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"Why you got me watching this crackhead superhero?" Things non geek friends and family say about your geek shit
- Thread starter Slayven
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Im glad that you've moved on from these trying times in your life and don't have a massive chip on your shoulder about it.
"I dont get the appeal of this show at all, but the little green frog man IS cute" - lady friend comment on The Mandalorian
I had a 60+ year old lady respond to anime with "Y'all watchin' some cartoon shit? I ain't about that," and I honestly think I would have been a bit worried if her response had been anything else.
My grandma said THE SAME thing about us playing GTA. We always made our GTA 3 / Vice City run and he was running very funny and she always said " oh, you're playing the running man "
"OK so a literal regimented army of cats just jumped to the moon and rescued our hero Randolph Carter and are taking him back to... OK so he was on the moon because these faceless mushroom frogs kidnapped him and took him there under orders from the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep... OK so Nyarlathotep is an emissary of the Outer Gods and he's after Carter because the gods don't want him to reach the unknown city of Kadath on the edge of the dreamlands... Ok so all of this is happening inside an alternate dimension which exists inside everyone's interconnected dreams and... OK so..."
Showed a friend Kamen Rider Drive. The conversation that followed was:
"You realize this is the stupidest, cheesiest thing in the world." "I know, isn't it great? CH-CH-CHEESE WHEEL!!! MUENSTER TRUCK POWAAAH!"
"You realize this is the stupidest, cheesiest thing in the world." "I know, isn't it great? CH-CH-CHEESE WHEEL!!! MUENSTER TRUCK POWAAAH!"
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But Tony Stark playing with toy cars should be an easy sell
In all fairness it was the episode with the Warp Taxi car power which caused Drive to KINDA warp, his head and left arm zooming around on their own while his legs and right arm just stood there.
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Too late.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEETHOVEN! JA JA JA JUUUUUN.
We wound up in a discussion that Ghost should be able to summon the spirit of Jim Henson to fight evil using green ghostly energy gauntlets shaped like frogs.
My mother, when she didn't want to watch a baseball game and I had the only other TV in the house tuned to Toonami to watch DBZ reruns: "I don't get it, they're just punching each other?"
It was Piccolo vs. Android 17, I don't see how a person isn't blown away by that.
It was Piccolo vs. Android 17, I don't see how a person isn't blown away by that.
Lol the first one my mother bought me was the N edition (I had been reading comics for about a month at the time)
My dad bought me the X-Men expansion to the TSR Marvel Super Heroes RPG because "All that comic stuff is the same"
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Remember those a stack of random comics in a plastic bag for like 5 dollars? That is how i got most of my collection. I remember I got the Infinity gauntlet issue where Cap tells of Thanos in one
Yeah those were always insane. That's how I got my first What If? Issue. It was about some comic event I hadn't read and I didn't know anything about. I read it like 100 times.
