Apr 8, 2022 0:37:11 GMT mikec said:

Apr 7, 2022 22:57:57 GMT Foos said:

So much in Entertainment would be Nerdery worthy threads. Just think of so much of what UT does now we used to do in the Nerdery. Just now all of those characters have main stream appeal thanks to the MCU.

Remember it was the comics and cartoons forum in its original incarnation.

Please make a Nerdery so I don’t have to see anymore MCU stuff. I’m on team nerdery.

Micheal will participate in every thread made in our new, hypothetical Nerdery. Thanks for your endorsement! It means a lot!

Does anyone else feel like there's something in the water lately ever since the Fan Fiction Draft started up?

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Apr 7, 2022 23:31:44 GMT iNCY said:

Apr 7, 2022 22:10:53 GMT Emperor said:

Maybe I feel this way because I don't own a car but...

People overreact way too much to getting a scratch on their car. They rage, they cry, they are willing to fork out a lot of cash to get it scrubbed up. I feel this reaction is way disproportionate compared to getting a scratch or a mark on basically anything else they own.

I think I can explain why this is the case.
It is the first time something gets scratched, then it is not longer so new and perfect and people don't react as badly the second and subsequent times, because it is not longer in that perfect state..
I expect it's the same reason getting raped in the shower at jail would seem worse the first time.

Because iNCY's edgy comedy has been gold tonight. Loving some of his hilarious hot takes.

Speaking of hot takes, I've got one...

The Sports Empire would fit in the Nerdery, because sports fans are possibly the biggest nerds to ever nerd.

AEW is the Nerdery spiritual successor. The spirit live on.

Apr 8, 2022 0:51:10 GMT 🤯 said:

Does anyone else feel like there's something in the water lately ever since the Fan Fiction Draft started up?

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Apr 7, 2022 23:31:44 GMT iNCY said:

I think I can explain why this is the case.
It is the first time something gets scratched, then it is not longer so new and perfect and people don't react as badly the second and subsequent times, because it is not longer in that perfect state..
I expect it's the same reason getting raped in the shower at jail would seem worse the first time.

Because iNCY's edgy comedy has been gold tonight. Loving some of his hilarious hot takes.

Speaking of hot takes, I've got one...

The Sports Empire would fit in the Nerdery, because sports fans are possibly the biggest nerds to ever nerd.

Shut up with your attempted forum reformations.

Might be regurgitating a post from 5 years ago when I made this thread, but that's too bad...

Celebrity autographs. Don't get it. Why do so many people go out of my way to have a poster or a book signed by a musician or an author? What is the value? Maybe it's bragging rights? "I met this person." OK, you met for about 10 seconds, they smiled at you, put pen to paper, and waved you away for the next person. Congratulations?

Getting a photo with a celebrity, I can understand a bit more. It's not just a photo, there's even a chance for a few minutes of interaction with said celebrity, which does sound pretty awesome.

Then there's the next level down which is "OH MY GOD BEYONCE TOUCHED ME I'M NOT GOING TO SHOWER FOREVER". I know it's a joke, but why is it even a meme to say that type of thing? Like the touch of a famous person is some kind of divine miracle, and not just a human being touching another human being. Do not get.

I think the celebrity autograph/photo ops are kinda nice if they're free, but I'm not interested in paying for them.

I went to a TNA show years ago and they did a totally free meet and greet kinda thing at the end. I got to say hi to almost everyone on the roster at the time and got my program signed by them too (except Booker T, who was in a different room you had to pay for). It's a nice memory and it didn't cost anything extra.

This was 2008, so it was a pretty great group of wrestlers (Hogan hadn't ruined it all yet). Gail Kim was the nicest (in case anyone was wondering).

No way would I pay for that kind of thing though. Some of those comic cons are absolutely wild - as if I'd pay £100 for a picture and scribble from some random Smallville actor!

Jul 9, 2022 18:31:20 GMT Emperor said:

Might be regurgitating a post from 5 years ago when I made this thread, but that's too bad...

Celebrity autographs. Don't get it. Why do so many people go out of my way to have a poster or a book signed by a musician or an author? What is the value? Maybe it's bragging rights? "I met this person." OK, you met for about 10 seconds, they smiled at you, put pen to paper, and waved you away for the next person. Congratulations?

Getting a photo with a celebrity, I can understand a bit more. It's not just a photo, there's even a chance for a few minutes of interaction with said celebrity, which does sound pretty awesome.

Then there's the next level down which is "OH MY GOD BEYONCE TOUCHED ME I'M NOT GOING TO SHOWER FOREVER". I know it's a joke, but why is it even a meme to say that type of thing? Like the touch of a famous person is some kind of divine miracle, and not just a human being touching another human being. Do not get.

I think signatures were a popular form of showing you met a celebrity before having a camera at your disposal was the norm.

Depends on what it is. If it's the actual game ball or guernsey signed for example.. then absolutely, that's cool.

A 6x10 print, that 50,000 other people have. Who cares.

