Remember in this week's DVD Day, when I mentioned the excellent BBC series The Fades? Well, here I am mentioning it again -- because it's excellent. I've currently seen up to episode 5, and I can tell you it's a great teen-thrust-into-supernatural-world-of-danger series that's like Buffy the Vampire Slayer if Buffy were a boy, less competent, way more nerdy, and if the show were much more concise (The Fades is only six episodes) and totally missing Joss Whedon's dialogue (which I enjoy, but know some people find obnoxious). Also it involves ghosts instead of vampires and demons, more moral ambiguity, a bit of light cannibalism, and it's more graphically violent, if nothing else. Plus, the main character Paul and his best friend Mac are wonderful examples of nerds written well. Look, just watch the trailer above. I got seriously hooked in episode 3, and I recommend the show to anyone.
Which is lucky, because BBC Home Entertainment was kind enough to give me FIVE copies of The Fades Season One on DVD. The contest is this: Although heaven and hell don't directly figure into The Fades, the show does revolve around ghosts who can't properly pass on from the world, and thus get... uh... cranky. Which got me thinking -- what would a nerd version of heaven look like? For that matter, what is nerd hell?
So that's the contest: Describe nerd heaven and/or hell, either in general or your personal ones. Two entries per person -- one for heaven, one for hell (no doubling up). Keep the descriptions in the 200 words max range, please. I'll pick two winners for each afterlife, and then the fifth will be whatever strikes my fancy.
The contest ends at 12:01 am EST on Monday, February 27th, 2012. Much, much thanks to BBC for sponsoring this weekend's contest. Have a great weekend, folks, and if you happen to see an episode of The Fades on BBC America or On Demand, definitely check it out. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go watch the final Fades episode... while trying not to make eye contact with my cat.
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only if they all look like JABBA , or BIG BAD MAMA from G.L.O.W.
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How can that be heaven when every nerd's favorite pastimes, rage and trolling, are absent? And a realm where everyone agrees is well known as a standard hell trope. Even Ingsoc had its dissenters, doomed as they were. Without disagreement, there is no diversity and no motive for improvement. Look at when universal acclaim did for The Simpsons.
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It's funny that you started off with Marsters and Eliza I have autographed pictures of them hanging in front of me on my office wall...
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Just add a bar to that with unlimited drinks and I'd give you all of the support.
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Oh god. This deserves to win.
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Nerd heaven is a realm with no rage, no trolling, and everyone's interest are treated with understanding. Where franchises go on for centuries and everyone can agree that the showrunners made the right decision to fully express the world and its characters. Nerd hell is a realm where everyone has their favorite franchise, unique to them, that they love unconditionally, but everyone else hates with a fiery passion. When you mention that you are a fan of your franchise, others will attack you mercilessly and berate you for your interests, saying that you should kill yourself. The worse part is that you are everyone else's tormentor, turning the tables whenever someone else mentions their interest.
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Nerd Heaven alternates between (a) running your favorite D&D campaign where your players are Emma Stone, Zooey Deschanel, Alison Brie and Tricia Helfer, and (b) living out their adventures against the Evil Lich Protectorate in the Kingdoms of Lavlanpork.
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"They're made out of sugar. Thinking, talking, walking sugar."
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Screenwriter Joss Whedon was unhappy with the final product. When asked in 2005 how the film differed from the script he had written, Whedon responded: "It wasn't a question of doing everything differently, although they changed the ending; it was mostly a matter of doing everything wrong. They said the lines...mostly...but they said them all wrong. And they cast it wrong. And they designed it wrong. And they scored it wrong. They did everything wrong that they could possibly do. There's actually a fascinating lesson in filmmaking, because everything that they did reflects back to the script or looks like something from the script, and people assume that, if I hated it, then they’d changed the script...but it wasn’t so much that they’d changed the script; it’s that they just executed it in such a ghastly fashion as to render it almost unwatchable
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I've already experienced my hell- being dressed as a popular Bleach character at a convention in 2007.
