RPG Gamers are by nature a geeky bunch. Well except for those story first lite mechanics guys who are IMO anti-geek replacing cool tactical game mechanics and consistent game settings with ego building excercises, but I digress.
I certainly have earned the title of geek, after all you're find me calculating the recoil impulse for a H&K 416 chambered in the .50 Beowulf in order to use that number to determine a game stat. It's hard to get more geeky than that.
This is more geeky than that.
Now it wouldn't be more geeky if it was being done in reference to an on-going rpg campaign. There it speaks to how the campaign should progress and in what direction. Thus it would just be normal geek-dom, at least for our hobby. But when applied to a movie that was never intended (and never will) make sense beyond being a space opera fantasy, you've gone beyond geeky to just plain rabid fan super geek-dom.
And that is just embarrassing for everybody.
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All I can do is shake my head really.... That goes beyond geekdom.. to the point of painful.. And the fact that people troll about it.. Sheesh.
Awesome - I love reading when your blog when you preface your post with insults!
I enjoyed the discussion, and don't find it geeky at all to discuss film. But then, I am a huge film geek. Yglesias is also one of my favorite political bloggers (in part because he is the opposite of some stodgy pundit unaware of popular culture).
To me, geek is geek and geek is good. I don't buy into the "geek hierarchy" - well sure, I play RPGs, but at least I don't LARP. Being a geek is just about being passionate about things that fall outside mainstream society that require some intelligence and creativity to be passionate about.
Dude. I'm revamping some damage mechanics in Hardkore right now, trying to rework trauma. Your expertise would probably be valuable. If your schedule is clearing up you should certainly give me a shout.
That actually registers pretty low on geek scale. I mean, if you haven't had a conversation along similar lines about a major sci-fi or fantasy story, then you are hardly a geek ;)
As for story heavy players being anti-geek, I know plenty of story-loving geeks who can counter that ;)
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