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X-Ray Pecs posted:The new episode dropped, and it's another Offbeat Bride episode! The first is one of my top 5 F Plus episodes so I'm extremely stoked for a sequel. I'm not saying that it would make these weddings good if they had more niche themes, but I'd at least have a clearer sense of the motivation behind them. Sham bam bamina! fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Nov 20, 2017 |
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There's a wedding or two in there with hints of that. There was an offhand mention of The Tempest as a theme, and I thought, y'know, Shakespeare wedding would be dorky but not actually unpleasant. On the other hand, they did that one Star Wars Expanded Universe wedding, and that was just as awful as the other ones, so yeah, making the referent more obscure doesn't make it less obnoxious. I think they mentioned this in the bumper of the previous wedding episode, but there's this weird conflict in these people's motivations. It's clear they want to rebel against their perception of a wedding. They're too unique, too interesting to wear a suit and a dress and stand in front of a guy and say "I do," then go and have drinks. But at the same time, they can't think outside of their own view of what a wedding 'is'. So they replace the trappings--instead of a suit everyone dresses up as Worf and wears Sketchers! We quote movies for our vows! And that officiant was Albert Einstein!--but they're still having a god drat wedding. It could very well just be that it's selection bias. It's a site where people post about weddings, and we're hearing the most insufferable bits. It just feels like these people want so badly to prove that they're not boring that they end up revealing that they are boring as poo poo.
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tldr i feel about weddings the same way frank west feels about food actually, we can update the list now. frank west: hates food, loves cum, hates weddings
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Frank West hates everything except for cum!
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Djeser posted:It could very well just be that it's selection bias. It's a site where people post about weddings, and we're hearing the most insufferable bits.
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Shout outs to my boy Drayson, all the best. Pick up a drat football.
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My wife's nerdy cousin was going to have a heavily-themed multi-day hangout to demonstrate Geek Social Fallacy #4, basically. Her parents (and maybe her fiance's parents, maybe some sane friends) got through to her before it was too late, though. I had mixed feelings because I've never been to a real wedding disaster but it was a nice wedding / reception in the end.
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Djeser posted:There's a wedding or two in there with hints of that. There was an offhand mention of The Tempest as a theme, and I thought, y'know, Shakespeare wedding would be dorky but not actually unpleasant. Oh yea there are tons of ways to do 'nerdy' weddings without being monsters. I said this on Ballpit but I was just at a wedding where the wedding was normal but the reception was Star Trek themed. It was cute, they had a custom drink menu, photo booths that had little Trek poo poo in them, stuff like tribble centerpieces and all. It was cute, and we all went 'aw, that's sweet they both love Star Trek' and it was fun for us other nerds. They didn't have a twenty minute Klingon vow exchange while we sat awkwardly around it. It's the difference between 'we both like this thing, and know a lot of our friends do too, so let's have some fun to make our wedding more unique' and 'we made this our entire identity'
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Nov 20, 2017 16:03
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We're going to show how unique we are by demonstrating our love of popular culture and also a popular shoe company I guess
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There's a reason that weddings are a banned topic in the business and finance forum.
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I wonder if that paggan wedding had any baggels.
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Waffleman_ posted:I wonder if that paggan wedding had any baggels.
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Over a decade on this forum has ruined me for terrible themed wedding content. My reaction to "Steampunk Wedding" was "Oh, another one?"
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Waffleman_ posted:We're going to show how unique we are by demonstrating our love of popular culture and also a popular shoe company I guess Pretty much, its corporate branding by stealth. People think they're being giant nerds but they're just recasting a ceremony in popular brands [of geek culture]. Something you expect to see on an episode of BBT.
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Nov 20, 2017 23:40
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Does anyone remember the Zelda wedding thread from ages and ages ago? That was my introduction to cringey weddings.
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ewe2 posted:Pretty much, its corporate branding by stealth. People think they're being giant nerds but they're just recasting a ceremony in popular brands [of geek culture]. Something you expect to see on an episode of BBT. I was gonna say that this whole conversation veers dangerously close to complaining about "fake nerds" and then bam someone had to complain about BBT.
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I don't think it's 'fake nerds' so much as horribly boring and generic nerds.
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sexpig by night posted:I don't think it's 'fake nerds' so much as horribly boring and generic nerds. Really selfish nerds. That's what bugs me most about the whole thing, a wedding is supposed to be a nice time for one's friends and family, not a venue to show off how quirky/geeky you are. Just like the one lady's grandma who commented on how weird it was and she took that as a compliment. You don't have to cater to everyone's needs, but if you and your husband are the only people out of 200 who know what the hell steampunk or Mass Effect is maaaaybe don't make it the entire theme of your wedding?
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Guy Mann posted:I was gonna say that this whole conversation veers dangerously close to complaining about "fake nerds" and then bam someone had to complain about BBT. #ohnoes #notallgeeks #tvtropesreference #waaambulance
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IMO it's your wedding day do whatever makes you happy but it's fun to laugh at.
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Nov 21, 2017 11:52
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A former friend of mine and his awful fiance had a terrible geek themed wedding that would have been right at home in this episode. I told them I was sick and couldn't go, instead I looked after their cat and drunk all weekend instead. I feel like I made the correct choice.