And it sort of depends on the celebrity's profile. If it's a cultural icon for example. Yes, of course that's great. Most people recognise Michael Jackson. But, if it's the guy who played a
Cowboy on space opera #569 featuring the 5th lead from a monster of the week horror show #7389... then, I don't care. I'm not lining up to meet Nathan Fillion.

I actually don't understand the concept of celebrity.
If someone is a great actor or singer, that is fantastic.
To me though, it doesn't make me think the person should be revered or whatever.
Especially boring toe a talk shows where celebrities tell their little stories and people hang off their every word...

I mean let's interview intelligent people who have something new and insightful to say about science or the environment.

I would only be interested in an autograph if it was at the bottom of a cheque.

Waterfalls, what is the big FN deal?

Yeah brah I can just turn on the sink.

Or just pee.

A waterfall is a pretty spectacular sight in person. I get it. Just like any other natural spectacle really.

This sums up my view on celebrities pretty well:




For the record I would take looking at a waterfall over listening to a celebrity any day.

I don't get why we ask celebrities for their thoughts politically. Especially the younger ones.

Fame doesn't equal intelligence, or insight. And, if I'm 21 years old, rich, famous and living in Beverly Hills.. I could care less about government policy.

I don't get the flavour of memes that are being circulated around social media these days.

There's a post with an intruging thumbnail of someone's face and an engaging caption usually starting "When...". Play the video, it's five seconds of that someone dancing, or pulling a funny face, with some quirky music in the background. None of the video's content is related to the "When..." caption. It's miniature clickbait. Every time I watch one the content creator gets like 15 cents so I'm probably doing some good to the world.

Random examples:

http://instagr.am/p/CgEevKGli58

http://instagr.am/p/CgHTgzJKvlv

I suppose this is TikTok culture leaking over Instagram...but yeah. Don't get it. Is it supposed to be funny? Charming? Relatable?


I'm just an old dude now. Times change. Memes change. 15 years ago I found this shit funny. I still do, actually. I giggled.



And the generation above me would no doubt be feeling exactly the same way as I do when watching a TikTok video.

Jul 10, 2022 3:57:39 GMT iNCY said:

I actually don't understand the concept of celebrity.
If someone is a great actor or singer, that is fantastic.
To me though, it doesn't make me think the person should be revered or whatever.
Especially boring toe a talk shows where celebrities tell their little stories and people hang off their every word...

I mean let's interview intelligent people who have something new and insightful to say about science or the environment.

I would only be interested in an autograph if it was at the bottom of a cheque.

Jul 10, 2022 23:52:06 GMT NATH45 said:

I don't get why we ask celebrities for their thoughts politically. Especially the younger ones.

Fame doesn't equal intelligence, or insight. And, if I'm 21 years old, rich, famous and living in Beverly Hills.. I could care less about government policy.

I sort of understand it. More people than not don’t change their beliefs based on facts. They change based on feelings. Art invokes feelings and empathy. And changes more minds than facts ever have. Stands to reason then that people would look to the purveyors of said art in an elevated fashion. That’s not so say I’m arguing we should listen celebrities over scientists and academics. I’m just talking human nature here. I would argue there multiple kinds of celebrity too. And I’ve known people who say they don’t think we should listen too celebrities who also believe every word kid rock or Gwynth Paltro say.

People.

Myself.

Extremists.

Wrestling fans.

Split screen TikTok react videos.

Jul 10, 2022 3:57:39 GMT iNCY said:

I actually don't understand the concept of celebrity.
If someone is a great actor or singer, that is fantastic.
To me though, it doesn't make me think the person should be revered or whatever.
Especially boring toe a talk shows where celebrities tell their little stories and people hang off their every word...

I mean let's interview intelligent people who have something new and insightful to say about science or the environment.

I would only be interested in an autograph if it was at the bottom of a cheque.

Yeah my celebrity awe was killed early on by Moby.  I like worshipped him as a wee lad getting into DJing because of him and learning how to make beats and shit.  He was great when meeting him for a few seconds and he gave me a super rare hoodie.  Then I spent a day with him when he was not "Moby" and he was a fucking miserable person to be around.  Like no one wanted him around after a few hours and hoped he would leave.

After that stopped caring out people just because they were famous.  Met some awesome music people since, and some good wrestling people, but never like looked up to people the say way and assume people are people unless they prove otherwise.  

I have some signed stuff, but was shit that came signed, or people signed when I bought it from them.  Never sought signatures.  Or even pictures.  Just meeting people and having the memory is cool for me, I do not need to prove it to anyone else.  

Jul 27, 2022 18:46:00 GMT All34LOL said:

Jul 10, 2022 23:52:06 GMT NATH45 said:

I don't get why we ask celebrities for their thoughts politically. Especially the younger ones.

Fame doesn't equal intelligence, or insight. And, if I'm 21 years old, rich, famous and living in Beverly Hills.. I could care less about government policy.

