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NachtSieger posted:agreed, if you didn't suffer years of bullying you can't be a nerd, and my name is gatekeeper george Also women nerds never get bullied! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to my online video games where people call me a whore and ask to see my tits in voice chat and scream incoherently when I beat them.
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Midnight Voyager posted:Also women nerds never get bullied! "Yeah but you get so much free stuff just for being a girl in a MMO" Like stalkers.
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Apr 4, 2017 03:46
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Swear to god every time I see a debate about abortion on Facebook, it's a woman arguing the pro-choice position, and a dude with terrible grammar and a profile picture of a car arguing the pro-life position.  
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Apr 4, 2017 04:38
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Serious question: What so the people getting all riled up about Big Bang Theory being "nerd blackface" have to say about Silicon Valley? Coz surely that is making far more fun, in a far meaner way, of IT professionals and the horrible, socially maladjusted people they are. And anyways, isnt Big Bang Theory making more fun of the mentally ill, (Sheldon and Blossom and their asbergers), than it is of the nerds, (the others)?
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BrigadierSensible posted:Serious question: What so the people getting all riled up about Big Bang Theory being "nerd blackface" have to say about Silicon Valley? I can't comment on Silicon Valley as I've never watched it, but that's literally why a ton of people don't like Big Bang Theory. Sheldon is a huge autistic nerd stereotype and the others are treated a little better. Admittedly I haven't watched more than a smattering of episodes so I don't know how the series has progressed. Funnily enough I think a lot of actual nerds would like it if the jokes were more than "throw a bunch of geeky sounding buzzwords" and made real world references to stuff they were interested in. Being factually accurate in the interests of the cast would probably more than make up for the dumb stereotypes.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:17
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BrigadierSensible posted:Serious question: What so the people getting all riled up about Big Bang Theory being "nerd blackface" have to say about Silicon Valley? Silicon Valley is actually funny and has jokes with more depth than "lol, people who like Star Trek are bad at socializing!"
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Apr 4, 2017 05:25
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Big Bang Theory isn't making fun of anything because there's nothing fun about Big Bang Theory.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:49
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BrigadierSensible posted:Serious question: What so the people getting all riled up about Big Bang Theory being "nerd blackface" have to say about Silicon Valley? You'd first have to find someone who's watched both of them. The people who hate Big Bang tend to hate sitcoms in general, and some of them then funnel that into "my niche identity is being flattened into a stereotype and exploited for humor to the masses!" and you get huffy comments about nerd blackface. I say people because there are nerds who like the show; they just like sitcoms in general and are primed to enjoy something that makes references to the things they like while lampooning caricatures of actual people they've probably run into in nerd spaces.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:50
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Sarcopenia posted:Someone please post the Furry comic with the sex shoes analogy. Someone sacrifice themselves for a sixer so I can see what this is about.
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Apr 4, 2017 06:08
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Apr 4, 2017 06:12
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Munchables posted:Big Bang Theory isn't making fun of anything because there's nothing fun about Big Bang Theory. I have never seen big bang theory but I've always been vaguely aware of it.  If that quote is real then I know it's not going to be my thing.
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Apr 4, 2017 06:15
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I haven't watched either show but I know people who have, and the reason people aren't uncomfortable about Silicon Valley in the same way is that while Silicon Valley is merciless towards techies, it's largely an extremely accurate depiction of what life is really like for people in the tech industry. Meanwhile, BBT is just all jokes like the one posted above. It's not funny and kind of gives the impression that the show creators think all nerds are autistic caricatures that don't understand anything about talking to other people.
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Apr 4, 2017 06:24
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The one accurate thing about BBT is that Sheldon nerdman's problem isn't so much that he can't talk to people it's that he's a giant self-centred arsehole.
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Apr 4, 2017 06:30
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Roseanne was way better than Big Bang Theory. Chuck Lorre peaked real early
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Ultima66 posted:I haven't watched either show but I know people who have, and the reason people aren't uncomfortable about Silicon Valley in the same way is that while Silicon Valley is merciless towards techies, it's largely an extremely accurate depiction of what life is really like for people in the tech industry. Can confirm: you'd be shocked at how much of that stuff isn't even as extreme as reality. I was a little disappointed they didn't really touch on the orgy of excess that is CES though.
