ABED wrote:Vice wrote:I'll never understand what level of nerd is acceptable to other nerds. It's not like anime is any more socially accepted than wrestling is.
Then there are sports nerds, but that's considered socially acceptable.
"People who like football are people who obsess over something others find very very boring. They archive all the stats and players and scores in their memory, keep up with all the updates, put posters of their favorite personalities on their walls, go to places where there are large congregations of people who also obsess over the very boring thing, and they even buy the shirts that their favorite personalities wear so that they can dress like them. "Cosplay," if you will. There's a word for this, and that word is "nerd."
"I'm not judging. We're all nerds here. I would argue virtually everyone is. After all, what is a nerd? It's someone who has a passion for something. There are gaming nerds, and music nerds, and TV nerds, and train nerds, and yes, there are sports nerds. Let's stop all this nerd-on-nerd judgmentalism, alright? And pity that tragic minority of people who aren't nerds. People for whom there is nothing that provokes any passionate interest. Who regard all things with folded arms and an aloof sneer. What sad, empty, friendless lives they must lead."
Truer words have never been spoken.
I really do not mind them using DBZ theme songs as long as the songs used are actually good. The English version of Dragon Soul, eh.
. There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking wrestling as a grown man just because you have preconceived notions about it. People don't watch it with the expectation of it being "real," they watch it to be entertained.
seriously, you think we don't know?... We watch for "en-ter-tain-ment".