I sort of understand it. More people than not don’t change their beliefs based on facts. They change based on feelings. Art invokes feelings and empathy. And changes more minds than facts ever have. Stands to reason then that people would look to the purveyors of said art in an elevated fashion. That’s not so say I’m arguing we should listen celebrities over scientists and academics. I’m just talking human nature here. I would argue there multiple kinds of celebrity too. And I’ve known people who say they don’t think we should listen too celebrities who also believe every word kid rock or Gwynth Paltro say.

This is not even opinion, it is fact in the psych of persuasion.  Emotions are a primary persuader, logic a secondary persuader.  People can change their minds based on facts and do all the time, but there is no urgency to it.

As for celebrities, fans of the celebrities make an US group, so fans of the celebrities are more likely to be persuaded by them or members of that groups.  It is Cialdini’s 7th pillar of persuasion, unity.  Dude spent his life researching this shit and is the expert of expert in the area.   Messages from the unity group get charged with emotion as there is a belonging feeling to the group, pushing their factual messages slightly from secondary to primary persuaders.  

Was my favorite area of psychology to study, particularly the memetic extension.  

Maybe it's the metric system but I really hate (as an american) when people put a . instead of a , when they type large #s. Again maybe it's not incorrect but it always comes off very hard-r when I see it.

10,0000 CHECK
10.0000 WRONG

Even if it's "okay" it's still not.

I like when they do 1.000.000

Like wut mate?

I do find this convention funny.

1,000,000.

.0000001

Separators are generally only used one way.

Jul 30, 2022 9:41:14 GMT c said:

Jul 10, 2022 3:57:39 GMT iNCY said:

I actually don't understand the concept of celebrity.
If someone is a great actor or singer, that is fantastic.
To me though, it doesn't make me think the person should be revered or whatever.
Especially boring toe a talk shows where celebrities tell their little stories and people hang off their every word...

I mean let's interview intelligent people who have something new and insightful to say about science or the environment.

I would only be interested in an autograph if it was at the bottom of a cheque.

Yeah my celebrity awe was killed early on by Moby.  I like worshipped him as a wee lad getting into DJing because of him and learning how to make beats and shit.  He was great when meeting him for a few seconds and he gave me a super rare hoodie.  Then I spent a day with him when he was not "Moby" and he was a fucking miserable person to be around.  Like no one wanted him around after a few hours and hoped he would leave.

After that stopped caring out people just because they were famous.  Met some awesome music people since, and some good wrestling people, but never like looked up to people the say way and assume people are people unless they prove otherwise.  

I have some signed stuff, but was shit that came signed, or people signed when I bought it from them.  Never sought signatures.  Or even pictures.  Just meeting people and having the memory is cool for me, I do not need to prove it to anyone else.  

Why I keep giving frozen pizza a chance. It's always bad, but I debate with myself in the store.

This time it'll be different.

Dominos keeps jipping ya on the sauce. You won't have to leave the house.

Fuck.

Jul 30, 2022 8:18:22 GMT rad said:

Split screen TikTok react videos.

Feel you on that one rad,There's this black guy on TikTok who allegedly grew up only ever hearing R&B and rap and every video he makes the same stupid face going "Okay.. Okay.." As in, there's an Electric guitar, how unexpected.
TikTok and IG is trolls and scammers trolling and scamming other trolls and scammers.

All of those "react" videos anger me. How do you go 30 years and not hear something like Bohemian Rhapsody is beyond me.

Aug 1, 2022 7:40:05 GMT NATH45 said:

All of those "react" videos anger me. How do you go 30 years and not hear something like Bohemian Rhapsody is beyond me.

Those “don’t laugh” challenges were it’s just someone laughing hysterically at every video they watch, the exact opposite of what the challenge is meant to be.

Nothing worse than the only copy of said videos on YT are of react videos. So I can't even enjoy the real thing sometimes.

And more than anything those "react" videos show me how old I am. Zoomers talking about what I grew up with like it's forever ago. And yeah it was.

Aug 1, 2022 6:34:32 GMT iNCY said:

Jul 30, 2022 8:18:22 GMT rad said:

Split screen TikTok react videos.

Feel you on that one rad,There's this black guy on TikTok who allegedly grew up only ever hearing R&B and rap and every video he makes the same stupid face going "Okay.. Okay.." As in, there's an Electric guitar, how unexpected.
TikTok and IG is trolls and scammers trolling and scamming other trolls and scammers.

I end up having to block one side of the screen with my hand so I can see the actual interesting content instead of some idiot's dumb facial expressions. I try not to be an old foagey but damn, it's mind numbing. Also the ones with the stupid woman robot voice or the "oh no, oh no..." song playing on repeat.

Girls on Twitch. Or the guys that will sit there for 4 hours watching a pixie play Fortnite.



Buddy, if you wanna jerk off, go to Pornhub.

And girls, if for a second you think anyone cares about your gaming, you'd be wrong. But you know that, hence the outfit.