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Nerd Heaven : Only 10 minutes between the annonce of a new GTA (or Final fantasy or metal gear solid etc.) and the release date.10 minutes of "OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG" Nerd Hell : Being trapped in a piece with a PS3, a giant screen, all DVD, video games, pr0n who ever existed, BUT no fucking dualshock !
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Well your buggered aren't you.
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Bollocks, I just realized it's after midnight on Sunday. I've been walking around all day thinking it was Saturday.
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I think, if we were to really break it down into its basest forms, Nerd Heaven and Hell would be fairly simple. When is a Nerd truly happy? It's not when they're indulging in their interests, hobbies, and fandoms. Not directly. A nerd is most at peace and content when he or she is surrounded by those who accept and indulge in their those interests, hobbies, and fandoms with the nerd. People who don't consider them weird for having an almost religious devotion to things like Dungeons and Dragons, or for being passionate about entomology. Nerd Heaven would be surrounded by people who will spend time with them and encourage said nerdery to blossom and grow into something wonderful As for Nerd Hell? Well, there's a dark side to Nerdery already. The pedantic, the exacting, the false sense of superiority. When a nerd is feeling spiteful, they fall back on their pride and avarice. He can't get the girl or win the fistfight, but he sure as hell will get better grades, have a larger vocabulary, and can think to himself of a thousand-and-one ways he is better, in higher more "worthy" senses than his social tormentors. Nerd Hell would be a world where the nerd loses even that sense of superiority. A place where he truly IS an outsider who cannot function in a competent manner in even those areas where he should be an expert. Those around him are stronger, better looking, more socially adroit, yes, but they also can now make him look the fool in specific knowledge areas, gaming, science. A nerd's hell would be a place that makes him look at himself and acknowledge an inferiority in all things.
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Actually, it's called a College mess hall.
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Nerd hell: As your punishment, you are forced to babysit the most gawd-awful anime chibis to ever exist. They have toys to play with- oh yes- and you are forced watch as they strip mint condition, limited release figurines from their packaging and proceed to maul them as they wipe their snotty noses on pages torn from #1 issue comics. The good news: You can browse the internet whilst doing so. The Bad News: There is only one website. The Good News: That site is topless Robot. The Bad News: The only updates are continual FFF's...without commentary. Your fro-yo topping is also evil. Thank you.
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Nerd Heaven: You're the ultimate Mary Sue/Gary Stu in any series. In fact, you're even the protagonist. You're over-powered, everyone likes you and it's always exciting. Plus you're like BFFs with Batman or something Nerd Hell: You're the star of all the FFF on the internet. You're to preform every discusting fetish the internet ever pulled out of it's ass. You have to do this with all your favorite characters with everyone else watching. The worst part? You never get to the sex part.
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did not read all the comments so no idea if someone already said this: To me, nerd heaven is where modern economics don't exist. Artists and writers create and tell stories simply for the joy of telling them. There is no pressure for companies to make profits so nothing is rushed or forced. People don't have to wait purchase the comics they want or play the games they desire because money is not an issue. Nerd hell is those same economics forcing all the artists/writers into different professions so all we have left is fanfiction. Both the terribly written erotica and the incredibly boring regular kind.
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Nerd heaven Red shirts live in safety while gungans are sent on away missions with Kirk... in mass quantities. Han always fires first, cosplay slave Leias are thin, Batmen can all fit in their utility belts, and wives "get" the Three Stooges. DC has a relaunch that makes sense, Stan Lee stops being "Stan Lee", and Rob admits he's a closet Michael Bay fan... ok that's more fantasy world than heaven. Nerd hell Two words bobby. Water world.
