Is Nerd culture the embodiment of racist, and sexist attitudes?
There seems to be this misconception that the quieter, more introverted people in society are somehow the nicest. While they may seem polite at face value or super-intelligent and innocent, there are many who are the deepest sexists, racists and homophobes. Now many of you have not known many nerdy people in your time, when I say many I am speaking of 10+ different people with different personalities. Your experience with nerds may be limited to a trip periodically to GameStop, your college campus and probably the internet. Still this... [Read more]
Fighting Games, Social Awkwardness and The Gamer
So what is the future of fighting games? Street Fighter 4 has jump started the genre by bringing back veterans of the old series and attracting new blood to the competition. With the next installment being released soon, the upsurge can only continue to build until like it’s predecessors it dies down until the 5th sequel. But it worries me that only a few games are viable as true winners in the fighting game genre. Offhand I think Street Fighter, Tekken and Soul Calibur when people ask “which fighting games should I be playing?”... [Read more]
The Ideal MMORPG – Why Can’t They Get it Right
It still baffles my mind to this day as to why Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest (though not so much) are the only MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) to cater successfully to different types of gamers. There is a continuous stream of newer, prettier MMO games being released yearly, yet they all offer the same crap in a different shell. They are one-dimensional, RPGs (minus the RP) that are meant as time-sinks to attract the loyal wave of MMO gamers who will swoop in, max out their levels and fly away to play something... [Read more]
Live Action Role-Players Scare Me
Okay normally I laugh at LARPs like everyone else, because lets face it, if you aren’t a LARP you are laughing at LARPs. What’s a LARP you may ask? Well it’s a Live Action Role Player or basically someone who loves sword and sorcery to the point where they assume the role of actor/player character with a bunch of other young white people. Yes in my observation of LARPs they tend to lack people of color, you can make your own assumptions on this. For me it’s just an observation, I’m sure there are a few but... [Read more]
The Death of the Internet Forum
I keep the forums open at www.halloftheblackdragon.com/forums for one reason - It is my open bulletin board to the public, and it is a super, fast way for me to post news articles, women or whatever is on my testosterone flooded mind. However, as a whole, I think that site admins (like myself) have lost the love and wont to launch forums. The reason for this goes beyond not having enough traffic, not having the patience to weed out the spammers or not having enough people to moderate. The problem lies with the internet community as a... [Read more]
The Flawed Definition of Nerd
Girls wear these I Heart Nerds shirts thinking it’s cute… but do you really heart nerds? The poisonous Internet tough guys on message boards would make you take that shirt off really fast (wait nice thought there) but I’m sure the nice guy at Best Buy who took time out of his World of Warcraft discussion with his co-worker to tell you why a PC is better than a Mac may make you put it back on. So what defines a nerd? I find myself wondering about this because as human beings we all are complex in our own little ways. When... [Read more]
Aiko: A Robot to Replace A Woman
So before I start let me get the boring cliché remarks and thoughts that you people will spout out prior to even linking to the main article. The introverted nerdy ones of you will think to yourself “cool, I hope this gets sophisticated enough that I can have my own slavegirl modelled after Kristen Bell to play with.” The wannabe tough guy poser types will say “lol look the nerd had to make a girlfriend! I trip over ass everytime I leave my house, what’s his deal?” and a few of you standard model humans will... [Read more]
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