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GEEK the new COOL?

Published: Wed 23 Jul, 2008 | 9 Comments
Tags: geek, gaming,

I was at work the other day...

[Okay, so that's probably the most boring way of starting a blog ever, but hey, it gets better, I assure you!]

And in my office, teams of colleagues have a team name and theme; ours just so happens to be "Transformers." We each chose a character to be our mascot, and did the workspace up in a robotic fashion.

 

While sitting at my desk (probably the least enthusiastically decorated workstation in my area) a revelation struck me.

 

Just how embraced and celebrated, the things that in by-gone time were labelled as "geeky" are, by "normal people".

 

Here were middle-aged business types, young party-animals and sport-jock people all blending in with the "geeky" types. All united under a common banner of "geek-dom."

 

(Some other teams included "Team Marvel" and "The Justice League")

 

Since my little moment of realization, I have noticed just how many every-day conversations I’ve over-heard that revolved around E3 announcements that the people are excited about or their favourite moments in various games.

 

It's amazing how, when I was a lot younger it was harder to find people who I could talk with, about gaming or "geeky" things, because I was supposedly "too cool" for them (that is to say, I didn't spend my lunch-times in the School library). 

Now I almost feel like an outcast in certain "normal" social circles, because of my lack of an extensive Anime collection, or that I don't know how many points a regiment of Chaos warriors is worth in Warhammer.

I can't win either way!

It's as though the scale of "coolness" has reversed!

 

My ultimate attempts to "un-cool" myself by having the Autobot logo tattooed in the middle of my chest, desperately hoping that I’d be accepted by my be-spectacled, pasty gaming peers*, results only in comments like "Wow dude, that's so cool!"

 

From the hot, tanned girls that all my traditionally "cool" mates hang with.

 

-Mr McDoll-

 

_{*Just so you know, I didn't get the tattoo to impress anyone really! It was in honour of the ressurrection of my childhood favourite toys/programme. Nor do i think all gamers wear glasses...}

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