>>5414307I turn 50 this month. I've loved "nerd shit" all my life. I think maybe it was different growing up for me than today though. The internet wasn't even a gleam in Al Gore's eye. Home vidya was Atari 2600 and the lucky kids had 13 channels on cable. We all played with Star Wars toys,m but it involved running around the yard and blowing up cheap snap tite models with M80s or re-enacting the Death Star trench run on your bikes with a Kenner X-Wing or TIE Fighter on your handle bars. D&D was in it's infancy and their was only one Star Wars movie with no subtitle yet. (they it added after the second one came out). "Nerds" were the kids that did math and never came outside. The rest of us played Star Wars or blew up cheap models or rode bikes down to the comic shop or the arcade attached to the laundromat. I remember going to Phantom Menace opening weekend and being more than a little surprised when there were grown ass men dressed up in costume. Up till that point, i thought it was something only the Trekkies did. My inner kid enjoyed the surge in popularity of capeshit. Most of Marvel has been at least entertaining. But they're killing it with over-saturation. I'll still have place in my heart for "nerd shit", but right now I'll stick with shooting and screwing around with my old Buick.
