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Link The problem with the Internet, however, is that it lets anyone become otaku about anything instantly. In the ’80s, you couldn’t get up to speed on an entire genre in a weekend. You had to wait,...

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Someone posted this article on another site I frequent, and this is what I had to say about it: I don't really like these meaningless self-identifiers like "geek" or whatever. To me, it's just being...

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Well, putting it that way, I do think that videogames going more mainstream ruined them (it didn't retroactively ruin good ones, but it did prevent new good ones from being made), so I understand the...

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Yeah, I guess is something to be said for when things go mainstream and start catering to the lowest common denominator. You know what, though? I don't think that article applies to me. I like "geek"...

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It almost sounds like what he's describing isn't so much geek culture, but what people nowadays call hipsters (I think, since I still really don't know what a hipster is)

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The most annoying thing about it to me is that it has nerds (I'm sorry, I'm not using "geek") define themselves through consumption. ... "I'll ask if you've bought yet another thing" That even...

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The internet going mainstream does bug me in a way, especially since Facebook is one of the main reasons it did.And the reason that bothers me is because several years ago, I couldn't tell the average...

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My mother told me about a time she was out with my brother and my brother saw someone he knew, so he had them go another way to avoid crossing paths.  She said, "Why would you do that??"I guess there...

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I really enjoy Facebook and it's helped me keep in touch with people I've met and find family members I might not have otherwise. And yeah, I do talk about it at work sometimes. But I'm also very...

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Crawl and 1OOO wrote:I guess there are two kinds of people in the world, those that would do the exact same thing in that situation, and those that are baffled by it.  I'd guess 95% of people are the...

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I used Facebook quite a bit for a while, but after some time I just sort of lost interest in it. It's still nice to have a way to contact friends and family. It does raise some privacy concerns,...

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It seems that you, and most of the commenters on wired all read that article differently than I did.How I read it was:Because there's so much else availible now, people are less likely to obsess over...

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I think nerd-type obsessing is a function of personality, not what's available.  There was always a lot of stuff available.  Why did nerds in 1977 obsess over Star Wars rather than Close Encounters of...

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There was not a lot of anime available in the States at one point. I imagine that if nerds got into anime in the 80s or thereabouts, it was because anime was so different, and not always based on the...

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Dear Fake Geek Girls: Please Go Away

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my interests were so much cooler when it was just a few people who knew what it was, but now everyone knows about it and they're ruining it!" is an attitude that I see from old anime fans as well, and...

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Like I said, having a hobby in which you can only have a consumer role can be a problem. I guess I can take solace in knowing that making homemade harmonica combs is unlikely to become mainstream.

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CRAWLand1000 wrote: 1. The most annoying thing about it to me is that it has nerds (I'm sorry, I'm not using "geek") define themselves through consumption. I've complained about that before, because...

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Maddox: You're not a nerd

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FYI, while I was on this page in Chrome, I got a pop up from servebeer.com that seemed like it was trying to install a virus.  This seems to be one of the biggest vulnerabilities webbrowsers have:...

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