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My take Nerd Heaven: All the great geek shows are still on the air/ lasted longer than on season (say, Firefly made the 150th episode mark). Chuck managed to get a full season 5, Community wouldn't have been put on hiatus, DC would not have done the reboot. Transformers G1 and Animated would have had a 4th season, and Fort Max and Megatron would be reissued in the US Nerd Hell: Nothing but Twilight books. Troll 10 would be up for a Academy Award. More dogs humping in a Bayformers movie. Doctor Who would have not returned in 2005. Star Trek movies would focus on the Voyager crew.
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Nerd Heaven: Become the Infinite Cheat Code.
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I was originally going to have a simple, two-word entry for Nerd Hell. Nerd Hell: No Bittorrent.
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Nerd Hell: Television networks promote and produce quality tv series every year. They are all very well received and a full season of episodes is produced every year. Television studio executives then pull the show after 2 to 3 episodes due to "poor ratings." The timeslot is filled with reruns of the Two And A Half Men and Big Bang Theory as "everyone loves these shows." TV on DVD does not exist which means that all unaired episodes will remain unaired. This happens with every month with every tv show (as only 3 episodes of each show are aired). Nerd Heaven: Television shows are truly written and produced with the viewers in mind. This will cause shitty shows that the networks love to be cancelled (see 2.5 Men and BBT above). It will also allow shows like Firefly or Arrested Development to stay on the air. Shows will air until their logical conclusions. Chuck would have ended after season 3 or in the middle of season 4. We would not have gotten the very weak season 5, Prison Break would have ended after season 2, and Alias would have ended after season 3. Sorry. I get very passionate about tv.
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But you do realize that Felicia Day's character ***Spoiler*** dies in the end, right? I wouldn't want to jump in those shoes.
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His original script was shit, the 'mediocre' one that was made was equally shit, it was shittily directed.... its rare that you can say of a movie, "If it was directed by Micheal Bay, it would've been better." Why? In this case, because it would've had megan fox's ass.
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Nerd Heaven: The only bad movies are good-bad(IE): Sharktopus. Nothing on the caliber of Twilight is made. Without snark, we would be pretty miserable. Also, Dan Didio and Joe Quesada are eaten by sharktopus. Nerd Hell: Comics reboot literally while you are reading them. In this world gone mad George Lucas rules as a despotic dictator, reediting whatever he pleases. A Justice League movie is made, but is set in a Highschool with whatever shitty teen celebrities are in vogue play them. Terribly. Mystery Science Theater is outlawed by Premier Lucas as it could inspire criticism of his constantly devolving films.
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Nerd hell: You're Batman. The Val Kilmer kind.
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Nerd heaven: You're Batman. The Kevin Conroy kind.
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I wish I could like this twice.
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My Idea of nerd Heaven/Hell would start out like a D&D narrative. You awaken to find yourself in an unusual place... Heaven- You find yourself in an alien space station orbiting an unknown planet. All around you are strange aliens like a Star Wars con come to life. A man approaches you and asks if you would like to come on an adventure. You ask him "who are you" and the man replies "I'm the Doctor". Hell- You find yourself stuck in an airport terminal but you are dressed in a costume for an anime con. Your flight is delayed for all eternity and you are forever forced to explain the outfit to every other passenger that comes by. none of them are nerds.
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Nerd Heaven: Where your favorite TV Shows haven't been cancelled but have been renewed for their next season, the latest sci-fi/fantasy/comic book movie released isn't an unecessary reboot/remake/prequel/reimagining, the internet goes at 700 mb/s in the backend of nowhere and SOPA is just Klingon for Soap.
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my idea of Nerd Hell comic con deciding to make Michel bay and the kardashians its own type of royality plus Hasbro annoucing Michel bay has the transformers movie rights for ever .
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my idea of nerd heaven would be walking into a convention and finding george Lucas saying he was wrong with doing some of the things with the prequels like jar jar so he will not only remake them but release the original unedited versions of the ort and the star wars holiday special on dvd.
