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Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater
Rollie Hawk writes "More than a month before the premiere of Revenge of the Sith, fans are already lining up. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins) are waiting for tickets to go on sale. Unfortunately, it appears that the guys with girlfriends will have the last laugh as the Chinese Theater isn't even premiering the film."
Maybe they are doing this just for the sheer enjoyment of it?
I saw Episodes 1/2 on opening day and waited in line about 6 minutes combined. So it's not like they NEED to camp out to get tickets. Which come to think of it makes the whole idea of them standing in line for tickets anywhere, let alone a theatre that isn't even showing the movie... downright sad.
What I'm looking forward to more than the movie is the comedy bit where Triumph the Insult Comic Dog shows up and tells the line camping nerds how nice they are... FOR HIM TO POOP ON!
... in a way. I just played the PS2 game Star Wars: Lego, which lets you play a very accurate game based on episodes 1-3. Episodes 1 & 2 were very accurate, so I'm assuming that Episode 3 was accurate, too. If that was the case, then Obi-Wan follows Annakin to some volcanic planet, where they have a fight, and Annakin ends up losing and falling into lava. Obi-Wan thinks that he's dead. The Emperor finds him, and restores him as Darth Vader. Darth Vader gets pissed as soon as he wakes up with his new body, and smashes all of the machines. There was quite a bit more, too. All in this game that was released some time back. I thought it was one hell of a slip on somebody's part.
I don't respond to AC's.
When we're mocking stupid Star Wars fans while we all wait on bated breath for the next story to appear, so we can karma whore.
Is it me or is this one hell of a frontpage troll? It reads likesome jock found a news story and thought he'd put the boot into us geeks.
If this is the case then please fuck off to somethingawful or whatever the hellhole is you hang out because here we're beyond judging people on how many women they have fucked or gone out with.
I like muppets.
Thats not very appropriate.
Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
What kills me about the "nerds" waiting in line for Star Wars prequels is they are such posers.
When Empire came out, people waited in line days in advance because it was the only sure way to get in on opening night.
Today, you can buy your tickets on-line in advance and show up just as the previews are starting. There is no reason to camp out for seats other than pretending to be as "hard core" of a fan as those who slept out for the original movies in '77, '80 and '83.
Hey, you in the Jedi robes! Here's a clue: Real nerds will have already seen the illegal torrent file of the movie before you even get in the theater anyway. There's no geek-cred to be won simply by being the "first" to see the new movie, and all of the prequels are lame anyway. Go home and take a shower.
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Although I love watching star wars, I would never be so crazy enough about it to queue 40 days early, just to be one of the first.
I would rather spend some time with my wife, who has been abroad for two weeks on business. When she got back on Monday, we really enjoyed being back with each other.
Even if someone GAVE me a ticket to watch Starwars on a preview, but would clash with the time my wife returns from her trip, i would not give up being with her.
The way I look at it, Starwars is a plain story, a fantasy. She is real.. I know what I would prefer given the choice.
Have a nice day!
Your joke is too subtle or on the wrong level for the moderators. It could be informative, insightful, interesting, funny, overrated and flamebait all in one posting.
Geeks are social. Dorks are not social but good people. Nerds are not social and evil.
Nerds are the Slashdotters who put on their D&D dungeon master rode to feel empowered as they post on Slashdot and call everyone else in the world losers but themselves. I like geeks and dorks, I can't stand nerds.
Dude come on. These people are lining up 1 month in advance. 1 month of their lives wasted just so they can see a movie before 98% of the rest of the population. You really think they have kids?
The lines at the Chinese for the original film have ascended to the status of pop culture legend.
People who wait in line outside the Chinese for the (shitty) prequels are doing so for the exact same reason kids went to "Woodstock 2" in spite of the fact that nearly all of the bands at the show sucked. They want to feel somehow connected to the phenomenon.
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I'm so hardcore I haven't seen either of them Ah, but then, how do you actually know that they suck? I mean, not that I'm saying you're wrong or anything.
I remember sigs. Oh, a simpler time!
His part was funny at first until I realized, this kid will probably never get laid, EVER.
Spock flipping them all of was pretty damn funny too.
-William Shatner can be neither created nor destroyed.
I dunno. He's excactly the sort of nerd who other nerds look up to. A sort of "alpha nerd" if you will. The more crazy and over-the-top a guy is, the more the "nerd-hags" (yes, just as "chubby chaser" men exist, so too do women who fetishize nerds) will tend to flock to him.
I'm guessing he can get his share of wicca trim at a typical Ren Fest.
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I bet all my worldly posessions he sees it on opening night...
You're not a nerd? Then what are you doing on slashdot? :-)
It's "news for nerds", not "news for geeks"!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Well, the mods are too stupid or too n00b to get subtle jokes most of the time. Like this one.
So let me get this straight -- if you camp out because you must, you're a "real" nerd, and if you have time to do it out of a sense of nostalgia you're... what, cool? I can't think of anything nerdier than those dudes in the Triumph video. Modern-day Star Wars sidewalk campers are the benchmark standard for nerds everywhere.
> There is no reason to camp out for seats other than pretending to be as "hard
> core"
Except, you know, because they want to socialize with Star Wars fans and play with lightsabers, and they think that's cool, despite the fact that it's not cool to the rest of us.
News flash: "geek cred" is a worthless currency, and has been ever since the dot-com bubble burst. It's now back to just being an oxymoron. You've reached a crossroads: If there's a group deriving value and status from somthing that you deem worthless, and then you proceed to deride them for not sharing your sense of what's worth doing -- then congratulations, you're no longer a nerd. You're a cool person.
