Taking Sides: Tolkien dorks vs. Star Wars dorks

as far as sheer obsessiveness is concerned, yeah. But it's not so bad, because music is part of the real world, its something everyone likes, which makes music geeks much more sociable and considerably "normal," when compared to Tolkien and Star Wars geeks who seek a total escape from reality.

*whistles idly*

But you could get high off the modeling glue, no?

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ts: jackson impaled on a splintered stake vs lucas being forced to watch star wars redux 25 hour edition.

where is the "kurosawa directing lucas and jackson in a scene where they both have to dodge traffic on the new jersey turnpike" option

too elitist. mine was for the harry potter fans.

you can get on the turnpike for free dude, it's getting off that costs money. how is that elitist?

man no-one wants to hear about some japanese director.... has he done a potter movie yet?

The Turnpike is about the same as a New Jersey hooker - you gotta pay to get off.

Little Rutgers humor there.

how does ilx feel about dorks that play CCGs in their 20s?

But seriously - for most of its length, the Turnpike is two lanes in either direction, with a median wall.

TOO EASY, even for fat, rich fucks like Jackson and Lucas (who, in all fairness, have both made GOOD movies).

I vote that we let Kurosawa direct them to dodge traffic at approx. 8:30 on a Friday evening on the 10 as it moves through its 110-101-5 interchange in downtown LA.

It would be the fastest and most gratifying game of Frogger ever.

Ms Labs I think ILX is really much more interested in people who play miniature wargames set in the far future

well on into their thirties when they have children of their own

is there a truck out there that can take on a lucas ego, even at full speed.

anyway, no fair. jackson would just jump of the back of a passing elephant and escape.

I did make the argument recently, based on an informal personal assessment of Klosterman readers, LA gossip blog RSS feed subscribers, scandinavian metal aficionados, mixed-martial-arts pay-per-view customers and people who read books about professional sports, that all nerds are basically equivalent and all people are basically nerds. It's the world of tomorrow. If you're not some kind of geek then you're the weirdo.

I guess that is true, and your sample assessment group is impressive in its contents - but doesn't the concept of being a "geek" imply some very focused attention to a particular set or group of things?

If so, I know some people who are most assuredly NOT geeks, but rather drift through life just kind of being...meh about it. Are these the weirdos?

not even the 'meh' people, but people who have a wide range of varied interests without being obsessive about any of them. they exist too, and aren't weirdos.

but they aren't on the internet.

I sincerely doubt there are people who spend their whole lives being meh about everything. More likely you've just never been around when the conversation turns to automotives or civil war history or olympic skating

if someone was 'meh' about everything, might they have some form of illness that left them unable to relate/emote normally?

Or they could just be stoned and from Southern California.

There are A LOT of meh people out here who's main occupation is being "meh" about EVERYTHING - they are SO over it ALL.

Which might be a form of geekiness all unto itself.

morelike Hobbits vs. Ewoks

course it's a nerdy club.

i was talking about asperger's.

Tom's right, you watch ANYONE long enough, you'll see 'em start creaming over SOME geeky thing.