Aw, the poor racist is back for more!

You're missing the point, this isn't just about Star Trek or Star Wars. Those are specific things and are moreso cultural institutions than niche nerd things.

Nerds as a cultural thing was niche until "recently" (relevant, 10-15 years) versus the past. Ask anyone who lived around that time, video games and more obscure things were not mainstream or even close to it. The 21 Jump Street remake riffs on this, as the nerdy kid is now the popular one where the jock was in the…

That was about "nerds" or "nerdom" as a community, obviously. It was in response to "nerds shouldn't be snobs" not anything to do with Star Trek.

You can be a hipster and a nerd, just like you can be a metalhead and a hipster. Both nerds and metalheads are defensive about their communities and try to keep the fakes out, this isn't new.

I've been really nostalgic lately, and I found my old Game Boy from 1989 at my parents house, and it works! The plastic screen cover fell off and I cannibalized another for the battery cover, but I'm able to play Pokemon Red for the first time in like, 15 years?

In my hypothetical, they didn't give the show a shot. Like the people who tell me they'd never read books because they're boring.

Is there a problem with that? The people I'm talking about wouldn't watch shows like TNG because "lol their boring" so who gives a shit about them? I'm not talking about people who saw JJ Abrams version first and may be open to watching the others after that.

Boring!

Anything with a once small community that has become diluted and mainstream has snobs.

The comments here show that Kotaku's reputation for having a dumb commentariat is well deserved.

Actual nerd, as opposed to "lol I watched the Star Trek reboot I'm such a nerd lol" type.

Can we talk about how perfect this picture is with the headline?

That's very true, he was the only reason to watch the Lions.

It's nice to see Barry again, I remember following him and how awesome he was when I was a young lad. Such a talent, I wish he had continued on but alas it was not meant to be.

Yeah, one of the big reasons is I had a couple friends who went into this weird phase where all they cared about was doing acid, and it changed who they were. I wanted no part of it.

Not surprised, it seems to from what I've read. Funny enough if I smoke weed now my usual anxiety is magnified by weed, so I don't smoke anymore. Racing heart, paranoid thoughts...fuck that. It's not like it was when I was a kid.

I've done shrooms (why do people automatically go to "you should do shrooms" based on not doing LSD) and have no desire to ever do LSD. Ever. Just don't want to, it's not my thing. I did that shit in my earlier days and now that I'm an adult with responsibilities can't really do it anymore, and I'd be guaranteed to…

OKAY!

Fuck off you lying sack of shit, then learn how to properly read and not twist everything you're responding to. I'm smarter than you, not that that's a huge compliment.