I’m not even sure what part of my comment you’re responding to, as I don’t mention “prudes” anywhere, and also your comment just doesn’t seem to connect with anything I’ve said. Possibly you’re referring to me mentioning sex averse or sex repulsed men, which are not equivalent to “prudes”; they’re people who have…

What’s this “Imagination”? Was that on VH1 or something back in ‘92?

You’re welcome.

Robinett is the only one I don’t recognize, Tempest was one of the most popular videogames of its time and has been ported all the way up through at least the first PlayStation, to say nothing of homages to it. Zork is also extremely well known among people who had even a passing knowledge of videogames from that era…

What’s disturbing about it is that he conflates porn with meaningful relationship. He wants to date a Star Wars nerd that can beat him at chess, and thinks jerking off to her is the same thing.

Do nerds really still need the constant coddling of stories about how special their nerdiness will make them? That someday, somehow, all the pop cultural obsessions they hold will click into place and give them the opportunity to prove their greatness?

I didn’t loathe the book, but I was very perplexed by the rave reviews it received. It was hailed as this ode to geekdom, as if Transformers, King Kong, or Back to the Future were these sparky, unknown properties only nerds could appreciate.

There’s something just a little insulting to how commonplace the references are, too. You like Ghostbusters? You’re a geek like me! Isn’t it fun to like nerdy things unlike everyone else?

If it’s porn, it’s objectifying. Boob size and wardrobe may vary, but there’s not an emotional connection being formed here. This guy spent 20 paragraphs justifying what gets him hot.

“My porn starlets will come in all shapes and sizes.”

Okay so here’s what actually happened: The movie was announced, and more people decided to read the source material. The source material is absolute trash and so more people are going to hate it and voice their opinions.

Let this corny slice of 1980s nostalgia be your tomb for all eternity!

So basically, this movie would be better if everyone just spoke in Simpsons references.

So it’s like a whole novel of member berries? 

I think my main problem with the pop culture references as plot in the book is that none of it is really hyper specific enough to make it feel like the author is just filling the story with things he loves personally but more throwing in things just about everyone will recognize on a basic level, thereby coming across…

There should be an old man who fondly recalls the ‘80s:

You’d have to be a pretty dull boy to Overlook that hint.

I have this horrible vision of George Lucas promising his fortune to anyone sufficiently immersed in Buck Rogers and old time radio shows.

Ugh. Even a good review makes this sound fucking unendurable. Gaze in awe at the imaginative mindscape of these daring young dreamers, who steal meaningless fragments of other people’s coherent work and mash them together in the most thoughtless way possible!

“Isn’t it a whole different kind of blinkered nostalgia to imagine that the youth of 2045 will still be hung up on “Staying Alive” and Atari and, well, Spielberg movies?” I mean, I grew up in the ‘80s obsessed with a franchise inspired by 1930s sci fi serials and 1950s samurai movies, a toy line/cartoon show that was…