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Now the unpleasantness of Nerd Hell. An eternal Junior High School. No friends or family, just day in and day out of Gym torture, boring classes teaching the same damn subject you already know, constant pranks, bullies and jocks, and of course, perpetually never-ending puberty. The school and all it's residents are there to always gives you just enough hope to get by, but never give you the pleasure of success, just like real Junior High. But hey, you get full time as the hated school mascot. The fighting Jar Jar Binks'!
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Nerd heaven for me is the belief that every dimension exists and can be accessed to retrieve items for use. A dimension where I could try Final Fantasy made for the N64 or where Sega is still a prominent rival and making systems. A place where I could see Episode One directed correctly and was the number one movie of all time. Where Firefly was never cancelled. A place where Batman and Spider-man exist for real. Where even the simplest thought of, "Wouldn't it be cool if-" actually had a dimension where that did exist and could be accessed purely for my own nerdy needs. I'm sure I could find one where I was best friends with and dated Jessica Alba right?
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Nerd Hell is reading every book in a series until you catch up to the latest, then finding out that the author has died without finishing it. But that's ok, because he left a will that said Kevin J. Anderson will be finishing the series in his stead. For eternity.
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Nerd Hell: You are in a single room. The floor is composed of metal grating, and there's a constant fire below you. You're not in pain from the heat, but it's always there, and there's no where to find relief. On chance, you happen to hear something moving around in the room below you. As you look around, you see someone carting...something towards the fire. When they start dumping the contents, you notice that, they are destroying everything you would have ever wanted. Concept art from your favorite show? On fire. Action figures from your childhood? Currently melting. Interview transcripts from your favorite actors talking about the shows you love that, for some reason, never saw the light of day? Lost forever. Everything that you would have loved to see, read, do, listen, it's now the fuel for the fire that constantly roasts you. And every time you scream at the figure, they just look up at you, grin, and say,"You think that's bad? Wait until I bring in the next load." Nerd Heaven: You are in the greatest archive that you never knew existed. Not only can you look up anything you could ever want, you can even personally ask the creator of said document any questions that you have. Want to know who really shot first? Harrison Ford would be on hand to show you his personal script, notes, and he'll also recount all the times he and the cast went to the bar after work to talk about their upcoming scenes. Ever wanted to play a rare game? You can now play it in the comfort of the most comfortable entertainment room, complete with all the alcohol and pizza you can stand. If the game was originally in another language, you now understand everything fluently, and there's no need to look up any terms or definitions. You can now enjoy the game as though it were written in your preferred language, with all the time in the world to enjoy it. Afterwards, you can watch any movie you ever desired, unedited, perfect quality, and with all the special features intact.
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being trapped in a room with people who can only communicate via Monty Python's Holy Grail Quotes. As a nerd, i feel like this hell comes true far too often.As of heaven, lets say all of eternity plus free access to all the great comic artists, in which to write and read comic books forever.
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I imagine nerd hell as being an alternate reality where all of your favorite nerdy franchises and series are suddenly thoroughly riddled with plot holes and inconsistencies. You're the only one that notices, and all your best efforts to explain these problems to others fall flat. No logical reasoning exists that can bring you to accept these atrocities committed upon your nerdy interests. You attempt to rewrite the stories and put them back as they were but, again, all your efforts fall flat and you're seen as nothing more than an obsessive weirdo as you slowly spiral into madness. ...This is starting to sound more and more like life.
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Nerd Hell. All action figures must be kept in their original packaging. They will always be referred to as 'dolls' or 'toys'. Nerd Heaven, every remake is better than the original.
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Hell: There is just enough internet access to give you hope, but not enough to load content.
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Nerd Hell: Having all the money you need to win any auction on eBay but getting sniped in the last second!! Nerd Heaven: Being that sniper!
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As long as it doesn't turn into FanFiction Friday.
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much thanks divorce substance abuse and table top roleplaying compliment each other surprisingly well don't they?
