Current Events > Remember when it was nerdy to be into comics and video games?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Now it's nerdy not to be into those things.

I don't understand this world anymore. Everything's all upside down.

Those Spiderman movies and Playstation 1 started the change.

Madden and Halo, bro.

Halo
Iron Man
Hot anime girls

That's what changed the game

Anime used to be so taboo but now you see families where parents are wearing Naruto shirts and their kids are wearing Demon Slayer shirts

Would you go back if you could?

Billyionaire posted...

Now it's nerdy not to be into those things.

I don't understand this world anymore. Everything's all upside down.

...then what are nerdy people into?

Requiem posted...

...then what are nerdy people into?

You

Requiem posted...

...then what are nerdy people into?

Chad stuff like football and cars

Not really. I was born in '84, and I can't think of a time growing up where basically everybody in my classes either didn't play games or at least wanted to play games. At most, when I was in grade school, it was more of a boy's only thing, but even that got chipped away as time passed.

And I was a jock when healthy, so loads of athletes loved Mario and Zelda and Sonic and sports games even if RPGs were more of a niche thing that I still liked and knew plenty that likewise did.

Comics were another thing, but X-men, Superman, and Batman cartoons were always insanely popular.

I never heard of anyone I know reading comic books until I graduated high school and after that, I feel like the weird one for never reading any

Billyionaire posted...

Chad stuff like football and cars

...wasn't there an episode on Star Trek about mirror universes?

Requiem posted...

...then what are nerdy people into?

My experience? TCG. Most P&P/tabletop game other than DnD5e.

3D printing might get lumped into the "nerdy" category as well.

K181 posted...

Not really. I was born in '84, and I can't think of a time growing up where basically everybody in my classes either didn't play games or at least wanted to play games. At most, when I was in grade school, it was more of a boy's only thing, but even that got chipped away as time passed.

And I was a jock when healthy, so loads of athletes loved Mario and Zelda and Sonic and sports games even if RPGs were more of a niche thing that I still liked and knew plenty that likewise did.

Agreed. If anything, video games were more segregated by gender. And certain genres were more niche, and perhaps nerdier, but that was it.

Requiem posted...

...wasn't there an episode on Star Trek about mirror universes?

Is it a TNG episode?

I guess there could have been one in TNG (and probably the original series and voyager and the rest), but I was thinking DS9.

Donomark posted...

Agreed. If anything, video games were more segregated by gender. And certain genres were more niche, and perhaps nerdier, but that was it.

Yeah, I think "nerdier" kids just are assuming that they liked something and other people must've not liked what they liked, too.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Would you go back if you could?

In an instant.

K181 posted...

Yeah, I think "nerdier" kids just are assuming that they liked something and other people must've not liked what they liked, too.

Yeah, I think there's some of that going on. But also, the intensity and continuation of the interest may have also been what separated nerds (or, enthusiasts) from everyone else. Like, a lot of people loved Madden and Halo, but not everyone visited Internet forums to discuss them or learned everything they could about them prerelease. Also, a lot of people liked Street Fighter, but obviously, not everyone participated in tournaments, etc.

let's not belittle the people that had traumatic experiences for liking anime/videogames as a kid before 2010

You're a nerd now if you like big titties, ass, sex, and alcohol. That's why so many men stopped having sex.