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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.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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.
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.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
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.'"
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.
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.
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