Now I know everyone is a geek/nerd/doofus/dork when it comes down to it. Accept that and life becomes alot easier.
But people can take things way too far.
How many people know a Trekkie or a Star Wars fanatic?..
I have met a couple in my days and are amazed with these people. It’s cool to be into a hobby and all but living your life after a fictional story is obserd(sp?)!!!
I got a response from my ad on match.com once, and besides it being weird enough that I already knew the guy b/c he’d graduated high school with my sister (and I with his), his email included this line:
“I hope you don’t mind that I make my own Star Wars costumes.”
Better than THAT, if any of you saw the episode of Conan where he sent Triumph to mock the people in line waiting to see SW, he’s one of the guys in line getting picked on. Haha!
I had one of the best relationships of my life with a guy who camped out for a week to see Return of the Jedi.
And I pay somebody to make me anime costumes.
So, ya know, to each their own and stuff…
In my own defense, I’m not sure what the Enterprise-E is, I only watch TOS. But I’ll go on for hours about whether Alucard could kick Vash the Stampede’s butt. (He could, obviously. Duh)
We all have our (nerdy) hang-ups I would guess, but rent the movie “Trekkies” and you will all feel a whole bunch better about yourselves… These people (may their individual deities bless them) have bigger hang-ups than most.
…Did you mean an ISDI, ISDII, or ISDIII subclass of Star Destroyer, I mean, If the Enterprise couldn’t close fast enough those double ion cannons of the ISDI would tear her apart, however at close range… er, like I said… nerdy hang-ups.
how can Lord of the Rings copy Babylon 5 when Tolkien wrote it way before that stupid ass show ever was thought up? It just goes to show how pathetic these people are.
And how have I been whooshed??? and what the hell does that mean???
And I’m not saying that it’s gay cause I am against the use of that word.
I’m just ranting about all the damn idiots who can join the rest of us in reality.
Question: What makes a Star Wars fan that camps out for a movie or a Trekkie that argues about which ship is the best any more nerdy than a football fan that camps out for the Superbowl or a baseball fan that argues that Hank Aaron is a better slugger than Barry Bonds?
Why is arguing over sci-fi comparisions called nerdy but arguing over what Al Gore couldve done if he was elected somehow be intellectual?
Why is imagining if Batman can withstand an attack from killer tomatoes is somehow gay but trying to argue whether or not to invade Iraq after the Iraq war is the height of socio-political reparte?
If your forte is engineering design specifications of television and movie space ships, then debate away. You cant begrudge a man for submitting his opinions of his expertise to the forum that can best appreciate his endeavour. Neither can you judge the man based on the poor debating skills of his opponents. You may think its nerdy and childish but he IS speaking of contemporary cultural icons of the past 3 generations. He is 38 because he wouldve been 13 when Star Wars (episode 4 to all you SW nerds) first came on the movie screen. Being childish may not be something to aspire to, but being a child at heart has no drawbacks.
Ahhh “Trekkies”. If anything can reasure a person when they think they might be a nerd it’s that docu-film.
Some of those people defy psychology. Why? Just why?
And what’s more - the flippin Stars of the show seem to be a little bit obsessive about it too. (you’d expect them to be all “Oh It’s just an acting job - it pays the bills” but no)
BTW as a 45 year old man I can objectively say that the Enterprise would totally OWN a Corellian Destroyer or even one of Darths capital ships (with Darth on Board)
To paraphrase a wise scotsman,
“They’ll be wallowin’ like a garbage scow aginst a warp drivin’ Starship.”
But we are talking about the Humanoid Typhoon here. You know, the $$60,000,000,000 man?
No, I don’t see it.
Anyway, haven’t I seen this exact (Enterprise v. Star Destroyer) argument in Cafe Society 3 or 4 times? So I guess what I’m saying is: We can’t possibly get any nerdier than this. (Well, some of us can, but me? no.)
FICTION!
I personally have nothing against most ‘ordinary’ fans (I myself might have one or two opinions about what can beat who etc…) but there are a worrying abundance of those who take it too far.
Like the kid with the monotone voice who designed his own suit (and spinoff). the goofy little woman who insists on wearing her uniform(and tricorder etc…) at work and seems (when you hear her talk) to believe it’s all real.
I own both action figures (the ORIGINAL ones with the straght arms and internal extending light sabers), AND bobble heads, so… so I’m feelin’ pretty good right about now… I think I’m gonna go and watch “Trekkies”.
As to being passionate about a hobby, I have to agree there has to be a line drawn somewhere. Like maybe before you leave your house in Star Wars underroos (hey, I was seven and the alliance was in peril).
