#nerd cred

[cheskamouse]

Dec 2nd, 2017.

I have now leveled up to a 53 Uber Nerd.

I can now use really obscure game refs and words that Younger, less powerful nerds may not know.

I can also invoke “In my day..” and “When I was young..” before I start telling stories no one ants to hear!

My other bonus abilities include access to an AARP card for free shit from Denny’s [Also double coupons] and Dunkin Donuts!

Movies now cost me less! Suck it sunny boy! =D

[naiadish]

I literally took my new legal name from Lord of the Rings. Now and then, it'll still sneak up and hit me like... oh, yeah, I really did that.

[stickynotesoul]

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” - Dr. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park

[rkdemay]

I aspire to be that lesbian critic. And, where that's impractical due to me being an old cishet male? I want them as a friend.

[kiyomisa]

Be proud of your esoteric knowledge

You never know when it will give you unlooked for street cred.

My mom met my dad through a international folk dance group in college, and she learned to sing along with several of the songs in different languages.

Fastforward to the height of the Nintendo, me and my brother playing Tetris. All of a sudden my mom starts singing along, because the main theme is a public domain, traditional Russian folk song that she'd danced to.

She teaches math at the local community college, and sh always gets tons of nerd credit from her students feom knowing the actual words to the Tetris theme song

[everhaunting]

Apparently my nerd cred is so high, my teacher was shocked that I had never seen Star Wars.

I’m not sure if I should be offended or proud. 

[namecollection]

39 Beautiful Baby Names Inspired By The World Of "Harry Potter"

These are a little more ~subtle~ than Albus Severus.

[irisvoids]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-voice-of-anakin-skywalker-will-star-in-nbcs-new-tim-1762130586

Great news for Matt Lanter but... aren’t people who write articles supposed to be less bitchy?

“There was a lot of things to love about Clone Wars, but Matt Lanter’s portrayal of Anakin Skywalker—which turned the character into a relatable, tragic hero rather than the petulant sand-hater of the prequels—was near the top.”

he literally only said “I don’t like sand” which translates to “I was a fucking slave for my entire life and lived on a slave planet enslaved by hutts and then sold to watto, My mother and I lived in slave quarters for nine years of my life I had to put up with this planet and it’s sandstorms and it’s heat and it’s disgusting disregard for life, I watched new slaves come in every single day and some old people I used to know be taken away, sold to someone else,  I spent nine years of my life trying to understand why me and my mother, who were good people were in this situation, Obviousfuckingly I don’t like sand, I was a slave on a sandy planet for NINE YEARS OF MY LIFE and my mother DIED on that sandy planet.”  

He never once says “I hate sand” and he never mentions it again, ever, this paragraph makes it seem like he’s a little child complaining about getting sand in his hair at the damn beach like bitch, no. He was a slave, you’re an idiot and did you EVEN SEE THE MOVIES??? If you think Anakin is petulant because of one line in ONE MOVIE IN A SET OF THREE MOVIES you’re a very dumb person

Anakin was always a relateable tragic hero???? where the fuck have you been? OH UP YOUR OWN ASS PROBABLY.

/rant over

Congratulations to Matt Lanter for landing a neat sounding show! I hope it does well!