Gwazi Magnum
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You followed me all the way to my Bio?
Well... Now we must drop it.
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> I mean people complain about Bronies too, but so long as they aren't molesting children who gives a damn how they get their kicks?
Well there _was_ that one spam civil war many years ago against the bronies. :P
Many of my brothers in arms from that night are no longer on the Guild... :(
> Or politics. Or religion. Or, you know, _everywhere_.
I know, but I was specifically connecting it to other hobbies/interests in this case to make a point that it's not just geeks/nerds that can be hostile over differing interests.
Hell sport fans have been to spontaneously launch large violent riots over the result of a game... No one has ever done that over a video game or a TV show (Partly why the whole "Gamer's are sexist, misogyntic bastards" critiques anger me so much, because geeks/gamers are overall the one group that's the furthest away from being sexist, violent etc).
Sorry for the mini rant there, I know you don't think that way so I don't have to make the argument at you.
I just got on a tiny tangent there and just kept rambling on.
> You didn't get what I was trying to say with my post, you just agreed with my statement that geeks have standards just like every other kind of community which means that geek rebels can exist
Funny, cause if we look at the OP you never said that.
But what you _did_ say was that you consider yourself a rebel for liking stuff that other Geek's don't.
First by claiming that they all like Doctor Who, which I showed you to be false.
In other words, not agreeing with you.
Secondly, I addressed how Geeks and Nerds are not just one group with the exact same interests as you. They differ and have varying interest, so to be a 'rebel' geek/nerd is kind of impossible because there's nothing to rebel against. You are a geek/nerd, that is it.
And if you honestly are avoiding things you might otherwise like because of perceived popularity? That's not cool, that's not admirable, that's just sad, and screams someone who is punishing themselves for attention.
+Comic book geeks are actually more common than you think.
I would say go out and look, but I'm assuming you already cut yourself from other comic book fans because they aren't 'rebels' like you and were actually fine liking comics, while at the same time liking other things.
> Can both of you give me an example of how Doctor Who is not watched by nearly one hundred percent of the geek community.
Anime fans, intensive gamer's.
Intensive gamers generally focus on gaming, stuff like shows are secondary to them.
While Anime fans?
Granted this is mainly based off my experiences of the anime club at my college, but anime fans are probably the loosest of the geek/nerd community. As in they obsess over anime and most Japanese like things, but that's it. In ever other aspect you wouldn't really be able to tell they were a nerd or a geek. You would almost always need to bring up anime or pokemon to get them going.
And while some may be whovians, a good amount outright avoid such things cause they are creeped out by such 'fandoms' or 'extreme followings' even though they already do so at 10x the extreme with anime... Especially when you consider that whovians mainly limit themselves to say, the show. But anime people tend to obsess over almost anything that's anime... That is A LOT of obsessing to be doing.
> The fact that you can be called gay for liking certain geeky things that other geeks don't prove that geeks have their own standards especially now that the community has become huge.
You mean the fact that human beings are capable of producing negative meaning words towards people with differing interests? *gasp*
Cause you know, that's not something you see in cases such as sport nuts _at all_.
By OP's definition all geeks'a rebels, because all of us are going to lack interest in something that another geek posses interest in. :/
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Foxxie said
Mmhm. I've been on the other site (I feel bad namedropping, for some reason?) since October, and am making this visit out of nostalgia, mainly. I was just curious to see the vestiges, if anyone hadn't made the change. But yeah, I heard Mahz was fiddling around with the site and just had a wave of curiosity.
Name droppings become a common thing the past few days.
And honestly? I feel that's a good thing, it will allow people originally separated by the move to regain contact, keeping a stronger and connected community for the day when the Guild picks up and fixes it's issues.
Nah, pretty much everyone left the Guild for Iwaku.
None of them seem to poke in for visits. The only Iwaku users still on here are those who simply expanded to both sites, rather than moving out from one to the other.
None of them seem to poke in for visits. The only Iwaku users still on here are those who simply expanded to both sites, rather than moving out from one to the other.
mdk said
Describing it as 'systematically grinding my opponents down into a butthurt powder' seemed a little presumptive.
Though it would be more accurate. :P
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