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Nerd Hell, at least for me, would involve a brand new Firefly movie...as envisioned and directed by M.Night Shymalan and co-directed/produced by George Lucas. The sheer horror would cause me to have a seizure immediately. Unfortunately, it being Hell and all, I would be forced to watch Firefly and Serenity before being shown the abomination by Lucas and Night,over and over again, for all eternity. Nerd Heaven would either involve virtual reality and being able to transport myself into the universes I love...or a world where Big Bang Theory and its' ilk were never greenlit, and in fact, the people who even THOUGHT it was a good idea were fired. Out of a cannon, and directly into the Sun.
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Nerd Heaven has miles and miles of comic books from DC and Marvel; there was never a relaunch in either company and stories have rich history. Nerd Hell isn't too bad save the sole source of entertainment: Daredevil and Episode 1...
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Heaven: Eternity as George Lucas screen writer in the late 70's. Hell: Eternity as George Lucas screen writer in the late 90's
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Nerd Heaven - My 2 year old running around with a fur covered blanket wrapped around her while yelling OOOKIE (as a side note we were watching Star wars at the time, and she decided she wanted to be a wookie...
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Nerd hell Simply put George Lucas, Micheal Bay and M Night Shyama-lama-Ding-Dong in charge of everything. From Star Wars to Dune to Song of Ice and Fire to Dragonriders of Pern to Marvel and DC to EVERYTHING. Jar Jar Bynx would be the captain of Serenity, Tyrion would scream "NOOOOOO" right before shooting his father (oops, spoiler alert), Sandworms would be turned into giant mechanical monsters controlled by some water fairy. And i would be strapped into a chair, Clockwork Orange style, and no escape whatsoever *shudder*
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Nerd Heaven - Is George Lucas hell. Nerds get to tell George how bad the prequels were, point out that Han shot first no matter what George claims, etc. etc.
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Nerd Heaven For me it's a vast network of universes each inhabited by the worlds of Books/movies/TV shows that I love. I would be able to travel between universes either in a Doctor Who-style Police Box or even in a ship similar to Serenity (only it would be capable of travelling between these universes). Hell i would really love it if i could even travel between those worlds with the use of a Stargate or something. I would be able to visit characters, participate in events or just be an observer. Then i would write out the history of each world i visit and publish them on ToplessRobot.
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Nerd Hell: Every time you visit Hell's arcade, you have "next" after Billy Mitchell, and actually have to listen to him talk about himself. Your daily job includes being trapped in George Lucas' head for every decision he made after 1990. Every comic book shop you visit has only post reboot comics, and no number 1 issues (forcing a clear violation of the Law of the Golden Mean). Nerd Heaven: You are the Doctor. Rory is your alter-ego.
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Sure! We'll triple-feature it with Lynch's RONNIE ROCKET and Hitchcock's KALEIDOSCOPE!
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Nerd hell: no-one ever understands you or the things you are interested in. Nerd heaven: all the people who ostracised you at school look you up to apologise, and mean it.
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We could do those. It would be totally up to the author.
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In Nerd Hell, nothing... is... ever... finished.... EVER. Firefly ends about two thirds of the way into the episode Out of Gas, JUST after Mal gets shot. DB+DBZ+ETC gets stuck in an endless loop of powering up. DBZ Kai is promised year after year after year, but never shows up. Mulder and Scully investigate for 45 years, searching for such things as lint ghosts, their keys, glasses, and diapers, but never ever kiss, bang, or do anything meaningful, like find Mulders sister or why he is named Fox Mulder. Scooby Doo gets more and more recycled, until they use about 4 frames of art PER Episode... until the reboot, which adds something called a Scrappy-Doo, for another 42,893 episodes. HOUR LONG EPISODES. Star Wars is 45 hours of complicated trade negotiations between Gungans and Neimodians, with occasional additions of Toydarians. Everybody leaves moderately unhappy; no shots are ever fired. Episode 2, The Flour Crisis, should be out any day now. For the ultimate sinners? An inescapable room where there is nothing to do, but listen to very unattractive people read incredibly boring, badly written fan fiction they wrote... often 'erotic' fan fiction, usually featuring themselves as people with social skills and beauty and surprising, bewitching sex appeal to the FF's main character. Heaven? Square-Enix stops sucking. They become the game company they damn well should be. Scientists, alarmed by the sudden drop in productivity/population, invent a system so people can both get nutrition and breed by playing video games.