> Go home and take a shower.
If I stay home and torrent the prequels I already know I'm supposed to hate, why bother showering?
Those "translation errors" are all deliberate. ALL OF THEM. We're talking about some of the most learned people of their age making these translations, and they're not doing it in a void. They knew exactly what kind of spin they wanted to put on the bible and they disguised their tampering as translation. Witness all the more recent edits to the bible. If that's the word of God, all you people are going to hell for following a deliberately manipulated version of the Word.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
In the original Hebrew of... the New Testament?
Go to bed before you hurt yourself.
The way I always understood it was like this:
Geek: very smart with good people skills
Nerd: very smart with poor people skills
Dork: dumb with poor people skills
Being modded as troll, but he's right. If you disagree, trace the the origins of the revision of the bible and you will see. Prior to the translation from Latin (King James version), only the elite could read the scriptures. When they translated them, they were the sole purveuors of religious thought in the UK. They were also men, bound by the weaknesses of men. They left out entire sections that they disagreed with, e.g. the book of Mary. Men at that didn't believe women had a place other than in the kitchen.
Each translation was an attempt to make a bible for the local population, written with the current environment in mind. If the exact same people were to sit down and do a translation today, it would be vastly different. It scares me that most religious people aren't open to the fact there are several hundred different versions of the bible. The one their church uses is the correct one, and that's the end of the discussion as far as they are concerned.
I didn't read the article until after I saw this snippit from the parent. I just had to verify it was in the article... "... a fan who calls himself Obi Geewhyen..." Folks, say it slowly, in syllables.
She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet listening to what he said. 40But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!" 41"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, 42but only one thing is needed.[f] Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her." "
That's pretty weak though, just one example, and the teaching you could take from is that earthly pursuits are not as important as spirtual ones. Nothing about women not belonging in the kitchen! ;-) There are countless example of women not being treated equally in the bible. Out of curiosity, did the unmarried men who weren't virgins get stonings? I'm not sure on that.
I'm not saying they rewrote it. But it was spun to conform with the times.
Still, I don't understand why people find it so strange that a small amount of hardcore fans dress each two years like their favorite hero but then, never make fun of the thousands of stupid jocks that paint their faces and go dressed in a clown looking way to their favorite football game every Sunday.
Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Not true. You've got the triad all wrong:
A Geek is an engineer, or, barring that, one who obsessed with obtaining skill in something that really has no real world relevance, but sucks up time from interesting problems as a means of illusionary social superiority. These skills are mainly trivial, done by countless others, and are done in a way that collaboration is almost completely shunned. Examples are D&D, pseudo-religious flame wars (kind of like this), system administration, obtaining an MCSE, gaming, running debian, etc. This goes back to the Geeks of olde, circus geeks, who did horrifying and sometimes amazing acts that really had no utility outside of grossing people out and taking their money. As society has progressed the Geek personality has had to adapt, and now simply is the loner in his mom's basement who chats on IRC about how many bots he has running on his sid server while playing countless command-line MUDs, groaning about trolls and dice logistics. Help me out here dictionary:
geek geek (g=ek), n.
1. A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake. PJCM
2. Hence: Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.
The Dork is a more of a fun individual. He or She enjoys making people laugh and being the butt of many-a-jokes. They're fun to be around and generally amiable. When they're on, they're funny, when they're off, they're reserved.
The Nerd, on the other hand, is your average scientist. They are reserved, hard-minded, generally nice, think-a-holics. They're open minded and realize all of the basic fundamental human truths instinctively. They find average pursuits boring and tedious, feel that they are generally socially inferior, but know it doesn't matter.
Everyone has some combination of nerd/dork/geek in them. The main theme here, though, is social identity. Geeks think their "skills" make them socially superior to others. Dorks feel they are on the same level as everyone else. Nerds feel they are inferior, but realize it's all a crock of shit anyway. Your classic geek would be a Sports hero or a D&D player. Your classic Dork would be a comedian. Your classic Nerd would be a scientist. None of them are inherhently evil.
During the 90's you computer people decided to take back the term Geek and adopt it in a way that it had never been used before. Now "hackers" are considered Geeks. Well, they're not, though their followers certainly are. Hackers are nerds. They love thinking about interesting problems, solving them, and sharing them. The entire hacker and open source culture is built on top of Nerdom. However, most of slashdot is awash in geeks. Followers who feel the need to tout their skills, chime in with some so-called insightful statement that is really just a rehash of things said over and over again in the community:
"Competition is a Good Thing (tm)"
"Free as in Freedom not free as in Beer"
"Monopolies are Bad."
Etc, etc etc...
Infact, slashdot is built on the Geek model. That is, it's based on social advancement through subjective ratings, rather than pure openness and exchange of thoughts - be they flames or otherwise. It's trolls tend to be more insightful and commentative than it's serious posters, especially those post 600000 UID's. In other words - slashdot is designed, be it intentional or not, to bring out the worst element of the open source world - the Geek. The engineer that works in back rooms on a widget that his boss will then claim for his own. Owned by a company, building and toiling, giving shit back to society other than another magical product to pump to the masses, sold for more than it's really worth. But they're an engineer. That title makes them better than the rest of us! Or, they're a sys-admin or a dungeon master. All labels, titles that are created to make the individual feel superior in some meaningless way.
10-6=4
If only one of the 6 was there because she enjoyed the game, then the other 5 were 'there because of their boyfriends'. By the pigeonhole principle, at least one nerd/geek must be doing very well indeed.