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Apr 4, 2017 07:09
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Catberry posted:I have never seen big bang theory but I've always been vaguely aware of it. It's a good approximation. Throw in technical jargon word salad capped at the end with "it's just so simple!" being mansplained to the 'dumb normal girl' and you've got at least half the jokes for the entire series down
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Apr 4, 2017 07:14
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pillsburysoldier posted:Roseanne was way better than Big Bang Theory. Chuck Lorre peaked real early Roseanne was better than 99% of sitcoms period.
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Apr 4, 2017 07:25
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Henchman of Santa posted:Silicon Valley is actually funny and has jokes with more depth than "lol, people who like Star Trek are bad at socializing!" Also much like anyone who's ever worked at a mind numbing call center job will tell you about Workaholics: it's extremely accurate in a sometimes uncomfortable kind of way. A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Roseanne was better than 99% of sitcoms period. Roseanne is a huge product of it's time too. It's basically a targeted takedown of the Cosby show, Family Ties and their ilk and is built on a family that actually acts like a real family.
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Apr 4, 2017 07:40
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:Roseanne was better than 99% of sitcoms period. Comparing them, I think, helps explain why nerds will call BBT "nerd blackface" without particularly being able articulate it all too well. Roseanne built an environment that those characters had to live and survive in. In spite of whatever comedy going on, you always were cognizant of the stakes at hand for the family if something went wrong. The characters were grounded and inhabited the space that was built for them. There weren't just personal stakes, there were professional and financial stakes. Went the sister decided to pick herself up and go to trucking school, it was a really human thing that felt believable. With Big Bang Theory, the stakes are almost always nonexistant besides mostly romantic and sexual stresses and pressures. Their jobs are always safe, they transcend nearly any particular field to do whatever the hell they feel like between high energy physics to chemistry to neuroscience. It's facile and fake, it feels pasted on so that they can build a wall between "normal" people and "nerds." Any other characterization is hamfistedly inserted (Sheldon's religiously zealous family with that thurr dumb accent, the other two characters being pervy and overbearing ) and is, comparably cliche, trite and cheap. The "nerd blackface" complaint is too narrow, I think, since all the characters are stereotypes that they paste traits onto when it serves the story.
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Apr 4, 2017 07:40
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Except Bob Newhart's character, but that's to be expected because he's the best in every thing he ever does
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So much better than the original one.
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Apr 4, 2017 08:29
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Please tell me it's an edit. Though knowing the author it's probably 100% serious.
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Apr 4, 2017 08:35
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i always figured it was ironic
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Apr 4, 2017 08:51
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Black OP is my friend, red is a crazy person, blue is just some random relative of black 
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Apr 4, 2017 09:41
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your friend a dog posted:i always figured it was ironic Read any given entry in Scott Adams' blog and you will very quickly see that it is not.
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Apr 4, 2017 11:12
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:Black OP is my friend, red is a crazy person, blue is just some random relative of black Your friend is the IOSM, hope that helps.
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Apr 4, 2017 12:33
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:Black OP is my friend, red is a crazy person, blue is just some random relative of black didn't you know you're not allowed to like anything anymore?
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Apr 4, 2017 12:48
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Besesoth posted:Your friend is the IOSM, hope that helps. Edgy af
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Apr 4, 2017 13:12
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RIP Jareth
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Apr 4, 2017 13:36
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 It's been two years. Happy anniversary!
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Apr 4, 2017 13:42
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Weatherman posted:Edgy af I mean, literally the entire point of that relationship is that if someone looks at you the way Jareth looks at Sarah, you should run away very fast. It's not exactly difficult subtext. 
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Apr 4, 2017 14:11
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Maybe it would have gone better if she didn't act like he sat down at the cool kids table in an 80s high school drama
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Apr 4, 2017 14:19
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Besesoth posted:I mean, literally the entire point of that relationship is that if someone looks at you the way Jareth looks at Sarah, you should run away very fast. It's not exactly difficult subtext. No one gives a poo poo. So it's you. You're the idiot on social media.
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Apr 4, 2017 14:23
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Yes and everyone gives a poo poo about her post, lol It looks like she wanted attention and got it
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Fathis Munk posted:Please tell me it's an edit. Though knowing the author it's probably 100% serious. I post Dilbert to the Comic Strip thread in BSS. No, it is not an edit. That's pure Adams.
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