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Nerd Hell: All of nerds complaints of every single movie in existant good or bad, on all the time very loudly. Nerd Heaven: Bruce Cambell is god
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In my Nerd Heaven I would be able live in any universe for short periods of time. I would be able to live out the original Star Wars trilogy from any character perspective, fight crime as Batman, swing around the city as Spider-Man, partake in DBZ level battles, live in any of the Whedon-verses etc. My Nerd Hell would be the opposite. I would be forced to live in nerd universes I hated. I would have to live as Jar Jar Binks, reside in the Twilight universe, hang out in Smallville, be part of an Americanized version of any anime classic, etc.
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"A place where every woman is a nympho? That car must've killed me. I must be in heaven! Wait... a place where every woman will have sex with you? That's boring. I must really be... IN HELL!"
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Nerd Hell... whatever your nerd commitment is (comics, video games, sports (yes it can be nerdy when you care about all the stats an scores etc.)) you must destroy or feel immense physical pain that doesn't let up until you destroy said nerdy property. comics you would have to rip (imagine ripping a mint copy of Adventure comics issue 1 an if you don't theres a cattle prod jammed into your taint until you do). the person jammin the cattle prod into you by the way is fat bearded sailor moon guy. you know who i'm talkin about. Nerd Heaven: Imagine the largest comicon with all your favorite celebrities there an no lines but still busy. you wouldn't have to pay for a single comic or collectible as there would be a never ending supply. Beautiful women would cosplay all your favorite characters and you would actually have a chance of talkin to them AND getting their phone number AND even getting a date from them. plus michael bay would be present and chained to a wall so you could throw tomatoes at him at your leisure.
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*wipes drool off chin*... I need to put a lot more effort into being nerd good so I can end up there.
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It's called "Other People", and it was published in his collection "Fragile Things". Scary stuff. At least, I think that's the one you mean.
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Nerd Hell: You are forced to spellcheck and grammatically parse every FFF ever run, whilst the characters (especially the ones you love) act it out in front of you. All at the same time. You hear every raptor’s whicker, every scream, the drill bit piercing Draco's skull. You smell every bodily fluid - all the shit and blood and piss and cum. The characters look up at you, and you can see the pleading in their eyes. You will never be finished. They will never be freed. Nerd Heaven: I replace Felicia Day in Dr Horrible’s Sing-A-Long-Blog, and Neil Patrick Harris is not gay.
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Nerd heaven is where you are never wrong and can judge all other to being much less awesome than you. Nerd hell would be where everything people say is subtitled, and all of the subtitles are in Comic Sans.
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Hell: Having just enough knowledge of whats going to happen in every game, movie, book, and comic ever written to know every major plot twist, but nothing else. Imagine, no surprise when Lando sells out Han. Aries dies, but you knew it all along. Gandalf gets dragged down by the Balrog, but as soon as they reached the doors of Khazad-dûm. Oh, and he comes back as Gandalf the White, but *yawn*...
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What did u say to tarantino ?
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Heaven: The ability to selectively wipe your favourite shows from your memory in order to re-watch them again for the first time. Hell: Remakes of everything. Done by Michael Bay and his ilk. Miley Cyrus as Starbuck, Robert Pattinson as John Crichton, Kim Kardashian as Kaylee, and so on, one after another. And these remakes become so popular that eventually no one under 25 even knows they're remakes. You get older and older, watching as the original versions get harder and harder to find in any format. As the under-25s become 40-somethings and get nostalgic for the remakes, giving them the geek stamp of approval. As even your memory of the originals starts to become untrustworthy. Was Kardashian the original Kaylee or the remake? You're not even sure any more. Your grandkids are tired of you going on and on about how much better these shows were in your day, so you ultimately give in. Sit with the grandkids and watch Crichton and Aeryn pout daintily at each other. And sometimes, just sometimes... you remember.
