Did the nerds win?
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Older Beholder
Hero
We finally got a decent DnD film, so yeah, the nerds won.
CellarHeroes
Adventurer
Oh yeah?! Have they set a release date for it?
Shades of Eternity
Legend
1984Oh yeah?! Have they set a release date for it?
Older Beholder
Hero
And then there are times like now, where it feels like I’m still being made fun of for liking things like the DnD movie. Only now it’s from people within the community, which makes me think that maybe the nerds lost.
Paul Farquhar
Legend
The nerds turned out to have been the baddies all along.
Scribe
Legend
Thread Winner on the first response.
No, we have not won. Our cultural touchstones have been appropriated, perverted, and resold with the corners rounded off to 'protect' those who would just change things for the worse even further.
trappedslider
Legend
Same sentiment, different threads.
Scribe
Legend
Yeah, I've cared more about 40K over my life, than is healthy. I have been trying to let go for a decade.
trappedslider
Legend
At 25, Galaxy Quest celebrates a fandom that no longer exists
1999's Galaxy Quest celebrated the joy and community of sci-fi fandom. Twenty-five years later, that same "geek culture" has become a venue for toxicity and entitlement.
Toxic fandom is not a new phenomenon. Trekkies sent hate mail to Paramount over the then-rumored death of Spock in 1982’s Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. What they couldn’t do was actually change the ending of the movie, and when they saw it, they loved it. The solution is also not relentless positivity or deference to the massive conglomerates who profit from the passion of fans. It is possible to enjoy something deeply without trying to exert control over it. It is healthy to love one chapter of a story while being disinterested in another, and to accept that someone with the opposite opinion is still one of you.
What ultimately matters about your Star Trek, your Star Wars, your Lord of the Rings isn’t the canon, the nuts and bolts knowledge that would help you save the day if Jason Nesmith ever called to tell you that “it’s all real.” It’s not real. Even in Galaxy Quest, the thing that made it “real” for the Thermians wasn’t the fact that they built the ship but that it helped them rebuild their lives. It made them better. Corporate profits be damned, that’s where its value lies. If the thing that you love no longer does that for you, if it’s making you worse, you can let it go. It may be part of you, but it doesn’t belong to you.
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