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Semi-serious thread, I guess...? I'm not sure. But I've been thinking about this a lot. A small convention was held in my town this weekend, focused around card, board and miniature games (or whatever games like Warhammer 40000 are called). Not my kind of games 'cause I'm more into the video variety but I figured it might be fun to go to and it gave me a chance to try some Warhammer 40k, something I always wanted to get into but couldn't because it's expensive and convoluted. I had some fun but I also felt a bit of disgust and kind of out of place. I kept thinking to myself, these are adults, and I can understand adults getting into gritty stuff like Warhammer, but a lot of these people act like kids, despite being grown men and women, and some of them would obsess over these cute plushies in a way that just felt unnatural and embarrassing while other who were at least my age or older were playing bizarre card games for children about munchkins, whatever the fuck that is. And then there's the painfully long rulebooks for all the games there, and with Warhammer there's also all the assembling and painting and I'm like, how can grown people with jobs have time for this?! Aren't they busy with something... better? But I suppose I need to be more introspective. Am I really different from them? Or from nerds in general? I love weird kids cartoons like Dinosaucers or movies like The Land Before Time, I'm still a fan of some weird kids games like Gex and Sly Cooper. And I often scoff at other geeks' obsession with continuity and time lines and shit, and yet... I'm a Metal Gear fangirl, I obsess over Metal Gear to the point where I was not able to fully enjoy Metal Gear Solid V because I think it was so dumb and raised so many questions in the series timeline. I've spent about 250-300 hours on the damn game. I'm also a massive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fangirl. And a Turok fangirl. And a Legacy of Kain fangirl. And a fucking furry writing a novel about talking reptiles. And yet, I don't feel like I belong with other geeks. I often talk trash about my sis for being a basement dweller who just plays Starcraft or shitty MOBAs all day but is this just me being a hypocrite? Agh, I forgot where I'm going with this. I have issues and hate nerds even though I probably qualify as one.