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I think hell has no spoiler alerts.
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When I had traveled half of my life's way, I found myself upon a dark and dismal path. Even now, my soul shrinks to speak of all I have seen, and the tale would take so very long to recount. I cannot fathom how to tell of my travails to thee, dear reader...Of how my divine guide Gygax led me, hand in hand through horrid pits and brutal tortures...Of the feilds of falling embers and burning sands, wherein danced the furries and perverse shippers...of the frozen feilds of Fox, where buried beneath the ice all those who had betrayed the nerds who's fate they held forever lie. And in those frozen feilds, down at the center, I saw the Lord of these Infernal pits himself. A great pink, stalk-eyed, floppy-eared monstrosity, eternally grinding the form of Lucas of the Stars between his horrid teeth. I am aahamed to say, my reader, that when I heard his high-pitched voice, I fainted dead away from horror at the blasphemy to all that I hold dear.
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no flaw... you are just over thinkin' it.
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So would the first chapter be the Book of Hienlien or the book of Asimov? Do we have the Gosple according to Roddenberry, Henson, and Lucas??
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One of the problems with some of these versions of heaven, like the ones in which you win every argument or get revenge on someone you hate, is that the same place is going to have to be someone else's hell. That means that no matter how good a person I am I'll still have to be around all those people I can't stand. What's the point in that?
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Nerd Hell: You are forced to clean the bathrooms of the infinite convention that is heaven, when you finish cleaning the bathrooms you may join the con, spoiler alert you will never finish, they will never be clean. God I don't even know how these convention centers get their restrooms cleaned after a normal con, let alone one that will last all of eternity,
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It got way down here because Disqus like to randomly frell comments.
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"What do you mean I can't wear my Zexx Marquies mask to work??" Yes I know I spelled his name wrong, and no I don't know the proper spelling.
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I want your heaven, if only for the fact you so awesomely appreciate the great actors of yesteryear. Kickass.
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Oops, this was meant to be a reply to my own post about the Eternal Basement. Not sure how it got all the way down here.
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Nerd Hell is the same place, except instead of your friends, or smart, cool nerds to play with, you're stuck with the creepiest, most awkward, scary nerds out there. You'll meet the erotic furry fanfic writers, the internet toughguys, the misogynist creeps, the fangirls with fetishes so disturbing they make you run in terror, people who have endless discussions about Dragonball Z power levels, guys who think real girls are boring but hentai is hot, obnoxious pot-smoking nerds who think they're characters in a Kevin Smith film, and basically so on like that, and THERE IS NO Escpae!
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My version of heaven... Where all my anticipated in-progress works are finished and waiting for me to enjoy them at my earliest convenience. (I'm also assuming in heaven I have the time for it all.) Top of the list: A Song of Ice and Fire series. Yes, please.
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Nerd Heaven: Casual Friday turns into Cosplay Friday
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A "Bloodpool" if you will.
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Nerd Hell: An illogical place where pi = 3, paradoxes make logic impossible at even the most basic level; in short, total insanity turned corporeal. Alternatively; most of Alabama.
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Excellent series - criminal if they don't make another season: Nerd Heaven - Pure and perfect contemplation of everything you enjoy the most. If it's Firefly and Starwars, then enjoy an infinite supply of episodes, each better then the last and become an angelic paragon nerd, whose perfect understanding of the Star-wars universe negates things like the existence of Jar-Jar Binks.
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Aaaannnnnndddd I am back to vomiting blood.
