for them, despite the fact that it makes no fucking difference to the way they themselves interact with and enjoy their hobby.
Some folk are just desperate to be "special"
Pretty much, people tend to base their assumptions of how intelligent another person is by how much they agree with their opinions and prejudices.
Haha, yeah. Big Bang Theory is shit because it's super dumb, not because it's stereotyping nerds.
Heh, yeah, like, me, Alec and some other trolls hang out in mumble. And they've all been playing games for years, it's not like they're novices or anything like that. I'm not much of a gamer, but I'm aware of the "hardcore" gamer shtick. So when I'm in mumble, and I listen to them talking about video games, I'm like "huh, so this is what a well adjusted gamer sounds like..."The current thing that really pisses me off is the level of exclusion displayed in the gaming community, and self identified "hardcore" gamers who sneer derisively at anybody who dares to enjoy games that don't fall within their narrow tastes and arbitrarily defined borders of what a "hardcore" game is. How dare they enjoy Candy Crush! Nintendo? That's for kids! etc.
The way some of these people go on is almost like Chris' reactions to when folk like Alec started fucking around with his Sonichu universe. It's like they see outsiders as people who are polluting their chosen hugbox and are ruining it for them, despite the fact that it makes no fucking difference to the way they themselves interact with and enjoy their hobby.
Some folk are just desperate to be "special"
You're silentprincess of the CWCki forums.
Eh... I don't know. Basically, the characters are pretty corny, but they're just real enough to seem like they were the writer's legit goal. I'm not seeing how they're satirizing anything.
Maybe satire wasn't the right word. The thing about TBBT is it's a comedy, maybe the producers did try to make legit nerds. That's the one show that if you say you like it, BOOM! "Faker" "Poser" "Wannabe"
Faker? See, I don't get that. It's such a dumb show in first place, who takes it seriously? Really, if someone's asserting you're claiming or they're getting on your ass about how your nerdery is phony, I'd start taking stock about how important this person's opinion is in the first place. There really can't be an important person saying this?
I know what you mean. There are people who cause scenes because they "refuse to compromise who I am blah blah," but if I'm in a situation where I'm not the intended focus, I'll suck it up for the people that are.
