Hey, not extinct! There are dozens of us
Also don’t forget MST3K and Lord of the Rings!
Cosmos (the original)
Connections with James Burke
Secret Life of Machines
All of David MacAulay’s books
Don't forget futurama and star trek
Star Trek is a difficult one. The oldest stuff is very dated, even TNG has some things that are very weird for a modern audience. But, some of the modern stuff is basically unwatchable.
Life of Brian is arguably better for a ensmuggening Python based education.
Nah, Life of Brian was just decent commentary. Holy Grail was silly in a pointless way that resonated with Nerd Boys in the 2000s.
Does Holy Grail not resonate with Nerd Boys now?
I'm a Nerd Man now, I can't say.
Yeah but fewer people get the references
If they don't get the references, they're just casuals.
They didn't get most references in the 80s/90s either... this is the reason why nerds seemed weird...
My son wants to "game" like most other kids at his class. So I got an old laptop, installed linux mint on it with dosbox. He loves lemmings, the incredible machine 2 and rollercoaster tycoon
I fear that he won’t get many friends this way
Mainstream might be boring but it’s an easy way to connect with people
That's the trouble with gamers these days, they're only in it for the friendship. Fucking posers.
This was the argument I used in high school when I wanted an Xbox 360. My parents were super reluctant given the cost, and then I told them I have nothing to talk about with friends in the hallways and I'm left out of conversations (I was). They reconsidered and eventually folded, and I was very appreciative
Omg the Incredible Machine!!!! Where can I play it, its been so long!
And the music of Weird Al
you don't need to try so hard, just don't let him have weird ideas about gender and hope he befriends at least one girl. that'll be enough. all these idiots need is a female friend going "don't be an idiot that's not how things work".
Or a sister, or any woman who has the standing to tell you "your teeth are blotchy and your breath is bad, that's why people won't kiss you, go to the dentist"
I always wonder where are the mothers of these shitty young men?
Like.
If I even thought of going into a misogynistic phase during my younger years, my mother would have put me in my place, yanno?
Are anglo mothers less sprited than latin american mothers?
They're at home, suffering their husbands abuse while their son learns to be just like Dad.
I would add Kids in the Hall.
EEEEEERADICATOR!
Thia feels like the Powerpuff Girls intro, but replace Chemical X with Young Sheldon.
Throwing Discworld into the mix
Needs more BattleBots.
Robot Wars.
I'm not ~~dead~~ extinct yet!
I'm making a note here: Huge success
Extinct??!?
We're not dead yet, just old!
I rewatched Mythbusters recently. It's pretty disturbing, especially in the early seasons, how often they use actual human remains for what is essentially light entertainment. Like, they'll destroy an actual human skull for shits and giggles. They had disproved the myth on setting off an airbag with a slim jim and firing it into the head of a would be car jacker, but still had to replicate the results, so just shot a slim jim into an actual human skull, cheering and laughing as it's decimated. That was an actual person's skull. How they sourced it, and where the source acquired it, who knows. I'm fairly certain there is a family somewhere though that would be mortified.
Maybe, in the far future, I elected to have my skull sent back in time for that purpose.
Because I totally would.
Oh yeah, totally! When I die, if the mythbusters need my corpse to test a myth, they're welcome to it! If I could, I'd choose the "cleaning the decaying corpse smell out of a car" myth; remembered forever as an unforgettable stench. Or one of the giant explosions, so I could rest in pieces.
I would be psyched as hell for my remains to be used on one of the most influential educational science shows of the era (plus like, that is a metal AF use for my skull). IDK, I know I'm not one of those people that venerates remains but even if I was, this seems like a grander memorial and contribution to science than having your remains parted out to then sit for years in a box in a closet, waiting for the physical anthro undergrads to do the "reassemble the original hands from this mixed up pile of phalanges" exercise for the umpteenth time.
Jamie personally sourced it. That's all you need to know.
Portal the game, or Portal the TV series from TechTV?
This is the ritual to create a Tom Scott.
I dunno. I grew up on He-Man, Transformers and G.I. Joe, and I think I turned out OK. I suppose I also grew up on Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The Neverending Story, which may have been just as formative in my nerdiness and are leagues ahead of those first three in terms of quality.
I would recommend introducin the son to a literal lemon in real life prior to playing Portal 2.
... probably goes the same for a p0taTo.
It’s funny. I’m definitely a nerd and neuro-something-or-other, and I have really good friends who are into all this stuff, Linux, Terry Pratchett etc - all of it - but I absolutely bounced off this smug nerd culture and grind my teeth if a group all start yelling “Ni!” or make me listen to the “hilarious” Portal song. Possibly I’m just trying too hard to be an arch, diffident outsider, this is my tribe, and I’m just the tribe jerk.
I don’t like being so seen.
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