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Nerd Heaven: In Nerd Heaven, franchises grow and fade like stars, instead of extending indefinitely their creators now meet with other creative people of the past, coming up with new stories, games, movies, etc. Douglas Adams conspires with Charlie Chaplin to write a space comedy with creatures by Jim Henson, Tod Browning casts Peter Falk and Dom DeLuise as an adventurous pair battling demons in a newly penned H.P. Lovecraft story, and there's always a lull between each, so anticipation can build. Every screening, reading, and gaming experience is accompanied by raucous friends and food, and despite the revelry every word, sound, and piece of music can be heard clearly and celebrated ad nauseum. Nerd Hell: All franchises that existed on Earth continue to exist. And continue. And continue. Star Trek the Next Generation is on its 93rd season with the same actors, who phone in their performances and scripts that are either painful rehashes or Mary Sue intrusions. Rod Serling glumly presents episodes of Goosebumps, now in its 342nd season, where a boy finds a thing that's cursed and will be haunted by another thing. There are 50 Star Wars movies, and in some demonic mathematical impossibility each is worse than every other one, aside from the original three which have been retooled and edited to the point that they have the coherency and continuity of a Japanese candy commercial.
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Nerd Heaven: my favourite con, which lasts forever, and where everything goes well and I don't have to run my ass off troubleshooting problems. I have as much money for shiny dealer's room things as I want. And the main guests are Joss Whedon, Michael Shanks, and Peter Wingfield, with a concert by Jim Byrnes. Nerd Hell: people think Twilight is a good vampire story and Jersey Shore is a popular show. Oh wait, Hell is real. Nooooooooooooo!
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Nerd Hell: The only porn is Rob Liefeld drawn foot fetish pics.
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You'd be welcome. And that sounds like a great idea!
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Very creative!
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in Nerd Heaven the entirety of your person is altered drastically as necessary to best represent your idealized self with particularly validating qualities increased to grotesque proportions your more inarticulate complexities are neatly packaged in consistent archetypical thematics that establish their immediacy necessity and importance your world is vast but easily navigated intricately complex but in translation and always with potential for overwhelming but ultimately manageable responsibility and reward both further advancing the depth and reach of your person possessed of an insatiable and singular hunger for all things obtainable only through the application of skills and talents explicit to you you live in a world that will have you where you can grow and change accumulate and influence create receive discover treasure judge destroy and ruin in accordance with natural laws contoured to your alignment it’s good like it was supposed to be Nerd Hell is drunk going through a box of old campaign notes after your wife walked out on you
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Nerd Heaven: You always win every game and every argument. You win every debate and everyone holds your opinion to be absolute truth. You feel truly fulfilled each and every time. Nerd Hell: You always win every game and every argument. You win every debate and everyone holds your opinion to be absolute truth. You feel hollow and empty inside. Forever.
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Nerd heaven: the nerd gender ratio is reversed. Nerd hell: high school. (Female and/or gay nerds' fantasies will differ, of course...)
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I'd totally help out on that one. Need to get a group together to "translate".
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Heaven: Well, Let's say that a parallel reality simulator in which you can do pretty much whatever you want, watch whatever you want,play whatever you want, be wherever you want to be... You want Thundercats sculpted by the 4 Horsemen, you CAN get the 4H Thundercats... got mugged back in college? How about going Steven Seagal on the mugger AND summoning a Japanese sex demon to rape the mugger! Hell you can even make a reality where Michael Bay and Uwe Boll are subjected to a game of Blast Chamber IRL!
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My personal version of Hell is having to be Rosie Huntington-Whitley in Transformers 3.
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I think my personal version of Nerd Heaven is to be sitting in front of a huge tv watching all my favourtie sci-fi, horror, fantasy TV shows and movies. And my wife would never bother me and would either leave me alone or sit and watch with and understand what is going on and not judge me.
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lets see nerd hell to me would be forcing people to forever play superman 64 while at the same time being forced to listen to an endless loop of puberty love over giant loudspeakers
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And my idea of Nerd Heaven would be a place where actors of the nerdy variety (Brad Dourif, Malcolm McDowell, etc) receive George Clooney levels of fame and fortune.
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So your Nerd Hell is basically the real life version of Reboot.
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