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In other news, which episode starts with a review of sugarfree jelly beans? It has Frank West saying "Eating these beans is like torture. 4/5 stars!"
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Youth Decay posted:Does anyone remember the Zelda wedding thread from ages and ages ago? That was my introduction to cringey weddings. I have that saved on my home computer and will post later if I remember. There is a dude in that picture who looks exactly like me and it is hella creepy.
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Guy Mann posted:I was gonna say that this whole conversation veers dangerously close to complaining about "fake nerds" and then bam someone had to complain about BBT. The problem isn’t “fake nerds” the problem is that nerdom itself is all about worshipping intellectual property and absorbing it to an extent that it becomes your whole life, which makes you a mark for anything branded with that trademark. Instead of something being part of your personality, you’re basically an extended support and marketing tool for a multi-billion dollar media company.
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Guy Mann posted:I was gonna say that this whole conversation veers dangerously close to complaining about "fake nerds" and then bam someone had to complain about BBT. That is fair. I wish you and your spouse all the best.
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people being unable to form identities or live their lives without references/fandoms to some sort of genre fiction/fiction for young adults (it's ALWAYS either or) really creeps me out. I can't say there's any like, fictional book or TV or movie series that I LOVE SO MUCH that it's like THIS IS PART OF MY IDENTITY. THIS IS PART OF WHO I AM. creepy these guys have to be the least harmful f-plus'd people but they also feel like the most annoying
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I figured it out. It's social. You're not into Harry Potter, you're into being into Harry Potter. Because being into Harry Potter is something that enough people do that they form a community of practice, which raises that practice (being into Harry Potter) into something far more significant than if you're just reading the books for yourself. It becomes an identity for the group instead of an individual activity, and if you join that group, congratulations, it's your identity too. So now being into Harry Potter is something that you strengthen in order to define yourself, and then you're putting the Sorting Hat on Aunt Linda so she can be in the right House for the reception.
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I think weddings are about the bridge and groom but not necessarily for them. Like, if something's important to you it's fair game to include it however weird and nerdy it is, but if you've got all your family and friends joining in it's disrespectful to turn it into something they don't understand or enjoy and therefore can't participate in. It's selfish. These are kind of the nerd equivalent to destination weddings, where instead of wasting money on a hotel in cyprus they've got to buy monocles and sit there while you recite poems from the Hobbit that you translated in to Klingon. Completely separately, which is the episode where Portaxx makes a Public Enemy reference? The exchange has been stuck in my head for a week and I can't find it.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I figured it out. It's social. You're not into Harry Potter, you're into being into Harry Potter. Because being into Harry Potter is something that enough people do that they form a community of practice, which raises that practice (being into Harry Potter) into something far more significant than if you're just reading the books for yourself. It becomes an identity for the group instead of an individual activity, and if you join that group, congratulations, it's your identity too. So now being into Harry Potter is something that you strengthen in order to define yourself, and then you're putting the Sorting Hat on Aunt Linda so she can be in the right House for the reception. Ah so it's just like the professional sports fandom, where none of the fans are in shape or actually play and their shows are mostly talking heads discussing stats and trades with little if any actual gameplay footage because it's really just an excuse to belong to a tribe and socialize.
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when you get down to it, sports is just anime
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Guy Mann posted:Ah so it's just like the professional sports fandom, where none of the fans are in shape or actually play and their shows are mostly talking heads discussing stats and trades with little if any actual gameplay footage because it's really just an excuse to belong to a tribe and socialize. are you ever not a completely insufferable palooka
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Deformed Church posted:Completely separately, which is the episode where Portaxx makes a Public Enemy reference? The exchange has been stuck in my head for a week and I can't find it.
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Guy Mann posted:Ah so it's just like the professional sports fandom, where none of the fans are in shape or actually play and their shows are mostly talking heads discussing stats and trades with little if any actual gameplay footage because it's really just an excuse to belong to a tribe and socialize.
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I mean yea if someone had a Packers themed wedding with mandatory cheese hats and vows constantly referencing deep rear end cuts from Packers history I guess I'd roll my eyes too but lol at 'AND THESE SPORTS FANS DON'T EVEN PLAY PRO SPORTS'
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Guy Mann posted:Ah so it's just like the professional sports fandom, where none of the fans are in shape or actually play and their shows are mostly talking heads discussing stats and trades with little if any actual gameplay footage because it's really just an excuse to belong to a tribe and socialize. lmao congratulations, the dumbest analogy of all time award goes to this post right here
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I feel that the phrase "gameplay footage" hasn't been sufficiently appreciated.
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Sham bam bamina! posted:I feel that the phrase "gameplay footage" hasn't been sufficiently appreciated. i saw the pre-release footage from this year's draft and I don't know if there are any quarterbacks that are worth it for any team to pre-order.
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Deformed Church posted:Completely separately, which is the episode where Portaxx makes a Public Enemy reference? The exchange has been stuck in my head for a week and I can't find it. I’m pretty sure Episode 89: Angry Angry Hippos’ cold open is Portaxx saying “fat the power.”
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