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When you're a kid, the toys look ultra-cool. Micronauts, GI Joes, Transformers . . . they seized our minds, and even now those of us who loved them remember them as cool.

Of course, when we see them again, we realize they had severe flaws.

Who'd have thought the Micronauts looked so dorky? I remember only the cool versions. I see the reproductions, identical to the originals, and I think "I liked these?"

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Geeks who piss and moan about other geeks really irk me.

Lately, over in the roleplayers community, there's been a lot said about Furries, those Sci-Fi fans who like to draw, read about, write, or dress up as anthropomorhic animals. Most of what's been said is negative, quite a bit of it painting furries as sick, deluded people who are sex-obsessed.

Well, fuck that.

I'm not a furry, but I know several. Not a one fits that definition. They just think anthropomorphic animals look cool. So anyone who says all furries are like that automatically ends up in my "Nimrod" file.

But the more important point here is the question of why this kind of thing goes on? People who like Buffy (and not ALL, just some) make fun of those into D&D -- hell, even the characters in the show do. Some people into D&D have to put down anyone into Vampire. And EVERYONE hates the Vampire LARPers.

What is that? Do we need to pump ourselves up so much that we'll tear down even our fellow geeks? Because we're ALL losers in the minds of the "mundanes", kids. Whether you're a comic-book geek, a RPG geek, a video-game geek, a SF geek, or any combination of those tribes, you. are. a. geek. And ripping apart the rest of them -- not the individuals, but the groups themselves -- makes you an ass.

And you're not alone. I've both attended and worked many SF conventions, and one thing I've noticed over and over again is that when the local news deigns to cover a Con, it's to do a Freak Feature. And always, within ten feet of the reporter talking to an idiot dressed as a 700lb Han Solo or a Klingon with mismatched skin and headpiece, is a seemingly normal guy in jeans and a t-shirt. But do they talk to them? Of course not.

Yes, some furries are sex-obsessed nuts. Some comic-book readers are total losers. Some SF fans have a hard time dealing with reality. Some gamers talk incessantly about their characters and recite their stats at you. However -- notice the operative word, here. "Some". Not all. Some.

Get over yourselves, already.

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Two Dune Quotes for you today, kids:

"I can say God, but that is not my God. That is only a noise and no more potent than any other noise." –From the Tleilaxu pledge

"There's no great secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves." - Darwi Odrade

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See this? (Just imagine it)

This is my pissed off face. No useful information will be given. Deal.

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I've now been driving in Sacramento for 13 years. This has lead me to two conclusions:

1) There are too goddamn many people driving in Sacramento these days. It should NOT be stop-and-go traffic at 3:30pm!

2) None of these fuckers knows how to drive.