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But Nerd-dom was always merged with fantasy and sci-fi? Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune, LOTR, Asimov, Clarke, Hobbes, are all nerd-dom mainstays, like D&D.
by intended 4mo ago
But Nerd-dom was always merged with fantasy and sci-fi?
Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune, LOTR, Asimov, Clarke, Hobbes, are all nerd-dom mainstays, like D&D.
- IggleSniggle 4mo agoBack in those times we made a distinction between nerds and geeks, with geeks really being a sort of subset of nerds that was just interested in the technicals.
- palmotea 4mo agoI always found attempted distinctions between nerds and geeks to be kinda fake. As long as I've been alive, there's been so much overlap that any distinction is at best a slight and unreliable shade of meaning (e.g. nerd "sounds" a shade more academic/grades focused, but "computer geek" and "computer nerd" are synonyms).
- jimbokun 4mo agoI think that distinction was invented post-facto. For most people they were pretty much synonyms in every day usage.
- m_fayer 4mo agoFandom-as-identity was a niche thing even within nerddom until quite recently. Also a lot of those properties had a lot of substance there decades ago and have since been watered down and turned into memeable cliches.