Gregg?

MATPOC · Post by **MATPOC** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:34 pm

you lost some weight?

sun rat · Post by **sun rat** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:51 pm

does that guy live in dover, by any chance???

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:52 pm

the fuck?

sun rat · Post by **sun rat** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:46 am

Sisyphus wrote:the fuck?

to which image?

MATPOC · Post by **MATPOC** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:24 am

My pic was a Guinness record holder for most daleks.

sun rat · Post by **sun rat** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:34 am

mine was the view outside my room where i stayed in Dover this summer...

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:29 pm

I'm obviously not well attuned to the proclivities of pop culture.

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:28 pm

Sisyphus wrote:I'm obviously not well attuned to the proclivities of pop culture.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/f ... ture/all/1

Post by **Beemer Dan** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:47 pm

I like Patton Oswalt, but in that article he sounds less like a nerd who digs what he digs and fuck everyone who doesn't get it, and more like a hipster crying that he did all the "cool" stuff before it was "cool" and now that everyone can do it, it sucks balls. Fuck man, being a nerd was never about "I know obscure shit about obscure shit and that makes me special", it was "I know a ton of shit about things that I find interesting and if you don't like it go fuck yourself". Yes, if there was ever a reason to get stuffed in a locker in junior high school, it was because you told the biggest jock in school to go fuck himself after he made fun of you.

All these fuckers who thought that you couldn't be a fucking nerd and still be well groomed, dress your damn self, romp around town with people other than your dungeon master and his half mad cousin, not live with your mom at the age of thirty, get sexy lady asses (or man asses, whatever you dig) lining up at you or something other than stay in your own little world and sneer at the "normals" need to get on with it! Get to the next step my little nerdlings! Make the fucking jump!

Siegel and Shuster didn't fucking create Superman so that pudgy little mouth breathers with bad social skills could lock themselves in the damn basement and detail the finer intricacies of how many light years away Krypton is. It's a good story, it's great art, but more than that it's a nod to the archetype of the "normal" human who has a shade of the superhuman in them. If anything it was a wake-up call to the rest of us that said "yeah, you'll probably be a normal person like everyone else, but you're fucking amazing at something! Let that part shine, run with it, see where it takes you and to hell with those that try to bring you down!". You can pine all you want for the glory days of being ridiculed and isolated by the jocks and popular kids for being different, or you can tear a fucking page out of that rare comic book and use it as an instruction manual.

Become a superhero.

Now it isn't the tights and the logo on the chest, it isn't x-ray vision or the ability to time travel. It's acting the damn part! It's being a good guy, not the good guy in the corner but the brave fucker who stands up when shit gets bad and tries to set things right. Even if that just means giving the waiter who just got stiffed a larger tip or helping your grandma hang pictures. You don't need to be invulnerable to save someone's life, you don't need to have superpowers to champion over the world's assclowns, you don't need a damn cape to be a hero. The point of so many of our beloved superheroes isn't to worship them like sheep, but to be like those rocketmen, wizards, explorers and knights and step out of the damn safe zone and go live life.

We don't need to lock ourselves into a fantastical world of make believe, we can be fantastic bastards right here, right now in the real world. Get a motorcycle, wash that shirt with the Cheeto stains, brush your damn teeth, learn to talk to the opposite sex and be a chaotic-good boy scout. Want to feel like a superhero? Go rock climbing, cook dinner for 40 people, help paint a school, find someone's lost cat, throw a mean drunk out of a coffeehouse and for the love of great fucking Cthulhu go get laid!

Now I've got nothing against people who want to dwell in their own little otaku, some folks dig that, and that's cool. What I do get fucking bent about is when the basement dwellers come out of Plato's cave into our fucking sunlight and tell us we're doing it wrong. If there is anyone who needs to wake the hell up, it's those poor bastards who have spent half a lifetime reading about superheroes and have never gotten the courage up to try and be one.

roadmissile · Post by **roadmissile** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 3:40 am

I hear students still try to stuff Ames into lockers

/RM

Rabbit_Fighter · Post by **Rabbit_Fighter** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 9:51 am

MagnusTheBuilder · Post by **MagnusTheBuilder** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:25 am

WOW... ^^^^^^^^^ Bert grew up, strangely. Is Ernie the MC?

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